Welcome!

The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association is filled with many talented and forward-thinking individuals, in libraries of all sizes. As these individuals collaborate with others (and in some cases on their own), they create synergies that produce innovative ideas and creative solutions. The goal of the MAC Showcase is to present these ideas and solutions to the entire community of MAC libraries in order to promote benchmarking activities.

Here’s how it works:

To get things started, we will regularly present a topic that is of interest to our libraries. The first topic is Space Planning. If you have an example of a creative use of space in your library that we can showcase here, please send pictures and information about the space to me, Dan Wilson (dtw2t@virginia.edu). I’ll post and categorize the information to the blog and all can comment on the posting. As postings increase, we will be able to search the blog either by category or by using the search box in the right column of the page.

Another feature of the blog is using Flikr to display photographs (located on the right column of the blog). Feel free to comment on the pictures through the Flikr site. If you have a picture that you’d like to submit, please send it to me an I’ll post it.

With your help, we should have a repository of valuable information by the time we all meet in Baltimore in 2007.

The MAC Showcase is maintained by the MAC Benchmark Educator, and is supported by a team of volunteer MAC members who serve as liaisons for hospital libraries, special libraries, and academic libraries. The MAC Showcase team is responsible for developing content and for promoting the blog.

 

MAC Showcase Team

Dan Wilson, Chapter Benchmark Educator

Marian Taliaferro, Special Libraries Liaison

Mary Fran Prottsman, Hospital Libraries Liaison

Susan Nash Simpson, Academic Health Sciences Libraries Liaison