Section Events
Networking opportunities through the Medical Section program events will ensure that you are never isolated from your colleagues and can share information and expertise.
Current Conference
2010
Medical Section Annual Meeting and Program
Improvising Health Sciences Library Services During Disasters
Tuesday June 15, 1010 10:00am - 11:30am
Speaker: Michelynn McKnight, Ph.D., AHIP, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University
Sponsored by JAMA
Description: Sudden community changes create new information service needs. Agile professionals go beyond preservation, protection and service continuity to improvise creative new services to meet that challenge. After more than two decades as a hospital librarian, Michelynn McKnight http://slis.lsu.edu/faculty/McKnight/McKnightvita.htm earned her PhD and joined the faculty of the Louisiana State University School of Library and Information Science. She wrote The Agile Librarian’s Guide to Thriving in Any Institution http://lu.com/showbook.cfm?isbn=9781591586685 (Libraries Unlimited, 2010).
Dr. McKnight collaborated with Dr. Lisl Zach, Assistant Professor, The iSchool at Drexel, on a completed a three-year project “Investigating Library and Information Services During Community-Based Disasters” supported by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The research method of grounded theory development used in this project development was based on lessons learned in preliminary studies information services improvised in Louisiana and Mississippi after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The end product of this research will be case based modules to train students and practitioners how to improvise such services in a disaster.
A brief business session of the Medical Section will be held immediately before the program.
Past Conferences
2009
Medical Section Annual Meeting and Program
Translational Medicine Meets the Semantic Web
Monday, June 14, 2009 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Speaker: Olivier Bodenreider, MD, PhD, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine
Sponsored by Matthews Medical Books
2008
Medical Section Program and Business Meeting Ticket # 785
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:00AM - 12:30PM
Sponsored by JAMA & Archives
Journals
2007
Medical Section Program and Business Meeting
First, Do No Harm - Information, Teamwork and Patient Safety
Speaker: Michael Leonard, MD, Kaiser Permanente
Download the PowerPoint presentation
2006
Medical Section Program and Business Meeting
Basic Sciences Digital Library: A Task Centered Resource For The Basic Biomedical Sciences Researcher
Speaker: Brian Brown, Communications Librarian, Welch Medical Library at The Johns Hopkins University.
2005
Medical Section Reception and Business Meeting
Online information resources for evidence-based clinical care: their evolution and the special role of librarians in their development and dissemination
Speaker: Brian Haynes, MD, PhD, Prof. & Chair, Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics & Med., McMaster University.
Download PowerPoint presentation.
Rev. February 2010