Building Our Information Future, Building MLA's Future

www.mlanet.org

Ethical Awareness Task Force

www.mlanet.org/about/ethics4.html

MLA’s Vital Pathways for Hospital Librarians websitehttps://www.mlanet.org/resources/vital/

Network of Libraries of Medicine, Southeastern/Atlantic Region https://www.mlanet.org/resources/vital/

National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region http://guides.nnlm.gov/hosplibtoolkit Colorado Council of Medical Librarians

http://www.ccmlnet.org/resource/marketingFor more information on advocacy for hospital libraries, and other ways MLA can be of

assistance, please contact

Mary Langman, at MLA headquarters

langman@mlahq.org.

Hospital Library Initiatives

Promote and Market Your Services!

www.mlanet.org/resources/nml-month/

Affordable Care ActOnline Resources for Librarians

OCLChttp://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/preparing-libraries-affordable-care-act.html

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services https://www.healthcare.gov/

WebJunction’s eHealth projecthttp://webjunction.org/explore-topics/ehealth.html

MedlinePlushttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthinsurance.html

NN/LMhttp://nnlm.gov/

Legislative News

2014 NIH/NLM funding-contact your elected officials!

Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2013 (FASTR)

Pick up an Action Alert at the MLA booth or view online at www.mlanet.org/government/

Five Fall Webinars

Wednesday, September 25, 2013Topic: Making Your Library Promotion Pop: Practical Design Principles and Tools for the Non-DesignerPresenter: April Aultman Becker, Education Coordinator, Research Medical Library, MD Anderson Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Topic: AssessmentPresenter: Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Professor & Coordinator, Information Literacy Services and Instruction, University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Wednesday, December 11, 2013Research 101: Formulating a Research Plan Through CollaborationPresenter: Heather Holmes, AHIP, Information Services Librarian, Medical Library, Summa Health System

Wednesday, November 20, 2013Topic: The Evolving Librarian: Responding to Changes in the Workplace and HealthcarePresenter: Michelle Kraft, AHIP

Wednesday, November 6, 2013Topic: Understanding the Business of Your OrganizationPresenter: Kristen DeSanto, AHIP, Manager, Library Services, Clinical and Research Library, Children's Hospital Colorado–Aurora

Watch live, then view on demand!www.mlanet.org/education/

Building a New MLANET

MLA’S SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY

MLA RESEARCH TASK FORCE

Improve mentor presence on MLANET Identify and recruit researchers to serve

as mentors Change best paper and poster awards

from section to national awards—funded by MLA

Increase online research training courses Develop an annual research mentor award

Eugene Garfield Research Fellowship

MLA’s 2012 Compensation and Benefits Survey

www.mlanet.org/members/pdf/mla_salary_survey.pdf

“Just today, my supervisor informed me that I will receive a

9 plus percent market adjustment based on the MLA

2012 salary survey." —member comment, Library Data &

Reporting Survey

MLA’s Rising Stars Program

Applications due October 31, 2013

Apply online at www.mlanet.org/members comappf.html

Join an MLA committee!

Get involved!

E-conference now available!

www.mlanet.org/am/am2013/about/index.html

MLA President Dixie A. Jones, AHIP

MLA President’s Page

www.mlanet.org/about/leaders president_13-14/

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