MLGSCA Honorary Life Membership: Nominate Someone!
Posted on | June 29, 2010 | No Comments
By Danielle Linden, MLGSCA Membership Chair 2010-11
The Membership Committee is accepting nominations for Honorary Life Membership. Are you aware of a colleague who has made significant contributions to MLGSCA or the field of Health Sciences Librarianship? Would you like to recognize a peer for their outstanding professional or educational achievements?
Please visit the Honorary Life Membership page on our website for complete details including nomination criteria, benefits, selection process, and to download the official recommendation form. Completed forms should be forwarded to:
Danielle Linden, MLGSCA Membership Chair 2010-11
danielle.linden@gmail.com
A few of the many benefits of Honorary Life Membership include:
- Complimentary lifetime MLGSCA membership
- An official letter of recognition from the current MLGSCA President
- Listing in the MLGSCA directory with special designation as Honorary Life Member
We look forward to your submissions!
Posted 6/29/10
MLGSCA/NCNMLG Joint Meeting 2011 CE Survey
Posted on | June 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
By Chandrika Kanungo and Ana M Macias, MLGSCA/NCNMLG Joint Meeting 2011 CE Committee Co-Chairs
One of the many benefits of attending Chapter meetings, other than the intellectually stimulating conversations and professional networking that takes place, is the ability to participate in courses of instruction that interest us and earn Continuing Education [CE] credits from the Medical Library Association. We invite you to take this short, 5 question survey. The information will help us determine what courses to offer at the MLGSCA/NCNMLG Joint Meeting 2011 in San Francisco next February. Thanks for your participation!
President’s Column – Message from Outgoing President
Posted on | June 14, 2010 | No Comments
By Lisa Marks, Supervisor, Library Services, Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, MLGSCA President
As my term of office as MLGSCA President comes to an end, I’d like to say thank you for giving me this opportunity!
This year has been one of experimentation for MLGSCA. For the Fall 2009 Program,”Exploiting Librarian Skills to Enhance Continuing Medical Education Programs“, we collaborated with SCMEC (Southern CA Medical Education Council) to bring librarians and CME coordinators together. For this CE, Kaiser Permanente Librarians brought us a course on how librarians can enhance CME activities – an important topic when more and more librarians are being asked to take on CME responsibilities.
For the Spring 2010 Program, Eileen Wakiji and her CE committee brought us an event using MLA’s MegaMeeting for the webinar “Library without Walls: Creating Web Portals for Online Services and Resources” with Nital Sheridan. Ms. Sheridan was in New Orleans while MLGSCA members had the opportunity to view the program at their desks or to participate at one of several host sites in both Arizona & California. The course was designed to guide students through the process of developing a web portal for online services and resources.
MLA ’10 Reflect & Connect
Posted on | June 2, 2010 | No Comments
By Marsha Kmec, Director of Library Services, Olive View/UCLA Medical Center
McGovern Award Lecturer: Daniel H. Pink
Aside from a truly great Welcome Reception in the exhibit area, we were so fortunate to have Daniel Pink as our McGovern Award Lecturer. One truly doesn’t “get” the differentiation between the right and left brain until one has listened to Daniel Pink and his “Whole New Mind” lecture. The deliverance and sense of humor injected into his lecture left us all leaving with an entirely new knowledge base and laughs as well.
CE Evidence-based Public Health: Finding and Appraising Relevant Resources
The Informationist in Practice, a four hour symposium made up of diverse individuals from various universities across the country, shared their expertise on Public Health, being involved in a clinical setting, and bioinformatics. They illuminated upon their experience, and credentials needed to get into that specific position, and it was quite an excellent opportunity to learn of new ideas and colleagues in other positions quite different than what we’re accustomed to.
Some of the “new” buzz words or perhaps not new but revamped mentioned repeatedly was wearing the hat of the information technologist or relating to the IT department (how to); Science Translational Medicine—translational medicine being “out there” continually; The Electronic Health Record (Research Panel was terrific); Vital Pathways (continuation of); Outreach to minority populations (grants available, populations to target, etc.,)
Posted 6/2/10
MLGSCA Committees: Which One Will You Join?
Posted on | May 28, 2010 | 1 Comment
9th Annual Health Literacy Conference
Posted on | May 20, 2010 | No Comments
By Kathleen Carlson, MLGSCA Newsletter Co-Chair
Interested in health literacy? Then the Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA) Annual Conference may be for you. This year, the 9th Annual Conference “Health Literacy in the Real World: Programs & Solutions That Work,” was held in Irvine, California May 6-7th. There was a Pre-Conference Workshop, Health Literacy 101: An Introduction to the Field” on Wednesday evening. During this 90 minute session by Michael Villaire, Director of Programs & Operations at IHA, explained the basics of health literacy while fielding questions and comments from the audience.
The Opening Keynote address was “Beyond Plain Language: Advances in the Design of Health Literacy Tools” by David Baker, M.D., Northwestern University. Dr. Baker touched on simplifying communication tools that are used in everyday situations: e.g. handouts, printed brochures, and videos. He illustrated his point with an explanation of colon cancer screening. What health care providers say and what they found patients actually heard are entirely different. Many people do not think they need to be screened for colon cancer because they are asymptomatic. “How can I have something as bad as cancer in me and not know it?” Dr. Baker says it all goes back to communication, the ability to understand written health information and the ability to communicate verbally about one’s personal health.
Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Technique – Register NOW!
Posted on | May 19, 2010 | No Comments
By Joan Kaplowitz, Instructor of IS 448 – Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Technique. A blended Instruction Approach.
Are you interested in enhancing your understanding of information literacy and improving your teaching and presentation skills? Does the idea of a blended approach to learning that combines face-to-face (F2F) meetings with online instruction intrigue you? Then the 10 week long summer 2010 offering of UCLA’s IS 448 is for you. F2F meetings will be held on 3 Saturdays during the summer. The rest of the course will be conducted online. Since this is a summer course, enrollment is not restricted to UCLA students; anyone can register.
The course will make heavy use of Moodle. All course materials (except for the course’s required and optional textbooks) will be posted to the course site. Students will be expected to monitor the site each week for assignments, exercises, activities, and discussions. Completed assignments will be posted to the site or submitted directly to the course instructor via email. Some assignments will be peer –reviewed as well as instructor graded.
F2F sessions will concentrate on community building, brainstorming, discussions, and exercises and activities that engage learners with the course material being addressed.
Retirement News: Barbara Rycroft
Posted on | May 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
Barbara Rycroft, Senior Librarian at Fairview Developmental Center in Costa Mesa, CA, is retiring May 18th. She has been at Fairview for 32 years. The library will remain open but with greatly reduced hours. Congratulations to Barbara and we wish her the best of luck on her future endeavors!
Posted 5/17/10
Outstanding Health Sciences Paraprofessional of the Year Award
Posted on | May 17, 2010 | No Comments
By Laura Stubblefield, MLGSCA Awards Committee Chair
Consider submitting your high achieving library paraprofessional for the MLGSCA Outstanding Health Sciences Paraprofessional of the Year Award. The 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. Award purpose, criteria, and nomination form can be found on the MLGSCA Awards and Grants website.
Posted 5/17/10
Groundbreaking for University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix
Posted on | May 17, 2010 | No Comments
By Kathleen Carlson, MLGSCA Newsletter Co-Chair
The first shovels of dirt were thrown for the new Health Sciences Education Building (HSEB) on the Downtown Phoenix Biomedical Campus (PBC). A ceremonial groundbreaking was held Wednesday, May 12, 2010 for the building, part of expansion of the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, were among the dignitaries. “This one-of-a-kind interdisciplinary facility will provide greater access to medical education in Arizona and will have a tremendous economic impact on the state by creating new jobs and pumping revenue into the economy,” said Arizona Board of Regents President Ernest Calderón.
The $187 million, 268,000 square-foot LEED®certified education building will house the expansion of the medical school, as well as programs from UA College of Pharmacy, UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and Northern Arizona University College of Health and Human Services programs. This building will allow the College of Medicine-Phoenix to expand its class size to 120 students per year (from 48 per year). It also creates space for training other health sciences students, interdisciplinary education with classrooms, laboratories, pre-clinical training suites, a medical library/learning resource center (19,200 sq. ft.), study areas and faculty offices. The first class of first-year medical students was admitted in August 2007 and currently has 120 students training to be physicians.
The HSEB is part of the overall plan to create a major academic health center in Downtown Phoenix that includes health education facilities, research and clinical programs. In addition to the medical school, the PBC is home to Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).
Posted 5/17/10
JM2010: Rejuvenate – Engage…Refocus…Connect
Posted on | May 13, 2010 | No Comments
By JM2010 Quad-chairs: Ellen Aaronson, Rebecca Birr, Judy Bube, and Kathy Zeblisky
The Joint Meeting of the Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona (MLGSCA) and the Northern California and Nevada Medical Library Group (NCNMLG) was held at the Renaissance Glendale Hotel and Spa in Glendale, Arizona, January 27-30, 2010.
125 attendees enjoyed the beauty and serenity of the Arizona desert while participating in a stimulating program that featured a diverse field of speakers and continuing education opportunities.
- David Rothman, a Hospital Librarian, blogger, and self-proclaimed technology geek in New York opened the meeting with a lively and fast-paced discussion of current technology trends.
- Dr. Keith A. Frey and Nadine Ellero updated us on the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in medical practice, and how medical librarians can become involved with this transition.
- David Levy, Professor at the University of Washington, explained how technology has changed, how this change affects the quality of life, and why we have “No Time to Think”.
- Connie Schardt, MLA President and Associate Director for Public Services at Duke University Medical Center presented a very engaging and factual account of why EBM (evidence-based medicine) is far from “dead”!
Professional Development Awards Deadline: September 15
Posted on | May 4, 2010 | No Comments
By Laura Stubblefield, Chair, MLGSCA Awards Committee
MLGSCA provides monetary assistance to members who wish to update an old skill, add new skills or develop leadership skills. The Awards Committee is proud to announce that we were able to provide two awards this spring, one to Andrea Lynch (Joint Meeting Classes) and one to Susan Shelly (“Health Literacy in the Real World: Programs and Solutions that Work” – Irvine May6-7). Thanks to all who submitted application! Our next Professional Development Award Application deadline is September 15, 2010.
Posted 5/4/10