Symposium on Emerging Roles in Libraries
Posted on August 28, 2012 by Lisa Federer | No Comments
A Symposium on Emerging Roles in Libraries will be held at the Ecotrust Building in Portland on Friday, October 12, 2012. It will include a variety of speakers, including Stephen Bell, president of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) , and Jerry Perry, past president of the Medical Library Association (MLA). Topics included will be e-science, distance education, the electronic medical record, data management, and content management.
More information is available at http://pnc-mla.cloverpad.org/emergingrolessymposium. The Symposium is free to all members of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association (PNC/MLA) and MLA. There will be a charge of $50 for registrants who are not members of PNC or MLA. You can register for the Symposium and continuing education (CE) at http://pnc-mla.cloverpad.org/emergingrolessymposium .
The Symposium is funded by the National Library of Medicine under Contract No. HHS-N-276-2011-00008-C with the University of Washington.
A reception, sponsored by PNC/MLA, will follow the Symposium.
There will be CE opportunities on Saturday, October 13th. Information about the classes is available at http://pnc-mla.cloverpad.org/continuingeducation2012.
There is not a conference hotel, but hotel information is available at http://pnc-mla.cloverpad.org/emergingroles_hotels. Note that a number of the hotels have an Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) rate. There is also a link to a Google map with the hotels and the Ecotrust building listed.
If you have questions, feel free to contact any one of the organizers listed at http://pnc-mla.cloverpad.org/symposium_and_ce .
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