BACK, BY POPULAR DEMAND!

MEDICAL INFORMATICS SECTION DELIVERS TOP TECHNOLOGY TRENDS II:
BRIDGE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW

Monday, May 19, 2008, 10:30 AM - 12 noon
Room Columbus KL, Hyatt Regency, Chicago
(Please check the on-site schedule in the event of any room changes)

At last year's Medical Library Association meeting, members of the standing-room-only audience for the Medical Informatics Section invited panel on Top Technology Trends used audience response system devices to signal what they wanted overwhelmingly at this year's meeting: MORE. So the Medical Informatics Section and their co-sponsors, the Educational Media Technologies Section, have done just that: come up with a sequel to top last year's event.

This year's panel has even more technology trend spotters in health sciences libraries to offer their latest insights, opinions and criticisms on where technology is leading us next. This energetic and sometimes irreverent panel discussion will be accompanied by a Google Jockey surfing the Web and highlighting mentioned trends on the main screen. Want to jump into the mix? The session will have audience participation in our lively question and answer time as well as an opportunity to give feedback on the trends presented through an audience response system.

Returning participants are:

Panel moderator Susan Lessick,
Head, Grunigen Medical Library, University of California, Irvine

Google Jockey Rikke Ogawa,
Emergent Technologies Coordinator, University of California, Los Angeles Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library;

Panelists:
Wallace McLendon
Director, University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries, Gainesville

Bart Ragon
Associate Director for Library Technology Services and Development, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia

Eric Schnell
Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Prior Health Sciences Library, The Ohio State University, Columbus.

Additions to this year's panel are:
Gabriel Rios
Deputy Director, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Lister Hill Library

Michelle Kraft
Senior Medical Librarian, Cleveland Clinic Alumni Library

Sadie Honey
Information & Web Services Librarian, University of California, San Francisco Library & Center for Knowledge Management.

Topics to be covered, among others, will include:

• Hospital 2.0, personal health record, including Google initiative and local hospital developments
  
  
• Next-generation interfaces, specifically moving from mouse/click to touch/feel screens; visualization
  
  
• Learning Management Systems (Angel, Moodle, Sakai, Sumtotal, etc.)
  
  
• iPhone revolution (touch factor, etc.); spawning other mobile devices such as Instinct and Google phone; open cell phones
  
  
• Applications, gadgets & Widgets in Fackbook & iGoogle; extending content through RSS feeds; QR codes

Please visit the 2008 Top Technology Trends for Medical Libraries Web site for details!

MEDICAL INFORMATICS SECTION CONTRIBUTED PAPERS SESSION:
TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING
Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 2-3:30 PM
Regency Ballroom A
(Please check the on-site schedule in the event of any room changes)

The Medical Informatics Section and its co-sponsors, the Educational Media Technologies Section and the Corporate Information Services Section, are offering a contributed papers session on Technologies in Teaching. Our presenters are bridging traditional learning methods and virtual environments to enhance education in a variety of settings.

Jaime Friel Blanck, Liaison & Outreach Services Librarian, University of Maryland, Baltimore. Examining the Connections: Uses of Emerging Technologies for Web-Based Instruction

Feili Tu, Assistant Professor, School of Library & Information Science, University of South Carolina. Connecting Library and Information Science Education with the Virtual World

Alan T. Williams, Education Services Librarian, Research and Education Virginia Commonwealth University. Wimba Live Classroom: Virtual Connections

Josephine P.G. Tan, Education and Information Consultant, Clinical Sciences, UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management. How Online Tutorials, Podcasts, and Blogs Transformed Librarians into Virtual Teachers

MEDICAL INFORMATICS SESSION BUSINESS MEETING
Monday, May 19, 7-9 AM, Water Tower, Hyatt Regency, Chicago
(Please check the on-site schedule in the event of any room changes)

Join your Medical Informatics Section colleagues in reviewing our accomplishments this year, and planning for next year; all are welcome. Continental breakfast will be served.

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