January/February 2000
volume 9, issue 1
In this issue:
About E-LatitudesPSRML Associate Director Appointed
DOCLINE Update
Regional Interlibrary Loan Charge Going Up
Quinquennial Hospital Library Survey
1999 Internet Connectivity Survey
Medical Informatics at Woods Hole
Web Search Engines
University of Guam
PSRML Will See You at the Joint!
Disaster Recovery (Y2K and Otherwise)
HLS/MLA Professional Development Grant
MEDCAT Purrs...
In every issue:
Publication InformationNLM Techical Bulletin - Table of Contents
Upcoming Events
Medical Informatics at Woods Hole
by Jacqueline Doyle
Brown Health Sciences Library
Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center
Phoenix, AZ
Note:Each year the National Library of Medicine holds two sessions of Medical Informatics at Woods Hole Biological Laboratory, MA. Last year NLM added slots at Medical Informatics to encourage health sciences librarians to become leaders in this field. Jacqueline Doyle, Director of Learning Resources and CME for Banner Health Arizona, was one of two health sciences librarians from Region 7 to join twenty-eight other participants for the fall session.
The deadline to apply for the 2000 sessions is March 1, 2000. The Spring session will be held May 28 - June 3, 2000. The Fall session will be held October 1-7, 2000. More information and the application form are available at http://www.mbl.edu/Medical_Informatics/
Spending a week with colleagues (librarian types) and "could-be colleagues" (physicians and others), learning tons of information about medical informatics, listening to the sounds of a New England marina and feeling cool, fresh, damp ocean air -- what more could a hospital librarian want? Not much, in my opinion! (Oh, and the fall colors were exceptional!)
I wholeheartedly recommend to all health sciences librarians, but especially to my hospital-based colleagues that you apply for this program; you will find it a fascinating and provocative experience. It is a total immersion week! Dorm life enabled us to be centered in the same building and enjoy meals together. For six days, from 8:30 am until 9 pm or later, you, as a medical informatics fellow, think, breath, read and speak nothing else! We had a rich combination of lectures, demonstrations, group discussion, and hands-on learning, making the week pleasant and fun. I very much enjoyed being surrounded by health professionals who wanted to learn how to make medical information useful and accessible to all, including patients and consumers.
Our lecturers included Drs. Lindberg, Masys, Christopher and James Cimino, people we may have heard or met at MLA events; as well as people new to me--Robert Jenders (Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center), David Remsen (Woods Hole Biological Laboratory), Kathi Canese (NLM), Allen Hightower (The Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention) among others! Kathy Norton, the Marine Biological Laboratory's librarian, is a treasure and someone we all should know better!
Colleagues as well as faculty were ready, willing, and able to provide and share knowledge, wisdom and suggestions, all of which were most appreciated. I returned to my hospital full of ideas and new ways to do old things. Exchanging email following the experience has been useful, too!
This is a week not to be missed, indeed a professional obligation we have to our organizations and peers.
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