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MLA's Librarian Survival Kit

Step One: Survival

This resource kit was developed by the MLA Task Force on the Role of the Librarian and headquarters staff to help you promote your value as a health sciences librarian and the value of the services you provide to your institution.

The keys to success are…

knowing your organization,
knowing your clients,
marketing your services, and
communicating with your national association.

The kit provides…

Hints for Using the Kit to help you market yourself;
The Value of the Hospital Library fact sheet;
Writing Letters to Get Results: guidelines to get results from administrators;
professional standards for health sciences libraries and librarians from JCAHO, LCME, and MLA;
Platform for Change, MLA's educational policy statement;
Using Scientific Evidence to Improve Information Practice, MLA's research policy statement; and
Selected Bibliography of other articles and resources demonstrating the value of library/information services to the institution.

We encourage you to provide MLA headquarters with any suggestions and materials to improve the kit. Good luck!