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Mark Your Calendar!
Conference on Consumer Health and the Public Librarian Coming
January 10-11
The NLM, Medical Library Association (MLA), and Public Library
Association (PLA), are sponsoring "The Public Library and Consumer
Health: Meeting Community Needs Through Resource Identification and
Collaboration." This two-day conference will be held January 10-11,
2001 at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, Washington DC,
immediately preceding the ALA 2001 Midwinter Meeting.
The conference will provide public librarians and library staff
with an introduction to health information resources, collection
development, and training in searching health and medical
information databases. Examples of collaborative projects that
public libraries can model will be presented. Grant-writing
assistance will be offered, and specific opportunities for public
libraries to apply for funding to support their consumer health
education projects will be presented.
Librarian attendees will also earn credit toward the new Consumer
Health Librarian Credential to be offered through the MLA. Dr. Tom
Ferguson, adjunct associate professor of health informatics at the
University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston, will provide the
keynote address on Wednesday, January 10th. Dr. Ferguson is editor
and publisher of The Ferguson Report, an e-mail newsletter about
online patient services, and author of Health Online: How to Find
Health Information, Support Groups and Self-Help Communities in
Cyberspace.
In conjunction with this event, NLM will offer tours of its
Bethesda, Maryland facilities on Friday, January 12th. The tour will
include a video overview of NLM programs and services, a computer
search of the vast MEDLINE database, and a walking tour of the
Library and its current exhibition. Transportation will be provided
from the conference hotel.
For more information, visit PLA's website at www.pla.org. PLA is
a division of the American Library Association. |
