Free CE Opportunity!

Several libraries in the MAC MLA region are hosting the upcoming MLA CE webcast and are opening their doors to you!  Join them to participate in this CE opportunity – FREE!!!

 MLA’s Educational Webcast:

Leveraging Mobile Technologies for Health Sciences Libraries
Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m., central time

Program Goals:

The goal of this webcast is to familiarize information professionals with current practical applications of mobile technologies in clinical and curricular support settings.  Topics will highlight innovative uses of mobile technologies, address technology challenges, and provide best practice guidance for applying in viewers local environments.

Program Objectives:

• ·        Define how mobile technologies can be used in clinical settings
• ·        Define how mobile technologies can be integrated into curricula
• ·        Identify challenges faced when using mobile technologies in different settings
• ·        Explain challenges faced in clinical and curricular settings that mobile technologies can help solve
• ·        Demonstrate how mobile technologies can be used in your own setting
• ·        Plan how to work with vendors and IT support to enable use of mobile technologies
• ·        Identify opportunities for library resources via mobile technologies in multiple settings
• ·        Compare different mobile technologies and choose which might be appropriate for your own setting

 

Where You Can Attend:

 

BALTIMORE, MD

• ·         Host institution:

The University of Maryland Health Sciences and Human Services Library and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Southeastern/Atlantic Region

• ·         Address:

601 W. Lombard St., Baltimore, MD, 21201

• ·         Location:

Distance Education Room, (Take elevator or stairs to the Lower Level of the library)

Directions: http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/general/directions.html

• ·         Registration information:

Contact Andrea Goldstein at agoldste@hshsl.umaryland.edu or 410-706-8868.

MORGANTOWN, WV

• ·         Host institution:

West Virginia University Health Sciences Library

• ·         Address:

Morgantown, WV 26505

• ·         Location:

It will not be held in the library but will be in a room on the ground floor. Other librarians can arrange to meet us in the library and we will go down together.

Directions: http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/library/infohours/directions.htm

• ·         Registration information:

Contact Jean Siebert via email jean.siebert@gmail.com (preferred) or by phone is 304-293-1920 (please leave a message).  To register send an email message with your email address, institution, and cell phone number.

 

GREENVILLE, NC

• ·         Host institution:

Laupus Library at East Carolina University

• ·         Address:

600 Move Blvd., Greenville, NC 27831

• ·         Location:

Contact Roger Russell for event location

Directions: http://www.ecu.edu/laupuslibrary/about/Maps.cfm

• ·         Registration information:

Contact Roger Russell at RUSSELLR@ecu.edu

RICHMOND, VA

• ·         Host institution:

Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond

 

• ·         Address:

509 North 12^th Street
Richmond, Virginia

• ·         Location:

Distance Education Room, 2-010Directions: http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/information/tmldirections.html

Valet parking is available at VCU Health System for $5.00, http://www.vcuhealth.org/?id=213&sid=1

• ·         Registration information:

Please RSVP by Wednesday, April 11, 2012 to Thelma Mack at mackta@vcu.edu

Questions? Contact Shannon Jones at sdjones@vcu.edu