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GHSLA 2015 Annual Meeting Agenda and Registration

The annual meeting of the Georgia Health Sciences Library Association will be held March 25, 2015 in Macon, Georgia at Mercer University School of Medicine’s Learning Resource Center. (Google map here. Campus map here. Campus parking day pass here.)

Click here for the meeting Agenda.

Registration for the conference may be completed online through this link.

Registration is $50 for members and $65 for non-members. Payment by PayPal is accepted through the registration link above.

If you prefer, you may send a check or money order to:
GHSLA c/o Kim Powell
Woodruff Health Sciences Library
1462 Clifton Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30322

For questions or concerns regarding payment please contact GHSLA Treasurer, Kim Powell at [email protected] or (404) 727-3961.

Note that this year’s CE course is free of charge, courtesy of NNLM!

CE Class Announced for 2015 GHSLA Meeting

The Continuing Education Class to be offered at the March 25 GHSLA meeting will be Answering the Right Questions: Data Collection for Health Information Outreach.

Description: The goal of this course is to improve librarians and others’ ability to collect evaluation data for health information outreach. By the end of the course, participants should know how to design typical data-collection techniques like questionnaires and qualitative interview guides. Participants also will learn to use logic models to focus their data collection methods. The workshop will combine lecture with interactive group exercises and large group discussions that allow participants to practice designing data collection methods.

Topics include:

Using evaluation questions to focus data collection
Conducting short, to-the-point interviews to collect outcome data
Using a “contact sheet” to organize interview notes and communicate findings with other team members
Using participatory methods to get information from a large number of community members
Using standard “counts” (attendance rates; drop-out rates) as evaluation data
Designing and administering short questionnaires

This class has been approved for 3 Medical Library Association contact hours. For additional information click here.

Job Posting: Head of Clinical Informationist Services, Emory University

The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University has an exciting opportunity for a self-confident, creative, and knowledgeable individual. The Head of Clinical Informationist Services will lead a team in planning, delivering, and evaluating services for clientele at a leading academic health sciences center.

View the complete posting here: http://web.library.emory.edu/documents/pa_HeadClinicalInformationist_final.pdf

Candidates applying by December 15th will receive priority consideration.

Review of applications will continue until position is successfully filled. Emory is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer that welcomes and encourages diversity and seeks applications and nominations from women and minorities.

Annual Meeting Stipend Applications Due December 12, 2014

The GHSLA offers stipends for annual meeting travel to both students and to members.

The Legacy Scholarship was established to provide assistance to a student enrolled in a library and information studies program who intends to pursue a career in health sciences librarianship. The individual must be a current student attending an accredited program with a minimum of 9 earned credit hours. The scholarship covers registration for the Annual (March) GHSLA meeting and one nights lodging. For eligibility guidelines and more information check out the application here: Scholarship Application.

For eligibility guidelines and more information view the Legacy Scholarship Application.

The Annual Meeting Member Stipend provides assistance to members of the Georgia Health Sciences Library Association (GHSLA) in funding participation in the annual meeting. It is designed to encourage involvement in the organization. The stipend will cover registration for the Annual GHSLA meeting and up to one continuing education course. Up to two stipends can be awarded each year.

For eligibility guidelines and more information view the Annual Meeting Member Stipend Application.

Applications are due December 12, 2014.

NLM Biomedical Informatics Course Accepting Applications for Spring and Fall 2015

Georgia Regents University (GRU) is now accepting applications for the Spring and Fall 2015 NLM Georgia Biomedical Informatics course. The NLM Biomedical Informatics Course, now entering its 22nd year, offers participants a week-long immersive experience in biomedical informatics taught by experts in the field. NLM plans to take the skills shaped over the past two decades at MBL to its new colleagues at GRU.

The Spring 2015 course is scheduled for April 12-18, 2015 and the Fall 2015 course will be held September 27-October 3, 2015. Application Deadline for Spring 2015 and Fall 2015: December 15, 2014, 8:00 AM EDT.

The course will be held at a conference center in Young Harris, GA, frequently used by Georgia Regents University, at no cost to participants.

Application to the course is open to all, but space is limited. Preference will be given to American applicants who demonstrate, through a brief application letter, that they have the significant need for an understanding of the informatics solutions that are available to address their biomedical research, practice and education challenges and that, through their official position, they are significant “change agents” who can influence the adoption of best practices in their own environment and expand the influence of the course to others through teaching or by example.

The course, co-directed by James J. Cimino, MD, Chief, Laboratory for Informatics Development at the National Library of Medicine and the NIH Clinical Center, and NLM Director Donald Lindberg, MD, will guide participants through topics including biomedical informatics methods, clinical informatics, big data and imaging, genomics, consumer health informatics, mathematical modeling, and telemedicine and telehealth.

Application information can be found at http://gru.edu/library/greenblatt/informaticscourse/apply.php

Course information can be found at http://gru.edu/library/greenblatt/informaticscourse/index.php