7:30 - Noon -- Registration and Hospitality (outside Redwood Room)

8:00 - 9:00a.m. – Continental breakfast with colleagues (outside Crystal Room)

9:00 - 9:15a.m. – Welcomes, Introductions, Recognitions (Regency Room 2)

NCNMLG and MLGSCA Presidents

1999 Joint Meeting Tri-Chairs

10:30 - 11:00a.m. – Break

10:30a.m. – 12 noon – Exhibit area open

"The Opportunity Of A Lifetime Or Why Anyone Would Leave California?

(Arizona, Hawaii Or Nevada?)"

Lois Ann Colaianni, retiring Associate Director, Library Operations, NLM, is responsible for the bibliographic arm of the world's largest medical library. Some of her awards and honors: Marcia C. Noyes Award, 1995; Fellow, MLA, 1994; Award of Honor, EAHIL, 1995; UCLA Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, First Distinguished Alumnus Award, 1992. She will look back on her years with NLM and share her wisdom, wit, and perspective.

1:30-3:30p.m. - Contributed Papers (3 concurrent sessions) California, Garden, Empire Rooms

3:30 - 4:00 p.m. – Break

1:30p.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Exhibit area open (Crystal Room), Registration and Hospitality (outside Redwood Room)

4:00 - 5:00 p.m. - Lipstick Librarian! Linda Absher, Intranet Librarian, Sequent Computer (Regency Room 2)

Systems, Beaverton, Oregon, is responsible for the content, design, and metadata for the company intranet, overseeing the work of 300+ publishers worldwide. Linda got her position through the Lipstick Librarian!, of course! Learn why she put up her website and the reaction to it from librarians and others—and have a chuckle.

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. – MLGSCA Chapter Business Meeting (Empire Room), NCNMLG Chapter Meeting (California Room)

6:00 – 8:00 p.m. – "Dine around Downtown" (Information at Hospitality, Redwood Room)

Join the local chapter members for a no-host dinner, or, if you prefer, have dinner on your own.

6:30 - 8:30 p.m. - Consortium of Health Information Professionals (of the Silicon Valley) Reception at the Planetree Health Resource Center

8:00 – 9:00 p.m. – San Jose has recently debuted a technological marvel, The Tech Museum.

"The Tech" has a state of the art IMAX theatre, currently showing the award winning "Everest." Here's your chance to experience Mt. Everest like you'll never experience it again!

8:30-10p.m. – "Sweet Ascent to Everest" Dessert reception at The Fairmont.

A time for food, festivity and frolicking with colleagues. Select French pastries from the exclusive Fairmont Dessert Buffet. Yum!  Piano music by Stephen Boniface on the grand piano. Show

7:30a.m. - 9:00a.m. --  Registration and Hospitality (outside the Redwood Room)

8:00 - 9:00a.m. – Breakfast (Club Regency Room)

9:00a.m. - 5:00p.m. – E-Resources: Electronic# Exasperating! Essential? (Club Regency Room)

We may not love them, but our users want them, so we do have to cope with them! To help, the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library is pleased to present this one day symposium as part of the 1999 Joint Meeting. We will bring together a group of individuals who will address some of the key issues facing health sciences librarians, from a variety of perspectives.

9:10 a.m. - Where Are We Now?

Karen Butter, University of California, San Francisco

Introduction and broad overview of major issues regarding providing electronic resources in health sciences libraries. This will include a brief review of types of materials available, current access models, licensing issues, concerns for ILL, copyright, and technical concerns.

 10:00-10:30 a.m. - Break

 10:30-11:30 a.m. - Providing E-Resources: Inside/Out

Michael Kronenfeld, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ 
Marilyn Schwartz, Naval Regional Medical Center, San Diego, CA
Lucy Thomas, Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA

This panel will include representatives from different library situations and will focus on what the major issues are for them, given their situation, and how they resolved them or not. Representatives are from: (1) a statewide consortium in which the group takes responsibility for all members—AZHIN—Jeanette McCray; (2) a library within a group of related libraries where the responsibilities are shared---example: military hospitals---Marilyn Schwartz; (3) a library in a single institution---Lucy Thomas

11:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. - Box lunch

12:30-2:00 p.m. - Providing E-Resources: Outside/In

Hospital Administrator or CFO - Hospital Administrator - Susan Murphy, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA
Information Systems Director - John Hummel, Sutter Health,
Vendor - Bette Brunelle, Ovid Technologies, New York
End User - Robert Michael Duvoisin D.O., Mercy Medical Center,

Panelists will discuss the issues of providing or supporting e-resources in the hospital environment from their own perspectives: approving the funding for the service, providing the infrastructure to distribute the service, providing the contents, and using the service.

2:00-2:30 p.m. - Dessert Break

2:30-3:45 p.m. Down the Road - What is the Vision for the Future?

NLM - Betsy Humphreys, National Library of Medicine
MLA - Jacque Doyle, Samaritan Health System, Phoenix

RML- Alison Bunting, University of California, Los Angeles

Panelists representing some of the major organizations in health sciences librarianship will discuss what they see in the future.

3:45 - 4:45 p.m. - Open Forum - Where Do We Go From Here?

Moderators: Rachael Anderson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Tom Rindfleisch, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA

Speakers and key resource people will participate in an open forum where attendees can comment on what they heard and consider possible solutions. Moderator(s): Rachel Anderson, University of Arizona, Tucson

4:45 - 5:00 p.m.- Summing it all up - Beryl Glitz

James Snow, Herbalist, California School of Herbal Studies

This course will cover a brief history of the use of herbs as therapeutic agents, a look at the more commonly used herbal therapies today, basic guidelines for finding and evaluating herbal literature, and reliable sources of information.

Melissa Just, Personal Information Specialist and Julia Kochi, Manager Digital Library Operations. Library & Center for Knowledge Management, University of California, San Francisco

This is an introductory class on the major principles of effective electronic presentation, design, layout and their practical applications. Attendees will learn how to create a slide show during the class by using the basics of using Microsoft PowerPoint®. Specific topics include slide creation/editing, presentation options, and basic animation, graphics, and data.