HSLS Staff News
Staff Changes
Welcome to Rachel Borchardt, Lili Hou, and Carolyn Polgardy, students in the masters in library science program at the School of Information Sciences. The students are completing 15 week field placements at HSLS during the summer term. Borchardt and Polgardy are working in the Reference department, and Hou is working in Resource Management.
Bryan Fuller has accepted the Circulation/stack assistant position at Falk Library. He has been a student shelver at Falk Library since September 2003, and is currently completing a BA degree in classics at the University of Pittsburgh.
Welcome to John Ladue, who will be staffing the Computer and Media Center help desk and providing computer support to both patrons and staff. He holds a BA in communications from Grove City College.
Nicole Muehlbauer has joined HSLS as the new operations specialist in the Computer and Media Center. She previously worked as an office administrator in the University Child Development Center. Nicole holds a BS in psychology from Pitt, and is currently working towards a BA degree in architectural studies.
Michael Yaklich has been promoted to serials manager for HSLS. He has worked in various positions in circulation and technical services at Falk Library since 1988. Mike holds a BA degree in Social Sciences/Psychology from Muhlenberg College.
Publications
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, published “Dissertations in the History of Pharmacy” in Pharmacy in History, 2004, 46(4): 177-9; “Dissertations” in AVISTA Forum Journal, 2004, 14(1): 81-3.; and with George Rodway “Dissertation Titles and Synopses” in Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, 2005, 16(1): e1-e2. Erlen also reviewed Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy by Michael Flannery, New York: Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2004, in JAMA, 2005, 293(13): 1671-2.
Linda Hartman, Rebecca Abromitis, and Alice Kuller, reference librarians, and Barbara Epstein, HSLS director, published “Staff Development Planning in an Academic Health Sciences Library” in Journal of the Medical Library Association 2005, 93(2): 271-7.
Presentations
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, presented “Human Experimentation in 20th Century America: Myths and Realities” at the Brown Cancer Center in Louisville, KY on May 23, 2005.
Ester Saghafi, reference librarian, presented a 4 credit CE course “Locating Psychological Testing Instruments for use in Health and Mental Health Settings: Measuring Health Beyond Biometrics” at the Medical Library Association Pittsburgh Regional Chapter Spring meeting held at Jefferson Regional Medical Center on April 15, 2005.
News
Patricia Weiss, reference librarian, attended a librarian coordinators’ training workshop for the “Changing the Face of Medicine” exhibit on March 31-April 1 in Bethesda, Maryland.
