MLA ‘08 Blog

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

Please join the Public Health/Health Administration Section, Dental Section, and Health Association Libraries Section along with the Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section and the Libraries in Curriculum SIG for:

The Role of Health Sciences Librarians in Applying Web 2.0 Technologies and Their Uses in Clinical and Public Health Practice and Instruction
Monday May 19, 2008 4:30-6:00pm
Organized by: Christine Marton, PH/HA Chair-Elect

DESCRIPTION: Web 2.0 technologies offer web users the ability to design and participate in collaborative online environments that foster communication, information sharing, learning, practice, and research. These technologies include social bookmarks, wikis, podcasts, blogs, folksonomies, social search engines, mashups, and instant messaging. Health sciences librarians are actively involved in developing awareness campaigns and new curricula for health care practitioners on the uses of Web 2.0 technologies in professional practice.

SPEAKERS:

Gillian G. Mayman –
Creating a Roadmap: Web 2.0 and Local Public Health Practice

Erika Sevetson –
Connecting content to readers: marketing RSS as an information management tool

Linda J. Spadacccini –
When You Can’t Use a Wiki Because of Security Issues, Try Share Point

Patricia F. Anderson –
Second Life for Engagement, Outreach, and Building Interdisciplinary Communities of Learning

Lauren A. Maggio –
Teaching MeSH: Web 2.0 Style

Hey you guys! Make sure you have added to your plans what may be the hottest session of MLA, Connecting With Leaders: What Do They Expect. Want to know what your administration wants from you? How you fit into budget thinking? What they see as the library’s role in the future of healthcare and education?

We have five leaders from a range of healthcare institutions who will be addressing what they expect as Return on Investment (ROI) from their library:

• Robert Golden, Dean, School of Medicine and Public Health and Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Jeffrey Miller, Vice Dean and Chief Operating Officer, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
• William Duffy, Vice President of Nursing, Evanston Hospital
• Lois Halstead, Vice-Provost and Vice President University Affairs, Rush University
• Diana Halfer, Administrator, Clinical and Organizational Development, Children’s Memorial Hospital

They have been given questions gathered from REAL LIBRARIANS! And they are coming prepared to take questions from other REAL LIBRARIANS LIKE YOU! Bring your questions. They’re pumped. Be there, it’s going to be a blast.

Monday, May 19 10:30-12:00, Columbus I/J. Sponsored by Leadership & Management and Hospital Libraries sections.

- Terry Burton

Please join us at the 2nd Annual Lecture on the Evidence Base, sponsored by StatRef, as we bring two exiting leaders in the medical library community in the exploration of Web 2.0 for Professional and Clinical Productivity. (Tuesday, May 20th 4:30 - 6:00 pm in Regency Ball Room A).

With 90 minutes, our speakers will be able to lead us on this exploration of emerging social technologies, also known as Web 2.0, looking at how they can potentially impact all phases of the medical library, including the organization and use of the evidence base. Web 2.0 applications have become embedded in all walks of life.

• Health care consumers are using social tech to build community as well as share health tips and news;
• Practitioners share clinical images and articles, and ask for opinions on drafts;
• Faculty use blogs and wikis and Second Life in education;
• Lab directors use wikis for collaboration and presentations;
• And so much more!

Libraries must not be left out when our communities move into new information spaces. So come get comfortable as with three microphones, a projector and 90 minutes they take us on one of the A ticket rides of the conference.

David Rothman
Through his widely-read medical library blog, davidrothman.net, David Rothman keeps his readers up-to-date on the latest web tools and technologies relevant to health information needs and medical libraries. His blog has been ranked among the top English-language health care blogs in the world and has been mentioned in the Medical Journal of Australia, the Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, and Ophthalmology. In less than 2 years, davidrothman.net has had more than 100,000 unique visits and gained an RSS following of more than 1,800 subscribers.

Patricia F. Anderson
Patricia is currently the Emerging Technologies Librarian of the University of Michigan Health Sciences Libraries. For the previous decade, she was the Head of the University of Michigan Dentistry Library. During this time she was offered many exciting professional opportunities, including coauthoring the Medical Library Association Encyclopedic Guide to Searching and Finding Health Information on the Web, supporting the Let’s Face It web site, and serving as expert searcher for the NIH Consensus Development Conference on Diagnosis and Management of Dental Caries Throughout Life (the first NIH consensus conference to require systematic reviews of the speakers). Ms. Anderson currently specializes in the application of social, semantic and emerging technologies in support of the academic, research, clinical and outreach/service missions of the University of Michigan Health System.

- Mike Kronenfeld, Chair, Dental Section

Please mark your schedule and support these *exciting* CAPHIS events at MLA.

Patient Education and Consumer Health Libraries: Collaborating for Improved Patient Care
Date: Saturday, May 17th
Time: 8:00am-5:00pm
Offsite: Northwestern University

Hospitals-whether large or small, urban or rural, academic center or community institution-have an interest in assuring both patient education for improved outcomes and consumer health education for health promotion, disease management, patient safety, and scientific literacy. Establishing a comprehensive, hospital-based program that encompasses consumer health, patient education, and community institutions presents unique challenges and opportunities for collaboration and synergy to support existing clinical entities and centers of excellence. This symposium will profile four hospital programs that have successfully implemented effective collaboration between patient education and consumer health libraries, with the aim of suggesting implementation strategies to attendees in their own settings. The symposium provides the opportunity for participants to showcase collaborative programs that they have completed in their own libraries. Model collaborations between hospital and public libraries will also be highlighted.

The Bridge Is Out: Better Learn How to Swim–Coping with Budget Cuts–Creative Solutions in Lean Times
Date: Sunday May 18th
Time: 4:30-6:00 pm
Location: Grand Ballroom A

In theory, at least, the more people use something, the less likely it is to be cut from the budget. The more beneficial the library service, the more secure it is. So wouldn’t it be great if libraries could attract overflowing crowds. This session addresses the budget cuts challenges faced by all libraries. Potential solutions will be presented, as well as creative marketing/branding will also be addressed.

Speakers:

• Deborah Lauseng — Efficiencies of Scale and Empowerment: Consumer Health Website Design Using Social Technologies
• Molly Cahall — Using an In-depth Analysis of Individualized Learning to Best Inform a Library Training Program
• Sharon Dennis — High Tech High Touch: Sharing Staff at a Distance
• Elizabeth Smigielski — Are You Marketing or Just Promoting? One Without the Other Is a Wasted Effort

Consent or Obedience? Medical Authority and Consumer Health Education: Bridging the Medical Ethics Gap
Date: Monday May 19th
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm
Room: 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:

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

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The CAPHIS Executive Board Meeting will be held on Sun, May 18, 2008: 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m., Room: Atlanta
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The CAPHIS Business Meeting will be held Monday, May 19, 2008: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Room:Comiskey
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- Tammy Mays

Did you know that the Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section (NAHRS) is the second largest section in MLA?(see the end of this post to learn who is the biggest)

NAHRS works to address the interests and concerns of librarians who support nursing and the allied health professions. Our members include librarians in a wide variety of settings including hospital, academic medical, and general academic libraries.

Make connections with NAHRS members at the following:

NAHRS Business Meeting
Date: Monday, May 19th
Time: 4:30-6:00 PM
Room: Hong Kong

NAHRS Dinner at the Weber Grill ($43)
RSVP required: David Nolfi (nolfi@duq.edu)
Date: Monday, May 19th
Time: 7:00 PM

Learn About Assessment in Health Sciences Libraries:

Connecting Libraries to Organizational Mission: Using Assessment to Strengthen the Library’s Institutional Role
Date: Tuesday May 20th
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Room: Regency Ballroom B

ACRL Research Librarian of the Year Peter Hernon will be joined by distinguished MLA members Jim Shedlock and Michele Klein-Fedyshin. Together they will discuss new ways to think about how assessment can strengthen the role of academic and hospital libraries.

A ‘must see’ for librarians who are interested in accreditation:

Connecting Libraries, Nurses, and Accreditation/Credentialing Organizations to Improve Patient Care
Date: Tuesday May 20th
Time: 4:30-6:00 PM
Room: Columbus EF

Do you ever get tired of accreditation agencies telling your library what to do? Do you wish you could tell them what to do?? Librarians who worked on MLA’s efforts to help shape accreditation standards will discuss their progress and recommendations. The session includes a play designed to help nurses understand the importance of information literacy.

When you’re attending a NAHRS event . . .

Visit the Art Institute of Chicago (http://www.artic.edu/aic/index.php). If you have not seen Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” in person, you have no idea what you’re missing. Prints don’t do justice to this enormous, vibrant masterpiece!

- David Nolfi

*** The Hospital Libraries Section is the largest MLA section, and they are our partner in presenting the above programs.

Sections are the heart of the MLA experience!

• Sections provide the place to network with other medical librarians who work in setting similar to yours and who serve populations such as yours.
• Sections are where you find out new developments, services and products relevant to specifically to what you do.
• Sections provide a chance to be one of a select group rather than just one in the large crowd of medical librarians that is MLA.

The first annual Section Shuffle at MLA ‘08 Chicago will be held on Sunday May 18 from 6:00-7:00pm.

At the Section Shuffle, attendees can explore all of the Sections in one place. All 23 Sections have signed up to participate and will inform you about their activities with creative displays. Where else can you see a demonstration of two different page turning software programs, enjoy Chicago treats like lemonheads and other muchies, play Simon Says, win prizes to Chicago attractions, feel like a detective and get an international perspective on the profession?

Shuffle on over to the Section Shuffle in Regency Ballroom C to find opportunities you never expected to find at MLA!

- Judy Burnham

It’s hard to read the news for a week or two without hearing about possibly unethical conduct. Sometimes it’s in politics (perhaps a bribery charge), sometimes it’s in health care (maybe some physicians did not declare their financial interest in a drug they reviewed), and sometimes it’s in some other field (an athlete accused of taking a banned drug, for example).

Have you ever wondered about the ethics of librarianship? Maybe someone using some information in a paper without giving credit? How about spending a lot of money with a vendor and then attending a meal or party paid for by the vendor?

On Monday, May 19 at 10:30-12 in the Hyatt’s Columbus EF room, the CDS will sponsor “Bridging the Library Ethics Gap: Conflict of Interest Concerns of Librarians.”

Joan Schuitema from the University of Illinois at Chicago will describe “The Nature of the Gap”. Andrew Robinson, PhD, from Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, England, will “Mind the Publication Ethic’s Gap.” Jonathan Lord, AHIP, of the University of Virginia, will speak on “Pens, Pencils, and Parties: Avoiding Conflicting Interests in Collection Development”. The session will conclude with a Question & Answer panel session.

We’d also love for you to attend our 2008 Business Meeting later the same day at 4:30-6 in the Hyatt’s Toronto room. Both members and nonmembers are invited to attend.

And just for fun . . . Must see list in Chicago:

I love to walk in Chicago and look at people, sculpture, buildings, bridges, and store windows. My favorite places are the Lakefront and Michigan Avenue. I love to put on my walking shoes and stroll.

- Melissa Nasea

Cancer Librarians Section (CLS) provides a forum for cooperation and communications among librarians having a interest in cancer-related libraries and information services. CLS promotes the continued development of cancer libraries, information resources and services.

Open to everyone!

CLS is working to get the word out that the CLS is not just for those who work in specialized cancer facilities. Most librarians have interaction with clients (health professional or consumer) who deal with cancer issues. The members of the CLS provide a unique resource to turn to when questions may arise. We will have a section update in MLA News soon that will mention our section benefits. Because of the size of CLS the opportunity to be involved in the leadership of the section is a significant benefit for those interested in pursing AHIP.

Catch up with section members at the following events:

Section Shuffle – Stop by to learn about our exciting section!
Date: Sunday May 18
Time: 6:00-7:00 PM
Room: Regency Ballroom C

2008 Business Meeting — We hope that you will attend the business meeting.
Date: Tuesday May 20th
Time: 4:30-6:00 PM
Room: Atlanta

Translational medicine and the library’s role
Date: Tuesday May 20th
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Room: Columbus EF.

We will have a panel of distinguished librarians who have worked in this area:

• Terry Burton (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
• Carolyn Reid (Weill Cornell Library)
• Andrew Hamilton (Oregon Health & Science University)
• Jon Eldredge (University Of New Mexico)

The panel will provide us with an overview of translational medicine: ­ what it is and the impact it will have on how we understand the epidemiology, diagnosis, and therapy of diseases. This will be followed by discussion of the role of the library in translational medicine within (particularly in CTSA ­, Clinical Translational Science Awards) and across institutions. Case studies of library programs in translational medicine will be featured, with an open discussion session to follow.

- Julia Esparza

Here are some activities to put in your MLA calendar, courtesy of the Educational Media Technologies Section:

Don’t Miss!

Bridging the Gap with Web 2.0: Connecting With Our Community and Ourselves
Date: Monday, May 19
Time: 2-3:30 PM
Room: Grand Ballroom B

Come and hear four view points on the way social networking tools, virtual spaces, and other emerging technologies are changing how libraries and the library’s primary clientele seek expertise, find information, and relate to each other.

Other activities to put in your calendar . . .

Open Forum: Task Force on Social Networking Software
Date: Tuesday, May 20th
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Room: Regency Ballroom B

Two other wonderful sessions co-sponsored by EMTS:

Top Technology Trends: Bridge Today, Gone Tomorrow
Date: Monday, May 19th
Time: 10:30-noon
Room: Columbus KL

Technologies in Teaching
Date: Tuesday, May 20th
Time: 2-3:30
Room: Regency Ballroom A

And if these topics sound exciting to you, don’t miss the EMTS business meeting (Sunday, May 18th 4:30-6, New Orleans room) where all of the cool kids will be hanging out.

To do while you’re in Chicago . . .

Need a break from all of the networking? Head over to Second City Chicago for a few laughs that have absolutely nothing to do with medicine, electronic resources, students, books, etc.

-Rikke Ogawa