Pilot site participants will be speaking at the Health Information Literacy Research Project Open Forum today from 3:30 to 4:40 p.m. in Columbus AB. These speakers will include Jeff Mason; Kim Hartl; Holly Kimborowicz, AHIP; and Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi.

Program, Room, or Time Changes

11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

MLA Business Meeting Legislative Update

Location change: The session will be held in Columbus IJ, East Tower, Gold Level.

4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section:

“Connecting Libraries, Nurses, and Accreditation/Credentialing Organizations to Improve Patient Care”

Revised presentation order:

1. Building a Bridge Between MLA and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program
2. Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Accreditation: What’s the Attraction?
3. Reconnecting Librarians with Nursing Accreditation: Key Results
4. Nurse Practice Court: A Play to Aid Nurses in Evidence-based Practice

Announcements Section shuffle contest results

Congratulations to the History of Medicine Section for winning the prize for the “Most Creative Display” at the Section Shuffle event, organized by the Section Council.

The History of Medicine Section display included a masked and costumed representative who roamed the crowd, distributing slips of paper with the following description:

“There are many and varied depictions of the plague doctor’s garb, introduced by English and French doctors during the 17^th century. The total body was covered to protect the doctor from ‘miasma’ (bad air) that was thought to cause the disease. The beaked mask was filled with herbs to clean the air and mask the scent of dead bodies. The small stick was probably for giving instructions and touching the body and clothing of plaque victims. The traditional physician’s hat was donned to designate the wearer’s status.”

Lost item

If you took a clicker from the room after the “Tech Trends” panel discussion, please return it to Susan Lessick.

Luggage Check
MLA will staff a luggage check during the times listed below. Checking is FREE! Tuesday, May 20, and Wednesday, May 21 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Grand Ballroom Coat Check, East Tower, Gold Level MLA is not responsible for items left at the luggage check. Please be sure to pick up your items prior to close time.

NLM Theater Schedule, Tuesday, May 20

Exhibit Booth 532

10:00 a.m. The New “Images in the History of

Medicine” Software

Noon NIH Manuscript Submission System

12:30 p.m. NLM Gateway Redesign

1:00 p.m. PubMed Review

1:30 p.m. LinkOut Update

2:00 p.m. Health Services Research & Public

Health: What’s Happening?

2:30 p.m. PubMed Central Update

Chicago History: The Origins of Streeterville

The history of Streeterville dates back to the late 1800’s with the arrival of George Wellington “Cap” Streeter and his second wife Maria to Chicago. They originally planned on going to Honduras to become gunrunners and decided to first try out their boat, Reutan, in Lake Michigan. In 1886, a strong storm landed them in a sandbar, which was located approximately 450 feet east of Michigan Avenue. Captain Streeter chose to live on his boat and claimed the sandbar and the surrounding area as his.

After the great Chicago Fire of 1871, the city was rapidly growing and developers were looking for a place to dump their construction waste. Although Streeter did not have the authority to do so, he charged developers to use the sandbar and surrounding area as a waste area. The area quickly filled up with debris and Streeter started renting out the land, leading to the establishment of a shantytown. However, the wealthy landowners around “Streeterville” were worried that the shantytown would lower the property value of the area and fought to get rid of it.

In 1889 police officers attempted to evict Streeter and his wife, Maria, but were unsuccessful and were driven away by rifles. During the same time, the wealthy landowners of the area instigated several court cases against Streeter. In 1893, the millionaire Kellogg Fairbank who owned the land that Streeter was occupying, filed a suit against him and Streeter was legally obligated to move off of the land. However, he decided to stay and continued selling plots of land. While the property owners realized that they could profit from building a road connecting downtown with the North Side, soon to be called Lake Shore Drive, entrepreneur Potter Palmer purchased some of this land and began developing it. After Palmer’s death in 1902, Streeter who claimed that some of this land belonged to him, decided to raise an army and set up a blockade as a means of maintaining “his” land, which was swiftly put to an end by the police. This was Streeter’s last major attempt to fight for his district.

Excerpted from the Streeterville Chamber of Commerce Web site, www.streetervillechamber.org.

Announcements NLM Update

This year’s NLM update will be held on Tuesday, May 20 from 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. in the Grand Ballroom. Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, Sheldon Kotzin and Diane Boehr are scheduled to speak.

Chicago Information Things to do in Chicago

Ever ridden a Segway? Interested in architecture? Curious about where the St. Valentine Day Massacre took place? The Local Assistance Committee has collected information on a variety of things to do in Chicago. Drop by the booth near the Internet Café and learn about local libraries, museums, and tours—bus, boat, carriage, trolley, air, walking and segway are all available.

Newsletter submissions

Items for the Conference Connections newsletter may be left in the “Newsletter Submissions” boxes by the Hospitality Desk and the Member Resource Room or can be emailed to meeting.news@gmail.com.

A second speaker has been added to today’s CAPHIS program:
Consent or Obedience? Medical Authority and Consumer Health Education: Bridging the Medical Ethics Gap

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Please join us on Monday May 19th from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm to hear an interesting program on the ethics of research on medical authority and knowledge:

Location: Grand Ballroom A

Today, the Internet has transformed the way consumer health information is distributed and who has access. Consumers have access to multiple, conflicting sources of medical information and in order to decipher this information it calls for skills and strategies for judging the trustworthiness of a source. This program will discuss the ethics of research on medical authority and knowledge e.g. how consumers use health information and the ethical implications of that.

Speakers:

• Michal Raucher, Northwestern University - What They Mean when They Say it’s Good Science: The Medical Community’s Response to Boutique Fetal Ultrasounds
• Laurie Zoloth, Ph.D., Northwestern University - Truth and Consequence: Authoritative Knowledge, Claims of Salvation, and the Medical Internet

- Tammy Mays

Program and Room Changes

Sunday, May 18

6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.

Section Shuffle will now be held in Acapulco, West Tower, Gold Level. Come learn more about MLA’s sections. Food, entertainment, and information on sections provided. Sections are competing to have the most interesting display at the event. A prize will be awarded to the section with the most creative presentation.

Monday, May 19

7:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.

Vital Pathways in Medical Education

The session will be in Columbian, located in the West Tower, Bronze Level.

Tuesday, May 20

4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

The Role of the Library in Health Literacy.

There is a change in order of speakers:

1) Tracy E. Powell

2) Karen K. Lee

3) Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi

The session will be in Columbus KL

7:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m.

MLA/NLM Joint Electronic Personal Health Record Task Force.

The session will be held in Soldier Field, West Tower, Bronze Level.

Join the Friends of the National Library of Medicine (FNLM)

The FNLM annual event will be held this year at the Chicago History Museum, 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. Buses will leave from the entrance to the West Tower.

Appreciation to Additional Contributors

In addition to the financial contributors listed in the meeting materials, the Board of Directors would like to recognize the following donors: Laura Cousineau; Carol G. Jenkins, AHIP, FMLA; and Debra C. Rand, AHIP.

Do You Have Fun Meeting Photos?

Connect with your colleagues and share your 2008 photos online at the MLA 2008 group on Flickr, www.flickr.com/groups/mla2008/. The group name is MLA 2008.

Be sure to attend the John P. McGovern Lecture…

…which will include a brief video of John McGovern receiving the American Medical Association Foundation’s President Award presented February 12, 2007. This video provides an introduction to Andrew Zolli, who will present the 2008 John P. McGovern Lecture. Zolli is a dynamic leader of today’s new generation of young futurists. He has a gift for seeing patterns and strategic opportunities at the intersections of demographics, creativity, innovation, design, and technology. The McGovern Lecture will be from 10:30 a.m. to noon in the Grand Ballroom.

MLA Connections

Learn about MLA’s newest programs and services and pick up materials. MLA staff will be on hand to answer questions. The booth consists of:

• Grants and Scholarships
• Public Relations Swap’n’Shop
• MLA Publishing
• Section Council
• Chapter Council

Sharing news at this year’s MLA meeting will be “greener” as we experiment with alternative methods of communicating.

Traditionally, a print newsletter provides information not in the meeting program book. Articles on new exhibitors, promotion of sessions, corrections to the program, informal meeting announcements, exhibit hall winners, social events, and safety issues have all appeared. While a newsletter will continue, we will also share information in other ways.

• The newsletter will be reduced in length and recycling opportunities will be available.
• Information will also be posted on white boards in high-traffic areas at the meeting site.
• Prefer an electronic format? All newsletter and white-board entries will also be posted to the meeting blog.
• The hotel monitors (public and in the rooms) will provide information on session location changes.
  

To contribute items to the newsletter, whiteboards, or blog please send an email to meeting.news@gmail.com or place announcements in the labeled boxes at the Hospitality Booth and the Member Resource Room at the meeting hotel. We will accept items Friday, May 16 through Tuesday, May 20.

Please contact Pat Pinkowski at patricia.pinkowski@alz.org or 312.335.5730 with any questions.