HSLS Staff News
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, served as program chair for the national meeting of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, held at Duke University/University of North Carolina, February 21-22, 2003. At the meeting, he was appointed to the Society’s executive board, and to the program committee for the 2004 meeting.
Patricia Friedman, HSLS reference staff news, April 2003, has been elected as Section Council Representative for the Medical Informatics Section of the Medical Libraries Association.
Minda Fogarty recently joined the HSLS staff, and is responsible for providing weekend coverage for the Falk Library circulation desk. She holds a degree in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh
PRESENTATIONS
Ammon Ripple, Document Delivery Librarian and Reference Services Coordinator, presented a 3-hour continuing education course titled “Digital Document Delivery Demystified” to over 60 librarians affiliated with HSLANJ (the Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey) on February 19, 2003 in Princeton, New Jersey. In addition, he presented a 3 hour training course titled “Public Health on the Web: Finding What You Need When You Need It” to 14 public health professionals from the Allegheny County Health Department on February 28, 2003. The course was sponsored by the Pennsylvania and Ohio Public Health Training Center, a federally funded center within the Graduate School of Public Health.
PUBLICATIONS
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, is a contributing editor for ISIS Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the History of Science Society, 2001. In addition, Dr. Erlen published: “Dissertation titles and synopses” with George Rodway in Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, 2002, 13:269-272; “A tour of dissertations” with Kelly Fryer-Edwards in ASBH Exchange, 2002-2003, 5(3): 4; “Hidden treasurers in the history of psychiatry: Review of dissertations” in History of Psychiatry, 2002, 13(4): 485-497; and “Dissertations in the history of pharmacy” in Pharmacy in History, 2003, 45(1): 42.
