The SIG will be co-sponsoring three programs at MLA '05.
Overcoming Challenges: Magnificent Medical Contributions is sponsored by History of the Health Sciences, Chiropractic Libraries, and Relevant Issues Sections; and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Health Sciences Librarians SIG. This is a contributed papers and posters session that focuses on individuals especially those who have overcome some adversity -- be it physical challenges, racism, ethnic, minority, or gender discrimination -- to make some significant contribution to the field of medicine.
Diversity in Collection Development is an invited speakers session sponsored by Collection Development, Chiropractic Libraries, and Dental Sections; and Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Health Sciences Librarians SIGs. This session focuses on the fact that health sciences libraries support a diverse array of subject areas where much of the collection management literature and tools focus on mainstream clinical and basic sciences subjects. This program will present strategies and issues related to the literature of and collection development in more diverse subject areas, including complementary and alternative medicine, chiropractic medicine, gay literature, and dentistry. If you are interested in being a speaker or know someone who would be a great voice on GLBT medical literature, please let me know!
Finally, for something a little different, we will be co-sponsoring Challenging Patrons, Challenging Questions: Case Scenarios to Enlighten our Futuro Magnifico. This is will be contributed SKITS on various issues based around the idea of questions and/or patrons who present a challenge to us and our beliefs. As the description states, "How do we conduct a reference interview with an emotionally distracted, mentally ill, or mentally challenged patron? How do we handle our own emotions with patrons whose questions we find offensive? Experts from the counseling field will provide us with insights about the psychology of handling difficult customers through acted-out contributed scenarios." The group that put this together really wanted to focus on how we deal with patrons and subject that are challenging or even offensive to us and were very glad to have us on board. The program planners were challenged to do something different in 2005, so we decided as a group to go for it.
These should be very rewarding programs for us. I think it speaks well of us that we can and are often asked to participate in a co-sponsorship role with other sections and SIGs on programming. I want to thank everyone who has helped with the programs in the past and have blazed the trail.
Michael
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