Health Science Librarians of Illinois (HSLI) serves as the primary statewide organization meeting the needs and interests of all information professionals who focus on the area of health and medical science.
Anyone interested in librarianship and learning is welcome to attend the conference. Information professionals working in all types of libraries can benefit from the continuing education sessions offered during the conference.
Registration desk will be open
For HSLI conference attendees who will be arriving in St. Charles on Wednesday night, November 9th, you are invited to join a Dine-around! This will be a casual dining experience to join your fellow attendees for a nice meal and conversation. We will be meeting in the hotel lobby at 6:30 to travel to the restaurants for dinner at 7PM.
The following restaurants have been selected for their unique offerings:
Taste of the Himalayas
In the heart of downtown St. Charles, this unique restaurant offers the cuisine from the countries bordering the Himalayas, India and Nepal. Check out the menu for the delicious offerings plus the spice levels and ingredients.
Jambalaya
This popular St. Charles restaurant is located right in the hotel! The menu features traditional American cuisine with some Cajun additions.
Salerno’s on the Fox
An Italian eatery that has been serving the Fox Valley Community for over 40 years. Their menu offers a variety of pasta specialties, steaks, seafood, and pizza.
If you are interested in participating, please contact Emily Johnson, emj11@uic.edu, by Friday, November 4th, with your restaurant preference so we can make appropriate reservations for each location and coordinate car pooling for off-site restaurants.
All HSLI members are welcome to attend the Board Meeting.
Gold Cart Paths
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This interactive class will provide a background in cultural competence and outreach skills as librarians make outreach efforts to under served and minority populations in their community. The goal of this course is to offer concrete ideas to enable librarians to initiate outreach programs with minority communities. Topics to be covered include locating community demographics, the importance of developing relationships, the basics of building and developing community-based partnerships, recognition and acceptance of cultural differences, and the importance of cultural competency. Some basic concepts of program planning and evaluation within a culturally diverse environment will be covered. Participants will engage in group discussions to explore models for developing their own programs.
Description: User experience is a method of assessing libraries that is not common in health sciences libraries. The term user assessment comes out of website design (as usability). However, other industries have found it useful to assess how users experience their services and spaces, and the idea and use of user experience research has grown over time.
There are several ways of defining "user experience" to various physical and virtual spaces and services that a library may want to evaluate. For libraries, this can mean analyzing how users interact with your website to improve your virtual presence, observing users to improve your physical space, or interviewing how users research to improve services and instruction.
This workshop will focus on defining user experience and see what other libraries are doing to improve their services. We will talk about low-cost and simple, yet impactful activities to turn your library into a user-centered environment.
Registration Desk Open
As libraries are increasingly asked to demonstrate their value and the contributions they make to their institutions, library staff need efficient and effective strategies for assessment. Best practice in assessment means embedding assessment into the library's practices on a continuous basis rather than treating it as a separate and additional task. The workshop will present an integrated and systematic approach to developing and assessing library activities that includes identifying impact outcomes and aligned activities, establishing criteria, collecting and analyzing data and evidence, and using the results for improvement and telling the story of the library's impact. Participants will have the opportunity to practice using the tools and techniques presented.
The freely available PubMed API (application programming interface) makes it possible for programmers from outside of the National Library of Medicine to develop alternatives to PubMed.gov for searching NLM’s vast database of biomedical journal literature citations. This three-hour workshop will introduce several popular and free third-party PubMed tools, comparing and contrasting them with the PubMed.gov interface. Through case studies, group exercises and hands-on practice, participants will become familiar with the strengths and limitations of search tools such as PubGet, Quertle, eTBlast and others. This workshop is intended for intermediate and advanced PubMed searchers.
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The address will summarize the main issues behind digital archiving, including content management, format obsolescence, security and legal issues, and access. Each of these issues is a difficult obstacle for any information professional; however, specific tools, strategies, and examples will be presented in order to help health science librarians feel confident and capable of successfully leveraging the digital revolution to better serve their users.
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Hotel bus (20 max.)is available to take conference-goers to downtown St. Charles, to Pottawatomie Park or shopping
Tote bags
Jelly
Books
T-shirts
Complementary and integrative health approaches include a broad range of philosophies, products, and therapies, which share the common goals of modifying health behaviors to manage chronic illness and to promote health across the lifespan.
An estimated 38 percent of adults and 12 percent of children in the United States used some type of complementary health approach, resulting in total out of pocket expenditures of $30 billion, according to the 2012 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Considering the continuing high use of complementary and integrative health approaches, health science librarians are thinking about questions they may be asked, or LibGuides, or collections.
In addition to highlighting trends, this presentation will review a selected list of Web resources that health science librarians may access to meet user information needs of clinicians, medical residents, researchers, educators, students, administrators, patients, and consumers.
Evelyn Cunico is an Information Professional and Writer, with a recent Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science (MSLIS) and a Master of Arts (MA) degree in English.
Evelyn’s continuing education in clinical medical searching includes completing PubMed for Librarians, the five-module online real-time classes presented by instructors at the National Library of Medicine.
Earlier in her career, Evelyn worked onsite for medical and hospital associations as a Writer and Managing Editor in the respective areas of socioeconomic policy and hospital newsletter management.
More recently, she has worked on contract as a medical specialty society News Writer in science research and education. Her experience includes assisting clinical trial principal investigators to communicate their study results to science colleagues.
In 2013, she created CHIME Consumer Health, a monthly consumer health blog for which she finds, synthesizes, and discusses peer-reviewed medical, educational, and government information that consumers may choose to improve their health.
CHIME gives special attention to complementary and integrative health, to discover ways in which lifestyle behavior may complement evidence-based medical principles and practices to promote health across the lifespan. Evelyn blogs at https://chimeconsumerhealth.wordpress.com
The role of librarians, and of health science librarians in particular, has changed dramatically over the past several decades. The digital revolution has coincided with shrinking budgets across the board, forcing us all to do more with less: to be experts in electronic resources as well as in physical collections; to educate our users in fields like data management, preservation, and security, as well as in academic research; to promote our services on social media and to online communities, as well as reaching out to users “in real life.” The traditional roles and responsibilities of the librarian – collection development, instruction, and outreach – have not gone away. They have simply become more complicated and wide-ranging in the digital era.
This address will focus on how health science librarians can manage the challenges of the digital revolution. I will briefly discuss how the digital era has changed the information professions, but will focus on the current state of digital resources in libraries and librarianship. Digital archives, which encompass resources, systems, and services, are necessary for the future of librarianship but present unique challenges. The address will summarize the main issues behind digital archiving, including content management, format obsolescence, security and legal issues, and access. Each of these issues is a difficult obstacle for any information professional; however, specific tools, strategies, and examples will be presented in order to help health science librarians feel confident and capable of successfully leveraging the digital revolution to better serve their users.
Laura Alagna blends passion for history and technology in her role as digital archivist at Northwestern University Libraries. She has been a practitioner of digital archiving for more than five years, and has developed and implemented policies and workflows for digital repositories at Northwestern and the University of Chicago. Laura strongly believes in promoting digital preservation outside of libraries as well, and has worked with a number of smaller organizations and local businesses on a volunteer basis to provide guidance on digital challenges. Her goal is to reduce barriers to understanding technology and digital archiving among information professionals and the general public.
Laura has an undergraduate degree in history from Amherst College, and a graduate degree in social sciences from the University of Chicago. She is an active member of the Chicago Area Archivists and is an appointed member of the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board.
Morning Classes - Concurrent Sessions | ||
| 8:00am-noon | Getting Started with Information Outreach in Your CommunityDescription: This interactive class will provide a background in cultural competence and outreach skills as librarians make outreach efforts to under served and minority populations in their community. The goal of this course is to offer concrete ideas to enable librarians to initiate outreach programs with minority communities. Topics to be covered include locating community demographics, the importance of developing relationships, the basics of building and developing community-based partnerships, recognition and acceptance of cultural differences, and the importance of cultural competency. Some basic concepts of program planning and evaluation within a culturally diverse environment will be covered. Participants will engage in group discussions to explore models for developing their own programs. | Instructor: Jacqueline Leskovec |
| 8:00am-noon Laptop recommended but not required | Technology to Enhance User ExperienceDescription:
User experience is a method of assessing libraries that is not common in health sciences libraries. The term user assessment comes out of website design (as usability). However, other industries have found it useful to assess how users experience their services and spaces, and the idea and use of user experience research has grown over time. | Instructor: Jenny Emanuel Taylor Jenny Emanuel Taylor is the Assistant Health Sciences Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago on the Urbana Campus. She focuses on the intersections of reference, instruction, and technology in libraries. She has worked extensively with library user experience and the discovery of library resources. She is also interested in how library users utilize library tools to benefit their research. She received her undergraduate degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, a master’s in science in Information Science from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Missouri. |
Afternoon Classes - Concurrent Sessions | ||
| 1:30-5:30pm | Engaging Assessment to Show your Values & Make DecisionsDescription: As libraries are increasingly asked to demonstrate their value and the contributions they make to their institutions, library staff need efficient and effective strategies for assessment. Best practice in assessment means embedding assessment into the library's practices on a continuous basis rather than treating it as a separate and additional task. The workshop will present an integrated and systematic approach to developing and assessing library activities that includes identifying impact outcomes and aligned activities, establishing criteria, collecting and analyzing data and evidence, and using the results for improvement and telling the story of the library's impact. Participants will have the opportunity to practice using the tools and techniques presented. |
Instructor: Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is Professor/Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction in the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Lisa served as the 2010-2011 President of the Association of College and Research Libraries, which launched the Value of Academic Libraries Initiative during her presidency. Along with Debra Gilchrist, Lisa is the lead designer for ACRL’s training program for the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education and the IMLS-funded Assessment in Action project. Lisa has presented and published widely on information literacy, teaching and learning, the value of libraries, library assessment, program evaluation, and organizational innovation. She is an internationally sought after speaker and has also conducted workshops and trainings on five continents. For more information see lisahinchliffe.com. |
| 1:30-5:30pm Participants should bring a laptop to this course | Third-Party PubMed ToolsDownload Slides Description: The freely available PubMed API (application programming interface) makes it possible for programmers from outside of the National Library of Medicine to develop alternatives to PubMed.gov for searching NLM’s vast database of biomedical journal literature citations. This three-hour workshop will introduce several popular and free third-party PubMed tools, comparing and contrasting them with the PubMed.gov interface. Through case studies, group exercises and hands-on practice, participants will become familiar with the strengths and limitations of search tools such as PubGet, Quertle, eTBlast and others. This workshop is intended for intermediate and advanced PubMed searchers. |
Instructor: Elizabeth Kiscaden Elizabeth Kiscaden is the Associate Director of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Greater Midwest Region (GMR) office and has been a health sciences librarian for nearly a decade. Originally from Minnesota, Elizabeth worked at the Mayo Clinic in the Center for Translational Science Activities before relocating to Iowa. Elizabeth started her career in librarianship out as a solo hospital librarian at Mercy Medical Center – North Iowa in Mason City, Iowa. Following this, she served as an academic library director at a small liberal arts college before returning to health sciences librarianship as the Head of Library Services at Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. Elizabeth’s areas of interest include evidence-based medicine instruction, particularly critical analysis, systematic review searching, and gamification in medical education. Elizabeth lives in a townhouse in Iowa City with her mixed-breed hound, named Tammy. |
The cost for each exhibitor table is $350. The exhibitor fee includes:
Invitation to Exhibitors | Exhibitor/Sponsor Contract | Audio/visual Equipment Needs Form
| 7:00-8:00pm | Poster Session |
Plenary Speaker | |
Exhibits | |
Silent Auction |
Nancy Stump was an active member of HSLI and served in several roles, including HSLI President from 1990-1993. Nancy died December 14, 2004. Her many years of service to HSLI deserve remembrance and a party is the best way to honor her fun loving nature.
Optional - Purchase an additional Nancy's Reception Ticket for a Guest
Co-Chairs: Roy Jones and Daneen Richardson
Continuing Education: Emily Johnson and Nina Pals
Exhibits and Sponsors: Daneen Richardson and Sue Franzen
Finance: Heather Klepitsch and Fran Kovach
Local Arrangements: Roy Jones and Cynthia Snyder
Program: Roy Jones and Molly Horio
Posters: Molly Horio
Publicity: Roberta Craig
Reception: Roy Jones and Cynthia Snyder
Registration: Michelle Quinones and Roy Jones
Silent Auction: Sue Franzen
Speakers: Roy Jones and Miranda Shake
Website: Stacey Knight-Davis and Karen Gutzman
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