NLM: Preservation Week Webinar

Preservation Week Webinar  Digital Memories: preserving personal digital photos, documents, and videos   Sponsored by National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) National Network Office National Library of Medicine April 23, 2013 from 3-4 PM EDST   As part of National Preservation Week, the National Library of Medicine will sponsor a one-

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NLM Lecture Series (starts Monday, March 4th)

NLM announces an upcoming lecture series on strategies to evaluate health communication. The first of the five-part lecture series is this coming Monday. More information about our first speaker, Dr. Gary Kreps, is attached. The title of his talk is: “Evaluating Health Communication Programs to Enhance Health Care and Health Promotion.” The

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Tonight Discuss the Horizon Report on Technology and Education

Tonight (6 PM Pacific/9 PM Eastern) members of the medical library community will be discussing the trends in higher education and technology its possible impact in health sciences libraries. The NMC Horizon Report> 2013 Higher Education Edition, http://www.nmc.org/publications/2013-horizon-report-higher-ed is a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. The

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Results – 2012 Survey for Hospital Library eResources Group Purchasing & Licensing

Dear MACMLA-L Colleagues, This is an update on the results of the 2012 Survey for Hospital Library eResources Group Purchasing & Licensing. Thanks to everyone who participated in the survey. The de-identified data for the ten survey questions is listed in the MACMLA-L listserv archive. Any interested hospital librarians are invited to

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NIH Public Access Policy Webinar (January 15th)

The NIH has announced it will hold a webinar on January 15 “to assist grantee institutions with guidance and resources related to the NIH Public Access Policy, upcoming changes, tools, and how non-compliance will affect awards.” NIH earlier announced that in the spring, at the earliest, it “will hold processing of non-competing

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Free Presentations for Open Access Week in Philadelphia, PA

The local Philadelphia Scholarly Communication Group (PSCG) has organized 2 dates with speakers to coincide with 2012 Open Access Week.  All presentations will take place in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.  The PSCG is an informal collection of scholarly communication librarians from regional institutions that include:  Drexel, Bryn Mawr, Temple, Thomas Jefferson, Villanova, La Salle,

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Prevention and Wellness Across the Life Span

Librarians with an interest in public health, make this the year you attend the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting.  Stipends funded by The Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund for this purpose will be awarded to at least 11 librarians in 2012.  This year’s APHA meeting will take place in San

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