Day started at 6.30amwith the first time attendee breakfast, good food and good company, met libarians from across the USA, Japan and Tanzania, a truly international conference!
First Plenary session of the day was a Welcome to MLA 09 and Presidential address from Mary L Ryan, current MLA President. The MLA 09 conference was now officially underway!
The second plenary session was deliverd by Adam Bosworth of KEAS who discussed how Electronic Health Records or Patient Health Records were not enough. He argued that what is needed are dynamic adaptable Health Action Plans, tailored for individual patients, the content of which is relevant to the patients own lifestyle and circumstances and engages patients fully in their own healthcare. Thought provoking stuff.
From 11am on I attended various sessions offered by different Sections and Interest Groups of MLA. One of which was a lively and interesting discussion on using social networking tools to market librray services. Conclusion was that as lomng as you have a definite message to get over you should get Facebooking, tweeting etc.
Visited the vendors exhibition and a technology update on CINAHL Plus with Full Text, lots of interesting products out there but all librarians were commenting on the lack of budgets to spend!
Looking forward to another interesting day tomorrow.
Katrina
