Voting for the 2013 election is now underway. The candidates that are running in this year’s election are as follows: Chair-Elect – Ryan Harris and Shannon Jones Treasurer – Susan Arnold and Beth Ketterman MAC Nominee to the MLA Nomination Committee – Diana McDuffee and Steven Douglas The candidates’ biographical information and
Well just like the end of summer, the deadline for applying for the MAC Research and Assessment Grant is quickly approaching. If you have found that you could use some funding for a research project you would like to work on the MAC Research and Assessment Committee may be able to help.
Have you retired during the past year, or are you about to retire? Do you have a colleague who is retiring? The Honors and Awards Committee of MAC, in order to recognize the value of your library service, is asking you to send your name and a brief biography to be posted
Mary Ellen Nolan, MLS, AHIP, Consumer Health Librarian at the New Hanover County Public Library Sytem in Wilmington, North Carolina, and Amy Knehans, MLIS, AHIP, Clinical Outreach, Liaison and Instruction Librarian at the George T. Harrell Health Sciences Library, Penn State, are the new co-editors for the first “Patient/Consumer Perspectives” column for the Journal of Consumer Health
The annual election will be conducted this summer for following three MAC officers: Chair Elect/Chair/Immediate Past Chair (Three year term) Treasurer (Three year term) MAC Nominee to the MLA Nominating Committee (One year term, the winner of this MAC election is forwarded to MLA to be placed on the ballot for MLA’s
The MAC Scholarship needs support from talented and crafty librarians! To raise scholarship funding for a new librarian to attend the MAC Annual Meeting, the Membership & Recruitment Committee will hold the MAC Scholarship Raffle at the MAC Annual Meeting 2013. We are seeking donations of crafts, gift baskets, quilting or knitting
Now It’s Even Easier to Donate Journals to NLM Since April, 2009, NLM’s Journal Donation System has made it possible for libraries to determine whether NLM needs any volumes of the print journals they plan to discard.
NIH’s Office of Extramural Research has a blog posting with an update on the NIH Public Access Policy and compliance efforts. It announces the final implementation date of our compliance effort. Please share this with your researchers: http://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2013/02/14/update-on-nihs-public-access-policy/
It is with great pleasure that I announce Dr. John Kilbourne as the Head of the Medical Subject Headings Section (MeSH).
Renée E. Mansheim retired September 14, 2012 from Eastern Virginia Medical School Brickell Medical Sciences Library. She was the Technical Services Coordinator, having joined the EVMS Library staff in 1986. Her library degree was earned from the University of Wisconsin. During Renée’s tenure the library moved from card catalog to online resources,
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