MIDLINE
No. 97 | Fall 2004 Newsletter of the Midwest Chapter / Medical Library Association
In this issue President's Message Midwest Chapter News and Activities Election Results Board Meeting Highlights Treasurer's Report 2005 Annual Conference New Member Profiles Career Development AHIP Mentors Leadership and Management Section What’s Happening: News and Announcements from around the Midwest Chapter HealthWeb Anniversary MLA Research Award Consumer Health Classes Professional Development Grant MIDLINE Publication Information	President's message                                                    By Melinda Orebaugh, Midwest Chapter President Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, La Crosse, WI mgorebau@gundluth.org Greetings Midwest Chapter Colleagues! My year of service to you as your president has simply flown by!  In this, my last communication to you as your president, I wish to express my gratitude to the members of our organization. The Midwest Chapter’s annual meeting in Springfield, Illinois, this October was a fabulous event!  I extend my personal appreciation and gratitude to Karen Douglas, Virginia Gale, the 2004 Conference Planning Committee, and the Health Science Librarians of Illinois for being our gracious hosts.  On behalf of the Midwest Chapter membership, a hearty thank you to the crew that planned our adventure down Route 66, along “The Road to Collaboration” to Springfield.  Many highlights of our time together will be outlined in this issue of MIDLINE. It is not too early to begin planning our “Routes to Discovery” in Fargo, North Dakota, September 16-20, 2005.  I extend a special thank you to our North Dakota colleagues for hosting what promises to be a fantastic annual meeting.  The 2005 Conference Planning Committee strongly urges you to make your reservations at the Holiday Inn, Fargo early...as in as soon as you read this newsletter! According to conference planning coordinators, Mary Markland and Judy Rieke, hotel rooms in Fargo are at a premium in September.  I have already made reservations and encourage you to do the same! Visit http://midwestmla.org/2005conference/hotel.html to find out the details. The Midwest Chapter Executive Board is a wonderful group of people that represent you and your interests as health sciences librarians.  They are caring individuals dedicated to their profession, their constituents, and to ensuring the future of health sciences librarianship.  I thank the board members for their collective sense of adventure and fun as we re-engineered many of our chapter business functions for alignment with current, best practice business models.  Our chapter is especially fortunate to possess excellent leaders; I am very fortunate, as your president, to follow Kellie Kaneshiro, immediate past president, and to precede Sheryl Stevens, incoming president, and Eileen Stanley, president-elect.  I have worked closely with these exceptional women on your behalf and can assure you that the Midwest Chapter is in very good hands!  You, as members of our chapter and our profession, will benefit from their leadership.  Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to serve as your president.  It has been my pleasure to represent you at state and area health sciences library meetings throughout the Midwest and at the Medical Library Association annual meeting.  I am very proud to be a fifteen year member of the Midwest Chapter and to have served on the board in several different capacities.  I am a firm believer that the more one contributes to an organization, the more one benefits.  The benefits that I have reaped from my membership in the Midwest Chapter certainly outweigh the cost of my annual dues or the minimal time and effort that I have contributed.  The opportunities to learn from and to share with you are invaluable to me.  To count you among my colleagues and to consider many of you my very dear friends is priceless. With warmest regards, Melinda

Meet the New 2005 Executive Board Members!

By Nancy O'Brien, Chair, Midwest Chapter Nominations and Elections Committee
Health Sciences Library, Iowa Health-Des Moines, Des Moines, IA
obrienna@ihs.org

The Nominations and Elections Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the 2004 election:

President-Elect: Eileen Stanley
Membership Secretary: Bette Sydelko
Representatives-at-Large: Rick Brewer, Ed Holtum, Tammy Mays, Erika Sevetson, and Mary Taylor.

The election was very close and the committee congratulates and thanks everyone who graciously offered to serve on the Midwest Chapter Board. Committee members include Nancy O'Brien, chair; Susan Hill, and Elaine Skopelja.

 The 2005 potential candidates for membership on the MLA Nominating Committee were elected by the Midwest Chapter Board at the fall meeting: Pat Redman, Candidate and Carol Scherrer, Alternate.

Fall 2004 Executive Board Meeting Highlights

Members of the 2004 Midwest Chapter Board

The fall meeting of the Midwest Chapter Executive Board was held October 8, 2004 at the Renaissance Hotel in Springfield, Illinois.

President’s Report: Melinda Orebaugh reported on her attendance at the following state health sciences library associations:  Minnesota, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Illinois.  She discovered that there are people in our chapter who do not understand that we are affiliated with MLA and that more communication is necessary to correct these misconceptions.   An informal survey Melinda conducted indicated that networking and educational opportunities are the most valued benefits people perceive from chapter membership.

MLA Chapter Council Update: Pam Rees described the role of the chapter liaison, who serves as the link between the Chapter membership and MLA.

Annual Meetings Committee: Donna Barbour-Talley announced the upcoming annual meetings:

Oct 6-10, 2006 Louisville, Kentucky
2007 Joint meeting with the Midcontinental Chapter in Omaha, Nebraska

Awards & Scholarships Committee: Gerald Dujsik reported that there were four applicants for two Annual Meeting Scholarships this year. Awards were given to Rebecca Chapman and Rebecca Tremaglio. (Editor's note: see their conference reports below.)

Membership Committee: Bette Sydelko noted that the Spring 2004 issue of MIDLINE included a graph of membership trends by state since 2000.  The chapter currently has 421 members, 87.2% of whom are also MLA members, and 27.4 % of whom are AHIP members. Membership increased by 24 members over last year. A new, color membership brochure is being developed. Work on developing a membership database for the website is ongoing. 

Government Relations: Julie Schneider was asked to prepare a letter on behalf of the Midwest Chapter members to Dr. Elias Zerhouni in support for the NIH proposal to enhance public access to health research information consistent with the Medical Library Association position. 

Nominations & Elections Committee: Nancy O’Brien reported the results of most recent election. 

Chapter Goals & Objectives: Incoming president Sheryl Stevens will carry forward the 2004 goals and objectives into her term:

1) Advocate our value.
2) Build our community.
3) Encourage life-long learning.
4) Create a professional knowledge base.
5) Embrace global networks.

By Chris Shaffer, Midwest Chapter Treasurer
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
chris-shaffer@uiowa.edu

The Meeting Finances Task Force met at the annual conference in Springfield.  Its report will soon be submitted to the Board for approval. Chapter assets are $42,082.87 as of October 15, 2004. The budget, financial statement, ledger, accounts and reports are available on the chapter website at http://midwestmla.org/business/treasurer/.

Annual Conference Report: 2004 Scholarship Winners

By Rebecca Chapman, Outreach/Education Librarian
Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL
rchapm1@midwestern.edu

Energized and Exhausted… 

Springfield, Illinois is a diverse and interesting town. During the Midwest Chapter conference, it managed to be quiet as well as thriving. Springfield was quiet due to the holiday weekend, where many shops and businesses were closed. On the other hand, it was also thriving due to the Midwest Chapter conference—a place sparking new ideas, networking and collaboration among its participants.

Saturday night, the president’s reception allowed librarians to mingle and discuss such things as their personal lives as well as discuss professional issues. I was certainly involved in catching up with known colleagues and meeting new ones. But this was only the beginning, as Saturday was relatively quiet compared with the Sunday and Monday events. 

Sunday began with breakfast and sunrise seminars from different vendors. Following was Faith Robert’s keynote, “From Wedding Rings to Nose Rings: Generational Differences at Work.” This energizing speech entertained the room as well as sparked discussion and comments of participants throughout the rest of the conference. (“As a Baby Boomer, let’s all work together…” and “You know we Gen X’ers don’t like to work in groups.”) The rest of Sunday was filled with the vendor fair, contributed papers, the business lunch, concurrent sessions, poster sessions, and the exhibitors’ reception and it ended with Ann Seidl’s “The Hollywood Librarian” at the conference reception.

Monday continued with James Neal’s “The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and the Information Policy Agenda,” which was filled with ideas on how libraries can work together against issues born of relatively recent legislation. The conference continued throughout the day with the technology forum, a greatly enjoyed GMR/NLM update luncheon, the collaboration panel and the CE course “Evidence=More Than Medicine:  Evidence Based Practice (EBP) in Nursing, Allied Health and Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM).” The day’s schedule ended with updates, meetings for special groups and a book signing. 

Springfield, as well as the conference, provided a nice diversity for the participants.  Having CE courses both before and after the conference gave flexibility to the conference attendees, which was greatly appreciated.  With such topics as grant writing, strategic planning, visible librarians and PubMed, one would only need to close his/her eyes and point to another idea in how to help his/her library grow. 

Thank you all for the opportunity to attend the 2004 Midwest Chapter/MLA Conference; it was informative and educational.  Especially invigorating to me was Dr. Fant’s discussion of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and their impact on his students.  I also enjoyed learning from Ann Combs and Chris Hooper-Lane about their approaches to relating Evidence Based Practices with different health professions.  The diverse ideas presented will challenge me in the future in my own library as well as in collaborative projects.  (Yes, group projects even for a ‘Gen X-er.’)

Conference Highlights...

By Rebecca Tremaglio, School of Information
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
trebecca@umich.edu

As a current student in the Master’s Program in Information Science at the University of Michigan, I was thrilled to find out that I was one of this year’s conference scholarship recipients. One thing that quite impressed me about the conference was the breadth of material that was presented given the short amount of time in which the conference took place. Some highlights for me included:

Generational Differences at Work / Faith Roberts: It was very enlightening to hear about the major formative events in the lives of my colleagues, both younger and older. I hope to be able to use what I learned to inform my own view of a conflict from the perspective of someone of a generation different from my own to make better decisions about conflict resolution.

Sunday’s Concurrent Sessions: I attended the session on professional development and as a current student, I found it very helpful for someone at the beginning of their career. It helped point out ways that I could take my own professional development in hand from the start, and showed me some of the trends in professional competencies that could be important for me to continue to master going forward.

The Hollywood Librarian / Ann Seidl: Her presentation was about the way librarians have been portrayed on film in Hollywood. Of course, everyone found this session fun and entertaining, but I was particularly happy to see that one of my personal favorite movies, Party Girl, will finally be given its proper due recognition in Ann’s film.

Keynote Address / James Neal: Intellectual property, privacy and the control of creative content are areas in which I have a strong professional interest, so I was heartened to see all of the opportunities librarians have to play important roles in how our country navigates these issues in the coming years.

It was also beneficial to be present for the paper presentation of the usability project that I collaborated on with others at the University of Michigan’s Taubman Medical Library and Hospital System this year. In general, it was very exciting to see the issues, concepts and practices that we read about and discuss in class every day actually come to life in the work of hard-working, dedicated professionals. Overall, I feel I learned a lot from attending the conference and the experience has given me new insights into the professional lives of medical and health science librarians and the abundant possibilities of a career in this specialty. Thank you for the opportunity, Midwest Chapter/MLA.

"Routes To Discovery" 2005 Annual Conference in Fargo

By Lila Pedersen, 2005 Annual Conference Program Planning Committee Member
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
lpederse@medicine.nodak.edu

Those who attended the annual conference in Springfield, Illinois should be recovered and looking forward to the 2005 conference. Springfield was a terrific meeting, and the 2005 conference planners are certain to make Fargo, North Dakota memorable in many ways.

For the first time in the history of the chapter, the annual meeting will be held in North Dakota. And North Dakota is the only state in our nine-state chapter that has not yet hosted a chapter conference. So we are determined to make it outstanding!

The social highlight will be a special showing in the historic Fargo Theater of the movie Fargo, starring the real Marge. (Springfield meeting attendees were treated to a warm invitation to Fargo by Marge’s stand-in, Mary Markland.) The working program will offer speakers and continuing education that will appeal to a wide audience. Some of the planned speakers are keynote speaker Dr. Monica Mayer, an American Indian physician from New Town, North Dakota, who will describe the medicines that Lewis and Clark took with them on their journey west; Joe Janes, a pacesetter in virtual reference and other innovative reference services; Ann McKibbon, a library leader in evidence-based health care; and Dr. Mary Wakefield, a national spokesperson in rural health, who will speak on medical errors and patient safety.

The conference theme is “Routes to Discovery” in honor of the Lewis and Clark exploration of the west 200 years ago. The conference website is up, at http://midwestmla.org/2005conference/. Three pages besides the home page are active so far: Hotel, Events, and Fargo/ND Tourism. Notice that the conference logo on each page is clickable and links to the state’s Lewis and Clark site. Notice also that some of the pictures on the Tourism page are clickable. Take time to explore them: Sacajawea links to the North Dakota tourism page, the Heritage Hjemkomst links to that museum’s site, and the Badlands photo links to Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Chapter member Karen Anderson is the photographer for most of the pictures on the Tourism page—including the live buffalo! We are a fearless bunch out west!

Watch for future MIDLINE articles and chapter electronic list announcements as plans develop. Mary Markland and Judy Rieke are the conference planning co-chairs. Karen Anderson is the webmaster for the conference.

New Member Profiles

By Mary K. Taylor, Midwest Chapter Member
Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
mtaylor@libsiu.edu 

Ryan Ayers is Manager, Library Services, St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers, Beech Grove, IN. Her main responsibilities as a solo librarian include research and collection development. She has a degree in English with a minor in paralegal studies from the University of Indianapolis. Ryan’s home town is Killeen, TX, “...although I have lived in Indiana so long it SHOULD be called home.”  Her interests include “my children (both grown and finally moved out); reading; my cats (a.k.a.‘The Boys’); knitting, cross stitch, crocheting, etc.”  She adds, “I have been at St. Francis for almost 7 years as a registered paralegal (lots of computer researching, so I am definitely transitioning and learning). I will not be full-time in the library until Nov. 1st, and I will be hitting the educational avenues quickly and hard. Any advice on what to learn first?”

Rebecca Chapman is Outreach/Education Librarian at Midwestern University Library, Downers Grove, IL. Her main responsibilities include educating students, building a continuing education program with medical students on rotations at affiliated hospitals, serving as a liaison to some university departments, reference assistance and coordination with library’s web page, and maintaining electronic journal access. She has many professional interests and is excited to learn more aspects of health science librarianship. Rebecca is a recent graduate (2004) of the Dominican University Library School, and has a bachelor of science degree in education from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her home town is Coal City, IL. She used to teach computers to elementary and middle school children. While working on her master’s degree, she worked full time for Northwestern University Medical School as an Accounting/Grants Assistant, and became interested in becoming a health sciences librarian. Rebecca’s hobbies include reading, playing tennis, and serving as a marching color guard flag instructor/performer.

Laurie Davidson is a Mayo Medical School Librarian in the Learning Resource Center for the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Libraries. She is a department head, and her responsibilities include reference, circulation services, collection development, database and electronic resources instruction, and development of programs/services. Her professional interests include evidence-based librarianship, informationists, and expert literature searching. Laurie has an undergraduate degree in psychology from Chatham College, a Masters of Education in rehabilitation counseling from Springfield College, and an MLIS from University of Pittsburgh. Her home town is Pittsburgh, PA.

Mary Hitchcock is Senior Library Services Assistant at the Ebling Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is responsible for serials claim and bindery. Mary is a 2001 graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Library and Information Studies. She has a Master of Arts in U.S. social history and an undergraduate degree in history from Minnesota State University, Mankato. Mary claims both St. Paul, MN, and Madison, WI as her home towns.  

Amy Melchiors is Community Resource Librarian and CME Coordinator at the Aurora Medical Center in Oshkosh, WI. This is a new library at a new hospital, so she is responsible for building the collection, training, research, and marketing the library to the staff and the community. Her professional interests include consumer health, patient education, and outreach. She has a B.S. degree (2002) in information resources and her MLIS (2003) from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This Neenah, WI native has previously taught many age groups in computer classes for Milwaukee Public Library and Gateway Country Stores. Amy also teaches undergraduate information science courses regularly as an adjunct instructor at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Cleo Pappas works at the Zitek Medical Library of La Grange Memorial Hospital, La Grange, IL, as a Reference Assistant II. Her responsibilities include all the day-to-day running of the library (reference, ILL, collection development, patron instruction, statistics, etc. -- except budget) and serving as a liaison to the hospital’s administration. Her professional interests include writing and patron instruction. Cleo is a  Provisional Member of AHIP. She received her MLIS from Dominican University in 1998. Her undergraduate work included voice, piano, and English literature. Cleo has a  B.Mus.Ed. from Northwestern University (voice and piano) and did additional work at Loyola University to earn a teaching certificate in language arts. She was raised in Springfield, IL and now lives in La Grange Park, IL. Her hobbies include reading (police procedurals, suspense, and politics), animals (bichon frise and mustache parrot), music (classical and country), movies (anything on celluloid), and she is learning how to quilt. She adds, “We are expecting our first grandchild any minute, and I am trying to finish it before the child's arrival. I am very excited to be a YiaYia (Greek for grandmother).” 

Julia Stumpf, a Champaign, IL native, is a 1998 graduate of the University of Illinois Library School. She has an undergraduate degree in history from Denison University. Her professional interests include consumer health, circuit librarianship, and outreach. Before her third child was born last year, she was a Circuit Librarian for the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Urbana site library. Her personal interests include reading, eating chocolate, and drinking coffee. 

Carol Thornton is a Reference & Education Librarian at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Library. Her main responsibilities include reference, teaching, and maintaining library web pages. Carol’s professional interests include web pages for libraries and web accessibility. A native of South Bend, IN, Carol received an undergraduate degree in biology and environmental studies from Manchester College. She worked as a medical technologist before receiving her M.L.I.S from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1987. Her interests include music and playing the piano. 

Lisa Wallis is an Assistant Information Services Librarian & Assistant Professor at the Library of the Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago. Her main responsibilities include reference and instruction, and she is liaison to the School of Public Health and the College of Medicine. She has both an undergraduate degree in psychology and a MLIS (January 2001) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also has a Master of Science in Public Health degree from UIUC, and is particularly interested in information needs in public health. Lisa’s home town is Sycamore, IL. Before starting this position on July 1 of this year, she worked for two years at San Francisco State University, and was involved in the Northern California and Nevada Medical Library Group as Electronic Resource Chair. She is expecting her first child this year and is looking forward to getting involved in the Midwest Chapter in the future. 

Vickie Woodcock is an administrator in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.  She is responsible for the administration of the Research Site for Educators in Chemistry, including paying stipends, administering research grants, and handling web manager duties. She is enrolled in the Dominican University/College of St. Catherine Library School, and will graduate in 2006. She is particularly interested in reference. She has undergraduate degrees in nursing and history, as well as a graduate degree in history, and has attended El Camino College, Torrance, CA, and Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX. Vickie’s home town is Wilmington, CA. She adds, “I have 2 boys, a 19 year old and a 16 year old. I also have 2 cats, one of which delights in eating books.”

Be an AHIP Mentor

By Linda Bunyan, Midwest Chapter Member
Summa Health System Library, Akron, OH
bunyan@summa-health.org

Here’s a deal – a fun and fulfilling professional activity that requires no heavy lifting, and qualifies you for AHIP points!

I learned about the need for more AHIP (Academy of Health Information Professionals) mentors when I recently received a telephone call from the Academy asking me to serve as a mentor for a provisional member in Illinois.  While I am delighted to be able to support a new professional in this manner, I was surprised that the Academy had no closer mentor to select. My new mentee is my fourth. My first one just graduated to Senior Membership, a second will achieve full membership in January, and the third has a couple years to go.

I have learned that there are two kinds of AHIP provisional members: the first, young, enthusiastic people just launching their health sciences information profession, eager to learn “what’s out there,” and the second, seasoned, enthusiastic people launching a second career in librarianship, eager to learn “what’s out there.” Either way, the AHIP mentor breathes the invigorating air of fresh professional energy.

A full listing of the responsibilities of an AHIP mentor and the online registration form, can be found at: http://www.mlanet.org/academy/mentor.html. In brief, agreeing to serve as a mentor requires only one contact per year with the provisional member. The mentor stays available for questions, assures that the mentee files a report with AHIP annually, helps the mentee set and meet professional goals, and advises the mentee in finding appropriate MLA-approved activities to meet membership requirements. Each year of serving as a mentor earns one AHIP point, and one may mentor up to 5 individuals. That one point represents a worthwhile investment in the future of medical librarianship. 

Please contact me if you need any further information; e-mail me or call me at 330-375-3081.

MLA Leadership and Management Section The Benefits of Membership

By Brian Bunnett, South Central Chapter Member
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
brian.bunnett@utsouthwestern.edu

Certain problems are common to all medical librarians: how to keep their skills current, finding a network of colleagues who can advise and support them, and figuring out a career plan that offers them opportunities for growth and advancement. Within the MLA there is a flourishing system of sections that makes these tasks easier.

I am a member of the Leadership and Management Section (LMS) and serve on that section’s membership committee. I am willing to admit that this affiliation has perhaps clouded my objectivity. And it’s not inconceivable that my partiality to the LMS has made me lose sight of the important work that I’m sure is conducted within the other 22 sections. However that may be, I think that you might find membership in the Leadership and Management Section to be especially appealing. Let me explain why.

The LMS allows its members to network with colleagues interested in leadership and management by promoting research and professional development activities. It accomplishes this goal through programs and symposia held at MLA annual meetings, through The Leading Edge – its excellent newsletter, through its listserv, and through social events and business meetings. A particularly valuable service provided by the LMS is its identification and remediation of leadership and management problems in medical libraries. A recent LMS survey, for example, found that the profession offered few training and educational opportunities for librarians wishing to become middle managers. In response to this finding, the LMS created a task force to determine how the section can help to fill this vacuum.

I mentioned at the outset that all librarians face the problem of figuring out a career plan that offers them opportunities for growth and advancement. Managerial and administrative positions are often exceedingly challenging and difficult. But they can also be fulfilling, rewarding, and stimulating in ways that other library positions are not. Those of you interested in such a career path will find that joining the MLA’s Leadership and Management Section will help you to realize your professional aspirations.

What's Happening? News and Announcements from around the Chapter

 

HealthWeb Celebrates Ten Years of Linking to Quality Health Information

HealthWeb, an award-winning internet resource for evaluated health information, is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year.  Located at http://healthweb.org, HealthWeb provides access to information and education resources selected by librarians for relevance and quality.

HealthWeb treated Midwest Chapter members to this birthday cake for dessert at the Business Meeting luncheon at the 2004 Annual Conference in Springfield. Congratulations HealthWeb!  

MLA Research Section Award Winner

Congratulations to Midwest Chapter member Mary Markland on her reception of the 2004 Research Award from the Medical Library Association Research Section (http://research.mlanet.org/awards04.html) for her project "The State of Eating Disorders Research Publications 1980-2000: An Empiric Analysis."

Check out the new NN/LM consumer health workshop materials from the NTCC!

Four new consumer health workshops including handouts, scripts and exercises are available through the National Training Center and Clearinghouse http://nnlm.gov/train/content.html#13. These courses were developed by Jo-Ann Benedetti. Medical Library Association CE is available if they are taught by a NN/LM Coordinator. The classes are intended for public librarians, but some of the materials are quite adaptable for other professions such as nursing and allied health. If you are interested in having one of these classes presented at your institution or if you would like tips for presenting them yourself, please contact Greater Midwest Region Consumer Health Coordinator Tammy Mays at tmays@uic.edu or 800-338-7657.

HLS/MLA Professional Development Grant

Hospital and clinical librarians: Are you seeking funding to attend a meeting, further your professional education or conduct research?  The HLS/MLA Professional Development Grant is intended to encourage participation in professional programs or to support reimbursement for expenses incurred in conducting scientific research; to aid librarians working in hospitals and other clinical care institutions in developing and acquiring knowledge and skills delineated in Platform for Change (MLA's Educational Policy Statement) and Using Scientific Evidence to Improve Information Practice (MLA's Research Policy Statement). The deadline for the next grant award is February 1, 2005.  Up to $800.00 is available to the recipient. Further information (including application forms and eligibility requirements) is available at http://mlanet.org/pdf/grants/hlsapp_2002_1112.pdf. For more information, please contact Lisa Fried (312) 419-9094, Ext. 28 or email at mlapd2@mlahq.org.

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:

Issue	Copy Deadline	Posting Date
Winter	January 15, 2005	February 15, 2005
Spring	April 15, 2005	May 15, 2005
Summer	July 15, 2005	August 15, 2005
Fall	October 15 , 2005	November 15, 2005

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.