EMTS 2013 Elections - Educational Media & Technologies Section ...

This year, Chair-Elect, Secretary/Treasurer, and EMTS Nominee to the MLA Nominating Committee are up for election. The EMTS Nominating Committee will be sending electronic ballots to the EMTS membership by January 25, 2013. Following are the positions and bios of the candidates for those positions.

Chair-Elect

Maureen ?Molly? Knapp is a Research Support and Education Librarian at the Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. A librarian with over a decade of experience, she received her master of library and information science degree from the University of South Florida (Tampa) in 2002. Ms. Knapp is a Senior Member of the Medical Library Association?s Academy of Health Information Professionals, and a 2010 NLM Fellow in Medical Informatics at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. An enthusiastic pedagogue, Ms. Knapp received the 2012 Librarian of the Year award from the South Central Chapter of MLA for her work on the online class ?Get Mobilized: an introduction to mobile resources and tools in health sciences libraries.? Her research interests include digital projects in health sciences libraries and online education.

Marie Ascher is currently the Associate Director for User Support, Education, and Research (USER) Services at the New York Medical College Health Sciences Library (HSL) in Valhalla, NY, a position she was promoted to in 2010 after working as the Head of Reference & Information Services since 2001. Prior professional positions were at The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) and Hunter College Health Professions Library in New York City. Notable professional achievements and interests include the development of several community based information outreach projects in East Harlem, serving as the founding editor of the NYAM?s Grey Literature Report, establishing a social media presence for the HSL, leading a team in the development, implementation and evaluation of local information management competencies, usability testing, training in evidence based health care, and technologies for distance learning and service. Service to MLA includes chairing the Core Public Health Journals project, serving on the Research Agenda Committee, serving as the Allied Representative to the Public Health Partners, and serving on the Health Information Literacy Task Force. Marie has previously served as Chair of the Public Health/Health Administration Section as well as the New York-New Jersey Chapter of MLA. She lives with her 8-year-old twin daughters and a vizsla, two turtles and two fish, and likes a good sandwich.

Secretary/Treasurer

Jin Wu has been the Emerging Technologies Librarian at the Norris Medical Library at the University of Southern California since April 2010. She has been instrumental in fostering the use of new technologies by both library staff as well as library users.? She also has been involved in a national survey of student use of technology, revitalizing the library?s tutorials, and re-designing the library?s web site.? She also currently serves as chair of the Health Sciences Libraries Emerging Technologies Committee and Web Committee.

Amy Blevins is one of the Clinical Education Librarians? at Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa. She has had the great pleasure of being a member of EMTS since 2006. At the 2007 meeting, she volunteered to help out with the Nominations Committee, which led to being elected as the chair-elect in the 2008 election. Since then, she?s served as Chair, Section Council Representative, and most recently as the Communications Coordinator (a new position designed to leverage the blog, list serv and Facebook pages).? She is no stranger to taking notes in meetings, and feels that leading the Section Shuffle task force last year has given her a bit of experience with budget planning. Having served on the board for the last few years, she is familiar with the yearly expenses that the section is likely to encounter.? She looks forward to serving the section in a new capacity as the Secretary/Treasurer.

EMTS Nominee to the MLA Nominating Committee

Patricia Devine is the Network Outreach Coordinator for the NN/LM, Pacific Northwest Region in Seattle, Washington. She coordinates the membership program and provides health information outreach to health care professionals and healthcare consumer groups. Her professional interests include health information literacy and healthcare disparities, and she is the convener of the newly formed Health Disparities SIG. Pat received her MLS from the University of Washington.

Source: http://emts.mlanet.org/blog/?p=91

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