{"id":1954,"date":"2015-12-30T17:13:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T17:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2015-12-30T17:13:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T17:13:59","slug":"registration-for-mla-2016-opens-jan-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/registration-for-mla-2016-opens-jan-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Registration for MLA 2016 Opens Jan. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Registration for the Medical Library Association&#8217;s 2016 annual meeting officially opens Wednesday, January 6. (The registration form is already available on the MLA website.) This year&#8217;s conference, which will take place in Toronto from May 13 to 18, is themed &#8220;Mosaic: Be Part of the Big Picture&#8221; and will be a joint meeting with the Canadian Health Libraries Association and the International Clinical Librarian Conference. The conference schedule includes continuing-education courses (among them a large number of pre-conference sessions), a general meeting and lunch featuring updates from the Canadian Health Libraries Association, the John P. McGovern Award Lecture, several hundred poster sessions and peer-reviewed papers, and &#8220;lightning talks&#8221;. Attendees will also have the opportunity to tour local libraries. For those who cannot travel to Toronto, there will be an e-conference option.<\/p>\n<p>The following CE sessions might be of particular interest, regardless of one&#8217;s library type. They are based around the conference&#8217;s theme of &#8220;Mosaic&#8221;, which focuses on the wide variety of skills and experiences that librarians bring to their roles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leading the Way: Preparing For and Enhancing Your Leadership Role (Friday, May 13&#8211;10:00 AM to 5:00 PM)<\/li>\n<li>Advanced Searching Techniques and Advanced Strategy Design (Friday, May 13&#8211;10:00 AM to 5:00 PM)<\/li>\n<li>Research by Design: Proposing, Planning, and Carrying Out a Research Project for the Practicing Librarian (Friday, May 13&#8211;8:00 AM to 12:00 PM)<\/li>\n<li>Becoming an Expert Searcher (Saturday, May 14&#8211;8:00 AM to 5:00 PM)<\/li>\n<li>Bravery and Brevity: Developing Effective Presentation Skills (Saturday, May 14&#8211;10:00 AM to 5:00 PM)<\/li>\n<li>Library Instructional Design (Saturday, May 14&#8211;10:00 AM to 5:00 PM)<\/li>\n<li>Perspectives in Research Data Management (Saturday, May 14&#8211;8:00 AM to 12:00 PM)<\/li>\n<li>ABCs of Research Impact: Altmetrics, Bibliometrics, and Citations (Saturday, May 14&#8211;8:00 AM to 12:00 PM)<\/li>\n<li>Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Saturday, May 14&#8211;1:00 PM to 5:00 PM)<\/li>\n<li>Supporting Systematic Reviews: The Basics (Saturday, May 14&#8211;1:00 PM to 5:00 PM)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Registration for the Medical Library Association&#8217;s 2016 annual meeting officially opens Wednesday, January 6. (The registration form is already available on the MLA website.) This year&#8217;s conference, which will take place in Toronto from May 13 to 18, is themed &#8220;Mosaic: Be Part of the Big Picture&#8221; and will be a joint meeting with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-and-meetings-non-hsli"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}