Mark your calendars for the 2002 PNC/MLA Annual Meeting held in scenic Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from October 19-22, 2002.
Like the spectacular city that brings together the mountains and ocean, this conference will bring together timely information issues from all healthcare perspectives – researcher, clinician, consumer, American and Canadian! Our conference launches off with keynote speaker, Eve-Marie Lacroix from the National Library of Medicine and we continue on with an exciting program filled with speakers/panels discussing PDAs, electronic journals, pharmaceutical advertising and MUCH, MUCH MORE! CE courses will be held on October 19-20 and course topics will be announced soon.
The conference will be held at the Coast Plaza Hotel just a short walk from spectacular English Bay and Vancouver’s famous 1000-acre Stanley Park. Take a leisurely stroll, bike, roller blade or jog along the nearby seawall. Hop on a commuter ferry for a short ride to Granville Island Public Market with its restaurants, local crafts and specialty shops. Add a dash of culture to your visit - attend Vancouver Opera’s “Aida” or explore North America’s third largest Chinatown. To find out more about these and other spectacular sites and events Vancouver has to offer, visit the Tourism Vancouver website .
Don’t forget, American visitors will have the added benefit of a great exchange rate and will be eligible to receive sales tax rebates!
Flight discounts
are available from PNC/MLA 2002’s official
airline, 
(which
includes United Airlines/Air Canada codeshare flights).
Notify your travel agent of Tour Code CV457451
Watch as more conference information unfolds on the PNC/MLA
2002 website at:
http://www.chspr.ubc.ca/pncmla/
This year's PNC/MLA Annual Meeting is being held in scenic Vancouver,
British Columbia, October 19th - 22nd, 2002. The conference is
being held at the Coast Plaza Hotel in downtown Vancouver, right
next to beautiful Stanley Park. Like the spectacular city that
brings together the mountains and the ocean, our exciting program
will bring together information issues from all healthcare perspectives
- consumer, clinician, researcher, American and Canadian! The
theme will revolve around issues of consumer and clinical health
and how these two types of information play an important role
in determining a healthy population.
Some of the sessions already planned include Barriers to Health
Care, Population Health, Pharmaceutical Direct-to-Consumer Advertising,
PDAs for Physicians, and E-Resources. We welcome papers that will
present new perspectives to health librarians in the Pacific Northwest.
Submit an abstract of no more than 250 words in length to Beth Morrison or
fax to (604) 877-6095 by April 30, 2002. Submission of an abstract
will be taken as a commitment to present the paper at the conference.
Presentation of the paper at the conference should be no longer
than 15 minutes.
Applicants will be notified of acceptance by June 1, 2002.
Abstracts will be judged on relevance to the conference theme,
substance, and interest to members of PNC/MLA.
Deadline for Submissions: May 15th, 2002
Submission Guidelines:
- Each abstract must contain a title or topic, the name(s) of the author(s), organizational affiliation(s), address(es), telephone and fax number(s), e-mail address(es). If more than one author is listed, please note the primary contact person.
- Each abstract should be between one and two pages in length
Date of Conference: October 19th - 22nd, 2002
Location: Coast Plaza Hotel, Vancouver, Canada
Beth Morrison
bethm@bccancer.bc.ca
BC Cancer Agency
600 W. 10th Avenue
Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 4E6
Phone: (604) 877-6000 local 2692
Fax: (604) 877-6095
http://www.bccancer.bc.ca
The annual meeting of the Medical Library Association will be
held in Dallas, Texas at the Adam's Mark Hotel, May 17th-23rd,
2002. The theme is Big D: Delivery of quality health information;
Digital environment; Databases; Document Delivery; Diversity in
the workplace; Dollars for funding; Dynamic nature of the Web.
Dally in the exhibits, Dig into the Distinctive programming, Discern
new trends, Develop knowledge and skills, and Dine, Debate, and
Dialog with colleagues. AALL, AMIA, CHLA/ANSC, NHRA, and SLA members
register at the MLA member rate! Non-MLA members can earn some
free registration benefits by volunteering to help onsite. Check
the MLA website for details. For information on the program, continuing
education, registration, volunteering, and much more, go to http://www.mlanet.org/am/am2002
Susan Gerding Bader, M.L.S., AHIP, member,
Medical Library Association 2002 Local Assistance Committee
Baylor Health Sciences Library
3500 Gaston Ave.
Dallas, TX 75246
sbader@tambcd.edu
214 820-8573 voice
214 820-2095 fax
Greetings,
The PNC board met March 15 & 16 in Portland, and confirmed
its decision to pursue a joint meeting with Northern California/Southern
California groups. This meeting will be January 28-31, 2004, at
the Capitol Plaza Holiday Inn in downtown Sacramento.
The Board examined the interval between meetings, and decided it would work best for the chapter to meet in Sacramento in Jan 2004. The October 2003 meeting will be dropped. INWHSL will continue to plan a meeting, for Fall 2004 in the Seattle area.
This change will give all of us the opportunity to use cheap(er) SW airlines fares to Sacramento, meet other librarians, and have the Chapter responsible for planning one less meeting. We'll have our business meeting in Sacramento, as well as give recommendations for CE and suggestions for the program; but PNC will have no direct planning responsibilities for the January 2004 meeting.
The upcoming meeting schedule looks like this, with MLA included for those who attend it:
The Board recognizes this affects members whose fiscal year is the calendar year; they'll have two regional meetings in one year. It is hoped that this advanced notice will give everyone time to plan for it.
The Board would be happy to field any questions or concerns.
PNC Sept/Oct 2004: Seattle
PNC Sept/Oct 2005: Portland