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Recent Meetings

MLA 2009 Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii

• Convener: Pat Auflick
• Business Meeting - May 17, 2009
• Meeting Minutes

MLA 2008 Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois

• Convener: Keith Cogdill
• Business Meeting - May 21, 2008
• Meeting Minutes

MLA 2007 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Convener: Deborah Charbonneau
• Business Meeting - May 20, 2007
• Meeting Minutes

MLA 2006 Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona

• Co-Conveners: Mary Riordan and Deborah Charbonneau
• Business Meeting: May 21, 2006
• SIG Activities
• Meeting Minutes

MLA 2005 Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas

• Convener: Mary Jackson
• Business Meeting: May 16, 2005

MLA 2004 Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.

• Convener: Jack Raines  and Mary Jackson
• Business Meeting: May 24, 2004

For more information about past annual meetings and activities, please visit the history page.

  Last updated: January 11, 2010

Future Activity Idea List 

Selected topics of concern to members:

• Ongoing discussion of whether to stay as a SIG or try for Section status
• Evaluation and effectiveness of outreach projects
• Training end users versus expanding mediated search services
• Working with non-librarian site contacts
• Sending laptops with students on rural rotations
• Getting an outreach program started
• Coordinating with other campus outreach programs
• Getting grants or other funding for outreach
• Using distance learning for outreach
• Fees for library services and access to library resources
• Loansome Doc and document delivery issues
• Working with public libraries
• Providing outreach to public health officials
• Consumer health issues
• Technological challenges of teaching "on-the-road"