ALBERTA

originally from WEB4LIB, posted on 24 May 1999

by Dennis Ward <dward@ualberta.ca>

 

I would like to announce the availability of a collection of student projects at http://www.slis.ualberta.ca/538-99/
These projects were created by the students in the LIS 538 (Automation in Libraries and Information Centres) course in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta. They contain a substantial amount of useful information on a number of topics of current interest, and are being made available with the hope that they may be useful to the library community.
The project authors and titles are listed below.

Bradley, Cara - The XML Files: The Truth Will Be Out There
Dahl, Susan - Web Search Services
Hoskinson, Gisele - Z39.50: Towards a Single Search Interface
Johnston, Lindsay - Indexing World Wide Web Sites: Local Library Practice and Introduction to Metadata
Mirau, Dan - Expert Systems and the Library
Song, Sophie - Electronic Commerce and its Impacts on the Library and Information Profession

Dennis Ward
School of Library and Information Studies
University of Alberta

IDAHO

originally posted on hlib-nw@u.washington.edu on 23 Apr 1999

by Nancy Griffin <grifnanc@isu.edu>

 

Dear friends:

We are very pleased to announce that Marcia Francis [Idaho State University] has been awarded a fellowship to attend the October 1999 program in Medical Informatics at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole.

This program is sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and is intended for medical educators, librarians, and administrators and is limited to 30 per session. The week-long course is "designed to familiarize individuals with the application of computer technologies and information science in medicine."

We are very proud of Marcia for being selected.

submitted by Kathy Nelson, IHIA President

The Idaho Health Information Association met in Twin Falls May 21, 1999. Attending were several new faces representing Idaho Health Sciences Libraries. Dorothy Dreyer is the new librarian at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center.  Dot and her immediate supervisor, Lesa Becker the Director of Quality Improvement/Medical Staff Services, attended the meeting. The hospital went through a reorganization process and eliminated the Library Manager position that was held by Judy Balcerzak. They are working with OVID for online full text journals for the staff.

Teresa Murdock from Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg was also a first time attendee. Teresa had been working in the hospital's home health department and transferred to the library/education department after the agency was closed. She works with Rob Tietjen the Department Manager on several projects including library services. She has been busy working on JCAHO requirements for the hospital.

Other Idaho Librarians attending included Pam Spickelmier, St. Lukes Regional Medical Center, Janeice Boge and Kathy Nelson, Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, Nancy Griffin and Marcia Francis, Idaho State University's Idaho Health Sciences Library, Nola Higley and Cecilia Sharp, Magic Valley Regional Medical Center. Our educational program on the LiLI Libraries Linking Idaho web site was provided by Rand Simmons from the Idaho State Library.

The IHIA now has a web site that was designed by Marcia Francis, the IHIA Secretary/Treasurer.

OREGON

Michele Spatz has been elected Chair-elect of the Consumer and Patient Health Information Section of the Medical Library Association.  As chair-elect she will plan the section programs offered at the joint MLA/CHLA annual meeting in Vancouver, B.C. in May 2000.  It is at the May meeting that she will assume the office of Chair.  In her own words, it "should be a fun year!"

originally posted on hlib-nw@u.washington.edu on 12 May 1999

by Kathy Martin <martink@teleport.com>

"... I would like to mention a wonderful video service I recently joined that does have ... video[s]. We found CHI (Consortium for Health Information & Library Services) on the web purely by accident. It's a consortium of health science libraries based in Pennsylvania that has a collection of over 1600 videos that members can check out. Willamette Falls joined as an associate member, which means that for $1,000/year we have borrowing privileges for all 1600 videos. For us that's a real bargain, since the purchase price for individual videos is often so high. You can contact Barbara Devlin, the Executive Director, by calling (610) 447-6161 or by e-mail at chi@hslc.org.  At my request she sent us a packet, which included the 1998 catalog of videos. I can't speak highly enough of the service."

WASHINGTON

submitted by Linda Milgrom

 

My Italian is getting rusty, and I need to work on my wine-making and olive oil-making skills. So, though I certainly still think I have the best job in the whole world, I allowed my husband to convince me to take a break. Beginning September 1, you'll find Peter and me in Tuscany.  We've rented 1/2 of a villa in a teensy hamlet (too small to really be a village) called Romita. If you have an extremely detailed map, you'll find it alongside the Via Cassia (old Roman road from Florence to Rome), about midway between Florence and Siena. Nearest "towns" are San Casciano in Val di Pesa and Tavarnelle. I plan to drink lots of coffee, read lots of books, take many long walks, explore as much of the area as possible, and maybe take a course or two.

 

Of course I'll keep in touch (and will want to know YOUR news too).  I hope to keep my UW email account, and my RML pals will always know where to find me. This is a one-year leave. I will definitely return to my position here next fall. If you're thinking that I did something like this before, then you're dating yourself. Our last sabbatical was 11 years ago (1988-89 in Singapore). And, yes, we HAD planned this before reading Under the Tuscan Sun, really.

 

 

Jean Pasche is the new librarian for the Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) in Seattle, WA. The Institute was established in 1956 by Dr. William B. Hutchinson, Sr., as the first private, non-profit biomedical and clinical research institute in the Northwest. The Institute sponsors basic science efforts in biochemistry, molecular biology, and immunology as they pertain to the clinical areas of cancer and diabetes.  

 

Jean's primary efforts in the early stages of the Institute's library are document delivery and organization of the existing library resources. She hopes to develop both the collection and the library services.  Although Jean is the first PNRI librarian, the Institute for many years benefitted from the library services of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, until the move to the Lake Union site.  

 

Jean's position at PNRI is part-time.  She is working there in the afternoons while continuing her morning job at the US Courts Library.  You can reach her at jpasche@pnri.org.

 

 

originally posted on hlib-nw@u.washington.edu on 07 Jul 1999

 

Hello everyone,
I am happy to announce that PathoGenesis Research Library will now be solely "owned and operated" by Julia Parker. I know many of you know Julia more than you probably know me but I wanted to officially let you all know of Julia's new acquisition! I've worked with Julia for over a year now and feel very very good about turning "my library" over to her -- actually it's really Julia's library but she likes to let me continue to think this!

We've worked hard this past year to provide efficient and effective service to our internal customers.  I am leaving PathoGenesis to take a new position with a very fast growing telecommunications company called Nextlink Communications. I will be joining their web team as an Intranet Analyst and look forward to the growth ahead.

I've been at PathoGenesis for over 6 years and have grown the Information Services Department to include the Research Library, Audio-Visual Services and Web Team.  I want to thank all of you for your help over the years as I would frantically try to answer those "unique" questions. The list always came through. Those of you who have answered those special "in-person" calls, well, I can never thank you enough. You all made me "look" really good to my customers and I loved being part of this community.

 

I look forward to staying in touch. My home email is: andersonk_d@mindspring.com. This email address is effective as of 5pm this evening 7/7/99.

 

Sincerely,
Kathy Anderson
Manager, Information Services
PathoGenesis Corporation

 

 

 

originally posted on hlib-nw@u.washington.edu on 16 Apr 1999

I thought you might find the interview done on me by Marg Meikle interesting (and humorous) reading. It's located at: http://www.webforia.com/research/lauralarsson.asp.  I basically did the interview, mostly because I thought of being interviewed as somewhat of a lark, and because every once in a while it's nice to be thought of as doing something useful for the profession of librarianship.  Please don't laugh too loudly at the idea of "librarian as trap-door spider".  That's basically how I taught folks in my department about the Web.  I'd literally drag them into my office.  My office door lies just beside the combination kitchen/microwave/fax machine/copy machine.  Everyone comes to the kitchen at one time or another during the week. Heh, heh. A perfect spot for grabbing unsuspecting prey, er... faculty.

 

The product, Webforia Organizer, mentioned in the interview is really quite useful. The only problem that some folks might have with it is that it's designed to work only with MSIE.  Toni Emerson from the UW's HIT Lab, Norman Holman, NYPL, and Dana Noonan, Webmaster at Metronet, are also interviewed in this latest collection of interviews.

 

Regards,

Laura

larsson@u.washington.edu
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. " Alvin Toffler

 

Northwest Notes / 20(2) Apr.-Jun. 1999 / July 9, 1999