October 20 - 24, 2000
Revised 9/29/00

Mobile, Alabama

FRIDAY OCT 20

3:00 - 6:00 Registration/Hospitality

4:00 - 6:00 Executive Committee Meeting

6:00 - 8:00 Early Bird Reception

SATURDAY OCT 21

Optional Tours
8:30 - 12:00 Bellingrath Gardens

The coach will be at the Adams Mark Hotel to depart for the Bellingrath Gardens and Home. The historic Bellingrath Home with its rich furnishings and rare art collection is located in the midst of 65 acres of landscaped gardens on a bluff overlooking Fowl River. World-class gardens feature a vivid display of blooming flowers and shrubs. The surrounding wilderness is a bird sanctuary. This property was featured on America’s Castles TV show. The cost is $28 per person with a minimum of 15 people.

10:00 - 12:30 USS Alabama Battleship

The coach will take you to the 100-acre park features the USS Alabama, a World War II battleship; the submarine USS Drum; the “Calamity Jane,” a B-52 Stratofortress; a “Blackbird” spy plane; a P51-D Mustang Redtail, the plane flown by the Tuskegee airmen; and other rare and historic aircraft. An indoor aircraft pavilion and an award winning rose garden are also located at the park. For information, check out the webpage at: http://www.ussalabama.com/. The cost will be $15 per person with a minimum of 10 people.

10:15 – 12:15 Tour of Historic Mobile

Board your coach at Adams Mark Hotel for a tour of historic Mobile, which includes the Detonti Square Historic District, Mobile’s oldest surviving residential district with homes dating to the 1830s and 1850s; the Church Street East Historic District, Mobile’s second oldest existing residential neighborhood; the Oakleigh Garden Historic District, developed after the Civil War; and the Dauphin Street Historic District, with buildings from the mid-1800s to the early 1940s. You will ride through the historic districts, and stop at one of the ante-bellum museum homes. The cost is $15 with a minimum of 20 people.

1:30 - 4:30 Swamp Tour - Wildland Expeditions

Board the coach at Adams Mark Hotel for the two-hour narrated expedition on the boat  “Gator Bait”. The boat will take you into the Delta swamp to view the lush vegetation and remarkable variety of wildlife, swamps, tidal marshes, winding bayous and sloughs. The cost is
$30 per person for a minimum of 18 people. This tour can only take 20 people. Please sign up early to reserve your spot.
 

9:30 - 5:00 Grand Casino - Trip to Biloxi, MS

Board your coach at Adams Mark Hotel and depart for the Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. The cost will be $15 per person with a minimum of 30 people. You will receive $5.00 in silver to play in the slots.

Continuing Education Courses
 

8:00 - 3:00 Quality Filtering: Principles of Evidence-Based Medicine 
Instructors: Nunzia Giuse, Rebecca Jerome, Sandi Martin, Marcia Epelbaum
Affiliation:  Vanderbilt University Medical Center Library

8:00 - noon Bringing Your Library's Resources to the Web
Instructor:  Chandra Alston
Affiliation:  University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center

3:00 - 5:00 Using New DOCLINE
Instructor:  Beth Westcott
Affiliation:  NN/LM SE/A

2:00 - 3:00 Professional Development Committee Meeting

6:00 - 8:00 Welcome Reception and Opening of Exhibits

To open the reception, Le Krewe de Bienville will perform a tableau on the history of Mardi Gras in Mobile and present a mini Mardi Gras parade.

SUNDAY OCT 22

7:30 - 5:00 Registration/Hospitality

7:30 - 8:00 Breakfast outside Exhibit Hall

8:00 - 9:30 Opening Session 

Welcome: Tom Williams, Conference Chair; Tom Singarella, SC/MLA Chair; Joan Lukins, ALHeLA Chair

Bess Rich, Council member, District 6, City of Mobile

Keynote Address

Moderator: Lynn Fortney, EBSCO Information Services

Tom McMullen, The Hay Group
Medical Librarians' Salaries and Job Classifications:  The Results of MLA's Hay Study

How has information technology changed, and how will it continue to change, the role and accountabilities of medical library professionals?  In early 2000, The Hay Group, one of the world’s largest human resources consulting firms, was commissioned by the Medical Library Association (MLA) to conduct a study about how organizations compensate medical library professionals performing information technology oriented roles. With guidance provided by MLA staff, the Hay Group developed a custom survey to: 

· gather information about and analyze the job content and compensation of medical library jobs. 
· gather information about other important IT-related issues facing medical libraries in different types of institutions. 

The ultimate goal of the study is to provide data that will help us understand how technology oriented jobs are designed and how they are paid in medical library organizations, to support setting compensation levels in your own institution and to support the attraction and retention of employees in IT-related positions. 

9:30 - 5:00 EXHIBITS OPEN

9:30 - 10:15 BREAK and visit the EXHIBITS

9:30 - 10:15 AHIP Credentialing Mentor Session

Are you curious about the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP) credentialing program? Would you like to know more about what it means to you as a professional and how you can apply?  Or maybe you just have questions about what "counts" towards AHIP.  Join an informal question-and-answer session led by Sandra Franklin, SC/MLA's Credentialing Liaison, to learn more about AHIP requirements. 

10:15 - 11:45 Expanding Your Role

Moderators:  T. Scott Plutchak, University of Alabama at Birmingham
                     Mary Lillian Randle, North Mississippi Health Services

C.W. Goldsmith, Ph.D. 
Vice President for Information Technology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
How to Work With Your Chief Information Officer

Technology permeates health care education and delivery, including medical libraries.  CIOs in this world must understand the needs of users and communicate with those users in relevant terms.  The relationship between the CIO and the medical librarian can vary from openly war-like to mutually supportive.  Clair Goldsmith will discuss the role of the CIO and how medical librarians can leverage that role to provide better services to our mutual constituencies.

Jan Englert, R.N.
Coordinator of Clinical Outcomes
North Mississippi Health Services
Librarians' Contributions to the Health Care System

"Nonacademic" health systems perform clinical and administrative research, teach health care providers, and require extensive literature review to support evidence-based care management. Jan Englert's presentation will describe the diverse role of the health system librarian and her multifaceted contributions.

11:45 - 1:30 Alabama Health Libraries Association
                    20th Anniversary Luncheon

Carolyn Haines, author of
Touched and Them Bones

Carolyn Haines was raised in Mississippi, but now resides outside of Mobile.  Ms. Haines writes about the South that she loves and understands using unforgettable characters that could only come from this part of the world.  Her unique voice is evident in her early novels, Summer of the Redeemers and Touched, both set in a small Mississippi town.  Her latest novel, Them Bones, a slight departure from her earlier more serious books, is a mystery featuring an unconventional Southern belle as the unlikely detective.

Ms. Haines will be signing copies of her books after the luncheon.  Books will be available to purchase.

1:30 - 2:30 Down Memory Lane

Moderator:  Kathy Jones Torrente, Emory University

Participants:
T. Mark Hodges
W.D. Postell, Jr.

Don't miss two eloquent and entertaining speakers:  T. Mark Hodges, giving highlights from his written SC/MLA history, and William D, Postell, Jr., son of one of the Chapter's founders, relating a few anecdotes about its early years and some famous (infamous!) members. 

At the conclusion, Bill will issue the invitation to the 2001 joint meeting (with the South Central and Midcontinental Chapters) in New Orleans.

2:30 - 4:00 BREAK and visit the EXHIBITS

2:30 - 3:45 

Poster Session
Sally Murray, Coordinator

PR Marketplace (click here for details on how to submit)
Janice Debose, Coordinator

4:00 - 4:30  MLA Update

Introductions: Sarah Gable, SC/MLA Chapter Council

Michael Homan, President
Carol Jenkins, President-Elect
Jocelyn Rankin, Board of Directors
Lynn Fortney, Board of Directors

4:30 - 5:00 NLM / RML Update

Janice Kelly, Executive Director
NN/LM Southeastern/Atlantic Region 

6:00 - 9:30 BANQUET

Bragg-Mitchell Mansion

Begin the evening at the elegant Bragg-Mitchell Mansion, 1908 Springhill Avenue, with live jazz and hors d'oeuvres.  Enjoy a superb meal provided by Chef Filippo Milone of The Pillars, ranked as one of the Top 50 Continental Restaurants in the U.S.  Buses have been chartered to provide transportation leaving the Adams Mark at 5:45. 

MONDAY OCT 23

7:00 - 5:00 Registration/Hospitality

7:30 - 10:00 BREAKFAST and Annual Business Meeting
                    Tom Singarella, SC/MLA Chair 

10:00 - 4:00 EXHIBITS OPEN

10:00 - 11:00 Contributed Papers (2 concurrent sessions)
                      Andrea Batson, Coordinator

Consumer Health
Moderator:  Dixie Williamson, Head, Julius Jacobs Health Sciences Library, St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville, TN

Kay Hogan Smith, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jubilee, We Did It!: Setting Up a Cooperative Multi-type Library

Arlene F. Desselles, Georgia Baptist College of Nursing Library
Tara Douglas-Williams, Emory / Crawford Long Hospital Medical Library
Importance of Genealogy & Family Health History

Janet S. Fisher, East Tennessee State University
Establishing An End-Of-Life Care Collection

Marketing
Moderator:  Judy Burnham, Assistant Director for Regional and Administrative Services, C.M. Baugh Biomedical Library, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL

Fay Towell, Greenville Hospital System
Campaign, Design, and Renovate: The Expansion of a Hospital Library

Martha Earl, Shelley Paden, Connie Littleton, and Doris Prichard, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tennessee Medical Center
Positioning For Success With Multi-Focused Internal Marketing And Public Relations Campaigns

Tracy E. Powell, UAB Lister Hill Library at UAB University Hospital
Out of the Box: Taking Our Skills Outside the Library in Support of the
Hospital's Mission
 

11:00 - 12:00 MLA's Benchmarking Project - Beta Test and Future Plans
                      Linda Garr Markwell, SC/MLA's Benchmarking Educator

This session will be an update on the MLA Benchmarking beta-test.  In addition, Linda Garr will give you information on the future of this MLA project.  Some information about the eventual participation of the academic libraries in the Benchmarking Project will be discussed.

12:00 - 2:00 LUNCHEONS

Hospital Library Luncheon
Eileen Stanley, AHIP and the Hospital Librarian

What tools do you have for creating and executing a professional development plan for your career?  Do you rely on local continuing education courses and mandates from your employer? Do you read and participate in activities that broaden your experience and help you network with colleagues? Do you seek out new challenges and ways to contribute to the profession? 

Being the professional hospital librarian that you are expected to be or the one you are determined to become involves all of the above activities.  But knowing when to take on each of these tasks and how to assimilate your learning into your professional repertoire takes some guidance.  This guidance can come from many places, and as a member of the Medical Library Association it is available to you in the form of the Academy of Health Information Professionals.  Along with tools from other professional organizations and programs in development by MLA, a career development plan is made easier and more rewarding by taking advantage of AHIP membership.  Eileen Stanley will discuss these programs and tools and how they can fit into your professional life to make you the best and most fulfilled hospital librarian possible.

CONBLS Luncheon

2:00 - 3:30 Contributed Papers (3 concurrent sessions)
                   Andrea Batson, Coordinator

Electronic Resources
Moderator:  T.Scott Plutchak, Director, UAB Lister Hill Library, Birmingham, AL

Jan Burns, VA Medical Library, Birmingham
Living in the World of Virtual Reality

Nila A. Sathe,  Deborah H. Broadwater, and Nunzia B. Giuse, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Jenifer L. Grady, Meharry Medical College
Electronic vs. Paper Journal Use: Does Format Affect Information Seeking?

Richard Nollan, University of Tennessee at Memphis,
Looking to the Future: Stand Alone, Cross Platform Databases

Addajane L. Wallace, Halifax Medical Center
E-Medline and Loansome Doc

Bob Schrimsher, McWhorter School of Pharmacy, Samford University
Web-based Pharmacy Reference Guides:  A Success Story for Effective Usage of Electronic Resources

Knowledge Management 
Moderator:  Dr. Cheryl Dee, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Rosalind Lett, Crawford Long Hospital
Conceptual Conversion: From Managers of Information to Managers of Knowledge

Martha Earl and Jon Parham, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
Effective Use Of Evidence-Based Medicine Resources With Third Year Family Medicine Students

Jan H. LaBeause, Roxanne M. Nelson, Rita B. Smith, and Stuart H.Tedders, Mercer University School of Medicine; Sheila Griffin, Foothills AHEC, Gainesville, GA; Kate Cronin,  Georgia Division of Public Health
Improving Information Skills For Georgia Public Health Practice: The Phoenix Project

Rita Smith, Mercer University School of Medicine
Information Retrieval Skills of Nursing Seniors: A Comparison of Actual Skills with Faculty Perceptions

Utilizing Technology Creatively
Moderator:  Suresh Ponnappa, Assistant Dean of Learning Resources and Library
Director, Quillen College of Medicine Library, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN

Ellen N. Sayed and Sally Murray, University of South Alabama
The Magic of Prospero

M. Dawn Williams, Nunzia B. Giuse, and Nila Sathe,Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Telecommuting: A Successful Strategy for Talent Retention

Patricia Higginbottom and Ed Harris, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Virtual Desktop: Remote Patron Authentication and Application Management

Annette Williams,  Nunzia B. Giuse and Nila Sathe, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Advancing Technology in the Workplace to Promote Sharing and Reusing Knowledge

Eileen H. Stanley
Gazing into the Digital Crystal Ball: Advanced Technologies and the Hospital Librarian

3:30 - 4:00 BREAK and visit the EXHIBITS

4:00 - 5:15 What Do We Mean By "Leadership"?

Moderator: Lynn Fortney, SC/MLA Chair-Elect

Participants:
Tom Singarella, SC/MLA Chair
Nancy Clemmons, SC/MLA Strategic Planning Committee Chair
Rosalind Lett, SC/MLA Immediate Past President
Brenda Faye Green, SC/MLA Professional Development Committee Chair
Mary Fran Protsmann, SC/MLA Hospital Libraries Committee Chair

This discussion session will feature those you have chosen to lead SC/MLA.  At various stages of their careers, these individuals will focus on the challenges of leadership at all levels of the organization.  Participants will be asked to discuss the differences between their expectations of the leadership demands they have faced and the realities, the greatest challenges and rewards that they have found in their careers so far, and what they have learned and hope to learn in the future about exercising effective leadership. 

TUESDAY OCT 24

9:00 - 12:00 Executive Committee Meeting

Continuing Education Courses

8:00 - 5:00 Building & Managing your Digital Library
Instructor: Scott Garrison
Affiliation:  Duke University Medical Center Library

8:00 - 5:00 Serials Management
Instructor:  Jett McCann
Affiliation:  EBSCO

8:00 - 12:00 Management Basics
Instructor:  Dr. Robert Bennett III
Affiliation:  University of South Alabama

1:00 - 5:00 Keeping Up with NLM's PubMed 
Instructor:  Toni Yancey
Affiliation:  NN/LM SE/A