Be it resolved

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Be it resolved

• Excellent hospitals and medical schools and
  learning organizations require
• Excellent librarians, and
• Excellent libraries, and
• Excellent library services

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This is not a debate!

• Present the challenges we all face regardless of
  library type/setting
• Examine actions we believe we can take to make a
  difference

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Thanks

• To the Joint Meeting Program Committee
• Our planning group
• Our panelists
• Candace Walker
• Judy Kraemer
• Isabel Bertolucci
• Out chapter members

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Managing flamingoes
The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in
managing her flamingo she succeeded in getting
its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under
her arm, with its legs hanging down, but
generally, just as she had got its neck nicely
straightened out, and was going to give the
hedgehog a blow with its head, it would twist
itself round and look up in her face with such a
puzzled expression that she could not help
bursting out laughing
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What we have heard this week

• Our world is changing rapidly
• As is the world of our users and our users
  organizations
• In a great variety of ways
• and
• A great many ideas for new services and methods

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Where we started

• How does a library provide added value to its
  parent organization?
• How do we evaluate and document that value?
• How do we communicate and demonstrate that value?
• And many more questions

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Our speakers will speak from their unique
perspectives

• Robert Wise, MD
• Mark Funk
• Katherine Stemmer-Frumento
• Peter Meyer
• Note we are recording this session and plan to
  write up its content!

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Now it is your turn!

• Questions?
• Comments?
• Suggestions?

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Thanks!