October is National Medical Librarians Month–Share Your Story and Win a Trip to MLA 2013 in Boston!

MAR would like to celebrate medical librarians in our region.  National Medical Librarians Month gives information professionals an opportunity to market their services and highlight their contributions to research, education and improved patient outcomes.  Are you doing something to celebrate Medical Librarians Month?  If so, share your story by sending to nnlmmar@pitt.edu.  If applicable, also share a photo depicting your activities/events.

MAR will be collecting your stories and highlighting them in our blog and weekly postings throughout October.  All those that submit a story before Oct. 31^st will be entered into a random drawing to receive an award to cover registration and airfare to MLA 2013.  Please, only one entry per library.

Be sure to check out MLA’s promotional items and resources to market library services and value at:
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/nml-month/

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, Rutgers, PCOM, Swarthmore, Haverford, Widener, DeSales, St. Joseph’s, and UPenn.

Dates:  Wednesday October 24th and Thursday October 25th.

Join us on Thursday October 25th 1.30 – 4 pm on the campus of Thomas Jefferson University to hear two presentations dealing with open access issues.

This is a free event.

Please email dan.kipnis@jefferson.edu if you are interested in attending. Limited seating will be available.

Location:  Bluemle Life Science Building, room 105
233 South 10th Street (between Walnut and Locust)
Philadelphia, PA 19107

1:30 – 2 pm:  Check-in

2 pm:  Brian S. McGowan, PhD

Independent consultant and author of forthcoming book: #SocialQI: Simple Solutions for Improving your Healthcare. Graduate of Temple University School of Medicine, who specializes in adult education focusing on medical education and evidence-based educational design with expertise in medical educational compliance and regulations.

Biomedical Science in the Research Commons: Building Systems and a Culture of Open Science

This session will explore the need for building and supporting a biomedical science research commons. Issues to be explored include:

Healthcare quality variation as the driving force for the research commons

Integrating implementation science, social network science, and behavior change science to construct the research commons

The research commons and big data – evolving the accepted ‘dose of science’

Essential elements of the systems supporting the research commons

The new competencies needed to leverage the research commons

3 pm:  Nicole Allen

Nicole Allen is the Student Public Interest Research Groups Textbook Advocate and director of the Make Textbooks Affordable project. Since 2007, she has worked with students, faculty and decision-makers across the country to address the rapidly rising cost of college textbooks through grassroots organizing, public education and advocacy. Nationally recognized as a leading issue expert, Ms. Allen’s research and opinions have been cited in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. A life-long activist, Ms. Allen began her career in higher education advocacy as a student at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, where she graduated in 2006 with a degree in Philosophy.

An additional Open Access Week event will take place at Temple University’s Paley Library on Wednesday, October 24 at 3:30 pm in the Library Lecture Hall, located on the ground floor. Nicole Allen will be one of the speakers, and she will be discussing trends in open educational resources and open textbooks. The other speaker is Nick Shockey, SPARC’s (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) first director of student advocacy and Director of the Right to Research Coalition. Shockey will address current issues in open access scholarship. All are invited to attend. No RSVP is needed.

Hope you can make it.

Dan Kipnis, MSI
Senior Education Services Librarian
Jefferson Digital Commons Editor
215.503.2825

MAR announced the inaugural issue of our quarterly newsletter–The MAReport.

Our goal is…

• to spotlight various aspects of our services and NLM resources
• to highlight a Network member
• to announce classes and training for the next quarter, and
• to touch on any number of possible topics in future issues

Make sure to sign-up to receive future issues using the Subscribe feature. Also, please share the newsletter with colleagues and friends:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/newsletter/.

MAR announced the inaugural issue of our quarterly newsletter–The MAReport.

Our goal is…

• to spotlight various aspects of our services and NLM resources
• to highlight a Network member
• to announce classes and training for the next quarter, and
• to touch on any number of possible topics in future issues

Make sure to sign-up to receive future issues using the Subscribe feature. Also, please share the newsletter with colleagues and friends:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/newsletter/.

This week MAR announced the inaugural issue of our quarterly newsletter–The MAReport.

Our goal is…

• to spotlight various aspects of our services and NLM resources
• to highlight a Network member
• to announce classes and training for the next quarter, and
• to touch on any number of possible topics in future issues

Make sure to sign-up to receive future issues using the Subscribe feature. Also, please share the newsletter with colleagues and friends:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/newsletter/.

The MLA Research Section has announced the winners for the best research papers and posters at MLA ’12.  We are delighted to report that some of the winners are from our region:

Paper Winners

Survival and Success Beyond Grad School: Improving Library Services to Postdoctoral Researchers
Aileen McCrillis, Research Librarian, NYU Health Sciences Libraries; Alisa Surkis, Translational Science Librarian, NYU Health Sciences Libraries; Dorice Vieira, Clinical Librarian, NYU Health Sciences Libraries; New York University–New York; Pauline S. Beam, Education and Information Services Librarian, Gustave & Janet Levy Library, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY; Tina O’Grady, Doctoral Candidate, Biomedical Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Poster Winners

Results of the Value of Health Library and Information Services Study
Joanne Marshall, AHIP, FMLA, Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; Julia Sollenberger, AHIP, FMLA, Director, Medical Center Libraries and Technologies, Edward G. Miner Library, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York

MAR would like to announce the inaugural issue of our quarterly newsletter–The MAReport.

Our goal is…

• to spotlight various aspects of our services and NLM resources
• to highlight a Network member
• to announce classes and training for the next quarter, and
• to touch on any number of possible topics in future issues

Make sure to sign-up to receive future issues using the Subscribe feature. Also, please share the newsletter with colleagues and friends.

http://nnlm.gov/mar/newsletter/

Join UNYOC and OVHLA  October 10^th – 12^th, as together we Build Bridges, inspire ideas, and navigate the NAV Centre in Cornwall, Ontario!   Come and have the opportunity to mingle, share ideas, and network with each other and with speakers Nancy Roderer, Library Director at the Johns Hopkins University Welch Library; Jim Henderson, Librarian Emeritus, McGill University; and Michelle Young, Library Director, Clarkson University.

Intrigued?  Find more at:  http://www.unyoc.mlanet.org/blog/annual-meetings/2012-annual-meeting/

Crossing the border?  Plan now to make sure you have the documents you need:
https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/74/session/L3NpZC9OKmpVNGMzbA%3D%3D/search/1

BONUS:  If you stay at the NAV Centre,  the conference registration, CE charge, meals, and lodging are all bundled into one low price…reserve your spot today!  http://www.unyoc.mlanet.org/blog/annual-meetings/2012-annual-meeting/registration/

The North Bowl event to help homebound seniors support their pets went really well!  At the event, we also released a new PCA research and planning report on why we need to support seniors and their pets.  The report has data that was collected from seniors by the Public Health Management Corporation in 2010 about their pets.  Also – it suggests ways that organizations can start programs to support seniors and their furry companions, something that doesn’t really exist here in Philly (yet!!).  Congratulations GenPhilly members for catalyzing this effort – it is making a big difference!

A glimpse into the report:

Pet ownership among seniors in Philadelphia has important implications for social service providers, other support networks (friends, family, etc.), and medical professionals who wish to help seniors to remain independent and healthy in their homes for as long as possible.  Recent analyses by Philadelphia Corporation for Aging, the Area Agency on Aging for Philadelphia, show that 33% of all seniors age 60+ in Philadelphia have a pet, representing over 95,000 households.   Interestingly enough, 40% have a cat, 38% have a dog, and 22% have a have a combination of species (both  cats and dogs or other kinds of pets). Pet ownership climbs to 40% among those age 60-74.  These findings are significant, for they show that pets are often found in the homes of seniors, many of whom have difficulties in maintaining them.

Philly Pets and Seniors 2012 Report:  http://phillypetsandseniors.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/support-older-adults-and-their-pets-july-2012-final1.pdf

Kate Clark, M.P.A

Planner //Philadelphia Corporation for Aging

Chair // GenPhilly, emerging leaders promoting an age-friendly city

P. 215.765.9000 x 5072 // F. 215.765.9066

642 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130

The Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey’s Group Licensing Initiative, currently in its tenth year, has been tasked by the Middle Atlantic Region (MAR) to expand its membership to include libraries throughout the entire region.  This year, the Initiative has nearly 100 members and we thank all libraries in New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York that are participating with us!

In order to better serve our current and potential new members, we are asking librarians to complete a short survey to assess the resources we currently have available and to help determine the resources we may add in the future.  The survey should take 5 to 10 minutes to complete.  Historically, only hospital libraries have been able to participate in the GLI.  There have been several academic libraries (ie medical school libraries) that have asked to participate, so we would ask that they also complete this survey to help us gauge interest.

Enter the survey by clicking: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2012HSLANJGroupLicensingInitiativeSurvey

Thank you.

Robb Mackes, Project Manager, HSLANJ GLI
Barbara S. Reich, Co-Chair, HSLANJ GLI
Kerry O’Rourke, Co-Chair, HSLANJ GLI