MONDAY - 7 October 1996

Exhibit Area Open: 7:30-9 AM; 10:30-11 AM; 12:30-2 PM and 3-3:30 PM.

• 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
  • Finance Committee Meeting
• 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
  • Breakfast with vendors
• 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
  • The Need for Change in Libraries - Robert Berring
    • Robert C. Berring, Jr., J.D., M.L.S., Professor of Law and Law Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley
      A scholar and educator as well as a librarian, Robert Berring is the most widely heard speaker on law librarianship in the U.S. He teaches courses in legal research, law librarianship, law and new technology, and Chinese law, among others. Prior to his current appointment, he was Dean of the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He has consulted at libraries throughout the world, as well as holding numerous advisory positions and being active in library and legal associations. Professor Berring has developed intensive research training programs to train law firm associates. His books include How to Find the Law, with Morris Cohen and Kent Olson, West Publishing Co. (10th edition in progress) and Winning Legal Research, with Johnson and Woxland, 2d ed., West Publishing Co., 1993. He began the Legal Reference Services Quarterly in 1980 and has served as editor ever since. His numerous articles include "Last Stand for Librarianship", in Electronic Access to Information: A New Service Paradigm (Proceedings from a symposium held July 23-24, 1993, in Palo Alto, CA), Research Libraries Group, 1994; "Collapse of the Structure of the Legal Research Universe: The Imperative of Digital Information", 60 Wash. Law Review, 9, 1994; and "An Embattled Profession Faces New Challenges: The Information Revolution Is Leaving Librarians Behind", National Law Journal, July 12, 1993, S11, Col. 1.
• 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
  • Break
• 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Consumer Health Panel/Q&A Session
    • Joan McGinnis, MLS, Director of the West Haven VA Hospital Medical Library in West Haven CT, will be the moderator.
    • Holly Atkinson, M.D., M.S., F.A.C.P., Executive Vice-President of Reuters Health Information Services, Inc., New York, New York.
      An award-winning medical journalist and leader in the field of medical education, Dr. Atkinson is also the editor of Health News, a new consumer health letter published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. From 1986-1993, she worked for the cable network for physicians, Lifetime Medical Television, which evolved into a new multimedia company, GeoMedica. GeoMedica was acquired by Reuters, S.A., in 1994.
    • Madge Kaplan, B.A., New England Boston Bureau Chief and Health Editor for Marketplace, WGBH Radio.
      As the manager of the News Bureau and National Health Desk for an international business program distributed by Public Radio International, Madge Kaplan is responsible for breaking business and economic news, with a special emphasis on emerging trends in the health care industry. She produces her own feature segments, documentaries and special series for Marketplace. These have included: The Glass Ceiling: The View from Here and The Nation's Health Care Industry Takes a Scalpel to Itself.
      Madge Kaplan is also a local host and announcer for WGBH/89.7 FM, Boston, and narrates WGBH's Descriptive Video Service, a special voiceover description for blind and visually-impaired audiences of public television and home video movies. Credits include Help!, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Star Trek V and Baseball.
      Her previous experience includes serving as a news anchor and reporter for several other radio stations; she was bookstore co-owner and manager of the New Words Bookstore in Cambridge from 1979-1987. The recipient of a number of awards for her work, she is also the author of "Media Policy--What Media Policy?", in the Harvard Business Review Urban Women's Curriculum (U.S. Dept. of Education).
    • Victoria Whipple, M.L.S., Information Services Librarian, Health Sciences Library, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH In addition to her reference and instructional roles at the University of Cincinnati Health Sciences Library, Victoria Whipple has made significant contributions to the content and design of NetWellnessTM. NetWellnessTM, formerly the Ohio Valley Community Health Information Network (OVCHIN), is a community-based, publicly and privately funded demonstration project which delivers electronic consumer health information to the residents of southern Ohio, northern Kentucky and southeastern Indiana. Many NetWellnessTM resources are available via the World Wide Web (http://www.netwellness.com), as well as through other community networks. The forty-two public sites which make it available include clinics, hospitals, libraries, senior centers, pharmacies and a cancer education van. NetWellnessTM resources range from databases such as MEDLINE and PsycINFO to online books such as the Physicians' Desk Reference and Stedman's Medical Dictionary to consumer pamphlets. "Ask an Expert" electronic bulletin boards are part of the service. Victoria Whipple, along with her co-authors, has developed a number of presentations on the NetWellnessTM project. These include: "The Ohio Valley Community Health Information Network," a paper presented at the Finding Common Ground conference at Harvard on March 30, 1996; as well as papers presented at IOLS 96 in May, 1996, and a poster session, presented at the MLA conference in June, 1996.
• 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
  • Lunch
• 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
  • Scholarly Communication and the Impact of Electronic Access - Scott Bennett
    • Scott Bennett, Ph.D., M.S.L.S., Yale University Librarian, New Haven, Connecticut.
      Educator, editor and librarian, Scott Bennett has held the position of University Librarian at Yale since 1994. Prior to that he was Director of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University from 1989-1994. He has taught library science and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has served in many advisory capacities and has been active in varied library and academic organizations, including the Association of American Universities and the Association of Research Libraries. His many recent publications include: "The Copyright Challenge: Strengthening the Public Interest in the Digital Age," Library Journal, 15 Nov. 1994, pp. 34-37; "The Management of Intellectual Property," Computers in Libraries, 14 (May 1994), pp. 18-20; and "Repositioning University Presses in Scholarly Communication," Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 25 (1994), pp. 243-248.
• 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
  • Break
• 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
  • RML Updates (Regions 1 and 8)
• 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  • Town Meeting--Discussion of Downsizing
• 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
  • NAHSL Board Meeting
  • NY/NJ Business Meeting
  • MAHSLIN Meeting
• 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
  • Cocktail Party
• 7:30 p.m. -
  • Dinner

TUESDAY - 8 October 1996

Exhibit Area Open: 7:30-9:30 AM and 10:30-11AM.

• 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
  • Business Meeting and Breakfast - Executive Director of MLA, Carla Funk
• 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
  • Projecting Your Role - Kaycee Hale
    • Kaycee Hale, B.A., Founder and Executive Director of the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, a network of educationally-affiliated fashion research centers and Executive Director of the FIDM Museum and Library Foundation, Los Angeles.
      An international lecturer on topics ranging from executive leadership to the history of fashion to personal image projection, Kaycee Hale has inspired many audiences with her motivational talks. At the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, she is responsible for program planning and development and service coordination for a network of fashion research centers throughout California. She is also active in many library professional associations and has recently developed educational programs and study guides for schools in Southern California. Her background includes 10 years work as a top fashion model, co-ownership in The Fashion Company and serving as a fashion editor for Scoop Newspaper. Her publications include "LV"=Leadership Victory, a chapter in Information for Management, ed. by James Matarazzo and Miriam Drake, Special Libraries Association, 1994; "Task Force Report on Image", SLA, ERIC Document Reproduction Service, 1990; and "Image Enhancement", in the 1990 Bowker Annual of Library and Book Trade Information.
• 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
  Break
• 11:00 a.m. - noon
  • Conflict Management - Darryl McCormick
    • Darryl McCormick, M.B.A., Director of Education and Organizational Development, Stamford Hospital, Stamford, Connecticut.
      Coordinator of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) activities at Stamford Hospital, Darryl McCormick has developed and conducted many training workshops, including leadership and team building retreats for senior management. In his role as Leadership Development Council chair, he has developed survey instruments to assess leadership strengths and areas for improvement, as well as corporate-wide leadership standards. His work includes a six-part comprehensive management curriculum for hospital managers, focusing on topics such as leadership, conflict resolution and communication skills. Mr. McCormick is the chairperson for the Directors of Human Resources Development Conference of the Connecticut Hospital Association and a member of the American Society for Training and Development and the American Society for Healthcare Education and Training.
• 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
  • Lunch and Learn Vendor Demos

Conference Sponsors

• Boston University Medical School Alumni Library
• Bridgeport Hospital (Projecting Your Role - Kaycee Hale)
• CAHSL (Welcoming Reception)
• Medical Library Center of New York
• National Network of Libraries - New England
• PaperChase
• Western Massachusetts Information Consortium (Dealing with Chaos - Stephen Abram and Jane Dysart)

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