HSLS Staff News
PUBLICATIONS
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, published “Recent Dissertations in the History of Medicine” in Journal of the History of Medicine, 2003, 58(4): 466-469; “The nursing history bibliographic project: Doctoral dissertations in the history of nursing” in Nursing History Review, 2004, 12:193-230; “Dissertations” in Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 2003, 20(2): 457-460; and with Kelly Fryer-Edwards, “A Tour of Dissertations” in ASBH Exchange, 2003, 6(3): 11. Erlen also authored a book chapter “Scholarship lost-scholarship found: Dissertation literature on botanical gardens and medicinal plants” pp. 67-94, in Gardening from the Bible to North America: Essays in Honor of Irene Jacob, edited by Walter Jacob, Pittsburgh: Rodef Shalom Press, 2003.
Amy Gregg, reference staff news, December 2003, and Jody Wozar, former HSLS Web manager and reference librarian, published “Delivering Internet health resources to an underserved health care profession: school nurses,” in Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2003, 91(4): 398-403.
Michele Klein Fedyshin, manager, UPMC Shadyside Libraries, published “The Pleasures of Publication” in National Network : the Newsletter of the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association, 2003, 28(2): 10.
KUDOS
The Hopwood Library at UPMC Shadyside was one of 12 libraries selected from across the United States and Canada to be part of a chapter titled “Consumer Health Information in Action: Profiles of 12 innovative libraries” in the Consumer Health Information Source Book, edited by Alan M. Rees, Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2003.
PRESENTATIONS
Michelle Burda, consumer health librarian for the Hopwood Library at UPMC Shadyside, coauthored “Can Patients Trust Arthritis Information on the Internet?” which was presented as a poster at the American College of Rheumatology’s Annual Scientific Meeting, October 16-21, 2003 in San Antonio, Texas. The study evaluated arthritis Web site disease information for content, navigability, literacy level, and currency.
Barbara A. Epstein, HSLS interim director, was an invited speaker at “The Library As Place: Symposium on Building and Revitalizing Health Sciences Libraries in the Digital Age.” This event, co-hosted by the National Library of Medicine and the Association of Academic Health Science Libraries, was held on November 5-6, 2003 at the National Institutes of Health Campus in Bethesda, Md. Her paper was titled “Hospital Libraries: From the Past Into the Future.” She also presented a poster titled “The Libraries at UPMC Shadyside: Health Professionals and Health Consumers Sharing Information Access.
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, presented a lecture on Oct. 20, 2003 to 1st and 2nd year School of Dentistry students titled “Human experimentation in 20th century America: Myths and realities.”
Ammon Ripple, document delivery librarian and reference services coordinator, presented “Partnering with librarians to teach information retrieval and Web development skills to MPH students” at the American Public Health Association meeting, held November 15-19, 2003 in San Francisco. Ripple and Barbara Folb, public health librarian, were awarded stipends from the Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund to help fund their attendance at the meeting. This competitive award is presented annually to librarians who work in the field of public health.
