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Summer 2002

In This Issue

From the Editors

From the Chair

Kudos for Chapter Members

Web Watch

Brave New World

In the Literature

Technology Review

RML Update

To The Editors

2003 Philadelphia Meeting

Special Report: MLA Benchmarking Task Force
Focus Groups

Advocacy Report

News and Announcements

Online Newsletter Index

The Newsletter is published for the members of the New York-New Jersey Chapter of the Medical Library Association.

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William Self, The Medical Library Center of New York, 5 East 102nd St., 7th Floor, New York, NY 10029 S-1, Phone: 212-427-1630, Fax: 212-860-3496, E-mail: wself@mlcny.org.


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Posted 7/25/2002
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Kudos
A column featuring and honoring our colleagues in the NY/NJ Chapter of MLA!

Compiled by Xiomara Cruz
NYU Downtown Hospital Medical Library
xiomara.cruz@library.med.nyu.edu.

This quarter we would like to recognize these achievements by Chapter members:

George Wahlert, Morgan Health Sciences Library, Long Island College Hospital was recently elected Vice-Chair of the Chapter Council and is currently the NY-NJ Chapter Council Representative. He was also "selected" to be the Chair of the Majors Chapter Project of the Year Award Jury.

The new (2nd) edition of BibKit #5: History of the Health Sciences by Stephen Greenberg and Patricia Gallagher has been published by MLA. Information on the book is available at:

http://www.mlanet.org/publications/bibkits/bibkit5.html

Tracy Allen and Patricia Gallagher had two articles published in Annals of emergency medicine:

Gallagher PE, Allen TY, Wyer PC.
How to find evidence when you need it, part 2: a clinician's guide to MEDLINE: the basics.
Ann emerg med. 2002 Apr;39(4):436-40.
Gallagher PE, Allen TY, Wyer PC.
How to find evidence when you need it, part 3: a clinician's guide to MEDLINE: tricks and special skills.
Ann emerg med. 2002 May;39(5):547-51.

Take a look at latest issue of Internet Reference Services Quarterly (6:3/4) - Web Resources on Bioterrorism and Political Violence. Articles by Marie Tomlinson Ascher and Patricia Gallagher, Roberta Bronson Fitzpatrick, and Michelle Volesko are featured.

The Information Services Team (currently, Kristine Alpi, helen-ann brown, Daniel Cleary, Kevin Pain, Antonio Ramos and formerly Mary Jo Dorsey and Anny Khoubesserian) of the Weill Cornell Medical Library was honored by the Medical Library Association Research Section for their paper, Accessing the Most Recent Information: Part II. The paper was presented at MLA2002 in Dallas. The Information Services Team was honored by the Research Section with an honorable mention for their MLA2001 poster, Accessing the Most Recent Information: Part I.

Barbara S. Reich has been promoted to Director, Medical Library, Hackensack University Medical Center. She has also been awarded membership at the Senior level in the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP).

Jiang Chen (Carole) was appointed Associate Librarian at the Medical Library of Hackensack University Medical Center. Ms. Chen joined HUMC from the Brooklyn Public Library, where she was the Assistant Division Chief of the Society, Science and Technology Division.

Congratulations to all of our hard-working Chapter members!