President’s Column – Message from Outgoing President
Posted on June 14, 2010 by kcarlson | No Comments
By Lisa Marks, Supervisor, Library Services, Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, MLGSCA President
As my term of office as MLGSCA President comes to an end, I’d like to say thank you for giving me this opportunity!
This year has been one of experimentation for MLGSCA. For the Fall 2009 Program,”Exploiting Librarian Skills to Enhance Continuing Medical Education Programs“, we collaborated with SCMEC (Southern CA Medical Education Council) to bring librarians and CME coordinators together. For this CE, Kaiser Permanente Librarians brought us a course on how librarians can enhance CME activities – an important topic when more and more librarians are being asked to take on CME responsibilities.
For the Spring 2010 Program, Eileen Wakiji and her CE committee brought us an event using MLA’s MegaMeeting for the webinar “Library without Walls: Creating Web Portals for Online Services and Resources” with Nital Sheridan. Ms. Sheridan was in New Orleans while MLGSCA members had the opportunity to view the program at their desks or to participate at one of several host sites in both Arizona & California. The course was designed to guide students through the process of developing a web portal for online services and resources.
We also used MegaMeeting for the Spring business meeting where Deborah Klein was given the well deserved Louise Darling Achievement Award.
In between the Fall & Spring CE courses, we had a terrific Joint Meeting with NCNMLG (Northern CA & Nevada Medical Library Group) in Glendale, AZ. The quad-chairs: Ellen Aaronson, Rebecca Birr, Judy Bube & Kathy Zeblisky, along with the entire planning committee, put together a wonderful meeting for our membership. The 125 attendees were treated to 4 invited speaker sessions, including MLA President Connie Schardt, 16 posters, 21 contributed papers and 5 options for a continuing education course.
I need to give a big THANK YOU to the Advisory Council members for their support and hard work this past year. MLGSCA would not be what it is without you. If you’ve never served on the Advisory Council and wonder what it is we do, think about chairing a committee or running for office. You’ll get the chance to work with a great group of folks, learn about MLGSCA and have fun too! You will also earn points towards your AHIP if you’re looking to add those letters behind your name. For those of you on the Advisory Council, new and returning or transitioning members, I’ll see you Wednesday, June 30th for our Transition Meeting.
Finally, a reminder that there is still time to get your committee interest forms to Eileen Wakiji for the 2010-2011 year; deadline has been extended until June 21st. I know that under Eileen’s guidance, the next year will be a good one.
Posted 6/14/10
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