Library Staff Selected to Present at MLA

Again this year, members of the Himmelfarb Library’s staff had abstracts selected for presentations at the Medical Library Association’s (MLA’s) Annual Meeting. This year’s meeting is being held in Washington from May 21 – 26.

Dr. Shelley Bader, EdD, MLS, Associate Vice-President for Educational Resources and
Alexandra Gomes, MSLS, MT, Assistant Director for Curriculum and Technology Services are presenting a poster on the development of enterprise-wide HIPAA training at The George Washington University. Researchers and library faculty also completed HIPAA and Research training. Dr. Bader’s and Ms. Gomes’ poster details the development and implementation of the web-based instructional modules used for certification.

Patricia Wilson, MIS, Associate Director for Public Services; Richard Billingsley, MSLS, RN, Coordinator of Information and Instruction; and Leah Pellegrino, MSLS, Head, Cataloging and Reserves will present a poster describing a pilot study of the use of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) at the bedside. The software used in the trial was (Griffith's 5 Minute Clinical Consult©.) The poster details the development of the trial and compares PDA use by medical students, physician assistant students, and residents.

Integrating our Medical Informatics curriculum into the 1st year problem-based learning course is the subject of the poster that will be presented by Laura Abate, MSLS, Electronic Resources and Instructional Librarian; Anne Linton, MS, AHIP, Director of the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library; and Patricia Wilson, MIS, Associate Director for Public Services at the Medical Library Association national meeting in May. The poster is an overview of our continued efforts to provide a seamless integration of informatics with the problem-based learning curriculum.

A fourth poster accepted for the MLA meeting is "Empowering the Faculty to Choose" by Laura Abate, MSLS, Electronic Resources and Instructional Librarian; Leah Pellegrino, MSLS, Head, Cataloging and Reserves; Anne Linton, MS AHIP, Director of the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library; and Patricia Wilson, MIS, Associate Director for Public Services. The poster outlines efforts to acquaint faculty with the problems and possible solutions to the scholarly publishing crisis. The poster details steps taken by Himmelfarb librarians to increase awareness of alternative publishing venues and to publicize the university memberships in open access initiatives.