ALASKA

submitted by Donna Hudson

The Elmendorf Air Force Base Hospital in Anchorage, as well as its medical library, will be moving to a new location. The library will reopen for regular business on May 12. The new address is: 3 Medical Group/SGSOL, 5955 Zeamer Ave., Elmendorf AFB, AK 99506-3700; the phone number will be 907.580.6490.

IDAHO

The spring issue of the IHIA Citation (and the first Web issue ever) is now available.  If you have problems accessing this issue and would like to receive a paper copy, please contact me.

Sincerely,
Marcia Francis, Secretary-Treasurer
Idaho Health Information Association

originally posted on hlib-nw@u.washington.edu on 08 Dec 1998

 

Recognition of local experts, shared by Linda Milgrom

 

As its final article in its final issue (November-December 1998) Gratefully Yours has a lovely piece on the DeArmond Consumer Health Library at Kootenai Medical Center.

MONTANA

originally posted on hlib-nw@u.washington.edu on 08 Dec 1998

Kalispell's new medical librarian

Hello Everyone!

Allow me to introduce myself. I am Heidi Sue Adams, and I am the new medical librarian at Kalispell Regional Medical Center. (I know I have big shoes to fill here, as Susan Long is a hard act to follow!)  I relocated here from New Jersey. My name may be somewhat familiar to some of you; I worked in a medical library in Philadelphia, and served on committees in that region ... including the Hospitality Committee for the national convention last May.  I look forward to meeting you all, and please, do not hesitate if there is anything that I can assist you with.

Respectfully,
HS
Heidi Sue Adams
Kalispell Regional Medical Center

OREGON

Kelly Ferkovich is the new library technician at Legacy Good Samaritan in Portland. She replaces Gisela Cartmill who has taken a position with Southwest Washington Hospitals in Vancouver.

Janet Owens is the new librarian at Legacy Meridian Park Hospital in Tualatin, OR. Janet has worked at Montana State University, the Oregon Geriatric Education Center.

originally posted on hlib-nw@u.washington.edu on 08 Dec 1998

 

Recognition of local experts, shared by Linda Milgrom

I also enjoyed Valerie Lawrence's excellent article, "Consumer Health Information Services: A Growing Area in Hospital Libraries" in the October issue of National Network. The Northwest strikes again!

WASHINGTON

Sherrilynne Fuller will be the Janet Doe Lecturer at this year's MLA Annual Meeting in Chicago. She will speak on Monday, May 17 at 9:00 a.m. Her working title, subject to potential revision, is "Enabling, Empowering, Inspiring: Research and Mentorship Through the Years." All are invited -- and, as Sherri so humbly stated in her email message "I sure hope I have something worthwhile to say by then :)." [Speaking for the rest of us, I have no doubt this will be a worthwhile talk.] Congratulations on receiving this vote of merit from MLA.

 

Jean Shipman has been elected to the MLA Board.  Her term officially begins in Chicago with the second Business meeting on the 18th and she will serve for three years.  As she explained in her email message, "I don't know what committees I will be a liaison to yet - should find out soon." Congratulations!

Susan Way will be leaving the staff of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Library on April 28.  She will begin her new job as Network Administrator as part of the SWOG (Southwest Oncology Group) PHS (Public Health Sciences division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) on May 11.  Her new email address will be susanw@swog.fhcrc.org.

 

 

submitted by Betty Jo Jensen; originally posted to hlib-nw

 

I am pleased to announce that William Gembala has accepted the position of Medical Librarian at Evergreen Hospital Medical Center. He will start with us on April 19th. He is replacing me, as I retire on May 3rd.

 

originally posted on hlib-nw@u.washington.edu on 01 Feb 1999

 

Fred Hutchinson welcomes new librarian
submitted by Ann Marie Clark

 

Please join us in welcoming Kelly Thormodson to the library staff at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.  Kelly is new to the Pacific Northwest. She hails from the Midwest, having recently attended the University of Iowa's School of Library and Information Science. She has extensive experience as a corporate trainer, and has spent time in both special and medical libraries. We are very pleased to have her join our team as a reference/training librarian.

 

 

New on Video!

Accessing HIV/AIDS Information Resources

 

This video of the February 11, 1999 AIDS teleconference is geared to public health professionals and anyone else in the community providing HIV/AIDS-related information. The running time is one hour and thirty-nine minutes. A web page with supplemental materials, including tutorials and fact sheets, is available at http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/partners/aids.html.

The RML also has a limited number of packets with materials available on request. Please contact the RML office at 1-800-338-7657, if you would like to receive the video on loan.

 

[editor's note: Our very own Maryanne Blake is a feature speaker of the teleconference]

 

submitted by M. Means; originally posted on hlib-nw

 

The WMLA board has voted to rely on the HLIB-NW email list and the WMLA Web site for member communications that used to take place via the newsletter. If you want to post something to the WMLA Web site, please contact Bill Gembala, (206) 616-7106. Check here to find instructions for searching the archives of HLIB-NW.

 

If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.

 

Martha Means, President, Washington Medical Librarians Association
(206) 685-8036

 

originally posted on hlib-nw@u.washington.edu on 02 Dec 1998

 

WMLA Election Results

This is probably not a great surprise, but here are the election results. Thanks to all who voted.

 

Officers:

President: Martha Means, University of Washington
President-Elect: Brynn Beals, St. Joseph Medical Center
Recording Secretary: Sarah Safranek, University of Washington
Membership Secretary: Julia Parker, PathoGenesis Corporation
Treasurer: Cathy Burroughs, University of Washington
Past President: Val Lawrence, Western States Chiropractic College
Member at Large: Beulah Horak, St. Joseph Hospital
Member at Large: Diana Nelson Louden, Zymogenetics, Inc.

 

Committee Chairs and Appointments

Annual Meeting Chairs: Barbara Ivester & Nancy Turrentine, Valley Medical Center
Archivist: Janet Schnall, University of Washington
Bylaws Chair: Jan Schueller, Battelle Seattle Research Center
Continuing Education Chair: Pamela Murray, Northwest Hospital
WMLA Resource Sharing Committee Chair: Kathleen McCrory, Children's Hospital
Webmaster & Newsletter Editor: Bill Gembala, University of Washington
Government Liaison for WMLA: open
UW Student Liaison: Heather Wilder, University of Washington

Northwest Notes / 20(1) Jan.-Mar. 1999 / April 22, 1999