HSLS Staff News
NEWS
Barbara Epstein, HSLS director, was invited to participate in an assessment of medical information resources and libraries in Vietnam. The project was sponsored by the International Program of the National Library of Medicine. The assessment team spent two weeks in Vietnam in January 2007, touring medical libraries in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Hue, and Can Tho, and meeting with a variety of medical educators, students, administrators and librarians.
Pat Weiss, reference and information technology librarian, has been elected chair of the Benefits and Welfare Committee of the University Senate.
Farewell to Paul Worona, associate director for Information Technology, who left HSLS to accept a position in the Department of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Worona was with HSLS for 10 years, first as head of the Computing and Media Center in Falk Library, and then as HSLS assistant director for systems.
Fran Yarger has been appointed HSLS assistant director for computing and systems. Yarger has served as HSLS head of computing services since July 2000, and before that, as director of the Computer and Media Center in Falk Library. As new assistant director, she is responsible for management of HSLS' information technology operations, and will have oversight of all public and staff computing in HSLS libraries.
Congratulations to these HSLS staff members who recently received University of Pittsburgh staff recognition awards. For five years of service: Kathy DeVito and Robert Lucas; for 10 years of service: Misti Kane.
PUBLICATIONS
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, published “New dissertations” in Nursing History Review 2007, 15: 211-216 and “Dissertation/Theses” in Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 2006, 23(2): 591-594.
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, reviewed “Plague and Fire: Battling the Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown” by James C. Mohr, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005, in The Hawaiian Journal of History 2006, 40: 204-206.
Malgorzata Fort, head of bibliographic services, reviewed “Education for Library Cataloging: International Perspective” edited by Dajin D. Sun and Ruth C. Carter, NY: Haworth Information Press, 2006, in Doody’s Review Service.
PRESENTATIONS
Ann Mitchell, assistant professor of nursing and psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, presented a poster titled "Implementation of an Evidence-Based Practice Model within a Hospital Setting" at the Networking the Americas Consortium for Nursing and Allied Health (NACNAH) Annual Conference: Strategic Summit on Academic Internationalization for the Health Professions, on November 9-10, 2006 in Kansas City, KS. The poster was coauthored by Rebecca Abromitis, reference librarian; Donna Beacom, WPIC clinical care coordinator, inpatient services, nursing research & informatics; Sheri Goldstrohm, Barb Ferdiani, Dawn DeCicco, Tracy Barrett, Tara Gaus, Georgia Patterson, Matt Witt, Melanie Wood, WPIC clinical nurses; Lynn Boucek, and Jessica Franzetta, School of Nursing students.
