Continuing Education

Cost for NAHSL members:	Cost for Non-members
1 half-day class $60	1 half-day class - $100
2 half-day or 1 full-day class - $120	2 half-day or 1 full-day class - $180

Sunday, September 25

Evidence-Based Information Service Delivery : Oh Librarian, Where Art Thou?
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
This course will provide librarians with the necessary understanding, skills and overview of resources to deliver evidence-based information to health care professionals. Participants will take part in discussions on developing partnerships with health professionals to create mew modes of information delivery, and the evolving role of librarian as evidence-based information service provider. Librarians will gain a basic understanding of various levels of evidence and will be able to design search processes to retrieve them. A practical experience will provide participants the opportunity to develop or enhance the following skills: the literature search interview - getting to the answerable question, implementing evidence-based search strategies, packaging and delivering the search results. Based on their experience with the Family Practice Inquiries Network (FPIN), the instructors will discuss the skills needed to advance the librarian as a partner in information services development. The concept of the librarian as informationist will be explored. MLA CEU: 8 credits

Instructors:
Susan Meadows has served as medical librarian and adjunct assistant professor for the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri – Columbia, for 10 years. She is responsible for providing a variety of information services in support of the department’s clinical and research activities. Her areas of expertise are in database searching with a special emphasis on evidence-based medicine, and bibliographic file management systems. She currently serves as Librarian Team Leader for the Family Practice Inquiries Network (FPIN), a national, not-for-profit consortium of primary care health professionals whose mission is to provide evidence-based answers to physicians' questions at the point of care.

Deb Ward is the Vice President for Information Resources and Director of the J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, University of Missouri - Columbia.

Marketing as if Your Library Depended on It
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Marketing is awareness and response: Awareness of the world from the customer's point of view and then responding with changes in service and communication. Learn how to improve your influence with middle and upper management, use marketing to create a strategic plan, bring in new (and "lost") customers (both internal and external to your institution), collect and evaluate quantitative and descriptive data and improve the effectiveness of promotional activities, even if you are a solo librarian. You will create a marketing project and present the results to your colleagues. For the second day version of the course, you will create and implement a marketing project at your library and present the results to your colleagues at the second day, which will be at least two months after the first program. Participants will receive an email and phone support from the instructor. Projects will be evaluated and information shared. MLA CEU: 4 credits

Instructor:
Pat Wagner has been working with libraries since 1978 as a consultant and trainer and is a frequent presenter and regional and national medical and special library conferences. She has a professional background in marketing and has developed several marketing programs specifically for the medical library community.

Clinicaltrials.gov and an Overview of the Drug Development Process
8:00a.m. - 12:00noon
In the United States, over 20 billion dollars are spent annually on drug development. Tens of thousands of individuals participate in the testing of drugs through clinical research studies. For many, participation is a way to help the scientific community; for some, it offers a chance to get a new potentially successful treatment. This four-hour course gives an overview of the drug development process in the United States and introduces attendees to several related government databases including Clinicaltrials.gov, Medwatch, the Orange Book, MAUDE and proprietary pipeline databases. MLA CEU: 4 credits

Instructor:
Toni Yancey, Outreach Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, has worked as a medical librarian for over ten years. She has spent the past five years educating health professionals about the products and services of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) by conducting training sessions throughout the Southeast and exhibiting at state and regional meetings of health care professionals and consumers.

Concepts in Infection Control
1:00p.m. - 5:00p.m.
This course is intended for health science librarians who wish to learn more about medicine to increase their effectiveness in providing information services to clinical staff. MLA CEUs: 4 credits pending

Instructor:
Julie Jefferson is the director of epidemiology & infection control at Rhode Island Hospital. Certified in infection control, she has held various leadership roles in the Association for Practitioners in Infection Control (APIC) and is a member of the National Nursing Honor Society. She has also been published in numerous trade publications including the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of Epidemiology.

The Evolving Web : Search Engines, Browser Alternatives and Accessing the Deep Web
1:00p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The course examines the changing role, and capabilities of the Web as a research tool. It will teach advanced Google searching, present alternative search engines, and take a look at where the state of the art in search engines is headed. The session will also explore alternative browsers with functions and how information from the deep web can be accessed. MLA CEU: 4 credits pending

Instructor:
Rob Favini, NELINET Consultant, Discovery Services, has extensive experience in reference services, searching tools and services including OCLC’s FirstSearch, and library management. Prior to joining NELINET, Rob was the dean of libraries at Becker College in Worcester, MA. Rob holds a Masters of Library Science from Kent State Univeristy and a Masters of Business Administration from Bentley College. At NELINET, Rob has provided training in the areas of e-resource management and selection.

Tuesday, September 27

First Look: The Molecular Biology Resources from NCBI
1:00p.m. - 5:00p.m. Location: Hecker Room, Rockefeller Library, Brown University.
Class offered at NO CHARGE.

First Look will provide an introduction and overview to the NCBI Molecular Biology databases. The class will begin with a very brief introduction to molecular biology. Then, the course will concentrate on what information is available in which database, what a typical record looks like, and how to navigate the resource. Learn, too, what sorts of questions are answered by each database. And, finally, learn how these databases are interconnected. MLA CEU: 4 credits pending.

Instructor:
Donna Berryman is currently the Outreach Coordinator for the New England Region (NER) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) based out of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. As Outreach Coordinator, she spends most of her time traveling aroun New England, teaching librarians and health professionals how to use the resources that the National Library of Medicine makes freely available on the Web. Donna is a librarian who has worked in several different types of libraries: public, business and academic. She hold a BS in management from the University of Minnesota and an MLIS from Dominican University in Illinois.