There are only 10 days left (including mailing time!) to get the early-bird registration rate for the Joint NY-NJ/NAHSL MLA Conference to be held at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT on October 30 – November 1, 2011.

Remember, you must print out and mail in your registration form for this conference. The form and payment needs to be received by Saturday October 1, 2011. Registrations received on Monday October 3, 2011 will still be honored at the early-bird rate; but there will be no extensions. Print and mail yours today!

Hotel rooms are also filling up fast; book yours before October 7 to ensure you get the conference rate.

For Information & Registration, go to the Meeting site:
http://nahsl.libguides.com/content.php?pid=161706&sid=1732841

These Continuing Education classes will all be offered at the upcoming NAHSL/NYNJ Chapter meeting on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011.

8:00 am to noon – EBM: Introduction to Study Design and Critical Appraisal—Connie Schardt
4 CE credits – Chapter Member cost: $60 early bird; $75 after October 1.

This course is designed to give learners an introduction to critical appraisal skills through an understanding of basic study designs and validity issues related to reducing bias in clinical studies. The course will focus on understanding the basic study designs in medicine (case-control, cohort, randomized controlled clinical trial, systematic review, and meta analysis). Learners will also discuss the criteria for determining internal validity of therapy studies and systematic reviews. After completing this course, learners will be better able to: identify appropriate study designs; identify validity criteria; help support evidence-based medicine within their own institutions. Teaching methods will include discussion, case studies, group exercises, and practice in appraising articles.

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8:00 am to 2:45 pm - Cancer Concepts and Search Techniques—Jeannine Gluck and Mary Ann Cirone, RN
6 CE credits – Chapter Member cost: $90 early bird; $100 after October 1.

This 6 hour course will present an overview of basic concepts in oncology, and explore resources and effective search techniques for finding cancer-related information. Upon completion of the course, participants will be better able to:

•             Discuss basic concepts in oncology

•             Execute cancer-related searches in MEDLINE

•             Differentiate the content found in various guidelines\

•             Effectively locate staging information

•             Find and search conference proceedings

•             Identify the professional and consumer-level content found on other cancer-related sites

•             Participants will be asked to do a minimal amount of reading before the class.

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1:00 pm to 5:00 pm - Developing an Effective Strategic Plan for your Library—Cindy Sullivan
4 CE credits – Chapter Member cost: $60 early bird; $75 after October 1.

This workshop provides training on the 11 elements to develop a successful plan. Modeled on evidence-based practices, this course provides examples of plans from academic, public, and corporate libraries. Through ten interactive activities, attendees will be well on their way to developing a plan for their organization. Topics covered in the workshop include:

•             Four reasons to develop a strategic plan

•             The eleven elements that create an effective strategic plan

•             Tools, templates, techniques that can be used in developing a plan

•             Examples of strategic plans from academic, corporate, and public libraries

•             Students will learn how to create a strategic vision for their library, identify the business value the library provides to their organization, how to couple strategies with vision, and more.

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1:00 pm to 5:00 pm – Behind Closed Doors: Politics in the Library—Barbara Jones & Marty Magee
4 CE credits – Chapter Member cost: $60 early bird; $75 after October 1.

We are all surrounded by politics: the only way to avoid them is to operate in isolation. Typically, politics means being concerned with positioning your ideas in a favorable light and knowing what to say to whom, how to say it and when. This class will focus on learning how to effectively influence and manage others’ perceptions of you and your ideas, how to change enemies into allies, how to stay in the loop and how to manage outcomes short term, and far into the horizon. Skills taught in this class will be useful to all librarians.

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3:00 pm to 5:00 pm – Focus on the future of CME—Hongjie Wang
2 CE credits – Chapter Member cost: $30 early bird; $35 after October 1.

Medical professionals have pursued their continuing medical education (CME) through pivotal resources provided by medical libraries in the form of publications, audiovisual materials and online information. These days, medical librarians are playing an increasingly important role in CME activities.

This educational program, through a combination of lecture and discussion, aims to help attendees to achieve the following three goals: 1) new understanding (why librarians should care about the CME process and how to actively get involved); 2) new knowledge (what CME resources other libraries provide and what criteria your own library should use to maintain your CME collection; and 3) new skills (how to use some of your existing databases to get Point-of-Care CMEs, an emerging popular form of Internet CMEs in high demand among physicians today).  A recent survey result of regional medical librarians who are already involved in the CME process will be shared during the program presentation.

Hope to see you there!
Rich McGowan, MLS
Research Librarian
NYU Health Sciences Libraries
Richard.McGowan@med.nyu.edu

Registration open for NAHSL / NY-NJ Joint Chapter 2011 Annual Meeting

Please don’t delay registering for this fall’s joint meeting of the North Atlantic and New York-New Jersey Chapters of the Medical Library Association, Taming Information Chaos, taking place at the Uncasville, Connecticut, Mohegan Sun Resort on October 30-November 1, 2011.   Please click here for the registration form.  Early Bird Registration with payment must be received by Friday, October 1.

1. Fields can be filled out on your computer and printed out
2. Or print out the form and use pen to fill out
3. Submit to:

Lorna Wright, NAHSL 
UConn Health Ctr Library 
P.O. Box 4003 
Farmington, CT 06034-4003

The hotel registration  information is also available here.

Find lots more information on the meeting and CE classes at http://nahsl.libguides.com/nahsl2011