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MLA '10: Section Program Themes
The diversity of thought-provoking programs coordinated by MLA sections and special interest groups (SIGs) offers exciting opportunities for professional development.
This list is organized alphabetically by primary section sponsor.
Last updated February 24, 2010.
| Primary Sponsor, Section Cosponsors, SIG Cosponsors | 2010 Program Name | Program Format | Section and SIG Contacts |
| 2010 National Program Committee (NPC) | Left/Right Brain: What Have You Been Thinking About Lately? | Contributed papers | Gale Dutcher |
| Description: Are you logical and linear or inventive and empathetic? Regardless of how your brain works, have you done any projects, research, or programs that you would like to share with your colleagues? If your paper idea does not fit into any of the section programming themes, this NPC-sponsored session is the place for you. | |||
| Cancer Librarians Section Consumer and Patient Health Information Section Complementary and Alternative Medicine SIG |
Providing Quality Complementary and Alternative Medicine Information to Cancer Patients | Contributed papers | Cancer Librarians Section: Christine Marton, Consumer and Patient Health Information Section: Rhonda Allard |
| Description: Cancer patients are increasingly interested in exploring nonconventional treatment options, often in conjunction with conventional treatment options such as chemotherapy and radiation. The legitimacy and efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments varies widely, as does information about CAM. The provision of quality CAM information by consumer health, clinical, and public librarians to cancer patients is essential in making informed choices concerning the use of CAM treatments so patients can avoid potential harm. | |||
| Consumer and Patient Health Information Section Medical Informatics Section, Health Association Libraries Section |
Health Care Reform and the Impact on Patient Care | Invited speakers and contributed papers | Consumer and Patient Health Information Section: Rhonda Allard, Medical Informatics Section: Beth Whipple, Health Association Libraries Section: David Sweet |
| Description: A look at the current status and future of the stimulus funding, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), as it relates to health information technology (medical informatics, telemedicine) from various aspects, such as the personal health record (PHR), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), health care disparities, and clinical decision support systems. | |||
| Consumer and Patient Health Information Section Hospital Libraries Section, Public Services Section Library Marketing SIG |
Traffic Is a Good Thing! Innovative Ways to Increase Use of Consumer Health Resources in Your Library | Contributed papers | Consumer and Patient Health Information Section: Rhonda Allard, Hospital Libraries Section: Patricia A. Hammond, AHIP, Public Services Section: Bradley Long |
| Description: This session will highlight innovative approaches that libraries have implemented to help increase use of consumer health resources and services offered. Such papers can showcase marketing campaigns and strategies aimed at raising awareness among patients, caregivers, and visitors or with an institution’s health care professionals. Papers can also showcase successful health and wellness events and partnerships with community organizations that have helped increase patient and community use of consumer health resources. | |||
| Corporate Information Services Section Hospital Libraries Section Retired Librarians SIG, Library Marketing SIG, Mental Health SIG |
Information Reform | Contributed papers | Hospital Libraries Section: Patricia A. Hammond, AHIP |
| Description: With health care reform in progress, how can information specialists/librarians work with customers to contribute to reducing costs in the arena. Topics include data organization ideas to reduce efforts and time-saving measures for health care professionals. Putting the information specialist in the meetings for on-time medical information. | |||
| Dental Section Collection Development Section, Educational Media and Technologies Section, History of the Health Sciences Section, Hospital Libraries Section, Technical Services Section Osteopathic Libraries SIG |
E-books and the Health Sciences Library: Fourth Annual Lecture on the Evidence-based Practice of Librarianship. Sponsored by StatRef |
Invited speaker | Dental Section: Michael Kronenfeld, AHIP, Collection Development Section: Ramune Kubilius, AHIP, Educational Media and Technologies Section: Amy Blevins, History of the Health Sciences Section: Joan Stoddart, AHIP, Technical Services Section: Michael Wood, Osteopathic Libraries SIG: Sharon Eckert |
| Description: Session will focus on the rapidly changing health-related electronic book landscape. Hospital and academic health sciences libraries are actively expanding their e-book collections. Speakers will share their expertise and insights on how libraries can successfully maneuver through the e-book market, make collection development decisions, and then effectively manage the collections. Issues to be discussed include licensing, purchasing, cataloging, provision of access, and strategic integration of e-books with digital and other information resources. | |||
| Educational Media and Technologies Section Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section |
Librarians and Information Technology People: Seeing Eye to Eye | Invited speakers/panel and contributed papers | Educational Media and Technologies Section: Amy Blevins, Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section: Lisa Ennis |
| Description: Many libraries, especially hospital and VA libraries, have problems talking with their information technology (IT) departments. This program will feature a panel of IT people along with librarians talking through common issues. It will also feature contributed papers about successful collaborations between librarians and IT personnel. | |||
| Federal Libraries Section Corporate Information Services Section Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG, Institutional Animal Care and Use SIG |
E-science: Exploring the Librarian’s Role | Invited and contributed papers or posters | Federal Libraries Section: Terrie Wheeler, Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG: Carrie Iwema |
| Description: This session entails a description of electronic science, using technology to enable various scientific datasets (digital repositories, lab notebooks, clinical trial data, data sets for proteins, 3-D molecules, atoms, genomic sequences, images, or other scientific data) to link to each other and to the licensed digital content of the library. This linking is accomplished through metadata. The librarian's role in dataset curation to facilitate the advancement of e-science is discussed. | |||
| Federal Libraries Section Veterinary Medical Libraries Section Institutional Animal Care and Use SIG |
The Librarian's Role in the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee: Learn the Laws and Get Involved | Invited panel | Veterinary Medical Libraries Section: Cindy Mitchell, Institutional Animal Care and Use SIG: Melissa Ratajeski |
| Description: There is a misconception that institutional animal care and use committees (IACUCs) only exist at institutions supporting veterinary training programs. Not true. All institutions conducting medical research or instruction using animal models are mandated by federal law to establish IACUCs. This panel presentation will focus on the roles that librarians can play to support this committee and detail the federal requirements pertinent to IACUCs, especially those relevant to conducting literature searches to identify animal use alternatives or refinement of protocol procedures. Panelists will include librarians and experts from government agencies. Time will be allocated for a question-and-answer section. | |||
| History of the Health Sciences Section | Advancing the History of the Health Sciences Libraries and Librarians: A Report and Reaction | Invited panel | History of the Health Sciences Section: Joan Stoddart, AHIP |
| Description: The session will discuss the Advocacy Report of the History of the Health Sciences Section, prepared by a section task force in response to the steadily diminishing presence of the history of medicine in MLA publications and in health sciences schools curricula. Recommendations and conclusions of the report have the potential to change the how the history of the health sciences is viewed by the association and how health sciences librarians can become true collaborators with the teaching faculty in their organizations. | |||
| History of the Health Sciences Section Research Section, Veterinary Medical Libraries Section |
Bioethics and the History of the Health Sciences | Contributed papers | History of the Health Sciences Section: Joan Stoddart, AHIP, Veterinary Medical Libraries Section: Cindy Mitchell |
| Description: Everyday, we make decisions about collection development, digitization, user access, security, confidentiality, and intellectual property that potentially involve ethical issues. This session invites exploration of these issues with practical examples or theoretical questions in a historical context. | |||
| Hospital Libraries Section Collection Development Section, Educational Media and Technologies Section, Health Association Libraries Section, Public Services Section, Technical Services Section |
Added Value: Linking E-resources to Clinical Information Systems | Invited speakers and contributed papers | Hospital Libraries Section: Patricia A. Hammond, AHIP, Collection Development Section: Ramune Kubilius, Educational Media and Technologies Section: Amy Blevins, Public Services Section: Bradley Long, Health Association Libraries Section: David Sweet, Technical Services Section: Michael Wood |
| Description: E-resources and information systems must remain relevant and easily accessible, and the librarian needs to be involved. An invited speaker or speakers will provide a state-of-the-art overview of the background and methods available to link our library resources to clinical information systems and other related applications. Practical advice will be presented about how to collaborate with your information technology (IT) staff. In addition, papers highlighting best practice projects that have been successfully implemented in the health care arena are invited. Possible projects may include electronic health records, Internet point-of-care learning continuing medical education (CME), Znyx, and various mobile platforms. | |||
| Leadership and Management Section Corporate Information Services Section New Members SIG |
25 Unproven Things that Leaders Should Do Most of the Time | Invited speaker | Leadership and Management Section: Jo Dorsch, AHIP, New Members SIG: Shannon Jones |
| Description: Peter Ginter will present his "25 unproven, mostly counter intuitive, sometimes irreverent, often overlapping, occasionally difficult to do principles of shaping organizational context and convention (pretty much what leaders should do—most of the time)." He will bring to the discussion an aggregate of the contributions made by MLA members to the "25 Things" blog, which will solicit thoughts on the principles in the months leading up to MLA ’10. Blog discussions from throughout the year will be aggregated and brought to the meeting. | |||
| Leadership and Management Section Medical Library Education Section New Members SIG, Retired Librarians SIG |
Career Reflections: Career Planning from New Graduate to Late Career | Contributed papers (panel format) | Leadership and Management Section: Jo Dorsch, AHIP, Medical Library Education Section: W. John MacMullen, New Members SIG: Shannon Jones |
| Description: Too often, we focus on the apex of our careers without thinking about all the stages before, in between, and after. These contributed papers will reflect on successive stages in a library career, different paths, and things to learn and enjoy at each stage. Strategies, advance planning, professional roles, goal setting, and resources for success will be shared. | |||
| Medical Informatics Section Educational Media and Technologies Section |
Top Tech Trends IV | Invited panel | Medical Informatics Section: Beth Whipple, Educational Media and Technologies Section: Amy Blevins |
| Description: The Top Tech Trends returns for its fourth year, with our trendspotters looking into their crystal balls to bring us the latest trends, as well as reflecting on the trends over the past three years the panel has predicted. | |||
| Medical Informatics Section Leadership and Management Section, Veterinary Medical Libraries Section African American Medical Librarians Alliance SIG, Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG |
Translational Science: How Libraries Are Working with Their Institutions' Clinical and Translational Science Awards | Contributed papers | Medical Informatics Section: Beth Whipple, Veterinary Medical Libraries Section: Cindy Mitchell, Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG: Carrie Iwema |
| Description: This contributed paper session will allow MLA members to share what they are doing (or planning to do) with their institutions' Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs), the different skill sets that they bring, how they got involved, the different projects they work on, etc. | |||
| Medical Library Education Section Public Services Section Institutional Animal Care and Use SIG, Mental Health SIG, Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG |
Building Subject Expertise: What, How, and/or Why? | Contributed papers | Medical Library Education Section: W. John MacMullen, Public Services Section: Bradley Long, Institutional Animal Care and Use SIG: Melissa Ratajeski, Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG: Carrie Iwema |
| Description: This session will explore the challenges of developing subject expertise. How are subject specialists acquiring the knowledge and skills they need to be effective? How are libraries addressing this problem from staff development and recruiting perspectives? What roles can (and do) library and information science programs and post-master's continuing education play? | |||
| Medical Library Education Section Research Section |
New Voices | Contributed papers | Medical Library Education Section: W. John MacMullen, Research Section: I. Diane Gelarden Cooper, AHIP |
| Description: Current master’s and doctoral students and recent graduates (within one year) will contribute papers on their emerging research. Presentations will illustrate how new and future librarians are connecting what they learned in the classroom with current practice in the field of medical librarianship. | |||
| Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section Chiropractic Libraries Section Complementary and Alternative Medicine SIG, Libraries in Curriculum SIG |
Beyond Cool: Reflecting on Web 2.0 Adventures and Misadventures | Contributed papers | Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section: Lisa Ennis, Chiropractic Libraries Section: Daniel Kanaley, Complementary and Alternative Medicine SIG: Lilian Hoffecker, Libraries in Curriculum SIG: Shannon Jones and Donna O'Malley |
| Description: Come join us for a unique contributed papers session with shorter papers (about 5 to 10 minutes) organized into an informal sharing session on your experiences with Web 2.0 technologies. This session will highlight practical uses for connecting and collaborating with library users and colleagues beyond what is shiny and new. Do users really expect libraries to be on Facebook? Are you using a blog, wiki, or other technology to collaborate with researchers or students? Frustrated with trying to be everywhere all at once? Come share your experiences, successes, and not so successful experiments. This will be an informal sharing session format with Q&A time at the end. | |||
| Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section Chiropractic Libraries Section |
Navigating the Literature: Strategies for Getting Published in Health Sciences Journals and Mapping the Literature of Allied Health | Invited speakers and contributed papers | Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section: Lisa Ennis |
| Description: Interested in research and publishing? Want or need to get published? Want to get published in nursing and allied health journals? Wondering about where other librarians are publishing and how they got there? Join us for contributed papers on strategies and ideas for getting published in nursing and allied health journals and invited speakers on mapping the nursing and allied health literature. | |||
| Pharmacy and Drug Information Section Corporate Information Services Section |
Embase Lecture | Invited speaker | Pharmacy and Drug Information Section: Jonathan Koffel |
| Description: An invited speaker will discuss an issue relevant to pharmacy and drug information in the United States at this endowed lecture, sponsored by Elsevier Science, producer of EMBASE. | |||
| Public Health/Health Administration Section Relevant Issues Section African American Medical Librarians Alliance SIG; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Health Sciences Librarians SIG |
AIDS 2010: Evolution of Information | Invited speakers | Public Health/Health Administration Section: Debra Berlanstein, Relevant Issues Section: Ryan Harris, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Health Sciences Librarians SIG: Susan Swogger |
| Description: The last ten years have seen an explosion in research and information related to HIV and AIDS. This program will highlight library initiatives for outreach to patients, consumers, families, and public health professionals. It will also include strategies for working with faculty and students who are conducting research in this burgeoning field. | |||
| Public Health/Health Administration Section Cancer Librarians Section, Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section, Pharmacy and Drug Information Section, Veterinary Medical Libraries Section Outreach SIG |
Vaccine Information: The Role of the Library in Evaluation, Communication, and Dissemination | Panel | Public Health/Health Administration Section: Debra Berlanstein, Veterinary Medical Libraries Section: Cindy Mitchell |
| Description: Vaccines have been a focus of so many public health issues in recent years. This includes new vaccine developments to combat influenza pandemics, controversies over parents’ decisions about vaccinations for their young children, and communication between the pharmaceutical industry and clinicians to name a few. This program will include the role libraries have played in disseminating critical information in a timely fashion and their involvement in other public health programs related to vaccines. | |||
| Public Services Section | The Librarians' Publishing Roundtable | Mini-roundtable | Public Services Section: Bradley Long |
| Description: This program will be a mini-roundtable program to assist prospective writers with evaluating their articles or proposals and to help them to identify potential journals to submit to for publication. Also, writing samples can be submitted for evaluation by journal editors (past and present). | |||
| Relevant Issues Section Pharmacy and Drug Information Section, Public Health/Health Administration Section African American Medi-cal Librarians Alliance SIG; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Health Sciences Librarians SIG |
Health Information for Those Left Behind: Outreach and Services for the Disenfranchised, Marginalized, and Unconnected | Invited speakers and contributed papers | Relevant Issues Section: Ryan Harris, Phamacy and Drug Infromation Section: Jonathan Koffel, Public Health/Health Administration Section: Debra Berlanstein, African American Medical Librarians Alliance SIG: Toni Yancey, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Health Sciences Librarians SIG: Susan Swogger |
| Description: This session will discuss outreach and education for populations that may be left behind by traditional health information services. These include, but are not limited to, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community; minority groups; and seniors. Discussion will include challenges in providing outreach and education to these groups, as well as successful initiatives that have been developed to better serve these groups. | |||
| Research Section Consumer and Patient Health Information Section, Federal Libraries Section, Health Association Libraries Section, Pharmacy and Drug Information Section, Relevant Issues Section African American Medical Librarians Alliance SIG |
Electronic Health Record: Research Implications for Medical Librarians | Invited speakers nd contributed papers and posters | Research Section: I. Diane Gelarden Cooper, AHIP, and Martha (Molly) R. Harris, AHIP, Federal Libraries Section: Terrie Wheeler, Health Association Libraries Section: David Sweet |
| Description: Enhancements to the electronic health record (EHR) can be major vehicles for access to medical literature, just as electronic article retrieval has been. What roles can and should librarians play in developing and evaluating information for EHRs? This session of contributed papers, invited speakers, and posters will offer insight into how librarians are finding ways to work with the EHR. Some possible topics: what are ways to evaluate information sources links; how can librarians evaluate the impact of EHRs on library budgets; can the EHR lead to proactive (before the request) information sourcing; are EHR desirable enhancements different in different settings (academic, rural); does the integration of clinical data and relevant knowledge-based information affect clinical decision making; how can librarians compare ways to deliver relevant information to patients; and what are the policy issues. | |||
| Technical Services Section Consumer and Patient Health Information Section |
Reflecting on Our Past and Connecting to Our Future | Contributed papers | Technical Services Section: Michael Wood, Consumer and Patient Health Information Section: Rhonda Allard |
| Description: This session will allow MLA members to reflect on the past and share how they responded to changes that impacted their libraries and roles. These changes can be political, technological, economic, or otherwise. This looking back will allow other MLA members to reflect on the future of their libraries and roles during a time when they will have to respond changes themselves. One way to look forward to the future is to talk about the past. Contributors can focus on how they dealt with political changes such as losing library space; technological changes such as the explosion of e-books/e-journals and their impact on cataloging (from AACR2 to RDA); and economic changes that affected collections (converting to e-only, canceling subscriptions, etc.) and personnel (staff cuts, taking on new roles, etc.) | |||
| Veterinary Medical Libraries Section International Cooperation Section, Public Services Section |
Diseases without Borders: Information for Global Epidemiology | Invited speaker and contributed papers | Veterinary Medical Libraries Section: Cindy Mitchell, International Cooperation Section: Rick Ralston, Public Services Section: Bradley Long |
| Description: Disease knows no boundaries, and neither does information. This session will look at ways that libraries working with other libraries and agencies worldwide can respond quickly to disease outbreaks and potential pandemics by sharing up-to-date information. | |||
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