MLA Medical Informatics Section
Annual Report 2001-2002

Goal 1: Professional Development

The section is sponsoring two programs for the annual meeting:

1. A contributed paper session on Knowledge Management co-sponsored by the Technical Services, Medical Library Education, Electronic Media & Technology, and Medical Societies sections and the African-American Librarians Alliance SIG.
2. An invited speakers panel on Electronic Records Management, co-sponsored by History of the Health Sciences, Educational Media and Technology, and Technical Services sections.

We are also co-sponsoring a program led by the Hospital Libraries section called "PDAs and Pocket PCs: Uses and Issues."

With the Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG, we co-sponsored an electronic journal club on Bioinformatics.

Gail Persily, section chair, was asked by the Continuing Education Committee to serve as our section’s liaison to the Technology Continuing Education Credential Task Force. Persily contributed significantly to the work of that task force, which has resulted in a document recommending goals and scope of a Digital Library CE Credential.

Goal 2: Advocacy

The MIS/MLA Career Development Grant was awarded to two recipients this year:

• Mary Linn Bergstrom, Biomedical Library Education and Outreach Services, University of California-San Diego
• Marilyn Teolis, AHIP, Baptist Hospital, Nashville, TN.

Goal 3: Organization

One of our organizational goals is to involve new section members in the activities and committee work of the section:

• Martin Brennan has taken over the management of the section web site.
• Wallace McLendon is working with the membership committee.
• Sandi Parker is chairing our Bylaws committee.
• Zoë Stavri is our Professional Development liaison, and has also chaired this year’s nominating committee, which included Kellie Kaneshiro and Ruth Riley.

A successful election was held. Jean Sayre is our new chair-elect. We have also nominated Ruth Riley as our nominee to the MLA Nominating Committee.

Sandi Parker successfully completed the necessary bylaws revisions to reflect the changes in the Section Council Representative term. At our business meeting, the section will be voting to approve those changes.

Goal 6: Information Technology

We are working to find more ways to use technology to improve communication among section members and to inform MLA members about our activities. Wallace McLendon has recruited colleagues to develop a PDA-compatible version of our membership brochure. We will be able to beam the brochure to colleagues at the annual meeting.

Section Personnel: Martin Brennan, Web Site Editor
Elizabeth Connor, Section Council Representative
Karen Crowell, Consultant to Membership Committee
Diana Cunningham, Section Past Chair
Lynn Eades, Consultant to Membership Committee
Nunzia Giuse, Section Chair-Elect
Kellie Kaneshiro, Nominating Committee
Beth Layton, Secretary and Treasurer
Shawn Manning, Membership Committee Chair
Wallace McLendon, Membership Committee
Sandi Parker, Bylaws Committee Chair
Gail Persily, Section Chair
Ruth Riley, Nominating Committee
Nancy Roderer, Government Relations Committee Liaison
P. Zoë Stavri, Professional Development Liaison
P. Zoë Stavri, Nominating Committee Chair

Written by Gail Persily

Page Created 5/17/02, by Martin Brennan

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