MIDLINE
No. 103 | Spring 2006
Newsletter of the Midwest Chapter / Medical Library Association

In This Issue

President's Message

Feature Article

Midwest Chapter News and Activities

What’s Happening: News and Announcements from around the Midwest Chapter

Eileen Stanley photo

President's Message

By Eileen H. Stanley, Midwest Chapter President
Allina Hospitals & Clinics, Minneapolis, MN
eileen.stanley@allina.com

Happy Spring to everyone. Recently, I submitted our annual report to MLA headquarters, a copy of which is posted on our chapter website at:

http://midwestmla.org/board/2006/
MidwestAnnualReport05-06.doc.

Highlights included our first Distinguished Librarian award, the chapter’s sponsorship of four lunches at the MLA Chapter Sharing Roundtables, the resounding success of our Fargo meeting in both content and revenue, new features on our website for promotions and government relations and other items. Please check it out and find out just how much goes on in our Chapter between annual meetings!

Your Midwest Chapter Executive Board met on March 3, here in Minneapolis this year. Sixteen members of the board were present and it was a very productive meeting. Our agenda included routine business, committee reports and some action items proposed by several committees. Because we are in the midst of rewriting the chapter’s bylaws it was a good opportunity to look at our committee structure, names, and composition.  As a result, several committees will be changing in one way or another. The Audit and Archives Committees will be eliminated in favor of having the president appoint an auditor and archivist each year. Because these committees routinely have only one individual doing the work, the change is logical. The Awards and Scholarships committee asked to change the name of our recently reconfigured Innovation Award to honor Jean Sayre, so this fall’s first presentation will be the winner of the Jean Williams Sayre Innovation Award. Our Finance Committee will now be composed of the current and past Treasurer and one other member who is a past president. A merger of the Publications and Technology committees is underway which was proposed because of their considerable co-dependencies. The new committee will be named the Communications Committee and will include all website functions and the use of all practical technologies to assist the chapter with communication among members and the board.

New business brought us the first official report from the 2007 Joint Meeting with the Midcontinental Chapter in Omaha Committee and the establishment of our 2008 committee for the meeting to be held in Michigan. We also got our first look at the bylaws draft and began to codify the above changes and wording that will be submitted to MLA headquarters for review this spring. 

Probably the biggest change that is in process is the conversion of our elected Representative-at-Large positions (9 of them!) to appointed positions and the formation of a State Liaisons Committee. With this change, one of the members of the committee will be named chair and will attend board meetings. The committee’s duties will be very similar to the current representative’s responsibilities but without the board meeting attendance obligation. And with the recent creation of a new Kentucky state health sciences library organization we’ll have partner organizations in each of our member states to help identify the committee appointees.

The board has been wrestling with the size and complexity of our governing group and bylaws for a couple of years. The result is that our board will be reduced from a maximum of 39 meeting attendees to 18 or so. The bylaws document will be reduced from more than 40 pages to about 10 and it will be in complete compliance with MLA Model Bylaws. After the draft bylaws have been approved by MLA, we will distribute them to the membership to review. At our general business meeting in Lexington in October, we’ll review the entire text and vote to ratify them. When these steps are complete, we’ll move to implementation by forming a transition team to complete a new Policies & Procedures manual and to create a new schedule of tasks and events to help convert elected positions, timing of appointments and submitting scheduled reports. As you can see, we’ve taken on a very large task and it is our primary goal for this year. I know with all the hard work of Melinda Orebaugh and Barb Bartkowiak and the current board members, we’ll have a successful ratification and transition so that next year’s board has smooth sailing!

Have a warm and pleasant summer,
Eileen

MLA CE Institute: Developing Web-Based Instruction

Submitted by Carol Scherrer, Midwest Chapter Member
Library of the Health Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
cscherre@uic.edu

Three librarians from the Midwest Chapter - Tammy Mays from the Greater Midwest Region, Carol Scherrer from University of Illinois, Chicago, and Linda Walton from Northwestern University - were fortunate enough to participate in the MLA CE Institute: Developing Web-Based Instruction sponsored by the Medical Library Association and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Greater Midwest Region (GMR) during the week of March 12-17, 2006 in Chicago. The purpose of the institute was for the participants to learn to apply instructional design principles and practices in order to convert traditional face-to-face continuing education classes into learner-centered online courses.

Four exuberant, knowledgeable, and personable instructors conducted the class: Mingsheng Dai, Scott Garrison, Alicia Haley, and Tiffany Hebb. The days were stimulating, but exhausting for those of us not used to sitting and learning for eight consecutive hours. The first day we concentrated on creating a good working environment for the adult learner with an emphasis on online teaching, learning, and instruction design – an important foundation for designing effective classes.
The second day took a more practical approach with its emphasis on student learning outcomes and creating good assignments. By day three, everyone was becoming more familiar with the course shell they would be using (moodle, Blackboard, etc.) and beginning to create content. The subject matter of day four, evaluation tools, was interspersed with lab time during which we worked on our individual courses. Sharing the classes we had begun to create was the highlight of day five when we each learned from observing the individual ways we had incorporated what we had learned into our class.

All the participants have agreed to have their classes completed within six months of the Institute, so keep your eye out for these new online MLA CE courses:

For more information on the MLA CE Institute and a photo of the course participants visit the website: http://www.mlanet.org/education/institute/.

Renew Your Membership for 2006!

Submitted by Bette Sydelko, Midwest Chapter Membership Secretary
Fordham Health Sciences Library, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
bette.sydelko@wright.edu

The Midwest Chapter membership database tells a sad story today. It says there are over fifty people who were members in 2005 who have not yet renewed for 2006. If you are one of these, please read on.

You still have time to renew your membership for 2006! Renewal forms were mailed out in January and April.  If you did not receive one, you can renew by using the electronic form (http://midwestmla.org/membership/) on the Midwest Chapter website. Dues are $20 per year and the membership year for the chapter runs from January through December.

Renewing NOW means you will be able to register for the 2006 Annual Conference in Louisville at the membership rate! If you are unsure whether you have renewed or not, please contact Bette Sydelko before you do, so as to avoid joining twice in one year!

Please help spread the word about membership in the Midwest Chapter. Know any new medical librarians? Encourage them to take advantage of membership in our organization and reap the benefits of networking, listserv access, and continuing education courses.

Midwest Chapter, Executive Board
Spring 2006 Meeting Highlights

Submitted by Deborah Lauseng, Midwest Chapter Secretary
Taubman Medical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
dlauseng@umich.edu

The Midwest Chapter Executive Board held their spring meeting on March 3 in Minneapolis, MN. The meeting opened with introductions by the 16 board members and one guest.

New Award: Within the Awards Committee report, discussion time was given to naming the health information innovation award, an award established by the board in 2005. The decision was to honor Jean Sayre by naming it the Jean Williams Sayre Innovation Award.  The $500 award is to “honor individuals, groups, or libraries that have displayed creativity and/or problem solving skills that have resulted in innovative methods, projects, products, organizational enhancements, or publications in the field of health information management.”

Membership: Bette Sydelko reported that our membership numbers include five new student memberships and 13 new members thus far for 2006.

Representatives-at-Large: Winn Theirl’s report included mention of a newly formed statewide health sciences library council for Kentucky. Eileen Stanley will send a letter of congratulations via Winn.

Committee Changes:

  1. The Education Committee will now be known as the Professional Practice Committee.
  2. The Technology Committee and the Publications Committee will be merged, becoming the Communications Committee.

Treasurer’s Report:

  1. There was an unexpected profit from the 2005 Annual Conference in Fargo, ND with over $11,000 coming to the chapter.  Donna Barbour-Talley shared that this was due to good planning by the Program Committee (Mary Markland, Chair), some unexpected reductions in conference-related fees, and contributions from vendors.
  2. The 2006 proposed budget was approved.

Program Committee Reports:

  1. The 2006 Annual Conference “Southern Exposure: A Different Point of View” planning is well under way with a call for papers and posters now available on the conference website. The program chairs are Laura Davison and Michel Atlas.
  2. The 2007 Program Chairs, Jim Lander and Chris Shaffer, announced that the Annual Conference theme will be “O’07: License to Learn, License to Lead.” This joint conference with the Midcontinental Chapter will be held in Des Moines, Iowa on October 12-16, 2007.
  3. The board received an official invitation to 2008 Midwest Chapter meeting in Michigan from the Program Chair, Ellen O’Donnell. The theme will be “Vital Signs.”

Bylaws Committee: During the process of discussing and acting on committee and officer reports, recommendations for changes in the bylaws were noted. The goal is to have a complete overhaul of the chapter’s bylaws completed for voting by the membership this fall. Melinda Orebaugh, Chair, explained that the proposed bylaws will closely follow the MLA model bylaws. Additionally Sheryl Stevens will be leading an effort to pull all the procedural information out of the current bylaws and creating a separate procedural manual. Changes made during the board meeting will be incorporated into the working document and sent to MLA for their approval. MLA review and approval will take 4-6 weeks. Once returned, the proposed bylaws will be made available to the full Midwest Chapter membership for review prior to a final vote at the 2006 Annual Conference.

New Website!
2006 Annual Conference

While Phoenix may be fabulous in the spring, Louisville is lovely in the fall. Come to the Midwest Chapter's annual meeting in Louisville, 7-11 October. Check out our NEW conference website for a taste of what's to come: http://library.louisville.edu/kornhauser/midwest/.

Call for Papers and Posters
2006 Annual Conference

The most important part of any meeting of medical librarians is the papers and posters presented by our professional colleagues. The Program Committee of the 2006 Annual Conference of the Midwest Chapter is excited to announce the call for papers and poster presentations for our meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, 7-11 October 2006.

We especially want to encourage new chapter members, those new to the profession or new to medical librarianship, to submit their work. Library school students with an interest in pursuing careers in medical librarianship are also encouraged to submit a proposal.

Presenting a paper or a poster at a professional meeting:

Presenting a paper or a poster at a chapter meeting is a good way to:

Presenting a paper or a poster at a Chapter meeting is good for first-time attendees because:

While our theme is Southern Exposure: A Different Point of View, papers on any topic relevant to the improvement of medical librarianship will be considered. Express your different point of view in a paper or poster presentation. Paper presentations should be prepared to last 20 minutes. Posters will be presented in the Exhibit Hall on Monday, October 9th.

Structured abstracts are welcome but not required. Including details and specifics about what you intend to present will improve the quality of your submission. Be clear; use good grammar. Please limit your submission to 250 words, not including title. Submit proposals using the form available on the conference website (http://library.louisville.edu/kornhauser/midwest/Proposal_form.html) to Michel Atlas at mcatlas@louisville.edu. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee. The submission deadline is 15 June. Notices of acceptance or rejection will be e-mailed on or about July 1

At the 2006 Annual Conference:
Visit America’s Top Fine Art and Design Show

Conferences aren’t just for work. That’s why we planned our meeting the same weekend as the St. James Court Art Show (http://www.stjamescourtartshow.com/) which, for the second year in a row, has been declared the number one fine art and design show by Sunshine Artist, America’s premier art show publication. Located in Old Louisville, one of the country’s largest Victorian neighborhoods, the St. James fair is a juried show featuring over 650 artists from throughout the Americas. Offerings range from the decorative arts, ceramics, sculpture, and painting to jewelry and textiles. Food and refreshments are plentiful; proceeds are used for restoration and beautification of the neighborhood to support local charities. since its origins in the 1950’s, the St. James art fair has grown and now draws hundreds of thousands of people who come from far and wide to enjoy the art and architecture, the crowds, and the fall colors. No tickets are required. A free shuttle service is available from a downtown pick up point just two blocks from the conference hotel.

“Why I Deserve a Free Lunch” Winners

Submitted by Elaine Skopelja, Chair, Midwest Chapter Awards and Scholarships Committee
Ruth Lilly Library, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
eskopelj@iupui.edu

The Midwest Chapter Awards & Scholarships Committee announces the two winners of the “Why I Deserve a Free Lunch Award.”:

Ann Combs attended the Grey Literature Sharing Roundtable. She is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Jaime Blanck attended the Management and Leadership Sharing Roundtable. She is a new librarian from Michigan State University.

The lucky two will be reimbursed for attending Sharing Roundtables at the MLA Annual Meeting in Phoenix. Thanks to everyone who applied!

2006 Chapter Awards
Call for Nominees

Submitted by Elaine Skopelja, Chair, Midwest Chapter Awards and Scholarships Committee
Ruth Lilly Library, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
eskopelj@iupui.edu

Distinguished Librarian of the Year Award

Is there a deserving Chapter member in your state who has devoted time and effort to improving libraries and librarians? Is there an unsung hero/heroine in your area who is always there for colleagues when needed? Is there someone who works on (seemingly) every committee, consistently contributes to planning sessions or task forces, or is an invaluable source of information? Then nominate them for this important award.

Many of you were present when the first annual Distinguished Librarian of the Year Award was presented to Chris Shaffer at the Midwest Chapter 2005 Annual Conference in Fargo. In 2006, this honor will be presented during the annual conference in Louisville to a chapter member who has displayed exceptional leadership, collaborative skills, advocacy, organizational abilities, work ethic, or mentoring within our region. An award of $500 will be awarded to the nominee who best represents these qualities as determined by the Midwest Chapter Awards and Scholarships Committee.

This is your chance to make sure that one of your valued colleagues is recognized!

Go to: http://midwestmla.org/awards/dloty.html for additional details and an application form. The deadline for applications is August 15, 2006.

Annual Conference Scholarship

Attention library students and new chapter members! This is your chance to win a scholarship to attend the 2006 Annual Conference of the Midwest Chapter in Louisville, Kentucky. Two $500 scholarships will be awarded to library students or recent graduates from ALA-accredited library schools who are Midwest Chapter members. The good news is that student memberships are FREE, so apply now at: http://midwestmla.org/membership/. New chapter members who have not attended a meeting are also eligible to apply. Midwest Chapter conferences are an excellent way to earn CE credits while learning from nationally known speakers and networking with medical librarians from around the Midwest.

The deadline for applications for the October 7-11, 2006 conference scholarships is August 8, 2006. Complete information and an application form are available at:
http://midwestmla.org/awards/schdes.html.

Jean Williams Sayre Innovation Award

The Midwest Chapter is pleased to announce the inaugural award of the Jean Williams Sayre Innovation Award. This honor will be presented to an individual, group, or institution that has displayed creativity and/or problem solving skills that have resulted in innovative methods, projects, products, organizational enhancements, or publications in the field of health information management. Does this cover a lot of possibilities? Yes it does, and we hope to locate within our membership the creative folks who could use this chance to share their efforts with us. So whether the candidates are an individual or a group, a big or small institution, a hospital, academic, or special library, nominate your talented colleague(s).

An award of $500 will be presented at the 2006 Annual Conference in Louisville to the nominee(s) who best express innovation in health information management as determined by the Midwest Chapter Awards and Scholarships Committee. You can find additional information and an application on the chapter website: http://midwestmla.org/awards/sayre-award.html. The deadline for applications is August 15, 2006.

New Member Profiles

Submitted by Mary K. Taylor, Midwest Chapter Member
Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
mtaylor@lib.siu.edu

Pansy Adams is the Library Technician in charge of the library at the Southeast Kentucky AHEC. She is solo at this time, and does computer searches, interlibrary loan, bookkeeping, cataloging, and acquisitions. Her home town is Hazard, KY.

Sandy Fetzer is the Education Manager at the Dr. Jack Craven Library, Mercy Medical Center, in her home town of Williston, ND. She coordinates employee and patient education. Sandy has an undergraduate degree in nursing from the University of North Dakota-Grand Forks.

Emily Guss is the Access & Technical Services Librarian at the Library of the Health Sciences, University of Illinois-Chicago. She supervises staff in circulation, interlibrary oan, stacks, and technical services. Emily has a degree in psychology from Rosary College (now Dominican University), and her MLS from the University of Michigan, where she concentrated on public and medical librarianship. Her professional interests include consumer health. Her home town is Chicago, IL, where she worked for 27 years at the Chicago Public Library before coming to the Library of the Health Sciences in August, 2004. She adds, “I am enjoying the new challenges of an academic and medical library environment.”

Julie Johansen is an Associate Regulatory Affairs Specialist for Medtronic, Inc., a medical device manufacturer. Her main responsibilities include submissions to the FDA for medical devices. Julie has an undergraduate degree in organizational leadership from Bethel University, and is working on her MLIS at the College of St. Catherine/Dominican University. She expects to graduate in December 2006. She is interested in consumer health, reference and research, and medical librarianship. Julie’s home town is Lino Lakes, MN. She enjoys reading, knitting, scrapbooking, and baseball.

Alison Kissling is a librarian at the Pratt Library, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital. She maintains databases, updates the Web site, and teaches users about some of the computer software programs that the library offers, including Endnote.  Alison adds, “I worked for 12 years in the Rubinstein Libraries which is also part of Cincinnati Childrens. I took two years off (to homeschool my daughter, which was a disaster and ended after 3 months!!) and then this job seemed like a nice opportunity to get back into the library world.” She is a 1993 of the University of Kentucky’s School of Library and Information Science, and has an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Cincinnati in her home town of Cincinnati, OH. She is married, and has two daughters, ages 12 and 14. Her interests include digital art, artist trading cards, and gardening.

Eleanor Lopez is the manager of the Health InfoSource Library, a medical and consumer library, at Holland Hospital in Holland, MI. She was raised in Houston, and moved to Michigan in 1967. She is president of the Western Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association. Eleanor is a member of the Holland Chamber of Commerce’s Business Connections Board, and is a board member for the Macatawa Resource Center.  The West Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce named her the 2005 Latina Business Person of the Year, and she received the 2005 Leadership of Excellence Award from the Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance.

Barbara Platts is the Manager for Library Services for Munson Healthcare in Traverse City, MI. She is responsible for the Health Sciences Library, the Community Health Library, the Digital Library, and the Hospital Archives. She also is responsible for system-wide support for 4 other libraries. Barbara serves on the Health Education Institute Steering Committee, and is an Advisory Board liaison for the health system. She has an undergraduate degree in business administration and marketing. Her professional interests include library administration and health literacy.

Sara Rezek is the Health Resource Center Supervisor at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, MN. Her professional interests include consumer health. Sara coordinates the operation of a consumer health library, including the provision of a welcoming and supportive environment for patients, family members and others seeking health and wellness information, developing and maintaining the collection, planning programs and educational events, evaluating materials and resource center services, and overseeing a satellite television and downlink system. She is graduating May 2006 from the College of St. Catherine with her MLS, and has an undergraduate degree in English from St. Cloud State University. Her home town is Worthington, MN. Sara enjoys traveling, running, knitting, and snowboarding.

Camille Richmond is a librarian at the Nursing and Allied Health Library of Madisonville Community College (MCC), Madisonville, KY. Her responsibilities include acquisitions, bibliographic instruction, and circulation for the Nursing and Allied Health Library, and catalog collection for Trover Library, the main campus library of MCC. Camille is interested in nursing and allied health information. She is a 1991 graduate of the Louisiana State University School of Library and Information Science. She also has a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Graphic Communications degree from the University of Houston.

Anne Riley is a librarian at the DJ Vincent Medical Library of Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, OH. She is responsible for cataloging and collection development of a collection that included medical, nursing, allied health, business, management, and patient education books. She also provides reference for physicians, residents, hospital staff, patients, and community members. Anne is a 2002 graduate of the Columbus, OH branch of Kent State University’s MLS program. She has an undergraduate degree in psychology with minor in biology from Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA. Anne is originally from New Ulm, MN, but has lived in Columbus for the last eleven years. She adds, “I also work part time at a local public library in their technical services department.  I worked there full time for 6 years in various capacities, and then dropped back to part time about 1 1/2 years ago in order to pursure a career in medical librarianship here at Riverside.”

Stephanie Schulte is the Reference & Information Services Librarian at the Walter E. Helmke Library at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW). She is the liaison to nursing, dental education, biology, chemistry, and consumer & family sciences. Her responsibilities include general reference, instruction, expert research consultation, and collection development. Stephanie also helps to staff the Science Information Center. She is especially interested in evidence-based nursing, including learning search strategies that meet nurses’ needs and helping faculty incorporate EBN into their curriculum.  Stephanie majored in biology and minored in chemistry as an undergraduate at Morehead State University. She spent ten years working in various positions in research labs at Proctor and Gamble and Springborn Laboratories. She received her MLS from Kent State University in December 2005 after doing a practicum at IPFW focusing on EBN, and began her current position January 3, 2006. Stephanie and her husband, Joe, have three daughters, ages 9, 7, and almost 4. She enjoys scrapbooking, sewing, walking, jogging, shopping, and spending time with her daugthers.

Carolyn Warmann is the Director of the Wegner Health Science Information Center in Sioux Falls, SD. She did her undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Missouri. She states that she worked with Midwest Chapter/MLA member Mary Markland at Virginia Tech "eons ago," and Mary is the main reason that she joined the Chapter.

Carol Brinkman currently is the Director of the Laura Kersey Library of Engineering, Physical Science and Technology and a full professor with tenure at the University of Louisville. Her duties include overseeing the merger of the Kersey Library collection with the main library at the University. After taking a sabbatical next fall and spring (during which she will index the last 25 years of the Kentucky Library Association's journal, Kentucky Libraries), Carol will assume the new position of Outreach Librarian at Kornhauser Health Sciences Library. Carol worked as a hospital librarian for three years before receiving her MLS in 1980 from the University of Kentucky College of Library and Information Science. She is a Past-President of the Kentucky Library Association and is the current Secretary of the Southeastern Library Association. She states that she is an avid gardener, reader, and jigsaw puzzle worker, enjoys handcrafts (particularly crewel embroidery), and is a fan of University of Louisville and West Virginia University football and basketball. Carol is a former horsewoman and current dog owner of two mixed breed girls - Tally, a 7-year old Dalmatian mix and Ginger, a 2-year old Beagle/Golden Retriever mix

NCLIS Health Information Awards for Libraries

Submitted by Tammy Mays, Midwest Chapter Representative-at-Large
NN/LM Greater Midwest Region, Chicago IL
tmays@uic.edu

Congratulations to the ten libraries/organizations in the Greater Midwest Region who have been selected to receive the 2006 National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) Health Information Awards for Libraries. The awards are designed to encourage library programs that address one or more of the following: dietary choices; exercise; smoking cessation; alcohol and/or drug abuse prevention or cessation; immunizations and health screenings; and improved health literacy, that is, the ability to understand and make use of health information.

The winning libraries are:

Illinois: Project Healthy, Alliance Library System and partners
Indiana: Healthy Living, Whitewater Valley Community Library District
Iowa: Patients’ Library, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
Kentucky: Olive Hill Adult Learning Center/Library
Michigan: Taking Life in Stride, Plymouth District Library
Minnesota: Minnesota Prevention Resource Center
North Dakota: Library of the Health Sciences, University of North Dakota
Ohio: NetWellness, University of Cincinnati and partners
South Dakota: Health Connect of South Dakota
Wisconsin: John & Nettie Mooney Health Resource Center, Gundersen Lutheran Health System

For more information please view the press release from NCLIS: http://www.nclis.gov/news/pressrelease/pr2006/2006HealthAwardStateWinners-2006-05.pdf


MIDLINE is published in electronic format four times a year by the Midwest Chapter/Medical Library Association. The newsletter and archives are available at http://midwestmla.org/MIDLINE/. Statements and positions expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily represent the official positions of the chapter, the chapter board, or the editor. Contributions from all chapter members are welcomed and encouraged. Copy deadlines for coming issues are as follows:
IssueCopy DeadlinePosting Date
Summer 2006           July 15, 2006August 15, 2006
Fall 2006October 15, 2006                November 15, 2006               
Winter 2007January 15, 2007February 15, 2007
Spring 2007 April 15, 2007 May 15, 2007

Contributions may be edited for brevity, clarity, or conformance to style. The Medical Library Association Style Manual, available at http://mlanet.org/publications/style, provides guidelines for MIDLINE contributors. All copy should be submitted in electronic format to the editor, Clare Leibfarth (email: LEIBFARTH@exchange.oucom.ohiou.edu). Photos should be submitted as .jpeg files.

Mailing address changes should be reported to: Bette Sydelko, Membership Secretary, Midwest Chapter/MLA, Fordham Health Sciences Library, 125D Medical Sciences Bldg., Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435 (e-mail: bette.sydelko@wright.edu). 

The Midwest Chapter/Medical Library Association website is located at http://midwestmla.org.

Clare Leibfarth, Editor
Doctors Hospital of Stark County
400 Austin Avenue N.W.
Massillon, OH 44646