The MLA LGBT SIG is co-sponsoring two programs at MLA 2007 in Philadelphia : both on Monday, May 21 . Your 2007 Program Task Force Jon Crossno, Bill Fleming, and David Keddle have worked on getting us involved in these programs, and they promise to be extremely invigorating, I think. (Believe me; one of us is very, very upset that he won't be able to attend this year's meeting.)
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The Relevant Issues and Chiropractic Libraries sections and the LGBT SIG are co-sponsoring The Politics of Health Information: Keeping the New Barbarians at Bay. This program will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon in Room 305-306 .
Speakers at this program will seek to address the role of librarians in protecting basic science and health information and ensuring free access to it when that information may be in conflict with political extremism. This is especially true with sound and proven information that is revised or distorted to support opposing opinions and may be quickly disseminated electronically.
The SIG's own Paul Blobaum is one of the speakers for this thought-provoking program.
The Consumer and Patient Health Information, Hospital Libraries, Chiropractic Libraries, and Relevant Issues sections and the African American Medical Librarians Alliance, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Mental Health, and LGBT SIGs are co-sponsoring Power to the People: Serving the Underserved. This program will held from 3 to 4 p.m. in Grand Ballroom AB .
A panel of invited speakers will focus on the role of collaboration between public and medical libraries (both academic and hospital) in doing outreach to underserved populations. The information will be practical, focusing on how to create outreach programs i.e., what works and what does not.
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So you've got two definite things to do on Monday. Please be sure to attend either or both of the programs.
Finally, if no one has volunteered to be Program Chair for next year's meeting in Chicago , I strongly encourage someone to do so. It is an excellent way to see how the national meeting is pulled together, if you've never been directly involved before.
(The non-attendee to this year's meeting will confess to a certain trepidation about taking on the role, but he discovered that it is an interesting process with an opportunity to interact with all sorts of different people. And while he did appreciate not having to fly solo, it is something that just one person can do.)
It is very, very important that someone from the SIG attend the MLA Section Planning meetings that are held during the Philly meeting to get our faces visible and voices heard in supporting LGBT-related programs. Our SIG does have a very good reputation among the sections and other SIGs for presenting quality programming.
The two Section Program Planning meetings will be held as follows:
So please consider volunteering. If you're interested, contact our co-conveners Dale Prince and Jacqueline Leskovec as soon as possible.
Jon Crossno (non-attendee), Bill Fleming, and David Keddle
Program Task Force 2007
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