Another presenter has joined our Thursday afternoon poster session. MHSLA Archivist Maureen Watson, MS, AHIP, will present the poster MHSLA: LOL the Power of Laughter, featuring humorous moments in MHSLA meetings from 1998-2008.
Maureen is the Optometry Librarian at Ferris State University.
Come visit with your Stat!Ref representative at the MHSLA conference, and
don’t forget to enter yourself to win a raffle prize, courtesy of Stat!Ref. For more information on Stat!Ref, please see: http://www.statref.com/
Representatives from Wolters Kluwer Health/Ovid will be at the conference and have generously sponsored the Thursday afternoon break. For more information on Wolters Kluwer Health/Ovid, please see: http://www.ovid.com/site/index.jsp
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Noon – 1:00 pm
Doubletree Hotel, Holland MI
Beth Smith, from Thomson Reuters, will provide an overview of the Micromedex databases. This training session will focus on the new point-of-care interface covering drug, disease, lab, alternate medications, patient education, dosing tools, and clinical calculators. To learn more about Micromedex databases, please visit: http://www.micromedex.com/products/hcs/
Beth Smith, RN, BSN is a Clinical Solutions Trainer for Thomson Reuters.
She has previously worked as a Registered Nurse in Labor and Delivery,
Postpartum and Newborn Nursery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in
Chicago, IL and as a Senior Medical Safety Analyst at Abbott Laboratories.
She is currently working towards her Masters in Training and Development.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
1:00-5:00 pm
Doubletree Hotel, Holland, MI
The Education Committee is pleased to announce this line-up of posters at the Fall conference. Check them out on Thursday afternoon:
Harness the Power of Google
Mark MacEachern, MLIS
Anna Ercoli Schnitzer, AMLS
Merle Rosenzweig, AMLS
University of Michigan Health Science Libraries
Medical Library at a Distance: Collaborating with the Medical School in
Opening Expansion Sites
Abraham Wheeler, MLIS
Susan Kendall, Ph.D., MS(LIS)
Michigan State University Libraries
Metropolitan Detroit Medical Library Group
Jennifer Bowen, MLIS
Children’s Hospital of Michigan
NLM Duplicates Program: Free Books for MHSLA Members
Heidi Schroeder, MLIS
Michigan State University Libraries
Power Up Citation Management: Which One is Best at What?
Carole Gall, MLS, AHIP
Indiana University School of Medicine Libraries
Indianapolis, IN
Reading Advocacy in a Children’s Hospital
Patricia C. Supnick, MLIS
Phyllis Ann Colburn Memorial Library
Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Interested in presenting a poster? There’s still time! Contact Roberta Craig (rcraig@mhc.net) at Munson Community Health Library for details.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Noon – 1 pm
Doubletree Hotel, Holland MI
Please join Justin Dechene (Field Sales Representative), from EBSCO Publishing, to learn about DynaMed, an evidence-based point-of-care clinical reference system that is updated daily. In this session, you’ll explore ways that this tool provides value to your organization, and find out how you can optimize information retrieval using various DynaMed features. To learn more about DynaMed, please visit: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/default.php
The MHSLA Fall Conference is only 6 weeks away! Here’s why to register
now:
Top Ten Reasons to REGISTER NOW for the MHSLA Fall Conference!
10. EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT pricing is only available until August 21!
9. Conference Tee Shirts will be ordered August 24 – make sure we
order a shirt for you in your size!
8. Get your CE cheap! Measure your impact (POW!), beware geeks bearing
gifts, batten down your hatches for emergencies, be the expert on the
new PubMed – at an unbelievably low price!
7. Skip CSI Miami – hear real-life forensic pathologist Stephen D.
Cohle M.D.’s keynote on “The importance of getting it right!”
6. Laugh with Judge Sara Smolenski’s keynote: “Why the world needs
medical librarians – the humorous side!”
5. Find out how fast your colleagues can talk; it’s Pecha Kucha
Dutch!
5a. Find out how to pronounce Pecha Kucha!
5b. Find out how fast YOU can talk — present a Pecha Kucha!
4. Get free stuff at the Exhibitor & Poster session – show up for the
drawing; you must be present to win!
3. Dance the night away with the Lazy Blue Tunas at the Welcome
Reception!
2. Take a Slow Boat to Holland Up a Lazy River, at our Special Event!
1. Check out Mary Hanson’s Membership Meeting hat!
Special notice for MHSLA Members –
Your Association, Your Business Meeting! If you’re planning to attend
the Annual Membership Meeting (free!) but cannot attend the rest of the
Conference, please register with Brett Powers to assure that we have a
chair, a nametag, and appropriate voting paddles for you! You’ll find
Brett’s contact information on the Conference Registration Form or in
the membership directory.
Following lunch on Thursday, September 24, Charniel McDaniels will present the annual GMR update.
For more information about the Greater Midwest Region, see: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/about/gmrupdate.html
