Volume 27, Issue 1 February, 2006

Membership Directory Now Online forwarded to the Web Editor, who updates the Online Directory. The Print Directory is updated Russ Monika twice a year, in January and July. Website Editor Becker Medical Library The space and database that runs the Online Washington University School of Medicine – St. Louis, Missouri Directory is provided to the MCMLA by the St. [email protected] Louis Medical Librarians.

The MCMLA Membership Directory is now MCMLA 2006 Gateway to Re-Discovery available via the web by pointing your browsers to the following URL: Jackie Hittner, MA, MBA http://www.slml.org/mcmla/dir/. The Online MCMLA 2006 Local Arrangements Chair Directory provides members with the following American Association of Orthodontists St. Louis, Missouri options: [email protected] • Alphabetical lists of members • List of members by each state in the region While it might be too early to be packing your • Ability to search for members by: bags to come to St. Louis this October, it is not o Last name too early to make sure you have the dates saved on o Institution your calendar and to be checking out the o City MCMLA2006 web site. So do you have the dates • Print directory in PDF format October 10 -13, 2006 reserved on your calendar to be in St. Louis to attend MCMLA 2006 yet? The Online Directory is updated monthly from the October 10 and 11 will be two full days of Membership database maintained by the Executive Secretary. That information is continued on page 2

In this Issue

Membership Directory Now Online 1 Stepping Out 6 MCMLA 2006 Gateway to Re-Discovery 1 KC Area Library Professionals Recognize Excellence 7 A Note from the Chair 2 Health Literacy Awareness 7 Briefs 3 WebExpress 8 Chapter Council Sharing Roundtables 4 Is AHIP for the Real World 9 Is Google in Your Future? 5 MCMLA Members Corner 11 New Location for John Moritz Library 5 From the Archives 12

MCMLA Express http://www.mcmla.org/express/ Page 1 February, 2006 continued from page 1 individuals willing to “run” for office and to begin appointing new members to the chapter’s various Continuing Education Classes and the meeting committees. These are excellent opportunities for will be October 12 and 13. The CE committee has individual members to gain experience in working been busy confirming instructors and reserving for a non-profit, voluntary organization. Betsy classroom space for classes. As soon as the CE Mueth is leading a highly motivated and capable classes are firm, they will be announced on the Nominating Committee and Whitney Turley- MCMLA listserv and on the MCMLA 2006 web Davison is leading the effort to solicit new site. members for the committees. So, if/when you are contacted to run for office or to serve on a Have you been to the official MCMLA2006 web committee, I encourage all members (old and site yet? Check it out at: new) to say “yes”. It’s a rewarding experience. http://slml.org/mcmla06/index.htm I would remind the membership of the chapter priorities for 2005/06: There you can view the preliminary schedule and the hotel information. • reiterate value to administrative bodies • mentoring the profession The program committee has been busy contacting • take care of the health of the chapter speakers and soon there will be more specific • provide educational opportunities information regarding the program. A sneak • recruit and mentor new members preview of the program includes a Welcome • support current members Reception pool side at the Crowne Plaza, hosted dinners at some of the unique restaurants in St. • continue to improve the website Louis, time with vendors, speakers to engage our • partner with other organizations thoughts and imaginations, and the first and • examine national institutional issues possibly last MCMLA sponsored “stereotypical librarian” contest. We will continue to work toward these goals throughout the remainder of the chapter business So get ready to re-discover your passion for year. Most of these priorities are part of librarianship and to spend time with some of the individual committee responsibilities and progress finest medical librarians in the country at is being made. For example, the St. Louis MCMLA 2006 in St. Louis. planning committee is busy putting together what promises to be an outstanding program, which will A Note from the Chair include educational opportunities for chapter members at the annual meeting. The Education Jim Bothmer, MALS, AHIP Committee is also working on electronic MCMLA Chair educational opportunities and you will hear more Health Sciences Library about that as the year progresses. The Research Creighton University Committee is investigating reproducing the Omaha, Nebraska “King” study. Review the committee reports from [email protected] the Salt Lake City chapter meeting for details The New Year is upon us, and as we tackle the about all of the committees’ activities. various challenges we face and take advantage of the many opportunities afforded us, I want to wish The “value” of librarians to their parent all a happy and prosperous 2006. organization is of utmost importance to all of us. These are both exciting and stressful times to be From the Chapter Chair perspective, the immediate tasks at hand are soliciting names for continued on page 3

MCMLA Express http://www.mcmla.org/express/ Page 2 February, 2006 continued from page 2 Briefs working in a library. The technological advances Becker Librarians Contribute Chapter to Book are at once a blessing and a curse. Technology A chapter authored by Neville Prendergast, has allowed librarians to “push” more and more Associate Director for Communication and content to their primary constituency, which in Outreach, and Christina Sullivan, Librarian, from turn has resulted in a demand for even more the Bernard Becker Medical Library at electronic content. The good news is we can do Washington University School of Medicine, was this. The downside is that often times the traffic recently published. The chapter, titled “Searching in the library declines as people who used to come the Literature,” is in the book Translational and to the physical place find it more convenient to Experimental Clinical Research, whose editors are access information from their offices. Also, the Daniel P. Shuster and William J. Powers. It was traditional concept of “the library” loses published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in something as more electronic resources become 2005 with an ISBN # 0-7817-5565-4. available. The challenge is keep our “users” Congratulations to them both. (Submitted by Russ motivated to come to the library and to recognize Monika) the value of having a library. How do we do that? With this newsletter, I am posing that question to Get Involved in MLA’s Oral History Program the membership as to how they attract new users All members of the Medical Library Association and retain regular users to the physical and virtual are encouraged to participate in the Oral History library. I believe we can all take advantage of Program as interviewers, editors, or transcribers. what works in other institutions. I would If you are interested in any of these roles, contact welcome those stories to be sent to me and I’ll Richard Nollan, Project Director, compile them and issue them in periodic reports. [email protected]. This work is truly valuable and fascinating! If you attended Fred Roper’s In addition, there are very real issues concerning Janet Doe Lecture at the annual meeting in San ownership of and perpetual access to information. Antonio, you heard clips from oral history The question of perpetual access to licensed interviews and know firsthand what gems they information is a complex one. Watch this space are. For more information about the program and for more information on this topic in coming its own history, names of those interviewed, and issues. how to access interviews already done, see the oral history page at MLANET at Finally, fostering close working relations with the http://www.mlanet.org/about/history/oral_history. Regional Medical Library (RML) will continue to html be a high priority for the chapter. We already share a listserv, which I believe makes us a MCMLA Research Award stronger region/chapter. Certainly the chapter Evaluating a library-related program, resource, or members take advantage of the RML educational tool? Conducting library-related research? and outreach opportunities and the Region takes Please, consider presenting your findings at the advantage of the ready access to the members of 2006, MCMLA meeting in St. Louis. Posters the chapter. I believe this symbiotic relationship and presentations that include some data and data will grow stronger as the year progresses. analysis will be eligible for either the $100 Best Poster Award or $100 Best Paper Award. The So, come along for the ride. This year, 2006 eligibility and judging criteria for these MCR- promises to be an exciting one in the library NNLM-sponsored awards are available at world. http://www.unmc.edu/library/mcmla/awards.htm. (Submitted by Cindy Schmidt, Chair, MCMLA Research Committee)

MCMLA Express http://www.mcmla.org/express/ Page 3 February, 2006 Chapter Council Sharing Roundtables 22. Retirement 23. So you want to do Research? Plan to register and attend Chapter Council 24. Stepping Out of the Library Presents Sharing Roundtables on Sunday, May 21, 25. Technology/Survival Issues for Hospital 2006 from noon-2:00 p.m. The roundtables offer Librarians participants the opportunity to learn about and 26. Training Librarians for the Future share knowledge with colleagues on specific 27. Use of New Technologies for Teaching topics. Also, participants have a chance to 28. Virtual Library Services network with MLA members who are seasoned or 29. Web Design & Usability new to the profession. 30. Working Together - Consortiums

Attendees must register for the session by topic Facilitators and recorders are needed for this with their annual meeting registrations. Onsite event. You do not need to be an expert on the registration for the roundtables is no longer topic to be a facilitator or recorder. You simply possible due to the logistics of the event. Tickets need to have a keen interest in the topic. are $18 and include a boxed lunch. For the Facilitators initiate discussion and encourage second year, MLA and Chapters will underwrite participants to share their ideas, experiences, and the cost of attendance for a limited number of new concerns. Recorders take notes of the discussion members (i.e., members of MLA for less than five which are posted on the Chapter Council’s years). The free slots will be awarded on a first- webpage. If you are interested in reading the come, first-served basis to new members who roundtable reports from last year’s event, visit register online for MLA ’06. http://www.chaptercouncil.mlanet.org/roundtables /2005/index.html. Facilitators and recorders earn A survey of the membership resulted in the one point toward membership in the Academy of following list of table topics: Health Information Professionals. More information about the 2006 Roundtables as well as 1. Assessment & Evaluations instructions for facilitators and recorders is 2. Blogging available at: 3. Consumer Health http://www.chaptercouncil.mlanet.org/roundtables 4. Copyright Issues & e-journals /index.html. 5. Curriculum Integration 6. EBM If you are interested in facilitating or recording for 7. Expert Searching a topic please contact: 8. Federated Search Tools & Journal Linkouts 9. Grants & Extramural Funding Jan LaBeause, AHIP, Medical Library, Mercer 10. Grey Literature University School of Medicine, Macon, GA at 11. Health Information Literacy [email protected] 12. Integrated Service Desk 13. Management/Leadership Marie Reidelbach, AHIP, McGoogan Library of 14. Management of E-resources Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 15. Marketing & Public Relations Omaha, NE at [email protected] 16. Maximizing your Workforce 17. Open access/Scholarly publishing 18. Outreach to special populations 19. Planning for the New or Renovating the Old? Library Space Planning 20. PubMed/NLM 21. Repositories & Archives

MCMLA Express http://www.mcmla.org/express/ Page 4 February, 2006 Is Google in Your Future? medical literature using PubMed or whatever system we use in our respective libraries (e.g. we Jim Bothmer, MALS, AHIP use SilverPlatter WebSpirs at Creighton Health Sciences Library University). Using these articles/editorials can be Creighton University an opportunity for us to point out that an Omaha, Nebraska [email protected] experienced librarian using a powerful search system might be able to produce more relevant We were recently approached by a faculty results in a literature search than someone using member in our School of Medicine. He told us Google. Use this information to become informed when asking students where they obtained their about how Google is influencing physician information for clinical rounds, the students said searches and to enhance your reputation within “Google”. “Googling” by our students is certainly your organization. Perhaps you can do no surprise, but what was a surprise is that the comparative searches with the same search information the students obtained was accurate strategy using Google and another database of and correct for that particular clinical round. The choice (e.g. PubMed, EBSCO, SilverPlatter, Ovid, faculty member was surprised and a little etc.). We intend to do that at Creighton concerned. Should we, as librarians be University by working closely with a faculty concerned? member from Internal Medicine. Results will be shared later. At any rate, I encourage you to read In the last several months three editorials have these articles and open a dialogue with your been written about the Google search engine with primary constituency. This is a case of tapping comments as to how Google might change the into a potential rival’s product and turning it to face of searching the medical literature. These our advantage. articles/editorials have appeared in high impact, peer-reviewed publications (subscription may be New Location for John Moritz Library necessary to view full-text). Angela Arner, BA, CHIS “Searching for the Right Search — Reaching the John Moritz Library Nebraska Methodist College-Josie Harper Campus Medical Literature,” Robert Steinbrook Omaha, Nebraska New England Journal of Medicine 354; 1: 4-7 [email protected] (January 5, 2006) http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/354/1/4 John Moritz Library, now located on the new Nebraska Methodist College--the Josie Harper “How Google is Changing Medicine,” Dean Campus in Omaha, Nebraska, is open to provide Giustini BMJ 331:1487-1488 (December 24, services and resources. The central role of John 2005) Moritz Library is to support the teaching, learning, http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/331/7 and research of students and faculty in health care 531/1487 education at Nebraska Methodist College. It is the goal of John Moritz Library to ensure that the “Google Scholar: A source for clinicians?” Jim information needs of students, faculty, and other Henderson CMAJ 172; 12: 1549-1550 (June 7, library users within Methodist Health System are 2005) satisfied through a current collection of library http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/172/12/1549 materials and quality library services. Through a commitment to the core values of learning, I believe these are timely articles/editorials that excellence, caring, respect, and holism, the library open a door to a tremendous opportunity for us to seeks to ensure academic and service excellence. “strut our stuff”. We can show our customers how John Moritz Library offers a combination of both it can be more efficient for a librarian to search the continued on page 6

MCMLA Express http://www.mcmla.org/express/ Page 5 February, 2006 continued from page 6 librarians and informationists, to all the many outreach programs in our communities, librarians traditional and electronic resources that support have been stepping out. This column will student achievement and lifelong learning. highlight such programs. Professional library staff and student employees are available for assistance within the user- I am a partner in the Community Task Force on friendly, service-oriented environment of John Health Literacy, along with representatives of Moritz Library. The newly constructed John local school districts, literacy groups, the public Moritz Library is an inviting, student-centered library, and health literacy specialists. Led by the facility that accommodates both individual and Kansas City (Mo.) Health Department, the Task group study. A spacious lounge area is located in Force is developing a health literacy curriculum front of the entrance of John Moritz Library. delivered primarily through a newspaper to be Adjacent to the library are eight private and small- distributed to grades K-3, along with other group study rooms equipped with DVD/VCR activities. The players and computers. newspaper encourages developing literacy Access to library information is available 24 hours while delivering per day/seven days a week through the web site. health information Visit www.methodistcollege.edu/library for to children and information on hours, services, searching their families, such assistance, links to the online catalog as “eat 5-a-day,” (H.E.A.R.T.), databases, full-text journals, “know and eat your copyright information, consumer health services, colors,” “wash your hands,” “wear sun screen,” and more. The Library is located on the second etc. This program is being piloted in one school floor of the Clark Center on the new Josie Harper now, and will be launched in the coming year in Campus. schools across Kansas City. http://www.kcmo.org/health.nsf/web/healthliteracy The new address is John Moritz Library Health literacy, and more specifically health Nebraska Methodist College - the Josie Harper information literacy, is a natural arena for medical Campus librarians to step into. Many librarians teach 720 N. 87th Street classes to health sciences students or to consumers Omaha, NE 68114-2852 on how to search for information in the literature 402.354.7251 or Internet. As part of the Healthy Kids University (community education classes) of Stepping Out Children’s Mercy Hospitals & Clinics, I have taught a well-received Health on the Web class Brenda R. Pfannenstiel, MALS, MA, AHIP and will soon introduce a class to breed healthy Kreamer Family Resource Center skepticism about news of medical breakthroughs. Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics http://www.childrens- Kansas City, Missouri mercy.org/ParentsChildren/hku.asp [email protected] How are you stepping out of the library to reach Librarians have been stepping out from behind your constituency? Here’s your chance to share! their desks and reaching out to their constituencies Submit your story to me at for a long time. From the first horse-drawn [email protected]. bookmobile in New York City, to the ”library without walls” with its desktop delivery of articles and reference consultations, to the clinical medical

MCMLA Express http://www.mcmla.org/express/ Page 6 February, 2006 Kansas City Area Library Professionals Presenting the awards were Network President Jan Recognize Local Excellence Foster, MLS, Professional Activities Chair Sarah Kirby, MLS, AHIP and Past President Dick On Wednesday, January 11th, the Health Sciences Kammer, MLS. Library Network of Kansas City recognized five area medical and health science libraries for Following the awards program, copies of the excellence in the provision of medical information award certificates as well as recommendations that saves both money and lives. from administrators were forwarded with a general press release and pictures to the Public Meeting at the Relations Departments of the winning institutions. Clendening Usually these are reproduced in the in-house Library on the organs. campus of KU Medical Center, Founded in 1976, the Network originated these the Network awards just last year in order to recognize and presented promote the value of medical information and its plaques and providers in the greater Kansas City metropolitan certificates to area. the following array of medical From left to right: Sarah Kirby, Cindi libraries: Health Literacy Awareness Nicks, Jan Foster, and Dick Kammer

• For Outstanding Outreach Efforts, the Carl R. Angela Arner, BA, CHIS John Moritz Library Ferris Medical Library at Research Medical Nebraska Methodist College-Josie Harper Campus Center, Kitty Serling, MLS, Medical Librarian Omaha, Nebraska • For Excellent Return on Investment, the [email protected] Medical Library of North Kansas City Hospital, Evelyn Vail, MLS, Medical Health Literacy is defined as "the degree to which Librarian individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, • For the Outstanding Academic Health and understand basic health information and Sciences Library, The Health Sciences Library services needed to make appropriate health of the University of Missouri – Kansas City; decisions." This ability includes everything from Peggy Mullaly-Quijas, PhD, Assistant understanding prescription dosages, medical Director for the Health Sciences Libraries forms, and the need for medical procedures. It is • For the Outstanding One-Person Health estimated nearly HALF of the people in the Sciences Library, the Library Services of United States have low literacy, thus health Heartland Health Medical Center, Cindi literacy issues. The consequences are enormous Nicks, BA, Librarian for the individual and for our nation. • For the Outstanding Health Sciences Library, the Health Sciences Library at St. Joseph “Nothing – not age, income, employment status, educational level, and racial or ethnic group – affects Medical Center, Jan Foster MLS, Librarian health status more than literacy skills.” --Partnership for Clear Health Communication Recommendations for the awards are considered by the Network’s Professional Activities We can make a difference. We need to ask - Committee, which reviews library statistics as What are we doing to turn the tide and bring about well as recommendations from hospital administrators. continued on page 8

MCMLA Express http://www.mcmla.org/express/ Page 7 February, 2006 continued from page 7 medicine and more. This website has proven to be a handy resource. change in this serious matter? Let’s take action to raise awareness in our academic medical centers MedBioWorld Medical Journals and health care institutions! http://www.medbioworld.com/med/journals/med- bio.html Several additions have been made to the Nebraska This site is useful for locating journal publishers, Methodist College - John Moritz Library web site full text access, and even some free content. http://www.methodistcollege.edu/library/ Online Crossword Puzzles • The Consumer Health Resources section http://www.crossword-puzzles.co.uk/ http://www.methodistcollege.edu/library/cons This website provides links to lots of puzzles from umerres.htm has a new Health Information all over the world. Resources list on the topic of Health Literacy. Also, 20 additional topic lists have been Space Doctor Game updated. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/playspace/ga mes/spacedoctor/ • A quarterly issue of Health Literacy We’re not trained physicians, but we play one on Awareness Newsletter was published in the Internet. Do you have what it takes to keep a December. You can visit our site at any time trio of astronauts healthy? to review the Resources List or the Newsletter. Biographical Notes: If you wish to receive the quarterly issues of Health Literacy Awareness Newsletter by e-mail, Holly Henderson, MLS, has worked in a variety of we can add your name to our distribution list. library settings including public and academic Simply send your subscription request to facilities. She joined the St. John’s Library team [email protected] and your in August 2001, and is the primary librarian at the name will be added. Van K. Smith Community Health Library of St. John’s Health System. WebExpress Jean Lewis has been a librarian with St. John’s Pat Leembruggen, MALS Medical Library since 1991. She wears many CoxHealth Libraries “hats” including serving as a reference librarian Springfield, Missouri and coordinating the Library’s Ovid training. She [email protected] is also a contributor to the Medical Library’s Internet web site. This month, two librarians, Holly Henderson and Jean Lewis, of St. John’s Health System in For additional information about the St. John’s Springfield, Missouri, offer some interesting sites Libraries and their staff, visit their web page at for work and play: http://www.stjohns.com/libraries/medlib/.

History of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links http://www.mla-hhss.org/histlink.htm The website is compiled by the History of the Health Sciences Section of the Medical Library Association and offers a variety of links including medical oaths, history of diseases, Civil War

MCMLA Express http://www.mcmla.org/express/ Page 8 February, 2006 Is AHIP for the Real World? That really sums it up in my view. I don't expect it to get me a raise, but I do expect it to show that Elizabeth Irish, MLS, AHIP I'm taking control of my professional Schaffer Library of the Health Sciences development. For new health sciences librarians Albany Medical College especially, it provides a framework for developing Albany, NY a plan to grow within the essential areas of [email protected] knowledge. The provisional program even comes with your very own mentor. For those of us who Note: Elizabeth was the AHIP Liaison from 2000 to 2005 for the Upstate New York and Ontario (UNYOC) are a bit more seasoned, it's a logical way to chart Chapter of MLA. Copyright 2004/2005. Reprinted and monitor our professional development with permission of the author. activities.

As UNYOC's Liaison to the MLA Credentialing Here are some common questions that I've been Committee from 2000-2005, affectionately known asked, followed by my response. As a disclaimer, as "The AHIP Rep", I'm often asked whether or my response does not represent the opinion of the not I think AHIP is "worth it". Well, I'm probably UNYOC Executive Committee or the MLA not the most unbiased person to answer that Credentialing Committee: question, because I was "The AHIP Rep" and I'm also a member of MLA's Credentialing Are others outside our profession aware of Committee. But having stated this potential AHIP credentialing? conflict of interest up front, you know I'm going Yes. MLA has developed a brochure for to forge ahead anyway! administrators as to why they should hire an AHIP librarian that is available at conferences and on the I have noticed over the years that AHIP can web. Upon joining and renewing, members are certainly stir up discussion. A case in point: the asked if they would like their employer to be July 2004 issue of the JMLA. In it there is an notified. If yes, a letter is sent explaining the article expressing dissatisfaction with the AHIP program to the person's employer. I also think that program as well as a response from the the health sciences community we serve committee. Our own Tom Flemming was the lead understands the concept of credentialing, so a author on the response. I would encourage you to brief explanation as to what it means usually read both, but especially Tom's opinion piece: suffices. And for those of us who are MLA http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.f members, we can do our part to help by explaining cgi?artid=442170 it.

One of the things I liked about the opinion piece is Isn't it MLA slanted? that it went back to stress the objectives of the A person can become an AHIP member without program: becoming an MLA member let alone an active one. Other association, state and national, Membership in the academy is about professional activities are given equal credit alongside recognition, self-motivation, career advancement, publishing, teaching, grant writing, etc. One other prestige, networking, mentoring, and personal interesting point to remember: you don't have to achievement, among other things, and not about be an MLS or derivative to be an AHIP member salary improvement and job security, however and, yes, MLA does have some AHIP members tempting those claims are to make ( Flemming, T., who fall into that category! Dorsch, J., & Funk, C.J. (2004) The Academy of Health Information Professionals: ripe for It is, however, a MLA program. In order to research. JMLA, 92(3): 1141-1147.). become Distinguished, 5 points need to come

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MCMLA Express http://www.mcmla.org/express/ Page 9 February, 2006 continued from page 9 of that demonstrated commitment. Some academic institutions post in their job ads that they require from MLA activities and for non-MLA or NLM either AHIP membership or AHIP application courses, you do need to fill out an IPR. And yes, it after hire. We don't require it at AMC, but I'm an is less expensive for members. AHIP member because I feel it benefits me in my professional development and goals. Is it top-heavy with paperwork and documentation? Which boils down to the question, “Should I It has improved. Renewing members at the same join AHIP??" level just have to submit the forms, not the Honestly, it's up to you. Check out the program supporting documentation. You do need to supply and weigh the advantages in line with your the documentation if you're applying as a new professional goals. Academy membership is member or to a higher level. But the forms have increasing each year, so to many people it is worth been simplified over the years, the point index is it. well laid out, and everything needed to apply is readily available at: Do you have questions about joining AHIP? Your http://www.mlanet.org/academy/index.html AHIP Liaison is MCMLA member Lynne Fox. She can be reached at 303-315-4299, Is it expensive? [email protected]. More information and Well, the $175 MLA member fee ($130 U.S. for tools to help with application can be found at Canadian MLA members) is for 5 years. That's http://www.mcmla.org/member/AHIP.htm and at $35/year, less than $3/month…I could break it http://mlanet.org./academy/index.html down more, but you get the idea. I think it all boils down to whether or not the expense is worth it to you. For some people it is, for some it isn't. I know people who love AHIP and those who absolutely don't! It's a voluntary program. Interestingly, there were so many applications and renewals that MLA has expanded the number of members on the Credentialing Committee for two years to help with the increase. There was also a random drawing of members who would receive a year's extension on their membership. I know at least one of our Chapter members who benefited from the influx!

Will it enhance my salary? Unfortunately, there's no money back guarantee with the program. I know the quote that AHIP librarians make 28.5% more than non-credentialed librarians, but I understand the argument that the AHIP librarians are librarians who would make more anyway based on their positions. If someone uses it show their employer that they are actively keeping up with the profession, it might. I think it depends on the institutional climate. I have heard anecdotally of instances where an AHIP librarian did get a job against a non-AHIP librarian because

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Maria Gruener years she has been working as a library assistant Newman Division of Nursing Library in the medical library at the VA Medical Center in Emporia State University Albuquerque, New Mexico. She recently ended 1907 W. 24th Ave. 9C her job there in order to concentrate on finishing Emporia, Kansas her last semester of library school. 620.342.7450 [email protected] On February 1st she will be begin her practicum at the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Maria received her BA in English and History Library and Informatics Center. Jill states that from South Dakota State University. Currently, during her practicum she will be concentrating on she is a student of the School of Library and public services, reference, virtual reference, Information Management at Emporia State observing instruction and participating in rounds University. with a clinical librarian. Jill’s favorite aspect of librarianship is Public Before obtaining her position as Librarian at Services. She says: “what makes me smile the Newman Division of Nursing Library, Maria most is when I’m able to locate a source for a worked at the Clear Lake City Library as well as patron and in return receive an unbelievable at the Educational Technologies Center. amount of appreciation for merely just doing my job.” At her current position, Maria provides reference and research services as well as collection Jill hopes her MCMLA membership will allow development her to network with other medical librarians, find employment in Colorado, and take advantage of During her free time, Maria likes to read, cook, professional development opportunities. and listen to music. In her free time, Jill likes to read, hike, and visit What Maria likes most about being a librarian is museums and zoos. Jill has a three year old the diversity of subjects on her job. daughter named Erin, and would like to move back to Colorado so Erin can grow up around As a member of MCMLA, Maria hopes to gain family members. more knowledge about medical librarianship and more chances to network with other health Welcome to MCMLA Jill! sciences librarians. Allyson Mower Jill Lynch Eccles Health Sciences Library Texas Woman’s University Univ of Utah Health Sciences Center Albuquerque, New Mexico 10 North 1900 East Salt Lake City, UT 845112 -5890 Jill will be graduating from 801.581.5534 Texas Woman’s University [email protected] in May, 2006 with her MLS. Allyson is a new member of MCMLA. She She received a BA in received a BA in American Studies from Utah Organizational Psychology State University and an MA in Liberal Arts from from the College of Santa St. John's College. She hopes to attend library Fe, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For the past two school this fall.

MCMLA Express http://www.mcmla.org/express/ Page 11 February, 2006 Allyson has worked at Eccles Library for two doing research and assisting people. Her goal in years. In addition to being library staff, Allyson joining MCMLA is to come into contact with has been an adjunct instructor in Humanities. other health sciences library staff members to While in graduate school, she taught 4th and 5th foster professional growth. graders at Montessori International Children's House and worked for a lobbyist in Annapolis, In her free time, Allyson likes to read and write Maryland. and amble through the streets and mountains of Salt Lake City. She swims twice a week, bakes in At Eccles Library, Allyson staffs the public the winter, and gardens in the summer. She is services desk, helps edit the IAIMS newsletter, sometimes called Ally as a nickname. When I and manages the library's cooperative live asked her if she had a pet, she replied that she has reference service. Allyson says that she loves a bonsai tree.

From the Archives

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