The Midwest Chapter/MLA Jean Williams Sayre Innovation Award recognizes individuals, groups, libraries, or organizations for their creative approaches to the delivery and management of health information. The winner receives a certificate of recognition and $500. Libraries, groups or organizations that are nominated do NOT need to be Midwest MLA chapter members. Help the Midwest Chapter…
Legislative Committee Report – Illinois Library Day – Part 3 of 3
In part 3 of 3 of this report, HSLI president, Fran E. Kovach, M.L.I.S., covers the meeting with Senator Mark Kirk’s office staff representative. During Illinois Library Day, an appointment occurred with Michael Rasmussen, Springfield staff representative for U.S. Senator Mark Kirk. Two key points emphasized were to encourage the Senator to support LSTA level-funded…
Legislative Committee Report – Illinois Library Day – Part 2 of 3
In part 2 of 3 of this report, Michael Wold, MLIS covers his experience. Fran Kovach, Eric Edwards, and I attended the ILA Library Day in Springfield on April 17th and 18th, 2012. A dinner was held at the State House Inn with a presentation explaining the process of advocacy with our representatives and senators…
Legislative Committee Report – Illinois Library Day – Part 1 of 3
In part 1 of 3 in this report, Eric Edwards, M.L.I.S. Public Services Librarian at Benedictine University summarizes the training for Illinois Library Day 2012. The training session for Illinois Library Day took place the evening of Tuesday, April 17, at the State House Inn. Approximately 40 Illinois Library Day participants attended. There was an…
MLA 2012 Conference-Update
http://npc.mlanet.org/mla12/ If you didn’t have the opportunity to attend MLA this year, catch up on what happened at the conference by reading the MLA Conference Blog. It’s a start! Any members who did attend please send articles to your newsletter editors for publication.
President’s Report (April, 2012)
HSLI President, Fran Kovach, M.L.I.S, is the reference and education librarian at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. What a mild Illinois winter this year, and the spring season is here to greet us! Next week, during National Library Week, April 8-14 we have opportunities to demonstrate the value of libraries in our institutions and…
Member Retirement
As of March 30th, Joy Kennedy will be retiring from NCH. Please forward all reference/research or administrative requests to the NCH library email address. Any personal messages can be sent to Joy’s personal email at joykenn@gmail.com. For job seekers, her job is posted on NCH.org.
HSLI 2012 Conference – Save the Date!
SAVE THE DATE for the Health Science Librarians of Illinois 2012 Annual Conference, “Shaping the Future“,on November 1-2, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Conference Hotel: Springhill Suites, 8101 West Higgins Road, Chicago Nancy’s Reception: November 1 at Springhill Suites CE Classes: November 2 at Resurrection Medical Center, Chicago Watch for more information at this HSLI Newsletter blog site…
President’s Message
HSLI President, Fran Kovach, M.L.I.S, is the reference and education librarian at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. At the beginning of the year, not only is it time to pay our professional dues and start thinking about taxes, we must plan for the year ahead or even perhaps the next coming years. We also…
President’s Message
HSLI President, Fran Kovach, M.L.I.S, is the reference and education librarian at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. My 2011 holiday video card to the members is below. Through it you may enjoy highlights of this year’s conference at Starved Rock State Park. Happy holidays! Try our video maker at Animoto.