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

Disaster Information Specialists Conference Call: Ebola Outbreak Resources

Disaster Information Specialists Program monthly conference call/webinar on Ebola Outbreak: Managing Health Information Resources

 Thursday, October 9, 2014, 1:30 PM ET

The 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak has resulted in an explosion of information on many aspects of managing the disease from a clinical and public health perspective. There is also considerable interest in related topics such as legalities of quarantine; ethics of vaccine development; shaming and isolation of Ebola survivors, family members of the deceased and Ebola orphans; food security; and the effects on healthcare for other medical conditions in areas with extremely limited resources. How does one make sense of the outpouring of information from news media, social media, publications and guidelines from international agencies, national governments, NGOs, and professional associations; situation reports; maps and other tools for visualizing the outbreak? What about health messaging materials like infographics, radio jingles, banners, TV interviews, and webinars? Join us to discuss the nature of information flow during an infectious disease outbreak, with a special focus on Ebola-related resources from the National Library of Medicine.

Presenter:  Cindy Love is a medical librarian with over 20 years’ experience in public health information management at the National Library of Medicine. As part of the NLM Disaster Information Management Research Center, Cindy has developed information resources for every major U.S. and international disaster in the last 5 years. She first co-authored a bibliography on “Viral Hemorrhagic Fever” in 1996. It ranks #8,569,688 on Amazon’s list of bestselling books.

The Disaster Information Specialist monthly meeting is open to everyone.  To join the meeting click on https://webmeeting.nih.gov/disinfo  Enter your name in the guest box and click “Enter Room”.  A box should pop up asking for your phone number. Enter your phone number and the system will call you.  For those who cannot use this call-back feature, the dial-in information is: Dial-In:  1-888-757-2790, Pass-Code: 745907.

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Job Posting: Georgia Regents University

Nursing Information Librarian, Assistant Professor University Libraries, Health Sciences Campus, Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library, Georgia Regents University (GRU), Position Number 7634

The Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library of Georgia Regents University in Augusta invites applications for the position of Nursing Information Librarian. The primary focus of this non-tenure track faculty position is to provide health information literacy instruction and research assistance for College of Nursing faculty, students and staff.  Click HERE for full job description and requirements.

Responsibilities: The Nursing Information Librarian provides personalized and customized research and education support via an embedded service model to College of Nursing and nursing clinical departments. The successful candidate will develop customized instruction, both in-person and online, throughout the nursing curriculum. This position will be responsible for providing specialized reference and research consultations for nursing faculty. Assisting clinical nursing faculty and staff within the integrated health care system find evidence-based resources for patient care and teaching will be required. The Nursing Information Specialist will work collaboratively with library faculty to support instruction, collection development, distance education and emerging instructional technology within the department and university. This position is responsible for providing information services to distance nursing students and faculty located at remote clinical campus sites.

How To Apply: In order to be formally considered for employment at Georgia Regents University, applications must be submitted electronically and must include a letter of interest, current curriculum vitae, and names of three professional references. Please submit as one document.

Applicants should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and names of three professional references online at http://www.gru.edu/jobs/faculty/

Job Posting: Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine

Information Technology Librarian, Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine (ACOM).  This position is designed to provide a fast track toward medical library leadership.   We offer a supportive library environment, one where mentorship is a top priority of the library director.

The ACOM is a new medical school beginning its second year in August 2014.  This is an excellent position for a medical librarian seeking an opportunity to start out on the ground floor in the development of a new and exciting digital library.  The Information Technology Librarian is responsible for delivering and providing leadership for the full range of library services, with a focus on technology.  Functions include managing the library website; managing the programs and applications that are required to make full use of and provide effective access to the digital resources of the library; and providing other user-service functions.  Relevant technology skills are required and further development of these skills will be supported.

Position requirements:

  • Master’s degree in library or information science (MLS or MSLS) from an ALA-accredited program.
  • Minimum of 3 years of relevant library experience.

Salary minimum:  $60,000.  Inquiries about the position are welcome either via telephone at 334-944-4032 or via e-mail.  Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.

Please send letter of interest and CV to Barbara Shearer, Director, Learning Resource Center, Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine, 445 Health Sciences Boulevard, Dothan, AL  36303 or via e-mail to [email protected].