CE Instructors

CE Instructors

CE 1. Show Me the Money: Grant Writing for Librarians (6 Contact Hours)

Evelyn Daniel is past Dean of the School of Library and Information Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. Currently a professor, Dr. Daniel teaches in two areas of information practice: management for information professionals and administration and instructional design for school libraries. She serves as Coordinator of the School Library Program and as Coordinator of Fieldwork for the School. Current research and development activities include a collaborative project with the NC Botanical Garden and the UNC Herbarium to create a virtual herbarium, a project to develop and coordinate a post-MLS online distance education program of courses leading to school library media certification. For the past eight years she has served as co-editor of the annual Library and Information Science Education Statistical Report and Database. She recently completed a speaking/consulting trip on marketing and public relations to the Moscow State University of International Relations and Irkutsk State University (Siberia). Dr. Daniel is active in a number of professional associations including ALA, SLA, ALISE (past president) and IFLA. She has written many successful grants (and a few unsuccessful ones).

Wallace McLendon, MLIS

CE 2. Planning for Library Technology (4 Contact Hours)

Wallace McLendon is currently the Associate Director of Library Services at UNC-Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library. Wallace has practiced librarianship in a hospital, held administrative positions in two academic health science libraries (University of Pennsylvania, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and served as Director of Information Systems in an AHEC. His accomplishments include being a recipient of a million dollar interactive videoconference grant to link 14 hospitals. He has managed IT networks and supervised a variety of IT staff. Over the past several years he has addressed PDA technology at planning meetings at state, regional, and national levels. Most recently he has made five presentations to UNC Faculty on the present state and future of scholarly communication.

Laurie Thompson, MLS and Harry Youtt, JD

CE 3. Licensing Electronic Resources (8 Contact Hours)

Laurie Thompson and Harry Youtt began teaching Licensing Electronic Resources in October 1997, in response to a need identified by the MLA Technical Services Section at the 1997 meeting in Seattle. Laurie L. Thompson is the Director of Libraries at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. In the past 7 years, Laurie and Harry have taught the course over 20 times, always receiving excellent evaluations by participants. The course has been taught at national meetings, including MLA and NASIG, regional MLA meetings across the country, and for various local library groups. Harry has had a long career as an intellectual property attorney, including work on behalf of the National Writers' Union on the Tasini vs. NY Times case and negotiations on UCC 2B/UCITA. Laurie has been negotiating licenses and contracts since they first started appearing in libraries.

Lisa Traditi, MLS, AHIP

CE 4. Teaching about Evidence Based Practice (6 Contact Hours)

After several years experience as a hospital librarian, Lisa Traditi joined the Denison Memorial Library staff in 1996, where she finally realized her dream of being paid to tell library patrons exactly where to go and what to do once they get there – in search of information, of course. As Head of Education for Denison Memorial Library, Lisa leads a teaching team of 12 library staff and faculty, inspiring them towards active adult learning techniques. Lisa serves as team leader for the librarian tutors at the Rocky Mountain Evidence-Based Healthcare Workshop, sponsored annually since 1999 by the University of Colorado’s School of Medicine’s Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics. She also chairs the task force to thread informatics and Evidence Based Medicine into the curriculum. Lisa has served as the coordinator and lead instructor for the General Internal Medicine Residency elective on Medical Informatics and attended the Woods Hole Medical Informatics Program in 1999.

Dale Prince, MA, MLS, AHIP and Sheila Snowcroft, MLIS

CE 5. Keeping Up-to-Date with NLM’s PubMed and Gateway (4 Contact Hours)

J. Dale Prince, MA, MLS, AHIP, is Technology Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Southeastern Atlantic Region located at the Human Services Library of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Dale provides internet and technology instruction to medical librarians and health professionals within the region, as well as training and outreach for a variety of National Library of Medicine programs and services. Mr. Prince has 14 years experience as an instructor and trainer and five years of experience as a medical librarian. He received his Master of Library Science from Indiana University, is a member of Beta Phi Mu and is a member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals.

Sheila L. Snow-Croft, MA, MLIS is Outreach and Education Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Southeastern Atlantic Region. She provides PubMed training and outreach services to medical librarians and health professionals in the Southeastern Region and has instruction, training, outreach education, and medical library experience. She received her Master of Library Studies from the University of Alabama

Beth Wescott, MLS and Addajane Wallace, MSLIS, AHIP

CE 6. Easy to Read Health and Wellness Materials for Consumers (4 Contact Hours)

Beth and Addajane have both been involved in consumer information. Beth has taught this course in four states to over 350 librarians, administrators and hospital/medical center staffs. Beth recently won the 2004 Institute for Healthcare Advancement Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Literacy in the category of Innovative Program. Addajane has been the librarian at Halifax Medical Center since 1989. Her interest in health literacy began with her experiences as a literacy tutor and coordinator of the hospital workplace literacy program. Addajane created a program to teach public librarians heath information skills and presented programs for the public as part of her NN/LM contract Electronic Access to Health Information for the Public. Addajane is the 2004 recipient of the Southern Chapter Hospital Librarian of the Year award.

Ann C. Weller, MA and Carol Scherrer, MLS

CE 7. Developing a New Role for Librarians: Teaching the Publication Process (4 Contact Hours)

Ann Weller with Carol Scherrer developed this course to promote a new role for librarians: Teaching the Publication Process. The course has been taught at the MLA annual meeting, for health sciences librarians attending MLA Chapter meetings, for academic librarians, including the University of Iowa and the University of Massachusetts. Instructors have also been invited to teach this course in their own institution: the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Ann Weller has served as collaborator with librarians striving for tenure and mentored library residents affiliated with the UIC Library Residency Program. At UIC, Ann has also been invited to teach the publication process for those interested in scientific writing in several health sciences classes, for medical staff and faculty, and as part of a series of one-hour lunch-time workshops. Carol Scherrer is Head of Information Services at the UIC Library of the Health Sciences.

Pat Wagner (Pattern Research, Inc.) MLA Challenge Leadership Seminar

CE 8. Manage Your Time, People, Money, Projects, Stress (6 Contact Hours)

The Southern Chapter of MLA announces a "leadership seminar" in conjunction with the Chapter’s continuing education program. Pat Wagner has been working with libraries since 1978 as a consultant and trainer. She is a LAMA/ALA regional trainer, an MLA CE trainer as well as a presenter for SOLINET and other regional library programs. She presents more than 130 programs each year on personnel, management, and leadership topics as well as coaching, consulting, and needs of innovators. She has a degree in liberal arts with a focus on performance and written communication, and has worked in theatre, publishing and radio–all workplaces with sticky deadlines. Pat is known for her good-humored and practical programs.

Note: The MLA Challenge Leadership Seminar will be held on Monday, October 25. All other CE opportunities are being scheduled on Friday, October 22.