The National Network of Libraries of Medicine Greater Midwest Region (NN/LM GMR) is happy to announce that Max Anderson has joined the GMR as Technology Coordinator and Samanthi Hewakapuge is the new Consumer Health Coordinator.
Max is the GMR's state contact librarian for Wisconsin and Indiana. He coordinates the technology program for the GMR's membership and develops instructional materials to teach librarians about technology trends and their application in the health sciences. He also oversees the technology improvement awards. Prior to joining the GMR, he was a Educational Services Librarian at SOLINET in Atlanta, GA, and a Public Access Computer Trainer with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle. Max is originally from Marinette, WI, and has a strong work ethic like his forefathers. This also means he likes a good fish fry.
Samanthi is responsible for coordinating the consumer health program within the GMR's 10 states. This work includes developing instructional materials, training librarians to provide consumer health information services, and promoting NLM's consumer health resources. She also oversees consumer health subcontracts awarded to libraries and community-based organizations. She is the state contact librarian for North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. Prior to joining the GMR, she was a Health Sciences Librarian at Ohio University and the Outreach Information Specialist for the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arizona. Samanthi is a native from Sri Lanka and enjoys sharing her culture through dance and food. If you ever feel like having spicy Sri Lankan food, you are welcome to visit her in Chicago!
The class Can You Hear Me Now: How to Make a Podcast is scheduled for September 23, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Class will be held in room 303 of LHS - University of Illinois at Chicago.
Is there a broadcaster, announcer, or speaker inside you, just itching to get out? Think of this class as one way to unleash your inner podcaster. Promoting your services is challenging today with media and advertising coming from all sides. Perhaps podcasting can help you out! Want to learn how podcasts can help and how to make your own? This hands-on class is designed to provide a fun yet informative introduction to podcasting and how you can utilize this technology in your library services, to enable your users to access the information whenever they want, wherever they want and however they want it. Basic steps and suggestions on how to make a podcast will be covered and students will be able to enjoy hands-on practice on popular audio recording and editing software and make their first personal podcast. This course has been approved for 3 hours of Medical Library Association (MLA) Continuing Education credits. For more details, please visit http://nnlm.gov/training/podcast/. Contact Max Anderson at max AT uic.edu to register for this class.
There will be two, free, hands-on, online database classes offered in Minneapolis at the Bio-Medical Library, Diehl Hall, 505 Essex Street SE, University of Minnesota. Classes are available to all U.S. residents. The local contact is Martha Hardy, (612) 624-3128, hardy017 AT umn.edu. To register for this class, please go to: http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/register.html.
The NLM Gateway and ClinicalTrials.gov class (3.5 MLA CE Hours) will be on Monday, September 15, 2008 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The NLM Gateway & Clinical Trails database are of particular interest to public and consumer health librarians and all health information consumers.
The PubMed (7.5 MLA CE Hours) class will be held on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Spencer Foreman, MD, in First Person: an Oral History is the newest addition to the oral history series of the Center for Hospital and Healthcare Administration History. When interviewed in 2007, Dr. Foreman was preparing to retire after two decades as the president of Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY. In his oral history, he tells of childhood experiences working at a summer camp for boys in the Pocono Mountains and at his uncle's store in Philadelphia. After medical school, these early management experiences contributed to a meteoric rise in leadership positions in the U.S. Public Health Service, at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, and ultimately at Montefiore, an academic medical center and integrated delivery system located in an underprivileged part of New York City. At Montefiore Medical Center, Dr. Foreman was committed to serving the needs of the local community while at the same time returning the institution to a sound fiscal position. In recognition of his contributions to health care delivery and financing, Dr. Foreman was awarded the American Hospital Association's Justin Ford Kimball Innovators Award in 2006.
The full text of Spencer Foreman, MD, in First Person: An Oral History is available on the Center web site at http://www.aha.org/chhah. The Center for Hospital and Healthcare Administration History was established by the American Hospital Association and the American College of Healthcare Executives and is coordinated by the AHA Resource Center in collaboration with the Health Research & Educational Trust. For more information about the Center and its programs, visit the website or contact Jeanette Harlow, director, at (312) 422-2050.