JUNE MEETING
SUBMITTED BY GLENN PFLUM & CYNTHIA KIYOTAKE

"What is medical practice management all about?" Do you receive requests for information such as these: How do I distribute income among the physicians in my group? Should I join a PPMC? How do I form an MSO?

If these are among the puzzling questions you encounter, then the CCML June program can help you clear this up!

For June's presentation, the Medical Group Management Association will inform you of the services they offer and offer more information about their Library. Tours of the library will be available, as well. The program will be presented by Keith Chamberlain, VP Marketing Department, and Cynthia Kiyotake, Library Director.

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8TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDICAL LIBRARIANSHIP
SUBMITTED BY PAT NELSON

Many of you are already aware that the 8th International Congress on Medical Librar-ianship will be held July 2-5, 2000 in London at the Queen Elizabeth II Con-ference Center. The central theme of the Congress program is "Converge", and it looks at the way technology is bringing together librarianship, publishing, comput-ing, and networking; changing the way information is generated and communicated, and changing the demands made on us by the health workers we serve.

This meeting will combine the annual programs of the Health Libraries Group of the [British] Library Association, European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Congreso Panamericano de Informacion en Ciencias de la Salud, Conference of the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa, and the International Congress on Animal Health Information. A call for papers will be issued in late 1998.

Rick Forsman has copies of a brochure available which describes the meeting. It includes a sign up form to obtain more details. Information is also available on the Web at http://www.icml.org

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CCML MEETINGS CALENDAR - 1998/1999
SUBMITTED BY GLENN PFLUM

Members of CCML have been very responsive in offering to host meetings this year. The meetings will be held at the following places on the given dates.

June 24th	MGMA in Englewood
August 26th	The Childrens Hospital in Denver
October 28th	Longmont United Hospital in Longmont
December 9th	Swedish Medical Center in Englewood (tentative)
February 24th	V.A. Medical Center in Denver
April 28th	Annual Meeting at Regis University

Programs are pretty well set for all locations except for the Annual Meeting. If people have ideas for that program, please let me [Glenn Pflum] know.

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UPCOMING EVENTS
SUBMITTED BY KATE ELDER

Introduction to Windows 95
June 23, 1998 -- 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Plains & Peaks Regional Library Service System (PPRLSS)
Contact Reba Holmes (719) 473-3417 or (800) 332-7181

Introduction to Excel
June 24, 1998 -- 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
PPRLSS
Contact Reba Holmes (see above)

Advanced HTML
June 25, 1998 -- 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
PPRLSS
Contact Reba Holmes (see above)

Introduction to PageMaker
June 30, 1998 -- 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
PPRLSS
Contact Reba Holmes (see above)

Parapros: Building Bridges to the Future
August 7, 1998
Regis University
Jamie Larue will talk on the topic of Intell-ectual Freedom and the Internet. Peggy Jobe will present two Internet/Reference sessions plus an open lab. Mark Anderson will discuss government sources on the Internet. Pat Wagner will present three sessions.
Brought to you by Metro Area Parapros
Registration: Judy Holtus judyh@netman.ci.aurora.co.us

CLA - Colorado Library Association Annual Conference
October 15, 1998 - October 19, 1998
DoubleTree Hotel-World Arena,
Colorado Springs, CO
The annual conference of the Colorado Library Association provides training, exhibits and networking for all types of libraries. For more information: visit the web site at http://douglas.lib.co.us/cla98/

On the Web
TriPath, an Internet access network for member libraries and schools established in 1995 by the Three Rivers and Pathfinder Systems, provides the "TriPath Electronic Resources and Training Materials" at http://www.colosys.net/three/training.html Included are the Web Search Cheat Sheet and an Introduction to the Internet.

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MEMBERSHIP NEWS
SUBMITTED BY BARBARA L. WAGNER

A Different Kind of "Leads Group" The CCML Membership Committee

This is a great time of year to encourage colleagues to become CCML members, since they will receive a full year's worth of membership benefits (which are many).

So--whenever you think of someone who would benefit by becoming a member of CCML, please contact the member of this committee who lives nearest you and pass on the lead.

Members of the CCML Membership Committee

Martha Burroughs
martha.burroughs@uchsc.edu

Sue Coldren (database maintenance, labels & directory)
scoldren@cleveland.dfas.mil

Mary Kralicek
kralicek@uwyo.edu

Roma Marcum
roma_a_marcum@carson.smtplink.amedd.army.mil
[note change from Directory]

Carol McMurry
cmcmurry@netsavant.com

Carol Ann Smith (listserv coordinator)
carol.smith@state.co.us

Barbara L. Wagner (Chairperson)
blwagner@tap.com

CHANGES TO UPDATE THE 1998/99 MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY

For those of you who have not yet subscribed to the CCML Listserv (where these changes first appeared) here are the changes which members have made since the new Directory was printed.

Jenny Garcia

Roma Marcum

Bettye Snipe

WAGNER CHANGES ISP

If anyone sent me (or the listserv) any changes in membership information or inquiries during May via e-mail, I probably did not receive the information because I was in the process of switching ISPs and cutting-over my domain name. So please re-send this information to: blwagner@tap. com or leave a voice mail message at 303/274-5309.

SUBSCRIBING TO THE CCML LISTSERV

Here's how to subscribe:

1. send an e-mail message to: majordomo@lists.csn.net
2. subject line is not necessary
3. in the body of the message, type the following: subscribe ccml [your e-mail address]

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CCML MEMBER MAKES HEADLINES IN THE INQUIRER

MLA NEWS:

Lynne Fox's "Quality Filtering of Web Sites" MLA CE course made the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper during the MLA meeting. If you missed Lynne's "fifteen minutes of fame", you can read the article, titled "Throwing the book at faulty Web science", at:

http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/98/May/25/city/LIBR25.htm

Lynne reports that having a reporter from a major newspaper attend a class is a bit unnerving, but she survived the experience. She regrets not taking one of those "talking to the press" sessions she's passed up at previous conferences!

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COLORADO BOOK AWARD WINNERS, 1998

Fiction	Jane Valentine Barker MARI: A Novel
Nonfiction	David Macke & Rob Proctor Herbs in the Garden
Poetry	Carolyn Evans Campbell Tattooed Woman
Children	Will Hobbs Beardream
Young Adult	Will Hobbs Ghost Canoe
Biography	Richard Young The Ute Indians of Colorado in the 20th Century History
Ferril Award	Will Hobbs

(excerpted from Libnet, Tue, April 4, 1998)

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MUSINGS BY MAXWELL
SUBMITTED BY DICK MAXWELL (of course!)

A recent issue of the nursing newsletter here at Penrose Hospital took "creativity" as its theme. The underlying message in that choice is that we could all stand a little bit more. Well maybe not. The problem may not be a general lack of it, which is the belief that all of those self-help books (such as Tapping the Well of Your Inner Creative Child Who Could Use a Little More Discipline if You Ask Me) are trying to create, but an overabundance. Take a look around - not literally, of course - since you could be in any number of unpleasant places, but figuratively. Creativity, or its pale imitation, may very well be out of control.

Take the nursing profession, for example. The key word there, by the way, is "profession." The working academic definition of a profession describes a field of endeavor which includes a body of unique knowledge, and - to quote several "Seinfeld" characters - "yadda yadda." Tucked into all of that is the commandment that members of a profession engage in research. Well, to come up with a research project that (1) hasn't been done before (2) makes a least a little sense (3) can be completed in a single lifetime (4) will be accepted by someone, somewhere, can be quite a challenge to anyone's creativity.

This could explain some of the things that make it into print. In fact, it's mind-boggling to try to imagine the thousands of projects that don't get published after looking at some of the ones that do. There's a theory (cynicism? realism? there's a difference?) that virtually any research with even a molecule of substance and two or three readable sentences can find a publishing home in some journal. Even in times of economic difficulty for publishers, the number of journals out there on virtually any subject you might care to imagine is eye-popping.

Unfortunately, whatever real creativity is (it may have once meant something like painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or developing the Special Theory of Relativity), it now frequently never gets beyond creative language in a title, hoping to put a new face on a fairly threadbare body. For example, in a recent Nursing Administration Quarterly, there's an article entitled "The Nurse Executive: Leading Beyond Traditional Boundaries." Now that's a lot of good, reliable words. They're so good, in fact, that they can be rearranged almost at random (The Nurse: Traditional Leading Beyond Executive Boundaries) The astute, however, will recognize a euphemism that has been around in Girl and Boy Scouting for decades. What it really means is: "Oh my God! We left the trail and now we're hopelessly lost and I think I just heard a Grizzly."

A comment on just this sort of creative vagueness in article titles might have appeared in an article in Perceptual and Motor Skills, although it is a little hard to tell. Its title: "Assimilation Effect in Judging Grammaticality of Sentences Violating the Subjacency Condition." Now wait a minute. Maybe this title doesn't violate the "subjacency condition" (your comments are welcome), but it MUST violate something…how about the Antiobfuscation Rule. It's a felony.

Sometimes creativity can lead researchers into an area where their project is on thin ice from the very start. This is especially true if humans are to be the subjects. What you do to a gross of white rats in the privacy of your own lab is hard to trace, and you don't have to pay any attention to their complaining unless you're burdened by a conscience. But imagine the problem in completing the work on this one (which did get published, in Wilderness and Environmental Medicine): "Does Shivering Thermogenesis Enhance the Individual's Ability to Maintain Rectal Temperature During Immersion in Cold Water?" They probably had to use a lion tamer with a whip and a chair to hold back the crowds of potential volunteers.

Some are still creativity-deprived, of course. A little more thought would have helped this title in the Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing: "How Effectively Do You Function in a Cardiac Arrest?" The comment the average reader has to make, of course, is "that would depend on whether the arresting heart was mine or someone else's."

Many of us, when faced with some sort of challenge/opportunity/demand/project/threat, respond by saying: "I'm just not creative at all." Please. You underestimate yourself. Some things to keep in mind if you are one of those who claim a lack of creativity. (You'll note that the definition has broadened quite a bit over the centuries):