[Mla-cds] MLA 2013- a few early notes

[Ramune Kubilius]

Hello all,

Some of you may have an interest...

See text below my signature line...I posted the short update to the 
Section Council list on Jan. 7, 2011 and have noted that some sections' 
reps have already shared it with their sections. It's an early "heads 
up" about the 2013 MLA annual conference in Boston and how that 
meeting's section programming may be slightly different from the usual...

Ramune Kubilius
Collection Development / Special Projects Librarian
Galter Health Sciences Library
Northwestern University,
CDS chair, 2010-2011
&
MLA 2013 National Program Committee Section Council liaison

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*POSTED TO THE MLA SECTION COUNCIL LIST Jan. 7, 2011*

Hello,

Planning is well underway for the 2011 and 2012 MLA annual meetings, and 
initial planning for the 2013 annual MLA meeting has also commenced.

The 2013 meeting will involve some differences in section programming 
allotments, and differences from the usual MLA-only meeting planning, 
due to the 2013 meeting's federated, international nature.  Meeting 
planners, Section Council leadership, and NPC'13 will help us work our 
way through that process. To provide  some initial insights, the notes 
(/below my signature line/) are being posted to this list, with the 
encouragement of Section Council chairs, Judy Burnham (current), and 
Ysabel Bertolucci (incoming).  As more information becomes available, it 
will be shared with Section Council reps, through further postings to 
this list and at the annual Section Council meetings in 2011 and 2012.

Ramune Kubilius, MALS, AHIP
Collection Development / Special Projects Librarian
Galter Health Sciences Library
Northwestern University
&
NPC 2013 Section Council liaison

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*MLA 2013 annual meeting-Notes for Section Council, January 2011*

As many of you may have heard, the 2013 MLA annual meeting in Boston 
will be a federated meeting, that is, in the words of Michael Homan, 
Co-Chair of NPC '13: "/of similarly focused health sciences information 
organizations encompassing the programming and CE of MLA'13 as the 
principle cornerstone of the 2013 meeting, but augmented and enriched by 
the concurrent activities and programs of the 11th International 
Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML), and the international 
conferences of the International Clinical Librarians and the Animal 
Health Information Specialists"./

*Committee meetings/first activities:*  Special meetings (in the U.S. 
and European), as well as e-mail discussions, took place over the 
Summer/Fall of 2010 as the program planning committee members were being 
invited and assembled by the various constituent groups. The first 
NPC13/ICML11 Program Planning Committee "international meeting" took 
place via Skype on Tuesday, December 7, 2010. A meeting theme was chosen 
and a list of possible plenary speakers and meeting tracks was 
generated. Meeting logistics and a timeline for a first draft of the 
meeting framework were also discussed. Carla Funk announced that MLA 
will rent a table at the 2011 IFLA conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico 
to begin promotion of the 2013 Boston meeting.

*Meeting theme: */One Health: Information in an Interdependent World
/The phrase "One Health" used in the context of NPC 2013/ICML11 is meant 
to encompass not only human and animal health, but also public health, 
environmental health, climate change, food safety/production, and 
international policy. The broad definition emphasizes interdisciplinary 
and international collaboration. The word "information" provides the 
appropriate connotation for the meeting, and the word "interdependent" 
underscores global interdependencies in all health related areas. In 
this context, global means local as well.

*Excerpt from Dec. 7, 2010 meeting minutes:*The committee discussed 
possible general meeting "tracks" and confirmed the desire to handle the 
2013 meeting as a federated meeting with multiple tracks as was 
successfully done for ICML'10 in Australia... Carla Funk reminded the 
committee that it will need to follow developing "hot topics" in the 
years leading up to the 2013 meeting as possible new tracks. 
Participants confirmed that the 7^th IACHIS and the 6^th ICLC are 
considered separate tracks for the federated 2013 meeting. Ramune 
Kubilius confirmed that the tracks will likely have significant 
alignment with MLA Section programming needs and interests and that a 
mix of 25% ICML-selected papers and 75% Section-selected papers will 
most likely work.

*NPC13/ICML11 members*: The complete list will soon be posted to MLANET. 
A sampling:
/Chair:/  J. Michael Homan; /Co-chair:/ Heather Todd- ICML; /LAC Chair/: 
Eric Albright; /LAC Co-Chair:/ Sarah McCord; MLA /CE Committee Rep:/ 
Assako Holyoke; /MLA Section Council Rep/: Ramune Kubilius/MLA Board 
Liaison:/ Jane Blumenthal; /MLA Staff Liaisons:/ Ray Naegele and  Carla 
Funk.



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