Medical Library Association | Education : Moving at the Speed of Byte: Emerging Technologies for Information Management

MLA Distance Learning

Moving at the Speed of Byte:
Emerging Technologies for Information Management

MLA's Educational Webcast
Held Wednesday, November 8, 2006

Presenters

Gabriel R. Rios

Gabriel recently accepted the position of deputy director at the University of Alabama–Birmingham, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences. He will represent the library in the director’s absence and is responsible for the day-to-day administration of operations, including oversight of budgetary and personnel functions. In previous positions, Gabe provided leadership and vision for key public services, including reference, information technology, Web presence, PDA support, education programs, liaison programs, and outreach. Over the last six years, Gabe has coordinated the integration of emerging technologies in the library environment. He has also taught classes on emerging mobile technologies at regional and national meetings. Gabe received his MLIS from the University of Texas–Austin.

Michelle Kraft, AHIP

Michelle is the medical librarian at South Pointe Hospital, an osteopathic hospital in the Cleveland area. She is the author of "The Krafty Librarian," a blog for medical librarians. Recently, she published the paper "The Use of Blogs in Medical Libraries," in the Journal of Hospital Librarianship. Previously, she was the electronic resources librarian at the Cleveland Clinic Alumni Library. She received her MLS from the University of Missouri–Columbia and is member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, MLA, and the Medical Library Association of Northeastern Ohio.

Bart Ragon

Bart is the assistant director for library technology services and development at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia–Charlottesville. He received a master of library and information science from the University of South Carolina.

Chad F. Boeninger

Chad is a reference and instruction librarian at Ohio University's Alden Library. He is also the business and economics bibliographer and the assistant Web manager. Chad began working at Ohio University in July 2002, shortly after receiving his master of science in information sciences from the University of Tennessee. Chad's research interests include multiple aspects of technology, library marketing, library planning, library instruction, and public services. He is constantly striving to make the library a cool place and a viable resource for current and future patrons. He is the author of the "Library Voice" blog.

David Topps

David is the director of eLearning at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Sudbury. He started at the school September 2005 and travels, virtually and regularly, to Thunder Bay and many other sites. Previously, he spent ten years with the Department of Family Medicine in Calgary as the Rural Program Coordinator. David's background is in rural family medicine. His first decade in Canada was in Milk River, a small isolated town in southern Alberta. He has also practiced in suburban and inner city locations and at community and academic teaching sites. David has been working in and researching medical informatics and educational technology since 1986 and has experience in information systems, database design, and communications technology. He has a special interest in mobile devices, which he has been working with since 1989.

Video-taped Presenters

Charles J. Greenberg

Charles is the coordinator of curriculum and research support for the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library of Yale University. He is a former chair of both the Educational Media and Public Services Sections of MLA and is currently the Public Services Section Representative to MLA Section Council. He also coordinates an Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) institutional partnership grant to introduce underrepresented minority high school students to health sciences librarianship and informatics ( www.bioinfo-career.org). He has taught library classes and continuing education for more than twenty years on topics ranging from cognition and interface design to public digital archives. He promotes information professional expertise to surgeons through his blog (surgery-update.blogspot.com) and sees a bright future for information professionals in the knowledge economy. Outside of his academic position, he teaches adult education topics, such as digital camera use and online music to life-long learners.

Ryan P. Looney

Ryan is a Virginia native who has a BA in sociology from Wellesley College. She also holds a master of aeronautical science from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and a master of education from the University of Virginia.

Nadine Ellero, AHIP

Nadine is the intellectual access librarian at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia–Charlottesville. She received a master of library and information science and a bachelor of arts in linguistics from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Robert Johnson

Robert is an education services librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University's Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences. Bob began working at VCU in October 2005, and worked as a library assistant at the University of Minnesota's Bio-Medical Library the previous six years.

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