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Libraries in Curriculum Special Interest Group Program

Jeanne Le Ber is the Education Services Librarian at the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah. Jeanne is responsible for coordinating the formal education efforts of the library in a team environment. She works with faculty from the Colleges of Health, Nursing and Pharmacy and the School of Medicine to identify, schedule and teach information literacy classes, with an emphasis on using electronic resources, applications and tools. In addition, Jeanne teaches a variety of short courses including PubMed, EndNote, PowerPoint, Photoshop, WebCT and full-text databases. Jeanne is the editor of the library's IAIMS Newsletter and she coordinates the Library and Information Technology Forum and annual InfoFair. When not working, Jeanne is an avid bird watcher and active member of Great Salt Lake Audubon.

Cathy Rhodes M.L.I.S, is Instructional Services Librarian at the Gibson D. Lewis Health Science Library, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. She received her master's degree in library science from the University of Texas at Austin, and has nine years' experience as a medical librarian. Previously she worked at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Library. Ms. Rhodes teaches classes in informatics, literature searching, and research to medical, physician assistant, and public health students and faculty. She was the principal investigator for the Alamo Area Medical Information project, funded by NLM during 2000-2001. She is also co-principal investigator for a 2004-5 Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce project, funded by the National Networks of Libraries of Medicine/South Central Region. She served as Secretary for the MLA/South Central Chapter for 2003-4, and is currently on the 2005 Program Committee. Ms. Rhodes is currently pursuing the master's degree in public health, concentrating in public health informatics.

Presenters and Presentation Abstracts:

Presenter: Katherine Alexander, MLS, AHIP, Katherine Alexander has been an Education Librarian at UT Southwestern Medical Center Library since August 2000. She teaches classes in library services and resources as well as performing intermediated searches for medical and allied health students and faculty. Ms. Alexander participated in teaching the evidence-based searching class for medical students along with other members of the Campus Outreach, Reference, and Education (CORE) team: Will Olmstadt, Laura Wilder, and Claudia DeShay.

Presentation abstract: Evidence-Based Searching in Undergraduate Internal Medicine Education
This presentation will examine the process of integrating an evidence-based searching class into the medical school curriculum at UT Southwestern. Networking and building relationships with key faculty are essential to success. The presentation is based on the paper Will Olmstadt, Education Librarian, UT Southwestern, presented at SCC/MLA, October 25, 2004: Evidence-Based Searching in Undergraduate Internal Medicine Education.

Presenter: Brynn Mays joined the Reference and Education Division of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library in June 2004. She is currently collaborating with medical school faculty to integrate informatics and evidence-based practice skills into the preclinical and clinical curricula. Prior to joining the UAMS Library, Brynn was Assistant Director for Education Services at Dahlgren Library, Georgetown University Medical Center. Brynn is a Fellow of the National Library of Medicine/Marine Biological Laboratory Medical Informatics course (Fall 2002). She received her Master of Science degree in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (1996), and her Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from Colorado State University (1992).

Presentation abstract: Faculty Development through Collaboration
Efforts to integrate informatics and evidence-based medicine skills into the curriculum can be stymied or short-lived in the absence of shared understanding and shared goals. Librarians need a working knowledge of curriculum structure, course objectives, and clinical settings. Similarly, faculty need a working knowledge of available information resources and associated technologies before they can successfully model their use or integrate them into their teaching. This presentation will encourage discussion of opportunities for faculty development through curriculum committee participation and collaborative teaching.

Presenter: Gail Persily, MLIS Director, Education and Public Services Associate Director, Center for Instructional Technology Library and Center for Knowledge Management University of California, San Francisco Gail has been at UCSF for 15 years, working primarily on integrating technology and informatics skills into the curriculum.

Presentation abstract: Getting A Foot in the Door
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is a health science campus with four professional schools ­ dentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy ­ and multiple graduate programs in the biomedical sciences. As the Library has worked to integrate informatics skills into the curricula in all of these areas, we have found that the culture and demographics of each school requires different approaches to getting our foot in the door. Sometimes we are fortunate to be part of a systematic approach to curriculum reform. Other times, we can leverage our technology skills to provide useful assistance and the curriculum development will follow. This presentation will discuss some of the strategies we tried, what has been effective, and ideas for new approaches in the future. Hopefully it will invite discussion from the larger group so that we can all learn from each other’s experiences in this area.

Presenter: Lisa Traditi, MLS, AHIP Lisa Traditi spent 9 years as a hospital librarian before coming to Denison Memorial Library at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC) in 1996. As Head of Education and the Learning Resources Center for Denison Memorial Library, Lisa leads a teaching team of 12 library staff and faculty. Lisa's ultimate goal is to fully integrate healthcare informatics and evidence-based practice into the curriculum of each of UCHSC's schools. She believes the best evidence based practice combines expert information, clinical experience, and patient preferences. In addition, Lisa is: The team leader for the librarian tutors at the Rocky Mountain Evidence-Based Healthcare Workshop, sponsored annually since 1999 by the UCHSC School of Medicine's Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics A member of the task force to thread Informatics and Evidence Based Medicine into the SOM Curriculum A Chapter contributor for Nursing Research Secrets, published in 2003 The coordinator and lead instructor for the General Internal Medicine Residency elective on Medical Informatics A 1999 Fellow of the Woods Hole Medical Informatics Program A distinguished member of the Medical Library Association's Academy of Health Information Professionals.

One of the largest living organisms in the world is an Aspen grove outside of Gunnison, Colorado. Aspen trees grow a unique root system that sends out shoots, spreading new growth in all directions around the original parent trees. The Education Department at Denison Memorial Library has created a unique network by going outside the library to meet with campus faculty and build connections among them to create an organic and repeating pattern of reciprocal benefits.

Traditional treatises on developing a Bibliographic Instruction program call for a systematic planning approach: Use the university's course catalog to identify courses in the curriculum where library instruction can best be inserted; contact the faculty of those courses; and ask for time. At Denison Memorial Library, instead of using this more traditional approach, networking has been the successful means to integrate the library into the curricula of the various schools on campus. By building constructive relationships with key faculty, regardless of the courses they teach, the library is well integrated into some curricula and has spread new prospects in hard to reach programs.