MIDLINE
No. 96 | Summer 2004 Newsletter of the Midwest Chapter / Medical Library Association
In this issue President's Message Featured Article Add to Favorites: Freebies! MLA and Midwest Chapter News and Activities Springfield Facts Treasurer's Report New Member Profiles MLA Grant What’s happening: News and Announcements from around the Midwest Chapter Library Spotlight IMLS Grant State Meetings News Publication Information	President's Message By Melinda Orebaugh, Midwest Chapter President Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, La Crosse, WI mgorebau@gundluth.org Greetings Midwest Chapter Colleagues! Since my last communication with you, I had the distinct pleasure of attending a Health Science Librarians of Illinois Board Meeting in Springfield, Illinois, in June. Yes, Springfield, the location of our upcoming 2004 Midwest Chapter annual conference, October 9-12. I received a sneak peek of our upcoming conference and if you are planning to attend, you are in for a treat. If you have not yet decided to attend…allow me to entice you to travel down “The Road to Collaboration!”  Springfield -- home of Abraham Lincoln, a stop on historic Route 66, Illinois’ sprawling capital city situated amid corn and soybean fields. If driving, Springfield is easily accessible by interstate highway. I also found the city easy to navigate by car. Of course, an airport is available for those preferring airplanes. The Renaissance Hotel, our conference headquarters, is in the heart of Springfield’s historic district. I thought the hotel beautiful and reasonably priced; my room was nicely appointed, the staff very helpful and friendly, and room service was excellent. I also noted that Starbucks is just a few steps outside the hotel lobby. For several of us, the conference will begin on Friday, October 8th with the Midwest Chapter Board Meeting. The Board meeting begins at 1:00 p.m. and all Midwest Chapter members are welcome to attend. Saturday, October 9th, will be a busy day for conference attendees. Continuing education courses, tours of local attractions, hosted dinners and the Midwest Chapter President’s Reception round out the day. Personally, I plan to take part in the Springfield Highlights Tour on Saturday afternoon. The tour begins with a visit to Dana-Thomas House, an elaborately restored Frank Lloyd Wright prairie-style home. Next stop, the Museum of Funeral Customs, the “nation’s foremost museum showcasing the history of American funeral service, grief and mourning customs.” I wonder what they sell in the gift shop? (As some of you may know, I want to be a mortician in my next career.) Oak Ridge Cemetery, where Lincoln's Tomb is located, is the last stop on the tour. I am ready to enjoy an educational and fun afternoon in Springfield! And, don’t forget, the President’s Reception will be held in my suite following the hosted dinners. All are invited to attend and to have a relaxed, good time! On Sunday, our conference program begins, the exhibits open, and the Midwest Chapter business luncheon takes place. The plenary and concurrent sessions' topics are interesting and pertinent. On Sunday evening, don’t miss Ann M. Seidl’s presentation on the “Hollywood Librarian.” In her presentation, Ann uses a variety of film clips to explore library issues and how the American public has stereotypically perceived librarians. We begin Monday with breakfast and an MLA update delivered by Pat Thibodeau, MLA past president. (Pat shared with me at MLA in Washington, D.C. that she is excited about a return visit to our chapter meeting.) James Neal will deliver our keynote address. The Technology Forum and GMR/NLM updates are always a valuable addition to our conference and the “collaboration panel” speakers and topics are exceptional. As a very special treat on Monday afternoon, a free continuing education course, Evidence-based Nursing & Allied Health, presented by Ann Combs and Chris Hooper-Lane, will be available to all attendees! Incredible! This is a first for the Midwest Chapter, I believe.  And don’t forget the posters and contributed papers presented by your friends and fellow librarians. I find that the information shared via posters or presented papers is absolutely invaluable. I’m amazed at the innovative and creative ideas generated by our members. Our time in Springfield will conclude on Tuesday morning with continuing education courses. CE courses, and the entire conference schedule, are outlined on the 2004 Annual Conference website: http://midwestmla.org/2004conference/. Frankly, I’m having a difficult time deciding which continuing education course to take.  What an impressive conference program!  I extend kudos to Karen Douglas, Conference Coordinator, and members of the planning team for what promises to be an exciting, educational, and enjoyable conference.  Ready to travel “The Road to Collaboration?" See you in Springfield! Regards, Melinda

All Roads Lead to Springfield! Visit Illinois for the 2004 Midwest Chapter Conference

By Karen Douglas, 2004 Midwest Chapter Conference Coordinator
Passavant Area Hospital, Sibert Library, Jacksonville, IL
library@passavanthospital.com

Several remarkable Springfield, Illinois facts:

• Colonel Ephraim E. Ellsworth, of Springfield, was the first Union officer killed in the Civil War. It is believed that he was the first person in the US to be embalmed.

• In 1928, a chef at the Leland Hotel invented a recipe that is both culinary delight and cardiac nightmare.  The Horseshoe sandwich began as two hamburgers on two slices of toast, covered with cheddar cheese sauce buried beneath a mound of French fries.

• We have Abraham Lincoln to thank for the federal income tax, the military draft and Thanksgiving as a national holiday.

• Springfield’s Susan Lawrence Dana hired Frank Lloyd Wright to restructure her thirty-year-old brick home. His prairie-style remodel left only the sitting room in its original Victorian style. After her death, estate appraisers found safety deposit boxes of parrot feathers scattered throughout the country.

• Ed Waldmire, Jr. invented the corn dog in Springfield. It was first called the “crusty cur” and then became the CozyDog.

• Marble for Lincoln’s tomb came from France, Italy, Belgium, and Spain as well as Missouri, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Utah and Arkansas.

• The Midwest Chapter Annual Conference is in Springfield from October 9-12, 2004 at the Renaissance Hotel. Visit the web site at http://midwestmla.org/2004conference/.

• Take “The Road to Collaboration” this fall. Experience the unique sights, sounds and tastes of Springfield plus the added bonus of a rich Lincoln history and quirky Midwestern charm. Chocolate coffins, anyone?

Treasurer's Report

By Chris Shaffer, Midwest Chapter Treasurer
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
chris-shaffer@uiowa.edu

Chapter assets are $42,795.68 as of July 1, 2004. The budget, financial statement, ledger and accounts are available on the Chapter web site at http://midwestmla.org/business/treasurer/.

Add to Favorites: Freebies!

By Sandy Wicker, MIDLINE Contributor
 The Parker Medical Library, Grady Memorial Hospital/OhioHealth, Delaware, OH
swicker@gradyhospital.com

For small libraries with miniscule budgets (like mine!), the Internet offers many free sources for journal articles. I have compiled the following list of home pages and placed them in a notebook beside each of our public computers to assist my volunteer helpers and also to teach students and the public how to search the Net.

If I’m doing a general search on a specialty topic, I like to use either Medscape, (www.medscape.com) or eMedicine, (www.emedicine.com). Both have Resource Centers for the subject areas, online newsletters, CME information, and consumer health sections. Medscape also has a separate nursing section and provides a journal list: www.medscape.com/pages/public/publications.

I don’t have access to the large news databases, so I use www.findarticles.com and www.newslookup.com . FindArticles is powered by LookSmart and has 103 titles in the Health and Fitness section; these include both professional and consumer health.

Newslookup, from DataparkSearch, allows you to search for international news from the Internet, magazines, news agencies, newspapers, radio and TV news broadcasts. You can limit the region and sort by relevancy or date. This is especially helpful for my foreign-born doctors.

To check citation accuracy and to find free articles, I like to use PubMed (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/) and the single and batch citation matchers. The list of over 100 free journals is found at PubMed Central (www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov). This database is very helpful by listing the first and last issues that have been entered and also when the free access begins.

Before I order a journal article from DOCLINE, I check to see if it is on any of the lists in www.freemedicaljournals.com, www.biomedcentral.com/browse/journals/, or Highwire from Stanford University http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/allsites.dtl. All three sources tell you when the journals start providing free articles. BioMed Central will tell you which need a subscription and which offer free trials. Free Medical Journals has an international scope and offers the http://amedeo.com service, in which you create your own journal subset by the subjects you need most often and then receive a weekly update.

I hope you find these sources useful and if you have any favorites to share, please let me know!

New Member Profiles

By Mary Taylor, MIDLINE Contributor
Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
mtaylor@libsiu.edu

Leah Broaddus is the Adjunct Diversity Instruction Librarian at Parkland College, in Champaign, IL. She is responsible for developing and giving computer research courses/seminars in cooperation with community college faculty as well as providing general library reference. Her professional interests, which include electronic resources and advances in medical librarianship, were fostered during an internship at Community Hospital East in Indianapolis, IN, where she worked with “spectacular” Midwest Chapter/MLA members Sheila Hofstetter and Lauren Rider. They encouraged Leah to work on a medical libraries duplicate exchange database, http://libcopy.com/. Leah hopes the database “will help in efficiently coordinating redistribution of duplicate library materials between Midwest medical libraries.” Her personal interests include travel, languages, Cgi scripting, sewing, riddles, Perry Mason, and Chris Rock. She grew up in Constantine, MI. Leah received B.A. in General Studies in the Humanities in 1999 from the University of Chicago. She is an August 2003 graduate of the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science. She states, “For the last few years I've been living with my mother and my cat Keaton (Buster) and working part time in Indiana. On the side, I've been working with student organizations and cultural diversity programs at my alma mater, as well as developing Libcopy.com. This year I am beginning my first full time library position...and am incredibly excited about working in a community college environment. Wish me luck!”

Thea Chesley started, developed, and operates the Training and Resource Center of the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH TRC). Her official title is Library Director. Thea “served 14 years and 2 months, the equivalent of Murder One with good time,” overseeing approximately 39 libraries in 36 institutions in her former job as Coordinator of Library Services for the Illinois Department of Corrections. Her professional interests include cataloging. Thea has an undergraduate degree in English Literature and Creative Writing as well as a master’s degree from the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois in her hometown, Chicago. She is a 1986 graduate of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her personal interests and hobbies include writing poetry and fiction; she adds that she “would really like to do a comic strip.” Thea has been active (president in 2003-2004, newsletter editor, and treasurer) in the Illinois Central Blues Club. She has two cats. Thea adds: "The man in my life is a blues/jazz harmonica player (oh, and he has a day job, too...). So far I am the only Thea Chesley that Google finds on the Internet.”

Kaye L. Crampton provides health information to patients, their families, and the community as Consumer Health Librarian for three Resources Libraries that are part of the Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, WI. She loves her job because she is able to provide the public with “information that is interesting to me and appreciated by the patrons. I learn something new every day, and providing health information is a great way to support and promote lifelong learning.” Her professional interests include health literacy and serving the health information needs of diverse populations, and she would like “to explore collaborating with school media center librarians to promote health literacy among youth.” Her undergraduate degree was in Spanish, and before switching to librarianship, she had been a translator for Hispanic students. She also had worked in her local school district in community education. Kaye is a 2003 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies. Her personal hobbies and interests include recreational reading, bicycling, kayaking, dance, riding (horses), and equine health. She states: "I've had a lifelong love affair with horses, but when I decided to go to graduate school for librarianship, I had to live without any horses in my life for several years. I just recently purchased a horse, and so am rediscovering one of my very favorite ways to spend my time. My husband and I live on a small hobby farm in Dakota, Minnesota, across the river from La Crosse. Even though we have lived here for twelve years, we still feel very fortunate to live in a beautiful area where we routinely see eagles on the way to work!"

Mary Rixen is a librarian at the Q&R Medcenter One Health Sciences Library in her hometown of Bismarck, ND. Her main responsibilities include journals management, cataloging, and reference. She received an undergraduate degree in elementary education with minors in art and library science from the University of Great Falls, Great Falls, MT. Mary received her M.L.S. from Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA, in 2002. Her hobbies include quilting, painting, gardening, and fishing.

Estelle Hu is the medical librarian at the Health Science Library at Silver Cross Hospital. Her main responsibilities include literature searching, reference, maintaining online database access accounts and usage statistics, and customer training. Estelle's home town is Taipei, Taiwan. She received her M.L.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989, and has an undergraduate degree in English from National Chung Hsin University in Taiwan.
 

MLA News

2005 EBSCO/MLA Annual Meeting Grant

The EBSCO Annual Meeting Grant is sponsored by EBSCO Information Services and enables MLA members to attend the association's annual meeting. Each year awards up to $1,000 for travel and conference-related expenses will be given to four librarians who otherwise would be unable to attend the meeting. The application deadline is December 1, 2004. An application form and further information is available at http://mlanet.org/pdf/grants/ebsco_app_20030730.pdf or contact Lisa C. Fried at 312.419.9094 x28; e-mail: mlapd2@mlahq.org.

Library Spotlight: The New Ebling Library

By Sandra Phelps, Midwest Chapter Member
Ebling Library, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison IL
sphelps@library.wisc.edu

On June 21st, UW-Madison’s Ebling Library started business as the new campus health sciences library. After three weeks of final preparation, packing, moving, unpacking, shifting, arranging and settling in, the library staff heaved a collective sigh of relief that “WE’D DONE IT!”

Into a new library space of 50,000 square feet, we combined the physical collections and staffs of three libraries, which roughly translates to over 300,000 books, more than 8,000 print serial titles, something over 1,000,000 physical volumes, and approximately 60 FTEs including librarians, support staff, and student workers. Other Health Sciences Learning Center departments and services occupy the remaining 255,000 square feet of the building.

Throughout the library, we have a patron seating capacity of more than 350, with both lounge and table style seats, 33 public computer workstations scattered on both floors, five photocopy and e-mail scanning centers, sixteen group study rooms, and a fabulous view of Lake Mendota to the north.

Summer students are enthusiastically using the space and the services. Faculty, staff, and researchers are becoming familiar with the building and the library. We gave short daily tours at noon throughout July. During the week of September 12th, we will join the rest of the new building’s residents with Open House activities to welcome back those who were gone during the move, or are new to the campus.

Five new staff members joined us during our move and are now an experienced and hard working part of the Ebling team:

Rebecca J. Bailey, Information Architecture Librarian, originally came to us two years ago as a Library Intern for Access Services where she proved herself to be a most energetic and valuable staff member.

Linda A. Balsiger, Reference and User Services Coordinator, joined us from the UW-Madison’s College (Undergraduate) Library where she garnered much experience that will help Ebling promote and shape its public services.

Stephen M. Johnson, Distance Services and Outreach Librarian, arrived from the Mayo Clinic Health Information service where he provided research for Mayo’s health publications and training in electronic resources.

J. Patrick T. O’Toole, Document Delivery Coordinator, comes to us from the Oscar Mayer Foods Corporate Library here in Madison. Patrick delivered timely and accurate marketing information to the company.

Gregory J. Prickman, Historical Services Librarian, joins us from the Corporate Archives Department of SSM Health Care in St. Louis, MO where he was manager. One of Greg’s projects was amassing the organization’s historically significant and widely dispersed materials to create the foundation for an organization-wide digital collection.

IMLS Librarian Training Grant

By Chris Shaffer, Midwest Chapter Treasurer
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
chris-shaffer@uiowa.edu 

The University of Iowa Libraries and UI School of Library and Information Science have received a $392,347 grant that will help recruit and train university librarians serving the sciences and health sciences. The grant will be shared with libraries at Iowa State University and the University of Nebraska. Concurrent with their coursework, nine graduate students will be funded on assistantships at one of the three participating universities to work alongside experienced science and health science librarians. The project will draw from the knowledge and expertise of librarians as well as the unique environments at all three universities. Two of the students began working at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences in June 2004.

Anne Madura will be working at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, reporting to Chris Shaffer. Her first project will be working with the Information Commons Multimedia Production unit with Scott Fiddelke, Digital Media Project Manager. They will publish the Iowa Orthopaedic Journal (IOJ) in PubMed Central, an open archive. The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Department of Orthopaedics is the publisher of IOJ, a MEDLINE-indexed journal. The first stage of the project will be designing a methodology to publish current issues of IOJ in PubMed Central using an XML DTD. Initially, library staff will publish the journal in PubMed Central. Later, tools will be identified and/or developed to allow the Department of Orthopaedics to publish directly to PubMed Central without library intervention. The second stage will be publishing the backfiles, many of which are only available in print format.

Oliva Smith will be working at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, also reporting to Chris Shaffer. Her first project will be working with the Education unit with Kim Bloedel, Reference and Education Librarian. They will work with faculty from the College of Medicine to redesign library curriculum-integrated instruction programs in the Foundations of Clinical Practice (FCP), a six-semester series of courses in the M1-M3 years. The heart of FCP is case-based learning, with the cases being studied by the students in small-group sessions. Content and format will be completely redesigned, with library programs integrated into the course WebCT modules and curriculum database. We will experiment with online delivery of some content, using tools such as iLecture, developed by the Multimedia Production unit.

State Meetings

OHIO -- The Ohio Health Sciences Library Association will hold its Fall 2004 Meeting on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 at The Ohio State University Shisler Center in Wooster, OH. Eric Schnell, Head of Information Technology at the John A. Prior Health Sciences Library of The Ohio State University will present on DocMD. The afternoon session will consist of a panel discussion followed by a question and answer period. Panelists will include Lynda Hartel, Collection Development and Resource Management Librarian, Prior Health Sciences Library; Marlene Porter, Head of Information Services, Medical College of Ohio; and Tom Atwood, Director, Oliver Ocasek Regional Medical Information Center. For additional details and registration information, see the OHSLA website at http://www.ohslanet.org/events/announcement.html

MICHIGAN -- The Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association will hold its 31st Annual Education Conference at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Kalamazoo, MI on October 13-15, 2004. Cost for the full conference will be $250/members, $300/non-members. Day rates and CE-only rates also available.

The conference theme for MHSLA 2004 is “A Knowledge Kaleidoscope.” The keynote speaker will be Robert Berkman, discussing “50 Ways to Make Yourself Indispensable to Your Organization.” Conference sessions will include: PubMed Linkout, Archiving, Electronic Document Delivery Panel Discussion, Scholarly Communication in Libraries, New Models of Online Evidence-based Products at the Point of Care. Continuing education classes offered will be: Communicating with Physicians for Librarians, Overcoming Information Overload, and Running with the Squirrels: Providing Library Services to Hospital Administrators. A conference special event will be “Bagpipes, Belly Dancing and Boogie!” Attendees will enjoy a concert by the Kalamazoo Pipe Band and a dance performance by Joette Sawall, the founder of the West Michigan School of Middle Eastern Dance. The evening will culminate with a musical montage coordinated by DJ Plays, featuring songs with library-related lyrics.

Check our website for continuing developments: http://www.mhsla.org. For more information, contact Jennifer Barlow at jenniferbarlow@borgess.com  or 269-226-6875.

News from around Midwest Chapter

Hospital Libraries Section Honors Midwest Chapter Members

During its annual Business Meeting on May 24, 2004, the Hospital Libraries Section recognized the professional contributions of two Midwest Chapter Members. Midwest Chapter Technology Chair Barbarie Hill was recognized for technological innovation for her work on the development of the chapter website. MLA Chapter Council Representative Carole Gilbert was honored for her service as founding editor of the Journal of Hospital Librarianship. Congratulations!

Illinois Conference Scholarships

This year for the joint regional conference the HSLI (Health Science Librarians of Illinois) Board voted to award several additional scholarship stipends to its members and to students in LTA/MLS programs to provide financial assistance to those who do not have full institutional support.

The different types of scholarship stipends include: the Syed Maghrabi Scholarship, (conference registration & lodging), 2 Conference Registration Scholarships, 2 Continuing Education Course Scholarships, and 2 Student Conference Registration Scholarships.

Stipend application forms are available on the HSLI website at http://hsli.org.

Each scholarship winner is asked to write a short article about their conference experience for the next edition of the HSLI newsletter.

Illinois CLICKS!

Medical librarians in Illinois recently participated in Illinois CLICKS! http://www.illinoisclicks.org/  . (CLICKS! stands for Citizens' Library of Illinois - Comprehensive Knowledge Service.)  Funding for this project was a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library (ISL), a Division of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), under the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).

Illinois CLICKS! is an information website with quality internet resources, reviewed and selected by Illinois librarians, well-organized for easy access by all Illinois citizens.  Its benefits include: efficiency (responds to current budget challenges, extends quality internet resources to all libraries, avoids duplication of effort, benefits all citizens through contributions of many libraries), convenience (available all day, every day, to all citizens of Illinois, access many special collections and previously hidden one-of-a-kind collections as never before), and quality (provides quality resources, selected by Illinois librarians).

The first phase of Illinois CLICKS! would not have been possible without the 70+ librarians from academic, law, public, school, and medical libraries (10-12 medical librarians participated on 27 topics) who volunteered their time, talent, and resources.

LSTA Patient Education Grant

In October, 2003, the OSF Saint Francis Medical Center Library & Resource Center was awarded a $60,000 LSTA grant from the Illinois State Library for the "Partnering for Patient Education" project. With this grant, the Library will be working collaboratively with Patient Care Services and Education & Development to redesign the patient education process, as well as pilot the use of Tablet PCs and interactive tutorials on eight nursing units. The grant website is http://patiented.osfsaintfrancis.org. Elements of the project include using the Library's catalog to create a centralized database of patient education materials, developing a website for online access to resources, creating educational tutorials that will be available through HealthStream, and promoting the use of the tutorials as an alternative format to print. While the grant project ends June 30, 2004, the Library's involvement continues with ongoing development of the catalog, website, and piloting of the Tablet PCs.

Iowa Librarian Retires

Judy Madson, a thirty year librarian at Mercy Medical Center--North Iowa, Mason City, Iowa, retired effective June 16, 2004. Judy served the Midwest Chapter as Program Coordinator well as serving on the Program Committee for the 1984 Annual Conference and as a member of the Membership Committee.

Logan Ludwig Receives HeSCA Award

The Health and Science Communications Association’s (HeSCA) most prestigious award, The Golden Raster, was presented to Midwest Chapter officer Logan Ludwig, Ph.D., during the association’s annual meeting in June. The Golden Raster Award serves to acknowledge individuals who have provided both distinguished serve to HeSCA through imaginative and unwavering leadership, as well as distinguished achievement within the profession through noteworthy contributions to the field of health sciences informatics and instructional technology. Congratulations!

MIDLINE is published in electronic format four times a year by the Midwest Chapter/Medical Library Association. The newsletter and archives are available at http://midwestmla.org/midline/. Statements and positions expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily represent the official positions of the Chapter, the Chapter Board, or the Editor. Contributions from all Chapter members are welcomed and encouraged. Copy deadlines for coming issues are as follows:

Issue	Copy Deadline	Posting Date
Fall	October 15	November 15
Winter	January 15	February 15
Spring	April 15	May 15
Summer	July 15	August 15

Contributions may be edited for brevity, clarity, or conformance to style. The Medical Library Association Style Manual, available at http://mlanet.org/publications/style, provides guidelines for MIDLINE contributors. All copy should be submitted in electronic format to the editor, Clare Leibfarth (e-mail: LEIBFARTH@exchange.oucom.ohiou.edu). Photos should be submitted as .jpeg files.