HSLS Update

HSLS Staff News

Mary Lou Klem, began as Health Sciences Library and Informatics Trainee for 2003-04 on August 15, 2003. Dr. Klem earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from North Dakota State University, and came to Pittsburgh as a postdoctoral fellow in cardiovascular epidemiology in 1992. Since 1999, she has been an assistant professor of Psychiatry at the Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic, and, since 2001, co-director of the Behavior Assessment and Treatment Core Obesity/Nutrition Research Center. She earned an MLIS degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 2003.

Alice Kuller, HSLS reference librarian, has been elected to the Bylaws Committee of the University of Pittsburgh Senate for a three-year term.

Ammon Ripple, document delivery librarian and reference services coordinator, has been appointed to serve on the advisory committee of EFTS, an organization that manages electronic interlibrary loan payments for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Ammon has also been appointed chair of the Web Committee for the Public Health/Health Administration section of the Medical Library Association.

staff news, August 2003

Reference librarians Rebecca Abromitis, Ester Saghafi and Barbara Folb published “Assessing the Information Needs of Psychiatric Residents” in Academic Psychiatry, 2003, 27(2): 100-103.

Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, served as a contributing editor for the online Bibliography of the Relations of Science to Literature and the Arts 2000 <www.litsci.org/>, published by the Society for Literature and Science, 2003. He also published "Recent dissertations in the history of medicine" in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2003, 58(3): 367-372;and with Kelly Fryer-Edwards published “A Tour of Dissertations” in ASBH Exchange, 2003, 6(2): 10.

Charles Wessel, HSLS coordinator of Affiliated Hospital Services, Jody Wozar, Web manager and reference librarian, and Barbara Epstein, HSLS associate director, published “The role of the academic medical center library in training public librarians,” in Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2003, 91(3): 352-360.

PRESENTATIONS

Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, presented “The AIDS Crisis: Multiple Perspectives” at Educating Ethical Leaders: Ethics for Public and Professional Life, sponsored by GSPIA, University of Pittsburgh on May 17, 2003.

On June 5, 2003 at the Annual Meeting of the Florida Health Sciences Library Association, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, Charlie Wessel, HSLS coordinator of Affiliated Hospital Services, presented his Medical Library Association CE course Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Information Resources for Choices in Healing.