Events
Golf Outing
Wednesday, October 13, 1 - 5 p.m.
Enjoy a pleasant round about the links at UNC's Finley Golf Course or the Washington Duke Golf Club before the conference gets started. We'll discuss the latest tech trends, open access, collection development and staffing issues as we sink birdies and eagles. Information on the course and greens fees available on each course's website. Transportation to and from the Courtyard Marriot will be provided. For additional information, contact Mellanye Lackey at mjlackey@unc.edu or (919)843-3136
Welcome Reception
Wednesday, October 13, 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Carolina Inn, Hill Ballroom
Directions to the Welcome Reception
Join your colleagues at the Carolina Inn to enjoy an evening of fine food, your favorite beverage, live music, and dancing. The Carolina Inn offers an abundance of southern charm and is conveniently located in the heart of downtown Chapel Hill, within easy walking distance to a wide assortment of restaurants and nightspots.
Transportation to and from the Reception will be provided. Shuttles will depart from the front entrance of the Courtyard Marriott Hotel at 5:30 with return trips scheduled to begin at 7:30. The last return trip will be at 8:45.
Round Table Luncheon
Thursday, October 14, 12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Friday Center, Trillium Room
Select from a wide range of topics of interest to health sciences libraries and discuss with your colleagues over lunch. There will be a few tables without a topic but you can certainly create a topic of your choice. No registration required.
- Clinical Decision-Making Tools: Learn about the multitude of tools available, differences between them and issues surrounding them.
- Consumer Health Librarians & Libraries: Discuss consumer health librarianship issues including staffing, funding and collection development for consumer health libraries.
- Digital Preservation Activities: Hundreds of different storage media have been invented and some are already obsolete. How do libraries protect digital content? Share your experiences.
- Electronic Medical Records-Role of the Library: Share your experiences with integrating library resources into the electronic medical record or other successes with EMRs.
- Evidence-based Nursing: Share how nurses are using EBN in your institutions and discuss the librarian's role.
- Hospital Librarians: Discuss current issues from your hospital librarian perspective.
- Liaisons Stepping Out of the Library: Do you have a successful liaison program or do you want to start one? Share your ideas and experiences.
- Management of E-resources: Discuss all of the issues surrounding the management of e-resources, including staffing, cataloging, managing A-Z lists, ILL, copyright, license agreements, etc.
- Marketing & Promotion Strategies for Libraries: Even though libraries are traditionally not in the business of selling goods, marketing is still important to get your customers aware of what you have to offer. Share your ideas and success stories.
- Mobile Technologies for Medical Libraries: Discuss how librarians/libraries are reaching out to mobile users and learn what applications and resources are available for mobile technologies.
- Social Networking for Medical Libraries: Share strategies with librarians who are using social networking tools to better serve their users.
- Supporting Systematic Reviews: What is the librarian's role in supporting systematic reviews?
- Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine: Share your experience with teaching students and residents about searching for the current best evidence.
We will also have several open tables so that you may discuss other topics of interest.
Student Vision Scholarship – Resume Clinic/Speed Mentoring
Thursday, October 14, 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Friday Center, Bellflower A
Meet with senior managers for advice on resumes, cover letters, and to obtain job hunting pointers.
Dine-Arounds
Thursday, October 14, 6:30 p.m. - Until
A Dine-Around is a wonderful way to talk with your colleagues while sampling some of the best cuisine this area has to offer. The Hospitality Committee has selected some of their favorite restaurants to tempt you. Choices include restaurants at a variety of price points. A member of the Hospitality Committee will accompany each group. Please sign up at the Hospitality Desk.
Business Meeting with Awards Breakfast
Friday, October 15, 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Friday Center, Trillium Room
Enjoy a hot buffet breakfast while reviewing updates on Association activities including election results for the new MAC officers. Join us in recognizing the accomplishments of MAC members with the announcements of this year's recipients of the One-Person Librarian Award, the Margarite Abel Service Award, and the MAC Librarian of the Year Award.
Role of Libraries in eScience: Translating Data into Practice; E-Science/Translational Science Symposium
This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services,under Contract No. N01-LM-6-3502 under the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Friday, October 15, 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Friday Center, Trillium Room – lunch and keynote speaker
Friday Center, Redbud room – panel presentations and wrap up session
Friday Center, Bellflower, Windflower, Wintergreen, and Willow- breakout discussion sessions
Friday's lunch will include a keynote speaker, Neil Rambo, to introduce the symposium and discuss e-science and translational science in a broad treatment. A panel of four experts (scientists and researchers) will follow, using the model of the data life cycle: 1) creating, 2) storing, 3) accessing and using data, with the final panelist pulling all the pieces together. Attendees will have time to ask all speakers questions. The panel will be followed by small group discussion sessions, with moderators and recorders, from which highlights will be shared. A wrap up session will articulate a future agenda for libraries.
Registration for the symposium is a separate option on the MAC meeting registration and is limited to 75 attendees. Registration for non-MAC meeting attendees is available for $25.00. See the Registration page for additional information on how to register.
Informal Networking Dinner
Friday, October 15, 5:30 p.m. - TBD
Anyone interested in continuing conversation about e-science and translational science - or other topics - is invited to a restaurant (to be decided by the group) within walking distance at nearby Meadowmont Village.
Community Knit and Knit-Along
Throughout the conference, All days/All times/All sessions
Whether you are an experienced knitter or want to learn, there is a place for you in this community knit. We're knitting hats for the children's wing of the UNC Cancer Hospital - "chemo caps" if you will.
If you know what you're doing, then bring your favorite pattern, softest yarn and swiftest needles (or crochet hook). If you have only dabbled at knitting or want to learn, then we will help you get started, decipher all those mysterious directions and loop your way to a finished project.
Here is a collection of free (knitting) hat patterns for children:
