MAC Messages Number 101:
September/October/November/December 2003

News from the States
Virginia News | West Virginia News

Virginia News

Recognizing Brenda L. Seago, M.L.S., M.A., AHIP, Associate Professor and Director, Computer Based Instruction Lab School of Medicine Medical College of Virginia Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Brenda has been appointed the JAMA Journal Column Incoming Editor for 2004 and the editor for 2005-2006. This is a joint appointment of the Association of Academic Health Science Libraries and the Medical Library Association.

Linda Watson, Associate Dean and Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia has been named as a member of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Building a 21st Century Community Health Care System in Rural America. The charge to the committee is to assess the quality of health care in rural America and develop a conceptual framework for a core set of services and the essential infrastructure (including information and communication technology) necessary to deliver those services to rural communities. Additional information about the work of the Committee can be found at http://www.iom.edu/project.asp?id=13989

West Virginia News

From West Virginia University Health Sciences Charleston Division, Charleston WV: "Our School of Nursing, as of August 2003, is offering their RN-MSN program totally online. Using a technology of Webcasting, funded through a major grant from Mediasite Live, lectures are delivered both live through the web and archived for later viewing by students. As part of this effort, the library was asked to deliver it's annual orientation and initial database training via Webcast this year and it proved to be a delightful experience for the library staff using this fascinating technology."

Patricia F. Dawson, MSLS, MPA, and Web Master, states: "We look forward to doing even more of this type of training in the future, including training on EbscoHost, Full-Text Resources, and other library services and resources."

To see a sample visit this Website: http://webclasses.hsc.wvu.edu/sonlibraryorientationfall03/index.asp

Robert Lawrence Murphy, 77, of Bates Road, Morgantown, WV, died Saturday, Nov. 8, 2003, at Ruby Memorial Hospital.

Born on July 12, 1926, in Moundsville, WV., Murphy received his Bachelor's Degree in Journalism at George Washington University and his Master's Degree in Library Science at Catholic University of America.

Robert worked for the Library of Congress as Head of the Technical Information Division and was the Director of the Technical Library at the Engineer Research and Development Laboratories in Ft. Belvoir, Virginia in the 1950s. In the 1960s Murphy became the Managing Editor of The Technical Abstract Bulletin for the U.S. Department of Defense and was the Technical Information Specialist for the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

In 1968 he became the Director of West Virginia University's Agriculture & Engineering Library. He became Director of WVU's Health Sciences Library in 1971.

Murphy was one of seven Library Directors who initially formed M.A.R.G., the Medical Library Association's Mid-Atlantic Regional Group, which later changed its name to MAC (Mid-Atlantic Chapter).

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