President's Corner: Opportunities for Members of the SLML Organization
Kim Lipsey, President, SLML

SLML Members, Welcome to the New Year, 2004!!! In celebration of the 1904 World's Fair 100th birthday here in St. Louis, I was drawn to reflect on the birth of this organization and what it means to be a member. As you know, one of the major projects we have started this year is the writing of the History of SLML. We appreciate Philip Skroska's willingness to take on this project and I would like to encourage you to support him in this effort in any and all ways possible. Philip has a Master's degree in History, from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and he is the Manager of the Visual and Graphic Archives section at the Bernard Becker Medical Library. Please contact Philip Skroska at 362-4236 or email him at: skroskap@msnotes.wustl.edu if you have any information, documents, pictures and etc. to share regarding the History of SLML.

This organization was founded by a group of interested librarians in the early 1960's with a clear understanding that its purpose is to exchange information, discuss common problems and strengthen relationships between the various libraries. Thus, to continue this tradition, it is hoped that this year, members will increase their participation, become more engaged in serving on committees, attend more programs and continue to accomplish the goal to bring together librarians from hospitals, universities and societies so that we may continue the improvement of librarianship and dissemination of medical literature to both the clinicians and the researcher.

I foresee this year to be an important year for the membership community in an effort to synergize our ideas for the hosting of the Mid-Continental Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MCMLA) meeting here in our great city in 2006. Here in St. Louis, home of the magnificent Arch and Gateway to the West. Happy New Year!!!