Listen up, group. Ever on the lookout for ways to garner recognition for my esteemed colleagues in the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association, I wish to report that I have received a bit of intelligence that I am immediately passing on to you. (I trust you are appropriately thrilled and duly impressed [...]
PNC/MLA 2010 on Twitter
[Aug 31]
If you’d like to keep up with or contribute to PNC/MLA 2010 on Twitter, use hashtag #pncmla10. There are already several exciting Twitter posts on the conference! If you haven’t signed up yet you may want to do so soon since registration goes up $50 after September 25. Conference information and registration at http://pncmla.org/pncmla2010/.
Please join [...]
Networking and Skill-Building Update: I Have Registered for the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association 2010 Meeting – October 9-12, 2010, Portland, Oregon–Have You?
[Aug 31]
Ooooh, I am getting excited now about the annual meeting of Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association October 9-12, 2010 in Portland, Oregon.
Last week I took the plunge and registered for the meeting—here is where you can, too.
And you don’t have to be a PNC member to come. You could be an MLA [...]
A Public Service to Newbies in the World of Medical Librarianship: Student Scholarships to the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association
[Aug 24]
Things are percolating nicely with the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association Saturday, October 09, 2010 – Tuesday, October 12, 2010 in Portland, Oregon. I have checked my bank account and much to my delight I have enough in it to actually register to attend!
And I was about [...]
Lovely tribute to Dorothy O’Brien in the August 2010 Issue of the MLA News
[Aug 19]
Hello, all. I just want to pass along the news that there is a touching tribute to Dorothy O’Brien in the August issue of the MLA News.
I went to the service for Dorothy in her hometown of Buffalo, Wyoming a few weeks ago and it was very moving to be in a packed church and [...]
Whither Wikipedia: Is Your Library In It?
[Aug 12]
Wow–today on the email discussion list of medical librarians in the Pacific Northwest there has been a flurry of messages about the reliability of Wikipedia when it comes to consumer health and medical matters generally.
This leads me to ask the following of members of Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association (and librarians in general):
Have [...]
Wordstock in Portland, Oregon October 7-10!
[Aug 11]
Wordstock, “an annual festival of books, writers, and storytelling in Portland, Oregon” will be taking place October 7-10. Yet one more reason to come early to Portland prior to the PNC/MLA meeting held October 9-12! The Wordstock Book Fair will be held at the Oregon Convention Center (777 NE MLK Jr Blvd.) from 10 a.m.-6 [...]
WebEx enables online meetings for PNC
[Aug 9]
The PNC Board has been looking for a way to make online meetings easy and affordable. We first arranged a trial of Dimdim, but the technology proved difficult to use and the connections tenuous. Our WebEx trial was much more successful. WebEx does NOT require attendees to download software or use Skype which will make our institutions happy! Up to 25 [...]
Online registration is now open for the 2010 PNC/MLA Meeting – October 9-12, 2010 in Portland, Oregon!
[Aug 2]
Go to https://www.regonline.com/pncmla2010 to register. As Hope just pointed out in her post, there are a lot of cool things about this year’s program. Early registration ends at midnight on Saturday, September 25 (and registration goes up $50 after that), so make sure to register now!
More details about the meeting are available at http://pncmla.org/pncmla2010. A [...]
Additional Details Continue to Come in About the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association
[Aug 2]
Hi, all. Just a quick note that I have just been visiting the Web page of the agenda of the Preliminary Program of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association and just noticed that there are clickable links for some of the speakers and a few (more to [...]