‘Tis the season around here at mlaphil: the season of learning, that is. Please be sure to consult the Calendar and articles regarding upcoming educational events. And if you attend an event, whether sponsored by our Chapter or anyone else, and would like to write about the program for the Chronicle, please contact me. Articles only need to be 1-2 pages long and are due the week after the event, so that you can still read your notes and your memory hasn’t faded.
Speaking of the Calendar, thanks to Sheryl Panka-Bryman who stepped in as guest editor of the Calendar for this issue while Janet Clinton is out on medical leave. Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Janet.
This is also the season of deadlines: Please be sure to submit your nominations for chapter awards and grants to the nominations team chaired by Etheldra Templeton. Awards will be presented at our Chapter’s Annual Meeting in late April.
Events like Continuing Education activities and our Annual Meeting are often made possible by the generous donations of sponsors. Christina Daley provides the development report in this issue. Christina is stepping in, as Ellen Justice is busy with a “special project” of her own—read all about it in Member & Library News, edited by JoAnn Babish.
Our Chapter is helping to support a research study regarding the value of library and information services inpatient care. An update on the project, undertaken by the Middle Atlantic Region of NN/LM, is provided herein.
Nationally, you can apply to become an official blogger for the MLA ’10 Annual Meeting. You can also find out who else will be attending and make contact with individuals with similar interests using the CrowdVine social networking tool provided by MLA.
You can also get involved in the many special Sections of MLA, such as the Medical Informatics Section described by Jeanette de Richemond in this issue. And to manage the research you might do regarding informatics (or any other topic, for that matter), check out Evernote, explained by our very own TechnoHumanist, Carlos Rodriguez.
Welcome to new member and soon to be new librarian Gina Cacace, who is profiled in this issue. If you have a particular interest in being profiled, let us know, whether you are a new member or not.
And if you have any interest in helping out on the Chronicle, let me know. We can always use folks to help us edit photos or upload photos and articles to the website. Our particular need is for someone to take the web material and format it newsletter-style. If you have those skills, contact me or Gary Kaplan, our webmaster.
Rachel
The deadline for the next issue of the Chronicle (Volume 28, No. 2) is July 1, 2010.
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