At MLA ’12, the Leadership and Management Section(LMS) is sponsoring or cosponsoring the following programs.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
12:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Symposium: Managing and Revitalizing Your Career as a Medical Librarian
Registration fee required.
Cosponsored by the Hospital Libraries Section, LMS and Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc.
Speakers and panelists include: Heather Krasna; Elizabeth Atcheson; Joyce E.B. Backus; Tania Bardyn, AHIP; Colleen Cuddy, AHIP; Katherine R. Stemmer Frumento, AHIP; Charles J. Greenberg, AHIP; Pat Hawthorne; and Lorri Zipperer.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM – WSCC, Room 615/616, Level Six
Time for a Game Change: Growing Opportunities to Reinvent Our Roles
Sponsored by the Federal Libraries Section; cosponsored by Medical Library Education Section, LMS, Veterinary Medical Libraries Section, Retired Librarians SIG, and Informationist SIG
Moderator: I. Diane G. Cooper, AHIP, Informationist, NIH Library, Office of Research Services, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Beyond Sabermetrics: Building a Framework for Long-Term Problem Solving Using Soft Systems Methodology
Robert E. Johnson
Hitting a Grand Slam: The State of the Art in Library-Based Bioinformatics Support
Michele Tennant, AHIP, Mary Edwards, AHIP, Rolando Garcia-Milian, and Hannah F. Norton, AHIP
Data Management Planning: A Role for the Embedded Librarian
Susan M. McGuinness
Expanding the Definition of Research Support: Nontraditional Roles for Librarians in Biomedical Research
Betsy Rolland and Emily J. Glenn
Monday, May 21, 2012
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM – WSCC, Room 619/620, Level Six
Smells Like Team Spirit: Partnerships to Move Your Library Forward
Sponsored by the Leadership and Management Section; cosponsored by Cancer Librarians Section, Institutional Animal Care and Use SIG, andVeterinary Medical Libraries Section
Moderator: Teresa L. Knott, AHIP, Cochair, 2012 National Program Committee, Director, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, and Associate University Librarian, Virginia Commonwealth University–Richmond
Mentoring for Collaboration: More than Just Knowledge Skills
Rachel R. Walden and Nunzia B. Giuse, AHIP, FMLA
Collaborations and Partnerships: We Accomplish Much More When We Work Together [video]
Andrea Lynch
Essential Skills for Biomedical Librarians Engaging in Cross-disciplinary, Multi-institutional Team Projects: Experiences from the VIVO Collaboration
Rolando Garcia-Milian, Hannah F. Norton, AHIP, Beth Auten, AHIP, Valrie Davis, Kristi Holmes, Margeaux Johnson, and Michele Tennant, AHIP
Moving Forward Together: Two Game-Changing Collaborations [video]
Barbara Rochen Renner
Dealing with Data: Partnering to Support E-Science and Data Management on Campus
Andrea S. Horne, Bart Ragon, Andrew Sallans, and Sherry Lake
Smells Like Team Spirit: MedlinePLUS Videos for Patient Education, A Partnership Between the University of Texas Health Sciences Center Libraries and CareLink, University Health System [video]
Pegeen Anne Seger
Double Play Staffing Model: Partnering to Serve Dual Needs
Sarah Fletcher Harper and Ruth Riley, AHIP
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM – WSCC, Room 606/607, Level Six
Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? Turning Losses into Opportunities
Sponsored by the Leadership and Management Section; cosponsored by Medical Library Education and Veterinary Medical Libraries Section
Moderator: Paula G. Raimondo, AHIP, Head, Liaison and Outreach Services, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland–Baltimore
Shortstop to First to Third: Collaborating to Access Digital Collections for Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BNLP) Research
Lynne M. Fox, AHIP, Leslie Williams, Christophe Roeder, and Lawrence Hunter
Keep Calm and Carry on: The Perilous Process of Finding and Implementing a Federated Search Tool
Ann Glusker, AHIP, and Elisa Hoelscher
Before We Change the Game: The Sense-MakingPractices of Hospital Librarians
Carol L. Perryman
Working through a Slump with Retraining and a Clear Game Plan
T. Derek Halling
Around the Horn: How the University of Florida Successfully Fielded a Team that Integrates Health Sciences and University Libraries
Michele Tennant, AHIP, Cecilia E. Botero, and Brian W. Keith
LMS membership dues support programming at the annual meeting. This year, funds were committed to underwrite the cost of the Managing and Revitalizing Your Career as a Medical Librarian symposium. The Smells Like Team Spirit program features videos from partners discussing the importance of their relationship with health sciences librarians.
Please join us!
