HSLS Staff News
HSLS Participation at the Medical Library Association (MLA) Conference, San Diego, California, May 2-7, 2003
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
Renae Barger, staff news, June 2003 sciences library and informatics trainee, and Nancy Tannery, assistant director for Information Services: Evaluating the need for an electronic reference service within an academic health sciences library system.
Ansuman Chattopadhyay, information specialist in molecular biology and genetics, Barbara Epstein, associate director, Patricia Mickelson, director, and Nancy Tannery, assistant director for Information Services: Development of an information service program in molecular biology and genetics.
Barbara Epstein, associate director, Nancy Tannery, assistant director for Information Services, Charles Wessel, coordinator of Affiliated Hospital Services, and Cynthia Gadd: What did they do before it was online? Measuring information-seeking behavior of clinicians prior to initiation of access to electronic resources.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Jill Foust, HSLS reference librarian, and Kathryn Puskar: Impact of an Evidence-Based Searching Class for Nurses.
Michele Klein-Fedyshin, UPMC Shadyside manager of Library Services, Michelle Burda, UPMC Shadyside consumer health librarian, and Barbara Lawrence, RN, MEd: Partnering for Enhanced Patient Education.
Ammon S. Ripple, document delivery librarian and reference services coordinator: Stuck in the mud? Re-thinking interlibrary loan and document delivery.
Nancy Tannery, assistant director for Information Services, and Ammon S. Ripple, document delivery librarian and reference services coordinator: Taking the library to the people: designing and marketing population-based reference and instruction services.
Paul Worona, assistant director for Systems, Ammon S. Ripple, document delivery librarian and reference services coordinator, and Jody A. Wozar, Web manager and reference librarian: Order by number: developing an automatic citation retrieval feature for a Web-based document request form.
STAFF NEWS
Laurie W. Davidson, library specialist at the Falk Library reference desk, received a Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from the University of Pittsburgh in April 2003.
Deborah Downey, library specialist at UPMC Shadyside libraries, was elected Secretary of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Medical Library Association.
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, was appointed to the Education Committee of the American Association for the History of Medicine and to the Publications Committee for the Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences.
Linda Hartman, reference librarian, has been re-elected to the Community Relations Committee of the University of Pittsburgh Senate.
PUBLICATIONS
Barbara A. Epstein, HSLS associate director, and coauthors Elaine R. Martin, helen-ann brown, Carolyn E. Lipscomb, Ruth A. Riley, and Jean P. Shipman published “The Leadership Reconsidered Symposium: Report” in the Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2003 April, 91(2): 251-257.
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, published “Review of scourge: the once and future threat of smallpox” in The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2003, 78(1): 127-128; “Recent dissertations in the history of medicine” in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2003, 58(1): 82-86, and 2003, 58(2): 225-227; “Dissertations in women’s history” in Journal of Women’s History, spring, 2002, 14(1): 202-208; summer, 2002, 14(2): 191-195; autumn, 2002, 14(3): 183-185; and with Kelly Fryer-Edwards “A tour of dissertations.” ASBH Exchange, 2003, 6(1): 7. Dr. Erlen reviewed four books in the American Reference Book Annual, 2003: Reproductive Rights and Technology, HIV and AIDS: A Global View, Transplantation Sourcebook, and with Amy Gregg, reference librarian, reviewed The Cancer Handbook. Dr. Erlen also served as contributing editor for ISIS Current Bibliography 2002.
Linda Hartman, reference librarian, published “Searching the Rehabilitation Literature,” in MLA News 2003, (355): 18.
Jody A. Wozar, Web manager and reference librarian, and Paul C. Worona, assistant director for Systems published “The use of online information resources by nurses” in the Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2003 April, 91(2): 216-221.
