Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants: Back To The Future Of Health Librarianship

This looks fascinating, not least because of the collaboration between  HLG and MLA.

Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants: Back To The Future Of Health Librarianship

 

Friday 25 February, 2005

at The Royal Society of Medicine,

London

 The Leslie Morton Memorial Conference organised in association with the CILIP Health Libraries Group and in collaboration with the Medical Library Association (USA)

Conference Aim

 

This event is to recognise Leslie Morton’s significant contribution to the development of Health Librarianship, and contribute to setting the agenda for the future development of this area of professional practice.

 

The programme reflects Leslie’s many interests and strong international ties, especially with colleagues in the

United   States

. It has been devised to meet the needs of practitioners and researchers working in all areas of Health Librarianship and those interested in its future development.

 

Speakers/Topics include

 

Speakers drawn from the

UK

,

USA

and

Europe

include

 

Maggie Haines, CILIP President

 

Judy Palmer,

Oxford

- The Future shape of Health Librarianship

 

Paul Ayris, UCL - Scholarly Communications: future perspectives

 

Professor Sir Graeme Catto, President General Medical Council

 

Joanne Gard Marshall, MLA President - The role of Research in Health Librarianship

 

Bruce Madge

, IFLA Health - International Collaboration

 

The event will also feature the Launch of the Leslie Morton Scholarly Bursary, a fund which aims to support research and discovery in Health librarianship

 

The conference will be preceded by a fundraising dinner on Thursday 24th February for which there is a separate booking fee.

 

To be kept informed please email your contact details to [email protected]