2004/2005 Goals and Objectives

Goal 1: Recruitment, Membership and Leadership in the Profession

Objective 1: Encourage MLA members to join the MI Section.

Objective 2: Revise the MIS website to make it compatible with current technologies and easier to update.

Objective 3: Promote use of the member's directory on the MIS website to develop an electronic portfolio of members. This tool can be used for improving communication and identifying possible areas of expertise for collaboration.

Goal 2. Life Long Learning

Objective 1: Conduct an electronic journal club session on technology trends and forecasting using established journal club procedures. (Wallace McClendon, Professional Development Liaison, will lead this effort)

Objective 2: Expand the Self-Education Resource Project on the MIS website. This project was started in 1999 and includes suggested resources for self-education in informatics. (Wallace McClendon, Professional Development Liaison and Kris Alpi will manage this effort.)

Goal 3: Advocacy

Objective 1: Award the Medical Informatics Section/MLA Career Development Grant to two individuals based on a competitive application review process. The section has provided this award since 1997. This objective helps fulfill the section's goals for advocacy and professional development.

Objective 2: Contribute $1000 from the Section to the Donald A.B. Lindberg Research Fellowship Fund. The purpose of this fellowship, established in 2004, is to fund research aimed at expanding the research knowledgebase, linking the information services provided by librarians to improved health care and advances in biomedical research.

Goal 4: Creating and Communicating our Knowledge

Objective 1: Sponsor a contributed paper panel on providing clinical information at point of care with the Education and Media Technologies Section at the 2005 annual meeting.

Objective 2: Sponsor an invited speaker session entitled "Educating Ourselves: The Future is Now" (draft title) with the Technical Services Section at the 2005 annual meeting. The speakers for this session will be based on the outcome of a survey to identify people with cutting edge roles in the intersection of medical informatics and medical librarianship.

Objective 3: Co-sponsor a session with the Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG at the 2005 annual meeting. This session may include both invited speakers and contributed papers.

Goal 5: Building a Network of Partners

Objective 1: Expand journal club participation internationally and to other professional library organizations.

Objective 2: Promote use of the MIS directory/electronic portfolio section of the MIS website to help MIS and MLA members find others with similar interests.

Objective 3: Investigate partnerships with other professional organizations or MLA sections/SIGS for projects. The first project we'll use as a model is the "Emerging Trends" website project.

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