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2000 Annual Meeting

Roanoke, VA


Final Program



Committees and Officers | Exhibitors and Sponsors |
October 17 | October 18 | October 19 | October 20 | October 21

Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Medical Library Association, 2000 Annual Meeting

MAC 2000, Reaching for the Stars!

MAC 2000 Home Page

Roanoke, Virginia, The Star City! October 18-21, 2000

Program & Continuing Education Courses

The Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke, Virginia





Mid-Atlantic Chapter
2000 Program Committee

Jonathan M. Lord, Chair
Barbara Collins
Joanne Marshall
Jane Pellegrino
Rick Peterson


2000 Local Arrangements Committee

Claire Meissner, Co-Chair
Mary Alice Sherrard, Co-Chair

AV / Web Site
Gabe Rios
Adam Glazer

Continuing Education
Karen Grandage

Exhibits
Ann Duesing, Chair
Ilene Smith
Lynne Turman

Publicity
Ann Sasser

Printing
Karen Dillon

Hospitality
Elaine Banner, Chair
Dottie Beck
Andrea Horne
Mary Horner
Jean Kennedy
Patricia Vaughn
Barbara Weedman

Registration
Ann Mathews, Co-Chair
Alice Sheridan, Co-Chair
Dottie Beck
Jane Burnette
Karen Dillon
Joan Pollard


Officers and Committee Chairs
Chair    Steven J. Squires
Chair-Elect Jonathan Lord
Immediate Past-Chair Terrance Burton
Secretary Mary Wallace Berry
Treasurer Patricia Hammond
Chapter Council Representative Ginny DuPont
Chapter Council Representative Alternate Paula Raimondo
Nominee To MLA Nominating Committee Patricia Thibodeau
Professional Development Committee Margaret Norden
Membership Committee Jane Borland
Governmental Relations Committee Carolyn Willard
Honors and Awards Committee Janice Kelly
Publications Committee Martha Bedard
MAC Messages Editor Janice L. Mason

Mid-Atlantic Chapter
Medical Library Association

A special thank you is extended to our exhibitors and sponsors!

MAC 2000 Exhibitors

Aries Systems
Basch Subscriptions
CMEinfo.com
CyberTools
EBSCO Information Services
Faxon RoweCom Medical Services
Login Brothers Book Company
Majors Scientific Books
Matthews / Medsite.com
MD Consult
Medical Library Association
Harcourt Health Sciences / W. B. Saunders / Mosby / Churchill
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, SE/A Region
OVID Technologies
Rittenhouse Book Distributors
Shenandoah Valley Bindery
STAT!Ref
Swets Blackwell



MAC 2000 Sponsors

Faxon RoweCom Medical Services
Majors Scientific Books
Matthews / Medsite.com
Rittenhouse Book Distributors
Southwest Virginia Health Information Librarians



MAC expresses appreciation to the Carilion Health System for their support of conference printing, postage, and supplies.



MAC 2000, Reaching for the Stars!



Tuesday, October 17

 5:00 PM  -  7:00 PM      Registration
                          North Entry Foyer

 6:30 PM                  Dine Arounds
                          Meet at Registration Table

Wednesday, October 18

 7:00 AM  -  9:00 AM      Registration
11:00 AM  -  1:00 PM      North Entry Foyer
 3:00 PM  -  6:30 PM

 7:30 AM  - 12:30 PM      Continuous Break
                          Upper CC Lounge


                          Continuing Education Courses
				
8:00 AM  -  5:00 PM       "Applying Copyright Law in Libraries"
                          Location: Buck Mountain
                          Instructor: Jim Heller, MLS, JD, Director,
                          Law Library, Professor of Law, College of
                          William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

1:00 PM  -  5:00 PM       "Introduction to Electronic Resources"
                          Location: College of Health Sciences, Room 217
                          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

Wednesday, October 18

 6:00 PM  -  6:15 PM      New Member Reception
 
 6:15 PM  -  8:00 PM      Welcome Reception
                          4th Floor, Science Museum of Western Virginia & Hopkins Planetarium,
                          Includes Planetarium Show, 7:15 PM - 8:00 PM

Thursday, October 19

 7:00 AM  -  9:00 AM      Registration
10:00 AM  - 11:00 PM      North Entry Foyer
 3:00 PM  -  4:00 PM

 7:00 AM  -  4:00 PM      Continuous Break
                          Crystal / Roanoke Foyer
 
 7:30 AM  -  8:30 AM      Committee Meetings

                          Governmental Relations, Bent Mountain
                          Honors & Awards, Tinker Mountain
                          Membership, Buck Mountain
                          Professional Development, Mill Mountain
                          Publications, Wilson Room

 8:45 AM  -  9:00 AM      Welcoming Remarks
                          Roanoke Ballroom C, Enter Through D
 
                          Jonathan Lord, University of Virginia
                          Health Sciences Library
                          MAC/MLA 2000 Program Chair

                          Claire Meissner
                          Centra Health / Lynchburg General Hospital
                          Mary Alice Sherrard
                          Memorial Hospital Martinsville & Henry County,
                          Local Arrangements Co-Chairs
						  
 9:00 AM  - 10:00 AM      General Session I
                          Roanoke Ballroom C
	  
                          "The 'Near' Future of Medicine: Providing 'Just-in-time'
                          Information at the "Point-of-Care"
                          Keynote Speaker: David C. Slawson, M.D.,
                          Professor of Family Medicine,
                          University of Virginia Health System
	
10:00 AM  - 11:00 AM      Grand Opening of Exhibit Hall
                        and MAC 2000 Poster Sessions
                          Roanoke Ballroom E-H & Crystal / Roanoke Foyer
 
11:00 AM  - 12:00 PM      General Session II
                          Roanoke Ballroom C
						  
                          "Creating the Digital Library"
                          Panelists: Thane Kerner, President, Silverchair Science +
                          Communications; Diana McDuffee, NC AHEC LIS Coordinator,
                          Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina - 
                          Chapel Hill; Paul Weislogel, Elsevier Science; M. J.
                          Tooey, Deputy Director, University of Maryland Health
                          Sciences and Human Services Library

12:15 PM  -  1:45 PM      Awards Luncheon
                          Roanoke Ballroom C

 2:00 PM  -  3:15 PM      Contributed Papers
                          Roanoke Ballroom C

                          "Transporting Services Across Galaxies - Library Services for
                          Health Science Distance Education Students"
                          Presenters: Andrew C. Morton, Access Services Manager,
                          Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University;
                          Melanie J. Norton, Document Delivery Librarian,
                          UNC Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina - 
                          Chapel Hill 


"Web Developments at FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)" Presenter: Sally Winthrop, Medical Librarian, FDA Medical Library
"Librarians Beyond Their Traditional Roles" Presenters: Russet Hambrick, Chief of Education & Information Services, Southern Regional AHEC Library, Fayetteville, NC; Wallace McLendon, Director, Information Systems, Mountain AHEC, Asheville, NC
"To Boldly Go . . . Enterprising Instruction in Cyberspace" Presenters: Lynne U. Turman, Education Services Librarian, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University; Pascal V. Calarco, Advanced Technologies Librarian, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University; Phyllis C. Self, Vice Provost, Academic Technology, Virginia Commonwealth University 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM Break / Exhibit Hall Last Chance to Visit Exhibitors! 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM State Group Meetings North Carolina, Bent Mountain Virginia, Mill Mountain West Virginia, Tinker Mountain 5:00 PM Exhibits Close 6:30 PM Banquet Crystal Ballroom

Friday, October 20

 7:30 AM  -  8:30 AM      Registration
                          North Entry Foyer

 7:30 AM  - 12:30 PM      Continuous Break
                          Upper CC Lounge

 8:30 AM  -  9:30 AM      General Session III
                          Roanoke Ballroom C

                          "From Silos to Pastures"
                          Speaker: Jack Brinn, M.D., Chair,
                          Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Associate
                          Vice Chancellor for Health Information Systems,
                          East Carolina University

 9:30 AM  - 10:00 AM      Break

10:00 AM  - 11:00 AM      Concurrent Interest Sessions

                          Session A: "MEDLINEplus and Consumer Health
                          Initiatives at NLM/NIH"
                          Location: Buck Mountain
                          Presenter: Adam Glazer, Reference Librarian,
                          Reference and Customer Service Section,
                          National Library of Medicine
                          
                          Session B: "NN/LM Update on What's New
                          with DOCLINE, SERHOLD, PubMed Central"
                          Location: Roanoke Ballroom C
                          Presenters: the staff of the Southeastern/
                          Atlantic NN/LM

                          Session C: "Reinventing/Reinvigorating Your
                          Library Career: Strategies for Successful Mid-Career
                          Course Corrections"
                          Location: Mill Mountain
                          Panelists: Janice Lester, Librarian, The Institute for
                          Genomic Research; Mary Ryan, National Library of Medicine;
                          Brenda Seago, Computer Based Instruction Lab, Virginia
                          Commonwealth University; Sally Winthrop, Medical Librarian,
                          FDA Medical Library

11:00 AM  - 12:00 PM      Professional Issues Forum
                          Roanoke Ballroom C
                          Panel: Carla Funk, MLA Executive Director; 
                          J. Michael Homan, MLA President; 
                          Steve Squires, MAC Chair

12:00 PM  -  2:30 PM      MAC Annual Business Meeting & Luncheon
                          Shenandoah Room

                          "Preview of Maryland's 2001 MAC Annual Meeting"

 6:30 PM                  Dine Arounds
                          Meet at Registration Table

Saturday, October 21

7:30 AM  -  8:00 AM       Registration
                          North Entry Foyer

7:30 AM  - 12:30 PM       Continuous Break
                          Upper CC Lounge

                          Continuing Education Courses

8:00 AM  - 12:00 PM       "Keeping Up With NLM's PubMed"
                          Location: College of Health Sciences, Room 217
                          Instructor: Sandra Teitlebaum, MAT, MLS,
                          Outreach Coordinator, NN/LM Southeastern / 
                          Atlantic Region University of Maryland,
                          Baltimore, MD

8:00 AM  - 12:00 PM       "Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM):
                          Information Resources for Choices in Healing"
                          Location: Buck Mountain A/B
                          Instructor: Charles Wessel, MLS, Coordinator
                          of Affiliated Hospital Services, Health
                          Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh

8:00 AM  -  5:00 PM       "Management for Solo Librarians"
                          Location: Crystal Ballroom E
                          Instructor: Judith Siess, MSLIS, President,
                          Information Bridges International, Inc.,
                          Publisher/Editor of "The One-Person Library:
                          A Newsletter for Librarians and Management"

For meeting updates, visit the MAC website:
http://www.cbil.vcu.edu/mac/


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