Goal 1: Recruitment, Membership and Leadership in the Profession
A contribution of $500 was made to the Harriett Steuernagel Memorial Fund in fiscal year 2005-2006 bringing the ending balance of the fund to $10,775. An annual award was established to promote membership and leadership in the section and the profession in 2003. No award has been made since the first one in 2004, and no nominations have been received to date for 2007. The section will address possible alternative use of the Steuernagel funds at their annual business meeting.
Section elections were held in February. The following new officers were elected:
• Program Chair / Chair Elect: William Dobkowski, Temple University School of Dentistry
• Section Council Representative – Elect: Jan Cox, AHIP Indiana University School of Dentistry Library
• Candidate for the MLA Nominating Committee Election: Dolores Judkins, AHIP Oregon Health & Science University
Goal 2: Life Long Learning
Program Chair Mike Kronenfeld successfully solicited $500 from Stat!Ref to support an invited speaker session related to Evidence Based Practice. The program for the 2007 annual meeting is titled Evidence at the Point of Care – Where ‘the rubber meets the road’. It was planned in cooperation with the Pharmacy and Drug Information Section, the Research Section, the Health Association Libraries Section, and the Clinical Librarian/Evidence-based Health Care SIG. The program will have two invited speakers: Heiko Spallek, DMD, Ph.D., Asst. Professor, Center for Dental Informatics, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh and Sarah Spinler, Pharm.D. Program Chair, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences. This program will be held Monday, May 21, 10:30 a.m.–noon. It is hoped that the success of this program will prompt Stat!Ref to commite to annual support of an invited speaker session on this topic.
Mike also worked with multiple other sections (Clinical Librarians and Evidence-Based Health Care Sig; Educational Media and Technologies Section; Health Association Librarians Section; Mental Health Sig; Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section; and the Medical Library Education Section) to offer the contributed paper section: Turning Clinical Students into Evidence-Based Clinicians – the Medical Library’s Role. This program will be held on Sunday, May 20, 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Goal 3: Advocacy
The Dental Section contributed $200 to add to MLA’s sponsorship for the 4th International Conference on Evidence-based Library and Information Practice, which will be held May 6 - 11, 2007. The conference is hosted by the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Goal 4: Creating and Communicating our Knowledge
Frank Mason actively maintained the section listserv. He regularly posts items of interest to dental librarians and the dental profession. The listserv has a wide audience and serves as a venue to promote the value of medical librarians in dentistry. Subscription information is available on the section website: http://resource.library.tmc.edu/mladental/Dentalib.htm
The section website http://resource.library.tmc.edu/mladental/index.html is managed by Leah Krevit. It includes information about the section along with tools such as a list of librarian contacts at US Dental Schools, the Basic List of Recommended Books and Journals for Clinical Dentistry, and information about the Harriett Steuernagel Award.
This report is informational and requires no action by the Board of Directors.
Submitted April 5, 2007
Dental Section Officers 2006/07
Kate McGraw, Chair
Mike Kronenfeld, Chair-Elect/Program Chair
Ann Marie Corry, Secretary/Treasurer
Amy Buhler, Section Council Representative
Frank Mason, Dental Standards Committee and Listserv Moderator
John P. Glueckert, Governmental Relations Committee Liaison
Leah Krevit, Web Editor
Section Program for 2004:
Tuesday, May 25 -- 2:30 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.
Sponsor: Dental Section; Co-sponsors: Educational Media and Technologies and Pharmacy and Drug Information Sections
"PowerPack: Innovations in Packaging Online Curricula."
Section Programs for 2005:
Monday, May 16 – 2:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Sponsors: Consumer and Patient Health Information, Corporate Information Services, Dental, Medical Informatics, Pharmacy and Drug Information, Public Health/Health Administration, Public Services, and Research Sections.
“Reaching Out Magnificently to All at All Points of Care or Need.”
Dental Section members reviewed 34 abstracts for this unique session and selected 5 dynamite contributed papers.
Tuesday, May 17 – 2:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Collection Development, Chiropractic Libraries, and Dental Sections; and Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Health Sciences Librarians SIGs.
“Diversity in Collection Development.”
Dental Section member, Ann Marie Corry, MLS, AHIP; from the University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Dentistry is an invited speaker for this session and will present: “Are they really worth it? - Preliminary evaluation of classic dental citations in terms of the hierarchy of evidence 1980-2003.”
Tuesday, May 17 – 2:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Dental, Consumer and Patient Health Information, Hospital Libraries, Leadership and Management, Public Health/Health Administration, and Research Sections; Assessment and Benchmarking SIG.
“Establishing Best Practice.”
Mike Kronenfeld, MLS, AHIP; Dental Section member will be moderating this session.
Wednesday, May 18 – 2:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Dental and Research Section. “Trends in Oral Research.”
Invited speakers:
Karen Adler Storthz, Ph.D.; Professor of Diagnostic Sciences and Associate Dean for Research at The University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston will speak on: “The Changing Landscape of Oral Health Research.”
Leah Krevit, MLIS; Dental Section Past-Chair and Associate Director for Collections Management, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library will speak on: “Scholarly Publishing: What's in YOUR Toolkit?”
Marilee Creelan, MLS, AHIP; Dental Section Chair-Elect / Programming Chair and Assistant Professor & Academic Librarian, Medical College of Georgia will moderate the session.
New Officers for 2005-2006:
- Chair: Marilee Creelan, MLS, AHIP; Assistant Professor & Academic Librarian, Medical College of Georgia.
- Program Chair / Chair-Elect: Kate McGraw, MLS; University of North Carolina-- Chapel Hill.
- Secretary / Treasurer: Mary Kreinbring, MLS; American Dental Association.
- Section Council Representative: Amy Buhler, MLS; University of Florida.
- Leah Krevit, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library, continues with Webmaster duties for the Section website.
- The Section website was updated in preparation for the 2005 annual meeting in San Antonio, TX.
- The “Schools of Dentistry and Support Libraries in the USA and Canada” listing is regularly updated.
- Revision of the “Basic List of Recommended Books and Journals for Support of Clinical Dentistry in a Non-Dental Library” has been completed. The revised list was posted to Dentalib for comment. Input from faculty and professionals was used to ensure that the list is up-to-date and accurate. New subject headings were added to the list. Frank Mason deserves our thanks and continued support for his efforts on this project!
- A link to “The Dental Cosmos” was added to the “News” section.
Harriet Steuernagel Award (MLA Goal “Transforming Ourselves”)
November 2004 -- University of Michigan School of Dentistry librarian Patricia Anderson is the first recipient of the Harriet L. Steuernagel Award. The award was presented to Ms. Anderson by Dr. Peter Polverini, Dean of the School of Dentistry, and Dr. William Gosling, University Librarian on behalf of the MLA. A $250 check was also presented to Ms. Anderson as part of the Award.
Annual Dinner (MLA Goal “Transforming Ourselves”)
The Dental Section Annual dinner was held in Washington DC in May 2004 as part of the MLA annual meeting. Each year the Section enjoys an information-sharing session, where achievements are celebrated, struggles are acknowledged, and advice flows freely. New members are initiated and current members are revitalized. Pictures chronicling this activity are posted on the Section's website. A dinner has been scheduled for the MLA Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX.
Electronic Resource Development (MLA Goal “Transforming Our Association”)
Section members have been working with STAT!Ref technical and sales staff to coordinate development of a package of electronic textbooks in the area of dentistry. Dental Section Members have provided suggestions to STAT!Ref staff for important, high-impact dental textbooks. STAT!Ref staff have been communicating with a variety of publishers in order to determine their interest in participating and the feasibility of development and marketing of this product
This report is informational and requires no action by the Board of Directors.
Submitted by
Doug Varner, Dental Section Chair
Section Programming (MLA Goal 2a)
a. Section Program for 2003: Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD, Center
for Dental Informatics at the School of Dental Medicine, University
of Pittsburgh, presented "Computing in Dentistry: Merging
Books and Electronic Media"
b. Section Program for 2004: Tuesday, May
25, 2004 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Sponsor: Dental Section; Co-sponsors: Educational Media and
Technologies and Pharmacy and Drug Information Sections
"PowerPack: Innovations in Packaging Online Curricula"
Section Leadership (MLA Goal 1c)
New Officers for 2004-2005
Chair: Doug Varner, California Pacific Medical Center Health
Sciences Library
Program Chair: Marilee Creelan, Medical College of Georgia
Robt.Greenblatt, MD Library
Section Council Representative: Susan Orlando, The Forsyth
Institute Percy Howe Memorial Library
New Resource on the Web (MLA Goal 4c, 5b)
The list "Schools of Dentistry and Support Libraries
in the USA and Canada" was compiled by Frank O. Mason,
USC Wilson Dental Library, and posted to the Section's website
at http://www.db.uth.tmc.edu/mla/librarylist.htm
Treasurer's Activities
The Section Treasurer arranged for the Section's bank account
to be moved to the MLA bank in Chicago.
Section Website Activities (MLA Goal 4c)
The Section website was updated in preparation for the annual
meeting. The website was moved to a local server at the home
institution of the web master, Leah Krevit, Houston Academy
of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library. Discussion concerning
future directions for the site is on the agenda for the 2004
Business Meeting.
Harriet Steuernagel Award (MLA Goal 4c, 5a)
The Harriet L. Steuernagel Award is presented by the Dental
Section annually to acknowledge, encourage and reward new
members of the Dental Section. This award is presented to
a health sciences librarian who has contributed to the growth
and development of the Dental Section through professional
activities or service to the Section, the MLA, the librarian's
home institution or library, dental education, or the dental
profession. The first recipient of this award is Patricia
Anderson, Dentistry Library, University of Michigan. The
award will take place at the Annual Business Meeting. The
Ad Hoc Committee members are Ann Marie Corry, Celia Giltinan,
and Frank O. Mason.
Annual Dinner (MLA Goal 1a-c)
Each year the Section enjoys an information-sharing session,
where achievements are celebrated, struggles are acknowledged,
and advice flows freely. New members are initiated and current
members are revitalized. Pictures chronicling this activity
are posted on the Section's website.
MOTION
This report is informational and requires
no action by the Board of Directors.
Submitted by
Leah Krevit, Dental Section Chair
MLA ANNUAL REPORT
2002-03
The Dental Section accomplished the following goals in 2002-2003:
Goal 1. Professional Development
1. The Section received additional donations
to funds the new Harriet L. Steuernagel Award, for professional
support of newer members of the Dental Section. However, as
yet no nominations for the award have been received. Therefore
the award probably will not be awarded this year.
2. The Section has scheduled a program at
MLA Annual Meeting 2003, with an invited speaker.
Goal 3. Organization
1. The Section bank account will be moved
to MLA's new bank in Chicago. Signature cards will be signed
by or at the Annual Meeting to accommodate this move.
Goal 4. Research
1. The second revision of the Section's list
of recommended and essential titles for a dental collection
is near completion.
Goal 6. Information Technology
1. The Dental Section web site has been redesigned
and will be moved to a new home server.
MOTION
This report is informational and requires no action by the
Board.
Mary Kreinbring, Chair
MLA MIDYEAR REPORT
2002-03
The Dental Section continued to make progress in the following
areas:
Goal 1. Professional Development
1. Moved forward with funding for the new
Harriet L. Steuernagel Award, for professional support of
newer members of the Dental Section.
2. Have finalized plans for our program at
MLA Annual Meeting 2003, with an invited speaker.
Goal 4. Research
1. Made progress on the second revision of
our list of recommended and essential titles for a dental
collection.
MOTION
This report is informational and requires no action by the
Board.
Mary Kreinbring, Chair
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