MLA ’18 Industry Connections
The MLA annual meeting brings together over 100 industry vendors and 1,200+ librarians. Don’t miss:
- Sunrise Seminars: learn about the latest vendor offering and have breakfast too!
- Technology Showcase: discover the latest technological development in rapid fire 30-minute sessions on the exhibit floor
- MLA InSight Initiative Open Forum: join the open discussion on the outcomes of this new initiative, on the topic of “User Experience”
Sunrise Seminars
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Time | Event |
7:00 a.m.–8:55 a.m. | Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Health Care: From Adoption to Disruption |
7:00 a.m.–8:55 a.m. | Cochrane “Inside/Outside”: Update from Carol Lefebvre |
7:00 a.m.–8:55 a.m. | Embase Sunrise Seminar: Librarian Roles in Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine |
7:00 a.m.–8:55 a.m. | The Power of Single Sign-On and the Benefits to All |
Monday, May 21, 2018
Time | Event |
7:00 a.m.–8:55 a.m. | American Psychological Association |
7:00 a.m.–8:55 a.m. | Springer Nature Competitive Intelligence: Research Trends in Health Care |
7:00 a.m.–8:55 a.m. | Three Trends That Eclipse Point-of-Care Tools |
Technology Showcases
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Time | Event |
12:30 p.m.–1:00 p.m. | Automating the Systematic Review Process: An Overview of DistillerSR's New Productivity Enhancements |
1:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. | Case Files: Teaching Case Collection |
2:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. | Covering Your Nursing Bases: Research, Decision Support, and Competencies |
3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. | Supporting Your Interdisciplinary Care Dream Team |
4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. | Getting Beyond the Impact Factor: Using Bibliometrics for Research Evaluation at the NIH Library |
Monday, May 21, 2018
Time | Event |
10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. | Taking Medical Research to the Next Level: 72,987,390 Searches Can’t Be Wrong |
11:30 a.m.–noon | The Ever-Evolving World of Medical E-Books |
1:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. | From Data Standards to DermExpert: The Story of How an Image Collection Learned to Think |
2:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. | Looking to the Future with EndNote |
InSight Initiative
Summit 1, held in Chicago in March 2018, brought together 15 industry partners, 15 librarians, speakers, panelists, and facilitators for a 1.5 day meeting on the following topics:
- Leveraging specialized discovery tools to maximize user engagement
- Security and the future of IP authentication
- Lessons learned from pirate sites
- Imagining the ideal social networking site for collaboration and sharing
Summit organizers will answer questions on the four main topics of the summit.
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Time | Event |
4:30 p.m.–5:25 p.m. | Open Forum: MLA InSight Initiative Summit 1 Outcomes Vendors are encouraged to attend. |