Hi everyone. As promised last week, I am sending out the call for abstracts for the upcoming Berkeley meeting in early May. I hope that we get some good presentations from the AMHL side. Any questions or thoughts you want to share, please let me know. Len Levin – AMHL Incoming President
2018 SALIS-AMHL Conference
SALIS’ 40th
SALIS-AMHL 3rd Annual Joint Meeting
May 1-4, 2018 – Berkeley, California, USA
Call for Abstracts is OPEN!
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Never Neutral: Resistance-Persistence-
2017 has been a year of many policy changes, such as the Federal Communication Commission’s elimination of net neutrality, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Session’s marijuana crackdown, the reauthorization of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) which may lead to increased government surveillance, and the whittling down of the Affordable Care Act via repeal of the individual mandate. The phrase “fake news” prevails daily. At the same time, 30 states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana in some form, California has introduced its own bill to protect net neutrality, and advocacy groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation are working to strengthen consumer privacy rights.
We ask presenters to consider how our work as information professionals and/or policy makers intersects with what can only be described as an assault on facts, privacy, and access to information resources. As a profession, we have long been associated with freedom of speech, information, and confidentiality, often in radical and creative ways. We invite you to explore how your work, as an individual or as part of a larger organization, contributes to our professional history of resistance, particularly to those who would limit access to information or services surrounding substance use/abuse and mental health.
If you wish to discuss your abstract topic, contact any of the conference hosts: Len Levin, Harvard University Medical School,Leonard_Levin@hms.harvard.edu
Julie Murphy, Prevention Research Center, jmurphy@PREV.org, Tom Colthurst, Silver Gate Group, tcolthurst47@gmail.com, or Andrea Mitchell, SALIS, amitchell@salis.org
If your presentation is accepted, you will have an opportunity to publish your paper in the Conference eProceedings. See earlier SALIS Conference Proceedings as examples. (2017 proceedings are pending)
To enter your abstract: https://www.
Important Deadlines:
- Abstract submission: Wednesday, February 28, 2018
- Presentation file required: Monday, April 23, 2018
- Submission for eConference Proceedings: TBA
If you have problems with the online submission form, please contact SALIS webmaster, Meg Brunner meganw@u.washington.edu
Conference Homepage - http://salis.org/conference/
LEN LEVIN, MS LIS, MA, AHIP
Associate Director, Collections & Knowledge Management
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
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