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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/mhsla2019/registration" title="https://sites.google.com/view/mhsla2019/registration"><span style="color:#954F72">Registration</span></a> for
the 2019 Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association (MHSLA) Annual Conference is now open! Please join us October 2-4, 2019 at the Radisson at the Capitol in Lansing, MI.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association is excited to host Shannon Jones (MLIS, MEd, FMLA, AHIP) as our <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/mhsla2019/program/keynote" title="https://sites.google.com/view/mhsla2019/program/keynote"><span style="color:#954F72">keynote
speaker</span></a> for the 2019 conference. Ms. Jones is the Director of the Medical University of South Carolina Library, and she is a national leader on diversity, equity, and inclusion in libraries. She is an editor on the forthcoming Medical Libraries
Association publication <i>Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries: A Call To Action and Strategies For Success</i>. She has presented on a variety of topics, including delivering the continuing education course "Implicit Bias Training for Information Professionals,"
at MLA 19, and recently was part of a panel at ALA Annual, "The Sense of Self: How Identity Informs Academic Librarianship." We are excited to have her as both a presenter and a moderator of the panel "Beyond Cultural Competence: Diversity in Library and Health
Sciences."</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We are also excited to offer two panel discussions with a mix of librarians, academics, and vendors. The full list of panelists can be found on the <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/mhsla2019/program/panels" title="https://sites.google.com/view/mhsla2019/program/panels"><span style="color:#954F72">conference
website</span></a>, and topics include:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>Digital Knowledge Infrastructure: A Conversation About Current Challenges and Future Trends</b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></b>presented on Thursday, October 3,
1:30-2:30 pm. This panel is a discussion about the future trends and current challenges in digital knowledge infrastructure broadly - as it impacts information systems, educational paradigms, our organizations, our patrons, and the vendors we work with to
provide information.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>Beyond Cultural Competence: Diversity in Library and Health Sciences</b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></b>presented on Friday, October 4, 10:30-11:30 am and moderated
by Shannon Jones, our keynote speaker. This panel will discuss some of the ways that a lack of diversity impacts our work as librarians and the work of the clinicians and researchers that we serve, as well as some steps that institutions are taking to address
existing imbalances in health sciences related fields.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Conference registration includes a selection of four, two-hour, MLA accredited <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/mhsla2019/program/education" title="https://sites.google.com/view/mhsla2019/program/education"><span style="color:#954F72">continuing
education courses</span></a>, a <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/mhsla2019/program/events" title="https://sites.google.com/view/mhsla2019/program/events"><span style="color:#954F72">special event</span></a> at the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum, meals,
time with <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/mhsla2019/program/exhibitors" title="https://sites.google.com/view/mhsla2019/program/exhibitors"><span style="color:#954F72">vendors</span></a>, and more! For more information, and to register, please visit the <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/mhsla2019" title="https://sites.google.com/view/mhsla2019"><span style="color:#954F72">conference
website</span></a>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We hope you will join us this fall to Connect at the Capital!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Barbara Platts, MLIS, AHIP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">231 935-6544<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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