Building Our Information Future , Building MLA's Future

1. Building Our Information Future, Building MLA's Future • www.mlanet.org

2. Ethical Awareness Task Force www.mlanet.org/about/ethics4.html

3. Hospital Library Initiatives • MLA’s Vital Pathways for Hospital Librarians websitehttps://www.mlanet.org/resources/vital/ • Network of Libraries of Medicine, Southeastern/Atlantic Region https://www.mlanet.org/resources/vital/ • National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region • http://guides.nnlm.gov/hosplibtoolkit • Colorado Council of Medical Librarians http://www.ccmlnet.org/resource/marketing • For more information on advocacy for hospital libraries, and other ways MLA can be of assistance, please contact • Mary Langman, at MLA headquarters • langman@mlahq.org.

4. Promote and Market Your Services! www.mlanet.org/resources/nml-month/

5. OCLChttp://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/preparing-libraries-affordable-care-act.htmlOCLChttp://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/preparing-libraries-affordable-care-act.html Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services https://www.healthcare.gov/ WebJunction’seHealthprojecthttp://webjunction.org/explore-topics/ehealth.html MedlinePlushttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthinsurance.html NN/LMhttp://nnlm.gov/ Affordable Care ActOnline Resources for Librarians

6. 2014 NIH/NLM funding-contact your elected officials! Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2013 (FASTR) Pick up an Action Alert at the MLA booth or view online at www.mlanet.org/government/ Legislative News

7. Five Fall Webinars Watch live, then view on demand! www.mlanet.org/education/ • Wednesday, September 25, 2013Topic: Making Your Library Promotion Pop: Practical Design Principles and Tools for the Non-DesignerPresenter: April Aultman Becker, Education Coordinator, Research Medical Library, MD Anderson • Wednesday, October 2, 2013Topic: AssessmentPresenter: Lisa JanickeHinchliffe, Professor & Coordinator, Information Literacy Services and Instruction, University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign • Wednesday, November 6, 2013Topic: Understanding the Business of Your OrganizationPresenter: Kristen DeSanto, AHIP, Manager, Library Services, Clinical and Research Library, Children's Hospital Colorado–Aurora • Wednesday, November 20, 2013Topic: The Evolving Librarian: Responding to Changes in the Workplace and HealthcarePresenter: Michelle Kraft, AHIP • Wednesday, December 11, 2013Research 101: Formulating a Research Plan Through CollaborationPresenter: Heather Holmes, AHIP, Information Services Librarian, Medical Library, Summa Health System

8. Building a New MLANET

9. MLA’S SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY

10. Improve mentor presence on MLANET Identify and recruit researchers to serve as mentors Change best paper and poster awards from section to national awards—funded by MLA Increase online research training courses Develop an annual research mentor award MLA RESEARCH TASK FORCE

11. Eugene Garfield Research Fellowship

12. MLA’s 2012 Compensation and Benefits Survey “Just today, my supervisor informed me that I will receive a 9 plus percent market adjustment based on the MLA 2012 salary survey." —member comment, Library Data & Reporting Survey www.mlanet.org/members/pdf/mla_salary_survey.pdf

13. MLA’s Rising Stars Program

14. Join an MLA committee! Get involved! Applications due October 31, 2013 Apply online at www.mlanet.org/members comappf.html

16. E-conference now available! www.mlanet.org/am/am2013/about/index.html

17. MLA President’s Page MLA President Dixie A. Jones, AHIP www.mlanet.org/about/leaders president_13-14/

18. Building Our Information Future, Building MLA's Future • www.mlanet.org