2016 MLGSCA Officer Candidates
Posted on March 10, 2016 by Kelli Hines | No Comments
President-Elect
Kathryn Houk
Bio: Kathryn (Katie) Houk has a B.S. in biology from Elon University, NC and graduated with her MLIS from Kent State University in 2009. She officially became a medical librarian in 2011 when she was hired to be the liaison to the biomedical sciences programs at Tufts University’s Hirsh Health Sciences Library in Boston, MA. An active member of MLA since 2011, Katie has attended the annual meetings in Boston, MA, where she presented a poster, and Austin, TX. She will be presenting a paper in Toronto, ON this spring and plans to apply for her AHIP certification in July.
Katie was also an active member of the regional medical library groups and participated in the NE NN/LM community while in Boston. For the past three years she was co-chair of the eScience Portal for New England Librarians, and participated in various ways with the eScience Symposium, presented annually by the UMass Medical Library, NE NN/LM and the Boston Library Consortium.
Katie and the SDSU Library hosted the MLA fall webinar series this past November and December, and Katie is looking for ways to become more involved with the medical library community in southern California.
Statement of Aims: In my five years as a health sciences librarian, I have been lucky enough to attend courses and training for systematic review support, NCBI databases, and research data management; which I believe has allowed me to be focused on the forefront of what’s new and evolving in academic health sciences librarianship, while still gaining understanding of the day-to-day needs of practitioners, students and faculty through my everyday job functions. Having come from a very active, but geographically compact region, I would love to try to build a stronger relationship with the PSR NN/LM to promote educational opportunities in these new and exciting areas of librarianship across our expansive area.
I think any aspiration for change is predicated on strong communication and sense of community. I have a strong interest in marketing and promotion having served as the chair of the public relations team for 2.5 years while at Tufts; helping to develop programs such as fun de-stress events, therapy dog visits, and video marketing.
I would like to work with MLGSCA to promote more active communication and provide more openly announced opportunities for meet and greets within metro areas. With my interest in promotion, I am also looking forward to the opportunity to promote all of the wonderful work and ideas MLGSCA brings to our national organization and work towards an environment where everyone feels like their voice can be heard.
Caroline Marshall
Bio: Caroline Marshall is a Senior Medical Librarian for Public Services at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Medical Library. She is the liaison librarian to the Nursing Department, teaches nurses’ information literacy skills and provides research consultations. She is a member of the Cedars-Sinai Nursing Research and Evidence Driven Practice (NR-EDP) Council and the Family and Patient Education committee. In addition, she provides specialized support to researchers including NIH Public Access and SciENcv compliance. Ms. Marshall conducts rounds with medical residents to provide clinical support and teaches regular classes on Database Searching, Getting Published and Health Literacy for the medical staff.
Ms. Marshall received a B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin Ireland. After more than 20 years in Financial and Media Research she enrolled in Southern Connecticut State University‘s Masters of Library Science Program and graduated in 2006. She received her AHIP at Senior Level in 2014. She has been an active member of the MLGSCA, since moving to California from Connecticut in 2012, where she served as Leader of the Community of Interest for Health Literacy, New England Region, teaching librarians in the network to launch health literacy initiatives in their organizations. Her activities with MLGSCA include; MLGSCA Web committee member (July 2013 to present) and Research Committee member (July 2013 –present). She also mentors interns from UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Internship Program and the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science Internship Program.
Statement of Aims: I am really honored to be considered for the President-Elect officer position for the MLGSCA.
One of the first things I noticed when I became a librarian is how we continuously need to grow and develop to maintain the integral role we play in the organizations we serve. That requires innovation and creativity to help bring about the constant transformational change that our roles require to show our relevancy and to prove that we do provide economic value. Continuing education has helped me greatly in redefining and expanding my skills to support the research and projects high on my institutions agenda. Strong programming can help others support and achieve the goals of their institutions, thereby demonstrating return on investment.
Many people I have spoken to at conferences hold a variety of roles in their organization. I am a strong believer in using our networking and media resources to communicate with other librarians both regionally and nationally the opportunities open to medical librarians and how with the support of the MLGSCA and MLA they can continue to grow and adapt to the changes in their institution. I never planned on becoming a medical librarian but am so thankful that is where I am today.
Secretary
Susan McKinlay
Hello, my name is Susan McKinlay, full time solo librarian at West Coast Ultrasound Institute located in Ontario, California; an allied health career college with 500 students, faculty and staff (teaching ultrasound, magnetic resonance image, and vocational nursing). I graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee School of Information Studies in December 2006 and began my current position in October of 2013. I brought with me an undergraduate degree in finance; after years of experience performing document review and data entry for a federal court. Pleased to meet you all. My volunteer experience has been all over the place from the Girl Scouts, Daughters of the American Revolution, charity fundraising in the workplace, schools, libraries, and hospital information desks. Once or twice I have volunteered with ACRL chapter in Washington State. Currently, I am pursuing online educational opportunities with the National Library of Medicine after initial taking a class in consumer health information.
I am so pleased to have the opportunity to become involved with the Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona [MLGSCA] after meeting so many wonderful librarians at PubMed trainer workshop in Phoenix just before last year’s Super Bowl game. I don’t know who won that game, but I am interested in providing accurate, current and professional information. Looking ahead as secretary, my interest is in providing concise and timely reporting of meetings.
MLGSCA Nominating Committee
April Aguiñaga
I have been a medical librarian for Maricopa Integrated Health System (MIHS), since February 2007. My previous experience has been as public librarian for various public libraries since 1994. I have lived in Phoenix on and off since 1987 but also lived in Omaha, Nebraska; Houston, Texas; San Diego & Long Beach, California. Since my husband is also a librarian I attended many American Library Association conferences, the MLGSCA/NCNMLG Joint Conferences in 2008, 2010 & 2013 and 2 of the MLA Annual Meetings in Minneapolis & Boston. I am active in our local group – CABL (Central Arizona Biomedical Libraries) and served as secretary from November 2008 – December 2013, President-Elect & President and just went off the CABL Executive board as Past President in December 2015. I have been a part of the MLGSCA Executive board when I served as MLGSCA Secretary from July 2012-June 2013. Plus was involved with 2010 MLGSCA/NCNMLG Joint Conference held in Glendale, AZ as Hospitality Chair. I have been a member of CABL, MLGSCA & MLA since 2007.
I look forward to the opportunity to continue to support our MLGSCA membership through participation on the MLGSCA Nominating Committee.
Jackie Davis
Jackie Davis, MLIS, has been a librarian for over 10 years working in a military library, a public library, in the world of adult literacy, and found a home as a consumer health librarian for over 5 years. She has experience as a community organizer and has taken these skills into the library at Sharp Memorial Hospital. Telling others about the health library at her institution is a joy because she believes so strongly in the power of information – especially the power of information embedded in a caring relationship. She won the CAPHIS Consumer Health Librarian of the Year for 2013 and one of the Gale/Cengage Librarian Superheroes awards!
Sunny McGowan
Sondhaya “Sunny” McGowan is the Manager of the Melisa Reasner McGuire Health Sciences Library at Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego. Her history with MLGSCA began when she joined as a library school student in 2008. While working towards her degree, Sunny was a part-time medical librarian technician and received the first MLGSCA Scholarship for Paraprofessional in Health Sciences Libraries.
After accepting the position as Medical Librarian at Scripps in 2011, Sunny took a more active role in MLGSCA by Co-chairing Membership with Lori Tagawa and fulfilled a single term as MLA Chapter Council Representative Alternate for Kathleen Carlson in 2014.
Sunny is currently the MLGSCA Secretary, and her willingness to take on opportunities to experience other roles in MLGSCA is what lead her to run for a position in the Nominating Committee.
Kevin Pardon
Kevin Pardon is a Health Sciences librarian at Arizona State University where he serves as a liaison to the faculty, students, and staff at ASU’s College of Nursing and Health Innovation and College of Health Solutions. In this role, he leads instruction sessions, assists with literature searches, and develops online learning modules – among many other things. Kevin joined MLGSCA just over three years ago when he moved to Arizona from Michigan and is a graduate of the Library & Information Science program at the University of Pittsburgh.
He is currently the Past-President of the Central Arizona Biomedical Libraries Group (CABL) and is a current member of MLGSCA’s Research Committee, MLA’s Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section (NAHRS), and MLA’s Research Section.
Candidates submitted by your MLGSCA 2015-2016 Nominating Committee:
Kathleen Carlson, Chair (2015-2016)
Amy Chatfield (CA), (2015-2017)
Norma Layton (CA), (2015-2017)
Lisa Marks (AZ), (2014-2016)
Lori Tagawa (CA), (2014-2016)
A special thanks to Elisa Cortez (Loma Linda University) for her guidance and knowledge on Ballotbin.
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