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October 5-9, 2001 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

October 6, 2001

Building and Managing the Digital Library: Concepts, Strategies, Case Studies and the State of Digital Libraries Today

Building and Managing the Digital Library is a one-day, eight-hour continuing education course that examines questions of how to create and manage a digital library consisting of a set of networked electronic services, databases, and collections.  Course material will include the notion of a health sciences library's current and potential role in its parent organization's networked information systems infrastructure and development, group exercises aimed at helping participants begin to surmount strategic and logistic hurdles, usability testing and specific digital library examples.  The extensive course bibliography covers issues ranging from philosophy and management to technology, including techniques such as metadata, databases, and other low-cost, high-impact technologies.

Instructor: Scott Garrison (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina).  8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.  8 contact hours.  Cost: $130.00 ($160.00 nonmember)

This course will provide grounding in PDAs and possible library PDA services.  The focus will be on hardware, productivity applications, and health care resources.  Participants will be able to assess suitability of different devices for specific needs.  They will also become familiar with the range of PDA support services currently offered in health sciences libraries and be able to determine the types of PDA support that best suit their environment.  Finally, librarians will get a general idea of the cost (money, start-up time and maintenance time) of starting and running various PDA support programs and be able to cost-out PDA programs for their own library.

Instructor: Mari Stoddard (University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona).  8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.  4 contact hours.  Cost: $75.00 ($90.00 nonmember)

How to Make Effective Presentations: Tips and Tricks to Make You Look Good

Various types of presentations will be discussed to help the attendee determine which type is most appropriate for the audience and topic.  Stages of developing presentations will focus on planning, preparation and use of support tools.  Things speakers do and use that make presentations more interesting, such as visual aids, humor, and group interactions will be discussed.

Instructor: Joy Shong (Application Support Services, Watertown Memorial Hospital, Watertown, Wisconsin).  1:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.  4 contact hours.  Cost: $75.00 ($90.00 nonmember)

Every day, new resources become available in electronic formats.  How does this impact traditional library collections?  In this course, you'll learn how to select and evaluate these resources, what policies should be in place, and examine some of the options for organizing and delivering electronic journals, databases, and Internet resources.  This workshop will include lecture, demonstration, and examples of selection aids and criteria, case studies on budgeting and cataloging of electronic resources, and discussion of the policy issues.

Instructor: Jane Pearlmutter  (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin).  8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.  4 contact hours.  Cost: $75.00  ($90.00 nonmember)

Looking for the latest developments in patient care but finding too much, too little or inadequate information?  This hands-on workshop is designed for librarians responsible for information services to the Nursing and Allied Health professions.  Participants will learn to use and evaluate web based health information resources, find online news services, continuing online education courses, and consumer health web sites.  Participants will also learn to search the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database using the PubMed interface.  The workshop will also cover MEDLINEplus, the National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer health information. 

Instructors: Tammy Mays (Consumer Health Coordinator, Greater Midwest Region, National Network of Libraries of Medicine) and Winn Theirl (Outreach Librarian, University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center Library).  8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.  4 contact hours.  $75.00 ($90.00 nonmember)

This new Continuing Education course has been added on Tuesday, October 9, 2001, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.  This CE is being offered by Ovid Technologies and the normal charge of $45.00 will be waived for this conference.

Four (4) MLA continuing education contact hours will be awarded.

To register for this course, send a message to Robert Koehler, rkoehler@meriter.com.  Registrations must be received by September 30, 2001.  Ovid reserves the right to cancel the course if less than eight people sign up to attend.

Instructor: Anne Gervais, Training Manager, Ovid Technologies, Inc.  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.  4 contact hours.  Free to conference registrants