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Since graduating from UCLA's Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 1994, Scott Garrison has worked to apply technology within the health sciences library environment. As Assistant Head of Information Technology Services at the Duke University Medical Center Library, Scott was responsible for the technical aspects of DUMCL's Web-based digital library (http://www.mc.duke.edu/mclibrary/), which he began in 1995. He also had day-to-day responsibility for the Duke University Medical Center Website, and maintained a server that hosted approximately thirty DUMC departments, centers, offices, and other units. In his new role as Library Systems Operations Manager at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library, Scott oversees desktop, network, and server support, and digital library development efforts including UNCLE and the AHEC Digital Library (ADL). Among his latest interests is implementing a Dublin Core metabase to complement the online catalog (to eventually include object-level metadata from five North Carolina health science libraries). Scott has written about criteria for evaluating health information on the Internet, and has taught on digital libraries since 1998. His current digital library interests include metadata, database technology, and open source software such as Linux, Apache, and the MyLibrary@NC State digital library portal. He has a keen eye toward the challenges that hospital librarians face in creating digital libraries, and is happy to consult when called upon. In 1998, Scott took on another digital library teeming with promise: MLANET. As MLANET Editor, Scott works with MLA and its members to provide a communications medium to which the association may contribute and from which many different communities and constituencies may benefit. Tammy Mays received her MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1997. Prior to joining the Greater Midwest Region, Tammy was an Associate Fellow (1997-1998) at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. After completing the Associate Fellowship program, Tammy relocated to Wisconsin, where she was the Outreach Coordinator for two years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Health Sciences Libraries. Currently as the Consumer Health Coordinator, Tammy is responsible for building a consumer health program for the region by developing instructional materials, presenting and exhibiting at professional librarians' and health professionals' meetings. She also trains public librarians, consumers and health professionals to search NLM's consumer health products and services. Jane Pearlmutter, director of continuing education for the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Library and Information Studies, conducts frequent workshops and online courses on issues and applications of new information technology. She has trained hundreds of librarians and teachers on uses of Internet resources. Pearlmutter, who received her M.A. in Library Science from UW-Madison, was the 1999 President of the Wisconsin Library Association. Joy has a Masters education in Audio-Visual Communications, an undergraduate minor in Library Science, has a certificate in Computer Networking, and is currently completing an associate degree as a Microcomputer Specialist. She worked for 23 years as a Medical Librarian, and for the last three, has worked in the MIS department at Watertown Memorial Hospital. She is also an Internet Instructor at Madison Area Technical College, Watertown. Joy has developed and presented many training programs in use of computers, library resources, and the use of audiovisual tools in presentation. As a media specialist, she has created many AV support materials for speakers, educators, and her own use. She also trains hospital employees to use computers and a variety of application software including Power Point. Mari Stoddard is the Head of Educational Services at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library. In her current position, she organizes and provides institutional and state-wide instruction covering Internet skills, information retrieval, knowledge management, and telecommunications. She also provides curriculum-based instruction for information retrieval, management, evaluation, and dissemination. Mari has been a presenter at numerous conferences, most recently on the topic of Handhelds in the Health Science Library at the NCNMLG/MLGSCA Joint Meeting in San Francisco. Other organizations she has spoken to include the Medical Library Association, American Medical Informatics Association, and the Arizona Osteopathic Medicine Association. She has also written on the topic of PDAs in the Medical Reference Quarterly and MLA News. Winn Theirl is the Outreach Coordinator at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center Library. She received her MLIS from the University of Kentucky and has been with the Medical Center Library since 1983. Serving first as Head of Interlibrary Loan, Winn became the Library's Outreach Coordinator in 1996 and quickly developed a passion for the job. In this position she has organized and presented numerous instructional sessions to health care professionals located across the Commonwealth of Kentucky, including many to nurses. She has also been a frequent exhibitor at health-related meetings. Winn also serves as the content editor for HealthWeb: Rural Health.
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