HSLS Staff News
STAFF CHANGES
HSLS welcomes Jaime Blanck and Yibu Chen as a Health Sciences Library and Biomedical Informatics Trainees for 2004-05. Ms. Blanck earned a BA degree in art history from the University of Cincinnati in 1998, an MLIS degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 2004, and recently completed a library student internship at WPIC Library. Dr. Chen earned a PhD in biology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Since 1998, he has been a postdoctoral research associate and research associate at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Science at Rutgers University.
Mary Lou Klem has been appointed HSLS reference librarian. Dr. Klem recently completed the Health Sciences Library and Biomedical Informatics Traineeship. Prior to this experience, she was an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, and codirector of the Behavior Assessment and Treatment Core Obesity/Nutrition Research Center. She holds a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Memphis, and received her MLIS degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 2003.
NEWS
Barbara Folb, HSLS public health librarian, has been appointed liaison librarian to the Graduate School of Public Health, replacing Ammon Ripple.
Linda Hartman, reference librarian, has been elected chair of the University of Pittsburgh Senate's Community Relations Committee.
Deb Silverman, Nancy Tannery, and Paul Worona have been appointed associate directors for staff news, August 2004. Silverman, associate director for Resource Management, has been HSLS assistant director for Resource Management since 1998. Her responsibilities include oversight of acquisition and management of books and periodicals for all HSLS libraries, licensing of electronic resources for HSL Online, circulation and access to HSLS resources, space planning for all libraries, and management of Voyager. Nancy Tannery, associate director for Information Services, has served as assistant director for Information Services since 1998. Nancy's responsibilities include oversight of all HSLS instructional programs and reference services provided to the schools of the health sciences and the hospitals of the UPMC, as well as the Document Delivery Department, and specialized information service areas including History of Medicine and Molecular Biology and Genetics. Paul Worona, associate director for Information Technology, has been HSLS assistant director for Systems since 1998. Paul is responsible for management of HSLS' increasingly complex and sophisticated information technology operations. He will have oversight of all public and staff computing, and the Computer and Media Center in Falk Library. Paul will also be responsible for strategic direction of the continuing application of new initiatives and developments in information technology.
A paper presented by HSLS librarians at the 2004 Medical Library Association (MLA) annual meeting has garnered an Honorable Mention Award from the MLA Research Section. Receiving the award are Nancy H. Tannery, associate director for Information Services, and coauthors Charles B. Wessel, coordinator of Affiliated Hospital Services, Barbara A. Epstein, HSLS director, and Cynthia S. Gadd, assistant professor of medicine, Center for Biomedical Informatics, for their paper: Using outcome measures to assess the information-seeking behavior of clinicians after access to online resources: a longitudinal cohort study. The award recognizes quality in original research in the field of medical library science.
Patricia Weiss Friedman, reference librarian, has been elected the section council representative for the Medical Informatics Section of the Medical Library Association.
Charlie Wessel, coordinator of Affiliated Hospital Services, has been elected as the 2004-2005 program chair and will be incoming chair 2004-2005 for the Pittsburgh Regional Chapter, Medical Library Association.
Paul Worona, associate director for Information Technology, has earned an MBA degree from the University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, with a concentration in management of information systems.
PUBLICATIONS
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, published "A tour of dissertations" in ASBH Exchange, 2004, 7(2): 5 (with Kelly Fryer-Edwards); "Recent dissertations in the history of medicine" in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2004, 59(2): 293-296, and 59(3): 471-474; "Dissertation list" in History of Science Society Newsletter, 2004, 33(3): 12; review of Bullets and Bacilli: The Spanish-American War and Military Medicine by Vincent J. Cirillo, in The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2004, 79(2): 229-230; and "Research on the history of psychiatry: Dissertation Abstracts, 2003" in History of Psychiatry, 2004, 15(2): 237-254. Dr. Erlen also served as editor with Joseph Spillane to publish Federal Drug Control: Origins and Evolution 1875-2001, Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, 2004.
