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.