Fill out your Committee interest forms!
Posted on | June 11, 2012 | No Comments
Contributed by Emily Brennan, incoming MLGSCA President
It’s time to form the MLGSCA Committees for 2012-2013! Committees of MLGSCA are key to the organization. Without the dedication, interest, and hard work of our members, MLGSCA would not function like it does. There are 13 committees to match a variety of interests and skills. Committees are a wonderful opportunity to participate in our chapter, learn new skills, and network with colleagues.
- Awards Committee
- Connections Committee
- Continuing Education/Program Committee
- Electronic Information Resources Committee
- Exchange Committee
- Finance Committee
- Governmental Relations/Bylaws Committee
- Membership Committee
- Newsletter Committee
- Nominating Committee
- Professional Issues Committee
- Public Relations Committee
- Research Committee
- Web Committee
MLA 2012 Wrap-up: MLGSCA members present, receive awards
Posted on | June 6, 2012 | No Comments
Contributed by MLGSCA President Becky Birr
MLGSCA members were busy at MLA 2012 receiving awards and presenting papers and posters. See the list of their work below.
If we forgot your work or award, please email me or comment on this post so we can update the list.
Congratulations to you all!
MLA Awards
Jacqueline D. Doyle, AHIP, FMLA was the recipient of MLA highest honor, the Marcia C. Noyes Award.
Kay E. Wellik, AHIP, FMLA was named an MLA Fellow.
Section Awards
Lisa Federer received The New Voices Paper Award from the Medical Library Education Section.
Penny Coppernoll-Blach received Honorable Mention from the Research Section for her contributed paper, “Assessing Reference Service Using the Reference Effort Assessment Data (READ).
Zoe Pettway-Unno received the Catch A Rising Star Award from the Hospital Libraries Section.
Ellen Aaronson was awarded a Travel Grant by the Hospital Libraries Section.
Lisa Marks was awarded a Travel Grant by the Hospital Libraries Section.
Papers
Keeping Score: Use of iPads by Clinical Faculty
Emily Brennan, Medical Librarian; Eileen Eandi, Associate Director, Educational and Research Services Division; Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California–Los Angeles
Beyond Sabermetrics: Building a Framework for Long-Term Problem Solving Using Soft Systems Methodology
Robert E. Johnson, Clinical Services Librarian, Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California–Los Angeles
Supercharging ’Omics Research with a Library-Based Bioinformatics Service
Yibu Chen, Program Coordinator; Meng Li, Bioinformatics Specialist; William A. Clintworth, Associate Dean, Health Sciences Libraries, and Director; Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California–Los Angeles
Pitching Data Services to Translational Researchers: A Pilot Project
Lisa Federer, AHIP, Health and Life Sciences Librarian, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California–Los Angeles
Interleague Play: Campus Leadership through Interprofessional Education
Emily Brennan, Medical Librarian; Amy Chatfield, Information Services Librarian; Eileen Eandi, Associate Director, Educational and Research Services Division; Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California–Los Angeles
Collaborations and Partnerships: We Accomplish Much More When We Work Together
Andrea Lynch, Scholarly Communication Librarian, Lee Graff Medical & Scientific Library, City of Hope, Duarte, CA
Posters
A Whole New Ballgame: Data Services in the Library
Lisa Federer, AHIP, Health and Life Sciences Librarian, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California–Los Angeles
Turn Your Library Tutorial into a Hollywood Movie
Jin Wu, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California–Los Angeles
Collaboration, Collegiality, Cooperation: Consumer Health Library Services and the American Cancer Society Navigator Role
Carol Ann Attwood, AHIP, Medical Librarian/Registered Nurse, Patient and Health Education Library; Kay E. Wellik, AHIP, Director, Libraries; Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ
Knowing the Score: Are Students Interested in Utilizing Online Lectures on Basic Sciences and Biomedical Topics?
Annie M. Hughes, Information Services Librarian, Wilson Dental Library, University of Southern California–Los Angeles
Growing Opportunities in the Hospital Library: Measuring the Collection Needs of Hospital Clinicians
Meredith Bloom, Student, Certificate of Advanced Study in Health Sciences Librarianship, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, and Health and Life Science Librarian, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California–Los Angeles; Lisa Marks, AHIP, Manager, Library Services, Health Science Library, Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Burbank, CA
Health Information Ambassador Program for Patient Education: A Game Changing Partnership
Laura Stubblefield, AHIP, Manager, Library Services, Medical Library, Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, CA; Jacqueline Davis, Cushman Consumer Health Library, Community Health Library, Sharp HealthCare, San Diego, CA
Moneyball Tactics: A Game Changer for PubMed Mobile
Kathleen N. Carlson, AHIP, Education Librarian/Associate Librarian, Arizona Health Sciences Library, College of Medicine, University of Arizona–Phoenix; Sheila Hofstetter, AHIP, Health Sciences Librarian and Associate Librarian, Noble Science and Engineering Library, Arizona State University–Tempe
Strengthening Bioinformatics Research in the Institution: A Powerful Role for Libraries
Meng Li, Bioinformatics Specialist; Yibu Chen, Program Coordinator; William A. Clintworth, Associate Dean, Health Sciences Libraries, and Director; Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California–Los Angeles
Social Workers and Consumer Health Information: Waiting in the Bullpen
Stephen H. Kiyoi, National Library of Medicine Associate Fellow, National Library of Medicine, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California–Los Angeles; Laura Bartlett, Technical Information Specialist, Specialized Information Services, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
PharmGuide: Your Home Base for Free Online Drug Information
Amy Chatfield, Information Services Librarian, Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California–Los Angeles; Trish Chatterley, Public Services Librarian, John W. Scott Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta–Edmonton, Canada; Jean L. Siebert, AHIP, Collection Manager and Reference Librarian, Health Sciences Library, West Virginia University–Morgantown; Jonathan B. Koffel, Clinical Information Librarian, Bio-Medical Library, University of Minnesota–Minneapolis
Newbies: Cindy Runnels
Posted on | June 5, 2012 | 2 Comments
Cindy & Her Dog Mais
It’s time to get better acquainted with one of our newer MLGSCA members. Cindy Runnels is the director of the Health Sciences Library at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower, CA. She started in the position last August. Cindy’s also been a lecturer at the School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University for almost four years. Previously she was at West Coast University and Santa Ana College and her internships were at California State University, Fullerton and Golden West College.
Cindy says she’s an “avid cook, appreciative foodie, and a well-intentioned but less than dedicated gardener.” She’s “especially fond of heirloom tomatoes and tries to grow a couple of new varieties every year.” For those of you that also grow heirloom tomatoes or know people that do, if you have “suggestions for varieties that grow well in small, So Cal gardens,” Cindy would love to hear from you.
Heirloom-Tomatoes
Best Bytes: Hacking the MLA Conference
Posted on | June 4, 2012 | 1 Comment
Submitted by Janet Crum, Director of Library Services, City of Hope
I just got back from the Medical Library Association conference in Seattle, the land of rain, coffee, rain, grunge rock, rain, Jimi Hendrix, and rain (sorry; I used to live in Seattle, and I am incapable of mentioning the Emerald City without making at least one snide comment about the weather). Anyway, back to the conference. The most common comment I heard from fellow attendees was that the conference was “packed”—the number of programs, presentations, vendors, posters, seminars, and CE classes seemed overwhelming to many of us. The challenge for me (besides staying dry) was to keep track of all that information so that I can use it later, while still leaving plenty of time to network with my colleagues. So, in this month’s post, I’ll talk about how I managed the information deluge at MLA, in the hope that you may find some of these tips and tools useful for your next conference.
Taking Notes
MLA attendees used a variety of note-taking tools, from good ol’ pen and paper to laptops, smartphones, and the most popular choice this year, tablets. I used my trusty iPhone and my favorite note-taking app, Evernote. Evernote is a free online note-taking tool that offers many advantages over a word processor or (gasp) a paper notebook. With Evernote, you can:
- Access your notes from any computer with internet access, anytime, because they are stored online
- Organize your notes into notebooks, assign tags to notes, and search all of your notes, making it easy to find interesting tidbits without having to remember where you heard them.
- Take notes offline with Evernote’s desktop client for PC or Mac, then sync your notes to the cloud later.
- Clip web pages or parts of web pages and save them in your notebook
- Take notes with the Evernote app on a mobile device. Evernote provides free apps for the iPhone/iPad, as well as Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phone devices.
All of these features, especially the last one, make Evernote my must-have tool for gathering and organizing information at conferences.
Hacking the Poster Sessions
MLA ’12 featured lots of posters with great information. By the time I visited the posters, though, most of the handouts and business cards were gone. So, how was I to keep track of interesting posters and follow up with the authors if needed? Once again I turned to my iPhone and Evernote. When I found an interesting poster, I took a picture of it (or part of it) with my iPhone and embedded the picture in Evernote (Evernote lets you take pictures from within the app and embeds the photo in a note automatically), along with a brief note about why I was interested in the information. Some poster authors made it even easier for me by including QR codes in their poster to link me to additional information.
Using QR Codes
QR codes are those funny square barcodes that seem to be showing up everywhere. In addition to posters, I saw QR codes on vendor literature, presentations, and even a few business cards. QR codes provide a simple, tidy way to link someone from physical content (like a poster or ad) to online information about that content (like a web site about your project). To use a QR code, you need a camera phone with a QR code app. I use QuickMark, which offers QR code apps for iPhone and Android. Just launch the app, snap a picture of the QR code, and the app saves the URL associated with the code. Then, when you get home, you can browse the app’s history to get a list of all the links you saved at the conference.
Want to try it out? Here’s a QR code for the MLGSCA blog:
Interested in creating a QR code for your own content? See this post on the HubSpot Blog for step-by-step instructions. Also see the ProfHacker post, How to Use Barcodes at Conferences (and Why You Might Want to) for more information about QR codes at conferences.
The Twitter Backchannel
When you aren’t taking notes and snapping pictures of QR codes, you may want to participate in the conference-wide conversation known as the Twitter backchannel. Each MLA conference (and most other conferences) has a Twitter hashtag. People who are tweeting anything related to the conference include the hashtag in their tweet, so you can search the hashtag to see all the comments and snarky remarks being made by your fellow attendees. To get the most out of Twitter at a conference, you’ll need either a laptop or other mobile device with a Twitter app (I use TweetDeck on my iPhone), so you can see and participate in the conversation in real time. For more information on how a Twitter backchannel works, see this great post from ProfHacker. If you want to check out the conversation at MLA ’12, search Twitter for the conference hashtag, #mlanet12 . It’s a little challenging to take notes on a presentation and monitor and participate in the Twitter feed at the same time, but it can be informative as well as entertaining.
Conferences are a whirlwind of information, conversations, and connections. With a few tech tools, you can capture the information easily, leaving you free to focus on connecting with your fellow attendees (and staying dry).
NLM Volunteer Internship Program
Posted on | May 31, 2012 | No Comments
Do you know someone who’s looking for library related internships or someone who might just enjoy the experience of a Volunteer Internship in NLM’s History of Medicine Division? If yes, make sure to pass on this information. “The HMD volunteer internship program offers practical, hands-on and results-oriented experience in the largest medical library in the world with one of the finest history of medicine collections. Under the direct supervision of permanent library staff, selected interns will undertake projects, or a combination of projects based on their interests, skills, and the needs of the History of Medicine Division.”
Internships are offered in seven areas: Archival Arrangement and Description, Cataloging and Bibliography, Collection Management, Digitization initiatives, Preservation, Web Development and Exhibitions, Public Programs, and Outreach. Interns working in the last area have done work “ranging from researching exhibition materials and fact checking, drafting education materials, conducting market research for an outreach, and providing guided exhibition tours.”
Go HERE to read more including who is and isn’t eligible, information about further requirements and details about the application process.
Minutes – 4/18/12 MLGSCA business meeting
Posted on | May 8, 2012 | 4 Comments
Update: it looks like IE users are having trouble downloading the minutes from WordPress, so I’m going to paste them into this post. Sorry for the hassle, IE users.
I just finished the minutes of our 4/18 business meeting (Word doc available here). If you attended the meeting, please take a look and let me know if you have any corrections. If you missed the meeting, please take a look to see what you missed.
Here they are:
Minutes
MLGSCA Business Meeting, Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 2:30-3:30 PM
In Attendance
Fortis College, Phoenix, AZ: April Aguiñaga, Rebecca Birr, Kathleen Carlson, Sue Espe, April Frost, Molly Harrington, Sheila Hofstetter, Monica Johnson, Nita Mailander, Cinda McClain, Amy Nadell, Bryan Nugent, Virginia Pannabecker, Deb Schneider, Susan Shelly, Nancy Showalter, Francine Tanori-Pote, Janene Wandersee, Kathy Zeblisky
Kaiser Permanente Medical Offices – Independence Park, Downey, CA: Judy Kraemer, Zoe Pettway Uno, Mary White
Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA: Laura Brown , Janet Crum
UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, Los Angeles, CA: Paul Camp, Alan Carr, Judy Consales, Kay Deeney, Adele Dobry, Lisa Federer, Darlene Parker Kelly, Stephen Kiyoi, Julie Kwan, DeDe Leshy, Irene Lovas, Rikke Ogawa, Sherrill Olson, Xiuling Qing, Kathy Russell, Lori Tagawa,
USC Norris Medical Library, Los Angeles, CA: Emily Brennan, Amy Chatfield, Pam Corley, Marcia Henry, Robert Johnson, Lisa Marks, Jessica Shultz, Eileen Wakiji.
Individuals (via MegaMeeting): Brooke Billman, Nancy Crossfield, Mary Riordan, Laura Stubblefield, Mary White
Documents Distributed for Meeting
Birr distributed the following documents via email to the MLGSCA list on 4/16/12:
- Minutes of the 9/30/11 business meeting
- Minutes of the 4/8/11 business meeting
- MLGSCA Location of Assets, 3rd Quarter FY11-12, March 21, 2012
- Suggested revisions to MLGSCA bylaws
- MLGSCA Treasurer’s Report, 2nd Quarter, October-December 2011
- Agenda for this meeting
Call to Order, Welcome & Introductions
Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 2:34 PM by MLGSCA President Rebecca Birr. Many connection problems ensued; the meeting resumed at 2:45 PM.
Approval of Minutes, 4/8/11: Correction – under CE Program – paid registrants, 8 should be Burbank. Phoenix listed twice. Birr will send correction to Crum. Zeblisky moved to approve. Carlson seconded. None opposed. Motion carried.
Approval of Minutes, 9/30/11: Ogawa moved to approve. Chatfield seconded. None opposed. Motion carried.
Announcements
No announcements.
President’s Update (Rebecca Birr)
Award Presentations
- Student Scholarship: Jessica Shultz awarded $1000. In MLIS program at SJSU and works part-time at a health sciences library. Birr and the group congratulated Jessica, and Emily Brennan presented the check.
- MLGSCA Louise Darling Achievement Award: Birr read nomination letter for this year’s winner [ask Becky to provide text of letter for minutes], Julie Kwan, UCLA. Alan Carr presented a plaque, check, and bouquet of flowers to Kwan.
Symposium
MLGSCA symposium, Information Treasure Hunt: Supporting Evidence-Based Practice at Your Institution was held on March 2 with presenter Connie Schardt. Birr indicated MLGSCA’s gratitude for the RML’s sponsorship of the event and thanked the program planning committee, chaired by Lisa Marks. Marks said that 54 people attended, and the evaluations were very positive.
Joint Meeting 2013
The 2013 Joint Meeting is tentatively set for the University of California – San Diego for the end of July. Chairs for the Joint Meeting are Robert Johnson, Danielle Linden, and Nita Mailander. Birr asked anyone who is interested in volunteering for one of the planning committees to contact the chairs. Announcements will be coming soon on the MLGSCA blog and listserv.
Quad Meeting 2014
We were approached by South Central and Midcontinental chapters to do a joint meeting with them. We invited NCNMLG to join the conversation. Both advisory councils (MLGSCA and NCNMLG) think this quad meeting would be a great opportunity. The meeting is tentatively scheduled for October 2014 in Denver. More details to come. Birr asked anyone interested in volunteering to help with the meeting to contact her.
Officer, Committee & Other Reports
Treasurer (Elisa Cortez)
Birr reported that the Treasurer’s Report was distributed on the listserv. No questions were asked.
MLA Chapter Council Rep (Andrea Lynch)
No report.
Awards (Laura Stubblefield)
Stubblefield congratulated the MLGSCA awardees and reported that nominations are due July 1 for the the MLGSCA Outstanding Health Sciences Library Paraprofessional Award. She thanked her committee members, Dede Leshy, Steve Clancy, Carol Attwood, Lisa Marks, Yamila El-Khayat, Russell Smith, and Billie White, for their great work this year.
Blog (Amy Chatfield)
No report
CE/Program (Emily Brennan)
Brennan reported that there were 40 total registrants for the MLA Webcast: 33 MLGSCA members, 5 non-members, and 2 students.
Connections (Andrea Harrow)
No report.
Electronic Information Resources (EIRC) (Paul Bielman)
No report.
Finance (Ellen Aaronson & Deborah Klein)
No report.
Government Relations/By-Laws (Mary White)
White reported that AC did a significant review of the MLGSCA bylaws, and the revised version has been reviewed and approved by MLA. The main changes are: wording was updated, electronic voting added, and references to coupon manager program deleted. Also, the description of the Archivist role will be removed from the Bylaws and added to the Advisory Committee Manual, where it can be updated by the AC rather than the entire chapter. Emily Brennan moved to approve bylaws. Cinda McClain seconded. None opposed. Motion carried. Birr thanked White for her dedication to this project.
Membership (Janene Wandersee)
As of 4/6, we had 174 members. A few more registered since then.
Nominating (Eileen Wakiji)
Wakiji reported the results of the recent MLGSCA election: Mary White is president-elect. April Aguiñaga is secretary. Alan Carr is Chapter Council Representative. Kathleen Carlson is Chapter Council Alternate. Kay Deeney and Janet Crum will join the Nominating Committee. Judy Consales is the MLGSCA candidate for the MLA Nominating Committee. Birr congratulated the candidates.
Professional Issues (Lisa Marks)
Marks thanked Crum for mentoring a member relocating from the UK to Southern California. She thanked Wandersee for sending a list of people who are interested in mentoring or being mentored.
Public Relations (Robert Johnson)
Johnson reported that his co-volunteers left the group after the last meeting, so there has been no progress on finding out what other chapters do for PR. He hasn’t recruited any new vendors to advertise on the blog. Vendors are more interested in having one on one conversations with us, e.g. at conferences. Vendors have national and local budgets, so we wouldn’t be competing with MLA for vendors.
Research (Zoe Pettway Unno)
No report.
Web (Jin Wu/Andrea Lynch)
No report.
Archivist (Birr for Marsha Kmec)
Marsha has a UCLA student scanning materials for the archives.
NN/LM PSR Rep (Irene Lovas)
No report.
Internal Auditor (Alan Carr)
No report.
MLA Credentialing Committee Liaison – AHIP (Kathy Zeblisky)
Zeblisky reported that the Credentialing Committee is considering a motion to remove the requirement for AHIP candidates to be working in the health sciences, because some members, due to the economy, may not be working in the field currently. She will know more after MLA.
New Business
Birr thanked the site coordinators for hosting the MLA webcast.
Adjournment
Nita Mailander moved to adjourn, seconded by Molly Harrington. The meeting was adjourned at 3:10 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Janet Crum
MLGSCA Secretary
Ten attributes of a health literate organization
Posted on | May 7, 2012 | 1 Comment
The IOM Roundtable on Health Literacy has recently published a report describing the ten attributes of a health literate organization, that is, “an organization that makes it easier for people to navigate, understand, and use information and services to take care of their health.”
Best Bytes: Medify.com
Posted on | May 7, 2012 | No Comments
Contributed by Catherine Madsen, MLIS graduate, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Medify.com is a web app for consumers, currently in beta. It is designed to cull millions of medical research studies primarily from Medline and other professionally vetted sources, making them more easily accessible, thus empowering consumers with the medical information they need to know to help themselves and their families with their medical conditions. They accomplish this by extracting relevant data and compiling it in interactive graphs and tables, personalizable for each consumer based on that consumer’s own symptoms and issues. They go beyond simply aggregating research from by extracting and graphing key data such as number of patients studied against number of studies as well as patient outcomes, something WebMD, another consumer focused site providing medical information, does not do.
They use an algorithm to rank treatments based on how far a drug has gotten in clinical trials; how often that drug has been studied; how many people it was studied on; and how quickly the treatment is evolving. For example, when a consumer enters a condition such as kidney disease, they will see the top five treatments based on the above algorithm, represented by bubbles on an interactive graph. They can find more information on each treatment by clicking on the bubble. Medify will rate the treatment based on the data, such as “effective” or “hot” and then provides access to the abstract of the study the data is based on that says the treatment was effective in 65 out of 66 patients for example.
The advantage of Medify as opposed to Googling their condition or looking studies up themselves in PubMed, which consumers may not know how to do adequately without assistance, is that the team of professionals at Medify have done the work for the consumer by culling studies only from vetted sources and then organizing and highlighting key facts and findings, making the consumer’s search much more efficient as well as reliable. The consumer can also personalize their search by inputting their own symptoms in order to see the studies involving similar cases and patient results from each treatment used in those cases. The intent is to provide consumers with the information they need to bring to their doctors in order to have a productive conversation about which treatments are available and which are most effective according to the research for their particular condition.
In addition, consumers can save their search results in a binder on the site as well as share it with friends and family. This site also tracks new studies and informs the consumer when they are published, making it easier for consumers to keep up with the latest treatments for their condition. This social networking aspect adds value to the site not found on other sites that are simply databases of all the medical studies in the world such as Medline or Clinicaltrials.gov, which provide access to the studies, but do not organize them for the consumer, extract data personalized to the consumer’s issues, create tables or graphs or provide social networking opportunities to share findings.
Want more information on Medify.com? Check out these sites:
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/clintrial.html
- http://alzheimersspeaks.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/4237/
- http://www.crunchbase.com/company/medify
- http://mashable.com/2011/08/25/medify/
- http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2010/07/01/medify-incubated-at-voyager-capital-raises-1-3m-to-reshape-health-it-for-consumers/
- http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/medify-beta-latest-medical-information-interactive-layman/
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-20111996-250/medify-for-when-you-need-to-become-a-medicine-geek/
- http://www.medcitynews.com/2012/01/medify-ceo-ready-to-wage-war/
- https://www.medify.com/about/how-it-works
Congratulations to MLGSCA Award Winners
Posted on | April 23, 2012 | No Comments
MLGSCA held it spring business meeting on April 18th. Two awards were presented. As the business meeting was held virtually using MegaMeeting, awardees traveled to one of the MLGSCA-sponsored MLA webcast viewing sites to receive awards from MLGSCA members.
Julie Kwan (R) receives award from Alan Carr
2012 Louise Darling Achievement Award was presented to Julie Kwan. The Awards Committee shared a brief biography highlighting Julie’s many accomplishments: “During her tenure in the Regional Medical Library (NN/LM PSR) as Library Network Coordinator, Julie Kwan had an important leadership role in several efforts that greatly facilitated resource sharing in the Region: EFTS, FreeShare, and electronic resources licensing with SCELC. She had a prominent role in publicizing and implementing all of these programs, greatly benefiting many MLGSCA libraries. Since her appointment as NN/LM PSR Associate Director in 2010, Julie has played an essential role in the professional development of many MLGSCA members by contributing funding towards such activities as the “E-Science Day” at UC Davis and the “Information Treasure Hunt: Supporting Evidence-Based Practice @ Your Institution” symposia. Julie also served as the Chapter’s Credentialing Liaison in 2005-2007. Julie has also been very active in MLA, most recently serving on the MLA 2009 Local Arrangements Committee. Julie was also Secretary/Treasurer for MLA’s Medical Library Education Section in 2005-2007. Over the years, Julie has made numerous presentation and contributions at MLA Annual and Chapter meetings on various resource sharing topics. In addition, Julie has been the course coordinator for several recent health science librarianship courses in the UCLA Department of Information Studies, and has mentored many new professionals.”
Jessica Shultz (L) receives scholarship from Emily Brennan
The 2012 Student Scholarship was presented to Jessica Shultz who is attending San Jose State University’s MLIS program. In addition to studying, Jessica currently works at a health sciences library and hopes to continue in health sciences librarianship after graduating. Jessica provided her thanks to MLGSCA and further information on her research interests in a blog post earlier this month.
Please join MLGSCA in congratulating Julie and Jessica on their achievements!
Nominations for MLGSCA Outstanding Health Sciences Paraprofessional of the Year Award
Posted on | April 20, 2012 | No Comments
Consider submitting your high achieving library paraprofessional for the MLGSCA Outstanding Health Sciences Paraprofessional of the Year Award. Applicant, who is currently working in a health sciences library, is recognized for their critical role and important contributions to the development and evolution of modern health sciences libraries and librarianship. Deadline for submission is July 1st.
Nominations can be made by any MLGSCA member to the Awards Committee chair. The nominee need NOT be a member of MLGSCA. Information and the nomination form can be found on the MLGSCA web site (http://www.mlgsca.mlanet.org/awards.htm)
Upcoming Joint and Quad meetings for MLGSCA
Posted on | April 20, 2012 | No Comments
Contributed by Becky Birr, MLGSCA President, and Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ
I wanted to take a moment and update you on the plans for the upcoming Joint Meetings. As you know, we have had a number of discussions in the last year about the future of Joint Meetings. Both MLGSCA and NCNMLG have struggled with the last few meetings related to costs. As a result, we are going to try some different ideas. Here are some specifics:
Joint Meeting 2013 (with NCNMLG)
Tentatively set at University of California San Diego in late July 2013. Chairs for the JM are Robert Johnson at USC, Danielle Linden at St. Joseph Health System in Orange, CA and Nita Mailander at Grant Canyon University in Phoenix. If you would are interested in volunteering for one of the committees, please let them know (find contact information in the MLGSCA Directory). They will be making announcements on the listserv and blog soon.
Quad Meeting October 2014
The South Central and Midcontinental Chapters approached MLGSCA about a joint meeting. We had NCNMLG join the conversations. There were many discussions about this idea with our Advisory Council, NCNMLG, South Central, and Midcontinental. We came to the conclusion that this would be a great opportunity for our chapters, an excellent way for us to learn from other chapters, and network with our colleagues. The Quad Meeting, as we are calling it, will be held in October 2014 in Denver. More details will follow. There will be representation from all chapters on the committees. If you are interested in volunteering, please email Becky Birr.
So, the next few years should look like this . . .
2012 MLA in Seattle, May 18-23
2013 MLA in Boston , May 3-8
2013 Joint Meeting in late July at University of California San Diego hosted by MLGSCA (tentative)
2014 MLA in Chicago, May 16-21
2014 Quad Chapter Meeting, October, Denver
2015 Maybe a day-long CE in March
2015 MLA in Austin, May 15-20
2016 Joint Meeting hosted by NCNMLG (February? Summer? Hotel? College?)
If you have any questions about this, please email Becky Birr. This should be an interesting few years!
NLM Scanned Its Millionth Page for the Medical Heritage Library Project
Posted on | April 14, 2012 | No Comments
Title page of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes' Valedictory Address to Medical Graduates of Harvard University, March 10, 1858
The title page of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Valedictory Address to Medical Graduates of Harvard University on March 10, 1858, shown to the left, was the millionth page NLM scanned for the Medical Heritage Library Project.
According to NLM’s announcement, “the goal of the project, launched in January of 2010, is to digitize books and journals that document the evolution of American medicine from 17th century colonial medicine to 20th century research hospitals.” NLM is working cooperatively with New York Public Library, the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University, the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Library at Yale and the Countway Library at Harvard on this project by contributing Medicine in the Americas.
“Medicine in the Americas titles are selected from the NLM’s History of Medicine Division (HMD), including books and pamphlets from the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada. The collection currently features items from 1610 to 1865. Topics covered include anatomy, military medicine, medical education, medical jurisprudence, public health, psychiatry, and nursing among many others of interest to scholars and popular audiences alike. Future work will encompass titles published through 1920.”
You can see the fruits of NLM’s labors so far on their Digital Collections page.
For more about the Medical Heritage Library Project
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