From Pat Hammond: Dear MAC Members, Please extend a welcome to Andrea Hilliard. Andrea Hilliard is the new medical librarian for MediCorp Health System which contains Mary Washington Hospital of Fredericksburg, VA and the new Stafford Hospital Center in Stafford, VA. Andrea was previously employed at JPS Health Network in Fort Worth,
From Alan T. Williams – Recently, surgeons in Detroit used Twitter while performing brain surgery. The article has a nice video with it and discusses how medical students across the country were able to virtually sit in on this brain surgery through the use of Twitter. I found this extremely interesting so
From NLM: Check out the new Understanding Medical Words tutorial from the National Library of Medicine. This tutorial teaches you about medical words. You’ll learn about how to put together parts of medical words. You’ll also find quizzes to see what you’ve learned. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medicalwords.html
Hi Everyone, I just started a new blog called Multimedia and Web 2.0 Tools and Techniques. I intend to post screencasts and tips to the blog, as well as some news items. Please take a look. I hope you enjoy it! Thanks, Bob http://multimediaandweb2.wordpress.com/
From Amy Blevins: The Membership and Recruitment Committee has conducted the first in what will be a series of MAC member interviews for MAC Messages. Our first member spotlight is on Roger Glenn Russell, MLA, AHIP, the Assistant Director of User Services at the William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library at East
(Sidebar photo of Jim Curtis: R. Ladd) From the UNC-Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library E-News (Ginny Bunch, Editor): At the UNC-Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library, the New Year has brought with it a new Deputy Director! We are pleased to share the news that Jim Curtis has rejoined the UNC Health Sciences
From Lynn Eades: Hello! This is your friendly, neighborhood Membership Database Manager here to remind you that memberships in MAC are for a calendar year (January – December)! If you are an officer or on a committee, you need to renew your membership to be in good standing! Don’t delay, visit http://www.acteva.com/go/MACMembership/
From Beth Layton: Position Title: Public Services Librarian University Rank: Assistant-In Classification: Faculty. 12 Month. Non-Tenure Accruing Reports To: Director, Borland Library Division (Jacksonville, FL)
From Tony Yancey: Health Information Outreach and Community Engagement: Lessons Learned from the Experts Thursday, February 12, 2009 / 2 – 3:30 PM
From Alan T. Williams: My apologies if some of you all have already seen this site, but I stumbled across it this morning and thought it would be worthwhile to put on the MAC-MLA blog. The site is called The Doctor’s Channel and has the slogan “Learn From Each Other. Fast”. To
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