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Event: Five-chapter “Quint Essential” meeting, Denver, CO, October 12-16, 2014

Deadline: Proposals for tech panels, lightning / STAT panel presentations must be submitted no later than June 2, 2014.

Theme: Convergence and Collaboration.

Plenary speakers will present on health disparities, native health, and big data.

Projects, services, innovations, lessons learned, and success stories which illustrate how we are celebrating opportunity during continual change are all possible lightning / STAT / tech panel presentations. 

Proposals will be reviewed by the Papers and Posters Subcommittee of the Program Committee.  Subcommittee members will not be given author information. 

Lightning / STAT! Talks

Each presentation will have five minutes.  This format gives members the opportunity to contribute content to the conference in a less formal manner than a traditional contributed paper. For example, you could share your experiences with a project, a service, or a product.

To propose a lightning/STAT talk, please submit:

•      topic and a short 100 words or less description
•      your name, address, email and work phone number on a separate page

Trends in Technology

A program slot for a panel about trends in technology has been allocated 90 minutes.  We would like to see demonstrations of new technology that panel presenters are just starting to use or that will become more widespread in the next few years.

To propose being part of the panel, please submit:

•      Tell us, in 500 words or less, about the technology topic you would like to speak on. Provide description of how this technology has impacted your work or will impact the work of medical librarians. Feel free to provide examples and links.
•      We expect a live demonstration of a product or trend. You may not use PowerPoint. Will your topic fit into this show and tell type format?  Yes / No
•      Will your topic fit into the allotted time? Each speaker has 15-20 minutes to present.  Yes / No
•      Presenter name(s), title, address(es), email(s), and work phone number(s) on a separate page.

Method of submission:  Follow instructions for proposing a lightning / STAT talk, or panel presentation and send your submission as a Word document in Arial, 12-point font  via email attachment to kmurray10@uaa.alaska.edu. 

Event: Five-chapter “Quint Essential” meeting, Denver, CO, October 12-16, 2014

Deadline: Proposals for posters must be submitted no later than June 2, 2014.

Theme: Convergence and Collaboration.

Plenary speakers will present on health disparities, native health, and big data.

Proposals will be reviewed by the Papers and Posters Subcommittee of the Program Committee.  Subcommittee members will not be given author information. 

Print Posters

Posters provide visual displays of information about new research findings or descriptions of creative new programs or practices, and are an optional format to contributed papers.  Posters will be available for two hours on Tuesday.

To propose a poster, please submit:

•      title of the poster
•      an abstract of 250 words or less (following MLA format for a structured abstract http://www.research.mlanet.org/structured_abstract.html)
•      author(s) name(s), address, email(s) and work phone number(s) on a separate page

Method of submission:  Follow instructions for proposing a poster and send your submission as a Word document in Arial, 12-point font  via email attachment to kmurray10@uaa.alaska.edu. 

These must be received no later than June 2, 2014 to be considered. Acceptance / rejections will be confirmed in early July.

Event: Five-chapter “Quint Essential” meeting, Denver, CO, October 12-16, 2014

Date:     Contributed papers:  Tuesday & Wednesday, Oct. 14-15

Deadline: Proposals for papers must be submitted no later than June 2, 2014.

Theme: Convergence and Collaboration.

Plenary speakers will present on health disparities, native health, and big data. 

Contributed Papers

Accepted contributed papers will each be allotted 15 minutes for the presentation and follow-up questions.

To propose a paper presentation, please submit:

•      title of the paper
•      an abstract of 250 words or less (following MLA guidelines: http://www.research.mlanet.org/structured_abstract.html)

•      author(s) name(s), address, email(s) and work phone number(s) on a separate page

Proposals will be reviewed by the Papers and Posters Subcommittee of the Program Committee.  Subcommittee members will not be given author information. 

Method of submission:  Send your submission as a Word document in Arial, 12-point font via email attachment to kmurray10@uaa.alaska.edu. 

These must be received no later than June 2, 2014 to be considered. Acceptance / rejections will be confirmed in early July.

Help Choose Your Leaders -- Call for Nominations for MLA Offices  

The MLA Nominating Committee is identifying potential candidates for the 2014/15 election. If you would like to recommend someone to be nominated for president or the board, or would like to be considered yourself, please send a current curriculum vitae and a paragraph outlining why the recommended person would be a good candidate to one of the members of the Nominating Committee (see below) by May 12th.

The 2014 Nominating Committee members have reviewed the job descriptions for President Elect/President/Past President and Board members, and have discussed key qualifications needed for candidates, including a person who has broad experience within MLA, significant professional achievements,  a great capacity for leadership, a vision of the future of health sciences libraries, and an infectious enthusiasm for the excitement of librarianship at the present time.  We also discussed the importance of diversity in selecting the slate – key issues to consider are geographic region, library or information service type, and amount of experience.

The process for selecting candidates and electing the MLA president-elect and members of the MLA Board is described on pages 2–3 of the MLA Bylaws (log in to MLANET to read this document). The slate will contain at least two candidates for president-elect (president during 2016/17) and at least four candidates for the two vacant board positions (2015–2018).  Job descriptions for president and board members are available on MLANET. The Nominating Committee will meet at MLA ’14 to finalize the list of potential candidates.

MLA 2014/2015 Nominating Committee:

Jane Blumenthal, Chair janeblum@umich.edu

Amy Blevins                  blevinsamy@gmail.com

Jonathan Eldredge       jeldredge@salud.unm.edu

Susan Fowler                susanfowler.library@gmail.com

Mark E. Funk                mefunk@med.cornell.edu

Sally Gore                     Sally.Gore@umassmed.edu

Heather N. Holmes        holmesh@summahealth.org

T. Scott Plutchak          tscott@uab.edu

James Shedlock            jshedlock@rcn.com

Laurie L. Thompson       lauriethompson@ymail.com

The MCMLA Nominating Committee (Merinda McLure, Marty Magee, and Brenda Pfannenstiel) is very pleased to announce the election results. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to all candidates for their willingness to stand and serve, and to Tracey Hughes, Web Editor & MCMLA-L Discussion List Owner, for her expert facilitation of the online ballot.

MCMLA 2014 Election Results

Vice Chair

Lisa Traditi

Recording Secretary

Jenny Garcia

Representative to the MLA Nominating Committee

John Bramble

Representative to MLA Chapter Council

Heather Brown

Alternate to MLA Chapter Council

Kate Anderson