The Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association

The Health Science Librarians of Illinois

2004 Annual Conference

The Road to Collaboration

October 9-12, 2004

Springfield, Illinois

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October 6, 2004

Saturday - Oct 9, 2004

This course has been cancelled as of Oct. 1, 2004

Morning Course: Virtually Ready, Planning Sandy DeGroote/Mary Shultz 9:00 - 12:00

Morning Course: Strategic Planning - Karen Thornburg 8:00 - 12:00

Karen Thornburg is the owner of Thornburg Performance Consulting and the director of Meeting Solutions Associates. Karen holds a BA in Psychology and a Masters in Instructional Technology and has been working in the fields of training, facilitation, and organizational development for over 18 years.

Karen uses creativity, discovery and consensus-building tools to help her clients turn vision into reality. She has successfully facilitated many strategic planning, long range planning, team building, focus group and decision-making sessions. Through training and consultation, Karen assists a wide variety of organizations in industry, service, government and the not-for-profit sector to meet management, staff, and organizational development needs.

What is strategic planning? What is the secret to planning success? The Strategic Planning course will examine: what strategic planning is, the steps to make it work, and what it takes to help your library succeed.

If you want to move your library in a direction that is more positive and more successful, take this course. Instead of focusing on root causes of problems, we will show you the power and success that comes from Appreciative Inquiry: building on what works within your organization.

After attending this workshop, you will be able to:

Ø Define strategic planning

Ø Explain the foundation for planning

Ø List the steps involved in strategic planning

Ø Discuss the concept of Appreciative Inquiry: what it is and why it works

Ø Describe possible pitfalls and success strategies to help ensure your plan's success

4 MLA CE Credits

This course has been cancelled as of Oct. 1, 2004

Afternoon Course: Virtually Ready, Implementing and Training- Sandy DeGroote/MaryShultz 1:00 - 4:00

NLM System Update & LinkOut -- 1:00 - 4:30
Charniel McDaniels - University of Illinois at Chicago, Library of the Health Sciences

NLM System Update

This lecture course focuses upon changes made to NLM systems in the past year. Participants will be alerted to feature updates, including the establishment of Journal, MeSH, and PubMed Central databases in the Entrez system, the introduction of SERHOLD in LinkOut holdings and of the new email option in the Send To menu. Additionally, changes in Gateway, MEDLINEplus and the debut of the new NLM product, Tox Town will be covered. This session yields 1.5 MLA CE Credits.

Getting Started with LinkOut

LinkOut is a feature of PubMed that is designed to provide users with links from PubMed and other Entrez databases to a wide variety of relevant web-accessible online resources, including full-text publications, biological databases, consumer health information, research tools, and more. The goal is to facilitate access to relevant online resources beyond the Entrez system to extend, clarify, or supplement information found in the Entrez databases.

This class provides step-by-step direction on how to activate LinkOut for your library's print and electronic journal collections, so that your users are able to see your holdings and access full-text through the PubMed interface. Topics covered are registration for LinkOut, entering holdings, displaying your library's icon for "branding" purposes, and access to free full-text through LinkOut. This session yields 2 hours of MLA CE Credits.

Monday, Oct 11, 2004 3-5 pm

Evidence=More Than Medicine: EBP in Nursing, Allied Health and CAM Ann M. Combs, Chris Hooper-Lane

Ann Combs is the Coordinator of the Health Sciences Libraries’ Weston Clinical Library located in the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics. She is a member of the HSL instructional team, developing and participating in many types of instruction.

Chris Hooper-Lane is Instruction Coordinator for the Health Sciences Libraries at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He organizes and participates in curriculum-based, program-related, and drop-in classes in Evidence-Based practice as well as other areas of interest and health-related databases.

The class begins with a review of the development and principles of EBP, types of resources used in searching, valid databases, and examples of the same. It continues with an introduction to the distinguishing elements of nursing, social work, physical therapy, and occupational therapy as they relate to EBP. Participants will enrich their understanding of the nature of these disciplines and clinical questions pertinent to them. We will share relevant databases, search terms, and research needs. We will discuss approaches to evidence and theories of knowledge that inform these health professions, using examples from the literature. Instructors will share resources that librarians can use to help allied health care professionals find, apply, and perhaps produce valid evidence to promote EBP. 2 MLA CE Credits

Tuesday, Oct 12, 2004

Grant Writing -- 8:00 - 12:00

Ruth Holst - University of Illinois at Chicago, Library of the Health Sciences
Learn basic tips and techniques for identifying funding sources and writing and organizing your grant proposal. This workshop will cover elements of successful grant proposals, donor research, and other important issues and will prepare attendees to apply for funding from the sources covered. 3.5 MLA CE Credits

Tuesday, Oct 12, 2004

The Visible Librarian -- 8:00 - 12:00

Judith Siess - Judith Siess is a recognized expert in one-person librarianship and interpersonal networking. She spent nearly all of her library career in solo libraries in industries as diverse as industrial process automation, aerospace, agricultural economics, and biotechnology. Judith is the author of four books and has written several articles.

"THE VISIBLE LIBRARIAN" is meant as a guide to help solos make themselves more visible both to upper management and to library users. Its part how to market your library and its services and part how to market yourself to the organization. If you're having trouble getting management and/or users to make use of your services or to take your seriously, this is the course for you. 4 MLA CE Credits