2000 Annual Meeting

Wednesday, October 18

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM (One hour lunch on your own)

"Applying Copyright Law in Libraries"

INSTRUCTOR: Jim Heller, MLS, JD, Director, Law Library, Professor of Law, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Explore copyright issues by analyzing the rights of owners and users of copyrighted works. Discuss permissible practices in for-profit and nonprofit libraries; educational uses; document delivery services; audiovisual materials, databases, and digital information; foreign works; and licensing. Review, analyze, and discuss federal copyright law, including the DMCA, interpretive court decisions, and congressional and other guidelines.

LOCATION: Hotel Roanoke
CE CREDIT: 8 contact hours
MAC/SLA MEMBERS: $130.00
NON-MEMBERS: $170.00

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

"Introduction to Electronic Resources"

INSTRUCTOR: Jean L. Siebert, MLS, AHIP, Electronic Resources/ Reference Librarian, West Virginia University, Morganton, WV; Terrance Burton, MLS, AHIP, Director Health Sciences Library, West Virginia University Morganton, WV; Mary Frances Bodemuller, MLS, AHIP, Library, West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Lewisburg, WV.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: A macro view of issues relating to the evaluation, licensing, purchase, and implementation of electronic resources. Focused toward librarians responsible for obtaining and maintaining resources and their administrators. Presents the terminology necessary to interface with vendors and systems departments. Explores methods of evaluating electronic resources by arranging a trial for a sample of users and designing evaluation forms for their comments Examines collection development issues and licensing of electronic resources. Learn about a unique case study about electronic resources used in multiple sites in this region.

LOCATION: College of Health Sciences
CE CREDIT: 4 contact hours
MAC/SLA MEMBERS: $65.00
NON-MEMBERS: $85.00

Saturday, October 21

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

"Keeping Up With NLM's PubMed"

INSTRUCTOR: Sandra Teitlebaum, MAT, MLS, Outreach Coordinator, NN/LM, Southeastern/Atlantic Region, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is a refresher course for experienced online searchers covering System enhancements to PubMed. Designed for the NLM searcher who has been searching the PubMed system but would like a refresher or update on the new features and search enhancements that have occurred in the last year. Course attendees should have some knowledge and experience with PubMed searching and be familiar with MEDLINE, MeSH vocabulary and Boolean logic as these topics will not be covered in this class.

LOCATION: College of Health Sciences
CE CREDIT: 4 contact hours
MAC/SLA MEMBERS: $65.00
NON-MEMBERS: $85.00

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

"Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Information Resources for Choices in Healing"

INSTRUCTOR: Charles Wessel, MLS, Coordinator of Affiliated Hospital Services, Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course provides an overview of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in health care today. It will discuss the most commonly used CAM systems, their nomenclature, their impact on the treatment of chronic diseases and the future impact these therapies will have on the provision of reference services in academic and clinical settings. The focus of the course will be on the use of Internet resources and guidelines for the provision of reference to individuals seeking CAM therapies. At the end of this course participants will be able to: [1] Define the role of CAM in health care; [2] Compare and contrast the most commonly used CAM therapies; [3] Describe typical reference problems involving CAM therapies; [4] Identify Internet resources for users with questions on CAM therapies; [5] Understand information problems associated with locating CAM literature; [6] Understand and utilize guidelines in providing reference to individuals requesting CAM information.

LOCATION: Hotel Roanoke
CE CREDIT: 4 contact hours
MAC/SLA MEMBERS: $65.00
NON-MEMBERS: $85.00

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM (One hour lunch on your own)

"Management for Solo Librarians"

INSTRUCTOR: Judith Siess, MSLIS, President, Information Bridges International, Inc., Publisher/Editor, "The One-Person Library: A Newsletter for Librarians and Management".

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Do you work alone? Do you have trouble getting it all done? Find the solutions for the issues and challenges of managing a small, limited-resource medical or hospital library staffed by one person or one professional with nonprofessional assistance. Acquire the tools and the confidence to be your institution's sole information provider.

LOCATION: Hotel Roanoke
CE CREDIT: 8 contact hours
MAC/SLA MEMBERS: $130.00
NON-MEMBERS: $170.00