I want to thank the committee for awarding me one of the Syed Maghrabi Scholarships for the 2013 Joint Midwest Chapter MLA/HSLI Conference. This assistance allowed me to attend the conference as a participant as well as a member of the planning committee. I attended the Saturday morning CE Planning, Conducting, & Publishing Research. Our instructors, Nancy…
Author: Stacey Knight-Davis
President’s Message
Happy National Medical Librarians Month! I was wonderful to see so many of you at the Midwest Chapter/HSLI joint conference in East Peoria. Thanks to the 2013 conference planning committee for putting together a great event. Be sure to read Michael Wold’s article on the conference in the HSLI Newsletter and keep an eye out…
Conference Report – Michael Wold
“The Practice of Medicine is an art, not a trade, not a business, but a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.“-William Osler, MD, 1849-1919. I think this quote could read “The Practice of Medical Librarianship is an art.”This conference, Navigating a River of Information, reflected so many talented, innovative, progressive,…
Health Science Librarians of Illinois Helen Knoll Jira Scholarship
HSLI has received a very generous gift from the estate of Helen Knoll Jira. This gift will be placed into an endowment fund, with the proceeds used to support graduate education in library science or a closely related field of benefit to the profession of librarianship. An ad-hoc committee is forming to set up initial…
Declaration for the Right to Libraries
Declaration for the Right to Libraries is a campaign from the American Library Association designed to build public support for all library types. The campaign includes a toolkit with ideas for hosting a signing of the declaration in your library. While some points in the declaration fit best with public libraries, the spirit of the…
Maghrabi Scholarship winners attend conference
Six recipients of the HSLI Syed Maghrabi Scholarship attended the 2013 Midwest Chapter MLA / HSLI conference in East Peoria. We look forward to reading their reports in the weeks ahead. Virginia Gale Linda Feinberg Leslie Menz Michael Wold Carmen Howard Daneen Richardson
Congratulations to the 2013 Star Fish Thrower Award Winners, Roy Jones and Deborah Rhue
The Starfish Thrower Award for 2013 was jointly awarded to Roy Jones and Deborah Rhue at the HSLI Business Meeting on October 7, 2013. Roy and Deborah were instrumental in the success of the 2013 joint Midwest Chapter MLA/HSLI conference. Between them, they organized all of the people, resources, time, and talent needed to provide…
All for One Conference, 2015
The dates have been set for October 21-24, 2015 at the Peoria Civic Center for the All for One conference. This will be a joint meeting of academic, public, school and special library associations.
MLA Webinar Host Sites
There are two opportunities to attend Medical Library Association Educational Webinars next month. Wednesday, November 6 Topic: Understanding the Business of Your Organization Presenter: Kristen DeSanto, AHIP, Clinical and Research Library, Children’s Hospital Colorado — Aurora Hosted by: The Chicago and South Consortium at Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Joliet, IL. Also to be hosted…
HSLI Supports Illinois Senate Bill 1900
HSLI President Stacey Knight-Davis has sent a letter to Governor Quinn encouraging him to sign Illinois Senate Bill 1900 into law. Titled the Open Access to Research Articles Act, this bill outlines the creation of task forces at Illinois public universities to consider how universities can further open access goals. Full text of SB 1900…