Southern Chapter/MLA
54th Annual Meeting
October 21-25, 2004
Biloxi, Mississippi

"Up the Ante:
Connect, Collaborate, and Communicate"
 
Introduction Preliminary
Program		 Sessions, Papers,
Posters & Events		 Continuing
Education		 Exhibits &
Sponsors		 Hotel
Information		 Local
Attractions

General Sessions ~ Contributed Papers ~ Posters ~ Events

General Sessions

Biloxi General Sessions Will "Up The Ante"

Biloxi meeting general sessions will "Up The Ante" and give you valuable information to help you connect, collaborate, and communicate in the workplace.

Connect with your doctors, clinical faculty, and researchers by being aware of an ongoing study that will enhance our overall knowledge of cardiovascular health. At the opening general session on Saturday morning, our speaker will be Herman A. Taylor, Jr. MD, FACC, Professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Dr. Taylor is the Director and Principle Investigator of the Jackson Heart Study, a prospective epidemiological investigation of cardiovascular disease among African-Americans from the Jackson, Mississippi metropolitan area. The initial phase of the study, which hopes to include up to 6500 African-American men and women between the ages of 35 and 84 years, began in 2000. The study hopes to provide the kind of information for this population that the Framingham Heart Study in Massachusetts established for its participants.

Collaborate with your administrators and professional colleagues by advancing your networking skills. Networking is something we’re expected to know how to do. General session II speaker, Lynne Waymon, will teach us the hidden rules and tools for making contacts count. Be more strategic about finding valuable resources, steering small talk toward topics that matter, getting visible in your profession or community, making the most of your memberships, and attracting career and business opportunities. So, get up Sunday morning to hear Lynne Waymon’s interactive talk "Make Your Contacts Count: Networking Know-How". President of Waymon and Associates since 1983, Waymon is the author of books and tapes that help professionals grow their businesses and careers. She has received awards for her speaking finesse. Several copies of Waymon’s book, Make Your Contacts Count, will be given at the session as door prizes.

Communicate with your faculty, administrators, and user community about publishing issues that impact us daily. Southern Chapter is fortunate to have the editor of the Journal of the Medical Library Association, T. Scott Plutchak, as a member of our chapter. He is a speaker in demand, traveling to speaking engagements in Belfast and Maine prior to addressing the Chapter. Scott’s general session III topic, "Dealers’ Shuffle: Keeping Up With Trends In Scholarly Publishing", alludes to the fact that publishing is a moving target. As Associate Professor and Director of the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Scott held a Scholarly Publishing Seminar for his library faculty during the summer. He also organized the last CONBLS retreat featuring a publishing theme and presentations by two prominent association journal representatives. Scott’s editorials and other writings are always worth reading. Needless to say, he knows the topic well and we will benefit from his knowledge.

Sandra Franklin, Chair
Program Committee

Contributed Papers

Contributed Papers I

Session 1: Connecting With Constituents (Moderated by Jane Bridges)

Session 2: Collaborating with Colleagues (Moderated by Pat Higginbottom)

Contributed Papers II

Session 1: Technology Ups the Ante (Moderated by Rita Smith)

Session 2: Communicating Through Education, Marketing, and Publication (Moderated by Beth Layton)

Posters

Access Services Departments as PR for the Library and its Institution. Stephen Golanka, Gwen Jackson, Health Sciences Library, University of Tennessee, Memphis

Ace in The Hole: Using Virtual Reference Chat Transcripts to Improve Public Services. Clista Clanton, Geneva Bush Staggs, Baugh Biomedical Library, University of South Alabama

Communicating Differences and Similarities Among Teaching Librarians in Undergraduate Medical Education: Results Gathered From the Medical Literature Searching Skills Inventory. John J. Orriola, Shimberg Health Sciences Library, University of South Florida; JoLinda Thompson, Himmelfarb Library, George Washington University

Delivery of PDA Technology to Florida State University College of Medicine Affiliated Hospital Librarians: Training and Information Resource Evaluation. Barbara Shearer, Nadine Dexter, Suzanne Nagy, Medical Library, Florida State University

Enhanced Patient Access to Health Information Project. Carolyn Speros, DNSc, School of Nursing, University of Memphis; Brenda F. Green, Health Sciences Library, University of Tennessee, Memphis; Burt Waller, Pat Jameson, Christ Community Health Services, Inc.

From Theory to Practice: How School of Information Studies Classes Have Enhanced the Library Website at FSU College of Medicine by Applying Textbook Theory. Suzanne Nagy, Nadine Dexter, Barbara Shearer, Medical Library, Florida State University

Health Care Technology in Action: An Academic Health Sciences Library "Doubles Down" to Lead A Campus-Wide Collaboration. Tamera P. Lee, Kathy Davies, Kristy Stephens, Robert B. Greenblatt Library, Medical College of Georgia

Hit the Jackpot: Partner With Your Public Library and Community to Improve Health Information Access. Becky Hebert, Janice E. Kelly, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Southeastern/Atlantic Region

How We Hit the Jackpot: Growing Our Library Association Membership. Amy C. Gideon, Ackerman Learning Resource Center, Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesiology

Price History for Core Clinical Journals in Medicine and Nursing. Lynn M. Fortney, EBSCO Information Services

Professional Development on Your Lunch Hour. Nancy Schaefer, Pamela Sherwill-Navarro, Amy Buhler, University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries

Raising the Stakes: Preparing to Serve Expanded Audiences. Leslyn McNabb, Robert Swain, Becky Satterthwaite, Jocelyn Rankin, CDC Information Center, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Sister Libraries – Moving Forward. Ellen N. Sayed, Justin Robertson, Baugh Biomedical Library, University of South Alabama

Taking the Next Step Online: The 21st Century Book Sale. Michael Lindsay, Baugh Biomedical Library, University of South Alabama

Upping the Ante: Fostering Nursing Research Through Collaborations and Communications. Sue H. Felber, Terry L. Sylvanus, Cathy D. Meade, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

Web-Based Library Tutorials: Raising the Ante. Richard Nollan, Brenda F. Green, Lin Wu, Health Sciences Library, University of Tennessee, Memphis

Hospital Library Luncheon