MLA '07: Section Program Schedule, by Day
The diversity of thought-provoking programs coordinated by sections and special interest groups (SIGs) offers exciting opportunities for you to celebrate the realm of medical librarianship and bask in its bright future. This list is organized by session day, then by sponsor. You may also view section programs by sponsoring section.
- Sunday, May 20, 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
- Monday, May 21, 10:30 a.m.–noon
- Monday, May 21, 3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
- Tuesday, May 22, 3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, MAY 20, 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m. [8 sessions]
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| 2007 National Program Committee | None | Be It Resolved: As Libraries Evolve to Electronic Access Their Need for Physical Space Decreases | Invited Debate | Tom Flemming |
DESCRIPTION: Many of us have encountered this dilemma in one form other another…when administrators discover that "everything is available on the Internet" and wander in to see "how we are doing", we all worry, just a little bit, about why they are suddenly so concerned with our well-being.
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| Cancer Librarians Section | Consumer and Patient Health Information Section | Patient as Expert: Revolutionary Changes in Medical Decision-Making |
Invited Speaker and Moderated Panel of Contributed Papers | Gail Y. Hendler |
| DESCRIPTION: Cancer patients experience different information needs along the continuum of cancer care. As many cancers are now treated as chronic and not fatal disease, issues of survivorship and the information needed to enhance decision-making along each stage of the journey will be presented. |
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| Dental Section | Sections: Educational Media & Technologies, Health Association Librarians, Medical Library Education, Nursing & Allied Health Resources; SIGs: Clinical Librarians and Evidence-Based Health Care, Mental Health | Turning Clinical Students into Evidence-Based Clinicians—The Medical Library’s Role | Contributed Papers | Mike Kronenfeld |
| DESCRIPTION: While many people involved in clinical care and education agree that an evidence-based practice model is key to improving the quality of health care in the United States, in practice the model has proven difficult to implement. Busy clinicians often lack the skills or access to the evidence-based resources that would enable this model of care to be adopted. Therefore, teaching this model and the skills necessary to employ it is becoming an increasingly important theme in clinical education. Academic health sciences libraries must work with their clinical programs to provide clinical students with the skills to effectively and efficiently build the access and use of evidence into their practice as well as an appreciation for the positive impact that this model will bring to quality of care of their future practice. This session provides a chance for academic health science librarians in medical, dental, pharmaceutical, and nursing education to present their successes and failures in integrating the teaching of evidence-based practice into their educational programs and curriculums. | ||||
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| History of the Health Sciences Section | None | They'll All Be Rare Books One Day: Collection Development in Special Collections | Invited Papers | Stephen J. Greenberg |
| DESCRIPTION: As the physical collections in our charge age, we are all faced with the decision of what to keep, what to deaccession, what to reformat or hold in electronic format only, and what to transfer to special collections. This session will feature speakers from different institutions, large and small, public and private, who will discuss how they face such challenges. |
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| Hospital Libraries Section | Sections: Collection Development, Technical Services | Information Revolution—Improving the Face of Vendor Relationships/Revolutionizing our Bonds | Invited Session with a Moderated Panel of Speakers, Followed by Audience Participation/ Discussion; Contributed Posters will be on display | Catherine Boss |
| DESCRIPTION: Evaluating the quality of electronic products, electronic licensing and copyright, reduced budgets, finding external funding for electronic resources, group licensing, group purchasing, "everything free on the Internet" philosophy are all challenges that impact collection development today. Librarians need to understand the business relationship to revolutionize the way we deal with vendors and learn to hold our own with license negotiations so as to make well-informed collection decisions and negotiate the best deals for our libraries. An invited panel of speakers will present their successes and solutions for improving vendor relationships. Posters highlighting practical hospital library successes and solutions for improving vendor relationships will be on display. |
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| Public Health/Health Administration Section | Sections: Federal Libraries, International Cooperation; SIG: Outreach | Filling the Void: Creating Access to All from Anywhere | Contributed Papers with Invited Speaker | Lisa C. Wallis |
| DESCRIPTION: Increasingly libraries and librarians are being asked to serve more diverse and dispersed users. This program will showcase new models for providing access to information from anywhere in the world, through the use of tools like PDAs and promotion of open access electronic publications. SPEAKER: Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, The Advisory Board Company, Washington, DC |
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| Relevant Issues Section | Leadership and Management Section | Strange Bedfellows: Radical Shifts in the Relationships Between Libraries and Their Partners | Invited Panel Discussion | Allan R. Barclay |
| DESCRIPTION: Librarians are increasingly working with companies, organizations, or government entities which may have conflicts of interest with the mission of open access to health information. Vendors sponsor library functions and create indispensable products our patrons need yet may have business models which endanger library survival. Government agencies may provide information which is suspect or difficult to use yet they are charged with creating and disseminating that information. Organizations may simultaneously compete with and cooperate with libraries to provide services or access to information of relevance to their mission. What are the trends and how does the library profession deal with such conflicts of interest? Are there success stories which show a symbiotic rather than parasitic relationship? What is the long-term prognosis for these partnerships? |
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| Veterinary Medical Libraries Section | None | Identifying Animal Alternatives in Medical Research and Education | Invited Panel | Greg Youngen |
| DESCRIPTION: Laboratory animals are integral to our understanding of basic biology and physiology and have contributed to the discovery and development of nearly every human and animal health product and technique used in contemporary medical practice. By federal law, institutions that use laboratory animals for research or instructional purposes must establish an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) to oversee and evaluate all aspects of the institution's animal care and use program. Core to the IACUC charge is identifying alternatives to live animals for use in the laboratory and classroom. In this session, three speakers will describe effective library services in support of IACUC activities at their respective institutions. PANEL: Gayle Willard, head, Veterinary Medicine Library, Kansas State University; Mary Woods, animal alternatives librarian, University of California–Davis; Tim Allen, US Department of Agriculture, Animal Welfare Information Center |
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MONDAY, MAY 21, 10:30 a.m.–noon [8 sessions]
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| 2007 National Program Committee | None | Revolutions Under Way: Capture the Moment (previously Revolutions Gone Bad: Examples of Failing Forward and Learning from Adversity) | Contributed Papers | Sue Ben-Dor |
| DESCRIPTION: Health sciences librarians in all settings are presented daily with challenges from new patrons and new generations of users who are not accustomed to coming to the library. Reaching out to demonstrate value in clinical or academic settings is becoming the new norm. Capturing each opportunity in innovative ways is a revolution under way. The selected presentations will be posted on the an MLA Web blog two weeks prior to the meeting for discussion. This will give meeting attendees an opportunity to come to this session with a thorough understanding of the issues, and to fully participate in the discussion of each. |
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| Dental Section | Sections: Pharmacy and Drug Information, Research, Health Association Libraries; SIG: Clinical Librarian and Evidence-based Health Care | The Evidence Base: Evidence at the Point of Care—Where ‘the Rubber Meets the Road’ Sponsored by StatRef |
Invited Speakers | Mike Kronenfeld |
| DESCRIPTION: The key to a true evidence-based clinical practice is building a body of credible clinical evidence that is organized in a way that allows clinicians to effectively and efficiently locate quality actionable information that will aid their clinical decisions and improve patient outcomes. This body of evidence-based knowledge and the products and disparate platforms that provide access to it are rapidly evolving, as are clinicians’ use of evidence to inform their decisions. The program will focus on current realities of the integration of evidence-based principles, practices and resources into clinical practice at the point of care. We are interested in how clinicians do or do not use evidence in their practice, the resources they are actually using at the point of care, and research on the effect of using or not using this evidence on health care outcomes. We will assemble a panel of health care professionals in the areas of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and other areas of health care to discuss these issues in their fields. |
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| Federal Libraries Section | New Members SIG | Changing With the Times: The Multigenerational Workforce | Contributed Papers | Cynthia Vaughn |
| DESCRIPTION: Much has been said about the "next generation librarian" and workforce generation gaps. This session addresses the challenges faced by all library staff in a multigenerational setting. Potential solutions will be presented, as well as background information on the various generations (Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials). |
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| Leadership and Management Section | Sections: Hospital Libraries, Technical Services | Declaring Our Independence: Ringing in New Practices, New Partners, New Spaces | Contributed Papers and Posters | Barbara Epstein |
| DESCRIPTION: This broad-based session highlights new collaborations and library innovations in clinical services, research, and consumer health information. | ||||
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| Medical Informatics Section | Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG | Revolutionizing Discovery through Text Mining | Invited Papers | Susan Kendall |
| DESCRIPTION: Text mining holds considerable promise for addressing problems currently being faced by a wide variety of health and biomedical professionals, ranging from bench scientists and model organism database curators to medical librarians and practicing clinicians. This presentation will describe the current state of the art in language processing technologies and automated knowledge discovery, beginning with a definition of the field and related disciplines, including text mining, data mining, natural language processing, information retrieval, knowledge discovery, and hypothesis evaluation. We will discuss what current systems are capable of, show how to recognize hype, and estimate what will be possible ten years from now. A basic background in how text mining works will be provided, including the two major types of approaches—rule-based and statistical—and their strong and weak points, as well as what makes any text mining approach fail. Finally, there will be a description of the currently hot research topics in a representative active research group, and several examples of how medical librarians can participate meaningfully in the development of the field. SPEAKER: K.B. Cohen, biomedical text mining group lead, Center for Computational Pharmacology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center |
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| Medical Library Education Section | None | Taking Flight with Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP): Educational Perspectives | Contributed Papers | Joanne Gard Marshall |
| DESCRIPTION:The time is right for librarians to put their own knowledge base to work by developing their own version of evidence-based practice. This forum provides an opportunity for presentations by practitioners and researchers who have experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating educational programs for librarians who want to acquire EBLIP skills. |
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| Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section | Outreach SIG | A Virtual Revolution: Innovative Trends in Distance Education | Contributed Papers | Janet G. Schnall |
| DESCRIPTION: In an environment of change, health information professionals have needed to develop instructional strategies and new ways of providing information services and teaching removed in space and time from the learner. This program deals with new roles of librarians within the changing distance education environment and new or innovative technologies used to provide distance education and reach out to remote learners in nursing and allied health. | ||||
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| Relevant Issues Section | Section: Chiropractic Libraries; SIG: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Health Sciences Librarians | The Politics of Health Information: Keeping the New Barbarians at Bay | Contributed Papers or Panel | Allan R. Barclay |
| DESCRIPTION: Recent years have seen an increase in the attempts to hide or distort health information which is at odds with the current political climate in the US. Once considered safe and protected, basic scientific and health information is under attack—sometimes from within (i.e., government appointees hostile to the mission of the agencies they work for), sometimes from without (i.e., political action committees and other pressure groups). The ability to widely disseminate such information electronically has actually led to a new problem—revision or distortion of what was considered sound and settled information. Examples include reproductive health and environmental information but there are potentially many other types of information which could be subject to political pressure. What is the role of librarians in protecting such information and making sure access to it remains freely available? | ||||
MONDAY, MAY 21, 3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. [8 sessions]
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| 2007 National Program Committee | None | Beyond the Digital Revolution: Virtual Collaborations, Virtual Partnerships, Virtual Communities | Joan Gregory, AHIP | |
| DESCRIPTION: If libraries are to serve the next generation of health care professionals, we must serve them in the virtual spaces where they practice, teach, and conduct research. We must develop virtual tools and services which clearly meet their changing information needs and take full advantage of the latest technological innovations. Explore with us the opportunities, successes, and challenges we face as we develop new user-driven virtual information service models, reach out to virtual communities, create innovative virtual partnerships and collaborations, and develop best practices and gold standards for virtual information and knowledge management services. | ||||
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| Consumer and Patient Health Information Section | Sections: Hospital Libraries, Chiropractic Libraries, Relevant Issues; SIGs: African American Medical Librarians Alliance, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Health Sciences Librarians, Mental Health | Power to the People: Serving the Underserved | Invited Panel | Barbara Bibel |
| DESCRIPTION: This panel discussion will focus on the role of collaboration between public and medical libraries (both academic and hospital) in doing outreach to underserved populations. The information will be practical, focusing on how to create outreach programs—what works and what does not work. |
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| Medical Informatics Section | None | Top Technology Trends: Where is the Revolution Leading Us Next? | Invited Papers | Janis Brown |
| DESCRIPTION: Have you ever felt caught off guard by a new technology? Have you ever felt
like you’re behind the times and want to be more up to date? Did you ever wish that you had known about an emerging technology before your patrons did? Then this is the session for you! From the ranks of health sciences libraries, technology trend spotters will offer their insights, opinions, and criticisms on where technology is leading us next. This lively, informal, and possibly irreverent, panel discussion will include plenty of time for questions from the audience, as well as a wrapup with advice on how we can co-opt technology to use it to our advantage. |
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| Medical Library Education Section | None | New Voices in the Air: Hearing the Next Generation of Medical Librarianship | Contributed Papers | Joanne Gard Marshall |
| DESCRIPTION: The next generation of medical librarians will ultimately be responsible for changing and building the profession. This forum provides an opportunity for students and recent graduates to present research results from their degree and/or training program. |
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| Public Services Section | Libraries in Curriculum SIG | Declaring Interdependence: The Evolving Role of the Library in Curriculum Integration | Contributed Papers | Erika L. Sevetson |
| DESCRIPTION: Education in the health sciences has undergone a transformation in the past decade, moving away from traditional didactic lectures and toward problem-based learning, educational competencies, and other innovations. These changes in many cases have created a perfect storm of opportunity, generating openings for librarians to partner with educational leaders and to integrate concepts such as critical thinking, information management, and evidence-based practice throughout the curriculum. | ||||
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| Research Section | Collection Development Section | Foundations of Health Information Behavior | Contributed Papers | Molly Harris |
| DESCRIPTION: In order to better understand how to build health care literacy and create discriminating users of quality consumer health information, we must understand how (not just where) people acquire health care and consumer health information in the first place. What steps, procedures, searching skills, and access points do patrons (clinicians, patients, other librarians, etc.) typically use to seek information from electronic, media, and other sources? Once we obtain this knowledge, how can we use it to help patrons find health care information in a more accurate, timely manner? |
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| Technical Services Section | OCLC SIG | Revolution or Brotherly Love: OCLC, NLM, LC | Invited Panel | Nancy Burford |
| DESCRIPTION: This panel discussion will focus on changes that have occurred and what the future might hold for bibliographic databases. Decisions and developments from OCLC, the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and the Library of Congress (LC) affect more than technical services, they have potential impact on how our patrons access information. Recent examples include subheading changes, authority changes, and Open WorldCat. |
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| Veterinary Medical Libraries Section | Federal Libraries Section | Threats to Food Safety and Public Health through Zoonotic Diseases: The Converging Roles of Veterinary and Human Health Sciences (previously Emergency Preparedness and Response to Bioterrorism Threats) | Invited Speaker | Greg Youngen |
| DESCRIPTION: Veterinarians and other public health professionals are keenly aware of the potential threats to human health and the food supply from zoonotic diseases (diseases communicable from animals to humans). Our speaker will address the role of the veterinary profession in controlling these diseases and discuss what steps are being taken to monitor, evaluate, and respond to potential threats to the agricultural food supply, including wildlife. | ||||
TUESDAY, MAY 22, 3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. [8 sessions]
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| Collection Development Section | Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG | Evaluative Measures for Resource Quality: Beyond the Impact Factor | Invited Papers | Lynn M. Fortney |
| DESCRIPTION: The Impact Factor, originally conceived by Eugene Garfield, has become a powerful criterion in many decisions, including promotion and tenure of faculty and selection or deselection of resources in the library. While the Impact Factor is an interesting measure of how often articles in a specific journal are cited, there are many other evaluative measures that must be considered for library resources. As more resources become available electronically (along with initiatives such as COUNTER and SUSHI), it becomes both easier and more complicated to evaluate them. Measures of use; judgments on the importance of the resource to the core mission of the organization; cost effectiveness; citation counting in Google, in CrossRef, and in other journal databases all play a part in deciding your library's formula for evaluating resources for initial or continuing purchase. |
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| Educational Media and Technologies Section | Sections: Public Services, Medical Informatics | 1,776 Uses for Technologies | Contributed Papers and Skits | Melissa De Santis |
| DESCRIPTION: As new technologies continue to permeate our digital lives, the impact on the library environment has resulted in both opportunities and challenges for library operations and services. New technologies create an environment that does not require users to physically come to the library to fulfill their information needs. Wikis, podcasting, mash-ups and other technologies can help us virtually connect with our users. However, using these same technologies may require a “revolution” in librarian practice and user training. Papers presented will demonstrate successes and lessons learned from applying technology to multiple aspects of library activities including services, instruction, collection development, and library operations. | ||||
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| Federal Libraries Section | None | Back to Our Revolutionary Roots; Making Change Work | Invited Panel | Alice Hadley |
| DESCRIPTION: Speakers from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Veterans Affairs, Federal Library and Information Center Committee/Federal Library and Information Network (Library of Congress' FLICC/FEDLINK) and others will discuss merging and sharing in federal libraries—weathering changes, contending with A-76, closures, successes and problems, and impact on other libraries and institutions. |
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| History of the Health Sciences Section | Section: Chiropractic Libraries; SIG: Complementary and Alternative Medicine | Joining the Revolution: Providing Information in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Past, Present, and Future | Contributed Papers | Stephen J. Greenberg |
| DESCRIPTION: Over 60% of Americans currently use complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies. However, reliable and up-to-date information is not always easy to find, either for health care providers or for the general public. Mainstream medicine can still be hostile, and the patient easily confused by conflicting data. How have librarians coped with these difficulties, and what is their place in the ongoing CAM revolution? |
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| International Cooperation Section | Sections: Public Health/Health Administration, Veterinary Medical Libraries; SIGs: Outreach | The Information Revolution Goes Global: Increasing Information Access in Developing Countries | Invited Panel | Marcus Banks |
| DESCRIPTION: An invited panel of international experts will discuss innovative ways to increase access to health information in developing countries, as well as ideas to close this "information gap" more permanently. Funding sources for initiating and sustaining such programs will also be presented. Come to be informed, and leave feeling inspired. PANEL: Lynn Van Houten, Kaiser Permanente; Robert L. Parker, adjunct associate professor, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and senior research advisor, Saving Newborn Lives Initiative, Save the Children; Lenny Rhine, university librarian, Emeritus, University of Florida School of Medicine; Grace Ajuwon, reference and information services librarian, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; E. Latunde Odeku, Medical Library, College of Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria |
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| Leadership and Management Section | Sections: Corporate Information Services; SIG: New Members | Joining the Revolution: Strategies for Marketing Yourself | Invited Speakers and Interactive Individualized Job-Coaching Sessions | Barbara Epstein |
| DESCRIPTION: Have you been thinking about applying for a better job, but are uncertain how to showcase your skills and experience? If so, plan to attend this session, and bring your resume. A job coach will give pointers on how to overcome common stumbling blocks faced by job searchers. Afterward, preregistered participants will have the opportunity to meet individually with one or more senior library managers with hiring experience for a 10-minute "speed mentoring." |
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| Pharmacy and Drug Information Section | Corporate Information Services Section | Medicare's Prescription Drug Benefit: Overview, Resources, and a Role for Health Information Professionals (EMBASE.com Lecture) | Invited Speaker | Gerri Wanserski |
| DESCRIPTION: The Pharmacy and Drug Information Section will again host an invited speaker for the EMBASE.com lecture, which will be sponsored, in part, by Elsevier. The EMBASE.com lecture will feature an invited speaker who is an expert on Medicare Part D to provide us with updated information and discussion of issues related to impacts of Medicare Part D on patients and possibly pharmacists or clinicians. SPEAKER: Richard G. Stefanacci, founding executive director, Health Policy Institute, University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Research Section | Hospital Libraries Section | Evidence-Based Librarianship: How EBM Foundation Principles Can Be Applied to Medical Library Operations | Contributed Papers | Molly Harris |
| DESCRIPTION: Is it feasible to apply evidence-based medicine (EBM) principles to everyday medical library operations? That is, how does evidence based librarianship (EBL) relate to our instruction methods? How can EBM be used to enhance quality decision making among local public and regional health officials? How can we obtain data to measure the many elements of EBM implementation? How can we incorporate what we are doing into our own research in order to remain creditable and accountable in the EBP arena? | ||||
