MLA '05: Section Program Themes
MLA ’05 will be organized around five major themes: clinical,
diversity, education
and outreach, research, and technology.
- Link to Downloads
for a copy of the MLA '05 Abstract Supplement and the Official
Program.
- Section programming will take place in the Henry B. González
Convention Center. Consult Official Program for room assignments:
- Session 1: Monday, May 16, 2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
- Session 2: Tuesday, May 17, 2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
- Session 3: Wednesday, May 18, 2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
- Programs consist of invited speakers, panels, papers, demonstrations
of new technologies, and posters.
- Link to the Online
Program Planner where you can browse section programming and create
your own printable itinerary. Speakers, presentation titles, structured
abstracts, and program locations are available on this site. Structured
abstracts also appear in print in the Abstract Supplement to
the Official Program. You can also search by other session type
(e.g., section business meeting, special interest group).
Contact Information
- Contact helen-ann brown,
AHIP, Section Council liaison to the 2005 National Program Committee,
if you have questions about section programming themes.
- Contact meeting planner Brenda
Dreier, 630.929.7934, for questions about the Online Program Planner
and meeting logistics.
- Send inquiries about contributed papers to Jean
Williams Sayre, AHIP, at jean-sayre@uiowa.edu, or Lynne
Siemers at lynne.k.siemers@medstar.net.
- Send questions about electronic or print posters to Mari
Stoddard at stoddard@ahsl.arizona.edu; Regina
Kenny Marone, AHIP, at regina.marone@yale.edu; or Rick
Brewer at rabrew02@pop.uky.edu.
The grid below is organized alphabetically by the five main themes, then
by day.
| Program |
Format / Questions to Address |
Sponsors |
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Medical Diversity:
Thinking Out of the Box
|
Invited speakers and contributed
papers: What are these integrative practices? How are their practitioners
trained? How did these practices and practitioners become an important
part of mainstream medicine? |
Chiropractic Libraries, History
of the Health Sciences and Nursing and Allied Health Resources Sections;
Complementary and Alternative Medicine SIG |
| This session focuses on health care
practitioners and practices 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. |
| Managing Library Schizophrenia
(Part I): Staffing |
Contributed papers and skits: 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. |
Leadership and Management and Hospital Libraries
Sections |
| Today, libraries
that are dedicated to improving health require new staff members and,
therefore, have new staffing patterns. So many libraries today have
Web editors, a computer services department, and someone to comprehend
the legal jargon of an electronic journal, electronic book, or electronic
licensing agreement. Some libraries today have clinical outreach staff
and a public relations department. Library workers work standard hours
or flextime, and some telecommute one day a week. The staff may be
a delightful blend of Baby Boomers, some of whom are ready to cut
back and then ease into retirement; Generation Xers; and Millenials. |
| Stepping out in a Clinical Way
and Meanwhile Who's Covering Home Base |
Contributed papers: How are
these changes handled? What are the strategies to provide excellent
service to all your clientele at the same time? Do they require new
staffing patterns and methods of setting priorities and managing?
Are there special strategies and considerations to provide excellent
service to a niche of users, so they are not tempted to open a departmental
library?
|
Hospital Libraries and Leadership
and Management Sections; Clinical Librarians and Evidence-Based Health
Care SIG |
| Stepping out of
the library to clinical areas is worthwhile, but most of the time
it requires rearranging 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.
|
| Practicing Evidence-based Health Care |
Invited speakers and contributed papers |
Research and Nursing and Allied Health Resources
Sections; African American Medical Librarians Alliance and Clinical
Librarians and Evidence-Based Health Care SIGs |
| Researchers,
clinicians, and librarians today practice evidence-based health care.
More and more of us are framing searchable questions, preparing clinical
trials, and systematic reviews. What are your contributions to the
practice of evidence-based health care? |
| The Role of Information and Policy
in Health Care |
Invited speakers and contributed
papers: What are the differences in information access, comprehension
of health literacy, and institutional and governmental policy? How
are these disparities created and sustained or dissipated, and what
are their impacts? |
Nursing and Allied Health Resources,
Corporate Information Services, and Public Health/Health Administration
Sections; African American Medical Librarians Alliance SIG |
| 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 the disadvantaged. |
| EMBASE.com Lecture |
Invited speaker |
Pharmacy and Drug Information Section |
| Program |
Format / Questions to Address |
Sponsors |
| Overcoming Challenges:
Magnificent Medical Contributions |
Contributed papers
and posters: Put together a poster or paper about a hero of yours
who has overcome adversity to make a significant contribution to medicine. |
History of the Health
Sciences, Chiropractic Libraries, and Relevant Issues Sections; Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Health Sciences Librarians SIG |
| 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. |
| Celebrating Diversity
of New Perspectives |
Contributed papers:
New graduates, share your most innovative and creative ideas about
health information.
|
Medical Library Education
Section |
| Scholarly
work will be presented by first-time MLA presenters who are current
or recently graduated library and information science (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. |
| Diversity in Collection
Development |
Invited speakers:
Come hear these specialists share their knowledge of the literature
and collection building in these areas. |
Collection Development,
Chiropractic Libraries, and Dental Sections; and Complementary and
Alternative Medicine and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered
Health Sciences Librarians SIGs |
| 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 more diverse subject areas, including complementary and alternative
medicine, chiropractic medicine, gay literature, and dentistry. |
| Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics:
Serving Diverse Information Needs for Clinical Practice and Research
|
Contributed papers: Discuss
approaches to serving the needs of and reaching out to these specialized
users. |
Pharmacy and Drug Information, and
Medical Informatics Sections; Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG |
| 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 the needs of
both clinical practitioners and researchers for medical informatics
and bioinformatics information. |
| Managing Library Schizophrenia (Part
II): Diverse Roles to Diverse Constituencies |
Contributed papers, case scenarios,
skits: 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. |
Leadership and Management, Health
Association Libraries, and Hospital Libraries Sections |
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, and does that matter? Do you interact with these constituencies
in person or by telephone, email, fax, online tutorials, or virtual
chat?
|
| Medical Information
Diversity: Results of an MLA Survey |
Invited speakers |
Medical Informatics, Medical
Library Education, and Technical Services Sections |
| Come hear the results
of a recent MLA survey of the membership that asked, "What individuals
are educating themselves in medical informatics and medical librarianship;
how they are educating themselves; and for what kinds of jobs are
they educating themselves?" |
| Program |
Format / Questions to Address |
Sponsors |
| Reaching Out Magnificently
to All at All Points of Care or Need |
Contributed papers:
Identify a population, identify their information needs, and share
the ways answers can be delivered to them. |
Consumer and Patient Health
Information, Corporate Information Services, Dental, Medical Informatics,
Pharmacy and Drug Information, Public Health/Health Administration,
Public Services, and Research Sections |
| Advances in integrating
information in the health care enterprise pose challenges for medical
librarians as they reach out in diverse ways to diverse constituencies
with diverse information needs. This session will focus on innovative
methods of and special or unique experiences in delivering information
to diverse constituencies to all points of care or need. |
| Educate, Enrich, and Enhance:
Technical Services Internal Educational Outreach/Eduque, Enriquezca
y Realce: Extendiendo la Educacion Interna de los Servicios Técnicos
|
Contributed papers:
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 the ways 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. |
Technical Services and
Leadership and Management Sections |
| Increasingly diverse
and ever-changing information delivery and access systems, materials
formats, information needs, and complex access management issues continue
to challenge medical librarians like never before. 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 or team approach to library service and management by sharing
their knowledge and skills with other library colleagues and patrons
as well as individuals beyond the physical and virtual library walls. |
| Challenging Patrons, Challenging
Questions: Case Scenarios to Enlighten Our Futuro Magnífico
|
Contributed papers,
skits: Submit a scenario you are willing to act out for no more
than five minutes. When the scene is frozen, our reaction panel of
counselors will suggest coaching tips to reach out in this difficult
situation. |
Consumer and Patient
Health Information and Corporate Information Services Sections; Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Health Sciences Librarians, Mental
Health SIGs |
| How do we conduct
a reference interview with an emotionally distracted, mentally ill,
or mentally 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. |
| Celebrate Me Home |
Contributed papers:
Demonstrate what you learned and how you applied this new knowledge.
How did this experience affect you and your institution? Did you have
any wonderful or not-so-wonderful unanticipated outcomes? |
Hospital Libraries and
Leadership and Management Sections |
| Share
your new found wisdom after attending multiday workshops like those
at Woods Hole, McMaster University, management institutes, or National
Center for Biotechnology Information training, etc. |
| UnGoogling Information
Literacy in the Health Sciences |
Contributed papers:
Make suggestions on how best to leverage diverse health information
sources in information literacy training, copyright, plagiarism, and
bibliographic software. |
Public Services and Pharmacy
and Drug Information Sections |
| 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 Websites, the session will look
at how best to leverage diverse health information sources in information
literacy training as well as other topics that are not search related,
such as copyright, plagiarism, and bibliographic software. |
| Educating Ourselves and Our Users
about Copyright |
Contributed papers: How do
we help all our users understand what they can and cannot do because
of copyright? 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 and retain intellectual property rights? How do we teach the
legalities of plagiarism? |
Educational Media and Technologies,
Health Association Libraries, and Public Services Sections |
| Technology has
brought copyright to the forefront as an important issue to all. |
| Program |
Format / Questions to Address |
Sponsors |
| Cloning Research Offers
Challenges for Scientists and Librarians |
Invited speakers |
Veterinary Medical Libraries
Section and Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG |
| 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. |
| Research Methodology 101 (Part I):
Yes, You Can Do Research! |
Contributed papers: Trace the
history of your successful research project from its inception to
its final results. Trace the history of your not so successful research
project and, after putting on hindsight glasses, tell us what could
have been done better. Send in a lesson plan and then teach us how
to decide the research question using ready-made data sets, what tools
are available to find funding opportunities, or how to distinguish
between different types of study designs.
Invited speakers |
Research, Consumer and Patient Health
Information, and Hospital Libraries Sections; Assessment and Benchmarking
SIG |
| How
to find a research topic and take it through to finding an answer
you can publish. Part I covers why and how to do research. |
| Research Methodology
101 (Part II): Yes, You Can Do Research! |
Contributed papers:
Trace the history of your successful research project from its
inception to its final results. Trace the history of your not so successful
research project and, after putting on hindsight glasses, tell us
what could have been done better. Send in a lesson plan and then teach
us how to decide the research question using ready-made data sets,
what tools are available to find funding opportunities, or how to
distinguish between different types of study designs.
Invited speakers |
Research, Consumer and
Patient Health Information, and Hospital Libraries Sections; Assessment
and Benchmarking SIG |
| How
to find a research topic and take it through to finding an answer
you can publish. Part II covers turning the data into an article and
how to get it published. |
| Establishing Best Practice |
Contributed papers: 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 or your institution's
decision making? |
Dental, Consumer and Patient Health
Information, Hospital Libraries, Leadership and Management, Public
Health/Health Administration, and Research Sections; Assessment and
Benchmarking SIG |
| 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 nonclinical medicine fields like librarianship, oral
health, and public health? |
| Trends in Oral Research |
Invited speakers |
Dental and Research Sections |
| Describes
the current trends in oral research, the effect of evidence-based
medicine, and the role of the librarian in the research process. |
| Futuro Magnífico:
Finding Ways of Connecting the World to Medical Information and Resources
|
Invited speakers:
Christine Wamunyima Kanyengo, International Fellow, National Library
of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, and head,
Medical Library, University of Zambia, Africa; Bruce Madge, National
Patient Safety Agency, London, UK; Lenny Rhine, Health Science Center
Library, University of Florida–Gainesville; Ellen Sayed, Charles
M. Baugh Biomedical Library, University of South Alabama, Mobile,
AL |
International Cooperation
Section |
| 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 with new things, and different
levels of technology to access information, but all have a common
mission of improving health and eradicating disease. |
| Program |
Format / Questions to Address |
Sponsors |
| Changing Face of Information
|
Contributed papers
or demonstrations: Come demonstrate your latest gadget. Also,
how do we manage these new technologies: installing wireless access,
setting up personal digital assistant (PDA) zones, keeping staff up
to the minute, maintaining this new equipment, and figuring out what
Bluetooth is anyway! |
2005 National Program
Committee and Educational Media and Technologies Section |
| Information
now comes in containers of different colors, shapes, and sizes displayed
on all kinds of gadgets. It comes through battery charges and cables
and bounces off satellites in the sky or airports in the ceiling.
|
| Impact of Open Access
(OA) Publishing |
Invited speakers: 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?
Contributed papers: 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 your library catalogs,
linking software, collections, and processing workflows? How are you
handling the varying degree to which OA publications are fully OA
versus partial OA (such as, all articles versus only research articles
versus some articles)? How are you applying and addressing cataloging,
holdings, and controlled vocabulary standards to OA publications?
|
Cancer Librarians, Collection
Development, Research, and Technical Services Sections |
| 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 management workflows for technical services. |
| Digitization, Preservation, and Authentication
of Resources |
Contributed papers: Share how
you digitized, preserved, and authenticated your print and electronic
resources. |
Federal Libraries, Collection Development,
and History of the Health Sciences Sections |
| The exponential
growth of electronic resources raises many issues for librarians,
including digitization of print resources, preservation of print and
electronic resources, and authenticity and versions of electronic
resources. This program will discuss these issues as they relate to
federal documents and standard print and electronic resources, as
well as issues related to providing future access to them. |
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