The Library Director is responsible for the overall operations and management of the health sciences library which serves the Lancaster General College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences and the Lancaster General Health System.
Minimum qualifications: MLS from an ALA accredited school;  excellent interpersonal and communication skills; demonstrated excellent customer service skills and searching skills in health and medicine-related databases; instruction experience; experience locating and evaluating web resources; excellent organizational, time, and management skills; ability to work independently and as part of a team; demonstrated knowledge of library technology and Microsoft applications.

For additional information or to apply for the position please visit:

http://www.lancastergeneraljobs.com/home.asp, Career Opportunities.

Co-sponsors: Public Health/Health Administration Section, Leadership and Management Section, Library Marketing SIG, Medical Library Education Section, Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG, New Members SIG.
Stephanie Fulton, AHIP sfulton AT mdanderson.org

Have you ever found yourself on the elevator with major players at your institution and wanted to communicate how the services your library provides can benefit them? How do you tell your family and friends what you do? What about a stranger on a plane? This session will showcase some tried-and-true examples of descriptions of the different roles of medical librarians, including directors, reference, instruction, genomics, consumer health, technical services, and more. A panel of speakers will give their speeches and describe what impact they have had. Videos from the membership at large will be solicited and played during the session.

There are two ways to participate in this session.  You can submit to present a paper and be a part of the panel. You can submit a video to be viewed either during the session, or afterwards on the Cancer Librarians YouTube Channel.

Submit an abstract to present a paper for this innovative program at http://www.mlanet.org/am/am2011/sect_prog/call.html.  Share with your colleagues how you “Revitalize Your Message.”  These abstracts must be submitted by November 1, 2010 in the OASIS system.

Submit a video to mlacls2011 AT yahoo.com for possible inclusion in the program session or for viewing after the conference.  If you submit a video, must complete the following form.  If the form is not completed, then it can not be loaded to the mlacls2011 channel.  Videos must be sent to mlacls2011 AT yahoo.com and the Google Form completed by January 28, 2011.

Video Guidelines

Videos must be no longer than three minutes.  Elevator speeches should be no more than 30-60 seconds of the video.  Spend the remaining time quickly describing the reception of your elevator speech.  Videos must be in Apple QuickTime Movie .mov, AVI Format .avi, Windows Media Format .wmv, or MPEG Format .mpg or .mpeg formats.  You can film your elevator speech and comments on your iPhone or other mobile device.  Videos over 3 minutes will NOT be reviewed for inclusion in either the 2011 MLA Cancer Librarians Program session or the Cancer Librarians YouTube Channel after MLA.

Interested in learning more about revitalizing your message?  Explore the resources bookmarked on Elevator Speeches at http://www.delicious.com/mlacls2011.  These resources include tools for creating an Elevator Speech and the positive and negatives reasons for using an Elevator Speech.

Want to see an elevator speech?  Go view Julie Esparza’s elevator speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q2l8AHqRvc.  She uses this message when new faculty, residents and medical students join the Internal Medicine team each month.

Julie Esparza, MLS, AHIP
Clinical Medical Librarian
LSU Health Sciences Center – Shreveport, LA

If you are interested in exploring this opportunity, please contact Andrea Kenyon, Chair at kenyon@collegeofphysicians.org

Monday, September 27th from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
From Snake Oil to Penicillin: Evaluating Consumer Health Information on the Internet<http://nnlm.gov/training/consumer/snakeoil/index.html>
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: Content on the Internet is unregulated, and therefore, anyone can publish anything on the Internet.  There is sound medical information on the Internet along with dangerous information.  You need to be able to tell the difference!  This hands-on course will describe why it is important to evaluate websites. Participants will be given criteria for how to evaluate health information on the Internet.
(3 MLA CE)

Tuesday, September 28th from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Prescription for Success: Consumer Health Information on the Internet<http://nnlm.gov/training/consumer/prescription/index.html>
Audience: Information Professionals
Description: This hands-on introductory class to consumer health information will cover the information-seeking behaviors of consumers, the basics of MedlinePlus.gov, DIRLINE, ClinicalTrials.gov and other reliable web pages such as those from professional medical associations and advocacy groups. It will cover sites devoted to pharmaceutical information for consumers, drug-interaction databases and herbal information.
(3 MLA CE)

To register, please email: mheltshe@lancasterlibraries.org
Note: These classes will be held at:
The Library System of Lancaster County Headquarters
1866 Colonial Village Lane, Suite 107
Lancaster, PA 17601
717-207-0500

Link to Directions: http://www.lancasterlibraries.org/lslc/lib/lslc/admin_pdfs/directions_to_lslc_offices.pdf

Hope you can join us!