Contact Your House Member to Support the Federal Research Public Access Act
Posted on | May 3, 2010 | No Comments
By Mary White, Chair, MLGSCA Government Relations/By-Laws Committee
Background Information:
On April 15, 2010, Representatives Mike Doyle (D-PA), Henry Waxman (D-CA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Gregg Harper (R-MS), Rick Boucher (D-VA), and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) introduced H.R. 5037, “The Federal Research Public Access Act” (FRPAA). The language in H.R. 5037 is identical to S. 1373, introduced by Senators Cornyn (R-TX) and Lieberman (I-CT) last summer.
This legislation would require federal agencies with annual extramural research portfolios over $100 million to develop public access policies relating to research conducted by employees of that agency or from funds administered by that agency. H.R. 5037 builds upon and refines the work done by the NIH [through the NIH Public Access Policy] and requires that the Federal Government’s leading underwriters of research adopt meaningful public access policies.
Federal agencies impacted by this legislation include: Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and National Science Foundation.
JM2010: Survey Results
Posted on | April 30, 2010 | No Comments
By MLGSCA Joint Meeting Evaluation Co-Chairs, Molly Harrington, St. Joseph’s Hospital & Medical Center and Billie White, St. Joseph’s Hospital & Medical Center
The MLGSCA/NCNMLG Joint Meeting 2010 survey results are available online for all to see. Thank you to all who completed the survey. We are thrilled with both the quantity and quality of the responses! Your feedback and comments will do much to help us improve and enhance future conferences. The results of the survey are available via SurveyMonkey. Thank you to everyone who made the Joint Meeting in Glendale so successful.
Posted 4/30/10
The Louise Darling MLGSCA Achievement Award Recipient
Posted on | April 27, 2010 | No Comments
Congratulations to Deborah Klein on receiving the Louise Darling MLGSCA Achievement Award at our 2010 Spring Meeting. She has done so much for our profession and greatly deserves to be recognized. Deborah has worked at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center Medical Library for over 20 years and during that time she contributed her expertise on many MLGSCA committees (finance, benchmarking, nominating committee, treasurer, professional Issues, secretary, public relations, and PSRML RAC representative) and to the Inland Empire Medical Library Co-operative. She has been a member of MLGSCA since 1987 and Senior Member of AHIP since 1997. She is our current MLGSCA past president.Apply for MLGSCA Research Grant Funds
Posted on | April 25, 2010 | No Comments
By Debra Schneider, Scottsdale Healthcare
Got a research idea percolating? Apply for MLGSCA research grant funds now! MLGSCA’s Research Grant Application deadline has been extended to June 15th!
Do you have a research idea that you think might help your medical library and possibly be put in to use in other libraries? We want to hear from you!
Grant funding of up to $500 per project is available. Creative, traditional, or “out-of- the-box” thinking – all proposals are welcomed and the application process is easy! For additional details, visit the MLGSCA Research Grant Award and Application Information website or contact the Research Committee Chairperson, Craig Haynes (Chaynes@ucsd.edu) for details.
Posted 4/21/10
MLGSCA Benefit: SurveyMonkey Access
Posted on | April 23, 2010 | No Comments
One of the benefits of MLGSCA membership is access to SurveyMonkey, an online survey system. SurveyMonkey makes it easy to create surveys that you can use to learn about your library users and evaluate your library’s services.
This professional subscription through MLGSCA allows for:
- An unlimited number of questions and responses
- Branding your survey with your own institution’s logo
- Create your survey in any language
- Randomized answers
- Generating popup invitations off your own library or institution’s website
- Downloading and sharing your results with others.
Those are just a few of the great features of MLGSCA’s subscription to SurveyMonkey!
For guidelines and log-in information, contact Andrea Harrow at Library@GoodSam.org.
Posted 4/23/10
MLA 2010: Colleague Connection
Posted on | April 21, 2010 | No Comments
By Heidi Schroeder, MLIS, Michigan State University Libraries
Colleague Connection is MLA’s mentoring program that pairs newer members or first-time meeting attendees with returning, more experienced members during the annual meeting. The purpose of Colleague Connection is to introduce new attendees to the association and help them get the most out of the MLA annual meeting. Initial contacts made through Colleague Connection can lead to lifelong friendships with your peers and increase your professional network.
Don’t be left out – sign up as a mentee or mentor today. Those who sign up by Friday, May 14th will be guaranteed to receive their mentor or mentee before leaving for the meeting. Once assigned, each pair of colleagues will be responsible to work out times to meet and connect.
Call for Nominations for MLA Offices
Posted on | April 20, 2010 | No Comments
By Mary L. Ryan, AHIP, FMLA on behalf of MLA 2010 Nominating Committee
The MLA Nominating Committee members are ready to begin identifying potential candidates for the election, and they would appreciate receiving recommendations from MLA members. If you would like to recommend someone to be nominated for President or for the Board, or would like to be considered for one of the positions, please send his or her curriculum vitae and a paragraph outlining why the person recommended would be a good candidate to one of the members of the Nominating Committee, as listed below, by May 5th.
The process for selecting candidates and electing the MLA President Elect and members of the Board for 2011/12-2013/14 is described on pages 2-3 of the MLA Bylaws. The 2010 Nominating Committee members, who were elected by the membership late last year, have reviewed the job descriptions for President Elect/President/Past President and Board members, and are currently discussing attributes needed for candidates, including knowledge and experience in association activities, ability to envision what needs to be done and to implement plans to accomplish both short and long-term goals, good oral and written communication skills, etc. They have also discussed the importance of diversity in selecting the slate – age, personalities, geographic region, interests, gender, and library type.
Job Opportunity: Library Manager, Burlew Medical Library
Posted on | April 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
By Julie L. Smith, MLS, AHIP, St. Joseph Hospital
It is with both excitement and trepidation that I make the bittersweet announcement that I am retiring after 31 years at Burlew Medical Library. The good news is: the Library Manager position is being changed from a part-time to a full time position. Please visit Burlew Medical Library for a link to the job posting and resume instructions.
To all my colleagues in MLGSCA, you have all been a tremendous source of support, inspiration and knowledge. I am indeed proud to be a medical librarian and have enjoyed my journey tremendously. My husband and I look forward to much more travel, family time, ballroom dancing, reading (of course) and volunteer efforts centered around the National Bone Marrow Courier program and literacy training.
We look forward to your job applications. Ideally, we would like to have the new Manager hired in June 2010 so that I can participate in a month’s worth of training and orientation.
Posted 4/19/10
Job Opportunity: USC Norris Medical Library
Posted on | April 19, 2010 | No Comments
The University of Southern California (USC) Norris Medical Library seeks an energetic, innovative, service-oriented individual for an Information Specialist position in the Education and Research Services section. The Norris Medical Library is an academic research library serving the Schools and Departments of Medicine, Pharmacy, Occupational and Physical Therapy. The library has a strong emphasis on providing access to a wide variety of electronic information resources, and educating faculty, students, and staff through seminars on Internet resources, presentation software, database searching, evidence-based health care, personal digital assistants, and bibliographic management. The library contains 176,000 volumes and receives 500 current print journals and 2,568 current electronic journals. Users include medical, pharmacy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy students, graduate students in the biomedical and biological sciences, 1,260 full-time faculty, and a large number of other health professionals. The library staff of 38.5 FTE includes 13 librarians/professionals. For additional information, see the library’s website.
Send resume or direct inquiries to: Daniel Grande,dgrande@usc.edu
MLGSCA Officers for 2010-11
Posted on | April 15, 2010 | No Comments
By Deborah Klein on behalf of Nominating Committee
The election results are in! The MLGSCA Officers for 2010-11 are:
President-Elect: Becky Birr
Secretary: Emily Brennan
Nominating Committee: Carol Ann Attwood and Brooke Billman
Our other officers for 2010-11 were elected last year for two-year terms. They are:
Incoming President: Eileen Wakiji
Treasurer: Molly Harrington
Nominating Committee members: Laura Brown and Kathleen Carlson
Also, per the Bylaws, the Advisory Council has chosen Mike Kronenfeld as the MLGSCA nominee for the MLA Nominating Committee.
MLGSCA Spring CE: Register by April 16!
Posted on | April 14, 2010 | No Comments
The MLGSCA Spring Continuing Education (CE) course, Library without Walls: Creating Web Portals for Online Services and Resources, is on Friday, April 23 from 10-12pm. Register by Friday, April 16!
The class instructor is Nital Sheridan, MLIS, AHIP, the Manager of the Ochsner Medical Library & Archives in New Orleans. She is also the author of Little White Lies: A Novel of Suspense.
The “Library Without Walls” course is designed to guide students through the process of developing a web portal for online services and resources. The goal of the class is to show medical libraries how to bring their collection from within the traditional physical library walls to users’ desktops in this age of digital and online information.
Topics discussed will be: Basic overview of web portals; how web portals are used in the medical library; evaluating collection needs of a web portal; design and technical issues of creating a web portal; marketing and Training of newly created web portal; lessons learned web portal planning (class activity).
Award Winners: MLGSCA Scholarships for Students/Paraprofessional in HSLs
Posted on | March 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
By Laura Brown, Joan Godell, Jacque Doyle and Laura Stubblefield; MLGSCA Awards Committee
MLGSCA Awards Committee is proud to be able to support four scholarship awards to our up-and-coming medical librarians during their journey thru library school. This year we added a new scholarship for paraprofessionals! The winner of the new MLGSCA Scholarship for Paraprofessionals in Health Sciences Libraries is Sondhaya “Sunny” Sritongsook. The winners of the MLGSCA Student Scholarship awards are Meredith Bloom, Stephen Kiyoi and Heather R. MacDonald.
Sondhaya “Sunny” Sritongsook is our first recipient of the “MLGSCA Scholarship for Paraprofessionals in Health Sciences Libraries”. She is currently enrolled at San Jose State University and hopes to graduate May 2011. She works in San Diego for Scripps Mercy Hospital Medical Library as a Library Technician. At work she contributes to helping fellow citizens, takes comfort in knowing that she’s made someone’s life a little bit easier, and uplifted by the idea that the services she provides is promoting better health for someone. She stated that this field unites her passion for the health sciences, is a nurturing environment for life long learning, and has a great dedication to public service. One of her reference letters stated “Sunny represents the future of our profession…a technically-skilled, service-oriented individual with energy, enthusiasm and a solid work ethic”. She is motivated to make her own contribution to the medical library profession and has joined CLA, ALA, SERRA, and student member of MLGSCA.