Jeanette de Richemond, HTAIS Information Specialist, ECRI Institute, wrote the “Expert Searching” column entitled “Adding Value to Searches: Documenting Search Results” in the February 2009 issue of the MLA News.
Ellen Justice, Medical Librarian, Christiana Care Health System, and Barbara Bason, a practitioner of classical homeopathy in Wilmington, DE, published “The healing way of homeopathy: Similia similibus curentur or ‘let likes cure likes’” in Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, 12(3), 284-292.
Jackie Luizzi has joined the staff of the Wistar Institute. She has worked at the VA Medical Center and in the medical library at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. Before coming to Wistar, she was a Reference Librarian at the Free Library of Northampton Township in Richboro. Jackie is a new member of MLA national and the Philadelphia Regional Chapter.
Robb Mackes, DelMIRA Project Coordinator for the Delaware Academy of Medicine, learned this week that he is the recipient of the Thomson Reuters/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award! Through Robb’s management, DelMIRA (Delaware Medical Information Resource Alliance) provides access to electronic databases, textbooks and journals to all acute care hospitals and four federally qualified health centers in Delaware. DelMIRA was created to “… address the disparity in access to biomedical information and health data that exists statewide and affects all types of health care institutions.” Robb can add this award to his many accomplishments, including the “Librarian of the Year” award he received in 2008 from HSLANJ: the Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey.
Rachel Resnick, an information professional in Montgomery County, is a contractor on the techforltc.org project, a website that provides information about technology options in long-term care settings. She will be performing literature searches in order to update the related readings about the various care issues, and will also investigate information for educational resources section that will be included in the site in the future. The website is the result of a research project initiative by the Department of Health and Human Services to address barriers to bringing new technologies into residential care settings. Polisher Research Institute of the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life, and IDEAS, Inc. constructed the website under contract with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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