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An Academic Library-Biotech Industry Partnership: Defining A Collaboration, Deborah A. Crooke, Marie T. Ascher, Marta Ambroziak May 2015

An Academic Library-Biotech Industry Partnership: Defining A Collaboration, Deborah A. Crooke, Marie T. Ascher, Marta Ambroziak

NYMC Faculty Posters

New York Medical College opened BioInc@NYMC, a multimillion-dollar government-funded biotechnology incubator, in October 2014. To spur medical innovation and economic development, the public and private sectors collaborated to provide biotech start-ups with state-of-the-art facilities. By April 2015 four start-up companies had joined the incubator. The Health Sciences Library was given a unique opportunity to interface with the private biotechnology industry and define an academic library-biotechnology industry partnership.


Seeking Out New Blood (And Brains!) For Section Membership Through Quick Response (Qr) Codes And Zombies, Marie T. Ascher, Beth Whipple May 2012

Seeking Out New Blood (And Brains!) For Section Membership Through Quick Response (Qr) Codes And Zombies, Marie T. Ascher, Beth Whipple

NYMC Faculty Posters

Objectives: Although the Medical Informatics Section (MIS) is one of the largest MLA sections, new ways to enhance section membership breathe life into a section. The creation of a Zombie Hunt game is a novel interactive approach to encourage people to join our section, have fun, and use some technology during MLA '12.


Mla Amplified: Content Analysis And Tweeter Tales, Marcus Banks, Marie T. Ascher May 2011

Mla Amplified: Content Analysis And Tweeter Tales, Marcus Banks, Marie T. Ascher

NYMC Faculty Posters

Objectives: During the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, in addition to the conference blog with official bloggers, there was an active Twitter stream using the hashtag #mla2010. Lorcan Dempsey has coined the term “amplified conference” to refer to conferences which employ social media and networking tools (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc.) to communicate conference content. This poster presents an overview of the #mla2010 Tweets as a social and intellectual history of the meeting.