NAHSL 2016 CPC: Program planning

To be displayed on slides before Business Meeting

Donna Kafel: 6 1/2  years as Project Coordinator for the New England e-Science Program, stepping down from this role and leaving UMass Medical School for new position as a public librarian in a local public library. (Photos available from Google Images.)

Janice Swiatek was appointed as Director of the LM Stowe Library at UConn Health Center.

Meredith Solomon--left NN/LM for Brigham & Women's.

Meghan Muir--left Brigham & Women's for Boston Children's Hospital.

Alison Clapp--retired from Boston Children's Hospital.

Linda Kaczmarczyk--retired from Hartford Hospital. Made emeritus member of CAHSL in December 2015.

Hathy Simpson--(Lamar Soutter Library) leaving position as Project Coordinator for the Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce Website Project . New position as Program Manager for the New England AIDS Education and Training Center.

Marissa Gauthier of Lyman Maynard Stowe Library has co-authored two systematic reviews published in the Journal of Prosthodontics.

Susan Bloomfield no longer at Southern Maine Medical Center.

Katherine Stemmer Frumento developed and implemented a consumer health library for her hospital. The resource is the only hospital-based consumer health library in Fairfield County area of CT. A story about the program was published in the Greenwich Times - http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Greenwich-Hospital-now-offers-a-layman-s-9939843.php#photo-11371409

Congratulations to NAHSL member, Wendy Brown, on her promotion at ConsumerMedical in Pembroke, MA! You can read more about Wendy’s gig, plus see other member highlights on the NAHSL Member Highlight page - http://nahsl.libguides.com/MemberHighlights. 

Beth Dyer received AHIP certification.

New eScience Coordinator: Julie Goldman

 Please welcome Julie Goldman to the NN/LM New England Region. Julie comes to the NN/LM NER from the Lamar Soutter Library Fellowship Program where she split her time between the fellowship and the eScience program. Julie began working towards medical librarianship and data management in the fall of 2013 at Simmons College where she was a student in the first data management class offered, presenting her work at the 2014 eScience Symposium.  

Madge Boldt now works at Massasoit Community College in MA as the Electronic Resources Librarian.

Donna Beales left Lowell General Hospital in February. She now lives in New Jersey and is self-employed.

Connecticut Valley Hospital closed, Kandace Yuen lost her job.

Jeannine Gluck wrote "It's Complicated" (a brief article about searching for literature on surgical complications) for the Expert Searching column of the MLA News, which is edited by Melanie Norton.

Meredith Solomon has been appointed to the 2018 NPC.

Mary Piorun serves on the 2017 NPC.

I am pleased to announce that we have hired Javier Crespo as the National Public Health Coordination Office (NPHCO) Manager effective May 23^rd.

Congratulations to Christine Fleuriel and Susan Bloomfield on their excellent article on health information seeking in the Portland Press Herald.

In memoriam--NAHSL members & friends
Dan Boutchie of New England Journal of Medicine, 10-19-2015
Photo at https://www.youcaring.com/jenn-boutchie-454873.

• Pre-conference webinar format for NLM & NN/LM update is popular and eases time constraints at conference.
• Have an extra speaker in mind who could be asked at a late date, in case a speaker must cancel.
• Using crowdsourcing for roundtable topics has been used. Put up flipchart on easel, ask the question at the top.
• Attendees have asked for a bit more downtime for networking, and "more face-to-face time instead of shoulder-to-shoulder time." In 2016, we accomodated this by having the seating for the entire conference at round tables.
• The choice of whether to have breakout sessions is completely up to the committee, and depends on what content you have to fill those sessions. It may be useful to leave this time unscheduled at first, to accomodate topics that arise during the year. Then a single presenter or breakouts can fill in, as appropriate. Try to balance the interests of hospital and academic librarians at breakouts.
• The Business Meeting takes place on Tuesday morning, and is the responsibility of the NAHSL Chair and Chair-elect.
• CPC invites the MLA President shortly after the beginning of the calendar year. A different Board member may be designated to come.
• Board member gives MLA update at the Business Meeting--even though that may have also been covered in a pre-conference webinar.
• Designate a CPC member to be their "buddy" at the conference.
• Register the Board member as a speaker--no cost. MLA has a budget to cover their travel & lodging.
• In 2015, at breakfast before Business Meeting, attendees enjoyed photos of members' accomplishments. 2016 displayed photo booth pictures from previous evening.

• Recommends potential speakers to CPC
• Communicates with potential speakers and reports back to CPC about availability and expenses
• Negotiates with speakers chosen
• Registers speakers for conference on WIld Apricot
• Coordinates speaker needs during the conference
• Arranges for honorarium checks to be available at time of conference; collects expense reports and arranges for payment