Category: Conferences
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Atlanta, Here I Come!
The annual conference for the Medical Library Association starts at the end of this week, and I can’t wait to visit Atlanta for the first time! This is my second MLA conference, and it’s the first time I’m presenting a paper AND a poster a conference this big. I am determined to make this trip…
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RDM Capstone Summit
The final piece of the Biomedical and Health Research Data Management for Librarians course was a Capstone Summit at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The students and mentors gathered to discuss their Capstone Projects and learn more about how to provide RDM services to their campuses. The meeting took place over one and a…
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MLA ’17 Review
I attended my first MLA conference last month and I can safely say that I did everything I set out to do. Of course, I realized by my second day as I was running from meeting to meeting that I had bitten off slightly more than I could chew during the first part of the…
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Seattle, Here I Come!
Like many health sciences librarians across the country, I am gearing up for the annual conference of the Medical Library Association in Seattle this weekend. I joined the field just a little too late to attend last year’s conference in Toronto, which was disappointing to a recent graduate. But I am very excited that this year’s…
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A New Perspective
As part of my outreach efforts, I recently had the opportunity to staff an exhibitor table at a conference for a state health professional association. I have attended a few conferences in my day, so I thought I knew what to expect. As you may guess, my expectations were way off base. Manning an exhibitor…
Kathryn Vela 