Welcome from the President
Ruth Holst, AHIP, FMLA, 2010/11 MLA President, and Associate Director, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region, Library of the Health Sciences, University of Illinois–Chicago
Welcome from the Midwest Chapter
Clare T. Leibfarth, President, Midwest Chapter, and Reference and Instruction Librarian and Liaison, Life and Health Sciences, University Libraries, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Welcome from the 2011 National Program Committee
Gabriel R. Rios, Cochair, 2011 National Program Committee (NPC), and Deputy Director, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama–Birmingham; Bart Ragon, Cochair, 2011 NPC, and Associate Director, Library Technology Services and Development, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia–Charlottesville; Linda A. Watson, AHIP, FMLA, Cochair, Local Assistance Committee (LAC), 2011 NPC, and Director, Health Science Libraries, University of Minnesota–Minneapolis; and Dawn Littleton, Cochair, LAC, 2011 NPC, and Assistant Professor, Medical Education, Medical Library, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Presidential Address
Ruth Holst, AHIP, FMLA, 2010/11 MLA President
John P. McGovern Award Lecturer: Clay Shirky
Sponsored by EBSCO
“Technology/Media: The Future, Innovation, Business Strategy, Marketing and Sales, Ethics, and Culture”
Clay Shirky is a provocative new voice on all things Internet: economics and culture, media and community, and the open source movement. He divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the way network technologies provide new ways for groups to get things done, including collaboration tools, social networks, peer-to-peer sharing, collaborative filtering, and open source development.
Janet Doe Lecturer: T. Scott Plutchak, AHIP
“Breaking the Barriers of Time and Space: The Dawning of the Great Age of Librarians”
Janet Doe lecturers are chosen for their unique perspectives on the history or philosophy of medical librarianship. T. Scott Plutchak, AHIP, associate professor and director, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama–Birmingham, has long been recognized for his thoughtful and provocative presentations and writing, in particular, the editorials that he wrote for the Journal of the Medical Library Association during his tenure as editor from 2000 to 2006. He has served on the MLA Board of Directors and on numerous other MLA committees and task forces, including both iterations of the Ethics Task Force, two National Program Committees, and the Nominating Committee.
Presiding: Ruth Holst, AHIP, FMLA, 2010/11 MLA President
Agenda
• Call to Order
• Old Business
• Recognition of Retiring Board Members
• Introduction of Incoming Board Members
• Recognition of Outgoing President
• Presidential Inaugural Address: Gerald (Jerry) Perry, AHIP, 2011/12 MLA President, and Director, Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado–Denver, Aurora, CO
• Resolutions
• Announcement of MLA Scholarship Booth Raffle Drawing
MLA ’12 Invitation:
Teresa L. Knott, AHIP, Chair, 2012 National Program Committee (NPC), and Associate University Librarian and Director, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University–Richmond; Michelle Kraft, AHIP, Cochair, 2012 NPC, and Senior Medical Librarian, Cleveland Clinic Alumni Library, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Nicole Dettmar, Cochair, Local Assistance Committee (LAC), 2012 NPC, and Education and Assessment Coordinator, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region, Health Sciences Library, University of Washington–Seattle; and Lisa A. Oberg, Cochair, LAC, 2012 NPC, and Head, Information Services, Health Sciences Library, University of Washington–Seattle
Peter J. Hotez is distinguished research professor, Walter G. Ross Professor, and chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University. He is also president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, an affiliated nonprofit research and advocacy organization, and director and principal investigator of Sabin Vaccine Development, a product development partnership supported by the Sabin Vaccine Institute.
Hotez received a bachelor’s degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry magna cum laude (Phi Beta Kappa) from Yale University, a doctorate from Rockefeller University, and a doctorate in medicine from Weill Cornell Medical College. He obtained pediatric residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital and postdoctoral training at the Yale University School of Medicine.
Geoffrey Bilder is director of strategic initiatives at CrossRef and has more than sixteen years of experience as a technical leader in scholarly technology. He cofounded Brown University’s Scholarly Technology Group in 1993, providing the Brown academic community with advanced technology consulting to support their research, teaching, and scholarly communication. Subsequently, he was head of information technology research and development at Monitor Group, a global management consulting firm based in Cambridge, MA. From 2002 to 2005, Bilder was chief technology officer of the scholarly publishing firm Ingenta, and just prior to joining CrossRef, he was a publishing technology consultant at Scholarly Information Strategies, where he consulted extensively with publishers and librarians on emerging technologies and the ways they can affect scholarly and professional researchers.
