HSLS Staff News
Renae Barger and Andrea Ketchum have joined HSLS as reference librarians. Both are former Health Sciences Library and Informatics trainees.
Zach Biden transferred to WPIC Library from Falk Library. His new duties include staffing the circulation desk, processing journals, and bindery functions.
Michelle Burda, consumer health librarian from the Hopwood Library, UPMC Shadyside and Ester Saghafi, reference librarian at WPIC, represented HSLS as one of 40 exhibitors at the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative Diabetes & Depression Resource Showcase on September 15, 2003 at the PPG Wintergarden. The purpose of the event was to showcase the wealth of services and resources available in southwestern Pennsylvania to patients who have diabetes and depression, and their families and caregivers. Resources on diabetes and depression were available at the HSLS booth, along with a display about finding and evaluating health information, featuring the HSLS Consumer Health Collection and Consumer Health Information Web site.
Deb Silverman, assistant director for Resource Management, attended the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians in Cambridge, MA in August, 2003. The Leadership Institute is a joint program of ACRL and the Harvard Institutes of Higher Education.
Nancy Tannery, assistant director for Information Services, served as a member of the steering committee for the QuintEssential Conference: Collaborations, Partnerships and Solutions, held October 26-28, 2003 in Philadelphia, Pa. This was a joint meeting of four Medical Library Association chapters (Mid-Atlantic, New York-New Jersey, Philadelphia Regional, and Pittsburgh Regional), as well as the Philadelphia chapter of the Special Libraries Association. Attendees were presented with a choice of educational sessions centered on topics such as partnerships, e-content, new roles, and communication.
staff news, October 2003 raised money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation by participating in the eighth annual Lee National Denim Day. In exchange for donations, staff members were permitted to wear blue jeans to work on October 10.
On September 10, 2003, HSLS sponsored the Medical Library Association teleconference Reading Between the Lines: Focusing on Health Information Literacy at UPMC Shadyside.The goal of the two-hour teleconference was to enhance the knowledge of information professionals about the concepts of health information literacy, and to highlight opportunities for using these principles in the provision of quality consumer health and patient education information services. Librarians from HSLS, the Pittsburgh Regional Chapter of MLA and local public libraries attended the teleconference.
Publications
Jonathon Erlen, History of Medicine librarian, published “Dissertations in women’s history” in Journal of Women’s History, 2003, 15(1): 235-236; “Research on the history of psychiatry: Dissertation Abstracts, 2002,” in History of Psychiatry, 2003, 14 (2): 257-268; with co-author Jay Toth “Recent dissertations,” in American Indian Quarterly, 2002, 26(2): 320-321; and with co-author George Rodway, “Dissertation titles and synopses,” in Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, 2003, 14: 197-199.
Presentations
Deb Silverman, assistant director for Resource Management, and Barbara Epstein, HSLS interim director, presented “The HSLS Consumer Collection: A Public/Academic Partnership for Consumer Health Information” at the Pennsylvania Library Association Annual Conference, held in Pittsburgh October 2-4, 2003. The presentation was co-authored by HSLS librarians Michelle Burda, Michele Klein-Fedyshin, Gretchen Maxeiner Millis, and Ester Saghafi.
Farewell and Best Wishes
Farewell and best wishes to Rebecca D’Acunto, library specialist at WPIC library; Laurie Davidson, library specialist at Falk Library; Yumin Jiang, HSLS serials and electronic resources librarian; and Jody Wozar, HSLS Web manager and reference librarian.
