This information is over 2 years old. Information was current at time of publication.{"id":4133,"date":"2010-11-18T14:36:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T19:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2010-11-18T14:36:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T19:36:55","slug":"staff-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/staff-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The HSLS Staff News section includes recent HSLS presentations, publications, staff changes, staff promotions, degrees earned, etc.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <strong>News<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong> Barbara Epstein<\/strong>, HSLS director, was appointed as co-chair-designate of the Future Leadership Committee of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL). The committee oversees mentoring and development programs for the next generation of health sciences library leaders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Misti Kane<\/strong> has been promoted to collections and technical services specialist. Kane&#8217;s responsibilities include book ordering\/receipt, copy cataloging of both print books and electronic journals, book repairs, withdrawals, and other database maintenance activities. She began working at HSLS in 1996.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Presentations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong> Barb Folb<\/strong>, public health informationist and reference librarian, presented a talk \u201cInformation Practices of Disaster Preparedness Professionals in Multidisciplinary Groups\u201d at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&amp;T), Pittsburgh, PA on October 25, 2010.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong> Jonathon Erlen<\/strong>, history of medicine librarian published \u201cDissertations\/Theses\u201d in the <em>Canadian Bulletin of Medical History<\/em>, 27(2): 425-6, 2010; \u201cRecent Dissertations on Alcohol, Drugs, Tobacco and Addiction History\u201d in S<em>ocial History of Alcohol and Drugs<\/em>, 24(1): 37-8, 2010; and \u201cDissertations\u201d in <em>International Journal of Healthcare &amp; Humanities<\/em>, 5(5): 30-2, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HSLS Staff News section includes recent HSLS presentations, publications, staff changes, staff promotions, degrees earned, etc. News Barbara Epstein, HSLS director, was appointed as co-chair-designate of the Future Leadership Committee of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL). The committee oversees mentoring and development programs for the next generation of health sciences library [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"issue-archives","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[-1],"class_list":["post-4133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-december-2010","avhec_catgroup-issue-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}