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OHSLA: Oregon Health Sciences Libraries Association
Minutes of OHSLA Meeting
January 31, 2002
OHSU
Members Present
Patsy
Bacon -- SW Washington Medical Center
Letty Chen -- OCOM
Cindy Cunningham -- OHSU
Roger Davis -- Albany General
Karen Finney -- OHSU
Melissa Horner -- Adventist
Mary Johnson -- Peace Health
Dolores Judkins -- OHSU
Valerie Lawrence -- Kaiser Permanente
Kathy Martin -- Willamette Falls
Cindy Muller -- Legacy Emanuel
Dorothy O’Brien -- Good Samaritan, Corvallis
Patrice O’Donovan -- Linfield
Daphne Plaut -- Kaiser Permanente
Rick Severson -- NCNM
Beverly Shriver -- SHMC
Meredith Solomon -- Tuality Hospital
The meeting was brought to order around 12:00 pm with 17 members present. The minutes from September 13, 2001 were approved.
Announcements
·OHSU has a new Innovative library catalog, which it shares with NCNM and OGI. The Primate Center is not part of it yet, but will be eventually. OHSU is now part of Orbis and will be ready to participate in Orbis borrowing in six weeks (hopefully).
·OHSU email is going away for non-OHSU members.
·Up To Date was discussed. Many patrons want it, but it is very expensive.
Reports
Program Chair: Melissa Horner
·Thank you to Dolores for arranging this PubMed training
·The PDA Teleconference, “Sync or Swim: Managing the Flood of PDAs in Health Care,” will be held at SW Washington Medical Center on February 6, 2002. Lunch will be at 11:30, and the teleconference is from 12:00-1:30.
·The April 16, 2002 OHSLA meeting will be at Willamette Falls. Kathy Martin is arranging for the speaker.
·The OHSLA meeting at Silver Falls will be held on July 25 & 26, 2002.
·The PNC/MLA meeting will be held in Vancouver, BC on October 18-22, 2002.
Treasurer’s Report: Valerie Lawrence
·$8899.32
Net assets as of 2001
$3000 CD
$2200 Savings
$3600 Checking
·We will be mailing membership invoices and include information on the invoice about who has paid for union lists.
Old Business
·Nothing has been done on the OHSLA web page.
New Business
·OHSLA Brochure (Dolores): We probably do not need a brochure if we have a web page.
·Ideas for meeting/CE topics (Melissa):
o
Unorthodox librarians – Val will head
up a panel for April meeting. Potential
panelists: Mary Devlin, Nancy Brown,
Valerie Lawrence, Pam Osborne.
o Mary Devlin’s class on using language
would work for Silver Falls meeting
o History of Medicine: How to find information
and lecture by Linda Weimer (January
2003 meeting?)
o Alternative medicine (librarian at Bastyr)
o Marketing our libraries
o Space design and remodeling
o Cold Fusion
o Copyright
o Mercy Corps and Northwest medical teams – how can librarians get involved?
·LSTA (Cindy): The state library seems open to including health sciences libraries more than before. They may start paying for database licensing. Cindy will send out a questionnaire to the OHSLA list.
·Membership changes (Dolores): We may change from having institutional memberships to personal memberships. Right now, we don’t know who all of the members are, and we don’t know if new health and medical librarians know about OHSLA. This problem may be solved by having an OHSLA web page.
·OHSLA listserv (Dolores): OHSLA members need to make sure their email addresses are correct. Dolores sent a list around for all members to check.