• Janet Doe Lecture — Mark Funk

• Business Meeting Agenda

• 2012 Programs Sponsored and Co-sponsored by Collection Development Section

• Section Shuffle

Janet Doe Lecture — Plenary Session III

Monday, May 21, 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.

Mark E. Funk, AHIP, FMLA

“Our Words, Our Story: A Textual Analysis of Articles Published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association/Journal of the Medical Library Association from 1961 to 2010”

Mark E. Funk, AHIP, FMLA, associate director for resources and education, Samuel J. Wood Library, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, is known for his work in collection development and acquisitions. He has served on many library advisory boards for national and international publishers and is a much sought-after speaker.

Funk received his master’s degree from the University of Missouri–Columbia. He was a medical librarian at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and the University of Nebraska Medical Center before joining the Weill Cornell Medical Library in 1987. He has served on the MLA Board of Directors and was treasurer (2001–2003) and president (2007/08). His other leadership positions in MLA have included serving on Section Council, as chair of both the Research and Collection Development Sections, and on many MLA committees and task forces. He was named an MLA Fellow in 2010.

As president, he led MLA to expand its use of Web 2.0 and social networking tools, as well as introduced virtual aspects of the annual meeting, allowing “attendance” from anywhere. He served a four-year term on the National Library of Medicine’s Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, which selects journals for indexing in Index Medicus.

He is not related to Carla J. Funk, CAE, Hon. FCLIP, MLA executive director.

 

 

Annual Business Meeting Agenda

The following is a tentative Business Meeting agenda.  Contact Mary Fran Prottsman prottsma@usc.edu if you wish to suggest changes to the agenda.

Medical Library Association

Collection Development Section

Business Meeting

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Washington State Convention Center, Room 303

4:30-5:15 p.m.

• Welcome and call to order             (Mary Fran Prottsman, CDS Chair, 2011-2012)
• Reports
  • Awards                                                                            (Rebecca Raszewski)
    • Recognition of Travel Awards recipients
    • Recognition of MLA Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences
• Secretary/Treasurer                                                                                 (Martha Earl)
  • Minutes from 2011 Annual Business Meeting
    • Financial Report
• 2012 Program Committee                                                                    (Cecilia Bortero)
• Nominating Committee                                                                     (Ramune Kubilius)
• Bylaws Committee                                                                             (Ramune Kubilius)
• Website Committee                                                                  (Mary Fran Prottsman)
• Continuing Education Committee                                           (Mary Fran Prottsman)
  • CDS 2012 Symposium proposal
• Membership Committee                                                                        (Susan Kendall)
• Section Council                                                                                    (Ramune Kubilius)
• MLA Governmental Relations Committee Liaison              (Mary Fran Prottsman)
• MLA Scholarly Committee Liaison                                                   (Katherine Chew)
• Developments- CDS newsletter                                                        (Katherine Chew)
• New Business
  • Thank you to all 2011-2012 chairs & committees; & introduction of new CDS officers                                                               (Mary Fran Prottsman)

• 2013 program planning                                                                          (Susan Kendall)
  • Open floor for membership input
• Chairmanship turnover to Cecilia Botero
  • Call for committee volunteers
  • Objectives for 2012/2013
• Other new business
• Adjournment
• Adjournment of  business meeting

 

2012 Programs Sponsored and Co-Sponsored by the Collection Development Section

Submitted by Cecilia Botero, Program Chair for 2012

Primary Sponsor and co-sponsors: Collection Development Section, Technical Services Section

Program Name: Sustaining Library Collections to Ensure a Home Run

Program Format: Contributed papers

Date & Time:  Tuesday, 22 May, 2-3:30 p.m.

Section Contact: Cecilia Botero

Share your experiences and help us all hit a home run! Libraries increasingly must make informed decisions on what users really need. This session will pursue the concept of creating or updating models for sustaining library collections. Topics might include patron-driven acquisition (PDA) plans, consortial and/or shared purchasing models that leverage group buying power, and so on. In short, creative models designed to stretch a library’s collection and materials budgets by purchasing materials needed “just in time,” not “just in case.” Sustainability models might also include the concept of using existing resources to their fullest extent. In that context this program would include issues of discoverability and providing better avenues for users to find resources, whether through the OPAC or outside tools.

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Primary Sponsor and co-sponsors: Health Association Libraries Sections, Research Section, Consumer and Patient Health Information Section, Collection Development Section

Program Name: Moneyball: Demystifying Library Funding

Program Format: Contributed papers and other

Date & Time:  Monday, 21 May, 10:30-noon

Section Contact: Gini Blodgett

This session will comprise six fifteen-minute contributed presentations or question-and-answer sessions from librarians who have succeeded in getting funding to support research projects, special collections, one-time activities, or ongoing operations from a variety of foundation, government, and community sources. Presentations will share how funders were selected and approached, the process of being funded, and post-funding requirements and continuing engagement. The design or impact of the actual projects will not be discussed, so that you may submit the actual project for consideration for another session as a paper or poster.

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Primary sponsor and co-sponsors: Technical Services Section, Collection Development Section, Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG

Program Name: Stepping Up to the Plate with New Concepts of Data: Resource Description and Access, Semantic Web, Linked Data

Program Format: Contributed and invited papers

Date & Time:  Sunday, 20 May, 4:30-6 p.m.

Section Contact: Megan Curran

In celebration of its 30th year, MLA’s Technical Services Section seeks contributed papers concerning the future of data and metadata, and how medical libraries may interact with and institute these new concepts. Of particular interest will be papers focusing on resource description and access (RDA), proposed replacements for MARC21, the semantic web, linked data, and other novel or alternative concepts of data and metadata creation and organization.

Section Shuffle

Submitted by Ramune Kubilius, Immediate Past Chair
CDS members are invited to come to the biannual Section Shuffle on Sunday, May 20 from 6:00-7:00 pm, in Room 4C (1&2). CDS is a sponsor of this event, so please be sure to stop by the CDS booth and see how we are promoting our section. Enjoy the costumes and publicity displayed at other sections’ booths. The plans for the 2012 Section Shuffle include: beverages and refreshments, as well as a competition for the most innovative and fun Section Table theme/decoration.  The Section Shuffle will also include forms for participants to sign up for 6 month trials to Sections that are new to them, or of which they haven’t been a member for the past 5 years. This will be a good CDS membership recruitment opportunity.  If you haven’t seen it, here is a short video highlighting the 2010 event.  While exact attendance numbers aren’t available, Section Council leadership estimates that around 400 people were in attendance.