Welcome to MDMLG

The Program Committee history is now available. There is information on MDMLG Programs going back to the 1999-2000 fiscal year. http://www.mdmlg.org/program-history.htm
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Sally Castillo, the Oakwood Library Tech, took some photos at last week's Summer Luncheon. You can view them at http://www.mdmlg.org/members/photos-june-2009.htm.

They are on the members-only section of the web site. Click on each photo to view a larger version.
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If you attended the Summer Education Program and Luncheon, please fill out the evaluation form. Thank you very much!

http://www.mdmlg.org/evaluation-form-june-2009.htm

Gina Hug
MDMLG Program Chair
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You are cordially invited to submit a poster to the upcoming MHSLA Educational Conference to be held September 23-25, 2009 in Holland, Michigan at the Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center.

This brain stimulating conference will have electrical energy sufficient enough to require a voltage regulator ! So please pack accordingly !

The conference has fittingly been given the theme : "Power Up ! Harness the Energy!".

So...grab hold ! Submit a poster!

Posters are intended to provide authors the opportunity to share innovative ideas about work and to foster engaging discussions with their colleagues about their projects. Presenters should plan to be available to discuss their posters during the poster session which is scheduled for Thursday September 24, 2009 between 1-5 pm.

( 3 MLA AHIP points are awarded for poster submissions )

Please RVSP before August 10th by sending your name, contact information and a brief poster abstract to Roberta Craig at RCraig@mhc.net.

Check out the Conference Blog by clicking here:
http://mhslaconference09.wordpress.com/

Thank you !

MHSLA Education Chair 2009

Yvonne N. Boudreau, MLIS, AHIP
Senior Information Research Specialist
Munson Medical Center
Health Sciences Library
1105 Sixth Street
Traverse City, Michigan 49684
yboudreau@mhc.net
231.935.6764 office
231.935.7124 fax
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Congratulations to Lynn Shemwell! She is the MDMLG Student Scholarship winner for 2009. Lynn is a student in the School of Library & Information Science at Wayne State University and is interested in Health Science Libraries. Look for Lynn at the Summer Education Program & Luncheon on June 18 and welcome her.
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The latest issue of the MDMLG News is available online! The super-sized issue contains articles on the upcoming Summer Luncheon, the new Shiffman Library, and much, much more!

Follow this link: http://www.mdmlg.org/MDMLG%20News%20Volume%2035%20Issue%204%20Summer%202009.pdf

Or visit the MDMLG News webpage and click on the current issue: http://www.mdmlg.org/news.htm

We hope you enjoy this issue. Thank you to everyone that contributed!
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It’s been almost two years since the Wayne State University Vera P. Shiffman Medical Library, its staff and collections vacated the worn and somewhat dreary 3-story structure built in 1969, at address 4325 Brush St. in Detroit. Well, all that has changed. The building has undergone radical renovation and transformed into the glorious Richard J. Mazurek, M.D. Medical Education Commons, with Shiffman’s library residing on the ground floor with the new entrance (and new address!) at 320 E. Canfield St. Significant features include energy and space saving compact shelving of journals and books in the same room, while staff offices and work areas are positioned in a very spacious layout. Shiffman librarians have a consultation suite and offices on the 2nd floor, however most of the upper floors consist of clinical simulation or computer laboratories, state-of-the-art classrooms or offices serving the medical students of the WSU School of Medicine. There’s even an elevated glassed-in walkway connecting the new facility to the medical school’s Scott Hall. Soon there will even be a gourmet coffee shop at the building’s entrance, which is currently under construction.

Shiffman opened its doors to the public on Tuesday, May 26, but the Grand Opening of the entire structure is set for Friday, June 5, 2009.

Read more about the new Shiffman library in the upcoming issue of the MDMLG News!

Posted on behalf of Linda Draper.
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MDMLG and Shiffman Medical Library, Wayne State University are sponsoring two courses in July. The Pubmed Course (see information below) will be offered twice, and ToxNet once. Please take advantage of the opportunity to take two full-day courses for free. Both classes will be lab-based hands on courses.

For further details please look at the NTCC training page --
http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/index.html#class1

Registration page:
http://www.mdmlg.org/PubMed-ToxNet%20Registration%20July2009.doc

PubMed (July 20, repeated July 22) Time 8:30am - 5:00pm
This full-day class is designed to teach students how to use PubMed® which includes MEDLINE citations. The class also includes an overview of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) and its importance as a tool to both searchers and indexers.

Toxnet, July 21, Time: 9:00am-4:00pm
This course is designed to convey the basics of searching the NLM's TOXNET®, a Web-based system of databases in the areas of toxicology, environmental health, and related fields. The course will also teach students the utilize NLM's environmental health and toxicology portal which provides resources beyond the TOXNET® databases. Students will learn the content and structure of files covering toxicology data, toxicology literature, toxic releases, and chemical nomenclature. Among the databases highlighted will be TOXLINE, the Hazardous Substances Data Bank, the Integrated Risk Information System, the Toxi Release Inventory, and ChemIDplus. The course, taught by NLM instructors, will be conducted in a computer lab and includes lectures, online demonstrations, and hands-on exercises.

MLA CE credits -
PubMed - 7.5
Toxnet - 6.0

Juliet Mullenmeister
Medical Librarian
Henry Ford Macomb
15855 Nineteen Mile Road
Clinton Township MI 48038
586.263.2485 (v)
586.263.2270 (f)
mullenmj@hfhs.org
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The 2009 MHSLA Annual Conference is scheduled for September 23-25, 2009 at the Doubletree Hotel in Holland.

The conference web site is located at http://mhslaconference09.wordpress.com/.
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The MDMLG Nominating Committee is very pleased to announce the results of the 2009 Election, which were officially reported at today's MDMLG general meeting.

We appreciate the work of the Election Committee who tallied the ballots on April 13:
Audrey Bondar, Valerie Reid, Jill Van Buskirk and Linda Draper

We congratulate those elected and thank all candidates for their willingness to run.

President-Elect
Toni Janik

Executive Board/Secretary
Shirley Langebartels

Executive Board/Public Relations
Jennifer Bowen

Nominating Committee
Daria Drobny
Barbara LeTarte
Wendy Wu

Thanks,

MDMLG Nominating Committee
Doris Blauet, Chair
Linda Draper
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I created a web page which lists all of the MDMLG Slates and Election Results from 1970 to the present. It is located at http://www.mdmlg.org/history-elections.htm. This will be very helpful to the Nominating Committee every year to see who has (and hasn't) run for office. It's also interesting to get a historical perspective of the people involved in our organization for the past 40 years.

And to review more of the MDMLG history, you can go to http://www.mdmlg.org/mdmlg-history.htm for all the Annual Reports, Executive Board members, Committee chairs and members, and Goals & Objectives for the past several years.

Valerie Reid
MDMLG Webmaster
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Hi Everyone,
Just a quick note to let you know that the updated 2008-2009 MDMLG Membership Directory and mailing labels are available on the members only portion of the website. If you haven't mailed your renewal to me please do so soon. The password for the members only portion of the website will be changed next week and if you haven't renewed you will not be able to access it. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Audrey Bondar
abondar1@sladen.hfhs.org
313-816-2550
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Hello Everyone,

Pictures from the Summer Luncheon at the Scarab Club have been uploaded and can be viewed via http://www.mdmlg.org/members/photos-june-2008.htm

Thanks to JoAnn for taking the photos :)

Nandita
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The MDMLG 2007-2008 Annual Reports are located at http://www.mdmlg.org/annual-reports/annual-reports-2007-2008.htm
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It is with great pleasure I announce this year's recipient of the MDMLG Annual Scholarship Award.

*********************Mary K. Fitzpatrick*************************

The MDMLG Student Award is presented to a student enrolled in the Library Information Science Program at Wayne State University who displays an interest in health sciences and/or are enrolled in the LISP Health Science Program.

This award encourages students to consider the health sciences courses offered at WSU and provides a full, one year membership to MDMLG, including subscription to the newsletter and an invitation to the yearly banquet, an award certificate, the recipient's name on a plaque displayed in the LISP department, and a monetary award.

The award will be presented at Wayne State University in May.

Marilyn Kostrzewski, President
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Evette Atkin, from the Michigan Library Consortium, has shared her power point presentation on Second Life from the MDMLG Meeting last week. You can view it at http://www.theunlibrarian.net/SecondLife2.ppt.
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Leslie Behm has posted her handout on Google Bells and Whistles at:

http://www.lib.msu.edu/behm/google.html
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At the last MDMLG Executive Board Meeting, we were discussing resources for library instructional materials. Misa Mi collected these sites which contain library instructional materials.

MLA / Hospital Library Section Wiki
http://mla-hls.wikispaces.com

MLA Core Toolbox
http://www.mlanet.org/core

Library Instruction Wiki
http://instructionwiki.org/Main_Page

Second Life Educational Wiki
http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki

If you have your own content that you would like to share, you can contribute it to any of these web sites. And if you know of any additional resources, please click "Comment" below and add them.

Many thanks to Misa for gathering this information.
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Sandy Swanson has just taken over the responsibility as blog editor/author of the MHSLA Blog. It is located at http://mhsla.wordpress.com/. She will be posting a couple of times a week with information on MHSLA activities, along with pointers to resources and information we all should know about.

Each blog posting will have a "Comments" section, and she encourages us to join the discussion on anything that piques our interest.

If you have a topic that you would like her to blog about, or a story she should cover, please contact Sandy at swansonse@trinity-health.org.

If your internet filter blocks the MHSLA, you can also contact Sandy and she can help you out.
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I just created a new web page entitled MDMLG History. It contains the Executive Board and Committee rosters, as well as links to the Annual Reports and Goals & Objectives. Some of the information dates back as far as 1999-2000.

This will be particularly useful if you need to document your committee participation.
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Hello,
This is just a quick note to let you know that the new MDMLG Brochure is now available. The print copy has been produced in colour, is duplexed and has a perforation so that people can easily submit the brochure via postal mail. A copy of the brochure is available on the MDMLG web site via http://www.mdmlg.org/MDMLG%20Brochure.doc as well as can be found navigating the Site Index.

This brochure will now be used to publicize MDMLG at local conferences and other venues such as the WSU LIS program. An example of its use will be its distribution at the upcoming MHSLA conference :)

If you would like copies of the brochure to distribute at a particular event, please let me know and I would be more than happy to assist you in any way possible.

Nandita
nmani1@sladen.hfhs.org
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MLC has just announced that it will be launching a new wiki next week geared towards providing "a useful library wiki for Michigan library staff from all types of libraries." A quick perusal of the wiki shows a lack of special library content. The good news is that content can be added by "Anyone who is able to contribute relevant information specifically related to Michigan libraries...". I'd like to encourage all MDMLG members to consider contributing content relevant to MDMLG and medical libraries.
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Hello Fellow MDMLGers,

In addition to the Job posting information that I will be updating, I am going to be adding a section (for current LIS students) that is geared towards practicum openings that may be available. If you have an opening or are interested in having a practicum student, please let me know and I can post your information to the Job Openings and Practicum Information site on MDMLG. All I will need is your contact information and some information for potential students to peruse when considering work experience at your institution.

Thank you,
Nandita
nmani1@sladen.hfhs.org
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This message is being posted for Nancy Bulgarelli:
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I recently came across a hospital adminstrator's blog - http://runningahospital.blogspot.com. It's run by Paul Levy, the President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. It's an interesting view into the cares and concerns of the group that controls our budgets and futures.
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Sandra Martin, the MDMLG Archivist, would like the MDMLG officers and chairs to send her the materials they want archived by the end of July.

Shiffman Medical Library is undergoing renovation and the library will be relocating in early August. Sandra would like to collect all MDMLG archives material before that time.

The types of things we archive include:

Agendas
Annual reports
Agreements
Brochures
Charges to Committees
Conference Proceedings
Committee Reports
Constitution & Bylaws including all Revisions
Contracts with Speakers
Correspondence, Questionnaires, Surveys & Summaries
Directories
Evaluations
Financial Reports
Fliers
Goals & Objectives
Grant Proposals
Guidelines
Mailing Lists
Manuals
Meeting announcements
Memos
Minutes
Newsletters
Newspaper articles
Photographs
Policies & Procedures
Position papers
Programs
Publicity & promotional materials
References to MDMLG
Rosters
Slates of Candidates
Slides
Surveys and summaries
Treasurers' Reports

You can contact Sandra at (313) 577-6665 (Phone) or smartin@med.wayne.edu.
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The 2006-2007 MDMLG Annual Reports can be found at http://www.mdmlg.org/annual-reports/annual-reports-2006-2007.htm.
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Congratulations to Wendy Wu. Her recent article in Medical Reference Services Quarterly is a featured in May's Informed Librarian web site.

Labels: MDMLG in Print, RSS, Web 2.0

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I have recently run across two wikis worth looking at. The first is a relatively new wiki created by the Hospital Library Section of MLA called the HLS Wiki. According to the site "The purpose(of the wiki)is to provide a sandbox in which we can share best practices in the true spirit of knowledge management in a forum that is easily accessed, archived, searched, and modified. Please feel free to add your content." Registration is required to add content but not to search or read content. Thus far there are "articles" on Collection Development, EHR & Point of Care, Evidence Based Practice, Magnet Hospitals, Physical Space, and Justification of need for library staff.

The second wiki is the EBM Librarian Wiki, whose purpose is "is to develop a community of librarians who are involved in teaching and supporting the practice of evidence based medicine (ebm) or evidence based practice (ebp)." Contributors must be invited but anyone can use the information found on the wiki.

Labels: professional development, wikis

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Helene Blowers, the Public Services Technology Director at The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County has created an online program that introduces Web 2.0 to novices. Each week examines a small part of the Web 2.0 world and provides simple exercises that allow participants to gain hands-on experience. I highly recommend this resource for a broad introduction to Web 2.0 concepts

Labels: online learning, professional development, Web 2.0

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While reading a post in Squidoo on Infodoodads I stumbled across Brian Gray’s treatise on Using Web 2.0 Principles to Become Librarian 2.0. As an aside, Brian Gray's Squidoo page is an excellent source of basic Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 information.

On that site I ran into CiteULike, a site that “CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading.” I am constantly running into articles I think would be of interest to other medical librarians, and see many postings on medlib-l sharing their articles. It stuck me that CiteULike would be a great place to serve as a repository or our serindipitously or otherwise obtained articles. I have created both a profile and a group (Health_Sciences_Librarians) to facilitate this sharing. I am encouraging all to join CiteULike (all they ask for is a username, passoword and email address) and join the group (it’s open to all for now).

For more information on CiteULike, including some basic instruction, see the post on my blog.
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Due to the signifant number of requests, the results spreadsheet from my survey of local medical libraries concerning the number of FTEs and corresponding library hours, is being posted to the MDMLG web page at:
http://www.mdmlg.org/Area%20Library%20Hours%202007.xls.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
Marilyn Kostrzewski
marilyn.kostrzewski@oakwood.org
313-593-7692
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This blog entry was suggested by Mary Jo Durivage:

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