MIDLINE

Welcome to the latest issue of MIDLINE!

Have any comments or suggestions for improvement? Contact Editor Clare Leibfarth!

Good ideas always welcome!

From Chris Shaffer, Midwest Chapter President
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

The snow is melting in Iowa and thoughts of spring are in the air. With the renewal of spring, we look forward to renewal in the Midwest Chapter. As you know, at the annual meeting in Louisville, we passed a major bylaws revision. You may not be aware that the passage of the bylaws represents only the first step toward streamlining our operations and activities to ensure that they are relevant to our membership. Officers and committee members have been appointed to carry out these important tasks. The 2007 chapter officer and committee member appointments are listed at the end of this issue of MIDLINE.

I have appointed a Website Redesign Special Committee, which has been charged with task of evaluation, planning, site-architecture and visual design, implementation, and testing required to relaunch the Midwest Chapter’s website. Brian Finnegan, Rebecca Holz and Mary Congleton have graciously agreed to tackle this project, in coordination with the Communications Committee. See the story in this issue about the specific tasks of the committee. Please take a few minutes to complete their survey and let us know what you want from the chapter website.

The Spring 2007 Executive Board Meeting will be held at the Ebling Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday, March 16. Board meetings are open to the membership (RSVP requested). Board members will be writing and approving committee charges, which are no longer included in the bylaws. If you have any items to add to the preliminary agenda, please let me know. You are invited to contact officers and committee chairs to share with them your opinions on the activities and future of the Chapter.

The Website Redesign Special Committee, appointed by President Chris Shaffer, has been charged with the evaluation, planning, design, implementation and testing required to redesign the Midwest Chapter’s website.

Among the many goals of the website redesign are to:

The chapter membership will be active participants in the planning stages as well as the development of design ideas and usability testing. See the accompanying story in this issue of MIDLINE for information on how to participate in the online survey. Some anticipated elements of the new site are basic top level navigation (tabs or persistent menus), consistent design elements site-wide, accessibility via WC3 standards, and the inclusion of static and dynamic or database-driven elements.

The redesign process will include, but is not limited to, the following:

The committee members are Chair Brian Finnegan, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI; Rebecca Holz, UW Madison, Ebling Library, Madison, WI; Mary Congleton, Southern Kentucky AHEC, Mt. Vernon, KY; and Technology Coordinator Allan Barclay, UW Madison, Ebling Library, Madison, WI.

Got ideas for improving our chapter's website? Let us know! Be a part of our website redesign by completing this online survey.

Have any questions about the website redesign process? Contact Website Redesign Special Committee Chair Brian Finnegan, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI.

Submitted by Bette Sydelko, Midwest Chapter Membership Secretary
Fordham Health Sciences Library, Wright State University, Dayton, OH

Membership renewal forms were mailed out in early January. If you did not receive one, you can still renew by using the electronic form on the Midwest Chapter/MLA website. Dues are $20.00 per year and the membership year for the chapter runs from January through December. Renewing by June 1st assures voting eligibility.

Membership in the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association is completely separate from membership in the Medical Library Association. As membership secretary of the chapter, I encourage you to consider a membership in both organizations.

Please help spread the word about membership in the Midwest Chapter. Know any medical or health science librarians who are not members? Encourage them to join so they take advantage of the many opportunities for personal and professional growth and reap the benefits of being a member of the Midwest Chapter/MLA!

Submitted by Marlene Porter, Midwest Chapter Treasurer
Mulford Library, University of Toledo Health Science Campus, Toledo, OH

Chapter assets are $71,537.24 as January 1, 2007. The 2006 budget, financial statement, ledger, accounts and reports are available on the Chapter web site at: http://midwestmla.org/business/treasurer/index.html. An account file for 2007 will soon be posted to the chapter website and the chapter budget for 2007 will be submitted to the Finance Committee for review prior to the executive board meeting in March.

Submitted by Teresa Hartman, Co-Chair, Omaha 2007 Conference Planning Committee
McGoogan Library of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

The many members of the planning committee for the joint meeting of the MCMLA and Midwest Chapter/MLA have been working hard to make sure association members in both chapters have a memorable time in Omaha this October 12-17. "License to Learn / License to Lead" is this year’s conference theme, and the program lineup truly reflects it! Nationally recognized speakers have been identified and selected, CE instruction is being judged for interest and relevance to our regions’ needs, exhibitors and vendors have been invited…and don’t miss the Call for Papers in this issue of MIDLINE!

The keynote speaker on October 14th is Dale Lea, RN, MPH, CGC, FAAN, who is a Health Educator serving the National Human Genome Research Institute.

Fred Lee is speaking on October 15th. Mr. Lee is a nationally recognized consultant on service and leadership effectiveness. He has a connection to the MCMLA region: he began his career as vice president for marketing and development at Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Shawnee Mission, KS.

Another national leader that is speaking on October 15th is Loriene Roy, Ph.D., MLS. Dr. Roy is the incoming ALA president, and member of the White Earth Reservation, Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. In addition to being a librarian, Dr. Roy has a connection to both chapters' healthcare interests: she began her career as a medical radiologic technologist.

While you wait for the bright October day when you can join in on the fun in Omaha, visit the conference website: http://www.mcmla.org/2007. One feature of the website you don't want to miss is a direct link to the wonderful conference hotel, the Omaha Hilton. Make your hotel reservation early! Another feature is a link to information on sites and things to do in Omaha, updated monthly. You can also keep up on conference news through the Midwest Chapter discussion list. Watch for periodic updates on events, plans, and maybe even some surprises!

Join your friends and colleagues in Omaha this October 12-17, and claim your License to Learn / License to Lead!

Papers and poster submissions are being accepted for consideration for presentation at the Joint Meeting of the MCMLA and the Midwest Chapter/MLA, to be held October 12-16, 2007 in Omaha, NE.

Submissions should fall into one of the theme areas:

• Research: surveys, assessment, statistics, theories, overviews
• Teaching and learning: methods, strategies, models, one-on-one, classes, virtual
• Electronic information and delivery: collection development, e-books, databases, web technology
• Administration and support services: program development, ILL, document delivery
• Collaboration: librarian, faculty, staff, consortia, etc.
• Marketing and publicity: methods, achievements

A variety of presentation formats will be considered:

• Paper presentation: traditional lectured discussion (15 minutes)
• Panel discussion: prepared statements and discussion of various perspectives (60-90 minutes)
• Workshop: a short but intense overview of a specific topic that provides attendees with specific skills (60-90 minutes)
• Discussion group: prepared discussion points on a topic by a moderator interacting with the audience (30-45 minutes)
• Poster: poster board or electronic (1 hour poster session)

Submission Requirements

All abstracts must be submitted under the following criteria:

• Document format: .doc or .rtf
  
• 12 point font
  
• Title
  
• Authors and affiliation
  
• Theme and format (from the lists above)
  
• Abstract length: no more than 500 words
  
• Panel discussion, workshops, and discussion groups: specify specific talking points, activities, and perspectives
  
• Note any special equipment requirements
  

Deadline: March 15, 2007

Submit to Siobhan Champ-Blackwell at siobhan@creighton.edu.

For complete information visit: http://www.mcmla.org/2007/2007call.pdf.

Are you using technology in a new or innovative way?

Have you created informational or instructional materials or applications that utilize technology?

Have you streamlined services or work flow with technology?

A Technology Fair will be held during the Joint Meeting of the MCMLA and the Midwest Chapter/MLA, to be held October 12-16, 2007 in Omaha, NE.

This is your chance to show off!

Submission Requirements

All abstracts must be submitted under the following criteria:

• Document format: .doc or .rtf
  
• 12 point font
  
• Title
  
• Participant(s) and affiliation
  
• Description of technology or utilization: no more than 500 words
  
• Equipment being utilized
  

Internet access cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, all presentations should be self-contained. Participants must also provide their own equipment.

Deadline: March 15, 2007

Submit to Siobhan Champ-Blackwell at siobhan@creighton.edu.

For complete information visit: http://www.mcmla.org/2007/2007techfair.pdf.

Submitted by Ellen O'Donnell
St. John Hospital & Medical Center, Detroit, MI

The 2008 Midwest Chapter/MLA Annual Conference will be a joint conference with the Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association (MHSLA). It will be hosted by the Metropolitan Detroit Medical Library Group (MDMLG) and will be held at the Detroit Marriott Troy in Troy, Michigan, about 16 miles north of Detroit. The conference theme is “Vital Signs: Keeping You and Your Library Vibrant and Healthy” and the dates will be October 17-21, 2008.

Submitted by Kristin Hitchcock, FPIN Librarian Team
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Librarians are expert searchers. We know databases. We know search strategies. And we know the importance of using quality tools. Librarian members of the Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN) have translated this expertise into the publication of a successful article series: "Clinical Inquiries" published in the Journal of Family Practice and American Family Physician. Each article pairs physicians (and other health professionals) with librarians in order to answer one clinical question. Librarians take responsibility for the methodology used to identify relevant evidence-based results and, in this role, they serve as full-fledged co-authors.

An important part of this process has been developing tools in support of a rigorous and well-documented review methodology. One of the FPIN Librarian Team's goals is to create a systematic approach to literature searching that achieves a standard of uniformity in retrieval and quality of content. A team of talented medical librarian searchers have collaborated to create search strategies and filters for four inquiry types. The therapy and diagnosis filters were created first, followed in the past year by new diagnostic testing and prognosis filters. To provide for both camps of MEDLINE searchers, these filters have been customized for both PubMed and Ovid search systems. Our team has built upon the work of McKibbon and Haynes, other published sources, and the expertise of veteran searchers. We really wanted to capture knowledge of some the best searchers in our field. This has been translated into in-depth search guidelines accompanying each filter that we hope will be of help to librarians new to FPIN processes and those with less search experience as they work through their initial searches. It's a search jungle out there, and it always helps to have a map!

The redesigned and new search filters, posted in September, 2005, are publicly available at the FPIN website: http://www.fpin.org/ci/librarian/.

Submitted by Elizabeth Fine
Bio-Medical Library, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN

The Bio-Medical Library at the University of Minnesota serves an Academic Health Center (AHC) made up of six schools. The library offers a wide variety of library workshops useful to students, staff and faculty of the AHC. The workshops are generally offered at fairly arbitrary times, and inevitably conflict with the target audience’s busy schedules. Additionally, several schools in the AHC have a sizeable percentage of distance learners, so students are not necessarily on campus.

In order to extend the reach of the library’s instruction services, the Bio-Medical Library explored building an online repository of recordings of library workshops. The library chose Adobe Breeze Meeting, a web conferencing application subscribed to by the University of Minnesota, as the most efficient method of recording audio and screen information from library classes. While an instructor is teaching a workshop, Breeze captures the instructor’s voice and the actions on the computer screen. When the class is done, the recording is instantly available as a web link. Access rights can be set to allow anyone with the web link to view the recordings, regardless of affiliation.

The project to record all library-sponsored workshops as they were being taught began in June, 2006, and the class recordings were made available through the library’s website in December 2006 at: http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/workshops/archive. The recording offerings are currently in a soft rollout stage and have not been actively promoted yet, but interest is already strong. We’re looking forward to seeing how these recordings can be used in wider practice.

Submitted by Karla Block
Bio-Medical Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Many libraries host events to increase their visibility and exposure to patrons. What happens when the event is unsuccessful? We found out after the Bio-Medical Library hosted a new faculty reception in September 2004. With less than a handful of attendees, the results were disappointing. We were committed to hosting a fall event and knew we needed to change our point of view.

A small committee began planning an open house for October 2005. The event was a resounding success, based on several factors:

We hosted one successful open house, but could we do it again? We further refined our point of view when planning our 2006 open house, to include:

Enhanced metrics, including asking door prize registrants how they heard about the event (many people mentioned the skull balloons!)

At the time of our poster presentation at the annual conference in Louisville, our 2006 Open House was two weeks in the future. We’re happy to report that it was another successful event!

Submitted by Jenny Schroeder
Ebling Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

In 2004, the Ebling Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison received one of its largest and most valuable gifts from a private collector. The personal collection, donated by alumnus Paul F. Cranefield, M.D., was appraised at over $750,000. It arrived in 339 boxes containing over 5,000 individual items.

As we began assessing the collection, it quickly became evident that Dr. Cranefield was more than just a casual collector. His personally acquired manuscripts, rare books, reprints, and ephemera reflected his interests in the fields of physics, chemistry, and medicine. Dr. Cranefield’s meticulous notes and record keeping provided evidence of his knowledge of history and passion for his personal library. Certainly this donation consisted of items that were of significant importance to this avid collector.

Therefore, it was decided we would develop new procedures and reassess our cataloging practices in order to preserve Cranefield’s work. We utilized RefWorks and DCRM(b) to achieve this. RefWorks is an online management tool that allows for the inventory and organization of different aspects of Cranefield’s gift. In July of 2005, Ebling Library sent two catalogers to Rare Book School at the University of Virginia to learn DCRM(b). Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) was thought to be a useful tool because many of the Cranefield titles date from the 18th and 19th centuries. Today, although the collection is no longer physically intact, we have succeeded in celebrating Dr. Paul Cranefield’s thoroughness, focus, and personality while retaining his gift’s true integrity as it exists amongst our collection.

Submitted by Mark Alan Mershon
Arneson Methodist Library, Park Nicollet Health System, St. Louis Park, MN

In late fall of 2005 we opened our consumer health library at Park Nicollet Health Services. Park Nicollet is a multi-specialty clinic system that includes 25 neighborhood clinics, including a main center in St. Louis Park, and Methodist hospital a 426 bed facility, with 960 physicians on staff, in suburban Minneapolis.

We wanted our consumer health library to be unique in the area. By that I mean we wanted to set up a space separate from the hospital and clinic library and we wanted to staff that space whenever it is open. We did this by sharing the reference desk duties amongst our two full-time, and three part-time staff. In our research we discovered that most hospitals or clinics that offer consumer health information do so in their existing libraries, and a patron would have to first locate the library, then the consumer health collection, and then locate a staff member to assist them with their query. We wanted to avoid that frustration, and we have. It was a struggle to staff and service two libraries without extra FTEs, but I would have to call our first year an unqualified success.

Avrom Schwartz, Penny Marsala, Nancy Barron, Mark Mershon, and Linda Sperber

We saw just under 6000 patrons and did 744 searches for those patrons. We are located outside the Family Surgery waiting lounge and do a brisk walk up business of family members and patients heading into surgery and have also just added a new e-mail form to assist patrons on the web, making it possible to use our services from their homes and offices. Visit our web site at: www.parknicollet.com/healthlibrary. In our first full year we have maintained hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday. In that time we have answered queries ranging from Alzheimer’s disease to Zellweger syndrome. We have a basic book collection of about 150 non-circulating titles and we have three patient kiosks with our webpage and links to several of our databases, MDConsult, Ebsco Health Library, Micromedex, and of course the gold standard for consumer health information, Medlineplus.gov

We try to place at least two pieces of information in the hands of every patron who asks a question. We see the year ahead as a chance to grow our business by referral and training our clinicians about our services. We anticipate growth in our Ask a Medical Librarian form and look forward to assisting our patients and the public with shifting through the puzzling maze of health information on the web.

MIDLINE Interview conducted by Mary White, Education and Outreach Liaison
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

In this issue of MIDLINE, we will be talking with Linda Walton, the new director at Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa. Linda graduated with her BA and MLS from Indiana University and lived in New England for 12 years before returning to the midwest to work for the NN/LM in Chicago and the University of Wisconsin’s AHEC. Linda started at Hardin on September 1st after nine years as an associate director at Galter Health Sciences Library at Northwestern University in Chicago. Her expertise is in collections, with an emphasis on electronic collections and administration. In addition to her husband and two children, she has two Russian Blue cats named Sasha and Albert.

MIDLINE: Thank you for taking the time to chat today. What was the toughest part about transitioning to Iowa from Chicago?

LW: Being landlocked, there’s no lake (Michigan)! However, getting to work in 10 minutes versus the 50 minute commute to Northwestern has been nice! The winters are pretty much the same, but Iowa has more hills than Chicago, which can affect driving. This is my first time living west of the Mississippi. Maybe I’ll buy a pair of cowboy boots!

MIDLINE: What was the biggest surprise upon arrival to Hardin?

LW: When I arrived, we had five professional vacancies out of eleven, plus I was new! The first thing I had to do was a reorganization to determine the kinds of positions that needed to be filled. Chris Shaffer (the assistant director) and I determined that we wanted a liaison position for each of the 5 colleges that we support, and that was something Hardin didn’t have before.

MIDLINE: What are some of the current challenges facing the academic medical library?

LW: The medical library needs to be “just-in-time” rather than “just-in-case.” How can we do that? We need to get the library’s information where the users need it…by outreaching to them rather than having them come to us. The library director can facilitate this by serving as the go-between and connection point, between the libraries as well as the colleges the library serves.

MIDLINE: With the digital integration of library services, many libraries are rethinking ways that the physical facility can be utilized. Can you talk about some of the initiatives going on at Hardin related to this issue?

LW: We see the physical and theoretical view of the library as a “common space.” Serving a health campus with so many different disciplines, the library is the common ground, and can provide a place for interdisciplinary work and inspiration of new ideas.

Chris Shaffer and I recently visited the Mayo Clinic library’s emeritus faculty suite and are considering developing a similar suite in the Hardin Library. A more immediate event in the library “space” is the upcoming “Changing the Face of Medicine” exhibit from the National Library of Medicine. The exhibit about female physicians is touring the country and will be stopping at the University of Iowa during the months of October and November.

MIDLINE: Thank you Linda!

Submitted by Mary K. Taylor
Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

Heidi Beke-Harrigan is an Instructor of Library Science, Evening Reference Librarian, and Assistant Cataloger at the Everett Cattell Library at Malone College in Canton, OH. Her main responsibilities include reference, cataloging, bibliographic instruction, and being the liaison to nursing, counseling, and business faculty. Her professional interests include consumer health, information literacy of nurses, and evidence-based practice. Heidi is a 1999 graduate of the Kent State School of Library Science. She has an undergraduate degree in Chinese and East Asian Studies from Wittenberg University. This North Canton, OH native’s personal interests include green building, gardening, knitting, snow skiing, and traveling. She adds, “I took a two year leave to teach kindergarten at the Vienna Boys Choir while my boys were active in the touring choir and despite the age difference (from college) it provided a wonderful and unique insight into other aspects of education. At some time in the future I would love to apply for the short-term Fulbright program and work in a library in another country…perhaps a medical library in China?”

Debbie Sullivan is the Medical Librarian at the R. Dietz Wolfe Medical Library of the Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville, KY. She says her main responsibilities include “everything!” She is interested in many aspects of medical librarianship, including consumer health, medical informatics, nursing information, and interlibrary loan. Debbie received a bachelor’s degree in school library and audiovisual services K-12 from Purdue University. She graduated from the library school at Ball State University in 1981. Her hometown is Endwell, NY. She enjoys running, biking, hiking, and baking.

Jody Trisko is a Transcription Analyst in the Radiology Department at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, MN. She audits reports transcribed by the vendor, manages the radiology DVI interface, and trains radiologists on the use of digital dictation equipment. She has “worked in the healthcare field for many years in such areas as transcription, claims and credentialing.” Jody received a bachelor’s degree in health literacy, an interdisciplinary individualized major, from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. She is currently enrolled in the online MLIS program of the University of North Texas, where she was awarded a fellowship in the Health Informatics program. Her professional interests include medical informatics and consumer health. Jody grew up in Glenwood, MN and currently resides in Burnsville, MN. She enjoys bowling, reading, volunteering at a public library, yoga, and spending time with her two cats.

Midwest Chapter Immediate Past President Eileen H. Stanley, MLS, AHIP has accepted a four year appointment to the National Library of Medicine's Board of Regents and takes her seat at the February board meeting.

Submitted by Brian Bunnett, Chair, MLA LMS Membership Committee
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TX

“Leaders are born, not made.” We’ve all heard this hackneyed expression at some point or other. Is there some inborn, indefinable quality that sets leaders apart from the common run of humanity?

It is safe to assume that the many members of the Leadership and Management Section (LMS) do not think so. Or, rather, they believe that there is such a quality but it is neither inborn nor indefinable. This quality is called application, or assiduity, or preparation. Its distinguishing characteristics are hard work, lifelong learning, and good mentoring.

This view of leadership is, on some level, discouraging. It suggests that we must exert ourselves, that we put forth an effort. We can’t just lead effortlessly and naturally, as we might have liked to imagine previously.

If leadership is something that has to be worked at, then at least there is the LMS to make this task a little less burdensome. The LMS exists in order to provide opportunities for its members to learn the skills they will need to become, or remain, effective leaders and managers. Membership in the section is open to all MLA members. If you do not work as a manager or administrator, but think that your career will take you in this direction, then you are certainly encouraged to join the LMS.

Doing so is sure to be of benefit. 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.

More information about the LMS is available on its web page at: http://www.lms.mlanet.org/ An application form is available at: http://www.lms.mlanet.org/join_us_form.html.

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

Passage of the new bylaws resulted in the establishment of a new Executive Board along with new committees. The chapter president has the new duty of recruiting and appointing members for all committees. This allows us to ensure that committee membership represents a broad spectrum of chapter membership, in experience, library type and geographic location. Half the chairs and members rotate off the committees each year, providing continuity. Many thanks go to all the people who are willing to give of their time and energy to the chapter!

Executive Board

Chris Shaffer, President, 2007
Mary Markland, President-Elect, 2007
Eileen Stanley, Immediate Past President, 2007
Marlene Porter, Treasurer, 2006-2007
Bette Sydelko, Membership Secretary, 2007-2008
Nancy O’Brien, Representative at Large, 2007-2008
Deborah Lauseng, Recording Secretary, 2006-2007
Carole Gilbert, Representative to the MLA Chapter Council, 2004-2007
Pam Rees, Alternate Representative to the MLA Chapter Council, 2004-2007

*All members of the Executive Board are elected by the membership.
**At the MLA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pam Rees will become Representative to the MLA Chapter Council, 2007-2010 and Karen Hanus will become Alternate Representative to the MLA Chapter Council, 2007-2010.

Other Officers

Sunny Worel, Parliamentarian, 2007
Rebecca Chapman, Archivist, 2007-2008
Sue London, Auditor, 2007
Melinda Orebaugh, Potential Candidate to the MLA Nominating Committee, 2007

Annual Meetings Committee

Donna Barbour-Talley, Chair, 2006-2007
Chris Shaffer and Jim Lander, Iowa, 2007
Sandra Martin and Ellen O’Donnell, Michigan, 2008

*Local meeting planning chairs serve on committee until their final report is submitted.

Awards and Scholarships Committee

Sheryl Stevens, Chair, 2007
Doreen Roberts, 2007
Dottie Hawthorne, 2007-2008
Kaye Crampton, 2007-2008
Mary Markland, President-Elect, 2007

*President-Elect serves on committee per bylaws, allowing for tiebreakers.

Communications Committee

Elizabeth Smigielski, Chair, 2007-2008
Clare Leibfarth, Editor, 2007-2008
Allan Barclay, Webmaster, 2007
Mary Taylor, 2007

Finance Committee

Marlene Porter, Chair, 2006-2007
Vicki Killion, Former Treasurer, 2007
Pat Redman, Former President, 2007-2008
Lisa Ann Urbatsch, 2007-2008

*Treasurer serves as chair. A former treasurer and former president serve on the committee.

Governmental Relations Committee

Julie Schneider, Chair, 2006-2007
Daneen Richardson, 2007
Nancy Allee, 2007-2008
Ely Anderson, 2007-2008

Membership Committee

Bette Sydelko, Chair, 2007-2008
Kristina Howard, 2007-2008
Michael Venner, 2007
Camille Richmond, 2007

*Membership Secretary serves as chair.

Nominations and Elections Committee

Eileen Stanley, Chair, 2007
Pam Bradigan, 2007
Carol Galganski, 2007
Doreen Bradley, 2007

*Members appointed by the Immediate Past President, who chairs the committee.

Professional Practice Committee

Alexia Estabrook, Chair, 2007-2008
Sharon Kambeitz-Lumphrey, AHIP Liaison, 2007-2008
Robin Terebelo, 2007
Karla Block, 2007

State Liaisons Committee

Nancy O’Brien, Chair, 2007-2008
Beth Carlin, Illinois
Joan Zivich, Indiana
Elaine Hughes, Iowa
Ann Schaap, Kentucky
Pat Martin, Michigan
Sharon Kambeitz-Lumphrey, Minnesota
Mary Markland, North Dakota
Lisa McCormick, Ohio
Karen Hanus, Wisconsin

*Representative at Large serves as chair. Members appointed by state health sciences library associations.

Web Site Redesign Special Committee

Brian Finnegan, Chair
Rebecca Holz
Mary Congleton

*Special Committees are appointed by the president to fulfill specific tasks. The Web Site Redesign Special Committee will work under the guidance of the Communications Committee.

MIDLINE is published in electronic format four times a year by the Midwest Chapter/Medical Library Association. The newsletter 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 future issues are as follows:

Spring 2007: April 15, 2007
Summer 2007: July 15, 2007
Fall 2007: October 15, 2006
Winter 2008: January 15, 2008

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@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
Medical Library
Affinity Medical Center, Doctors Campus
400 Austin Avenue N.W., Massillon, OH 44646