THURSDAY, APRIL 7
8:00 – 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 9:45 AHSLC Business Meeting
9:45 – 10:45 Break with vendors
10:45 – 11:45 Roundtables – How are you key to your community?
(Choose two half-hour sessions)
Institutional research assistance and partnerships (aka library programs and services administration), Moderator – Kim Powell
Consumer health education, – Moderator – Christine Willis
Partnering with other organizations/institutions (aka forging and maintaining alliances with universities, public libraries, public health services, community-based organizations, and others to meet users’ information needs), Moderators – Tara Douglas-Williams, Shannon Glover
Embedded medical librarians and/or librarians working out in the community (aka the information needs of health practitioners, researchers, administrators, educators, students, patients, consumers, and the general public), Moderator – Anna Krampl
11:45 – 12:00 Remembering Miriam Libbey
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 Miriam Libbey Panel – “The importance of increasing the health knowledge of your community”
Preston Burt, Health Communications Specialist, Environmental Health Tracking Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Laura Hauser, DeKalb County Public Library Literacy Services Director
Dr. Glenda Knight, executive director of Cutting Edge Health Options & co-chair of the Diabetes Community Action Coalition
2:30 – 3:00 Break with vendors
3:00 – 5:00 GHSLA Business Meeting
5:00 – 7:00 Reception, Square Pub
FRIDAY, APRIL 8
8:00 – 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 12:00 CE – Planning Outcomes-Based Outreach Projects
Karen Vargas, NN/LM Outreach Evaluation Resource Center