Winter 2010 Vol. 33, issue 2 Liisa Rogers, MSW, MLIS
President s Message: Hello and Happy Holidays to everyone! I hope you are finding peace and connection amid the hustle & bustle of the season. I am pleased to welcome Deanne Boyer, Library Technical Specialist to the staff at the Healthwise Research Library as of July 2010. She is a great addition to the team and a pleasure to work with. In fact, she was instrumental in compiling this newsletter! Among many other research and library-related duties, she is the primary contact for Docline/ILL. Her email address is dboyer@healthwise.org and phone 208-489-8427. Please read more about her under Healthwise Research Library in the News section below. Our Spring 2010 IHIA meeting held at Healthwise in May was a success. We discussed emergency preparedness, marketing your library, and what was happening at our institutions. In addition, we enjoyed two great speakers (aging and personnel management) and an update from the Regional Medical Library in Seattle. The full agenda is in the Spring 2010 issue of the Citation on the IHIA website: http://ihia.lili.org/ I have been busy keeping the library afloat during staff transitions. The content development process at Healthwise is also going through a major transition to a new document management system which has us at times tearing our hair out and at others cheering heartily. The other news at Healthwise is that we ve just launched a newly designed web site for the company: http://www.healthwise.org. Many hands worked on this exciting project, including our writers, corporate communications staff and our top notch User Experience team. Goals were to refresh the site, to tell more clearly what we do, and to provide more tailored information to site visitors. The planning for the Fall 2011 Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in Boise (PNC/MLA) is ramping up. Co-chairs are myself, Pam Spickelmeier (St. Luke s Boise) and Sandy Hight (St. Alphonsus). Our typical IHIA Spring Meeting will not take place in 2011 so that we can continue to plan for PNC. PNC/MLA 2011: Mining for Health Information and Finding Gems October 15-18 Boise - Save the Date! Website: http://pncmla.org/pncmla2011/ (please do not make hotel reservations yet!) Liisa Rogers, MSW, MLIS, IHIA President 2
NEWS FROM IHIA MEMBERS AND INSTITUTIONS BOISE & TWIN FALLS St. Luke s Health System Libraries: Pam Spickelmeier & Catherine Poppino The St. Luke s Health System Boise Library recently hired two new employees in the positions that Roxanne Harlow and Kelly Woodall previously held. Monika Pomper comes to us from the Circulation Department at Boise Public Library and will be working in our Library from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Monika has an M.L.I.S. degree from the University of Western Ontario, a Master s Degree in Museum Studies from UWO, and an undergraduate degree in Medieval Studies from the University of Waterloo. Monika will be handling ILLs as well as journal check-in and journal ordering for the St. Luke s Treasure Valley clinics and sites. Justin Fowler graduated this past Spring with a Bachelor s Degree in Philosophy from Boise State University. While attending BSU, Justin worked in the Albertsons Library. This follows Justin s service in the United States Air Force and positions as an accounting assistant, insurance producer and telecommunications specialist. Justin will be working in the St. Luke s Library from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and will be handling ILLs, billing and statistics. Please join us in welcoming Monika and Justin to the medical library field. We are thrilled to have them on board! Should you need to reach them, Monika s e-mail address is pomperm@slhs.org, and Justin s is fowlerj@slhs.org. They share the 208-381-2276 phone number as well as our generic e-mail address library@slhs.org Saint Alphonsus Health System, Kissler Library & Research Center: Sandy Hight Saint Alphonsus/Boise has completed the 3rd week of Go Live with Genesis the electronic medical record system. I worked in the Welcome Center for the first two weeks and the library was the center for healing mind, body and spirit during go live! The spare office was the massage room we also had a massage chair available 24x7, as was the entire library. It has worked out very well and visiting MO's so appreciated the "down" space. Bette, a consistent volunteer has provided detailed updating to the electronic cataloging system; she is a proofreader by profession so what more can I ask for! I have worked with BSU nursing program/graduate nurses, providing search instruction using PubMed, and several on site orientations to preceptors and students during clinical rotation. 3
If you have not heard yet, Saint Alphonsus recently acquired three new hospitals, Mercy Medical Center - Nampa Holy Rosary Medical Ontario St. Elizabeth Health Services Baker City Currently they have access to some of the electronic databases and minimal library services. I did have the opportunity to meet staff during the Mercy Medical Center Benefits Fair where I provided PubMed and MedlinePlus resources. Fall has been the most welcome, colorful, and warm that I have experienced in Treasure Valley in a long time, we can only hope to repeat the same as PNC/MLA 2011 conference comes to Boise! I feel I am in for a learning opportunity with Liisa and Pam as we start the process and look forward to your support as we make this a special event for all who attend. New ISU-Meridian Health Science Center s Library: Marcia Francis The ISU Libraries have partnered with the Meridian (Idaho) Joint School District #2 to share library space at the new ISU- Meridian Health Science Center on East Central Drive. The shared library/media center is located adjacent to a large, sunny study area and the Renaissance High School cafeteria. It houses the high school and ISU collections and includes a computer lab, offices, a group study area, and a small number of study rooms. Four computers are available for ISU researchers and located in two study rooms within the Media Center. ISU wireless Internet access also is available in the Media Center and adjoining study spaces. A small collection of ISU books and journals is available. All resources are included in the ISU Library's online catalog, and searching may be limited to the Meridian location. Renaissance High School librarians and one ISU-Meridian employee currently staff the library. Hours are limited but hopefully will be expanding in the future. Library services, such as research assistance, interlibrary loans, document delivery, and book loans continue to be provided upon request by library staff in Pocatello. As ISU online and distance programs continue to expand and to grow, librarians are licensing more 4
health/medical online books and journals for use by all students and faculty, regardless of their geographic locations. Healthwise Research Library: Deanne Boyer I recently joined the Healthwise team in July after spending a year working on obtaining my M.L.I.S. degree from Drexel University of Pennsylvania. I am originally from Pennsylvania and have been living in Boise for a little over a year. At Healthwise, I research medical topics for co-workers, manage our journal collection, and am currently working on digitizing many of our materials. The Healthwise Research Library is currently exploring how to provide digital copies of references and other resources to our co-workers for their use in updating Healthwise s medical content. This has been both challenging and rewarding as we are continually adjusting our plans as we realize new complexities in our goals. At this point, we are piloting the process with two of our medical content specialists in order to iron out the issues before training the remaining employees. We hope digitization will help us and our co-workers streamline our processes, increase efficiency, and provide ready access to library materials through the electronic format. COUER D ALENE Kootenai Health Library and Information Center: Beth Hill In January 2011, we will have been in our new library location for a year. Combining our consumer health library with our clinical library was a challenge. We were worried at first that our users would not find us, but that has not been the case. We are busier than ever! We ve got nursing students, pharmacy interns, and others using our physical facilities, and we increasingly involve ourselves on interdisciplinary teams in order to provide timely and relevant access to evidence-based resources for excellent patient care. In February, Joan Wilson traveled to Boise to serve in her first year in the Special Representative position (appointed by the Idaho Board of Library Commissioners) to the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Advisory Council. Joan Wilson and Lynn Hauer attended the PNC/MLA annual meeting in Portland, where they presented a poster entitled Invasion of a Sacred Place: Outreach to Physicians. The poster presented details about our Mobile Librarian/Satellite Library program and statistics on our program outcomes. As the Liaison of PNC/MLA to the Academy of Health Information Professionals, Joan also gave a Stat Talk (5-minute talk) on The Value of AHIP at the PNC/MLA conference. 5
Kootenai Health has a new CEO as of September 2010. Jon Ness came to us from Billings Clinic in Billings, Montana. Beth Hill has been selected to be the new editor of the Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, and will take over this duty with the January 2012 issue, when M. Sandra Wood retires. And now for a shameless promotion: Please vote for Beth in the upcoming MLA election. Beth is running for a Board of Directors position. MLA s website- www.mlanet.org should have biographical and position statements from each of the candidates up in November. ALSO (submitted by Kathy Fatkin), on page 8 of the June/July 2010 issue of MLA News our very own Elizabeth (Beth) Hill, AHIP, library manager, Kootenai Medical Center, Coeur d Alene ID, successfully defended her dissertation: INFORMATION SEEKING AS SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING IN THE LIVES OF RURAL PRACTIONERS: A MULTI-CASE STUDY. She graduated with a doctoral degree in education from the University of Idaho. IDAHO FALLS Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center: Kathy Fatkin After taking the MLA course offered by our RML Quite the Production Kathy Fatkin created a podcast on Health Literacy for October s Medical Librarian Month. The process was fun to learn and the MP3 file was posted on the library page of the hospital Intranet. Kathy has plans to create a podcast on various items of interest to keep the skill fresh, with plans for a new podcast on noise fatigue for November. Kathy has also been experimenting with Zotero, a free bibliographic database. The best part is the database is accessible on Firefox from any computer and links to PDF articles so you can pull up items anywhere with worldwide web access. It also formats the references into APA style for documentation in papers. Kathy is working with Dr. Cathy Perley on a library research project in Kansas City funded by a MLA research grant. She will be going to Kansas City in December to meet with focus groups on their use and perceptions of library services in a hospital system. 6
IDAHO HEALTH INFORMATION ASSOCIATION Executive Board: OFFICERS for 2010-11 President: Liisa Rogers, MSW, MLIS Research Library Manager Healthwise, Inc., Boise. lrogers@healthwise.org President Elect: Amy Claybaugh/Catherine Poppino St. Luke s Regional Medical Center Boise/Twin Falls claybaua@slrmc.org/catherinep@mvrmc.org Secretary Treasurer: Marcia Francis, MA, M.Ed., AHIP Director, Idaho Health Sciences Library Idaho State University, Pocatello. franmarc@isu.edu Immediate Past-President: Kathy Fatkin, RN, MLS, AHIP Medical Librarian Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, Idaho Falls. library@datawav.net 7