Plenary Session I, May 20th: Welcome to MLA 07

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Plenary Session I, May 20thWelcome to MLA 07
Presidential Address
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Vignette

• Celebrating a Year in Research
• More NNLM funding has helped research bloom
• A strong leader who is interested in research is
  needed in the library
• Research is funintellectually
  stimulatingbetter health information resources.

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National Program Committee

• Thanked members for hard work .

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Presidential Address

• Jean Shipman
• Change is in the Air
• Used analogy of airplane course she took.
• ANC Aviate, Navigate, and Communicate
• Measurable Outcomes 7 tubes of toothpaste and
  other toiletries.

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Presidential Address

• Navigate
• Discussed the Health Information Literacy
  Research Project and other outreach efforts.
• Goal To increaseawareness of medical
  librarians effects on health literacy.

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Presidential Address

• Communicate
• Media placements (Fitness Magazine, Mens Health,
  etc.)
• Advocacy efforts EPA Library closures, NIH
  funding, MLA letters to hospital administrators

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Presidential Address

• Aviate
• Schools visited Library and I
• Two task forceseach working on policy statements
  on education and research.
• Need for library standards
• Technologyeducational webcasts, Mark Funks
  presidential priorities, MLA upgrade, new
  association management software.

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Presidential Address

• Aviate cont.
• MLA Member Benefits
• One of the best small organizations in America.
• Chapter meetings
• List of thankees

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Misc. Photos
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Millennials Find Treasure in the
Library! By Pattie Mongelia Helen-Ann
Brown Weill Cornell Medical Library
Slides copied from PPT show at http//dspace.libr
ary.cornell.edu/handle/1813/7620
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Treasure Hunt
Staff
Introduction
Evaluation
Preparation
Future
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A Millennial Generation A little more than 2/3
of the students were born since 1982.
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• 7 Core Traits of the Millennials
• Special
• Sheltered
• Confident
• Achieving
• Team Oriented
• Conventional
• Pressured

Howe N and Strauss W. Millennials and the Pop
Culture Strategies for a New Generation of
Consumers in Music, Movies, Television, the
Internet, and Video Games. Great Falls, VA
LifeCourse Associates, 2006, pp. 77-78.
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• Treasure Hunt Learning Objectives
• Locate a journal in the stacks
• Look up an electronic journal issue
• Check out a laptop at the Circulation Desk
• Refill a copy card
• Send a comment from the Website
• Locate a current issue of a journal
• Know the Librarys hours

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Pattie
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Clue 2 When into the stacks you have
delved Youll find where bound journals are
shelved Ordered alphabetically, logically and
aesthetically So please show a Staff member you
have found Psychophysiology Volume 12.
Clue 5 Go GET IT in the Computer Room Watching
and listening to the PowerPoint production Answer
the Library Staff members questions To see you
understand GET ITs form and function.
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What to do TOMORROW!
LIBRARY TREASURE HUNT ! 1000 am -- Meet at
Circ Desk
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• Evaluation Results n73
• Question 4
• Overall, how would you rate the Treasure Hunt?
• 2 3 4 5
  6 7 8 9
• (0) (1) (1) (0) (15)
  (7) (18) (17) (14)
• Awful Okay
  Outstanding
• The replies showed 67 of the students rated the
• Treasure Hunt as an outstanding experience.