Winter, Vol. 19,
no. 3 (2006)
From
the Editors
In a time
of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually
find
themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
-Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)
As
incoming co-editor I wanted to start my introduction with a quote, as Jan
often started her columns. I ran into this one as a subscriber to the
Word-A-Day service and kept it, thinking how appropriate it is to our
circumstance as librarians these days. The shift away from the print world to one that is primarily
electronic is one of the biggest challenges our profession has ever
faced. And because of the nature of the literature we deal with as
medical librarians, the rate of change for our field has been precipitous.
I’m excited to take on co-editorship of Technical Trends, sharing
duties with Connie Machado.
My goal is to keep the
newsletter a valuable and succinct source of information for section members, a tool that helps keep you among the “learners”. To do
this, Connie and I need the support of the section membership. I’d like
to thank the regular contributors to the newsletter who provided the
content for this issue and reach out to the rest of you who read this
publication and ask you to send us your ideas, articles, news, etc. I
look forward to working with you on future issues.
For those who don’t know me, I’m a 19 year member of MLA, and a TSS member
since 2002. I’ve been a sort of jack of all trades in medical libraries,
starting out in reference, moving briefly to access services, and finally
to systems work. Some of you may have read about my experiences as a
telecommuter in the Winter 2002 issue of Technical Trends.
Wishing all of you happy holidays, and a rewarding 2006!
JoLinda
Thompson
Connie K. Machado
Systems Librarian
Head of Cataloging
Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library
Rowland Medical Library
George Washington University Medical Center
University of Mississippi Medical Center
joleethompson@verizon.net or
mlbjlt@gwumc.edu
cmachado@rowland.umsmed.edu
From
the Chair
I bring you greetings from Indianapolis, the Crossroads of America and Racing
Capital of the World. From May through early September it seems that all we do
locally is watch cars chase each other around in circles at the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway or jet down the straight away at Raceway Park. With the arrival
of fall the sound of roaring engines fade and is replaced by the sights, sounds
and smells of crackling dry leaves.
We cannot
languish in fall’s beauty and calm because for all too soon winter slips upon
us. MLA sends out reminders and we find ourselves racing to not only get in
from the cold but to do all those tasks that seemed so far off and doable in
the spring when we set our section goals.
TSS
chairs and committee members have opened the throttle and raced full out to meet
the 2005/2006 goals that we set this past spring. The mid-year report found later
in this issue heralds all of the fine work done by our committees.
The program for which TSS will be the primary sponsor at MLA ’06 is a
contributed paper session entitled “Transforming Scholarly Publishing: the Role
of Institutional Repositories”. Cecilia Botero, our program committee chair,
has been working very hard on our program and business meeting arrangements.
We have
accepted an invitation from the Leadership & Management Section to co-sponsor a
symposium at the MLA ‘07 annual conference. The working title is “Change
Agents: Symposium on Management Techniques and Practices for Facilitating Change
in Health Sciences Libraries of the 21st. Century”. Leadership & Management is
awaiting MLA’s decision. Stay tuned!
This fall
MLA decided to waive membership dues for 2005 members affected by Hurricane
Katrina. Following suit, the TSS Executive Board voted and approved waiving the
section’s 2006 dues for those individuals affected by the Katrina Hurricane.
The names of four section members were forwarded to MLA Headquarters. Also
this fall it is with regret that the TSS Executive Board accepted Sue
Trombley’s resignation as Chair of the CE Committee. Effective January 1, 2006, Xiaoli Li will assume the Chair’s duties. On behalf of the TSS Executive Board
I want to take this opportunity to thank Sue for all the hard work she has done
for TSS and wish her well in her future endeavors.
The
Nominating Committee, chaired by Maggie Wineburgh-Freed, has come up with a
great slate and will be sending ballot information out shortly after the start
of the new year. Gin Lingle and the Bylaws Committee are working feverishly to
update the TSS Bylaws to bring them into compliance with the new model section
bylaws. The revised bylaws if approved by the MLA bylaws review committee will
be presented for adoption at the TSS business meeting in Phoenix.
Speaking
of Phoenix, I hope to see everyone there. Mark May 19-24 on your calendars.
Also please don’t forgot our colleagues in the Gulf Coast area who have been
challenged this year beyond belief. I would like to end by encouraging you, if
you have not already done so, to make a contribution to MLA’s
Medical Library Disaster Relief Fund. The
devastation and need is great.
Best
wishes for now and may you all have a prosperous new year.
Jan Cox
Indiana University School
of Dentistry Library
Indianapolis, Indiana
Chair, Technical Services Section
jcox2@iupui.edu
Nominating
Committee Update: Slate for Upcoming Technical Services Section Elections
The
nominating committee is pleased to present the following slate for officers to
be elected for the coming year.
Chair-elect/program chair:
Nancy Burford
nburford@medlib.tamu.edu
Assistant Professor, Resources Management Librarian
Medical Sciences Library
Texas
A&M
University
Secretary-Treasurer:
Linda Flavin
Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464-0541
Nominees to the MLA nominating
committee/TSS nominating committee chair:
Laurie Thompson
Virginia Lingle
Laurie.Thompson@UTSouthwestern.edu
vlingle@psu.edu
Director of Libraries
Interim Director/Librarian
University of
Texas
Southwestern Medical Center
Cataloging and Serials
George T. Harrell Library - H127
Penn
State
University
College
of Medicine
Milton
S.
Hershey
Medical
Center
We so appreciate the
willingness of these members to serve the section in this way, even in these
times when we are all working harder than ever! Please be sure to vote in the
upcoming election, particularly as an acknowledgment to these outstanding
professionals. It is by their efforts that the work of the Technical Services
Section and the profession will be advanced.
Thanks also to the members of the nominating committee, Craig Elam and Suzanne
Nagy, for participating in the search for just the right candidates!
Maggie Wineburgh-Freed
Chair, MLA TSS nominating committee
mwfreed@usc.edu
Hear
Ye! Hear Ye!
TSS MEMBERSHIP NEEDS YOU
It’s TSS
Membership Renewal Time! 
All memberships in the Technical
Services Section of MLA expire on December
31, 2005.
Renew
Today!
Visit
http://www.mlanet.org/joinmla/index.html to access MLA’s online
application or renewal form.
TSS
Program Update:
MLA 2006
Phoenix,
Arizona
The
Technical Services Section will participate in three MLA ’06 programs. TSS is
taking the lead for the program, Transforming Scholarly Publishing:
the Role of Institutional Repositories, which will feature contributed
papers and posters. Educational Media and Technologies is the co-sponsor.
TSS will
co-sponsor The Journey Ahead: Leaving Print for the Virtual Library, featuring contributed papers and posters. Collection Development is
taking the lead with Hospital Libraries as an additional co-sponsor.
Managing Change is being led by Leadership and Management with additional
co-sponsorship from TSS and the Corporate Information Services and Health
Association Libraries. This program will include invited speakers as well as
contributed papers and posters.
Ed Jones,
Bibliographic and Metadata Services Coordinator at the National University
Library, San Diego, California has
agreed to speak at the TSS business meeting in
Phoenix.
Ed's article, “The FRBR Model as Applied to Continuing Resource" is in the
latest issue of Library Resources and Technical Services. Ed chaired the
CONSER FRBR task force. He holds a doctorate from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, worked previously in cataloging and serials positions at
Youngstown State University, the University of Michigan, and Harvard University,
and was a systems analyst with Information Quest.
Cecilia Botero
Chair Elect and Program Chair
Health Sciences Center Library
University of Florida
Cecilia@library.health.ufl.edu
Opportunities
for Professional Development
The purpose of this column is to list
opportunities which may be of interest to our members. While the column is
not intended to be a comprehensive listing, the compiler/editor welcomes
information on continuing education opportunities for possible inclusion in
future editions of the column. Although some of the courses listed below
may indicate the awarding of continuing education units, only those specifically
indicated as being MLA-approved have received prior approval from the Medical
Library Association.
Winter
'
06 Learning Opportunities
We’d love to hear from you regarding past and future classes,
sessions, or workshops that you’ve attended or would like to see posted here
for the future. Feel free to write a summary of interesting classes you
have attended for Technical Trends.
Your CE Committee,
Sue Trombley Lynne Bowman Kristin Sawyer
Joan Gregory
TSS CE Chair
lbowman@email.uky.edu ksawyer555@yahoo.com
joang@lib.med.utah.edu
susant@ahsl.arizona.edu
Calendar of Events
January
-
February
-
March
Planning Ahead
January
SLA 2006 Leadership Summit, Houston, TX, January
18-21, 2006
"Even
Monkeys Fall from Trees: Strategies for Effective Leadership"
Keynote speaker: Doug Lipp. For more information:
http://www.sla.org/content/resources/leadcenter/LeadershipSummit/06leadsummit/index.cfm
LITA
Midwinter, San Antonio, TX, January 19-24, 2006
Two pre-midwinter workshops:
User Centered Design: Design Process, and User
Centered Design: Usability.
Registration fees: $180 LITA Members; $280
ALA Members; $380 non-members
http://www.lita.org/ala/lita/litaevents/midwinter2006sanantonio/LITAMW06.htm
ALA Midwinter, San Antonio, TX, January 20-25, 2006
Meeting information:
http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/midwinter/2006/home.htm
"SCCTP
Advanced Serials Cataloging (Condensed Version)" ALCTS
Symposium, Friday, Jan. 20, 2006
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., ALA Midwinter, San Antonio, TX
Registration Deadline:
December 30th.
$195/ALCTS members; $245/ALA members; $295/nonmembers; $100/students
Complete description and online registration:
http://www.ala.org/ala/alcts/alctsconted/alctsceevents/alctsmw/advserialcat.htm
BCR Workshop
Calendar, December 2005 - February 2006
Information on BCR's training schedule can be
found:
http://bcr.org/training/workshops/Dec05-Feb06.pdf
NEFLIN Workshop
Schedule, January- March, 2006
The Northeast
Florida Library Information Network (NEFLIN) hosts several valuable workshops
year round. Here is the link for their winter training schedule:
http://www.neflin.org/
February
Fundamentals
of Acquisitions Web Course, ALA/ALCTS, 2 spring sessions
A
four week Web-based course. The Fundamentals of Acquisitions
focuses on what you need to know about the basics of acquiring monographs and
serials: goals and methods; financial management of materials budgets; and
relationships among acquisitions librarians, library booksellers, subscription
agents, and publishers.
Spring 2006 Sessions
|
Session Dates |
Registration Deadline |
|
February 6 - March 3, 2006 |
Friday, January 27, 2006 |
|
April 3 - April 28, 2006 |
Friday, March 24, 2006 |
Registration: $109 ALCTS members; $129
Non-members.
www.ala.org/alcts/events for more information or to register.
March
"IP-Based
Video: Short Term Solutions and Long Term Perspectives", March 27-30, 2006,
Atlanta, GA
Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center.
Rick Prelinger, founder of the Prelinger Archives and President of the Board of
Directors of the Internet Archive, will be the Keynote Speaker for the 2006 SURA/ViDe
Conference.
http://vide.net/conferences/spr2006/registration_template.shtml
Planning Ahead
NCBI
Leadership Training Institute, April 5-9, 2006
This comprehensive training teaches skills necessary for providing
influential leadership in ending discrimination, reducing conflict, and building
coalitions. Participants learn how to lead the award-winning NCBI Welcoming
Diversity model and the Controversial Issues model, how to handle one-on-one
conflict, and how to effectively lead institutional change on issues of
diversity.
http://www.ncbi.org/new_programs/
Medical
Library Association, Phoenix, AZ, May 19-24, 2006
"Transformations A-Z"
http://www.mlanet.org/am/am2006/index.html
NASIG
21st Annual Conference, Denver, CO, May 4-7, 2006
“Mile High Views: Surveying the Serials Vista”
http://www.nasig.org/public/2006proposals.html
SLA
Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, June 11-14, 2006
Baltimore Convention Center. Keynote speakers:
Gwen Ifill and Walt Mossberg. The conference will create an environment
for networking, communication, learning and other developmental opportunities
for information professionals.
http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2006/index.cfm
ALA Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 22-28, 2006
http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2006a/2006an.htm
Distance
Learning Conference,
Madison, WI, August 2-4, 2006
"Teach - Learn - Connect" 22nd Annual Conference:
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/
2006 LITA National Forum, Nashville, TX, October 26- 29, 2006
"Netville in Nashville: Web Services as
Library Services"
http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litaevents/litanationalforum2006nashvilletn/06_Call.pdf
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
Training program January-April 2006:
http://nnlm.gov/mar/online/schedule.html
Medical Library Association
Click here for descriptions of all these MLA courses:
http://www.mlanet.org/education/web/web_courses.html
College
of Dupage: Library Learning Network
Contact Sue Trombley (see below) for more on this
series of teleconferences: Soaring to Excellence 2006 and
Libraries, Challenges and Opportunities 2006
Some of the topics include: "Always a River, Sometimes a Library", "Serving
Immigrant Populations - A Library Prototype for Diversity", "Library Hot Topics:
Managers Forum", and "Google Book: Its Impact on Scholarship and Libraries"
Read more:
http://www.dupagepress.com/COD/index.php?id=183
Sue Trombley.
MLA/TSS CE Chair
susant@ahsl.arizona.edu
DECALOGUE OF THE FAIR MEDICAL LIBRARY PATRON
Part II: Audiovisuals
1 . You shall not steal the contents of any cassette and
return the box empty while expecting not to be called on your crime and have us
fit in a new copy of the material.
This is comparable to a nurse stealing blood or urine
samples.
2. You shall not borrow a cassette and return it with an
added copy of another program, related or unrelated to the contents of the
original.
This is comparable to a nurse exchanging patients’
throat cultures.
3. You shall not borrow an audiocassette or a videocassette
and return it with a different publication copied on it by mistake and thus
having erased the original.
This is comparable to a nurse confusing two patients’
records.
4. You shall not borrow a cassette and return it with a
damaged ribbon, assuming that we can fix that because of our technical knowledge
or blaming us for your accident with the player.
This is comparable to a nurse damaging a set of X rays.
5. You shall not borrow a tape that carries sound on the
medium and return it converted to a silent program with the excuse that “the
pictures are still very helpful.”
This is comparable to a nurse using a stethoscope
without sound.
6. You shall not dare to return a multiple-pieces set with
the individual parts intact but a broken container, which as a matter of fact
makes impossible to lend it to another patron.
This is comparable to a nurse carrying around a
diagnostic test set without its lost container.
7. You shall not want our library to provide you with players
for various materials under the claim that it we carry information sources in
certain formats you are entitled to use them all whether you have the hardware
to enjoy them or not.
This is comparable to a nurse demanding that the
hospital provide her/him with better instruments to do the job she/he can do
with what it does own.
8. You shall not expect that we keep acquiring materials in
your favorite media of old against the development of technology and in spite of
our budgetary needs.
This is comparable to a nurse requesting that the
hospital administration allows her/him to use obsolete technological devices
with which she/he was familiar.
9. You shall not damage any audiovisual material (in the
various ways described in Part I of this Decalogue previously published in the
Fall 2005 issue of Technical Trends) and return them to us pretending that it
did not work properly.
This is comparable to a nurse performing wrongly a
procedure and then blaming the patient for the error.
10. You shall not think of keeping the accompanying print
material of any audiovisual set because you like it and you suspect other users
will not care that you do so since it is secondary to the audiovisual material.
This is comparable to a nurse keeping the print
documents of a nursing kit that includes instructions on how to use it.
Brought to you by your
Technical Services medical librarians who have dealt with all the specific
crimes mentioned above,
for the purpose of fighting patron abuse of medical library materials to the
disadvantage of all legitimate users.
Leopoldo M. Montoya, July
2005
Drexel
College of
Medicine
Hahnemann Library
lm46@exchange2.drexel.edu
NISO
News Fall 2005
Hello, readers. It is a pleasure to write to you a second time as part of my
new responsibility as MLA’s voting representative to NISO. We have had a good
beginning to this academic year’s work on standard drafts submitted to us by
NISO for study and comments. The fall quarter has been quite busy with the
submission of a large number of documents for Nadine Ellero and the Technical
Services Standards Committee members to work on. All drafts were distributed
and returned with some individual reactions, and I voted in favor of all except
one. It continues to be the case that all the work we receive is the product of
the International Standards Organization’s Technical Committee 46 on Information
and Documentation.
Nadine reported that she shared a document with the Committee
members that provides guidelines on how to do the review work in a better and
more efficient manner than we managed to do in years past, and that it was
appreciated by the members. In return she has had timely cooperation by the
members, old and new. She has a larger committee than we had for several years,
and I want to thank all the volunteers who joined. The more voices we have, the
better our collective work will be, and the greater the chance that our
contribution will have some weight in the shaping of information standards.
On the other hand, I have not received any information about
regional meetings or symposia that had to do with standards, which I asked for
in my previous report. I encourage you all to do so in the future, simply
because we do not want to miss any activities in our specialty that may be of
interest to us all. It does not take much effort to send me a note alerting me
to the existence of a professional session in any place that pertains to our
field of endeavor.
STANDARDS
The most important items that have come our way in the past
few months are the Format for Information Exchange (IS)/DIS 2709) and the
revised International Library Statistics (ISO/DIS 2789).
The most significant new publication is the 4th
edition of ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005, now renamed Guidelines for the
Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies.
This is a major revision written for a wide audience and for applications beyond
traditional abstracting and indexing. It can be downloaded from the NISO
website.
Also newly published is the revision of Syntax for the
Digital Object Identifier, ANSI/NISO Z39.84-2005. It can also be downloaded
from the NISO website.
MEETINGS
NISO held workshops on Open URL and Metasearch, September
19-21. All the presentations are available on the NISO workshop website, but
the best one to begin with is Sebastian Hammer’s wrap-up on the importance of
standards for creating an open and accessible information environment.
NISO and the
Texas Center for Digital
Knowledge cosponsored the 2005 RFID Institute, an important meeting on October
25-26 at the University of North Texas, gathering leaders in the business and
industry sector and the libraries and information centers sector in order to
examine current issues in radio frequency identification that have to do with
manufacturing, distribution, publishing, etc. The experts examined the benefits
and opportunities this technology offers and the standards needed to maximize
performance. If you were thinking this sounds too esoteric, check out the
information on how this new technology will make it possible to find lost books
in collections rapidly and without having to use barcodes. Presentation slides
are available on the Center’s website.
REFERENCES
William H. Mischo, “Digital libraries: challenges and
influential work,” D-Lib Magazine, August 2005.
Jeffrey Hastings, “Cool Tools,” School Library Journal, September
2005.
As I added last time, a variety of other references on
various subjects related to standards development can be found in the monthly
issues of NISO Newsline. This online monthly publication is now in its
second year of existence with a new and appealing design, available at
http://www.niso.org/news/newsline/NISOnewsline.html.
Leopoldo M. Montoya
Drexel College of Medicine
Hahneman Library
Lm46@exchange2.drexel.edu
TECHNICAL SERVICES SECTION
MLA MIDYEAR REPORT
2005-06
Goal 1: Recruitment, Membership and Leadership in the Profession
As of
October 3, 2005, TSS
membership totaled 129 members. The Membership Committee, chaired by
Hanna Kwasik, and with committee members Mary Holcomb, Junie Janzen and
Lisa Palmer, contacted the 38 non-renewing individuals to encourage them
to rejoin and to find out why they had not renewed. Membership reports
from other organizations were reviewed for librarians working in TS
specialties within the health sciences library community. These
individuals were contacted and invited to join the TSS of MLA. A
membership renewal reminder letter will be sent in December 2005 via email
to all TSS members.
The TSS Nominating Committee, chaired by Maggie Wineburgh-Freed,
and assisted by committee members Craig Elam and
Suzanne Nagy successfully
slated nominees for Chair-Elect/Program Chair, Secretary/Treasurer and Nominee
to the MLA Nominating Committee/TSS Nominating Committee Chair. Ballots for the
2006/2007 officers election will be sent via email.
Goal 2: Life Long Learning
The Continuing Education Committee, chaired by Sue Trombley,
and committee members Lynne Bowman, and Joan Gregory continued to promote CE
opportunities for technical services librarians through a regular column in the
section newsletter, as well as on the section’s discussion list. A total of 139
local, state, regional and national meetings, workshops and distance education
opportunities were included in the committee’s column and announcements.
Effective December 31, 2005 Sue will be stepping down as CE Committee Chair and
Xiaoli Li will assume the Chair’s duties effective
January 1, 2006.
Goal 3: Advocacy
The Standards Committee, chaired by
Nadine Ellero, with committee
members Cecilia Botero, Nancy Burford, Angela Dixon, Malgorzata Fort, Xiaoli Li,
Michael Wood, and Felicia Yeh have been busy during the first half of the
2005-2006 business year. The committee was asked to study and comment on eight
new or revised NISO/ISO information science related standards drafts. The
documents reviewed were as follows:
1. ANSI/NISO Z39-200X
Guidelines for the Construction, Format and Management of Monolingual Controlled
Vocabularies (Mary 2005)
2. ISO/CD 9709 Information and Documentation - Quality-Statistics and
Performance Evaluation (May 2005)
3. ANSI/NISO Z39.87-200X Data Dictionary - Technical Metadata for Digital Still
Images (August 2005)
4. ISO TC 46/SC11 N N572 Information and Documentation - Records
Management - Part 1: General (September 2005)
5. ISO TC 46/SC Work Process Analysis for Recordkeeping (September 2005)
6.
ISO TC 46/SC9 Information and Documentation - International Standard Music
Number (ISMN) (September 2005)
7.
ISO TC 46/SC11 N598 Information and Documentation - Records Management - Part 2:
Guidelines (October 2005)
8.
ISO/NP 23081-2 Information and Documentation - Records Management Process -
Metadata for Records - Part 2: Implementation Issues (October 2005)
Nadine also chairs TSS’s Ad-Hoc Committee on Administrative
Metadata. Progress on this initiative was limited during this portion of
the business year. In addition to the work of the Standards Committee,
Leopoldo Montoya,
MLA’s liaison to NISO, continued to provide technical services members
with the latest news about how these and previous standards drafts are
fairing in the approval process through his regular column in the
section’s online newsletter, Technical Trends. To provide guidance
for new committee members, Leopoldo and Nadine also found time to author
“How to Review A Standard”, a standards review document.
Goal 4: Create and Communicate Knowledge
During the first half of the 2005/2006 business year, the section
continued to maintain open communication channels with the membership
through its Website, managed by
Walter Morton,
the section discussion list managed by Mary Buttner, and the online
newsletter, co-edited by Connie Machado and JoLinda Thompson. Current
officers and current committee’s pages of the section’s web site were
updated during the period and the Fall and Winter 2005 issues of the
section’s newsletter posted.
Goal 5: Building a Network of Partners
Cecilia Botero, Chair-Elect and Program Committee Chair, and
committee members Annette Osenga,
Nadine Ellero and Sheryl
Widdoes, worked on program plans for MLA ’06 to be held in Phoenix, Arizona.
The section plans to participate in three MLA ’06 programs. TSS is primary
sponsor for the contributed paper/poster session “Transforming Scholarly
Publishing: the Role of Institutional Repositories”. Educational Media and
Technology is a co-sponsor. The section is a cosponsor for two additional
programs: 1] “The Journey Ahead: Leaving Print for the Virtual Library”, a
contributed paper/poster session, with Collection Development taking the lead;
2] and “Managing Change”, an invited speaker/contributed paper/poster session,
sponsored by Leadership and Management.
TSS Program Committee members have been assigned to review
the structured abstracts received for the program for which TSS has the lead and
will commence this work upon receipt of the abstracts.
Several section members serve as liaisons for MLA to other
professional organizations:
Karleen Darr to the ALA
Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access liaison; Maggie Wineburgh-Freed
to NASIG; Leopoldo Montoya, to NISO; and Pat Rodgers to the ALA Publisher/Vendor
Library Relations Committee.
Other: Section Organization
Virginia Lingle, the past chair and Bylaws Committee chair
with assistance from bylaws committee members Craig Elam and Violet Price are
reviewing the TSS bylaws in light of recent changes to model section bylaws.
They will be submitting TSS’s draft changes to the MLA Bylaws Committee for
their review. Connie Machado serves as the section representative to Section
Council. Robert Pisciotta and Mary Holcomb continue to serve on the Ad Hoc Task
Force for Research.
Maggie Wineburgh-Freed chairs the section’s nominating committee and will be
submitting a candidate slate for balloting.
MOTION
This report is informational and requires no action by the Board of Directors.
Section Officers and Committee Chairs for 2005-2006
Mary Buttner, Discussion/E-Mail List Manager
Jan Cox, Section Chair
Nadine Allero, Chair - Ad-Hoc Task Force on Administrative Metadata
Nadine Ellero, Standards Committee Chair
Valerie Gordon, Secretary/Treasurer
Hanna Kwasik, Membership Chair
Virginia Lingle, Past Chair and Bylaws Committee Chair
Connie Machado, Section Council Representative
Connie Machado & JoLinda Thompson, Newsletter co-Editors
Walter Morton, Website Editor
Bob Pisciotta, Chair - Ad-Hoc Research Committee
Susan Trombley, Continuing Education Chair
Maggie Wineburgh-Freed, Nominee to MLA Nominating Committee
Maggie Wineburgh-Freed, Mentoring Committee Chair
Maggie Wineburgh-Freed, Nominating Committee Chair
Respectfully submitted,
Jan Cox
Chair, MLA
Technical Services Section 2005/2006
Hospital Library Section/MLA Professional Development Grant for Hospital and
Clinical Librarians
Apply Today!
Application
Due by February 1, 2006
Are you looking for financial support to:
¨advance your professional education?
¨attend a meeting?
¨conduct
research?
The Hospital Libraries Section/MLA Professional Development Grants help
librarians in hospitals and other clinical care settings to acquire knowledge
and skills through educational or research activities.
For information and an application check the MLA website:
http://www.mlanet.org/awards/grants/prodev.html
New OCLC Representative and
OCLC
Special Interest Group
Health Sciences OCLC Users
Group was disbanded in late August, shortly before Hurricane Katrina devastated
the Gulf Coast. The remaining funds were transferred to the Medical Library
Association and placed into a temporary restricted fund. HSOCLCUG's newsletter
Start of Message (SOM) ceased with issue no. 98 (April 2005) which is
available on the HSOCLCUG website. SOM is succeeded by this irregular column in
Technical Trends, tentatively titled OCLC Interests. This article is the
first in the column.
Ginger Saha, director of the
Cleveland Health Sciences Library at Case Western Reserve University, has been
appointed the new MLA representative to OCLC. The funds transferred from
HSOCLCUG to MLA are for the principal purpose of funding Ginger's attendance at
OCLC Members Council meetings, which are held three times a year at OCLC
headquarters in Dublin,
Ohio. Information about the next meeting, February 12-14,
is at http://www.oclc.org/memberscouncil/meetings/default.htm . There are six
interest groups of Members Council: Cataloging & Metadata; Reference Services;
Digital Collections & Management; Resource Sharing; Research & New Technologies;
and WorldCat Discover & Collection Management. Ginger will carry on part of the
work that HSOCLCUG used to do. If you are interested in contacting Ginger, her
email address is virginia.saha@case.edu.
Gin Lingle, interim director of
the George T. Harrell Library at Penn State University College of Medicine, will
become the co-convener of MLA's newest special interest group, the OCLC SIG,
together with Ginger. The OCLC SIG is in the process of being approved by MLA's
Section/SIG Review Committee, headed by Susan Orlando, and Section Council. It
will provide a forum for the OCLC interests of health sciences librarians,
following HSOCLCUG's long tradition in that area. As is true for other SIGs, no
MLA funds can be used for OCLC SIG activities, and the OCLC SIG cannot collect
money. We are inviting anyone in TSS and throughout MLA to join the SIG. If you
want to be involved, please contact Gin, whose email address is vlingle@psu.edu.
Dan Kniesner
Oregon Health Sciences University Library
kneisner@ohsu.edu