Carmen Howard, Regional Health Sciences Librarian and Visiting Assistant Professor at the UIC Library of the Health Sciences – Peoria, was featured in a National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region blog post earlier this month. In the post, she discusses the steps that UIC has taken to implement the NeXT (Nursing…
Category: Member News
Former HSLI President, Legislative Committee Chair Michael Wold Passes Away
(via Stacey Knight-Davis) Michael Wold passed away last Friday, 10/23/2015. Michael most recently served as the HSLI Legislative Committee Co-Chair. Michael was HSLI President for the 1989-1990 term. He will be remembered for his cheerfulness and willingness to help. The obituary below notes that Michael was married on October 4, 2015 to Charles Avery. BURLINGTON,…
Roy Jones Retires
Roy Jones has retired from his position as Library Manager at OSF St. Francis. Roy continues to serve as the HSLI Membership Chair. He served as HSLI Secretary in 1996-1997. He was the Conference planning Committee Chair for the 2013 Midwest Chapter/HSLI meeting. Roy and Deborah Rhue were joint recipients of the HSLI Star Thrower…
HSLI Members, Present and Past, Presenting at ALA
One current member of HSLI and one past member will be presenting at this year’s American Library Association conference, to be held in San Francisco from June 25 to June 30. Current member Mary Beth Riedner, of the Gail Borden Public Library District in Schaumburg, is one of the organizers for the session “Hearing on Guidelines…
MLA 2015 Poster Sessions by Illinois Librarians
Illinois librarians gave the following poster sessions at this year’s MLA conference. If I missed anyone, please let me know. “Community College Library Support for Health Professions”–Debra Smith, College of DuPage “Database Trial Success through Community Organizing”–JJ Pionke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Developing a Process to Find Alternatives for Cancelled or Discontinued Electronic Resources”–Estelle…
Illinois Librarians Presenting at MLA 2015
The following staff members from Illinois libraries are presenting at this year’s Medical Library Association Conference in Austin, Texas. (For those presentations that include presenters not from Illinois, just the Illinois ones are listed.) If I missed anyone, please let me know. I will include the poster sessions in a separate entry. “A Day in…
East Central Illinois Consortium Meets
The East Central Illinois Consortium met on February 27, 2015 at the Mills Breast Cancer Institute, Urbana, IL. Members present were Miranda Shake, consortium coordinator, Lakeview College of Nursing, Frances Drone-Silvers, host, Carle Foundation Hospital Library, Scott Drone-Silvers, Lake Land College, JJ Pionke, Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library (SSHEL) UIUC, Sarah Isaacs, Illinois Early…
Two NLM exhibits in Illinois this spring
Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness will be hosted by Trickster Art Gallery in Schaumburg, IL, from January 27 – March 20, 2015. Online Exhibition: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/ Every Necessary Care and Attention: George Washington and Medicine will be hosted at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine – Medical Library, Springfield, IL, from…
Cleo Pappas nears 1 year in retirement
Cleo Pappas, Associate Professor, retired February 2014 from the Library of the Health Sciences Chicago at UIC. Cleo is a passionate advocate for health sciences librarianship. She frequently guest lectured at Dominican University to library school students on health sciences librarianship. She enjoyed mentoring her colleagues within my department and the library school students who…
“And There’s the Humor of It” on Exhibit at Galter Health Sciences Library
The Galter Health Sciences Library will be hosting “‘And There’s the Humor of It’: Shakespeare and the Four Humors, an exhibition developed and produced by the Exhibition Program at the National Library of Medicine and the Folger Shakespeare Library. An opening event will be held Thursday, December 11th, 2014, 4:00 to 5:00 pm at Galter…