Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices (MLA WebCast)

Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices: Discovering the Participatory Web (MLA webcast)
March 5, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Children’s Hospital Boston, Conference Room 3
1 Autumn Street
Boston, MA
3 MLA CE credits
DIRECTIONS:  
 Children’s Hospital
The goal of this program is to provide a basic understanding of web 2.0 terminology and concepts, assess the effect of the technology on health sciences [...]

Licensing Electronic Resources – Registration Closed!

Two Dates:
3/3/08: College of the Holy Cross

3/4/08: Dartmouth

Time:
Both 8:30-5:30 with break at 4:30 for those who need to leave early, lunch included
 

Cost:
$65 members of any sponsoring organization. $85 for non-members. $40 for students.

MLA CE Credits: 8 MLA credits included.

Instructors:
Laurie Thompson, Director; UT Southwestern Medical Library (Dallas, TX)
Harry Youtt, Attorney; Los Angeles, CA
In the good old [...]

Emergency Preparedness Workshop – November 16th, 2007

 

A Matter of When, not If:
Preventing and Preparing for Library Disasters
A one-day workshop presented by the
National Network of Libraries of Medicine — New England Region
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Lori Foley, Director of Field Service
Northeast Document Conservation Center
Friday, November 16, 2007
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Hoagland-Pincus Conference Center
Shrewsbury, MA
8:30 am — 2:30 p.m.
Registration and Coffee: 8:30-9:00
Program: [...]

NAHSL ‘07 Building Bridges: Connecting Medical Libraries and Communities

Time is running out to register for the annual NAHSL conference.
 NAHSL ‘07 – Building Bridges:Connecting Medical Libraries and Communities
Woodstock, Vermont
October 28 – 30, 2007

For all the details:
http://www.nahsl.org/2007/index.html

MLA Webcast: Scholarly Publishing Open Access/Now available Online

Dear Folks,
All MAHSLIN members are now allowed access to this recent MLA program!  It is available now through December 26, 2007, and people who attended the program gave it a good review!
2 MLA CE Credits are available for those who view this program and submit an evaluation. If you would like more information or are interested [...]

Free classes in 2008-2009 by the NNLM (All Regions)

Register soon as classes fill fast!
MULTIPLE OFFERINGS INCLUDING PUBMED, TOXNET THE NLM GATEWAY & CLINICALTRIALS.GOV
 

Complete information including how to register is available online at http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/regions.html. 
Classes come with Medical Library Association CE units. Don’t miss out! 

Michelle Eberle
Consumer Health Information Coordinator
National Network of Libraries of Medicine – New England
University of Massachusetts Medical School
222 Maple Avenue – Shrewsbury [...]

1st National Conference for Literature and Medicine

Save the Date Nov. 9-10 & Spread the Word! 
We are pleased to announce our First National Conference for Literature & Medicine:
Humanities at the Heart of Health Care®
This conference is for everyone involved in the Literature & Medicine Program – participants, organizers, facilitators-  as well as others who are interested.DATE: Friday & Saturday, November 9 [...]

QuickDoc Workshop

QuickDoc – Making the most of your ILL tracking software
Thursday, October 11, 2007
1:00 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Children’s Hospital Boston, 1 Autumn St., Conference Room 3
Jay Daly, Instructor
3 MLA CE credits
This class will cover the basics BUT for those of you who have been using the software for a while, there also will be plenty of [...]

Search Clinic: Chemicals and Drugs in PubMed®

Learn how to find articles about a chemical or drug of interest. This hour-long online clinic covered how the NLM MeSH® vocabulary is used to describe substance concepts and how to search PubMed for relevant articles.
Take a look at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/clinics/chem.html.  This has been recommended by a MAHSLIN member.

11th annual October Conference Dartmouth BioMedical Libraries

October 12 is the date for the annual conference sponsored by Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries.   This year the topic is “Surveys and Focus Groups:
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” Details and registration are here:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/services.htmld/OctCon2007/index.shtml