Welcome to the 2013 MAC-MLA Conference site!

Are you looking for your next professional development opportunity?  Or a chance to share your research?  Or just missing your fellow medical or allied health librarians?  Then, start planning your MAC-MLA trip for this October!  If you haven’t been to Pittsburgh before, see why Emma Watson, Tom Cruise, Anne Hathaway, Taylor Lautner…and

Read More

National survey of consumer health information services

Take part in the Consumer Health Information Services Survey (CHISS). Researchers from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, LA are conducting a 15-20 minute survey to identify consumer health information services. The researchers hope to receive responses from public libraries, academic institutions, hospitals and not-for-profit organizations involved in consumer health

Read More

Librarians vs Steeler Fans: Avoid a Battle for Rooms at 2013 MAC Annual Meeting

This year’s meeting hotel is within walking distance of the Steelers’ stadium. When the NFL announces game schedules this month, if a game overlaps our meeting, virtually all nearby hotel rooms will sell out at very high rates. Please take the opportunity to make your hotel reservation early: http://cwp.marriott.com/pitbr/mac/  “Renaissance on the

Read More

Updates on NLM’s Exhibition Programs

NLM’s Exhibition Program launched an online ACSI survey at the end of January.  The survey invites user feedback while they are visiting our Program’s website as well as four online exhibitions. It will be available until the end of January 2014, and are currently available on the following websites: “And there’s the humor of

Read More

Materials available from the NIEHS Library

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Library is being renovated and is losing space.  We have several lists of materials available to other libraries.  Most are biomedical  and toxicology journals that are available electronically. We also have a lot of Annual Reviews and monographic series such as Methods in Enzymology.  We are

Read More

2013 Annual Meeting – Hotel Reservations

Although it seems like we just left Baltimore, we are writing to encourage you to make your hotel reservations early for next year’s MAC annual meeting: “Renaissance on the Rivers” Mid-Atlantic Chapter/MLA Annual Meeting October 13-15, 2013

Mentoring survey

Please consider participating in a survey investigating the mentoring programs in academic libraries, focusing on the mentee’s perceptions of the mentoring relationship.  The survey should take 15-30 minutes to complete and there is no harm or risk associated with this study.  Although there is no direct benefit to the participant, the information

Read More