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From the Editor

By Rachel Resnick. Published on November 19, 2009 in the Chronicle. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Rachel2008-3aHello, and welcome to the fall issue.  If you missed the tri-chapter conference last month in whole or in part, please avail yourself of the recaps published here, and refer to the links to additional conference information.  Several chapter members were on the Planning Committee and deserve a round of applause for their efforts in the implementation and success of the conference: Cynthia McClellan, Andrea Kenyon, Gary Kaplan, Gina Kaiser, Nancy Calabretta, Anne Seymour, Kevin Block, Mary Alice Cicerale, Sheryl Panka-Bryman, Ellen Justice, Lenore Hardy, Linda Katz, and Etheldra Templeton.  I know that a couple of us, Lydia Witman and myself, also joined Gary in  videotaping librarians for a recruitment project; I also set up the conference Twitter account and tweeted whenever I could.  I apologize if I missed anyone.

Please note that the deadline is quickly approaching for MLA continuing education grants and scholarships, meeting grants, and a traveling fellowship.  As was noted in the Fundraising/Grantsmanship presentation on the last day of the conference by Patricia Pasqual of the Foundation Center and Claudia Perry of Queens College, scholarships, grants, and fellowships support your own professional growth, so please do take advantage of them whenever you can.

Congratulations to the individuals who were recently promoted; also to those recently published or presented; and best of luck to those who have moved to new appointments.   And a big Wow! regarding the interesting discovery at the Wistar Institute.  Details within….  This issue’s Member & Library News column was edited by Sheryl Panka-Bryman.  It might not be uncommon to find a librarian who is a quilter, but you might also be interested to know that member Deb Miller is also…well, I wouldn’t want to spoil it for you.  Jo-Anne Babish presents Meet Your Fellow Chapter Member: Deb Miller.

I always thought PowerPoint® was the be-all and end-all of presentation software.  Not so, says Carlos Rodriquez in this issue’s TechnoHumanist Corner.  And don’t forget to check out Janet Clinton’s Calendar, listing events sponsored by our chapter and other organizations.

Just a note:  Gary Kaplan and I are looking for a designer for the Chronicle.  We were thinking that this would be a good opportunity for a library school student interested in the health sciences to build his or her resume by providing service to a professional organization, gain formatting experience, and have access to the latest news about healthcare librarianship in the region.  While a good sense of humor would be helpful, it would also be helpful to be able to format photographs for size and quality, have html experience, and have access to software to create a PDF version of the newsletter.  If interested, please contact me or Gary: rachel.r.resnick@gmail.com ;  gary.kaplan@jefferson.edu.

The deadline for Volume 28, Number 1 of the Chronicle is March 1, 2010.
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Rachel Resnick
Communications Committee Chair, 2009-2011

3 by the Sea—Articles, Odds & Ends

By Rachel Resnick. Published on November 19, 2009 in the Chronicle. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

It was good to see so many of you from the chapter at last month’s 3 by the Sea conference, co-hosted by the MLA-Phil, NY-NJ, and MAC chapters.  In the sections following, you will find recaps of a few events you may have missed.  First, Chair Cynthia McClellan summarizes Tuesday’s keynote speech presented by Dr. PM Forni of the Civility Project at Johns Hopkins University.  Next, Crystal Knapp describes Wednesday’s keynote by Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project.  Gretchen Kuntz provides her overview of the presentation at Wednesday’s Hospital Librarians Luncheon by speaker Karen Drenkard, Director of The Magnet Recognition Program at American Nurses Credentialing Center.  Thank you, ladies, for your contributions.

Please be sure to revisit the conference website <http://3bythesea.pbworks.com>, as additional information has been added since the conference ended.  Notably, posters and slides are now available.  Also, Lydia Witman, Gary Kaplan, and I recorded brief interviews with conference attendees, asking them how they got started in health sciences librarianship and what they get out of their membership in MLA and in attending professional conferences.  These videos are being used to recruit library students into the field.  Take a look: you will see names and faces you recognize, but did you know their stories?

If you would like to read “as-it-happened” accounts of some of the programs, point your browser to Twitter <http://twitter.com/threebythesea>  I believe you can read all of the tweets there.  Although I was the official tweeter (twitterer? twit?), several others commented on the programs they attended as well; I followed anyone who used the hashtag #3bythesea, and retweeted their messages so that they are all contained in the threebythesea account.

If you are on Facebook, you can find 3 by the Sea there.

Conference photos are available on flickr® <http://www.flickr.com/groups/3bythesea> and if you have any photos that you would like to share, please feel free to join the 3bythesea flickr® group and upload your photos.

Lastly, MLA President Connie Schardt, AHIP, posted her impressions of the conference <http://connections.mlanet.org/2009/10/14/tri-chapter-meeting-on-the-jersey-shore/>.  Other chapter meetings are also reviewed by Connie and other MLA National chapter members on the MLA Connections blog, so if you’re interested in what other chapters are up to, point your browser to <http://connections.mlanet.org>.
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From the Editor

By Rachel Resnick. Published on July 10, 2009 in the Chronicle. 0 Comments Tags: , , .
Rachel Resnick

Rachel Resnick

“It was the best of times [several mla-phil members were promoted, published, graduated, and honored; others contributed their first articles to the Chronicle],
It was the worst of times [several members are still looking for work],
It was the age of wisdom [record numbers of the unemployed used their public libraries to discover and apply for jobs],
It was the age of foolishness [legislation was introduced in Pennsylvania to severely cut public library services], …
It was the season of Light [record numbers of articles were submitted to PubMedCentral], It was the season of Darkness [Elsevier published a fake journal for Merck], ….”*

In this issue of the Chronicle, we take a look back our Chapter’s Annual Business Meeting and Reception and at MLA’s Annual Conference.  Read more» » »