Welcome to MDMLG

August begins our membership drive for the 2022-2023 year. Please consider renewing your current membership or joining by completing the online form at http://www.mdmlg.org/membership-renewal.htm.

Types of MDMLG membership:

--Regular ($35)
--Students (Free!)
--Institutions ($50)
--Emeritus/retired ($15)

Membership provides great benefits, including but not limited to:

--Becoming part of the network with health information professionals who have the same interests and concerns
--Free or discounted continuing educational opportunities for professional development
--Opportunity to serve on the MDMLG executive board and committees
--Access to Members-only portion of the MDMLG web site
--Providing a sense of belonging to a community of health information professionals

Your membership will make the organization stronger and expand the professional network of health sciences/medical librarians in the Metropolitan Detroit area and beyond.

Thank you,

Stephanie Stebens
MDMLG Membership Services

 We are excited to announce our 2022-2023 Slate of Candidates! 

President-elect - Elizabeth Bucciarelli

Board Member / Treasurer - Andrea Rogers-Snyr 

Board Member / Membership - Stephanie Stebens

Board Member / Outreach - Steven Moore

Nominating Committee - Colleen Streeter 

                                          Carla Brooks

                                          Amanda Kelly 

The slate of officers was approved at the MDMLG Annual Meeting 6/2/2022.

 If you were not able to attend the online program last week (February 10th), you can view a video recording of the speaker's presentation -- 

"From Bordeaux to BiDil: How Science and Medicine Invented Race" presented by Prasad Venugopal, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Detroit Mercy

Link to Video Recording

 A big MDMLG welcome to all of the students who have recently joined MDMLG!

Further information on MDMLG can be found on our Student Portal.  Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions - webmaster@mdmlg.org.  

To renew your current membership or to become a valuable member of the Metropolitan Detroit Medical Library Group (MDMLG), please complete the membership form at http://www.mdmlg.org/membership-renewal.htm. Memberships paid and received by January 1, 2022 will carry voting privileges in the 2022 MDMLG Election.

MDMLG is now offering free membership to students in health and/or library sciences.

Types of MDMLG membership:

• Regular ($35)
• Institutions ($50)
• Emeritus/retired ($15)
• Students (free!)

Membership provides great benefits, including, but not limited to:

• Access to the MDMLG Job and Practicum postings and alerts of new employment opportunities
• Becoming part of the network with health information professionals who have the same interests and concerns
• Free or discounted continuing educational opportunities for professional development
• Opportunity to serve on the MDMLG executive board and committees
• Providing a sense of belonging to a community of health information professionals

Your membership will strengthen the organization and expand the professional network of health sciences/medical librarians in the Metropolitan Detroit area and beyond.

If you have further questions about MDMLG, please visit the MDMLG Website at http://www.mdmlg.org/. Connect with us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/detroitmedicallibrarygroup/

Thank you.

Steven Moore
MDMLG Membership Services
smoore31@hfhs.org

 The 2020 Annual Reports from our board members and committees can be found here --

http://www.mdmlg.org/annual-reports-2020-2021.html

 Please join me in Congratulating our newly elected Officers:

President-elect:                       Margaret Danowski 

Secretary:                                Brianna Andre 

Outreach/Public Relations:    Elizabeth Bucciarelli 

Nominating Committee:         Margaret Danowski 

Colleen Streeter 

Carla Brooks

I would like to thank all the members of the MDMLG Nominating Committee for their hard work this year.

Margaret Hoogland
MDMLG President

 We are excited to announce our 2021-2022 Slate of Candidates!

President-elect - Margaret Danowski 

Secretary - Brianna Andre 

Outreach - Elizabeth Bucciarelli 

Nominating Committee - Margaret Danowski 

                                          Colleen Streeter 

                                          Carla Brooks

Biographical sketches can be found here --
http://www.mdmlg.org/slate-2021-election.html

Congratulations to Kendra Moyer, our scholarship winner this year.  She is receiving a one-year membership to MDMLG along with her scholarship award. 

Kendra is a Wayne State University Student with a planned graduation date of Fall 2021.

Kendra’s goal as a health and medical librarian would be to assist medical professionals in conveying information to patients in the most simple terms with the most impact.  She also enjoys learning about the trends in medical research, and looks forward to a career in a research environment.

 Every year, MDMLG offers the MDMLG Scholarship Award to students who are officially enrolled in the Wayne State University School of Information Sciences or the University of Michigan’s School of Information. The Award includes a cash award of up to $200.00, a one-year membership to MDMLG, a certificate, and an invitation to attend the MDMLG Annual Summer Program.

Applications are available at: https://forms.gle/cWVxYy3XfWyjNiqm9 and can be submitted online. If you have any questions about the application process, please contact MDMLG President, Bethany Figg, at Bethany.Figg@cmich.edu. 

The deadline to apply for the award is May 3, 2021. 

Award Criteria:

•Students must be officially enrolled in the Wayne State University School of Information Sciences or the University of Michigan’s School of Information

•Must be in good academic standing

•Must demonstrate enthusiasm for a career in the health sciences discipline of librarianship

•Must submit an application form, including a paragraph describing their career goals and how they relate to health sciences librarianship 

•Applications are accepted electronically only 

If you know of any current Wayne State University SLIS or University of Michigan SI students with an interest in health sciences librarianship, please pass along this information about the award.

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Bucciarelli, Outreach Chair

 MDMLG is now on Instagram!

 Please find us and follow along at detroitmedicallibrarygroup (no spaces). 

Unfortunately, the username MDMLG was already taken, and detroitmedicallibrarygroup used the maximum number of characters allotted so Metropolitan, Metro, even M. could not be included.  

If anyone has any content, upcoming webinars, photos or anything else they are willing to share, please email them to Michelle Rau at mrau@wayne.edu. If possible, please include a little background information or perhaps a funny story. 

All feedback and suggestions are welcome.