Call for Co-Conveners, Libraries in Curriculum SIG
Rana, Gurpreet
Are you involved with or interested in the role and endeavors of health sciences librarians in instruction? Are you looking for an opportunity to become further involved in the Medical Library Association? MLA’s Libraries in Curriculum Special Interest Group is looking for 1-2 dedicated volunteers, who are MLA members and are interested in serving as SIG co-conveners for 2009-2010. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Gurpreet Rana at pr...@umich.edu by Thursday, April 30.
As a SIG convener, responsibilities include working on MLA conference program planning & working towards partnering with MLA sections to
co-sponsor section programming, keeping SIG members up to date on activities, coordinating annual business meetings and reporting to MLA section council. AHIP members receive 15 activity points per year for involvement as SIG conveners.
The Libraries in Curriculum SIG focuses on library instruction in support of health sciences curriculum. Instruction is defined broadly to include medical, dental, nursing, pharmacy, public health, physiology and other health profession schools. It includes problem-based learning, orientations, classes and courses taught by librarians, whether integrated into the curriculum or not. The Libraries in Curriculum SIG:
- Provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences related to library instruction
- Facilitates communication and collaboration between instruction librarians
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Gurpreet K. Rana, MLIS
Clinical Education Librarian
Taubman Medical Library
Health Sciences Libraries
University of Michigan
Phone: (734) 936-1399
Fax: (734) 763-1473