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IN THIS ISSUE OF MIDLINE:
- Winter 2013 Issue, Number 129
- Message from the President
- Navigating a River of Information – Midwest Chapter Meeting 2013
- Chapter Council Presents Sharing Roundtables
- Free Lunch Award – Chapter Council Sharing Roundtables Luncheon
- Poster Gallery – Cake Pan with a Call Number
- Poster Gallery – Library Grand Rounds: A Library Orientation for Incoming Medical Students
- Poster Gallery – Lending iPads: Viral Marketing for the Library
- Poster Gallery – Multi-Site Collaboration to Establish Relationships and Access to the Library’s Resources for a Newly Integrated Hospital and Clinic
- Poster Gallery – Collaboration Matters: Reconfiguring When and What Library Resources are Taught to Dietetic Interns
- Poster Gallery – Improving a Patient Portal: Encouraging Engagement through MyCare(R)
- Poster Gallery – Growing 3′s, 4′s, and 5′s: The R.E.A.D Scale in a Health System Library Service
- Poster Gallery – Library-On-Demand: Streamlining Service to Improve the Needs of a Hospital System
- Poster Gallery – The Dakota and Ojibwe Nations: Selections from the History of Medicine Library Collection
- Poster Gallery – Women and Madness: An Interdisciplinary Class Inspired by the Literature of Prescription Exhibit
- Poster Gallery – First Year Experience: Librarian as Instructor of a Pharmacy Practice Laboratory
- Poster Gallery – Good Vibrations: Librarians Minding the Store
- Poster Gallery – Current Awareness in the Mayo Clinic Libraries: Growing Our Knowing
- Poster Gallery – Hidden Treasures : Dance of Death in the Rare Book Collection of the Taubman Health Sciences Library
- Poster Gallery – Expanding Services: Growing a Copyright-Compliant Image Directory
- Poster Gallery – Buddhist and Medical Manuscripts in Tibet
- Poster Gallery – Building Competence: Self- and Peer-Evaluation of Information Resources by First-Year Dental Students in a Problem-Based Curriculum
- Poster Gallery – Testing the Soil: Benchmarking the Information Literacy Skills of Nursing Students Performing Evidence-Based Research
- Poster Gallery – Discovering the Impact of Library Instruction on First-Year Medical Students
- Poster Gallery – Millennium Bridge: Practices and Insights from the Experience of Expanding my Instruction and Outreach to Today’s Undergraduates
- Poster Gallery – Growing Relationships: A Project to Reduce Hospital Noise
- Poster Gallery – How Much did You Say? Managing Journal Subscription Costs within a Growing Organization
- Poster Gallery – Achieving Consistency and Quality in Patient Education with Templates for Print Materials
- Poster Gallery – The John Martin Rare Book Room as a Learning Resource
- Poster Gallery – Social Citation Management with Mendeley to Support the Information Needs of Internal Medicine Residents
- For the Record
- New Member Profiles
- Obituary
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Navigating a River of Information – Midwest Chapter Meeting 2013
Submitted by Stacey Knight-Davis, Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University The Health Science Librarians of Illinois invite you to the Midwest Chapter Annual Meeting in East Peoria, IL from October 4 – 8, 2013. At Midwest 2013, participants will focus on … Continue reading
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Distinguished Librarian Award 2012
Submitted by Liz Fine Weinfurter, Chair, Awards and Scholarship Committee Bio-Medical Library, University of Minnesota This year’s recipient of the Distinguished Librarian of the Year Award is Donna Barbour-Talley, the heroine of the Health Sciences Libraries of Minnesota, and someone … Continue reading
Jean Williams Sayre Innovation Award 2012
Submitted by Liz Fine Weinfurter, Chair, Awards and Scholarship Committee Bio-Medical Library, University of Minnesota This year’s winner of the Jean Williams Sayre Award for innovation is Suzanne Earle, for the End-of-Life Library at the Hospice of the Western Reserve, … Continue reading
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Chapter Council Presents Sharing Roundtables
Submitted by Becky McKay and Tim Mason, Co-chairs, Chapter Council Roundtables Committee Please plan on attending the Chapter Council Presents Sharing Roundtables at MLA ’13 in Boston, MA on Sunday, May 5, from noon-1:30 for lunch and informal discussions. Attendees … Continue reading
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Registration for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Chapter / Medical Library Association is now open!
Submitted by Liz Fine Weinfurter, Publicity Committee for the Midwest Chapter Meeting 2012, Bio-Medical Library, University of Minnesota Are you getting excited for this year’s Midwest Chapter conference? We are! The Health Sciences Libraries of Minnesota are pleased to welcome … Continue reading
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Midwest Chapter Awards and Scholarships: There’s Still Time to Apply!
Submitted by Liz Fine Weinfurter, Bio-Medical Library, University of Minnesota The Midwest Chapter/MLA is pleased to provide its members with the opportunity to receive a total of over $3,000 in awards and scholarships during 2012! Included in this year’s awards … Continue reading
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2012 Conference Update
Submitted by Sharon Kambeitz, Publicity Committee for the Midwest Chapter Meeting 2012 Allina Library Services, Allina Hospitals & Clinics, Minneapolis, MN Keep on Saving the Date, October 6-9, 2012 Shopping Scene – Shopping is an unspoken given for conference attendees … Continue reading
Call for Submissions for the 2012 Midwest Chapter meeting!
Submitted by Melissa Rethlefsen, Midwest Chapter 2012 Program Co-Chair Mayo Clinic Libraries, Rochester, MN The Program Committee invites proposals for contributed papers and posters for the conference theme of “Growing Opportunities.” Papers and posters may highlight practical problem-solving approaches, document … Continue reading
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Midwest Chapter Announces New Research Award!
Submitted by Ruth Holst on behalf of the Professional Practice Committee Beginning with the 2012 Annual Chapter meeting in Rochester, MN, the chapter will present a new “Research Award” to recognize the best research papers and posters at the annual … Continue reading
2012 Annual Meeting – Growing Opportunities
Submitted by Sharon Kambeitz Publicity Committee for the Midwest Chapter Meeting 2012. THE most stunning event of The Midwest Chapter, Medical Library Association this year is our annual meeting in Rochester, Minnesota from October 6 through 9, 2012. We call … Continue reading
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Scholarship Award Winner 2011 Conference
Submitted by Chris Childs Hardin Library for the Health Sciences (HLHS) 2011 Iowa Health Science Library Association Annual Midwest Chapter/MLA Conference Scholarship Award Winner Pam Rees Shares Her Conference Experience The annual meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical … Continue reading
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Distinguished Librarian Award 2011
Submitted by Liz Fine Bio-Medical Library, University of Minnesota The Distinguished Librarian Award recognizes Chapter members at any career level who have provided outstanding service to Midwest Chapter/MLA. This year’s recipient is Sheryl Stevens, who has contributed to the success … Continue reading
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Midwest Chapter 2011 Scholarship Award Winners
Annual Meeting Scholarship Winner: Cort Eyer Indiana University SLIS Student and Intern with the Ridderheim Health Science Library, Parkview Health System, Fort Wayne, IN I want to begin by saying I am grateful to the Awards Committee for the chance … Continue reading
Midwest Chapter 2011 Professional Development Award Winners
Professional Development Award Winner: Dawn Hackman University of North Dakota Library of the Health Sciences As a new librarian working with a largely rural population, I count myself lucky to have access to quality regional professional organizations like the Midwest … Continue reading
Midwest MLA/IHSLA Conference 2011
Submitted by Barbara Gushrowski, Chair, 2011 Planning Committee IU School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis was the host city for the 2011 joint meeting of Midwest Chapter/MLA and Indiana Health Sciences Librarians Association. The conference had 107 attendees and 26 … Continue reading
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2012 Conference Invitation to Rochester
Submitted by Donna Barbour-Talley The Health Science Libraries of Minnesota, or HSLM, is pleased to welcome the Midwest Chapter to Rochester Minnesota next year for the 2012 Annual Conference to be held October 6th through 9th. Rochester is most famous … Continue reading
Faster! Higher! Stronger!
YOU are invited to the 2011 Midwest Chapter/MLA Annual Meeting, to be held in Indianapolis, October 8th-11th. The meeting will be held at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown. Make your room reservations now! The conference hotel is located near the Circle Center Mall, … Continue reading
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Save the Date!
Submitted by Kacy Allgood, Co-chair, 2011 Conference Publicity/Promotion Committee Indiana University School of Medicine Library, Indianapolis IN You are invited to the 2011 Midwest Chapter Annual Meeting, to be held in Indianapolis, October 8-11. The meeting will be held at … Continue reading
MLA ’11 Returns to Midwest Chapter Territory
Submitted by Eileen Stanley and Kolleen Olsen, Co-chairs LAC Publicity The last time Midwest Chapter members may have visited Minneapolis was for our Chapter meeting in 2002. It’s time for another visit. The MLA ’11 Annual Meeting theme is RETHINK. … Continue reading
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News from your MLA Chapter Council Representative
Submitted by Bette Sydelko, Midwest Chapter/MLA Chapter Council Representative At MLA 2011 there will be an open forum session on Monday, May 16, 2011 from 2-3pm sponsored by the MLA Emerging Leaders Task Force’s “Rising Stars” leadership development pilot program. … Continue reading
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Poster Gallery: Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS)
Jane Richard, University of Wisconsin – Madison Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS), a Midwestern library network, has been dedicated to advancing libraries for over 30 years. The current membership is diverse, consisting of 67 academic libraries, 20 special libraries, 244 K-12 … Continue reading
Poster Gallery: Working to Connect Health Resource Libraries with Consumers through Facebook in a Multi-hospital Health Care System
Brenda Fay, Aurora Health Care Libraries, Milwaukee, WI Facebook is all about sharing information, so we thought a Facebook presence might offer our hospital libraries an opportunity to link consumers with credible health information. After collaborating with Aurora Health Care’s … Continue reading
Poster Gallery: Directly Exporting PubMed Citations to EndNote: Browser Settings are the Key
Sue London, Carole Gall, Osman Gurdal, Ruth Lilly Medical Library & Indiana University School of Medicine Library. Presenting the poster “Directly Exporting PubMed Citations to EndNote: Browser Settings Are the Key” at the Midwest Chapter 2010 meeting was fun and … Continue reading
Poster Gallery: Women’s Health and Fitness and
Merle Rosenzweig and Bethany Harris, Taubman Health Sciences Library, University of Michigan Women’s Health and Fitness Day is a free and increasingly popular local event that focuses on educating our community about women’s health issues. After a few years of … Continue reading
Poster Gallery: Getting to Know Your Website Visitors Using Google Analytics
Holly Gabriel and Laura Trude, University of North Dakota Google Analytics is a free tool that lets you track and analyze your web traffic data. By being aware of what users search for, which pages are the most popular, and … Continue reading
Poster Gallery: Stepping Forward-Moving from a Print to Online Book Collection for Hospital Libraries
James Bulger, Pamela Barnard, Sharon Kambeitz, Anita von Gedern, Allina Hospitals & Clinics, Minneapolis Our library serves 11 hospitals and dozens of clinics from a central location. Maintaining a primarily print book collection limits access and usability for our customers. … Continue reading
Poster Gallery: Your Friendly Neighborhood CTSI – How Clinical Translation Science Institutions Are Harnessing the Power of Social Media
Amy Donahue, Special Projects Librarian, University of Minnesota Bio-Medical Library One of the key functions of the Clinical Translation Science Awards (CTSAs) is to encourage and enhance community engagement, creating ways for researchers and community members to learn from one … Continue reading
Librarians Converge on the Square
Submitted by Barb Sisolak and Julie Schneider, 2010 Conference Planning Committee Co-Chairs Michael Venner, 2010 Conference Publicity Committee Chair Madison, WI The 2010 Midwest Chapter/MLA and Wisconsin Health Sciences Library Association conference was held Sept 24-28, 2010, at the Inn … Continue reading
Midwest Chapter Scholarship Winner Conference Report
Submitted by Bethany R. Harris Taubman Health Sciences Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI As a library science student with an established interest in health sciences librarianship, the 2010 Midwest Chapter/MLA conference was a fine way to begin my … Continue reading
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ILA Health Sciences Scholarship Winner Says “Thanks!”
Submitted by Pam Kress-Dunn Mercy Medical Center, Dubuque, Iowa Having been a solo medical librarian at Mercy Medical Center – Dubuque for over two years, I was excited to learn that the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association was … Continue reading
Call for Papers and Posters: 2010 Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin
Submitted by Brian Finnegan, Chair, Program Committee, 2010 Midwest Chapter/MLA & WHSLA Conference G.E. Magnin Medical Library, Marshfield, WI The Program Committee invites proposals for contributed papers and posters for the
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Conference Draws 200+ to Buckeye State
Submitted by Jodi Jameson, Publicity Committee Mulford Health Science Library, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH More than 200 library and information professionals (including registrants, exhibitors and speakers) descended upon downtown Columbus for the 2009 Midwest Chapter/MLA Conference from October 3-6. … Continue reading
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2 Awards Available to New Attendees
Our chapter offers two $500 awards available for first-time attendees to the Midwest Chapter’s Annual Conference. To qualify for the award you must: be a current Midwest Chapter member be a resident of one of the following nine states: Illinois, … Continue reading
