Network Members in the News
Kudos to Arizona Health Sciences Library and to Hawaii Medical Library! At the end of July, the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) announced AHSL and HML as two of the winners of the 2004 NCLIS Blue Ribbon Consumer Health Information Recognition Awards for Libraries. These awards are designed to highlight libraries that do the most to promote a healthy lifestyle. Congratulations to our colleagues!
Sally Harvey and Lora Robbins of the Health Sciences Library, Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, will give a presentation at the 2004 Arizona Library Association Annual Conference. Their presentation, "Hospital Librarians Exploring New Frontiers in Community Outreach", will report on their community outreach project with a local HIV/AIDS community service organization. The project was funded by the NN/LM Access to Electronic Health Information program.
Ana Macias, who has served as Medical Library Technician at Weed US Army Community Hospital at Fort Irwin, California, has accepted a leadership position at Evans Army Community Hospital in Fort Carson, Colorado. Ana is a recent graduate of the San Jose State University program; she worked with Marilyn Schwartz and Jan Dempsey for her practicum at the Naval Medical Center San Diego. We will miss Ana in our region, but wish her the best in her new position!
Christina Mayberry has been appointed Hospital Librarian/Information Specialist at the Norris Medical Library of the University of Southern California. Prior to this appointment, Christina served for two years as Information Specialist at Norris. In her new position, she serves half-time as an Information Specialist at Norris and half-time as the Library Director for Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. This appointment was effective July 1, 2004.
Kudos to Joan Schlimgen (Arizona Health Sciences Library) and Michael Kronenfeld (A. T. Still University for the Health Sciences, Arizona Campus) for their article in the July 2004 Journal of the Medical Library Association:
Schlimgen JB, Kronenfeld MR. Update on inflation of journal prices: Brandon/Hill list journals and the scientific, technical, and medical publishing market. J Med Libr Assoc 2004 Jul;92(3):307-14. PMID: 15243636
Kathy Skhal has accepted a position as Reference and Education Librarian at Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa. She is leaving her position as Interlibrary Loan Assistant at the Carlson Health Sciences Library at the University of California, Davis, at the end of September and will begin her new position on October 5th. Kathy is a recent graduate of the University of Illinois LEEP program. She described her experience with this distance education program in her Latitudes article, "Confessions of a Covert Library Student: Distance Education and the Working Professional".
Valerie (Su) Mersh, Deputy Director and Head of Public Services at the Lane Medical Library, Stanford University, retired at the end of August 2004, after 24 years of distinguished service. (This editor has very fond memories of working with Valerie at the UCLA Biomedical Library during the late 1970s.)
Reading sleuths have noticed that Lucy Thomas and Nadine Greenup, from Reeves Medical Library at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, have been listed in the acknowledgements section of Sue Grafton's 2002 New York Times bestseller title, Q is for Quarry. Read on!