HSLS Update

HSLS Staff News

Jay Miller recently joined the Systems department as a Systems/ Programmer II. He is responsible for assisting users at the CMC help desk. Jay previously worked in the University Library System, and holds a degree in Information Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh.

In January, Sugandha Sharma began a one-year Health Sciences Library and Bioinformatics traineeship. Sugandha earned a BS and MS in Microbiology from the University of Bombay, and an MS in Biological Sciences from the University of New Orleans. Most recently she worked in a research laboratory at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute.

Liping Song, has joined the HSLS Resource Management area as Circulation/Electronic Projects Li-brarian. She will be responsible for overseeing circulation activities in HSLS, as well as assisting with cataloging of electronic resources. Liping was previously Serials Cataloger at Baker Library, Harvard Business School. She has held technical services and circulation positions in libraries in the Boston area and in New York City. She received her MLIS from Simmons College, and also holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and Yunnan Normal University in Kunming, China.

HSLS participated in the UPMC NeighborLink Karing for Kids program. UPMC NeighborLink teamed with the Allegheny Homeless Children’s Initiative to ensure homeless children in Pittsburgh area shelters would have holiday presents to open. HSLS staff donated over 50 gifts to needy children. The HSLS Staff Development Committee sponsored the project.

PRESENTATIONS

HSLS reference librarian Pat Friedman was a participant in a panel discussion titled “Implementation Strategies: Friend or Foe?” at the American Medical Informatics Association 2002 Symposium held in San Antonio, TX, November 9-13, 2002. In her presentation, “Still up and running: tending an innovation over time,” Pat reported on three years’ worth of interaction with faculty end users of the Faculty Research Interests Project (FRIP).

Charles Wessel, coordinator of Affiliated Hospital Services presented his Medical Library Association continuing education course, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Information Resources for Choices in Healing to the Pittsburgh Regional Chapter of the Medical Library Association on December 5, 2002 at UPMC Shadyside.

PUBLICATIONS

History of medicine librarian Jonathon Erlen, with co-editors Carey Balaban and Richard Siderits, published The Ladies Dispensatory (New York: Routledge, 2003). Dr. Erlen also published “Recent dissertations in the history of medicine” in the Journal of the History of Medicine, 2002, 57(4): 491-495.

HSLS reference librarian Pat Friedman, and coauthors KA McKibbon, and CP Friedman published “Use of a MeSH-based index of faculty research interests to identify faculty publications: An IAIMSian study of precision, recall, and data reusability,” in Proceedings / AMIA Annual Symposium, 2002: 514-8.

Linda Hartman, HSLS reference librarian, published “Internet resources: food and nutrition” in MLA News, 2002, No. 351: 8.