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E-Science Day Registration Open

Priority registration for E-Science Day is available until Wednesday, October 19 for medical librarians located in the areas served by NN/LM PSR (Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and the U.S. Territories in the Pacific Basin).  The event will be held Tuesday, December 6, 2011 from 9:30 AM until 4:00 PM at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California.  It will be hosted by the University of California Davis Health Sciences Libraries and funded by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Southwest Region. Continue reading →

Save the Date: MLGCSA Symposium Coming

MLGSCA presents “Information Treasure Hunt: Supporting Evidence-Based Practice @ Your Institution” on Friday, March 2, 2012, from 8 AM -5 PM at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library.
This event brings Connie Schardt (former MLA president and librarian at Duke University), MLGSCA member Robert Johnson (Clinical Services Librarian, University of Southern California), and Cheryl Bartel (former MLGSCA president, current School Nurse at Lake Elsinore Unified School District) to UCLA for a day of interactive instruction on topics critical for EBP success including study designs, critical appraisal, and practical methods for supporting EBP at your institution. Attendees will receive 8 CE credits. Continue reading →

EAHIL Report from Xan Goodman

First, I would like to thank NCNMLG for their kind support of my application for a professional development grant.   For the purpose of this blog entry I was asked to write about one aspect of the EAHIL workshop. EAHIL is the European Association for Health Information and Libraries is it an event held between EAHIL conferences.  This year the workshop was held in Istanbul, Turkey at Koç University.  Before talking about one specific aspect of the EAHIL workshop I must mention the conference organization.

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