2007 Annual MLA Conference Programs
Sponsored by the Medical Informatics Section

See also: Contributed Papers | Posters

Top Technology Trends: Where is the Revolution Leading Us Next?
Invited Speaker/Panel Session (Monday afternoon from 3:00 - 4:30)

2007 Top Technology Trends for Medical Libraries

Have you ever felt caught off guard by a new technology? Have you ever felt like you're behind the times and want to be more up to date? Did you ever wish that you had known about an emerging technology before your patrons did? Then this is the session for you! From the ranks of health sciences libraries, technology trend spotters will offer their insights, opinions, and criticisms on where technology is leading us next. This lively, informal, and possibly irreverent panel discussion will include plenty of time for questions from the audience, as well as a wrap up with advice on how we can co-opt technology to use it to our advantage.

Moderator:
Susan Lessick
Panelists:
Sadie Honey
Wallace McLendon
Bart Ragon
Eric Schnell
Eileen Stanley
Google Jockey:
Rikke Ogawa

Bios:

• Sadie Honey was drawn to a career in health sciences librarianship because of the opportunities to improve health care through integrated access to high quality information. She joined the University of California, San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Management as Information and Web Services Librarian in 2005. In this role Sadie has been instrumental in leading projects that put information at the point of use, where it will make the greatest difference.
  
  Before completing her MLIS, Sadie worked for ten years in all phases of web application planning, development, and maintenance. Her experience includes user interface design, database design, application engineering, system administration, and management.
  
  
• Wallace McLendon has practiced librarianship in a hospital library, served as an Associate Director at the University of Pennsylvania Biomedical Library and now serves as the Deputy Director at UNC's Health Sciences Library. He's been educated a couple of times at UNC-Chapel Hill and pursued doctoral work at Drexel - until he - or should I say his wife -- had twins and nothing has ever been the same since.
  
  Over the past several years he has published in the area of digital libraries and collaboration centers, has spoken and taught in the areas of managing emerging technologies, and teaches MLA's CE course on Technology Planning. Wallace has served on institutional and data repository committees on the UNC campus and on consortial committees that include Duke, NC State and Chapel Hill. Wallace is currently writing a book on technology planning for libraries by invitation of the MLA Book Panel & Neal-Schuman.
  
  
• Rikki Ogawa Born and raised in Calfornia, Rikke Ogawa spent the first 8 years of her library career in the Silicon Valley making friends and talking shop with dot-com geeks. She joined UCLA in December of 2006 as the Emergent Technologies Coordinator at UCLA's Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. Working with a variety of people in the UCLA community, she is focused on applying technology trends to enhance library services on a local and campus-wide level. Before UCLA, her library career path included time in web development, information literacy, research on medical students' use of PDAs, managing and integrating technology in classroom spaces and blogging in the library. Rikke is incoming Chair-Elect for the Educational Media & Technologies Section.
  
  
• Bart Ragon hails from the great state of South Carolina. For the past 6 years he has worked in health sciences libraries as a Webmaster and IT director. Currently he works at the University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library as the Assistant Director of Library Technology Services and Development.
  
  Bart rarely has the time to become an expert in any one field or technology. Instead he spends him time doing IT project management and facilitating connections between the library and UVa's health system computing, main computing branch, and third party vendors. His has written articles on XML and podcasting as well as presented posters and papers on technology project planning, podcasting, instruction use of multimedia applications, and the development of an electronic course registration application.
  
  
• Eric Schnell is an Associate Professor and Head of Information Technology at the Prior Health Sciences Library at The Ohio State University. He has published extensively and presented internationally in the area of technology and libraries. His blog, The Medium is the Message (http://ericschnell.blogspot.com), covers a variety of topics relating to libraries and technology.
  
  Eric has been involved with two projects which have won MLA's ISI/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award and was named one of Library Journal's "Movers and Shakers" in 2005. He was an NLM Medical Informatics Fellow (Woods Hole, MA) in 2003. He is an open source advocate and has taught the topic online for The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science.
  
  
• Eileen Stanley is director of Library Services at Allina Hospitals & Clinics in Minnesota. She is actively involved in the integration and use of knowledge resources in the EMR (Epic). In the past she was a fellow at the Center for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, hospital library manager in Louisiana and presented a paper on future technologies for the HLS Technology Forum at MLA in 1999. Recently she served on the NLM Long Range Planning Panel, 'Support for Clinical and Public Health Systems of the 21st Century'.

Revolutionizing Discovery through Text Mining
Invited Speaker Session (Monday May 21st 10:30 -noon)
Co-sponsored by Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG

Natural language processing and knowledge discovery for the health and biological sciences: "Ask not what text mining can do for you…."

Text mining holds considerable promise for addressing problems currently being faced by a wide variety of health and biomedical professionals, ranging from bench scientists and model organism database curators to medical librarians and practicing clinicians. This presentation will describe the current state of the art in language processing technologies and automated knowledge discovery, beginning with a definition of the field and related disciplines, including text mining, data mining, natural language processing, information retrieval, knowledge discovery, and hypothesis evaluation. We will discuss what current systems are capable of, show how to recognize hype, and estimate what will be possible ten years from now. A basic background in how text mining works will be provided, including the two major types of approaches-rule-based, and statistical-and their strong and weak points, as well as what makes any text mining approach fail. Finally, there will be a description of the currently hot research topics in a representative active research group, and several examples of how medical librarians can participate meaningfully in the development of the field.

Invited speaker:
K. B. Cohen
Biomedical Text Mining Group Lead
Center for Computational Pharmacology
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

1,776 Uses for Technologies
MIS is co-sponsoring a contributed paper session with the Educational
Media and Technology Section (primary sponsor) and the Public Services
Section (Tuesday May 22nd: 3:00-4:30)

DESCRIPTION: As new technologies continue to permeate our digital
lives,the impact on the library environment has resulted in both
opportunities and challenges for library operations and services.
New technologies create an environment that does not require users to physically come to the library to fulfill their information needs. IM, blogs & RSS,
wikis,podcasting, and other technologies can help us virtually connect
with our users. However, using these same technologies may require a
"revolution" in librarian practice and user training.

The MIS Business Meeting will be a breakfast meeting on Tuesday, May 22nd from 7:00 - 9:00am.

Contributed Papers:

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Sunday May 20, 2007 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Hannigan, GG. The Patient as Expert: Revolutionary Changes in Medical Decision-Making

Monday, May 21, 2007 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Patrick S, Workman E, Digre K. Unique Collaboration Uses Consumer Health Gateway and Go Local Resources to Produce Statewide Women's Health Resources Directory

Monday, May 21, 2007 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Butter K, Schmidt H. Creating and Academic 'Home' for Clinical & Translational Research: Library Roles

Honey SL, Randell J, Kleinberg L, Kochi JK. Tracking Usage of a Library's Browser Based Toolbars

Posters:

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Sunday, May 20, 2007 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Honey, SL, Randell J, Kleinberg L, Kochi JK. Putting Library Resources on our Users' Desktops

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Marlow C. Using Social Networking Tools to Educate Today's Youth in the Field of Health Sciences Librarianship: The MySpace Project #14

Ryan JL, Auflick P, Frieburger G. A Tribal Librarians' Health Information Conference #26

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Shipman J, Funk C. Health Information Literacy Research Project: Overview and Accomplishments to Date

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