MLA's Educational Webcast

ABCs of E-books: Strategies for the Medical Library

Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m., central time

Presenters

Mark E. Funk, AHIP, FMLA

Mark Funk, AHIP, FMLA, is the associate director for resources and education at the Weill Cornell Medical Library in New York City. He has been involved in collection development since 1980, long before e-journals and e-books. He wrote the chapter on monograph acquisitions for the Current Practice in Health Sciences Librarianship series and has served on the library advisory boards for many medical publishers. Funk is an active member of the Medical Library Association, where he has served as treasurer and president. He is a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals and a Fellow of the Medical Library Association.

Elizabeth R. Lorbeer, AHIP

Elizabeth Lorbeer, AHIP, has been the associate director for content management at the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Alabama–Birmingham since April 2006. She previously held positions at the State University of New York–Buffalo, Boston University, and Rush University Medical Center. She received her bachelor and master of library science degrees from University at Buffalo (SUNY) and master's of education in higher education administration from Boston University. She is the principal investigator for three National Network of Libraries of Medicine Express Library Digitization Award grants and the recipient of an Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) Leadership Scholarship to attend the Association of College and Research Libraries/Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians. Lorbeer was recently promoted to associate professor and is a distinguished member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals.

Meg White

Meg White is a twenty-year veteran of the health sciences publishing industry. Her background includes various sales, marketing, and product development positions at Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Mosby, Williams & Wilkins, and Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. She is a frequent speaker at industry-related conferences on the topics of product development, technology, curriculum, and continuing medical education.

White is currently executive director of technology services at Rittenhouse, leveraging her experience in the areas of technology, marketing, product development, and editorial. She headed the development of the company's e-book initiative, the R2 Digital Library, and continues to serve as product manager for the platform. White is a past president and former board member of the American Medical Publisher's Association.

White holds a bachelor's degree in speech communication and theater arts from Wake Forest University. GO DEACS!

Video-taped Presenters

Karen Fischer

Karen Fischer has been a librarian at the University of Iowa since 2003. Currently, she is the collections analysis & planning librarian at the University of Iowa, and prior to this position, she served as the collection management librarian at Hardin Library for the Health Sciences for two and a half years. Her current position involves collections budget analysis, resource selection, collections analysis, and scholarly communication outreach. Additionally, she guest teaches at the school for library and information science on scholarly communication and collection management topics.

Fischer is a member of the American Library Association and the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and she serves as an editorial board member of the journal Collection Management. Recent professional activities include participating as an invited speaker (with Ray English) at the Midwest Medical Library Association Conference in 2009 on "Scholarly Communication 101: It's All About Change"; a presentation at the 2008 Charleston Conference "Scholarly Communication and Collection Development Librarians: Getting the Conversation Started" (which is included in the 2008 Charleston Conference Proceedings, Libraries Unlimited, October 2009); and Author Addenda, an ARL SPEC Kit 310, published by the Association of Research Libraries in 2009.

Fischer received her bacheor degree in english from Kalamazoo College, MI and her master of library and information science degree from University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.

Michelle Kraft, AHIP

Michelle Kraft, MLS, AHIP, is a senior medical librarian at the Cleveland Clinic, and co-authored a chapter on collection development and electronic management in the upcoming Medical Library Association Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries. Currently she works with Cleveland Clinic Health System Libraries evaluating and implementing online resources for use within health care system. She has over 12 years experience in medical libraries, is an active member of the Medical Librarian Association serving on various committees, and she has authored several articles on library technologies in the Journal of Hospital Librarianship, Medical Reference Services Quarterly, and Library Journal. Her professional interests are in electronic resource usage in medical libraries and the use of technologies within medicine and medical libraries

Marian T. Simonson, AHIP Marian Simonson, AHIP

Marian Simonson, MSLS, AHIP, is the systems medical librarian at the Cleveland Clinic. She co-authored a chapter on collection development and electronic management in the upcoming Medical Library Association Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries. Currently she manages the library’s computer and electronic resources at the Cleveland Clinic. In that role, her special interests are evaluating new products and streamlining access to e-resources for the library’s customers. She has more than twenty-seven years of experience in hospital libraries and has served on various committees of the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association. She is a past co-editor of HLS’ National Network and has written several articles for it as well.

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