(via Rebecca Brown, University of Utah)
The 2018 MCMLA Virtual Conference Planning Committee invites you to register for the annual conference on October 4th and 5th of this year.
CE is included in your registration and will be offered on October 3rd. Stay tuned for more information.
Early registration concludes at the end of the day on Saturday, September 15.
Click here to view all the registration options<http://www.mcmla.org/event-2977396>
Click here<http://www.mcmla.org/event-2977396/Registration> or follow this link to the registration page: http://www.mcmla.org/event-2977396/Registration
We’re excited to host 2 keynote speakers this year, along with 9 lightning talks, 3 paper presentations, an NNLM update and an update from the National Library of Medicine on the coming change to PubMed. Click here to get a taste of the new PubMed coming in 2019<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pubmed/>.
Day one will feature Keynote Sally Gore. You can read about Sally’s work by clicking here<https://works.bepress.com/sally_gore/>. More information about Sally’s talk coming soon.
Day one lightning talks:
* A Bibliographic Analysis of Librarian Assistance on Systematic Reviews at CU Anschutz Medical Campus
* Introducing the g-Index to Citation Reports
* Partners in Progressing Dental Education Using the ACRL Framework
* Increasing Librarians’ Accessibility for Distance Students
* Taking the Final Out of Finals Week: Evaluating the Impact of an Ongoing Finals Week Promotion at a Health Sciences Library
* Raising a Hospital’s Academic Profile with an Institutional Repository
* Promoting your Institution and its Research Through an Institutional Repository
* MCMLA Explores the Possibility of Publishing Conference Proceedings
* Collaboration and Innovation: NNLM’s Nationwide Online Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Day two will feature keynote speaker Dr. Katalin Gothard. Dr. Gothard is a Professor in the departments of Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, College of Medicine in Tucson [https://neurology.arizona.edu/katalin-gothard-md-phd]. The broad goal of her research is to understand the neural basis of emotion and social behavior. She works with rhesus monkeys because their social organization resembles the organization of human societies. In 2002 she established the Gothard Lab [http://www.gothardlab.org] at the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona. Dr. Gothard will talk about her research and how she communicates the importance of animals in research and what’s important for animal researchers to keep in mind as they proactively communicate their work with a variety of audiences.
Day two paper presentations:
* Building a National Network Training Program for Research Data Management
* Graphic Medicine: Comics as a Self-Care Tool for Undergraduate Students
* Information Needs of Community Health Center Staff
Click here for the full 2-day schedule<http://www.mcmla.org/2018vm-schedule>
Remember: Early registration ends on September 8th
Click here to view all the registration options<http://www.mcmla.org/event-2977396>
Click here<http://www.mcmla.org/event-2977396/Registration> or follow this link to the registration page: http://www.mcmla.org/event-2977396/Registration
Questions? Contact Rebecca Brown<mailto:rebecca.brown@utah.edu> or Gwen Wilson<mailto:gwen.wilson@washburn.edu>