The HSLS Staff News section includes recent HSLS presentations, publications, staff changes, staff promotions, degrees earned, etc.
Presentations
Barbara Epstein, director, presented “Clinical Focus in the eRecord” at the annual meeting of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, Boston, Mass. on November 7, 2009 and “Integrating knowledge-based information into the eRecord: a long and winding road” at the Medical Library Association Tri-Chapter Meeting, Atlantic City, N.J. on October 7, 2009.
Charles B. Wessel, head of hospital services presented “Librarians as learners: HSLS systematic review opportunity” at the Medical Library Association Tri-Chapter Meeting, Atlantic City, N.J. on October 6, 2009.
Publications
John Erlen, history of medicine librarian, published “New dissertations” in Nursing History Review, 18(1):243-250, 2010; “Disability studies abstracts” in Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 5(3):101-102, 2009; co-authored “Recent dissertations” in American Indian Quarterly, 33(4):591-600, 2009; and edited “Recent dissertations in the history of medicine” in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 64(4):565-588, 2009.
Linda Hartman, reference librarian, co-authored “Telerehabilitation: policy issues and research tools” in International Journal of Telerehabilitation, 1(1):47-58, Fall 2009.
Congratulations
Donald Graham, circulation specialist, received an MLIS degree in April from the School of Information Sciences at Pitt.
Michele Klein Fedyshin, reference librarian, passed the NCLEX examination in October and is now a Registered Nurse.