Edited by Sheryl Panka-Bryman
Lydia Collins of the University of Delaware was accepted to the fall session of the National Library of Medicine’s 2010 fellowship program in BioMedical Informatics II at the Marine Biological Laboratory <http://www.mbl.edu/>, Woods Hole, MA. Lydia is Assistant Librarian in the Reference Department at the University of Delaware Library, where she is responsible for reference, information literacy and instruction, and collection development, and she is the faculty, staff and student liaison to all departments within the College of Health Sciences.
Gina Kaiser of the University of the Sciences was elected a Director-at-Large for the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Association of College & Research Libraries, effective June 2010 through 2013.
Lucy Bea Kaplan
Gary Kaplan of Thomas Jefferson University and his wife, Molly, welcomed their beautiful daughter, Lucy Bea, into their family on June 14, 2010.
Daniel G. Kipnis of Thomas Jefferson University in conjunction with his colleague, Gary Kaplan, and others presented a paper at MLA’s 2010 Conference, Reflect and Connect, in Washington, DC, for the Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section: “Beyond Cool: Reflecting on Web 2.0 Adventures and Misadventures,” entitled “4 Wikis + 4 Blogs + 70 Third-year Medical School Students = Improved Students’ Confidence in Practicing Evidence-based Medicine (EBM): A Pilot Project Using Blogs and Wikis for a Collaboration EBM Assignment in a Third-year Internal Medicine Clerkship”.
Jeanette de Richemond is the recipient of a Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. The Fellowship is awarded by the Beta Phi Mu honor society to Library and Information Sciences doctoral students who are working on their dissertations.
Mindy Robinson-Paquette, of Sanofi-aventis, is a contributor (pages 129-132) to the recently published book The Accidental Health Sciences Librarian, by Lisa A. Ennis and Nicole Mitchell, Information Today, Inc., ©2010.
The Wistar Institute’s Library and Archives will be a major lender to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts’ Anatomy/Academy exhibition, scheduled for January 29-May 13, 2011. The Institute will be lending all of the extant William Rush anatomical models as well as books, documents and other items from their collections.
Jo-Ann Babish, AHIP, has joined the staff at The Commonwealth Medical College library in Scranton, PA, as Head, Electronic Resources and Technical Services. She will be providing leadership in development, maintenance and support of high quality electronic resources, the library’s website and technical services. Previously, Jo-Ann was the Director of Library and CME Services at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, PA. The Commonwealth Medical College, one of the nation’s newest medical colleges, welcomed its charter class of sixty-five medical students and Masters of Biomedical Sciences (MBS) students in August 2009.
Gary E. Kaplan and Daniel G. Kipnis, of Thomas Jefferson University’s Scott Memorial Library, presented a poster at MLA’s TriChapter Conference, 3 by the Sea, held in Atlantic City October 5-8, 2009, entitled, Replacement for the 10 page paper? A pilot project using blogs and wikis for a collaborative EBM assignment in a 3rd year internal medical clerk
Nina Long of The Wistar Institute Library recently discovered a box full of 19th century personal papers and documents from Institute founder, Isaac J. Wistar (1827-1905) in the Wistar vault as some reorganizing was going on. Included in the box were 74 pieces of colonial currency dating from 1758-1777, thirteen printed by Benjamin Franklin. The money is from the colonies of PA, NJ and DE . It was accompanied by a note in Wistar’s handwriting that the currency came to him from Isaac Cooper Jones, his grandfather, who died in 1865. Jones was Mayor of Philadelphia from 1767-1769. In September the collection was appraised by John Kraljevich of JK America, New York at $14,500.
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