The MLA Webcast Understanding the Electronic Health Record Maze and Health Sciences Librarians’ Roles will be presented on Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2010 from 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM at the iSchool at Drexel University (Rush Building, Room 014, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA.) Our chapter is partially subsidizing the cost for MLA/SLA members. You can earn 3 Continuing Education Units for attending. Registration costs are $30 for non-members, $20 for members, and $10 for students/retirees/those between jobs. See <http://www.mlaphil.org/wp/ce/2010/03/03/registration-is-open-for-ehr-webcast/> for details.
Free PubMed Training will be presented by the National Networks of Libraries of Medicine on Friday, Apr. 23, 2010 from 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM at Thomas Jefferson University (Edison Building, 130 South 9th St., Philadelphia, PA). You can earn 7.5 MLA Continuing Education Units. See <http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/index.html#class1> for details, and check our website to register: <http://www.mlaphil.org/wp/ce/2010/03/04/registration-is-open-for-pubmed/>.
Questions? Contact Jeanette de Richemond, CE chair, jderichemond@gmail.com, 215-262-3725.
The CAPHIS Outstanding Consumer Health Information Service Award is presented annually by the Consumer and Patient Health Information Section of the Medical Library Association in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of consumer health librarianship. The recipient of the award will be presented with a plaque and a $500 cash award at the CAPHIS business meeting at the MLA annual meeting.
Nominations are being sought for this individual achievement award. It is preferred that nominees be members of MLA and CAPHIS. Nominations may be made for overall distinction or leadership in the field of consumer health librarianship, for the production of a definitive publication related to consumer health librarianship, for the development of an extraordinary national information resource on consumer health, and for any other achievements in consumer health librarianship deemed appropriate by the CAPHIS Board and the CAPHIS Award Committee. Nominations should be sent to the chair of the CAPHIS Award Committee (Steven Douglas, <sdouglas@hshsl.umaryland.edu>) by email attachment. Please include “CAPHIS Award” in the subject line. Please contact Steven for important nomination information and forms.
NOMINATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY APRIL 1.
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Tags: 28(1) Winter 2010, Beth Lewis, Cynthia McClellan, Ellen Justice, Jeanette de Richemond, Karen Albert, Member & Library News, Mindy Robinson-Paquette, Rebecca Landau, Susan LaValley, the Chronicle.
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Karen Albert
Karen Albert, Nitika Gupta, Teresa Mason and Purvi Mehta, published a chapter entitled “A Rough Ride at the Theodore Roosevelt Cancer Center,” in Transforming Health Care Through Information: Case Studies, edited by Laura Einbinder et al.; 3rd ed. New York, Springer: pp. 29-45. Karen accepted a position in September, 2009 as the Library Director at Philadelphia University’s Paul J. Gutman Library. Prior to that she was Library Director at Fox Chase Cancer Center for 20 years, the last year of which she was Senior Director for Education and Information Services.
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Greetings to the library groups that so generously funded the survey portion of the study to be undertaken by the Middle Atlantic Region of NN/LM– “The Value of Library and Information Services in Patient Care.” We want to give you an update on the current status of this project and we look forward to keeping you informed as the study progresses.
Background
The goal of the “Value of Library and Information Services in Patient Care” initiative is to develop and implement a research study to measure the value of the health sciences library, library services, and librarians on clinical decision making and patient care outcomes. From a discussion at a November 2006 meeting of the Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) of the Middle Atlantic Region, National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), emerged the issue of establishing the value of health sciences libraries to administrators in hospitals, academic health sciences centers and other organizations where librarians work.
In the RAC discussion the “Rochester study” ["The impact of the hospital library on clinical decision making: the Rochester study." Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1992 Apr; 80(2):169-78] was mentioned as an influential, highly-cited (109 times) piece of research that was now seriously out of date. The Regional Advisory Committee recommended moving forward with planning a new study based on the original Rochester study, but updated for the present day. [See: "Measuring the value and impact of health sciences libraries: planning an update and replication of the Rochester Study." J Med Libr Assoc. 2009 Oct;97(4):308-12.]
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The MLA ‘10 National Program Committee has set up a network in CrowdVine for MLA members to connect with other participants at MLA’s Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Reflect & Connect in Washington, D.C. May 21-26, 2010. CrowdVine is a simple and powerful social network tool customized for MLA ‘10 that helps participants to interact before, during, and after the conference. After registering with Crowdvine, <http://mla10.crowdvine.com/>, set up a profile including your photo, affiliations, interests, and topics of interest. Members can also incorporate RSS feeds from another blog, photo stream, or social bookmarking site. There is a discussion wall for all participants, or you can send private messages to registered colleagues. The real power of the service is its ability to identify participants who share common interests so that they can seek out and meet, in person, at the conference.
Keep your eyes on the MLA 2010 Annual Meeting and Exhibition site <http://www.mlanet.org/am/am2010/> and the official MLA’10 Blog <http://npc.mlanet.org/mla10/> for updates as the conference nears. Watch for information on the all new Conference Community that will enable all of us to connect before, during and after the meeting as well as to share more
of the meeting content.
Connie Schardt
President, Medical Library Association
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