Annual Report 1999/2000 

Dental Section

Goal 1. Professional Development

• The Dental Section will cosponsor (with Nursing and Allied Health Resources) an invited speaker at the 2000 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada. "Hedges/Filters for Evidence-based Literature" by Ann McKibbon.
• The ad hoc committee for the Harriet Steuernagel Award is working on refinement of the criteria and frequency of the award.

Goal 2. Advocacy

• The section membership project continues. Letters, including promotional materials, have been sent to all dental libraries that do not have a member in the section.
• Section members agreed to place the Dental and Dental Hygiene standards on MLANET. Leah Krevit volunteered to take over further work on updating the standards.

Goal 3. Organization

• A motion to change the secretary/treasurer's term of office to 3 years was passed. This should allow more stability and require fewer signature changes. Section bylaws will need to be changed.

Goal 4. Research

• The Dental Section history is in progress. Information gathered was submitted for the MLA time capsule.

Goal 5. National Information Policy

• The Governmental Relations Committee liaison has been active in posting information from that committee and action alerts to the email discussion list.

Goal 6. Information Technology

• The section newsletter is on the home page along with several years of section minutes, program information and the list of recommended books.
• Dentalib, the section email discussion list continues to actively disseminate topical information.

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This report is informational and requires no action by the Board of Directors.