Welcome to MDMLG

The current issue of MDMLG News is now available on the MDMLG website.

Current and past newsletters can be found at http://www.mdmlg.org/news.htm

The MDMLG Program and Professional Development Committee is hosting our annual Social Networking event on Thursday, September 19, 2024, at Detroit Fleat in Ferndale, MI. 

There is Indoor and outdoor seating but the weather might choose where we are going to sit! The event will begin at 5pm and end by 8pm.

Please be aware that while MDMLG is organizing this event, attendees will be responsible for purchasing their own food or drink. The house menu can be found here and the food truck list with menu links can be found here. There is also a full bar with beer, wine, cider, etc. as well as non-alcoholic drinks.

Date & Time

Thursday, September 19, 2024
5:00pm-8:00pm

Location & Parking

1820 E 9 Mile Rd
Ferndale, MI 48220

Please fill out this brief registration form to give us an idea of how many people to expect

We hope to see you there!

August begins our membership drive for 2024-2025. Please consider renewing your current MDMLG membership or join 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)

Enjoy the great benefits membership provides, including:

--Becoming part of a network with health information professionals who have the same interests
--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,

Carla Brooks
MDMLG Membership Services

Labels: General Business Meeting, Program

As I mentioned at last week's Annual Meeting, I have created a new MDMLG website which collects information about the MDMLG / SEMCME Joint Project (Southeastern Michigan Center for Medical Education).  

MDMLG members have been helping SEMCME to develop their Quality Library since 2021.  Their Quality Library consists of journal articles and documents, arranged by broad subject area.  

For further information, go to the new website - http://www.mdmlg.org/SEMCME.htm.  There is a link there to the SEMCME Quality Library, along with the login information.  This Library is password protected, so I have the login informaiton on our membersj-only web page. 

We still need your help to submit relevant journal articles and documents on any aspect of quality -- competencies for residents, ethics, journals in the field, models, tools and much more.

To submit articles or if you have any questions, send them to Valerie Reid - webmaster@mdmlg.org.

Greetings, MDMLG members!

Do you have an interest in social media and enjoy creating occasional posts?

Our current Social Media Manager, Michelle Rau, is looking for a couple of members to assist in creating Instagram and Facebook posts that tell the story of our organization’s current issues & activities.

She would love to hear from you!!

Email Michelle Rau: rau@oakland.edu

Greetings, MDMLG members!

If you know of any MDMLG member colleagues who have retired this past year, please send their names to me, ebucciare@emich.edu.

Thank you!

Elizabeth

Registration for the MDMLG 2024 Annual Summer Meeting and Luncheon is now available for members of MDMLG! Registration for non-members will open on June 3.

Register here: https://form.jotform.com/241213338657153

Date: June 20, 2024

Time: 11:30 am to 3:30 pm

Location: The Whitney

4421 Woodward Ave. Detroit, MI 48201

Valet parking will be provided at no cost.

Program Schedule:

11:30am-12:00pm - Registration

12:00pm-1:00pm - Lunch

1:15-2:15pm - Presentation

Speaker: Alethea Davenport

Topic: “Pewabic: Detroit's Pottery”

2:15pm-2:30pm - Break

2:30pm-3:30pm - Business Meeting

Please let me know if you have any questions about the registration form, summer meeting, or anything else. Thank you, and on behalf of the Programming and Professional Development Committee, we hope to see you in June!

Best,

Steven Moore

Chair, Programming and Professional Development Committee

Labels: professional development, Program

 Hello, MDMLG members,

I am proposing a small name change in the MDMLG Bylaws. I will be bringing this change forward for a vote during the General Business Meeting at the Annual Meeting on June 20, 2024.

I am proposing that we update the name of the ’MDMLG Student Award’ in the Bylaws to the ‘Margaret Danowski Student Scholarship Award.’ This name change was officially ratified by the membership last year, but the Bylaws were not updated. This year’s Executive Board has supported this Bylaws update.

The single occurrence for this change is located on Pg. 7 of the Bylaws, Article VI. Sec. 2 6.

If passed, the new section will read:

6. The President-Elect or President, as appropriate, will specify the term of appointment of all

committee members and representatives. Margaret Danowski Student Scholarship Award recipients may serve as the MDMLG Student Representative.

If you have any input or concerns about this change, you can send them to me (ebucciare@emich.edu) and we can discuss them at the Annual Meeting on June 20, 2024.

Elizabeth  Bucciarelli, President

 As the MDMLG Nominating Committee Chair of 2023-2024, I am pleased to announce the Slate of Candidates for the 2024-2025 year.

•    President-Elect – Colleen Streeter, Henry Ford Health
•    Treasurer – Jennifer Bowen, University of Detroit-Mercy
•    Membership Services – Carla Brooks, University of Michigan – Dearborn
•    Nominating Committee –

o    Bethany Figg, Central Michigan University
o    Brianna Andre – Henry Ford Health
o    Melanie Bednarski, Henry Ford Health – Macomb

You can also view the slate and member bios here. There are no contested positions, so a ballot will not be necessary. The new board will be approved and presented at the Summer Luncheon in June 2024.

We also want to include this relevant information from the bylaws:
Nominations for the Board and the nominating Committee may be made from the membership at large by petitions signed by no fewer than ten (10) personal members providing they are submitted in writing to the chair of the Nominating Committee at least seven (7) days before the election. Petitions must be accompanied by a written statement of acceptance from the candidate and biographical sketch.

Amanda Kelly
Chair, MDMLG Nominating Committee

Our spring General Business Meeting was held on April 17th at the Michigan School of Psychology. 

Following the meeting, Michelle Kraft, Library Director of the Cleveland Clinic and co-editor of the Journal of the Medical Library Association, spoke on the topic of promoting the field of health sciences librarianship.

Slides from Michelle Kraft's presentation
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Many thanks to Stephanie Swanberg and her team for hosting our first in-person general business meeting in almost 4 years! 

You may be interested to find out that we have an MDMLG History web page -- http://www.mdmlg.org/mdmlg-history.htm. 
I have collected virtually all our organization’s history here.

Some of the things you can find are:

• Executive Board & Committee Chairs/Members – 2001 to the present
• Newsletter – 1999 to the present
• Nominating Committee Slates & Results – 1970 to the present
• Program & Professional Development Committee – information on meeting locations, topics, speakers, MLA CE classes, etc. – 1999 to the present
• Annual Reports – 1999 to the present
• Directory (members-only) – 2007 to the present
• Meeting Minutes (members-only)  – 1999 to the present
• Treasurer Reports (members-only) – 1999 to the present
• Scholarship History – 2005 to the present
• Photo Album (members-only) – 2001 to the present
• Goals & Objectives – 2003 to the present