MLA Webcast: Presenters

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Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices: Discovering the Participatory Web

MLA's Educational Webcast
Held Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Presenters

J. Dale Prince, AHIP

J. Dale Prince, AHIP, is technology coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Southeastern Atlantic Region located at the Human Services Library of the University of Maryland–Baltimore. Prince provides Internet and technology instruction to medical librarians and health professionals in the region, as well as training and outreach for a variety of NLM programs and services. He received his master of library science from Indiana University, is a member of Beta Phi Mu, and is a member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals.

Michelle Kraft, AHIP

Michelle Kraft, AHIP is the senior medical librarian at the Cleveland Clinic Alumni Library. She is the author of The Krafty Librarian, a blog for medical librarians. Recently, she published the paper, "Mashing Up the Internet," in Medical Reference Services Quarterly. Previously, she was the hospital librarian for South Pointe Medical Library. She received her MLS from the University of Missouri–Columbia and is member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, a member of MLA, and the president of the Ohio Health Sciences Library Association.

David Rothman

Through his widely-read medical library blog, davidrothman.net, David Rothman keeps his readers up-to-date on the latest web tools and technologies relevant to health information needs and medical libraries. His blog has been ranked among the top English-language health care blogs in the world and has been mentioned in the Medical Journal of Australia, the Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, and Ophthalmology. In less than 2 years, davidrothman.net has had more than 100,000 unique visits and gained an RSS following of more than 1,800 subscribers.

Rothman's knowledge of medical web tools has earned him considerable praise from many prominent librarians, physicians, and publications. His expertise on medical wikis is frequently sought by publications such as the American Medical Association News, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and ACP Internist . He has authored articles on third-party PubMed tools and the web-based communal evaluation of medical literature in MLA News and the Journal of the Medical Library Association.

An enthusiast of the application of RSS to current awareness services, Rothman coauthored the chapter on RSS in Haworth Press's Medical Librarian 2.0, contributed to the design of MedWorm.com and cocreated LibWorm.com, a free library and information science RSS portal and search service that allows professionals in library and information science to search the biblioblogosphere for their interests and subscribe to their searches via RSS.

When he isn't writing or playing with computers, Rothman runs the medical library at Community General Hospital in Syracuse, NY, where he successfully encouraged the hospital's president and CEO to start a blog of his own.

Bart Ragon

Bart Ragon is the associate director for library technology services and development at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia–Charlottesville. He chairs MLA's Task Force on Social Networking Software. In the past, Ragon has spoken on web 2.0, web application development, and technology planning in academic health sciences libraries. He received a master of library and information science from the University of South Carolina.

Video-taped Presenters

Gabriel R. Rios

Gabriel R. Rios recently accepted the position of deputy director at the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama–Birmingham. 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, Rios 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, Rios 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. Rios received his master's in library and information science from the University of Texas–Austin.

Andrea Lynch

Andrea Lynch graduated from the master's program at the University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA) Graduate School of Library and Information Studies in June 2004. In her current position as health and life sciences librarian and instruction coordinator at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, she is responsible for research, instruction, and collection management in the areas of dentistry, public health, and nursing as well as coordination of instructional sessions. She is a member of MLA and the Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona (MLGSCA) and serves as the chair of the MLGSCA Electronic Information Resources Committee and the MLGSCA web editor. She recently codeveloped a MLA-approved course, "Incorporating Web 2.0 Tools into the Research Process: Making the Most of Instruction and Outreach Efforts," with her University of California–San Diego colleague, Dominique Turnbow.

Melissa L. Rethlefsen

Melissa Rethlefsen is an assistant professor of medical education and education technology librarian at the Mayo Clinic's Learning Resource Center. She is a frequent contributor to Library Journal and Library Journal's netConnect technology supplement, where she writes about using social software tools in libraries. She also authored the chapter on social networking in the recent book, Medical Librarian 2.0, and she comanaged a multistate version of the Learning 2.0 program tailored to medical library staff.

Max Anderson

Max Anderson earned his master's in library and information science in 1999 from Florida State University. Shortly after graduating, he worked as a public access computer trainer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, installing granted computer technology and training librarians in rural libraries across the country. While working with the Gates Foundation, Anderson became involved with the creation of what became WebJunction, an online portal for libraries. He serves as an advocate for WebJunction, in addition to teaching an informational course online about the portal.

Since 2003, he has worked at SOLINET as an educational services instructor. He writes and teaches classes on OCLC products and services, web design, application of social software to libraries, and general technology to librarians around the Southeast. Anderson is a well-known speaker and has presented at various conferences, including Computers in Libraries, SOLINET Users Groups, and state library conferences. In 2007, he was invited to Australia and New Zealand by CAVAL to teach classes about social software in libraries. He recently published an article in the Georgia Library Quarterly on RFID in libraries. Some of his interests include emerging technologies, web design, planning for library futures, cataloging, and advocacy and support for libraries.

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