MLA '05
MLA '05
May 14-19, San Antonio, TX
PH/HA Annual Business Meeting at MLA
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
7:00-9:00 AM
CC Room 202B
The Role of Information Services for Emergency Preparedness and Response
MLA '05: Continuing Education Symposium
Sunday May 15, 2005, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
http://www.mlanet.org/am/am2005/ce/symposia.html
Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and MLA's Public Health/Health Administration, Federal Libraries, Nursing and Allied Heath Resources, and Hospital Libraries Sections.
MLA2005 will have 5 major THEMES: Education and Outreach, Clinical, Diversity, Research, and Technology.
Section Programming on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 2:30pm - 4pm will offer a wonderful variety of programs in these 5 themes. There will be at least one program per theme per day. Many of these programs will call for contributed papers as well as have invited speakers.
Look carefully, however: some of these programs call for a different kind of submission--perhaps a theme poster, or case scenario, or skit script. Let your mind think creatively to submit works for MLA2005 Futuro Magnifico: Celebrating Our Diversity.
EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
Day 1
Program 1
TITLE: Reaching Out Magnificently to All at All Points of Care or Need
SPONSORS: CAPHIS, Corporate, Dental, Medical Informatics, Pharmacy & Drug Information, Public Health/Health Administration, Public Services, Research Sections
FACILITATOR: Joy Kennedy, CAPHIS
DESCRIPTION: Librarians reach out to diverse constituencies with diverse information needs in diverse ways. Advances in information integration in the healthcare enterprise pose challenges for medical librarians as they reach out to diverse constituencies with diverse information needs in diverse ways. This session will focus on innovative methods of and special/unique experiences in delivering information to diverse constituencies to all points of care or need.
FORMAT: Contributed Papers
INSTRUCTIONS: Identify a population, identify their information needs and share how answers can be delivered to them.
Program 2
TITLE: Educate, Enrich and Enhance=Eduque, Enriquezca y Realce: Extendiendo la Educacion Interna de los Servicios Técnicos
SPONSORS: Technical Services Internal Educational Outreach, Technical Services, International Cooperation, Leadership and Management Sections
MODERATOR: Nancy Burford
DESCRIPTION: Increasingly diverse and ever-changing information delivery/access systems, materials formats, information needs and complex access management issues continue to challenge medical librarians like never before. In an effort to continue to meet these diverse challenges librarians strive to manage their library operations and services as an integrated whole or team. Technical services librarians have contributed significantly to this integrated holistic/team approach to library service and management by leveraging their knowledge and skills with other library colleagues and patrons as well as individuals beyond the physical and virtual library walls.
FORMAT: Contributed Papers
INSTRUCTIONS: Focus on how technical services librarians have accepted the challenge and taken the opportunity to use diverse methods to educate, share knowledge and extend their reach and sphere of influence beyond the technical services unit and how these initiatives have enriched the knowledge and skill level of peers, patrons and others while enhancing library service, including cross-functional training and teams to meet new demands and challenges.
Day 2
Program 1
TITLE: Challenging Patrons, Challenging Questions: Case Scenarios to Enlighten our Futuro Magnifico
SPONSORS: Mental Health SIG, CAPHIS, Corporate, LGBT SIG
DESCRIPTION: How do we conduct a reference interview with an emotionally distracted or mentally ill/challenged patron? How do we handle our own emotions with patrons whose questions we find offensive? Experts from the counseling field will provide us with insights about the psychology of handling difficult customers through acted-out contributed scenarios.
FORMAT: Contributed Papers
INSTRUCTIONS: Submit a scenario you are willing to act out for no more than 5 minutes. When the scene is frozen, our reaction panel of counselors will suggest coaching tips to reach out in this difficult situation.
Program 2
TITLE: Celebrate Me Home
SPONSORS: Hospital Libraries, Leadership and Management Sections
DESCRIPTION: After attending multi-day workshops like Woods Hole, McMaster, a Management Institute, and NCBI Training, etc., share your newfound wisdom.
FORMAT: Contributed Papers
INSTRUCTIONS: Demonstrate what you learned and how you applied this new knowledge. How did this experience impact you and your institution? Were there any wonderful or not-so- wonderful unanticipated outcomes?
Day 3
Program 1
TITLE: UnGoogling Information Literacy in the Health Sciences
SPONSORS: Public Services, Pharmacy & Drug Information Sections
DESCRIPTION: The standards of information literacy are well known to instructional librarians. But how do these standards measure up in an information market dominated by the Internet and search engines like Google? With the current trend toward “Googlizing” library Web sites, we begin to look at how best to leverage diverse health information sources in information literacy training as well as other, non-search-related topics such as copyright, plagiarism, and bibliographic software.
FORMAT: Contributed Papers
INSTRUCTIONS: Make suggestions on how best to leverage diverse health information sources in information literacy training, copyright, plagiarism and bibliographic software.
Program 2
TITLE: Educating Ourselves and Our Users about Copyright
SPONSORS: Educational Media, Health Associations, Public Services Sections
DESCRIPTION: Technology has brought the issue of copyright to the forefront; an issue of importance to all.
FORMAT: Contributed Papers
INSTRUCTIONS: How do we help all our users understand what they can and can't do because of copyright issues? How are you educating yourself and your users about copyright? What is your definition of fair use and how do you apply it? What are the punishments when copyright is violated? How do you teach about intellectual property rights and retaining them? How do we teach about the legalities of plagiarism?
CLINICAL
Day 1
Program 1
TITLE: Medical Diversity: Thinking Out of the Box
SPONSORS: Chiropractic, Complementary and Alternative Medicine SIG, History of the Health Sciences, NAHRS
DESCRIPTION: This session focuses on health care practices and practitioners that have come full circle. Once viewed as traditional methods of healing, many of these practices were abandoned or pushed to the side in favor of more “mainstream” allopathic medicine. But many are now considered adjunct or complementary methods to allopathic medicine.
FORMAT: Contributed Papers and Invited Speakers
INSTRUCTIONS/TARGET ISSUES: How are these integrative practices? How are their practitioners trained? How did these practices and practitioners become an important part of mainstream medicine?
Program 2
TITLE: Managing Library Schizophrenia: Part I: Staffing
SPONSORS: Leadership and Management, Hospital Libraries Sections
DESCRIPTION: Today, libraries that are dedicated to improving health require new staff members and therefore have new staffing patterns. So many of our libraries today have Webmasters, a Computer Services Department, and someone to comprehend the legal jargon of an electronic journal, electronic book or electronic licensing agreement. Some of our libraries today have clinical outreach staff and a Public Relations Department. Library workers are working standard hours, flextime, and some telecommute one day a week. The staff may be a delightful blend of Baby Boomers, of which some are ready to cut back and then ease into retirement, Generation Xers and Millenials.
FORMAT: Contributed Papers and Skits
INSTRUCTIONS/TARGET ISSUES: How do you manage? How does work get done? How do you attract these staff members and what do you do to keep them? Submit a traditional abstract or a skit outline to be performed.
Day 2
Program 1
TITLE: Stepping out in a Clinical Way and Meanwhile Who's Covering Home Base?
SPONSORS: Hospital Librarians, CML/EBHC SIG, Leadership and Management
MODERATOR: Katherine Stemmer Frumento
DESCRIPTION: Stepping out of the library to clinical areas is worthwhile, but most of the time that requires rearranging of priorities, programs, services and staff to still provide excellent service to the users who come to the library, have other-than-clinical needs or access the library virtually 24/7/365.
FORMAT: Contributed Papers
INSTRUCTIONS/TARGET ISSUES: How are these changes handled? What strategies are there to provide excellent service to all your clientele at the same time? Does it require new staffing patterns, methods of setting priorities and managing? Are there special strategies and considerations to provide a niche of users excellent service so they are not tempted to open a departmental library?
Program 2
TITLE: Practicing Evidence Based Health Care
SPONSORS: CML/EBHC SIG, Research, African-American MLA SIG, NAHRS
DESCRIPTION: Researchers, clinicians, and librarians today practice evidence based health care. More and more of our colleagues have participated in framing searchable questions, preparing clinical trials and systematic reviews. Come listen to a panel of study contributors and participate in a fun-filled session on framing the searchable question.
FORMAT: Invited Speakers
Day 3
Program 1
TITLE: The Role of Information and Policy in Health Care
SPONSORS: NAHRS, Corporate Information Services, Public Health/Health Administration Sections; African American MLA SIG
DESCRIPTION: Disparities in health care exist. As information providers, we can make a difference. Come learn how we can heighten politicians' and administrators' awareness. Discover ways we can increase access to and comprehension of health information among disadvantaged people.
FORMAT: Invited Speaker and Contributed Papers
INSTRUCTIONS/TARGET ISSUES: What are the differences in information access, comprehension of health materials and institutional and governmental policy? How are these disparities created and sustained or dissipated and what are their impacts?
Program 2
TITLE: EMBASE Lecture
SPONSOR: Pharmacy and Drug Information Section
FORMAT: Invited Speaker
DIVERSITY
Day 1
Program 1
TITLE: Overcoming Challenges: Magnificent Medical Contributions
SPONSORS: History of the Health Sciences, Chiropractic, LGBT SIG, Relevant Issues
DESCRIPTION: This biographical session focuses on individuals--especially those who have overcome some adversity, be it physical challenges, racism, ethnic, minority or gender discrimination--to make some significant contribution to the field of medicine.
FORMAT: Contributed Papers and Posters
INSTRUCTIONS/TARGET ISSUES: Put together a poster or paper about a hero of yours that has overcome adversity to make a significant contribution to medicine.
Program 2
TITLE: Celebrating Diversity of New Perspectives
SPONSOR: Medical Library Education Section
DESCRIPTION: Scholarly work will be presented by first-time MLA presenters who are current or recently graduated LIS master’s or doctoral students, as well as individuals from postgraduate training programs in LIS, medical informatics, or related fields. These individuals come from diverse educational and training backgrounds, and their papers will report on a variety of topics related to the health information professional in general. A stipend will be awarded.
FORMAT: Contributed Papers
INSTRUCTIONS/TARGET ISSUES: New graduates, share your most innovative and creative ideas about health information.
Day 2
Program 1
TITLE: Diversity in Collection Development
SPONSORS: Collection Development, Chiropractic, Dental Sections; CAM and LGBT SIGs
DESCRIPTION: Health sciences libraries support a diverse array of subject areas, while much of the collection management literature and tools focus on mainstream clinical and basic sciences subjects. This program will present strategies and issues related to the literature of and collection development in the more diverse subject areas including Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Chiropractic Medicine, Gay literature and Dentistry.
FORMAT: Invited Speakers
INSTRUCTIONS/TARGET ISSUES: Come hear your colleague-specialists share their knowledge of the literature and collection building in these areas.
Program 2
TITLE: Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics: Serving Diverse Information Needs for Clinical Practice and Research
SPONSORS: Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG, Medical Informatics, Pharmacy & Drug Information Sections
DESCRIPTION: Every library serves a diverse population with a variety of information needs. This program will focus on the ways in which libraries meet the challenge of serving needs for medical informatics and bioinformatics information for both clinical practice and research.
FORMAT: Contributed Papers
INSTRUCTIONS/TARGET ISSUES: Discuss approaches to serving the needs of and reaching out to these specialized users.
Day 3
Program 1
TITLE: Managing Library Schizophrenia: Part II: Diverse Roles to Diverse Constituencies
SPONSORS: Leadership and Management, Health Associations, Hospital Libraries Sections
DESCRIPTION: What roles should your library, knowledge center, intelligence center, learning resources center, distributed e-library, etc play in the larger corporation? Is your unit considered just a warehouse of printed and audiovisual materials, a vibrant environment for knowledge building and collaboration, a cool web presence with lots of links, a computer lab, a private information consultation service, a place to catch a catnap or talk on your cell phone in a comfortable chair? Who is using your library? Who are your primary and secondary constituencies? Are they near or far or does that matter? Do you interact with these constituencies in person, by phone, email, fax, online tutorials, or virtual chat?
FORMATS: Contributed Papers, Case Scenarios, Skits
INSTRUCTIONS/TARGET ISSUES: What is required in fulfilling these roles for these users? How do you decide what to be, for whom, how and why? Submit a traditional abstract, a case scenario or a skit script you are willing to perform to help treat or cure this Library Schizophrenia.
Program 2
TITLE: Medical Information Diversity: Results of a MLA Survey
SPONSORS: Medical Informatics, Technical Services Sections
DESCRIPTION: Come hear the results of a recent MLA survey of the membership that asked, “Who is educating themselves in medical informatics AND medical librarianship, how they are educating themselves, and for what kinds of jobs?”
FORMAT: Invited Speakers
RESEARCH
Day 1
Program 1
TITLE: Cloning Research Offers Challenges for Scientists and Librarians
SPONSORS: Veterinary, Genomics SIG
DESCRIPTION: Since the first successful cloning experiment in 1997, interest in the technology has grown along with concern regarding the ethical implications of the procedure. Cloning research offers challenges for scientists and librarians alike. This program will feature speakers involved in animal cloning projects. It will focus on the research, ethical issues, potential in human medicine, and library support for research in this rapidly growing field.
FORMAT: Invited Speakers
Program 2
TITLE: Research Methodology 101: Yes, You Can Do Research! Part I
SPONSORS: Research, Assessment & Benchmarking SIG, CAPHIS, Hospital Libraries
DESCRIPTION: How to find a research topic and take it through to finding an answer you can publish. Part I covers finding your topic, the basic steps of a research project, types of methodologies, ready-made data sets and sample problems, locating funding sources (i.e. grants) and research collaboration partners.
FORMAT: Invited Speakers
Day 2
Program 1
TITLE: Research Methodology 101: Yes, You Can Do Research! Part II
SPONSORS: Research, Assessment & Benchmarking SIG, CAPHIS, Hospital Libraries
DESCRIPTION: How to find a research topic and take it through to finding an answer you can publish. Part II covers types of studies (non-trial as well as trials) used in biomedical and library research: case studies, cohort design, comparative studies, longitudinal studies, Delphi method, etc. Part II also covers how to get your research project published.
FORMAT: Invited Speakers
Program 2
TITLE: Establishing Best Practice
SPONSORS: Dental, Hospital Libraries, Leadership and Management, Public Health/Health Administration, CAPHIS and Research Sections; Assessment & Benchmarking SIG
DESCRIPTION: Clinical medicine has modeled the use of scientific evidence to support professional decision-making. But how do you locate, organize and analyze the existing data in non-clinical medicine fields like Librarianship, Oral Health and Public Health?
FORMAT: Contributed Papers
INSTRUCTIONS/TARGET ISSUES: What are the established sources for best practice in such fields? How are these established? How do you teach others to use this evidence effectively for their practices? How have you applied the MLA Benchmarking data and the results of your LibQUAL+ Survey to your own/your institution's decision-making?
Day 3
Program 1
TITLE: Oral Research
SPONSORS: Dental, Research Sections
DESCRIPTION: Describes the current trends in Oral Research, the effect of evidence-based medicine, and the role of the librarian in the research process.
Program 2
TITLE: Futuro Magnifico: Finding Ways of Connecting the World to Medical Information and Resources
SPONSOR: International Cooperation Section
DESCRIPTION: Medical libraries with their staffs and resources now serve a diverse global community with different languages, different cultures, different beliefs and traditions, different levels of comfort about new things and different levels of technology to access information, but all have a common theme to improve health and eradicate disease.
FORMAT: Contributed Papers
INSTRUCTIONS/TARGET ISSUES: Describe visionary ways to connect the world to medical information. Describe medical resources with wide-ranging appeal.
TECHNOLOGY
Day 1
TITLE: Changing Face of Information
SPONSOR: Educational Media Section
DESCRIPTION: Information now comes in containers of different colors, shapes and sizes displayed on all kinds of gadgets. It comes through battery charges, cables, bounces off satellites in the sky or airports in the ceiling.
FORMAT: Contributed Papers or Demonstrations
INSTRUCTIONS/TARGET ISSUES: Come demonstrate your latest gadget. Also, how do we manage these new technologies: installing wireless access, setting up the PDA zones, keeping staff up to the minute, maintaining this new equipment and what is Bluetooth anyway?!
Day 2
TITLE: Impact of Open Access Publishing
SPONSORS: Cancer Librarians, Collection Development, Research, Technical Services Sections
DESCRIPTION: Technology once again has provided authors, librarians and researchers with another new and exciting information delivery option. The Open Access (OA) publishing model has offered scientific, technical and medical researchers an alternative manuscript publishing option. From the publishing perspective, we have learned about the mechanics, costs and benefits associated with the OA model. With the increasing availability of OA publications, we now would like to turn our attention to the impact OA publications are having on research, clinical care, library collections acquisition and technical services management workflows.
FORMAT: Invited Speakers
INSTRUCTIONS/TARGET ISSUES: What impact has OA publishing had on research efforts and clinical care? Are health care professionals reading OA journals and applying the evidence? How are Biomedical Digital Libraries, edited by our colleagues, progressing in the rankings? How is OA published research perceived by fellow researchers, peers and other academicians?
FORMAT: Contributed Papers
INSTRUCTIONS/TARGET ISSUES: Celebrate your knowledge and experiences by submitting a paper about how the OA publishing movement is impacting your collection development and technical services workflows. How are OA resources being selected and integrated into our library catalogs, linking software, collections and processing workflows? How are you handling the varying degree to which OA publications are full Open Access vs. partial Open Access (such as all articles vs. all research articles only vs. some articles)? How are you applying and addressing cataloging, holdings and controlled vocabulary standards to OA publications?
Day 3
TITLE: Digitization, Preservation and Authentication of Resources
SPONSORS: Federal Libraries, Collection Development, History of Health Sciences Sections
DESCRIPTION: The exponential growth of electronic resources raises many issues for librarians, including digitization of print resources, preservation of print and electronic resources and authenticity/version of electronic resources. This program will discuss these issues as they relate to federal documents and standard print and electronic resources as well as what we need to do to provide future access to them.
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