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Program Committee Report

Gary Kaplan

Gary Kaplan

Mark your calendars to connect with your colleagues on April 6 at the Annual Dinner (details below) and on April 20 at the spring webcast, “Shifting Skills to Navigate the Changing Horizon: Finding Our Way in New Biomedical Research and Health Care Environments.”

Since the last issue of the Chronicle, Chapter members have assembled in November at Jefferson to watch MLA’s e-books webcast, in February at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia for a two-day event on Advocacy for Leaders, produced by the Mid-Atlantic Region Leadership Institute (MAR-LI); and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts to tour the Anatomy/Academy exhibit. Read more» » »

Program Committee Report

Gary Kaplan
When I began my career in academic medical libraries almost a decade ago, I assumed August would be a quiet time. But, no, academic medical libraries are busy places year-round: new residents starting in July, medical students starting in August, accelerated nursing programs going full-tilt year-round, not to mention research and patient care. So why should our Chapter programming be any different? Read more» » »

Save the Date!

Save the Date

What does the future hold for Scientific & Technical Publishing?

Report from SLA-PHL’s March 9th Program

Submitted by Martha Kirby and Gary Kaplan

Jean Fisher

Jean Fisher

On a balmy, spring-like day, twenty-five members of the SLA Philadelphia Chapter, Drexel student chapter, and guests gathered at Drexel’s Hagerty Library. Others attended online via AdobeConnect, an option SLA-PHL has been offering since merging with the Central PA chapter.

Our speaker was Jean Fisher, an SLA colleague and principal at Vantage Information Services, where she provides taxonomy services, market research, and competitive intelligence for the publishing community.

Jean described trends in sci/tech publishing and encouraged audience members to contribute their own experience with these trends:
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Member and Library News

Edited by Sheryl Panka-Bryman

Lydia Collins of the University of Delaware was accepted to the fall session of the National Library of Medicine’s 2010 fellowship program in BioMedical Informatics II at the Marine Biological Laboratory <http://www.mbl.edu/>, Woods Hole, MA. Lydia is Assistant Librarian in the Reference Department at the University of Delaware Library, where she is responsible for reference, information literacy and instruction, and collection development, and she is the faculty, staff and student liaison to all departments within the College of Health Sciences.

Gina Kaiser of the University of the Sciences was elected a Director-at-Large for the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Association of College & Research Libraries, effective June 2010 through 2013.

Lucy Bea Kaplan, born 6-14-2010

Lucy Bea Kaplan

Gary Kaplan of Thomas Jefferson University and his wife, Molly, welcomed their beautiful daughter, Lucy Bea, into their family on June 14, 2010.

Daniel G. Kipnis of Thomas Jefferson University in conjunction with his colleague, Gary Kaplan,  and others presented a paper at MLA’s 2010 Conference, Reflect and Connect, in Washington, DC, for the Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section: “Beyond Cool:  Reflecting on Web 2.0 Adventures and Misadventures,” entitled “4 Wikis + 4 Blogs + 70 Third-year Medical School Students = Improved Students’ Confidence in Practicing Evidence-based Medicine (EBM): A Pilot Project Using Blogs and Wikis for a Collaboration EBM Assignment in a Third-year Internal Medicine Clerkship”.

Jeanette de Richemond is the recipient of a Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. The Fellowship is awarded by the Beta Phi Mu honor society to Library and Information Sciences doctoral students who are working on their dissertations.

Mindy Robinson-Paquette, of Sanofi-aventis, is a contributor (pages 129-132) to the recently published book The Accidental Health Sciences Librarian, by Lisa A. Ennis and Nicole Mitchell, Information Today, Inc., ©2010.

The Wistar Institute’s Library and Archives will be a major lender to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts’ Anatomy/Academy exhibition, scheduled for January 29-May 13, 2011. The Institute will be lending all of the extant William Rush anatomical models as well as books, documents and other items from their collections.