J. John Cohen, Ph.D., MD, will present a fascinating program entitled "Murder and Suicide in the Immune System," at the December 8th CCML meeting. For this program, this professor of immunology and medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center will discuss the latest developments in immunology.
During the past three decades, Dr. Cohen has received numerous awards, many for teaching. These include being named a CU President's Teaching Scholar, Medical School Teacher of the Year for several years, Kaiser Permanente Award for best basic sciences teacher and the Joseph W. St. Geme Jr., MD, Award.
In addition to teaching students, Dr. Cohen also has taught many people in the community. Along with the Office of Public Relations staff, he created the now nationally acclaimed Mini Medical School in 1988. Mini Med is an eight-week series of lectures, presented by CU-Health Sciences Center faculty, which give a lay person's overview of the first year of medical school. Since its inception, nearly 3,000 students have "graduated." Dr. Cohen also has been actively involved with the UCHSC "Frontiers of Medical Science" program and the local radio show, "University HealthTalk."
Dr. Cohen will present at 9:30 in the Humphreys Lounge, Denison Memorial Library, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, Denver, Colorado.
Peter J. Marshall, director of the ergonomics program for the Department of Risk Management at CU Boulder, will demonstrate the ergonomically correct way to work at your PC at the our next meeting, Wednesday, December 8th, in the Humphreys Lounge in Denison Library. His program will be given at 8:00 a.m. and will feature a workstation mockup providing attendees and opportunity to see how they should properly "fit in" to their work environment.
Peter has a Masters in Kinesiology from CU Boulder and a background in corporate health, wellness and rehabilitation programs. He has been running the Boulder campus ergonomics program for six years. Don't miss this chance to learn how to avoid back pain, eyestrain and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!
Stereotype-bustin' librarians have a special website maintained by Eris Weaver, a northern California medical librarian.
Visit her Bellydancing Librarian page at: http://www.wco.com/~eris/bdlib.html
Considering the number of libraries that have been involved in large and small emergencies or disasters in the past year, this seems to be a timely subject. Several people have offered to write plans for CCML's upcoming emergency preparedness guidelines. Others have offered their plans or material to be used by the committee. If you would like to write a plan or have something you think may be useful, or would like to see another topic added, please contact Jenny Garcia at (303) 450-3568 or send via the courier to NSMC Thornton.
The following topics will be included:
In September, the Grand Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center won the prestigious Robert W. Carey Quality Award. Based on the Baldridge National Quality Awards program, the annual Carey Award recognizes one VA facility or program that best incorporates quality management in carrying out its mission of service to veterans.
The application process included submitting a fifty page written application complete with many tables, charts and graphs. A team of four employees deemed the "sweat team" spent four months gathering data and writing the application. The library aided in proofreading the final draft of the grant application for content and flow.
As finalists for the award, Grand Junction received a site visit in June so those judges would have first-hand knowledge of our quality initiatives and improvements. As a benefit to us, our medical center then received a list of ten recommendations for ways that we could further improve our quality efforts. We are in the process of implementing these recommendations now.
At the award ceremonies held in Washington, D.C., judges recognized Grand Junction for its pioneering work in developing VA's primary care methodology based on creating a virtual circle of care around each veteran. Our primary care model makes us a leader in customer service standards and customer satisfaction according to the panel of judges.
Best practices cited include National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic; Patient Education Process Action Team which includes a veteran as a member; our Ergonomics/Healthy Back Program; an Evening Clinic Pilot; Anonymous E-Mail Suggestion Program; and a successful and innovative Volunteer Program.
The CE Committee is pursuing three CE classes for our membership this year. Two classes - "The New DOCLINE" with Beth Carlin and "QuickDOC" with Jay Daly - have been postponed until the new DOCLINE is actually implemented! NLM has announced a mid-February date, but this too could slip. So stay tuned.
The third class is a full day course, "Managing Multiple Priorities," from Mountain States Employers' Council which we're hoping to schedule in late January or February. 2000 will be a CE-rich year for us, with CCML-sponsored classes the first half of the year and 4-6 classes during the MCMLA meeting in September!
Check the Library Continuing Education Calendar at http://cedb.aclin.org for other Colorado events as well as BCR courses.
January 2000
SLA Professional Learning Conference
Knowledge Management for the Information Professional
January 23-25, 2000, St. Louis, MO
Contact SLA at 202-939-3679 or http://www.sla.org/professional/index.html
ALA Midwinter Meeting
January 14-19, 2000, San Antonio, TX
Contact ALA at 800-545-2433 or http://www.ala.org
April 2000
AIIP-Association of Independent Information Professionals Annual Conference
Capital Gains: Investing Now for Future Growth
April 6-9, 2000, Washington, DC
Contact AIIP at 414-766-0421 or http://www.aiip.org/aiipconf.html
31st Annual Colorado Interlibrary Loan Conference
April 27-28, 2000, Denver Public Library
Contact Franca Rosen at 303-275-2223 or frosen@jefferson.lib.co.us
The January 14th, 2000 CCML Executive Committee Meeting will be held at the Denison Library Conference Room at 11 am.
Jerry Carlson has been nominated to run for CCML President-Elect for 2000-2001. Jerry has submitted a biography, so that CCML members can evaluate his experience and qualifications before the election of officers:
"Jerry Carlson has been the Medical Librarian for Poudre Valley Hospital since March, 1989, following his graduation from the University of Illinois with a M.S. in Library and Information Science and a stint as volunteer librarian for the VA Medical Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Before his library career began, he studied pharmacy and biochemistry and worked for two years in biomedical laboratory research.
As Medical Librarian, Jerry provides the information needed for patient care, administration, and continuing education. Jerry's duties include providing reference service, online searching, interlibrary loan, and keeping the Library's collections up-to-date and appropriate to the hospital's needs. He has carried out a number of special projects to expand the Library's resources and services.
In 1992 he established a Patient Education Collection and negotiated an agreement with the Fort Collins Public Library to allow their patrons to borrow from this collection. In 1993, he helped to establish a Children's Resource collection.
Jerry is an active member of the Medical Library Association, its Hospital Library and Consumer and Patient Health Information Sections, and its Mid-Continental Chapter (MCMLA); the Northeastern Colorado and Wyoming Special Librarians; and the Colorado Council of Medical Librarians (CCML). He has served a term CCML treasurer and on the Library Cooperation, Bylaws, and Journal Locator Committees and on the Publicity & Registration and Entertainment committees for the 1994 MCMLA Annual Meeting. He is also the Parliamentarian for CCML.
On the personal side, Jerry lives in Cheyenne with his wife, Kathy, herself a librarian, and their three dachshunds. He enjoys travel, leather carving, and performing with the First Congregational Church choir, the Cheyenne Capital Chorale, a swing choir called City Sounds, and the Cheyenne Little Theater Players."
While The High-Tech Personal Efficiency Program by Kerry Gleeson (part of the Isabelle T. Anderson Collection) doesn't contain any earth-shaking revelations, it does reiterate many of the steps necessary to get yourself and your stuff organized. Most of us can use plenty of those sorts of reminders.
Gleeson is the founder of the Institute for Business Technology, with offices worldwide, and the creator, not surprisingly, of the Personal Efficiency Program mentioned in the book's title.
While the primary focus is on "organizing your electronic resources to maximize your time and efficiency," he wisely uses the first 53 pages to help us attempt to get our paper files and calendars into some sort of order. There's no arguing with the "Work Principles" he lays out in this portion of the book...fundamentals that we learned in kindergarten but keep forgetting. Number one, for example, is "Do it Now!" Others that follow generally fall into the clean-things-up and keep-them-that-way categories.
The electronic tools he talks about are intended to build on the neat and orderly system of paper created in the first chapters. He does get down to how-to details, including some Windows commands, intended to help computer users to create files, name them appropriately, and BACK THEM UP! Moving from basic computer functions, he then talks about Personal Information Managers, Personal Digital Assistants, and financial programs such as Quicken. Another chapter is devoted to using laptops, pagers, cellular phones, and wireless connections while you're on the road, and still another to using the internet: browsers, e-mail overload, searching efficiently, and saving what you find. The last chapter touches on group-ware...products such as Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, Oracle's InterOffice, and a variety of others. He talks about what these products can do, who they are right for, and what they can't do.
A fairly complete glossary is included, and a brief bibliography. As you can imagine, dealing with such a variety of technical topics in 204 pages requires that a few details be left out. Since the copyright is 1998, a fair amount will have changed in the electronic arena, but the book does provide a good overview of the sorts of tools that are available, and good reminders of the simple steps that can be taken to gain some control over either print or electronic information.
The Prez Group met on Nov. 4, 1999 at CCLS Headquarters. Although I was unable to attend, I did get a report on what happened. Six members attended which is more than at the previous meetings CCML and RMCSLA were left out of the joint directory. They expected to be included since they submitted their information on time. Bill Knott was not there to explain how that happened. Linda Van Wert will call Bill Knott, Jamie LaRue, or Eloise May to see if printing an Addendum is possible. There was also talk about putting the directory on the ACLIN web site, but there may be privacy issues to consider.
SLA will organize Colleague Connection again this year. The DU program was well received, so it was decided to try the same location and date. Linda will talk with Deb Greeley at DU on availability and possible dates. Linda also has talked with John Moss at U.S. West as a speaker on web design and push technology. It was suggested that librarians from each area of librarianship be invited to speak with John. Joan heard him at AALL last summer and said it was an excellent program.
The represented organizations made their reports. CoALL has programs and a holiday party scheduled through the fall. Their spring meeting will be a purchased "canned program" that will be made available to the entire library community. CEMA reported that after their Feb. 2000 conference at the Broadmoor, they expect to have combined conferences with CLA starting in Nov. of 2001. They are revamping their constitution and position responsibilities in preparation for regional representation. RMCSLA reported on their fall programs and winter programs. Their January program will be by OCLC on cataloging for small libraries, and a spring fundraiser will be held at the American Alpine Club Library in Golden. CCML reported on their programs for the fall and winter, too. The Feb. meeting will feature a woman who climbed Mt. Everest.
There is still interest in pursuing a federation. Joan thinks that a committee is forming to write bylaws and an implementation committee may be underway.
Since there has been some confusion on meeting dates, dates were selected for the next year in order for members to get the dates on their calendars. Those dates are Feb. 3, 2000, May 4, 2000, and Aug.3, 2000.
Share your programs and C.E. courses on the web! Mark Estes reminded everyone that we should share or excellent activities by listing them on the ACLIN Professional Activities Page. The URL for the CE list is: http://CEDB.aclin.org/Query.htm
What a delightful coincidence that AORN and the person who has steered its library for twenty-seven years both trace their origins to New York City. While the Association has known only two home states, Sara Katsh has lived in New York, Massachusetts, California, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Colorado. As an English and Spanish major at CU, she also participated in a University of Arizona summer program in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Although the present AORN library facility is among the most attractive in the area, its first Denver venue was in a Denver Tech Center building's basement hallway outside the Accounting Department. In August 1972, Sara replaced a "phantom librarian", whose six hours a week occurred only at night. But in Sara's capable hands, this progressed to a full time position three short months later. She chuckles as she remembers early facility planning advice from a Denison Library director, "If you have two doors you won't have any shelving!"
Initially the collection was derived from an accumulation of review books as well as journals received in exchange for the AORN Journal. Sara feels very fortunate in the quality of CCML and DAHSLC mentors and role models who helped her build the library collection physically and philosophically. During Sara's tenure, the library staff has steadily increased to today's three librarians and 1 technician. Anyone who has successfully guided an association library knows that it is an amalgam of many library types -- clinical, corporate, academic and public. Sara credits her collegial relationships and her talent for hiring good people for her success in creating an outstanding association library.
In 1973, the Association purchased its first building on East Mississippi Avenue, where the library was notable for its wall of windows and curio cabinets, the head of Hygeia and one door. When an Education Center Building was constructed on the site in 1983, the library moved to a much larger space. Bloodstains from a motorcyclist's close encounter with what would later become Sara's office led to the library's alias "Harley Davidson Memorial Library." November 5, 1992 marked the library's move to the penthouse of the Highpoint building on South Parker Road, quadrupling the library footage.
Sara has contributed most generously to the profession over the years. Her dedication to the importance of interlibrary cooperation is manifested by her long service as Octanet and DOCLINE trainer, her extended membership on the Journal Locator Committee, her position as chair of CCML's Library Cooperation Committee and her service on the Interlibrary Loan Survey Task Forces. Sara has also served on CCML's Isabelle T. Anderson, Nominating, Exploring Interface Issues, and Strategic Planning Committees, several MCMLA Conference Planning Committees and filled two terms on the NN/LM Regional Advisory Committee. During DAHLSC's existence she served several terms as coordinator. In 1995, the AORN library proudly joined the Colorado Library Card program.
I would be remiss if I failed to mention two additional gifts for which we are indebted to Sara: her near-perfect comedic timing and her genuine heartfelt support of her colleagues.
You can now check the status of items requested for the Isabelle T. Anderson Collection online. Mary Walsh has added a hot link from the ITA web page to a gopher list of all items requested in the last two years. The link is gopher://gopher.uchsc.edu:70/11/library/ITAcollection and appears just above the "Suggest an item" form and will take the user to an alphabetical list of hypertext titles maintained by Cooper Wood.
Clicking on any of these titles will reveal brief bibliographic information as well as dates the item was requested, ordered, cataloged and reviewed here in CQ. Cooper asks that you notify him (preferably via the suggestion form) if you don't find a title you requested on the list.
[NOTE: For complete information see printed Council Quotes.]
In January you will be receiving membership renewal letters. The Membership Committee hopes we can keep our continuing and recent members so we can become a better organization. We would like for our new members to return the membership database Input form. Please complete the brief biographical sketch portion so other members can become acquainted with you.
Diana Dillinger, formerly at St. Anthony Hospital in Denver, has taken a position as library Director of Creston, Iowa's Gibson Memorial Library. Good Luck to Diana in her new position!
One of the many hidden treasures on the shelves of Denison Memorial Library is a 1933 work by Wilbur and Lucille Kellogg called The Ape and the Child. It's a classic study of the effects of Nature versus nurture. The research the Kelloggs report resulted from introducing into their home a seven and a half month old female chimpanzee named Gua as a companion...effectively a sister...for their unsuspecting 10-month old son Donald.
The Kelloggs kept the two together for nine months, and at some point apparently decided that simple observation would be incredibly boring and unproductive, so they began to intervene actively. Their controlled experiments ranged from providing simple manual activities for the kids, to having Winthrop sit behind the two and fire a pistol into the air, recording their respective flinch times on film. This might be a little tough to get past the Ethics Committee today. They also managed to cure Gua of her culturally normal habit of picking up passing insects and lizards and snacking on them, but decline to mention the method they used. Since they weren't at all coy about the gunfire, one can only imagine what techniques they might have employed to make her forgo the finger food.
The story seemingly ends with Gua's return to the animal world, but in reality, Gua and Donald, having made their mark on each other and on science for those nine months, still had lives to lead. What happened to them after they were separated? Were they inextricably linked soulmates?
Well, Donald went on to become a competitive gymnast in college, also obtaining a business degree and ultimately working his way up to the position of regional sales manager for the Chiquita Corporation. He never married, women finding his dozens of pets and his twin obsessions with rock climbing and, in his middle years, a Planet of the Apes memorabilia collection, a little off-putting.
Gua went through a prolonged identity crisis, rejecting any interaction with the other chimps at the zoo. She insisted on wearing clothes, spent inordinate amounts of time looking through fashion magazines, and refused to roller skate for an audience or to ride one of those tiny bicycles.
During World War II she worked as a riveter in an airplane factory, inspiring the other women on her line with her seemingly boundless energy, not to mention her unique ability to be twice as productive by using her feet and hands at the same time. When the war ended she found herself, like most of the other women, out of a job. Unlike most of them, however, Gua was back in the zoo.
She became an organizer, working for a newly formed animal rights organization to try to unite the captive animals into a cohesive unit which could demand improvements in their dietary and sanitary conditions. For her efforts, she appeared on one of Senator Joseph McCarthy's many lists as a Communist sympathizer. Though never called to testify before his committee, she was blacklisted from zoos and sold to a traveling two-ring circus.
A gifted performer, Gua nevertheless refused efforts to force her to work with the clowns, knowing that she would be typecast as the hairy, bonnet-clad baby whom they would rescue ineptly from a house fire. Instead, a compromise was reached in which she agreed to ride a unicycle and work the concession stand, as well as ride the lead elephant in the grand parade which opened each show.
In a poignant coincidence, in August of 1965 Donald attended a performance of Gua's circus...in fact he never missed a chance to visit any circus or zoo within 200 miles of where he was...but he arrived late, missing the parade. Then, when he went to the concession stand for a banana split, Gua's specialty, it was at the exact moment when she took her break and rode the unicycle with the dog act. Donald heard the deafening cheers and hurried back to see what the excitement was about, but arrived at his seat just as Gua exited. Neither of them ever knew how close they had come to a reunion.
As she grew older, Gua began to lose her radical edge. She settled into the routine of the circus, taking up golf and aging gracefully as a mentor to the younger chimps.
In 1995 she died while playing the ninth hole at a sand-greens course in Climax, North Dakota. She was 23 over par at the time. Her memory lives on in the Gua Foundation for the Encouragement of Simian Education, established by some of her colleagues-human and animal-from the circus world, and offering scholarships to Montessori schools throughout the United States.
Donald, in ironic symmetry, died just two days later of injuries suffered in a fall when he was walking down a street in New York City and, passing a fresh fruit stand, slipped on...someone's discarded, greasy taco wrapper.
Various members of the Colorado Council of Medical Librarians have generated a number of questions about how it would work for their libraries to be involved in purchasing online access to journals through High Wire Press. Since several people had paid for their journals for the year 2000, this would be something we would try to arrange for 2001. The compiled questions will be forwarded to the High Wire Press representative. CCML member questions or comments are listed below.
Ellen Fox, from BCR, has compiled a list of journal titles of interest to Colorado Libraries considering purchase of the online High Wire Press:
You may have noticed a small influx of Montana medical librarians into CCML. Montana librarian and CCML member, Tone Mendoza has been working to strengthen ties between Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado librarians. Tone's interstate networking webpage is at: http://www.beartrak2.com/med/ing.html
CCML provides many benefits for its members and we hope Montana's medical librarians will profit from their association with CCML. We hope we'll meet virtually through the CCML list, the webpage, and Council Quotes!
CCML has received a letter of thanks for our donation to the endowment established in honor of Lucretia McClure:
"The Board of Directors joins me in thanking the Colorado Council of Medical Librarians for its $250 contribution to support the Lucretia W. McClure MLA Excellence in Education Award. Lucretia's lifelong passion the profession has estab-lished her as one of MLA's most endearing role model for health sciences librarians. It is fitting that Lucretia's legacy to the association and the profession be preserved by establishing an award that recognizes the contributions she and others have made as educators in health sciences librarianship and informatics.
The Council's generous support will go a long way towards establishing an endowment for this award.
Sincerely,
Carla J. Funk, Executive Director"
| OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE CHAIRS 1999 / 2000 | |
| Elected Officers | |
| President | Glenn Pflum |
| President-Elect | Paul Blomquist |
| Secretary | Gene Stortz |
| Treasurer | Jeff Kuntzman |
| Past-President | Pat Nelson |
| Appointed Officers | |
| CQ Editor | Lynne Fox |
| CQ Associate Editor | Jeff Kuntzman |
| Mailing Coordinator | Sara Katsh |
| Membership Database Coordinator | Shelley Coleman |
| Parliamentarian | Jerry Carlson |
| Standing Committee Chairs | |
| Education | Marla Graber |
| Journal Locator | Catherine Reiter |
| Membership | Mary Kralicek |
| Internet | Lynne Fox |
| Nominating | Jenny Garcia |
| Ad Hoc Appointments | |
| Colleague Connection Representative | Lynne Fox |
| Colorado Library Marketing Council Rep. | Jerry Carlson |
| MCMLA 2K Conf. Planning Committee Chair | Lisa Traditi |
| Council Quotes is a bimonthly publication of the Colorado Council of Medical Librarians (CCML). CCML / P.O. Box 101058 / Denver, CO 80210-1058. Subscription is a benefit of membership. Editor, Lynne Fox; Assistant Editor, Jeff Kuntzman; Contributors, CCML members. |
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