Staff News
NEWS
Farewell to Yi-Bu Chen, assistant information specialist in Molecular Biology and Genetics. Chen is leaving HSLS after three years to assume a similar position at the Norris Medical Library of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Farewell to Brian McGuirk, circulation specialist at Falk Library, who is leaving HSLS to travel to China, where he will be teaching English to Chinese students.
James Perry is the new materials handler for HSLS Resource Management. Perry has been a temporary worker at the HSLS remote storage facility since November 2006. His new duties include assisting with receiving and processing of new materials, while continuing to work with storage items.
Kenneth Smith joins HSLS as an evening shelver at Falk Library Circulation. Smith has worked in the remote storage facility as a temporary worker, and will now assist in stacks maintenance, shelving materials, and processing materials for storage.
PUBLICATIONS
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, published "Dissertation list" in History of Science Society Newsletter 2007; 36(1):15. Erlen also served as a major contributor to "ISIS Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 2006." Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Jill Foust, Web manager/reference librarian; Phillip Bergen, information architecture librarian, Gretchen Maxeiner, cataloging librarian; and Peter Pawlowski, software engineer and lead linguist, Vivísimo, Inc., published "Improving E-book Access via a Library-Developed Full-Text Search Tool" in the Journal of the Medical Library Association 2007 Jan; 95(1):40-45.
Andrea Ketchum, reference librarian, published "Rehabilitation Act of 1973: Resources for School Nurses" in MLA News 2007 Jan; 392:8.
Nancy Hrinya Tannery, associate director for Information Services; Charles Wessel, coordinator of Affiliated Hospital Services; Barbara Epstein, HSLS director; and Cynthia Gadd, research associate professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University, published: "Hospital Nurses' Use of Knowledge-Based Information Resources" in Nursing Outlook 2007 Jan-Feb; 55(1):15-19.
PRESENTATIONS
Leslie Czechowski, collections librarian, presented a poster titled "How Many Subject Headings Does It Take to Describe an Archival Collection?" at the national conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, March 29-April 1, 2007, in Baltimore Md. The poster was co-authored with Elizabeth J. Cox, special formats cataloger, Southern Illinois University.
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, served as moderator for 3 paper sessions at the international meeting of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, March 2-3, 2007, in Charlottesville, Va.
Linda Hartman, reference librarian, presented a paper titled "Soundbytes of the Past: A Brief Look at Disability Perception, Deafness, and Audiology" at the international meeting of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, March 2-3, 2007, in Charlottesville, Va.
