Inside this Issue
- Focus on E-learning
- E-learning website and blog
- Resource guide to e-learning software and resources
- Sympodcasting
- Instantly Collaborative Spaces
- RSS Feeds and Public Health
- SPH Podcasting Update
- E-learning Guide
- PHLI Summer Schedule
- E-learning Bibliography
- Annual User Survey
- Announcing Merit Online
- Posters and Public Health
- PHLI Technology Update
- New Web Statistics Software
- New Staff Bios
- Librarian Exchange
- Staff Notes
- A Day in the Life
New Staff Bios
Alison Grodzinski
Alison Grodzinski joined Public Health Library and Informatics as the Head of Operations in February 2006. She comes to PHLI from Taubman Medical Library where she worked for the past year as an Information Services Librarian.
Alison received her Bachelor of Science in Biology and Psychology from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario in 1995 and her Master in Library and Information Studies from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec in 1997.
After graduation, she made the move from Montreal to Mount Pleasant, Michigan to begin her career as a Reference Librarian and Health Sciences Bibliographer at Central Michigan University (CMU). As the Library Liaison to the faculty, staff, and students in the College of Health Professions, Alison instructed library workshops, assisted researchers with their library needs and managed the Health Sciences and Psychology collections.
As a faculty librarian at CMU, Alison taught a stand-alone information literacy skills course each semester, and worked closely with the faculty to develop information literacy components for a number of health sciences and general undergraduate courses.
She was also elected to represent the university library on several CMU committees and boards including the Academic Senate Executive Board and Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. She earned tenure in Spring 2003.
During this time, Alison completed her coursework toward a master’s degree in Health Promotion and Program Management and is currently writing her thesis on online health information use of undergraduate students.Nancy Pulsipher
After a brief two and a half year interruption, Nancy Pulsipher returns to PHLI to support the development and implementation of instructional technology, distance education, and informatics related efforts.
She left in 2003 for an Associate Fellowship at the National Library of Medicine spending the second year of the Fellowship at the CDC in Atlanta. She stayed on as an instruction and outreach librarian at the CDC until February of 2006 but has now seen the error of her ways and returned to SPH/PHLI, though she did get some “bum information about when the construction would be done.”
Nancy received her master’s degree in Information from Michigan’s School of Information in 2001 and then worked at PHLI as a Reference and Instruction Librarian. She is originally from the western United States but cannot seem to get out of the Midwest, despite what she calls the “hateful winters.”
Theresa Arndt
Terry is the Head of Outreach Services at the Taubman Medical Library, where she has worked since 2000. She has over 10 years of experience as a health sciences librarian and educator.
Prior to coming to Michigan, she held positions at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Terry has extensive experience teaching information retrieval and evidence based practice, and has written and presented regionally and nationally on information retrieval in the health sciences. Terry holds a B.A. in Psychology and English from Case Western Reserve University, and a Master of Library Science degree from SUNY-Buffalo. She resides in Toledo, Ohio with her husband Don.
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