MAC Messages Number 88:
July/August 2001

Over the past few months, the MAC 2001 program committee has been busy selecting topics and speakers for our next annual meeting. We hope you will join us in Ocean City Maryland for this year's annual meeting - Sunny Daze: Eyeing the Future.

On Thursday the program will focus on technology. In the morning you will hear about the use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) from health professionals who use them and from librarians who support their use. There also will be posters, contributed papers and roundtable luncheon discussions covering technology uses and issues. On Friday, we switch from technology to professional issues and services. Joanne Gard Marshall, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Information and Library Science, and Keith Cogdill, Assistant Professor at the College of Library and Information Science, University of Maryland, College Park will tell us how to prove our worth. A distinguished panel including Joanne, Keith, Shelley Bader, and Carol Jenkins will tell us how to communicate our value. Eve-Marie Lacroix and Annette Nahin from NLM will provide insight on MEDLINEplus and PubMed's development and future plans. Carol Jenkins, MLA President, will provide an update on her plans for the organization.

In developing the program we tried to include all your favorite meeting features. We retained the one and half day meeting structure introduced last year. We brought back the round table lunch discussions, a popular feature of the past. We included invited speakers and posters and contributed papers by MAC members. New this year is a technology fair in the exhibit arcade on Thursday afternoon. Several vendors will do live demonstrations of their products and answer your questions in real time. In August, check the MAC Website for a complete program, the abstracts of the posters and papers to be presented, a list of exhibitors and the technology fair schedule.

We hope you will join us in Ocean City on October 17-20 to take a cruise down the educational boardwalk with an eye to the future!

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