Sponsored Programs
New Perspectives: 1999 -2050
The list of presenters and their abstracts is available
below
Sunday, May 16
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Library School Reunion
Sunday, May 16
5:30 pm - 6:30pm
Participants:
Institutions with ** have financially supported the reunion, in part. Our
thanks to all participating institutions!
Case Western Reserve University -- Represented by Margaret Vugrin
Dominican University** -- Represented by Pru Dalrymple
Drexel University** -- Represented by Ted Morris
Emporia State University -- Represented by Erica Williamson Reynolds
Florida State University
Indiana University** -- Represented by Jana Bradley
Palmer School, Long Island University** -- Represented by Mary Westerman
San Jose State University**
State University of New York at Buffalo -- Represented by Maggie Zeller
State University of New York at Geneseo -- Represented by Mindy Paquette-Murphy
University of Alabama -- Represented by Steven L. MacCall
University of Arizona** -- Represented by Zoë Stavri
University of Illinois** -- Represented by Ken Quandt
University of Maryland** -- Represented by Mary Burgess
University of Missouri** -- Represented by Mary Ellen Sievert
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill** -- Represented by Jennifer Grady
University of North Texas -- Represented by Ana Cleveland
University of Oklahoma -- Represented by Marty Thompson
University of Pittsburgh** -- Represented by Ellen Detlefsen
University of Rhode Island -- Represented by Mike Kronenfeld
University of South Carolina** -- Represented by Fred Roper
University of Texas at Austin -- Represented by Laura Fowler
University of Washington** -- Represented by Sherrilynne Fuller
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee** -- Represented by Alexandra Dimitroff
The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and the University of Pittsburgh were two institutions receiving planning grants in the 1995 from the National Library of Medicine's Education and Training of Health Sciences Librarians Initiative. Both placed strong emphasis in their planning on the value of library-based experiential learning. At UNC, research and market studies confirmed this as a desirable component to a health sciences information specialization. In the Fall, 1998, both institutions health sciences libraries accepted librarian interns following recommendations in their planning grants and subsequent funding from NLM. These two programs will be compared in terms of their goals, context, audience, structure, funding and content; and ongoing issues will be identified.
Teaching Personal Information Management in the
Library
Authors: Mari J. Stoddard, Arizona Health Sciences Library, University of
Arizona, P.O. Box 245079, Tucson, AZ 85724; P. Zoë Stavri, Ph.D.
School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of
Arizona.
Abstract: Describes the role of librarians in teaching the theoretical and pragmatic aspects of personal information management (PIM), including reprint collections, hand-held computer systems, paper organizers, electronic mail and other data. Examines the training and teaching skills needed to fill that role.
Many librarians teach the skills needed for finding and evaluating information, but less emphasis has been given to teaching the management of information. Yet the problem of infoglut is not finding more information - it is what to do with all those piles of dataAHSL integrates information management skills into most of its training sessions, and teaches two PIM workshops: "Managing your Hard Disk" and Personal Information Management." These workshops help individuals identify information management needs and their preferred information style, as well as how to assess tools such as PalmPilots, Reference Manger, and Microsoft Outlook.
Developing a Web-based Continuing Education
Course
Authors: Julia K. Kochi, Library and Center for Knowledge Management,
University of California San Francisco, 530 Parnassus Avenue, San
Francisco, CA 94143-0840; Julie A. Garrison, Connie Schardt, Medical
Center Library, Duke University.
Abstract: As it becomes more difficult for people to take time away from work to attend conferences and workshops, the idea of offering courses via the World Wide Web has become more desirable. Addressing a need voiced by the Medical Library Association's Continuing Education Committee and the membership at large, the authors developed a Web-based continuing education course on the subject of the librarian's role in evidence-based medicine. The aim of the course is to provide medical librarians with a well constructed, content rich learning experience available to them at their convenience via the Web. Subjects that will be discussed in this presentation include technical issues specific to developing Web-based courses, issues that arise when the delivery of information changes from face-to-face to online, the changing role of the instructor, and the pros and cons of web-based vs traditional courses. The results of the beta test of the course will be discussed as well as plans for improvement.
Our programs this year were "Creating a Center of Excellence in Health Sciences Information Education: Perspectives from the NLM Planning Grants," "The Librarians' Role in Providing Consumer Health Information" co-sponsored with the Consumer and Patient Health Information Section, and a poster session. The meeting attendee s who stopped by the poster session were asked for input to two questions; "What was the most important thing that you learned in library school?" and "What do you wish you learned in library school?" There were two times more responses to the question of "what do you wish that you learned?" Judith Overmier and Ellen Detlefsen will write up the results of these questions for publication in the MLA News.