HSLS Staff News
NEWS
Farewell to Philip Bergen, information architect librarian. Bergen has been at HSLS since 1998, beginning as a library and informatics trainee, and continuing as electronic resource librarian, before assuming his current position in 2001.
Barbara Epstein, HSLS director, was elected Chair of the Leadership and Management Section of the Medical Library Association for 2007-08.
Farewell to Deborah Lordi Silverman, associate director for resource management, who is leaving HSLS after nine years. Silverman will be associated with Coutts Information Services as technical services manager for North America.
HSLS welcomes Carolyn Biglow and John Siegel as new reference librarians. Biglow earned a BA degree in mathematics from Chatham College, and an MLIS degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She comes to HSLS from the Bruceton Research Lab Library, where she was a technical librarian. Previous positions include being a solo librarian for a manufacturing and engineering company, and experience at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
Siegel earned a BA in Social Work from San Francisco State University and an MLIS degree from the University of Maryland. He has previous library experience at the National Agricultural Library in Washington, DC, the Maryland AIDS Administration, and the National Oral Health Clearinghouse.
PUBLICATIONS
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, published "Recent Dissertations in the History of Medicine", Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 62(2): 244-250, 2007; "Recent Dissertations in the History of Medicine", Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 62(1): 90-95, 2007; "Dissertations in the History of Pharmacy", Pharmacy in History, 87(4): 174-175, 2006; "Dissertations", AVISTA Forum Journal Medieval Science, Technology, & Art, 15(1):78-84, 2006; and "Dissertation List", History of Science Society Newsletter, 36 (2): 17, 2007. Erlen also reviewed "Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization" by George Weisz, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006 in The Watermark, 29(4): 89-90, 2006.
PRESENTATIONS
Rebecca Abromitis, reference librarian, coauthored four posters presented at the 14th Annual Nursing Horizons Conference: Applying Evidence to Nursing Practice, held in Pittsburgh, Pa. on May 18, 2007.
Posters titles and other authors are:
"Psychotropic Medication Adherence and Compliance" with T. Barrett1, M.Witt1, D.C. Eustice2, J. Franzetta2, D. Beacom1, A.M. Mitchell3;
'Pregnant Opiate-Addicted Females: Their Perception of Needs" with B. Ferdiani1, T. Thornton1, M. Westcott2, D. Beacom1, A. M. Mitchell3;
"Family-Centered Motivational Discharge Process" with T. Gaus1, M. Hakos1, C. Schiarelli1, M. Wood1, D. DeCicco1, S. Goldstrohm1, E. Sella2, D. Beacom1, A.M. Mitchell3;
"Non-Pharmacological Therapeutic Techniques to Decrease Agitation in the Gerophychiatric Patient with Dementia" with G. Patterson1, M. Cain1, L. Boucek2, C. Tiedeken2, D. Beacom1, A. M. Mitchell3.
1 Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic Nursing
Research Council member;
2 University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing student;
3 University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing faculty.
Michele Klein-Fedyshin, manager of Library Services, UPMC Shadyside, presented a poster titled: "STAT Searches—What do they Reveal about the Use of Information by Healthcare Professionals and Library Services?" at the 4th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference, May 6-11, 2007, in Chapel Hill-Durham, N.C.
Charles B. Wessel, coordinator of Affiliated Hospital Services, presented a continuing education course "Number, Number, Who's Got the Number, or Who's Counting?: Health Statistics Sources" at the Annual Conference of the Indiana Health Science Library Association, Lafayette, Ind. on April 26, 2007.
