Our Chapter is funding four member attendees of the MLA 2010 Annual Meeting in Washington DC to go to the Chapter Sharing Roundtables event at the meeting.  The recipients of this funding and the roundtable topics they have selected are as follows: <

Congratulations to all of you! Have a wonderful MLA and we look forward to reading your reports in a future chapter newsletter.

NY/NJ Chapter member and Long Island Jewish Medical Center Library Director Debra C. Rand has been chosen as a fellow for the 2009-2010 NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program.

Judith S. Cohn, Associate Vice President for Scholarly Information & University Librarian at UMDNJ was chosen to be one of the mentors.

The NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program is focused on preparing emerging leaders for director positions in academic health sciences libraries. Selection as a fellow is recognition of a substantial record of accomplishment and demonstrable potential. The program provides a combination of in-person and virtual learning experiences for fellows and offers the opportunity to work collaboratively with the class of participants, and with mentors who are academic health sciences library directors.

Congratulations to Debra and Judy!

The announcement for the leadership program, jointly sponsored by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL), including all ten fellows and mentors, can be found at:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/leadfellows10.html