The Gundersen Lutheran Library and Health Information Services department was awarded the 2008 Jean Williams Sayre Innovation Award for their work on the GLine Database of Publications and Research. Mary Jo Boland accepted the award during the Midwest Chapter Annual Business Meeting in Troy, Michigan, on October 20, 2008.
The GLine Database is a database of research and publications by Gundersen Lutheran staff and is available on the Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Research page. The database is searchable by author, descriptor, journal, and keyword. Search results can be sorted by title, publication year, publication type, and many other options. The database allows the easy creation and printing of reference lists or bibliographies.
The Jean Williams Sayre Innovation Award was established by the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association to honor individuals, groups, or libraries that have displayed creativity and/or problem solving skills that have resulted in innovative methods, projects, products, organizational enhancements, or publications in the field of health information management. It was named in memory of Jean Williams Sayre, past director of the University of Iowa Hardin Library of the Health Sciences.
Work on the GLine project began in early 2007. The following Gundersen Lutheran personnel were on the GLine committee: Melinda Orebaugh, Mary Jo Boland, Jayne Laylan, Deborah Brostrom, Dawn Steffes, Ana Schaper, Kyle Harper, Angela Kuhn, and Cathie L. Fischer.
For more information about the database, please contact Mary Jo Boland, (608) 775-1186, or (800) 362-9567 x51186. A training manual was created for this project, and is available upon request.