April - June 2001 Volume 22 Number 2
You should all be sending in your registration forms for Hal
Unplugged. The conference is scheduled for September 9-13 at the
Salishan Lodge in Oregon. Beverly Schriver and her planning committee
have a wonderful conference planned for us, and Salishan is a
spectacular setting. I'm particularly looking forward to our keynote
speaker, Roy Tennant, and as usual, it looks
like a great lineup of CE courses. The conference also features
several special events including a guided nature walk, a banquet
under the stars, and a post-conference trip to the Oregon Coast
Aquarium. All of it sounds like great fun. Remember, August 1st
is the deadline for early registration!
Speaking of CE, I am pleased to announce that Kelly Thormodson has agreed to be the next Chair of the CE Committee. Kelly is the Operations Supervisor and Systems Librarian at the Arnold Digital Library, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Kelly is a graduate of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. Before working at Fred Hutchinson, Kelly spent 2 years traveling across the US opening brand new hotels and training all new employees. That sounds like an interesting job! Janice and the board send our thanks to Kelly, and we are delighted to have her in this key position.
It's that time of year again-be watching for your PNC ballot. We'll be electing our officers for 2002. A big thank-you to all the candidates who agreed to run. I also need to thank my committee members, Susan Long and Madelyn Hall, for their hard work. Putting together a ballot is no easy task! I couldn't have done it without their help.
Enjoy your remaining summer and I'll see you all at Salishan!
Kim Granath
The food will be sumptuous and there will be time for long walks on the beach or a trip to the Newport Aquarium. See you ALL there !!!
July 14-18, 2002
Portland, Oregon, USA
Jointly sponsored by:
The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital libraries", including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing.
Digital libraries are distinguished from information retrieval systems because they include more types of media, provide additional functionality and services, and include other stages of the information life cycle, from creation through use. Digital libraries can be viewed as a new form of information institution or as an extension of the services libraries currently provide.
The intended community for this conference includes those interested in aspects of digital libraries such as infrastructure; institutions; metadata; content; services; digital preservation; system design; implementation; interface design; human-computer interaction; evaluation of performance; evaluation of usability; collection development; intellectual property; privacy; electronic publishing; document genres; multimedia; social, institutional, and policy issues; user communities; and associated theoretical topics.
Participation is sought from all parts of the world and from the full range of disciplines and professions involved in digital library research and practice, including computer science, information science, librarianship, archival science and practice, museum studies and practice, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities. All domains---academe, government, industry, and others---are encouraged to participate as presenters or attendees.
SUBMISSIONS: DEADLINES
January 14, 2002 - Full papers, panel and tutorial proposals
due
February 11, 2002 - Short papers, posters, proposals for workshops
and demonstrations due
April 8, 2002 - Final submissions due
PAPERS
Full and short papers will be included in the conference proceedings
and will be presented at the conference. Full papers are longer
and more developed (up to 10 pages, approximately 5000 words)
than short papers (up to 2 pages). All papers must be original
contributions (i.e., not previously published nor currently under
consideration for publication elsewhere). Copyright assignment
to the ACM will be required for accepted papers. The conference
language is English. Papers will be peer-reviewed rigorously,
as selection is highly competitive. Research and theory papers
should be grounded in the scholarly or practical literature appropriate
to the topic. Implementation papers should be grounded in prior
research, theory, or implementation, clearly indicating the new
contributions of the work. All papers are expected to contribute
to the advancement of their own area of study and to be accessible
to members of the conference audience. Papers should include an
abstract and keywords. Format follows the guidelines from previous
conferences; details can be found on the conference Web site
(http://www.jcdl.org/) and
from ACM page: http://www.acm.org/pubs/submitting_accepted_articles/auth_rd.htm
The conference awards the Vannevar Bush Award to the best full paper.
PANELS AND POSTERS
Panels provide opportunities to present large-scale multi-person or multi-organizational activities or multi-faceted views that often are on topics that warrant discussion with the community. Such topics will benefit from having the larger number of presenters in an undivided session that panels allow. Panel proposals consist of a title, one page extended abstract describing the goals of the session; information about the organizer, moderator, and presenters; and, optionally, titles of individual presentations.
Posters are means to present work-in-progress, late-breaking results, or other efforts that would benefit from discussion with the community. Poster proposals consist of a title, 1-page extended abstract, and contact information for the authors. Accepted posters will be displayed at the conference and may include additional materials, space permitting. Abstracts of panels and posters will appear in the proceedings.
OTHER SUBMISSIONS
Details about the requirements and format for other conference
submissions (demonstrations, tutorials, workshops) will be posted
on the conference web site (http://www.jcdl.org).
As a conference location, Portland is a beautiful venue with superb
access to aqua and terra attractions and events. The conference
hotel will be the Lloyd Center Doubletree Hotel, which is a short
ride on the light rail across the river to downtown Portland as
well as the eclectic eateries and galleries of NW 23rd St.. July
is an excellent month to visit the Pacific Northwest, as the temperatures
are moderate and the humidity is low. Within 1-2
hours driving distance are the Oregon coast, the myriad of recreational
activities in the Cascade Mountains, and the Mt. St. Helens National
Volcanic Monument.
KEY CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
General Chair
William Hersh
Division of Medical Informatics & Outcomes Research
School of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd.
Portland, OR 97201
(voice) 503-494-4563
(fax) 503-494-4551
(email) hersh@ohsu.edu
Program Chair
Gary Marchionini
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB# 3360 Manning Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
(voice) 919 966-3611
(fax) 919 962-8071
(email) march@ils.unc.edu
Posters Chair
Lois Delcambre
Computer Science Dept.
OGI School of Science & Engineering
Oregon Health & Science University
20000 NW Walker Road
Beaverton, OR 97225
(voice) 503 748-1689
(fax) 503 748-1553
(email) lmd@cse.ogi.edu
Panels Chair
Sally Howe
National Coordination Office for Information Technology
Research and Development
4201 Wilson Blvd., Suite 405-II
Arlington, VA 22230
(voice) 703 292-4873
(fax) 703 292-9097
(email) howe@itrd.gov
WHAT IS ONLINE NORTHWEST?: A one-day conference focusing on the use of technology within libraries and attracting librarians from the Pacific Northwest and around the country. Presenters receive free registration to the conference.
WHEN IS THE CONFERENCE?: Friday, March 1, 2002 (this will be the 19th annual conference).
WHERE IS THE CONFERENCE?: Hilton Hotel, Eugene, Oregon.
WHAT TOPICS ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?: The coordinating committee is open to presentations on innovative uses of technology within a library setting. We are particularly interested in programs that incorporate interactivity or workshopping. We encourage academic, public, school, and special librarians to submit proposals. All topics relating to technology and libraries are welcome.
WHAT IS THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL?: August 31, 2001.
HOW DO I SUBMIT THE PROPOSAL?: Use the online submission form at: http://www.ous.edu/onlinenw/forms/proposal.shtml
Idaho
The Magic Valley Regional Medical Center Medical Library received an endowment and name change on June 9, 2001. The library is now the Max W. Carver, M.D. Memorial Library. To celebrate Dr. Carver's 90th birthday, his family honored him with a party and library dedication. Dr. Carver practiced medicine in the Magic Valley for nearly 40 years and is currently the oldest surviving physician to have served actively at MVRMC. It was a great party!
Nola Higley, Medical
Librarian
Magic Valley Regional Medical Center
PO Box 409, Twin Falls, ID 83303-0409
208-737-2133; FAX 208-737-2769
submitted by Kathy Nelson 5-29-01
The Idaho Health Information Association held its spring meeting on May 11th in Twin Falls Idaho. Joan Hust presented information about the DeArmond Consumer Health Library at Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d'Alene Idaho. She stressed the outreach the consumer library does to the community and how we each need to market our library to our residents even if we do not have a special consumer collection. Nola Higley showed a television segment that featured the Magic Valley Regional Medical Center Library on the local news. The meeting was well attended with library staff from all areas of the state coming together to share ideas and concerns.
Samaritan Health Services has recently hired Liisa Rogers as a Library Technician for the Good Samaritan Hospital Health Sciences Library in Corvallis, Oregon. She joins Librarian Dorothy O'Brien, who operated the "one person library" at GSH since her arrival in 1999. The new position was created after a sustained increased volume of services requested, in part resulting from cooperative agreements with other area hospitals.
Liisa has a Masters degree in Clinical Social Work and brings
a wealth of health and human services experience to the library.
She began as a medical library volunteer at GSH in October 2000,
and was hired, full time, in March, 2001. Her goal is to complete
a MLIS degree with a focus on medical librarianship, and she has
applied to programs in Portland and Seattle for fall admission.
Carolyn Olson will be attending NLM's Medical Informatics Course in Woods Hole this fall. In addition to the class, the seafood in that part of the country holds great promise.
Linfield College, School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Portland
Campus welcomes the addition of Cynthia Peterson to the Library
Staff. Cynthia joined the staff in March as half-time Technical
Services Specialist, managing ILL and cataloging. Cynthia worked
previously at Newberg Public Library and at Oregon State University
in similar positions. She is also working on her MLS through the
University of Illinois.
Consumer Health services have expanded in Eugene with the addition of the second PeaceHealth Health Information Center. Staffed by Mary Johnson, formerly a Reference Librarian at OHSU in Portland, the new Center is located in the Barger Medical Building and provides a range of services--from loaning a book or video, to running MEDLINE searches as needed. Also located at Barger is an innovative Senior Health and Wellness Center serving especially the 'frail and elderly', a group whose health information needs can be quite complex. Joint projects for the HIC and Senior Health include a just-published article on web searching for Seniors which Johnson wrote for the "Lane County Oregon Senior Living Resource Guide".
The VA hospitals in Portland and Vancouver have hired two new technicians: Phil Sprando in Portland and Debra Helvey-Simonet in Vancouver.
The OHSU Library has recently been involved in an NLM funded
project working with school nurses in Multnomah County. The project
consisted of hands-on workshops with 7 groups of school nurses,
and a web page designed for their easy access to health information
on the Internet http://www.ohsu.edu/library/staff/judkinsd/schoolnurse/,
as well as a listserv for the nurses. Since most school nurses
work independently, the listserv was a way for the nurses to discuss
with their peers questions or
problems they were having.
Jama Chorush was hired as a trainer for the project, and she
and Dolores Judkins designed the web page and taught the workshops.
The project appears to have been very successful, as the web page
is highly used with 244 direct hits during March. Comments from
the particpants such as "this class was awesome", "you
guys are geniuses", and "you should teach this
class all over the country" indicate that the school nurses
valued the time spent in the workshops, and are particularly happy
with the web page, as many of them commented that now they only
need to go to one place to find the information they need.
The addition of the Web of Science (Science Citation and Social Science Citation Index) rounds out the electronic database coverage including OVID Medline, CINAHL, BIOSIS, PsycInfo and 50 other databases. There are also over 70 medical electronic texts available.
Diane Carroll
OHSU Library
First floor of OHSU's Child Development and Rehabilitation Center, room 1272B, is the new location of the CDRC Library. The CDRC building has been renovated and the new space is bright with doors opening to a garden patio.
The CDRC Library has a unique multidisciplinary collection
on child development and developmental disabilities throughout
the life span. Check out www.ohsu.edu/library/cdrc.shtml,
to view titles in our CDRC Parents Collection, clearly written
materials for the families, friends and teachers of children with
developmental disabilities.
Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, WA was just awarded a $1000
Employee Resource Grant to purchase consumer health titles.
And we consider the first joint WMLA/OHSLA meeting held on April 5 and 6 a huge success! The evaluations were UNANIMOUS that having a joint meeting was a good idea, and should be repeated!
originally submitted to hlib-nw 5-9-01 by
Marcia Batchelor
Please help me welcome Deana Noack as the medical librarian at Naval Hospital, Bremerton. Deana replaces Mary Jane Easley who retired Dec 2000.
Before becoming a federal and Navy librarian, Deana directed a hospital library and a public library reference department in Pennsylvania. She taught graduate library courses at SUNY Buffalo and the University of Denver as well as undergraduate computer science courses in several locations. She has also consulted, trained, and designed library web-based training. Her latest project was for the Ohio Library Council http://www.olc.org/ore/index.html
At the 2001 PNLA meeting on August 10th in Corvallis Deana presented "Web-based training for Libraries: it's still about People!"
Deana can be reached at 360-475-4316 or electronically at noackd@pnw.med.navy.mil
Also, I have been remiss in not electronically introducing Madigan's new systems librarian: Bob Richart. Bob came to us from City University library in Renton where he was Systems Librarian with the Voyager integrated library system for two years. Here at Madigan he is not only our systems administrator but also the library's web master.
Before working at City University, Bob worked at WLN in Lacey in several positions from 1987 through 1997. Bob's direct telephone line is 253-968-0120 and his E-mail is bob.richart@nw.amedd.army.mil
Marcia
I. Batchelor, MSLS, AHIP
Chief, Medical Library
Madigan Army Medical Center
Tacoma, WA 98431
253-968-1135 voice 253-968-0958 fax
marcia.batchelor@nw.amedd.army.mil
http://www.mamc.amedd.army.mil/medlib/medlib.htm
In mid-June, the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute at the University of Washington will move to a new location near the UW campus, with additional space for both research offices and the library. Telephone and fax numbers will not change, but the new mailing address will be Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute Library, UW Box 354805, 1107 NE 45th Street - Suite 120, Seattle WA 98105.
originally submitted 7-5-01 to hlib-nw by Linda Milgrom
A memorial celebration for Kay Denfeld, longtime librarian in the UW Libraries (Health Sciences, FS-INFO, OUGL and most recently Science Libraries Computer Resources Coordinator located in the Engineeering Library) who died while kayaking on July 1, was held at 4pm Sunday, July 15 at the University Friends Meeting.
Remembrances may be made to American Rivers Inc., 150 Nickerson St. #311, Seattle, WA 98109, or American Red Cross, Seattle-King County Chapter, 1900 25th S, Seattle, WA 98144.
Tributes to Kay, a skilled whitewater kayaker, are posted at www.wakayakclub.com.
Edupage, May 25, 2001
The MedBiquitous Consortium aims to develop standards and software applications for the medical community to use for education and testing, collection of outcomes data, and online journal publishing. Founded by Johns Hopkins University and a number of medical specialty societies, the MedBiquitous Consortium will turn to IBM, Rational Software, and Sun Microsystems for technical expertise. John Hopkins and the other members "want to be leaders in defining how the Internet changes health care," explained Dr. Peter S. Greene, associate dean for emerging technologies at Johns Hopkins' school of medicine. The MedBiquitous Consortium includes the MedBiquitous Laboratory, which will develop the new Internet tools, and MedBiquitous Services, a for-profit unit that will provide the larger group with Web hosting and other services.
(Baltimore Sun, 23 May 2001)
Librarians are going online to pool their collective knowledge
and answer hard-to-crack questions posed by patrons. The Collaborative
Digital Reference Service (CDRS) aims to connect libraries and
universities around the world, allowing librarians to route tough
questions to academics and other librarians with expertise in
a particular field. The system, hosted by the Library of Congress,
is available 24 hours a day to accommodate time zones around the
world. Currently in its third pilot phase, the system has signed
on nearly 600 participant institutions and is working on a better
process to phrase and route queries. The manner in which questions
are asked makes directing them to the right source of expertise
difficult, but Diane Kresh at the Library of Congress said CDRS
members are working on solutions, possibly including a
direct-chat function between participants.
(Government Computer News, 28 May 2001)
A bill now pending before the U.S. House of Representatives
could force the U.S. Department of Energy to end PubScience, its
Web database that allows scientists to search abstracts and citations
from more than a thousand scientific journals. The database, which
operates on an annual budget of approximately $500,000, is the
most popular of the Energy Department's online offerings, with
roughly 1 million searches executed per year. However, a report
associated with the department's appropriations bill for 2002
questions whether the database is appropriate, noting that several
private-sector firms provide similar services. Several firms,
including Cambridge Scientific Abstracts and Reed Elsevier, lobbied
the Software & Information Industry Association to exert its
influence and recommend the elimination of the database in the
report. However, Stephen Miles Sacks, who publishes the journal
"Scipolicy," said that some of the publications that
the department's database makes available are ignored by private-sector
firms. He added that few scientists could afford the fees these
firms would charge if they did create a similar database.
(Chronicle of Higher Education Online, 2 July 2001)
The Library of Congress is launching a system to link reference
libraries across geographical areas in order to let the libraries
refer questions outside their purview to libraries that specialize
in those areas. Although still under development, the reference
system--known as the Collaborative Digital Reference Service (CDRS)--is
already being used in some libraries. CDRS creator Diane Kresh,
director for public service collections at the Library of Congress,
said the system was hatched to allow reference librarians to remain
relevant in an age when the Internet provides instant access to
a smorgasbord of information. Although Web reference sites and
search engines use keyword recognition to pull up Web site reference
points, CDRS can, for example, send baseball-focused questions
to librarians at baseball-focused libraries or military questions
to military librarians. CDRS asks libraries to complete a Web-based
profile before joining the system. So far, 100 institutions have
joined, including libraries in America, Canada, Hong Kong, and
the United Kingdom.
(Federal Computer Week Online, 2 July 2001)
The new iLOR Web site improves searches conducted using Google,
widely considered to be the best mainstream Internet search engine
available. The site is not a separate search engine--in fact,
it has licensed its search technology from Google. Instead, iLOR
provides users with tools to make navigating search results much
easier. After entering a keyword, iLOR users can position the
cursor over the link for each result. Doing so brings up a box
that provides several options. One, "put in my list,"
allows users to save useful links or e-mail them to other users.
The "anchor here" option creates a link to the search
results page. No matter how far into a Web site users then investigate,
they can always return to the search results page simply by selecting
that link, eliminating the frustration of pressing the Web browser's
back button multiple times. College librarians and other critics
of search engines have given iLOR positive reviews. Search Engine
Watch editor Danny Sullivan wondered why Google itself has not
incorporated iLOR's tools.
(New York Times, 17 May 2001)
A new study from the RAND research institution, published in the
Journal of the American Medical Association, reveals that health
information on the Internet is not all that easy to locate and
understand. In the study, 34 physicians looked at 25 English-and
Spanish-language health sites for a six-month period. The physicians
examined how each site presented information on four specific
medical topics: obesity, asthma in children, breast cancer, and
depression. The study found that of the English-language sites,
25 percent gave no mention of these topics, while 53 percent of
the Spanish-language sites did not. For the most part, researchers
said the information presented on the sites was reliable. The
most common source of confusion was information presented two
different ways on the same site, not erroneous information. The
study notes recent research that shows 100 million U.S. residents
use the Internet as a source of health information.
(Washington Post, 23 May 2001)
Librarians know too well the misperception that everything is
available on the Internet--but has that misperception now proved
fatal? Perhaps, say medical librarians, after recent reports in
the BALTIMORE SUN suggested that a Johns Hopkins medical researcher
failed to uncover published research suggesting the potentially
lethal side effects associated with inhalation of the drug Hexamethonium.
According to the SUN, while investigators found that supervising
physician Dr. Alkis Togias made "a good faith effort"
to research the drug's possible adverse effects, his search apparently
focused on online resources, including PubMed, which is searchable
only back to 1960. Previous articles published in the 1950s, however,
with citations in subsequent publications, warned of lung damage
associated with Hexamethonium. Dr. Frederick Wolff, a professor
emeritus at the George Washington School of Medicine, told reporters
Togias was "foolish" and "lazy" for not finding
the articles. Anyone trained in academic medicine knows how to
do this research," Wolff told reporters. "What happened
is not just an indictment of one researcher, but of a system in
which people don't bother to research the literature anymore."
"These people should have been speaking to a medical librarian," says Edward Morman, College Librarian and Director, Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, noting that the tragedy might have been avoided had an information professional been involved. Morman said "a manual search of pre-1960 medical indexes should have supplemented any database search" on the drug done by physicians. In a case that has garnered worldwide attention, physicians at Johns Hopkins administered hexamethonium to a healthy 24-year-old woman, Ellen Roche, in an attempt to study how the lungs of healthy people protect against asthma attacks. But Roche died weeks later from complications caused by the drug. Medical librarians say the tragedy is a stark reminder that the Internet should not replace either the stacks or the important work of information professionals. In fact, Morman notes, even if the lion's share of medical research does one day make it online, the stacks must be maintained, as reliable search engines and digital preservation remain dicey propositions. "The point is," said Morman, referring to the tragedy, "That older medical research must be maintained."
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And God Created...
And God populated the earth with broccoli and cauliflower and spinach, green and yellow vegetables of all kinds, so Man and Woman would live long and healthy lives. And Satan created McDonald's. And McDonald's brought forth the 99-cent double cheeseburger. And Satan said to Man, "You want fries with that?" And Man said, "Supersize them." And Man gained pounds.
And God created the healthful yogurt, that woman might keep her figure that man found so fair. And Satan brought forth chocolate. And Woman gained pounds.
And God said, "Try my crispy fresh salad." And Satan brought forth ice cream. And Woman gained pounds.
And God said, "I have sent thee heart-healthy vegetables and olive oil with which to cook them." And Satan brought forth chicken-fried steak so big it needed its own platter. And Man gained pounds and his bad cholesterol went through the roof.
And God brought forth running shoes and Man resolved to lose those extra pounds. And Satan brought forth cable, and TV with remote control so Man would not have to toil to change channels between ESPN and ESPN2. And Man gained pounds.
And God said, "You're running up the score, Devil."
And God brought forth the potato, a vegetable naturally low in fat and brimming with nutrition. And Satan peeled off the healthful skin and sliced the starchy center into chips and deep-fat fried them. And he created sour cream dip also. And Man clutched his remote control and ate the potato chips swaddled in cholesterol and fat.
And Satan saw and said, "It is good." And Man went into cardiac arrest. And God sighed and created quadruple bypass surgery. So Satan created HMO's ..
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft
error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict
construction
rules: Each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first,
7 in the second, 5 in the third. They are used to communicate
a timeless message,
often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through
extreme brevity. Here are 16 actual error messages from Japan.
Below, the essence
of Zen.
The Medical Library Association (MLA) is pleased to announce that Felicia A. Smith, information specialist, Health Learning Center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, was recently named the 2001 MLA/National Library of Medicine (NLM) Spectrum Scholar. Because of their commitment to diversity and to increasing the number of minorities in health sciences librarianship, MLA and NLM joined together last year to sponsor a scholar in the American Library Association's (ALA) Spectrum Initiative Program. MLA and NLM will make a total donation of $5,000 annually for the next ten years to support students in their goal to become health sciences information professionals.
Smith, who is currently working towards a master of library and information science degree at Dominican University in River Forest, IL, more than met the criteria for the scholarship and was one of the highest ranking students among the fifty-two 2001 Spectrum scholars, chosen by the ALA Spectrum Jury.
Beside being a busy student and professional, Smith also finds time to participate in professional activities. A member of three national library associations, ALA, MLA, and the Special Libraries Association (SLA), as well as the Illinois Library Association (ILA), she has worked as an intern for the ALA Council Committee on Minority Concerns and Cultural Diversity and as a member of the ILA Cultural and Racial Diversity Committee, and has published an article in MLA News.
In addition to being named the 2001 MLA/NLM Spectrum Scholar, Smith was also this year's recipient of the MLA Scholarship for Minority Students which is given to a minority student entering an ALA-accredited library school having at least one-half of the requirements of the program to finish in the year following the awarding of the scholarship.
"MLA is pleased to sponsor, in conjunction with NLM, an ALA Spectrum scholar in health sciences librarianship. Attracting people from diverse backgrounds into our library specialty is essential to the future of the profession, " stated MLA Executive Director Carla Funk.
MLA congratulates Smith on receiving this honor and looks forward to working with her as she embarks on a career in the health sciences information profession.
| Chair | Janice Bacino |
| Chair-Elect | Bob Pringle |
| Past-Chair | Kim Granath |
| Recording Secretary | Chris Beahler |
| Treasurer | Nola Higley |
| Membership Secretary | Kathy Martin |
| Chapter Council Representative | Patrice O'Donovan |
| Chapter Council Alternate | Dolores Judkins |
| Archives | Janet Schnall |
| Bylaws | Jan Schueller |
| Technology | Susan Barnes |
| Governmental Relations | Marcia Batchelor |
| Liaison to MLA/AHIP | Terry Jankowski |
| Nominating Elections | Kim Granath |
| Professional Development | Kelly Thormodson |
| Program - Salishan 2001 | Beverly Schriver |
| Publications / Newsletter | Kathy Murray |
Northwest Notes is published four times per year by the Pacific Northwest Chapter, Medical Library Association: Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.
Kathy Murray, Editor: University of Alaska Anchorage, Consortium Library, Health Sciences Information Service, 3211 Providence Dr., Anchorage, AK 99508. 907.786.1611. (fax) 907.786.1608. afktm@uaa.alaska.edu.
Statements and opinions expressed in the newsletter do not necessarily represent the official position of the Chapter or the Editor. News and articles are welcome! Please include your name, library, address, phone and fax number, and email address (if available).
The editor reserves the right to edit submissions as necessary.