October is National Medical Librarians Month (NMLM) and on behalf of all the employee owners at Matthews, we would like to thank you for all you do. I have had the privilege over the past 14 years to work with just about every type of medical librarian. I deal with directors, serials librarians, collection development librarians, technical services librarians, reference librarians, electronic resources librarians, catalogers, hospital librarians and consumer health librarians. Each type of librarian serves a special purpose and need within the library and I enjoy helping them in any way I can. Keep up the good work!
Remember, next month is our “November to Remember” special where we offer a 20% discount on all published titles from our stock publishers. Save up those orders and save big next month! Let me know if you need any lists run. Contact me at ashleyw@mattmccoy.com or 800-633-2665 x374.
I’ll be attending the Charleston Conference in a couple weeks (Nov 4-6). I am looking forward to hearing what the hot topics are this year. I will report back what I learn on my next blog.
I thought I would end with a great quote a customer of mine has at the end of her e-mails:
“The Library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.” Carl Sagan
