Save the date! HPC-MLA Annual Meeting on APRIL 29

We are pleased to announce the HPCMLA Annual Meeting for 2016. It will be held on Friday April 29 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm at the UH JABSOM Health Sciences Library. The meeting will take place in the Quiet Reading Room.

Please arrive by 8:30 for some early morning refreshments which will be served in the Library’s Administration Workroom.

1. Please tell contact Mabel Trafford (mabel.a.trafford.civ @ mail.mil) if you will be participating (including dinner).

2. The Chapter will be having a brief session prior to the start of the business meeting in order to share any interesting updates, such as awards, publications, travel, new products being considered, etc. We would all love to hear about it. Please contact Mabel if you have anything in mind to share with the group.

3. Mabel is also putting together a dinner after the meeting and would appreciate any ideas on where dinner can be held.  If you would like to join her, please let her know.

The day’s meeting agenda is as follows:

8:30 – 9:00 Registration & Refreshments
Health Sciences Library Staff Workroom

9:00 – 11:00 Disaster Health Information Sources: The Basics (Part I)*
Kelli Ham, NN/LM PSR Consumer Health & Technology Coordinator
Health Sciences Library Quiet Reading Room

11:00 – 11:30 MLA Update
Heidi Heilemann, Member, MLA Board of Directors; Director, Lane Medical Library, Stanford University
Health Sciences Library Quiet Reading Room

11:30 – 1:00 Lunch (On Your Own)
Across the hall:  Simply Ono (plate lunches) / around Kakaako neighborhood

1:00 – 3:00 Disaster Health Information Sources: The Basics (Part II)*
Kelli Ham, NN/LM PSR Consumer Health & Technology Coordinator
Health Sciences Library Quiet Reading Room

3:00 – 3:30 RML Update:
Judy Consales, Director, NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region; Director, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA
Kelli Ham, NN/LM PSR Consumer Health & Technology Coordinator
Health Sciences Library Quiet Reading Room

3:30 – 3:45 HPC-MLA Member Developments/Trends
Health Sciences Library Staff Workroom

3:45 – 4:30 HPC-MLA Business Meeting with light Refreshments
Health Sciences Library Staff Workroom

* Disaster Health Information Sources: The Basics worth 4.0 MLA CE credits. “This class provides a comprehensive overview of the essential resources needed to provide health-related information services for supporting disaster mitigation, planning, response, and recovery. This case-based workshop will cover key sources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), federal and nonfederal agencies, and international organizations. Tools for locating, organizing and disseminating disaster health information will also be discussed. The final hour of the presentation will explore specific disaster and emergency topics relevant to Hawai’i, including creating a plan for personal preparedness.

Parking info: http://hslib.jabsom.hawaii.edu/libinfo/parking.html

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