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John Billings in Library Hall, c1887-1894



History of the Health Sciences Section Activities



HHS Sessions at the 2010 MLA Annual Meeting, Washington DC

HHS Business Meeting at the 2010 MLA Annual Meeting, Washington DC


Bioethics and the History of the Health Sciences
History of the Health Sciences Section
Research Section, Veterinary Medical Libraries Section
Sunday May 23, 2010 2:45-4:15pm

Presenter

Paper Title
Abstracts

Joan Stoddart
University of Utah, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library
Salt Lake City UT

Moderator

Stephen J. Greenberg

History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine
Bethesda MD

Hippocrates and the Bikers: A Brief Introduction to Bioethics and the History of Health Sciences

Helen-Ann Brown Epstein, AHIP,

Weill Cornell Medical Library, Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY

Upon Reflection: Is Open Access Communicating Scholarly?

Linda S. Murphy; Brian R. Williams

Langson Library
University of California
Irvine, CA

Evidence-based Bioethics: Available Resources and Tools for Librarians

Elizabeth C. Whipple; Elizabeth M. LaRue, AHIP,; Kacy L. Allgood

Ruth Lilly Medical Library, School of Medicine
Indiana University
Indianapolis, IN

How Did My Skin Lesion Get on YouTube?: Privacy and Security on Mobile Devices

Michael A. Flannery

Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
University of Alabama
Birmingham, AL

Healers at the Pool of Bethesda: Thomas Percival and the Evolution of Medical Ethics in American Medicine




Advancing the History of the Health Sciences Library and Librarian: A Report and Reaction
History of the Health Sciences Section
Monday, May 24, 2010, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Panelists

Paper Title
Abstract

Michael A. Flannery
Stephen J. Greenberg
Edwin Holtum
Suzanne Porter
Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA,


This session will discuss the advocacy report of the History of the Health Sciences Section prepared by a section task force in response to the steadily diminishing presence of the history of medicine in MLA publications and in health sciences schools curricula.




Threatening Fusions: When Ideologies and Demagogues Meet Ideas and Libraries
Dental Section Collection Development Section
Educational Media and Technologies Section
History of the Health Sciences Section
Hospital Libraries Section
Technical Services Section
Osteopathic Libraries SIG
Sponsored by StatRef
Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Jefferson West, Concourse Level

Invited Speaker

Paper Title
Abstract

TBA
Deborah D. Blecic, AHIP,
Bibliographer, Life and Health Sciences
Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois
Chicago, IL

This invited speaker lecture series focuses on significant changes in the evidence base that underpins medical libraries and the support they are able to provide patrons.




History of the Health Sciences Business Meeting

Date

Time & Location

Tue, May 25, 2010

7:30 AM - 9:00 AM, Hilton, Room 2A, Second Floor
06/17/2010