Maryanne Blake

Arlene Bielefield

Brenda Pfannenstiel

Contacts

This workshop will provide an evaluation framework and the tools to develop and carry out an evaluation plan for a hospital library. Key concepts and tools covered include: assessment and data collection models, and evaluation plan models. With skills learned in this class, you'll enhance your ability to show how your library positively impacts your institution. The workshop is geared to the hospital librarian, but its concepts can be applied at any library. Lecture, class discussion and case study methods will be used.

Maryanne Blake, Education & Communication Coordinator, NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region, has taught "Measuring the Difference..." which is an evaluation workshop, and has contributed her experiences as Outreach Coordinator for the Regional Medical Library for ten years. Prior to coming to the NN/LM PNR, Maryanne was a hospital librarian at the VA Medical Center and Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, clinical librarian at George Washington University Hospital and the Himmelfarb Library of George Washington University Medical School and also at the Lombardi Cancer Center of Georgetown University Medical School in Washington, DC.

Arlene Bielefield will be giving  a presentation of the basics of copyright law geared toward health science librarians.  Her topics include Fair Use, print and electronic resources, reserves, interlibrary loan, the Internet, and distance education requirements.

Case studies and question and answer opportunities will be used to illustrate the most important points of the law.

Arlene Bielefield is Chairperson of the Department of Information and Library Science at Southern Connecticut State University.  A member of the Committee on Legislation (COL) of the American Library Association, she chairs the COL Subcommittee on Intellectual Property.

Professor Bielefield is the author, with Lawrence Cheeseman, of a number of books for Neal-Schuman including two on copyright and  is presently finishing the manuscript on a new edition of a copyright book.  She has been a public library director twice as well as being the head of the Connecticut State Library Patron Services for 10 years.

Research for Beginners: Seven Steps to Success
Brenda Pfannenstiel, MALS, MA
Saturday, Sept. 17
8:00 a.m. - Noon
4 Contact Hours
Cost: $75
Class Limit: 20

Brenda Pfannenstiel has been a professional librarian for 25 years, and for the past seven years has managed the Kreamer Family Resource Center, a “one-person” pediatric consumer health library at Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2003, Ms. Pfannenstiel received the Barbara McDowell Award for Excellence in Hospital Librarianship. She has conducted a number of small library research projects which have been published or presented in poster sessions, in conference papers, on websites, and in peer-reviewed journals, including "Famous Persons" in MEDLINE: Examination of a Medical Subject Heading.

Developing a New Role for Librarians: Teaching the Publication Process
Carol Scherrer, MALS, AHIP
&
Ann Weller, MA, AHIP
Saturday Sept. 17
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
4 Contact Hours
Cost: $75
Class Limit: 20
Class full

Using a train-the-trainer model, this class will teach the publishing process to librarians, so that they may then teach it to health care professionals at their institutions. Participants will be introduced to the publication process by examining types of articles published, examples of quality journals, appropriate ways to prepare a manuscript, and legal and copyright issues. Changes to the publication process in the open access environment will be discussed.

Ann Weller is Professor and Curator of Special Collections, Library of the Health Sciences. She has been with the University of Illinois at Chicago since 1985 and held position of Deputy Director, Library of the Health Sciences (1988-2001). She is a distinguished member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals. Professor Weller's research has had two major focuses within the area of quality of information and access to it: investigation into the editorial peer review process as a function of scientific and scholarly communication, and investigation into the ways the electronic environment has altered research and publication. Her monograph, Editorial Peer Review: Its Strengths and Weaknesses (2001), is a unique systematic review of the studies that examine the editorial peer review process.

Carol Scherrer is the head of Information Services and Assistant Information Services Librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Carol is well versed in the quality of journals and the medical literature. She has co-taught surviving the peer review process several times a year with Ann Weller to a wide variety of patrons including graduate students, librarians and physicians.

Speaker Links: Carol Scherrer, Ann Weller

The Joint Commission Standards: Management of Information and Beyond
Susan Schweinsberg Long, MLS, AHIP
Tuesday, Sept. 20
8:00 a.m. - noon
4 Contact Hours
Cost: $75
Class Limit: 20

Take this class for an understanding of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) Standards for information management and their implications for hospitals and health care organizations. Participants will learn the key issues related to providing and managing knowledge-based information (KBI) to support the environment of care, quality and patient safety. The class highlights the Shared Vision - New Pathways initiative including the tracer survey process and the 2003 standards consolidation. Using scenarios, case studies and group discussion, participants will clarify the library's role in maintaining organizational JCAHO compliance.

Susan Schweinsberg Long has been Medical Library Director, Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle) since 2001. She has also managed the medical library in a large health care system and a rural Montana hospital. Her hospital went through an accreditation survey in October using the tracer methodology. Over the years, she has been through too many JCAHO surveys to count. She is a longtime member of MLA, Hospital Libraries Section, Pacific Northwest Chapter and the Academy of Health Information Professionals.

Understanding Healthcare Literature: A Primer for Working with Evidence-Based Medicine Principles
Ann McKibbon, PhD, MLS
Tuesday, Sept. 20
8:00 a.m. - Noon
4 Contact Hours
Cost: $75
Class Limit: 25
Class full

Ann McKibbon will give a half-day workshop that is designed to help librarians understand clinical research articles and how they are used to make health care decisions by clinicians. The workshop is a basic overview of evidence-based healthcare principles. It will be useful for beginners who want a broad perspective of published health care research and also for those librarians who have had experience working with clinical literature and want to hone their skills. The workshop includes substantial hands-on time.

Ann McKibbon has worked as a medical librarian since 1972 in academic and special libraries although most of her time was spent in the department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She worked on research projects related to information retrieval and evidence-based health care including evaluation of MEDLINE systems and the development and testing of the Clinical Queries in PubMed. She was responsible for all administrative aspects of ACP Journal Club, Evidence-Based Medicine, Evidence-Based Nursing and Evidence-Based Mental Health before she went to the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh for her PhD. She is studying if a physician's attitude towards risk and uncertainty affects how he or she uses information resources.

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