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OHSU Library
Departments
Staff
Dolores Judkins
Head, Research and Reference Services
Oregon Health & Science University Library
503-494-3478
503-494-3322 fax
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| MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES |
Direct a department of 3 librarians with supervision of the
Reference/Information desk, reference services, database coordination,
bibliographic education, and consumer health services.
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| PREVIOUS POSITIONS |
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Coordinator, Consumer Health Resources (1997-May 2000)
Librarian, Web Manager, Center for Women's Health
Coordinator of the Consumer Health Section of the Library (.75 FTE) which
includes Health Information by Mail, training others to use the Internet
to find and use consumer health information, maintaining the Consumer
Health Page, supervision of other librarians and library technicians in
answering health questions for consumers, grant writing, working with
others throughout the University and Hospital in setting up patient
libraries and training staff to use the consumer health resources.
Librarian / Web Manager for the Center for Women's Health (.25 FTE)
includes writing and maintaining the Center for Women's Health web page,
planning the Resource Center, selecting materials for the Resource Center,
working with other agencies to coordinate consumer health information on
women's health.
- Reference Librarian (1991-May, 2000)
Part-time position in the Research and Reference Services Department
includes working with students, faculty, staff, and patients. Provide
traditional reference services as well as computer hardware and software
support at both walk-in and call-in help desks. Teach bibliographic
instruction courses, Internet, and electronic mail. Library support
person for library's online databases and CD-ROM stations. Member of the
Collection Development Committee. Special projects included cataloging
special collections on OCLC and VTLS; designing a Medical Library
Association continuing education course; presentation on the basics of
CD-ROM at Online Northwest '95; member of the Portland Area Libraries
(PORTALS) database committee; member of the Statewide Cooperative
Collection Development Committee .
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Library Director (July 1982 - June 1991)
Dental Branch Library
Planned and directed all facets of the OHSU Dental Library. Provided
reference service for students, faculty, staff, patients and dentists
throughout Oregon. Cataloged the History of Dentistry collection on OCLC.
Taught courses to students on writing research papers. Managed collection
development. Did electronic database searching. Supervised seven support
staff. Special projects included a National Library of Medicine grant to
introduce dentists to the Grateful Med software for searching medical
databases; member of a committee to oversee the joining of the Oregon
Health Sciences University Library and University Computing. Position was
eliminated in budget cuts in June 1991.
- Reference Librarian (December 1981-June 1982)
Provided reference service and electronic database searching for students,
faculty, staff and patients.
- Health Sciences Library
(March 1980 - November 1981)
Good Samaritan Hospital,
Portland, Oregon
Assistant Librarian
Provided reference service for staff and nursing students, including
electronic database searching. Cataloged the collection. Supervised
circulation and interlibrary loan. Produced a library newsletter.
- Suffolk Cooperative Library System
(February
1978 - December 1979)
Bellport, New York
Reference Librarian
Provided reference and interlibrary loan service for the 52 member
libraries in Suffolk County, New York. Was referral librarian for
questions that could not be answered in other libraries in the system.
Produced a vertical file for hard to find material.
- Health Sciences Library
(August
1977 - November 1977)
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stonybrook, New York
Reference Librarian
A temporary project position. Provided reference service, circulation
support, electronic database searching. Worked with faculty in preparing
reserve book lists. Assisted with OCLC catalog conversion.
- Multnomah County Library
(September 1974 - April 1977)
Portland, Oregon
Reference Librarian
Provided reference service in the Literature and History Department.
Supervised selection in women's studies, Spanish language materials, and
genealogy. Indexed the Oregonian and the Oregon Journal. Gave library
orientations. Produced a bibliography for National Women's Year and a
brochure on how to search genealogies in the Multnomah County Library.
- Centro Cultural Sampedrano
(July 1973 - June 1974)
San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Peace Corps Librarian
Set up the only library in San Pedro Sula, the second largest city in
Honduras. Instituted library programs for children, and trained local
personnel to run the library. Worked with outreach programs in the
community on the use of the library.
- Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)
(October 1970 - June 1972)
Scottsbluff, Nebraska
Community Outreach
Worked mainly in education and community organization with Mexican
Americans and Native Americans. Assisted at a school for potential high
school dropouts, taught in the Head Start program and Adult Basic
Education, and worked as liaison between the local high school and the
low-income community.
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| EDUCATION |
- Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Portland State University, Portland,
Oregon, 1970.
- Master of Library Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 1973.
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| PUBLICATIONS |
Crum, J., Judkins D., Zeigen, L. "A Tale of two needs: usability
testing
and library orientation." Computers in Libraries, 23(1):22-25,
January
2003.
Judkins, D.Z., "Searching the medical literature on the Internet."
Laboratory Medicine, 32(5): 243-6; May 2001.
Judkins, D.Z., "The More we know, the safer we are: evolution of a
young
women's health page". Journal of Hospital Librarianship. 1(3):
55-62;
2001.
Judkins, D.Z., "Women's health on the Web: an overview." Health
Care
on
the Internet. 4(2/3):1-18; 2000.
Judkins, D.Z. "Health resources on the Internet: a basic list."
Medical
Reference Services Quarterly. 15(4):13-20, Winter, 1996.
Judkins, D.Z., Kreinbring, M., Wren, M. Basics of Dental
Information.
Medical Library Association, 1994.
Judkins, D.Z. "Library services and resources." Journal of the
Oregon
Dental Association. 57(2):36,38; Winter, 1987.
Judkins, D.Z., et al. "Standards for reference services in health
sciences libraries: the reference product." Medical Reference
Services
Quarterly 5(3):35-50; Fall, 1986.
Judkins, D.Z. "Searching hints: a chronic disease hedge for use on
MEDLINE." Medical Reference Services Quarterly 3(2):72-73;
Summer, 1984.
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| PRESENTATIONS |
"Take Your Apple to School: Health Information for School Nurses."
Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, May 2003.
"Making Technology Work for You: Using Computers and Personal Digital
Assistants (PDAs) in Your Practice." Oregon Nurses Association / Nurse
Practitioners of Oregon, September 14, 2002
"The More We Know, the Safer We Are". Panel presentation for "Library
Partnerships - Powerful Connections", Medical Library Association Annual
Meeting, May 30, 2001.
"Health Information and the Internet." Oregon Pediatric Nurse
Practitioner Association, April 21, 2000
"Finding Health Information on the Web: Sites of Particular Interest for
Workers' Compensation." Oregon Bar Association, Workers' Compensation
Section, May 1999.
"Health Information for Consumers." Oregon Library Association, April
1999.
"The Internet Prescription for Health Information." Online Northwest,
February 1999.
"Basic Health Resources on the Internet." Portland Area Library System
(PORTALS), April, 1997
"Information Sources on Breast Cancer." St. Vincent Hospital Breast
Cancer Self-help group, March, 1997
"Health Resources on the Internet." Online Northwest '96, February 1996.
"CD-ROM Basics." Presentation at Online Northwest '95, January, 1995.
"Library services for the dental health professional." Table clinic at
the Oregon Dental Association meeting, April, 1990.
"Using Infonet through the Oregon Health Sciences University Library."
Presentation at the Oregon Periodontal Association meeting, November,
1989.
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| TEACHING |
- 2003-2005 Surveys Made Easy. Four hour MLA CE class.
- 1999-2004 Native Researchers Cancer Control Training Program: PubMed
and Internet Resources. Two 2-hour sessions each year.
- 2000-2001 The Internet for School Nurses. Three hour workshop
- 1998-1999 Health Information on the Internet: Oregon Libraries
Project. Four hour workshop.
- 1998-1999 Finding Patient Information on the Web. 2 hour Continuing
Medical Education class.
- 1996-1999 Developing and Maintaining a Web Home Page. Four hour
class.
- 1995-1997 Netscape and the World Wide Web. Four hour class.
- 1994-1996 Basics of Internet. Four hour class.
- 1992-1997 Basics of OHSU Information Services
- 1981-1991 How to access health information in the Dental Library.
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| GRANTS/AWARDS RECIEVED |
- 2003 Public Health Nurses and the Internet. National Library of
Medicine Outreach Project Award
- 2001 Finding it on the Web: Health information for seniors.
National
Library of Medicine Outreach Subcontract for Resource Libraries
- 2000 School Health Nurses: A Link to the Consumer. National
Library of
Medicine Access to Electronic Health Information for the Public
- 1990 Introduction of Grateful Med to Dental Health
Professionals.
National Library of Medicine Grateful Med Outreach Program
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| PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES |
- Medical Library Association.
- Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association
(PNC/MLA) Chapter Council Representative, 2005-
- PNC/MLA Chapter Council Alternate, 2001-2005
- Chair of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library
Association, 1991.
- Co-chair of PNC/MLA annual meeting in Portland, 1989.
- Chair of the Dental Section of the Medical Library Association,
1988.
- Chair of the Hospitality and Information Committee for the nation
MLA meeting in Portland, 1987.
- Member of various MLA committees.
- Oregon Health Sciences Libraries Association
- President, 2002, 1995 and 1982
- OHSU Faculty Senate. BICC Representative 1999-2001, Secretary
2001-2002
- Member of the Oregon Library Association
- Member of the American Library Association
- Online Northwest Planning Committee, 1993-1999
- PORTALS Online Database Committee, member 1993-1998; Chair 1997-1998
- Oregon Statewide Collection Development Steering Committee, member
1991-1995
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