Staff Professional Activities

Professional activities of the Mayo Clinic Libraries staff in 2006 included professional memberships, publishing, and conference attendance.

Professional Conferences Meeting Attendance – 2006

• Association of Academic Health Centers Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
• Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Annual Meeting in Seattle, Wash.
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
• Minnesota Regional Library Systems workshop “The Big Picture: Toward Library 2.0 Training, Technology & Planning,” Rochester.
• Medical Library Association Annual Meeting “Transformations A-Z,” Phoenix, Ariz.
• Annual Innovative Users Group Conference, Denver, Colo.
• International Federation of Library Associations, Seoul, South Korea.
• Minnesota Library Association, St. Cloud, Minn.
• MnLINK Users Group Meeting, Brooklyn Park, Minn.
• Midwest Chapter/Medical Library Association meeting held in Louisville, Ky.
• E-Learn 2006/Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Annual Meeting, Seattle, Wash.
• American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.
• Conference on Issues in Book & Serial Acquisition, Charleston, S.C.
• 2006 Mayo Spiritual Care Research Conference – Life Near the End of Life, Rochester, Minn.

Presentations – 2006
Rethlefsen ML: Needs Analysis at a State Health Department Library: Citation Analysis of Official and Extramural Publications.  Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, May 21, 2006, Phoenix, Ariz.

Hawthorne DM, et al: The Doctor Is In (Your Computer): Consumer Health Information Online. Minnesota Library Association Annual Meeting, September 28, 2006, St. Cloud, Minn.

Zobitz P, Rethlefsen ML, Segovis CM et al: Social networking goes to medical school: the creation of an online community to facilitate faculty-student interaction.  In E-Learn 2006, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, October 14, 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Publications – 2006
Rethlefsen ML.  Product pipeline [Melissa L. Rethlefsen looks at social bookmarking services and what they mean to librarians].  Library Journal netConnect 2006; 131(Summer):16-7.

Rethlefsen ML. Folksonomies, tagging, and social software.  MLA News 2006; (May):22.

Boloña ER, Uraga MV, Haddad RM, Tracz MJ, Sideras K, Kennedy CC, Caples SM, Erwin PJ, Montori VM:  Testosterone Use in Men with Sexual Dysfunction: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials.  Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 82(1):20-28, Jan, 2007.

Haddad RM, Kennedy CC, Caples SM, Tracz MJ, Boloña ER, Sideras K, Uraga MV, Erwin PJ, Montori VM:  Testosterone and Cardiovascular Risk in Men: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials.  Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 82(1):29-39, Jan, 2007.

Farrell A. Getting the picture: Medical Images on the Web.  Medical Reference Services Quarterly. 2006; 25(4) Winter.

Bardia A, Barton D, Prokop LJ, Bauer BA, Moyihan TJ. Efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine therapies in relieving cancer pain: A systematic review.  Journal of Clinical Oncology 24: 5457-5464, 2006.

Bardia A, Barton D, Prokop LJ, Bauer BA, Loprinzi CL:  Efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) interventions for cancer-related pain: Evidence-based systematic review [abstract].  UICC World Cancer Congress; 2006 July 8-12; Washington, DC; Abstract #8393.

Rethlefsen M, Segovis CM.  Cool tools: searching, podcasts, RSS, oh my!  Minn. Med. 89(11):32-6, 2006.   This article was translated into German and republished as: Rethlefsen M, Segovis CM.  Cool tools – Google, RSS, podcasts. Obst O, translator. Med Inform 2006; (5-6):1-2, 4-5. (Ger.)

Rethlefsen M.  Product Pipeline – Melissa Rethlefsen looks at social reference managers and what they mean for librarians.  Library Journal Netconnect, Fall 2006, 14-16.

Datema J, Coombs K, Rethlefsen ML, Salo D. Library Journal netConnect October 15, 2006 [podcast] [cited September 26, 2006].

Awards – 2006

The Core Public Health Journals Project received the Medical Library Association’s 2006 Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences; Melissa Rethlefsen is a member of the editorial board of this project.

Memberships – Local, State, and National Organizations – 2006

• American Library Association
• American Medical Informatics Association
• American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)
• Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL)
• Association of College and Research Libraries
• Coalition for Networked Information (Institutional representative)
• Group on Information Resources of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Institutional representative)
• Health Science Libraries of Minnesota (HSLM)
• Innovative Users Group
• Iowa Library Association
• Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Advisory Council
• Medical Library Association
• Midwest Chapter/Medical Library Association
• Minnesota Library Association
• Special Libraries Association
• Wisconsin Library Association