MIDLINE

No. 99 | Spring 2005
Newsletter of the Midwest Chapter / Medical Library Association

In This Issue:


President's Message

Featured Article

MLA and Midwest Chapter News and Activities

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


President's Message
By Sheryl Stevens, Midwest Chapter President
Raymon H. Mulford Library, Medical University of Ohio, Toledo, OH
sstevens@meduohio.edu

Greetings Chapter colleagues:

Hope you all had a productive and enjoyable spring!  Highlights of mine included participating in a variety of chapter-related activities, starting with the Midwest Chapter’s 2005 Spring Board Meeting held March 18 in Chicago. A synopsis of the meeting’s highlights is included in this issue of MIDLINE, but I think that a couple of them are particularly noteworthy. One is the board’s approval of a new chapter award, Distinguished Librarian of the Year, to be announced and presented at the chapter’s annual meeting starting this fall. This long overdue award will recognize an individual chapter member who has demonstrated exceptional leadership, professionalism, and service to the chapter and/or a state health sciences library organization. I encourage you to start thinking about nominating a colleague, and if you’re a “veteran” chapter member like me, the hard part won’t be trying to come up with someone to nominate, it will be trying to narrow down the list! Note: The Awards and Scholarships Committee, chaired by Elaine Skopelja (Indiana University), did a tremendous job of developing the criteria for this new award and, in addition, re-working an existing one – previously the Award for Health Information Management, now the Midwest Chapter Innovation Award. The Innovation Award will be available as of 2006.

Another noteworthy action taken by the board at the Spring Meeting was the tentative approval of complimentary chapter memberships for students to support our recruitment and “outreach” goals. The general membership will be asked to officially approve this decision at the chapter’s 2005 annual business meeting.

Also significant: the Board decided to make a “fresh” start with the chapter bylaws. The combination of too much detail in some sections, not enough in others, and piecemeal revisions over the years has resulted in a less-than-ideal business document for the chapter at this point in time. The Bylaws Revision Task Force has thus been given the new and hopefully not too formidable charge of starting over using MLA’s model bylaws as a guide.

In April following the board meeting, I traveled to the beautiful campus of the University of Notre Dame to represent the Midwest Chapter at the annual meeting of the Indiana Health Sciences Librarians Association. Also during April, I compiled our chapter's annual report and submitted it to MLA, and helped to formulate a new chapter Task Force on Promoting Library Services. Task force members are charged with investigating creation of a clearinghouse at our Web site for library promotional and marketing materials. Kathy Skhal (University of Iowa) agreed to coordinate this project, and she’ll be working with five other enthusiastic volunteers: Ximena Chrisagis (Wright State University), Elizabeth Smigielski (University of Louisville), Katherine Chew (University of Minnesota), Rebecca Chapman (Midwestern University), and Denise Britigan (University of Cincinnati). Please stay tuned to the Chapter newsletter and listserv for additional information.  Note to hospital librarians: This Task Force needs you! Please consider volunteering to offer your talents and time to this worthwhile effort.

And, finally, last month at MLA ’05 in San Antonio, I attended the Chapter Council meeting and New Leaders’ Tea and served as recorder at one of the Chapter Sharing Roundtable sessions on open access and scholarly publishing. I was also pleased to learn that the paper abstract I submitted to the chapter’s 2005 Program Committee was accepted, so I’ll now have the opportunity to “actively” participate in our annual meeting this year in Fargo!

Until the next MIDLINE…

P.S. As of June 8, my institution officially changed names from Medical College of Ohio to Medical University of Ohio. As a result, I’ve got a new e-mail address – it’s noted above.


Board Meeting Highlights

By Theresa Arndt, Midwest Chapter Secretary
Taubman Medical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 
tarndt@umich.edu

The Midwest Chapter Executive Board met in Chicago on March 18, 2005. Draft minutes are available on the chapter website.  Highlights of actions and discussion items include: 


Treasurer's Report

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

Chapter assets are $41,047.71 as of June 9, 2005. The budget was approved at the Spring Board Meeting.  The budget, financial statement, ledger and accounts are available on the chapter website at http://midwestmla.org/business/treasurer/.


Routes to Discovery
2005 Annual Conference in Fargo

By Lila Pedersen, 2005 Annual Conference Publicity Chair
Library of the Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
lpederse@medicine.nodak.edu

March 30, 1805: “The obstickle [sic] broke away above & the ice came down in great quanties [sic] the river rose 13 inches the last 24 hours.” 

March 31, 1805: “The ice does not run so thick in the River as it did yesterday.” 

April 3, 1805: “We shall pack up to day and set out tomorrow.” 

April 7, 1805: "We are now about to penetrate a country at least two thousand miles in width, on which the foot of civillized [sic] man had never trodden.”

These words from 200 years ago were written in the journals of the Voyage of Discovery explorers on the Lewis and Clark expedition, as they were preparing to resume their journey up the Missouri River after spending the winter near Mandan, North Dakota. You can follow their journey by reading excerpts from their journals at: http://lewisandclarktrail.com/diary.htm.

Now that the ice has broken up on the Red River of the North, which runs through Fargo, we too are getting ready to lead you on Routes to Discovery in September, at the annual conference of the Midwest Chapter/MLA. The latest news is that the Fargo Holiday Inn is installing wireless Internet access in the guest rooms, and wireless access is already available in their public areas. Reserve your hotel room early. There is a lot going on over the weekend of the conference, so it may be difficult to find a room if you wait too long. The Holiday Inn numbers are: 877-282-2700 or 701-282-2700.

Here is a sample of the CE courses being offered at the conference in Fargo:

Prescription for Copyright: Know the Law!  Arlene Bielefield will teach this full-day course on the basics of copyright law. Her topics will 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 on copyright and related topics. Among them are Technology and Copyright Law (1999), Interpreting and Negotiating Licensing Agreements (1999), and Library Facilities and the Law (2002). She is presently finishing the manuscript of a new edition of a book on copyright.

Research for Beginners: Seven Steps to Success  In this half-day course taught by Brenda Pfannenstiel, participants will discuss why we don't do research, why we should, and how to get started by picking the research topic, the research design, and perhaps a research partner. Participants will address the topics of getting the resources and approvals to begin, finding and using research instruments, collecting and analyzing data, avoiding “project fatigue,” and publishing the results in an appropriate venue. Brenda Pfannenstiel manages the Kreamer Family Resource Center, a one-person pediatric consumer health library at Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2003, she 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.

Developing a New Role for Librarians: Teaching the Publication Process  This half-day course taught by Carol Scherrer and Ann Weller, related to Research for Beginners, uses a train-the-trainer model to 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, 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. Carol Scherrer is the Head of Information Services and Assistant Information Services Librarian at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is well versed in the quality of journals and the medical literature, and has written articles on measurement and evaluation and on the roles of reference librarians. Ann Weller is Professor and Curator of Special Collections, Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Illinois-Chicago. 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. Other books include From Print to Electronic: the Transformation of Scientific Communication (1996), and The Environment of Health Care and Biomedical Information (1994). She has also written many research articles on topics such as information-seeking behavior, editorial peer review, and information retrieval.

Registration is now open for the 2005 Midwest Chapter/MLA Annual Conference on the conference website at http://midwestmla.org/2005conference/. A new feature this year is the ONLINE registration option. Take advantage of this quick and simple method if you can. For those who prefer, or who cannot register online, there is a link to a PDF form you can fill out and mail in. Another new feature this year is an online PDF preliminary program. Please remember that the preliminary program will not be mailed. Not only will this save the organization a lot of money, it will allow information to be posted as conference plans develop. You will receive a printed final program at the conference. Consult the preliminary program at: http://midwestmla.org/2005conference/PrelimProgram-06-16.pdf

 


Scholarship Opportunity!
New Chapter Members and Library School Students

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

This is your chance to win a scholarship to attend the 2005 Annual Conference of the Midwest Chapter/MLA in Fargo, North Dakota. Two $500 scholarships will be awarded to library students or recent graduates of ALA-accredited library schools in the nine state chapter area. New chapter members who have not attended a meeting are also eligible. Chapter meetings are an excellent way to earn CE credits while learning from nationally known speakers and networking with medical librarians from around the midwest. Deadline for the 2005 conference scholarship is July 8, 2005. Complete information and an application form are available at: http://midwestmla.org/awards/schdes.html. 


Distinguished Librarian of the Year Award
Call for Nominees

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

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 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 this member for this important award. 

The first annual Distinguished Librarian of the Year Award will be presented at the Midwest Chapter 2005 Annual Conference in Fargo, South Dakota. This honor will be presented to a chapter member who has displayed exceptional leadership, collaborative skills, advocacy, organizational abilities, work ethic and/or mentoring within our region. An award of $500 will be awarded to the nominee who best represents these qualities as determined by the Awards and Scholarships Committee.

This is your chance to make sure that one of your valued chapter colleagues is recognized. Go to the chapter site at: http://midwestmla.org/awards/ to see more details and an application form. The deadline for applications is July 15, 2005. For questions please contact: Elaine Skopelja, Chair, Awards and Scholarships Committee, 317-274-8358.


MLA Award Winners

 

Four Midwest Chapter members were recognized for their achievements at the MLA Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, May 17, 2005. Jo Dorsch was honored with the Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award. Carolyn Papa and Paula Whannell were awarded EBSCO/MLA Annual Meeting Grants and Sharon Kambeitz received a Hospital Libraries Section/MLA Professional Development Grant. Congratulations!

 


President Joanne G. Marshall, AHIP, FMLA (left)
presenting the award to Paula Whannell

 


Free Lunches Awarded

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

After tabulating our very clever entries from fellow chapter members, two winners of the "Why I Deserve a Free Lunch Award" were chosen.  They were: Carol Jeuell of Brennemann Library, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago and Eileen Hansen of Mercy College Library, Des Moines, Iowa. Carol and Eileen attended the Chapter Sharing Roundtable Luncheon during the MLA '05 in San Antonio. Congratulations!


New Member Profiles

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

Tabitha L. Bilyeu is the director of the Sister Mary Linus Learning Resource Center at Saint Anthony College of Nursing and the Medical Library Director of OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center Medical Library in Rockford, IL. She “does a lot of everything” between the two libraries, including supervision, administration and budget, collection development, bibliographic instruction, grant writing, curriculum input, newsletter publication, research, reference, literature searching, and computer resource management. Tabitha received her M.L.S. in 2003 from the University of Illinois, and has a B.A. in history. She enjoys reading, gardening, and spending time with her husband and her dog. She adds, “I never thought that I would be a Director of one, let alone two libraries. However, the contact I have had with other librarians in Rockford has been amazing. Ellen Schellhause, who is the Director at the University of Illinois College of Medicine here in Rockford, has been a great mentor and friend.The support a librarian can receive in Illinois through the many organizations is incredible."

Jim Bothmer is the Director of the Health Sciences Library/Learning Resource Center at Creighton University. His main responsibility is administration. His professional interests include institutional repositories, scholarly communication, digital asset management, and library administration. Jim graduated from the University of Minnesota Library School and has a degree in history from Southwest Minnesota State University. He was born in Rice Lake, WI, and grew up in Sheldon, IA. He knows (and likes!) many Midwest Chapter/MLA members.

Elissa Cochran is Regional Medical Librarian for the Provena Covenant and Provena United Samaritans Medical Centers of Provena Convenant Central Illinois Region. She says she started her career at Provena Covenant in Urbana. The position became regional in December 2004 and she now manages both libraries. “Technology helps me to be in 2 places at once.” Elissa serves the research and informational needs of physicians, nurses, residents, and allied health professionals, and performs literature searches, collection development and maintenance, and library instruction. Her professional interests include medical and business librarianship. Elissa is a native of Chicago. She graduated from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science and has an undergraduate degree in French also from the University of Illinois at Urbana. Her personal interests include cooking, travel, music, and outdoor recreation and fishing.

Stephen Johnson is Distance Services & Outreach Librarian at Eblin Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is liaison to the UW Hospital and Clinics Department of Nursing, and is provides services to unaffiliated users and UW affiliates outside of Madison area. His professional interests include reference, consumer health, nursing, and academic/community partnerships. Stephen graduated from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro library school, and has an undergraduate degree in philosophy. He worked in North Carolina for Wake Forest University and the NC AHEC program, and then took the opportunity to relocate first to Minnesota at Mayo Clinic for a year, then to UW-Madison. He adds that “Having grown up in suburban Chicago, it's great to be back in the Midwest!” 

Susi Miller is the Library Director of Riverside Hospital’s D.J. Vincent Medical Library in her home town of Columbus, OH. Her main responsibilities include budgeting, planning, staffing, marketing, and reference. She is interested in nursing and medical research. Susi graduated in 2003 from the Kent State University School of Library & Information Science, and has undergraduate degrees in history and nursing from the College of Wooster and The Ohio State University. She enjoys spending time with her 13-month old daughter, Zoey.

Maryann Mlodzik is Information Services Librarian (and solo librarian) at the Health Resource Library at Cuyahoga Falls (OH) General Hospital, a small community hospital that is part of the Summa Health System. Her professional interests include the role of the librarian in evidence-based medicine, including clinical rounds and medical informatics. She also wants to expand her library to include consumer health materials. Maryann is a 2004 graduate of the Kent State School of Library & Information Science. She has a Bachelor of General Studies degree with an emphasis in social sciences from Kent State. Although her home town is Newbury, OH, she considers herself a native of northeast Ohio because she has lived in almost every county in that area. Maryann enjoys the outdoors and outdoor activities, including camping, kayaking, canoeing, biking, hiking, and gardening.  She also enjoys music, dancing, traveling, attending outdoor festivals, county fairs, going to open air markets, flea markets, and antique shops. She is the “proud mom” of a 23 year-old son, has a “beloved” 11 year-old dog that accompanies her on walks, and has four cats, two of which were rescue kittens. “The joke around the neighborhood is that all the strays find their way to my porch.”

Katherine (Kathy) Schilling is an Assistant Professor of Library & Information Science at the Indiana University School of Library & Information Science – Indianapolis. She specializes in health sciences libraries and library-based educational programming. She has an undergraduate degree in English and secondary education from Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA. She received her M.L.S. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1989. Kathy is a native of  New Kensington, PA. She adds, “We recently moved from Boston, where I worked for 10 years as an academic health sciences librarian at the Boston University Medical Center. We’re enjoying living in Indy.”

Kathryn Skhal is a Reference and Education Librarian at Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa. She provides reference and education services for patrons; provides reference services and consultations for faculty, staff and students for five health colleges, the University of Iowa Hospital and the public; and develops and provides course-integrated education and library classes. She is particularly interested in evidence-based practice and the role of technology in providing library education. Kathy has B.S. degrees in physical anthropology and in psychology from University of California-Davis. She received her M.L.I.S. from the University of Illinois in 2004. Her home town is Sacramento, CA. Before moving to Iowa, she worked for eight years at the Carlson Health Sciences Library, where she started shelving books, and then administered interlibrary loan for six years. She states that, "My new Shiba Inu puppy is my full-time hobby AND interest."


The Joys of Volunteering:
Doody's Core Titles in the Health Sciences

By Bette Sydelko, Midwest Chapter Membership Secretary
Fordham Health Sciences Library, Wright State University Dayton, OH 45435
bette.sydelko@wright.edu

Tales from a Survivor/Selector for the Inaugural Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences 

Oh my! I volunteered to be a librarian selector for the first rendition of Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences. What on earth was I thinking? How was it all going to work? Did I actually think there could possibly be a replacement for the Brandon-Hill lists? Was I going to have time to do the work involved? Did I know enough about the key books in any subject area to participate?

Then, oh my, again! I was selected! Now the questions and doubts about participating really registered in my brain. I am qualified, I reminded myself, or I certainly wouldn’t have volunteered in the first place. I felt honored to be chosen from among a large group of equally able volunteers. After being selected, I didn’t have to wait long for answers to all of the above questions. Doody’s actually made the job of selecting and scoring quite easy, straightforward, and totally electronic. They had already decided what the subject categories were to be and had chosen a content specialist and at most three librarians for each. Members of the Doody’s Library Board of Advisors provided guidance in the development of the process and in the criteria for scoring (and probably much more behind the scenes). 

Selectors had access to the complete Doody’s database as well as the most recent Brandon-Hill recommendations. Content specialists for every category submitted their suggestions as a starting point. Library selectors were then asked to look at those suggestions and add titles or discuss the titles with others in their group. Remember everything was done electronically! During the decision making process, communications were maintained between Doody’s, the content specialist and the librarians assigned. After two weeks for selecting, Doody’s then allowed for two weeks of scoring. Considering how long it must have taken Al Brandon and Dorothy Hill to do all that they did by themselves, the Doody’s staff created a very efficient process. It is a process that relies on the expertise of a large group of content specialists and subject librarians, making the end product, in my humble opinion, much more objective.

When all was said and done, would I volunteer again? You can bet I will. It was a tremendous opportunity to participate in the creation of a new and meaningful resource. I expect it will soon become established as the most authoritative list of core titles for the health sciences available. From day to day, as we make crucial collection development decisions, the availability of such a list will only become more valuable.


Changing the Face of Medicine Exhibit

Submitted by Tammy Mays, Midwest Chapter Member
NN/LM, Greater Midwest Region, Chicago, IL
tmays@uic.edu

Fifteen libraries in the Greater Midwest Region have been selected to host the touring exhibit, Changing the Face of Medicine. The libraries are:
 

The Public Programs office of the American Library Association, as a contractor for the Library, is coordinating this project including scheduling and shipping. Susan Brandehoff is the project manager for this exhibition, phone 312.280.5054 for more information. Because so many libraries submitted such strong proposals in response to the ALA's request for proposals to host this exhibition, the National Library of Medicine provided additional support for the project and in effect doubled the scope of the project to include 60 sites (the original scope was 30 sites). All selected libraries have been notified that they are to receive the exhibition. The American Library Association will be posting  a project website available from the ALA website: http://www.ala.org/ala/ppo/publicprograms.htm. Currently, The American Library Association is developing a tour schedule for the traveling version of Changing the Face of Medicine. The schedule isn't final, but it looks like the exhibition will launch late August/September 2005. The exhibition will be at each site for 6 weeks.


GMR Professional Development Award

Submitted by Ruth Holst, Midwest Chapter Member
NN/LM, Greater Midwest Region, Chicago, IL
rholst@uic.edu

The GMR has created a new award for professional development.  Targeted to network members who work in hospital and other smaller libraries, this award will provide up to $1000 to attend a course or participate in some other professional development activity. The Request for Proposal (RFP) is located at: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding/profdevaward.html. There is an online application form available; the link to this form is found in the RFP. We expect to be able to fund five awards within the next year. 


UIC Library Awarded
Access to Electronic Information Grant

By Jo Dorsch, Midwest Chapter Member
Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
jod@uic.edu

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria (LHS-P) has been awarded an NLM Access to Electronic Information grant through the Greater Midwest Region.  “Disseminating the Evidence Base in Public Health Nursing” (EBPHN) is a collaborative effort with the UIC College of Nursing, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (SIU-E) School of Nursing, the SIU-E Library, and the Illinois Department of Public Health Training and Resource Center Library. The primary goals of the project are to increase knowledge about research that forms the evidence base in public health nursing, to improve skills in finding evidence-based studies to support public health nursing practices, and to increase access to the evidence base. To achieve these goals, project staff will:

The project builds upon the successful “Advancing Public Health Nursing Education (APHNE) in Illinois,” directed by Kathleen Baldwin, UIC College of Nursing. APHNE identified the need to communicate with and educate the public health nursing workforce about evidence-based practice. Librarians involved in the project are Jo Dorsch, (Principal Investigator & Project Director), Peg Burnette, Sandy De Groote, Kristin Hitchcock, and Sara Blaszczak, Kathy Behm,and Thea Chesley (IDPH).  Sallie Klipp coordinated instruction during the first phase of the project. Nursing investigators are Kathleen Baldwin, Bobbi Lyons, Rita Arras and Margaret Beaman.


2005 Cunningham Fellow Visits

Gundersen Hosts Cunningham Fellow

Library Services at  hosted the Medical Library Association’s 2005 Cunningham Memorial International Fellowship. From March 26 through April 9, Raphael Euppah, medical librarian at the Nairobi Hospital of Nairobi, Kenya, worked with the staff at Gundersen Lutheran to learn more about the administration and daily operations of a large hospital library service. While there, he worked on projects regarding library promotion, collection development, and consumer health libraries. Mr. Euppah has studied internationally and his resume and credentials are impressive. In addition to Gundersen Lutheran, he has already visited academic and hospital health sciences libraries in Florida and Delaware and attended MLA '05 in San Antonio. In the future, he will visit the National Library of Medicine and Texas A&M University. For more about his fellowship and experience in the United States, see http://www.library.health.ufl.edu/pub/raphael/Raphael_log1.htm.


Member News

Guard Elected Chair-Elect of AAMC Group on Information Resources

Roger Guard, Chief Information Officer of the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and Assistant Senior Vice President for Academic Information Technology and Libraries, was elected chair-elect of the Group on Information Resources (GIR) for 2005-2006.  The GIR is a professional development group of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).  GIR members include chief information officers, vice presidents for information technology, medical informaticians, and health sciences library directors of AAMC members, which include 142 medical colleges, 400 teaching hospitals, and 94 academic and professional societies.  The purpose of the GIR is to provide a forum to promote excellence in the application and integration of information resources in academic medicine in the areas of medical education, clinical care, medical and health sciences research, health science libraries, public health, and institutional planning. Guard served on the GIR Steering Committee from 2000-2003.


MHSLA Fall Conference

Pack your bags and head north for “Camp MHSLA: E-Ventures in Learning”, the Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association Fall Conference. The 2005 conference will be held at the beautiful Crystal Mountain Resort in Thompsonville, thirty miles southwest of Traverse City. Programming for the three day conference will include an opening keynote address by Jean Chabut, Chief Administrative Officer of the Michigan Department of Community Health and a closing keynote address by clinical psychologist Vince Cornellier, Ph.D., "Information as energy - from Dewey Decimal to Quantum:  Is the Librarian the motherboard?"

These MLA continuing education courses are scheduled for Wednesday, September 21:

Other sessions include: Link Resolver, Technologies for Personal Information Management, Human Animal Bond, GMR Update and Contributed Posters and Papers.

In addition to networking and education, special events centered around the outdoor beauty of fall in northern Michigan will be part of the experience.  Mark your calendars and plan to attend an exciting and stimulating conference.  Registration materials will be mailed in early June. For more information and registration packets, consult the MHSLA website (www.mhsla.org) or contact Munson Medical Center Department of Library Services 1105 Sixth Street, Traverse City, MI  49684 231-935-6170, e-mail: Library-HealthSciences@mhc.net.

 

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             July 15, 2005August 15, 2005
Fall October 15, 2005                November 15, 2005               
Winter January 15, 2006February 15, 2006
Spring April 15, 2006May 15, 2006

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 (e-mail: 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