Inside this Issue
PHLI Staff Notes
Nancy Allee completed two workshops at the American Medical Informatics Association annual conference in October: “Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics” and “Ontologies in Biomedicine.”
Nancy will also be giving a presentation at APHA on Wed, Dec 14 th titled, "Public Health Information and Data Tutorials: Development of Web-based Resources for the Public Health Workforce" in the Evidence-based Practice and Effective Policy section of the conference.
Helen Look and Deborah Lauseng (Taubman Medical Library)
presented a paper "Discovering New Routes to Training the Public HealthWorkforce" for
the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association's 2005 Annual Meeting
in Fargo , North Dakota in September.
Helen and Taubman Medical librarians (Theresa Arndt,
Alison
Grodzinski, and Anna Ercoli Schnitzer) presented a poster session "Cultural
Competency Resources @ UM Health Sciences Libraries" for the Michigan
Health Sciences Libraries Association 2005 Conference in Thompsonville , Michigan
in September.
Patty Bradley attended the Powered by Detroit Cold Fusion/Flash Conference in Dearborn in April.
Patty also taught the following workshops:
Ann Arbor ITZone Talk: “Website Visibility.” For the Association for Women in Computing on June 9th.
One Day Seminar: “Introduction to HTML and XHTML.” For the Association for Women in Computing on January 15th.
One Day Seminar: “Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets.” For the Association for Women in Computing on November 12th.
Gillian Mayman presented a poster at Michigan 's Premier Public Health Conference titled: “The Public Health Informationist: New Roles and Opportunities.” on October 12th .
Gillian and Theresa Arndt taught a full day course on August 8 th on “Retrieving Online Information” in Traverse City for the Great Lakes Intertribal Council. The course was co-sponsored by the Michigan Center for Public Health Preparedness and the Michigan Public Health Training Center.
New University Library Food and Beverage Policy
Non-alcoholic beverages in closed containers (thermoses, travel mugs, bottled water or soft drinks, etc.) are now permitted in most areas of the University Library. Exceptions are: Special Collections (and special collections or archives in other libraries), Papyrology, and the Map Library.
However, food is still prohibited in library facilities in an attempt to maintain the usable condition of library materials and to improve the study and research environment. Individuals with food will be asked to discard it or to leave the facility.
| << previous article |