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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