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JM2010 Contributed Paper: Networking with USC’s School of Pharmacy to Engage Students in Information Finding

By Marcus Banks, MLIS, Manager of Education and Research Services; UC San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Management Networking with USC’s School of Pharmacy to Engage Students in Information Finding. Joe Pozdol, Medical Information Specialist, USC Norris Medical Library In this extremely informative session Pozdol offered a 10 step recipe for success in increasing […]

JM2010 Contributed Paper: Moving to a Single Service Desk: Challenges and Opportunities for Improved Customer Service

Posted by Annie Hughes, MLIS, Reference Librarian; USC Wilson Dental Library & Learning Center Peggy Tahir, Manager, Information & Access Service; Marcus Banks, Manager, Education & Information Services; Andy Panado, Access Services Supervisor; Aleta Asbury, Interlibrary Services Supervisor, Gaily Persily, Director, Education & Public Services; UCSF Library & Center for Knowledge Management, San Francisco, CA […]

JM2010 Contributed Paper: Assessment of a Library Outreach Project to Promote Seniors Use of Health Resources on the Internet

Posted by Debra Schneider, Librarian, Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale, AZ Presenter: Terry Henner, Library Director, Savitt Medical Library, University of Nevada School of Medicine. Read an abstract of this paper online. Credit Terry Henner’s mom for complaining.  She’d missed out on the latest family pictures and had to hear about her grandson’s trip from a relative.  […]

JM2010 Contributed Paper: Informatics at the Core of a New Biomedical Campus:Creating a Library to Support the Millennials by Merging Three Institution’s Ideologies to Create a User-Centered Resource

Posted by April R. Frost, MLIS Jacqueline D. Doyle, Lindsey Greene, and Kathleen Carlson presented this paper on the process of combining three college libraries’ resources into one library at the New Biomedical Campus in Phoenix. The goal of this endeavor is to provide seamless access to all three institutional resources by 2013. There are […]

JM2010 Contributed Paper: HPV and HPV Vaccine Information Resources and Education Outreach

Posted by Debra Schneider, MLS, Librarian, Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale AZ Presenters: Annabelle Nunez, Assistant Librarian, Arizona Health Sciences Library and Martha Moore-Monroy, Clinical Lecturer, Arizona Health Sciences Center Initiative for Women’s Health, University of Arizona. Read the abstract for this paper presentation online. When the HPV vaccine was released, it was publicized as an “important” […]

JM2010 Contributed Paper: No Urban Amish Here (2nd review)

Posted by Carol Ann Attwood, MLIS, Patient Health & Education Library, Mayo Clinic Arizona No Urban Amish Here:  Social Networking at UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, Authors: Paul Camp, Office Coordinator of Public Services; Amy Chatfield, Instruction Coordinator; Tania Bardyn, Associate Director for Public Services, UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA Library, Los […]

JM2010 Contributed Paper: No Urban Amish Here: Social Networking at UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

Posted by Evonda Copeland, Supervisor of Library Services, Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale, AZ Like me, you might be wondering what “urban Amish” means, and whether or not you are one. To be clear – urban Amish is an endearing term referring to people who do not use tech gadgets and mobile devices (no Facebook page, no […]

JM2010 Contributed Paper: Stretching Those Resource Dollars: Lessons Learned on Building and Managing a Hospital Library Consortium for Cooperative E-Licensing

Posted by Evonda Copeland, Supervisor of Library Services, Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale, AZ With “Stretching Those Resource Dollars: Lessons Learned on Building and Managing a Hospital Library Consortium for Cooperative E-Licensing” Julie Kwan, Rick Burke and James Wiser shared first year results from the e-licensing collaborative between the National Network of Libraries of Medicine-Pacific Southwest Region […]

JM2010 Contributed Paper: Simplify Access to Hospital Library Resources with Technology

Posted by Marcus Banks, MLIS, Manager of Education and Research Services; UC San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Management In “Simplify Access to Hospital Library Resources with Technology,”  Judy Kraemer offered several useful suggestions for hospital librarians who wish to improve access to library resources via an ILS and their web site.  The ultimate […]

JM2010 Contributed Paper: Publication Rate of Abstracted Projects from the Medical Library Association Annual Meetings

Posted by Marcus Banks, MLIS, Manager of Education and Research Services; UC San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Management In this presentation Sally Harvey and Janene Wandersee presented the results of their fascinating and thorough study of the rates at which MLA meeting presentations are converted into formal publication. The impetus for the study […]

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