Tell us briefly about the purpose and/or background of your SIG.
 The Pediatric SIG is a group of librarians from children’s hospitals throughout the nation that communicate regarding their special pediatric library interests. The group maintains an active listserv among members and meets at each annual MLA meeting. The group also collaborates on an ongoing basis to produce a core list of books for pediatrics and the pediatric subspecialties. This list is a guideline for book selection for children’s hospital library collections. The group also collaborates on interlibrary loan issues among the group.

Do you have a website and/or list-serv?
 Pediatric Special Interest Group Website - http://pedsig.mlanet.org/
Pediatric Special Interest Group listserv – pedhosplib@tamucc.edu

Will you be meeting at MLA? If so, when and what is on your agenda? Is the meeting open to non-members?
The Pediatric SIG Meeting is at the Hyatt on Monday, May 19, from 3:30-4:30 PM, in the New Orleans Room.

Agenda:

  1. Pediatric Core List – including books and journals in pediatrics
  2. Discussion and evaluation of new electronic products – Nursing Consult, Mosby Nursing Skills with Pediatric Content, OVID SP
  3. Discussion about use of CINAHL on Ebsco
  4. PubMed Linkout
  5. Discussion of Mark Funk’s Task Force on Social Networking Sites (Facebook, YouTube, Second Life, Blogs, Wikis, etc.
  6. Library resources and the Electronic Medical Record

Is there anything else about your SIG that you’d like to share with MLA blog readers?
The Pediatric SIG is a group that is very supportive of each other and member’s needs. We also try to get together for dinner or lunch at the annual MLA meeting.

And just for fun, what’s on your must see/do list for Chicago?
My “must see” in Chicago is the Komodo dragon at the Shedd Aquarium. I’d also like to see “Jersey Boys” or “Wicked”.

- Thanks to Carol Jeuell for the news about the Pediatric SIG at MLA ‘08.