You can see photos of the party that HSL held of Diane Johnson at
http://picasaweb.google.com/Caryn.Scoville/DianeS30thAnniversary?feat=email#
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Scoville Presents Poster Session at Medical Library Association Conference
Diane Johnson, Barb Jones and Caryn Scoville attended the Medical Library Association conference in Washington DC from May 22-26. Caryn presented the poster, “Using MedlinePlus for Condition-Specific Patient Education in Outpatient Clinics”.
Boyd Awarded Medical Library Association Award
Trenton Boyd has been awarded the Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences from the Medical Library Association. The award recognizes distinguished achievement in collection development in the health sciences.
HSL Involved in Literature in Health Care Program
Literature in Health Care, which begins this month, is partially funded by the Missouri Humanities Council and is brought to UMHC by the combined efforts of the MU Health Sciences Library, School of Medicine, School of Health Professions and the University Hospital Arts in Health Care Program. The program known as Literature in Medicine was begun in Maine, and has spread to many states through the state humanities councils. It helps health care providers to empathize more fully with patients, and deal with their own human reactions to life as a health care provider. We at Mizzou are fortunate to benefit this year from the program.
The program will consist of five consecutive monthly meetings of the same 25 individuals who commit to the readings and regular monthly attendance. Monthly meetings will begin with dinner at 5:30, followed by a two-hour discussion facilitated by Dr. Brick Johnstone, Professor of Health Psychology. Meeting dates for the 2010 session will be January 20, February 10, March 10, April 14, and May 12.
This popular program is already full. Contact Shelly Worden for more information.
October 19th is Laptop Registration Day at HSL
Register your laptop to protect against theft
A representative from the MU Police Department will help register your laptop online by typing information in the form about the laptop then submitting the information into a database. This process will help the MUPD and other law enforcement in the event that your laptop is ever stolen and/or if a laptop is recovered. MUPD will also assist you in engraving your laptop with an etching device and provide you with information to help you secure your property. To get a head start on the process please visit the MUPD Crime Prevention page.
When? October 19th from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Where? Health Sciences Library, just inside the main entrance in the Photocopy Room.
Cost? This event is FREE and all are welcome.
Contact us at 882-6141 or referencequestions@missouri.edu.
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Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians
At long last the exhibit is up! For more in depth information check out:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/ppo/programming/changingface/changingmedicine.cfm
Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians
The Health Sciences library is hosting this national exhibit for 6 weeks, October 2nd – November 14th. The panels and website document the advances women have made for the field of medicine.
• The exhibit will be in the library from October 2nd through November 14th.
• There will be several talks & discussions in conjunction with the exhibit. All are free & everyone is welcome to attend.
• Please view our event list on line at http://healthlibrary.missouri.edu/changingface/
• The exhibit consists of 6 panels and 2 computer kiosks.
• The exhibit was originally created by the National Library of Medicine.
• The American Library Association adapted it to be a traveling exhibition to libraries & schools across the country.
Medical Library Association Contributions by HSL Librarians
Yes, the Medical Library Association met in Honolulu in May, but don’t let the exotic venue trick you into thinking it was just a party. MLA 2009 was, as always, a national-level professional meeting brimming with contributions from medical librarians of all kinds. Each of the four librarians who attended from MU did so because of an individual or team-member contribution that was highlighted in some way at the meeting. And they each attended many sessions crammed into the program to bring back new learning and ideas to MU. As one person stated, “I had no time to realize where I was. I was once again at MLA, surrounded by professional content and an endless stream of sessions and meetings!”
We’re proud of all of our contributors, but especially so of Trenton Boyd, who won the Murray Gottlieb Prize for best essay on the history of medicine. Not only did winning the prize bring professional recognition to the University of Missouri, it also helped to cover expenses for Trenton’s attendance at the meeting. See the photograph of Trenton receiving the prize at the meeting, and a photograph of him with Donald Lindberg, Director of the National Library of Medicine, and Lucretia McClure, one of MLA’s most esteemed emeritus members. The Murray Gottlieb prize is awarded annually, dating back to 1956, in order to recognize and stimulate health sciences librarians’ interest in the history of medicine.
The Tiger pride continues. Diane Johnson served on an invited four-member panel sponsored by the Collection Development Section to address the topic: “Technology and E-Resources: Evolving with the Times.”
Barb Jones and Rebecca Graves also attended the meeting, and presented on their collaborative efforts. MLA hosts contributed paper and poster sessions each year, the selections for which are based on criteria for professional rigor. Competition to contribute a paper is stiff, with only about one in four accepted. Poster sessions are not as competitive, but inclusion can never be taken for granted, since there are always more submissions than slots. The papers and posters are listed below.
Presented Papers:
“What might Google Books mean for medical libraries?” by Diane Johnson
“Infusing Health Sciences Libraries with Economic Muscle” by Elizabeth Kelly, Barbara B. Jones, John Bramble
Posters:
“Creating a Framework for Collaborative Regional Library Research” by Deborah H. Ward AHIP, MaryEllen C. Sievert and Barbara B. Jones
“”Mapping Information Literacy: Using Concept Mapping to Understand Nurses’ Sources of Health Information” by Louise C. Miller, Rebecca S. Graves AHIP, Barbara B. Jones and Mary Ellen C. Sievert
Congratulations to all of our MU authors for this recognition of their work!
Deb Ward
P.S. Rebecca’s poster was blogged about at http://npc.mlanet.org/mla09/?p=662
Caryn Scoville and Kate Anderson Presented Paper in St. Louis
On April 17th, Caryn Scoville and Kate Anderson presented “Creating an Evidence-based Morning Report for Residents in Child Health” at the 6th Annual St. Louis Children’s Hospital Nursing and Allied Health Research and Evidence-Based Practice Conference. The theme of the conference was: Curing Within a Safe Environment.
Announcements From HSL
Hello Everyone,
I want to announce that this morning Billi, Mike and Shelley put up a poster that Kate presented at MLA last year. It is in the display case on first floor. Other librarians have agreed to bring in their former MLA and MCMLA posters so that we can put them in the case over time. Thanks to all of them for doing this.
Also, this Friday, HSL will host the Arts in Healthcare Week art display. A group of medical students will move about 25 art pieces from the University Hospital Lobby to the HSL second floor public area early on Friday morning, and will return them to their owners late Friday afternoon.
I hope you will take the time to enjoy them!
Deb Ward
Diane Johnson Receives MLA Conference Grant
Diane Johnson was been awarded one of two Educational Media & Technologies Section annual meeting attendance grants for the Medical Library Association 2009 conference. She received the award because of her “desire to apply technology to enhance research.”