HSLS Staff News
HSLS Participation at the Medical Library Association (MLA) Conference, Washington, DC, May 21-26, 2004
Contributed Papers
Mary Lou Klem, health sciences staff news, June 2004 & bioinformatics trainee, Ellen G. Detlefsen, associate professor of library and information science, and Marsha D. Marcus, professor of psychiatry and psychology: Women’s use of the Internet for health information: the impact of selected demographic and health variables.
Ammon Ripple, document delivery librarian and reference services coordinator, served as moderator for The Power of National and International Health Initiatives.
Deb Silverman, assistant director for Resource Management, Barbara A. Epstein, HSLS director, Michelle Burda, consumer health librarian, Michele Klein Fedyshin, UPMC Shadyside manager of Library Services, Gretchen Maxeiner, catalog librarian, and Ester Saghafi, WPIC librarian: The HSLS Consumer Collection: A Public/Academic Partnership for Consumer Health Information.
Nancy H. Tannery, assistant director for Information Services, Charles B. Wessel, coordinator of Affiliated Hospital Services, Barbara A. Epstein, HSLS director, Cynthia S. Gadd, assistant professor of medicine, Center for Biomedical Informatics: Using outcome measures to assess the information-seeking behavior of clinicians after access to online resources: a longitudinal cohort study.
Invited Papers
Ansuman Chattopadhyay, information specialist in molecular biology and genetics: Selection of Resources for the Development of an Information Service Program in Molecular Biology and Genetics.
Electronic Poster Presentation
Patricia Weiss Friedman and Andrea M. Ketchum, reference librarians: A Reusable Template for Evaluating Point-of-Care Information Products.
Poster Presentations
Andrea M. Ketchum, reference librarian: Consumer health information Web sites: the state of the art.
Michele Klein Fedyshin, UPMC Shadyside manager of Library Services, and Claire Twose, Health Research and Practice librarian, Johns Hopkins University: MLA Task Force on the Information Specialist in Context (ISIC).
Alice B. Kuller, reference librarian: Pathway through the Electronic Maze.
News
Welcome to Jaime Blanck and Teresa Houk, students from the School of Information Sciences, who are working as library interns at HSLS during the summer.
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, received the Excellence in Education award as a Small Group Facilitator. This award was presented by the School of Medicine Class of 2007 for valued contributions and dedication to teaching.
Publications
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, reviewed "Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History," in ISIS 2003, 94(4): 696; "Recent dissertations in the history of medicine" in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2004, 59(1): 145-148; and with Michael Torbenson wrote "A case study of the Lash’s Bitters Company-Advertising changes after the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 and the Sherley Amendment of 1912" in Pharmacy in History, 2003, 45(4): 139-149.
As a member of the Standards Committee of the Medical Library Association Technical Services Section, Gosia Fort, cataloging and database management librarian, reviews drafts of National Information Standards Organization (NISO) documents. She recently completed a review of NISO Z39.7-2000X Information Services and Use: Metrics & Statistics for Libraries and Information Providers. Gosia’s committee work helps to shape the final version of NISO documents before they become published technical standards used in the management of information.
Amy Gregg, reference librarian, with coauthors T.K. Schleyer and P. Corby, published "A preliminary analysis of the dental informatics literature" in Advances in
Dental Research 2003,17: 20-4.
