38th Annual Conference (March 2005)

Ringing In A New Era: Changes in Population Librarianship

Philadelphia Marriott
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1201 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Conference Rooms 302-304
March 28-30, 2005

Conference photos

Monday, March 28, 2005
2 – 3:30 PM Tour of the Library Company of Philadelphia‘s closed stacks, the print department, the conservation area, and the Exhibition Gallery.

Location: 1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, (215) 546-3181

4 – 6 PM Board Meeting

All APLIC-I Members are invited to attend.Location: Philadelphia Marriott, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, Room 304

Tuesday, March 29, 2005
8:30 – 9:15 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast
9:15 – 10:30 AM “Road maps for the application of GIS to Population Science”

Speaker: Stephen Matthews, Senior Research Associate at the Population Research Institute; Associate Professor of Geography, Demography, and Sociology; and Director of the Population Research Institute’s GIA Core, Pennsylvania State University

Location: Philadelphia Marriott, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, Rooms 302- 304

Presentation: PDF Slides

10:30 – 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM – 12 PM “Demystifying Data Reference”

Speakers: Daniel Edelstein, Data Specialist/Consultant, Social Science Reference Center, Princeton University, and Kristi Thompson, Data Specialist/Consultant, Social Science Reference Center, Princeton University

Location: Philadelphia Marriott, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, Rooms 302- 304

Presentation: PDF Slides

12 – 2 PM Lunch
2 – 3:30 PM “APLIC Librarians Respond to Change”

Moderator: Joann Donatiello, Population Research Librarian, Donald E. Stokes Library for Public & International Affairs and The Ansley J. Coale Population Research Collection Princeton University

Panelists: Stacia Burnham, Librarian International Center for Research on Women, John Carlson, Senior Special Librarian, University of Wisconsin Madison, Center for Demography, John Carper, Librarian, John Snow,
Inc., and World Education, Inc., and Katherine (Kay) Willson, Manager of Information Services, Futures Group

Location: Philadelphia Marriott, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, Rooms 302- 304

3:30 – 3:45 PM Break
3:45 – 5 PM “Expanding the Web: The Movement Toward Open Access”

Speaker: Michael W. Carroll, Associate Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law

Location: Philadelphia Marriott, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, Rooms 302- 304

Presentation: Get Creative

7 PM Banquet Marrakesh: Authentic Moroccan Restaurant (7 course meal)

Location: 517 S Leithgow St, Philadelphia, PA, (215) 925-5929 [Directions]

Wednesday, March 30, 2005
9 AM Continental Breakfast
9:30 – 11 AM APLIC-I Business Meeting and 2006 Annual Meeting planning

All APLIC-I Members are invited to attend and participate.

Location: Philadelphia Marriott, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, Rooms 302- 304

11 AM – 12:00 PM “A New Model for Supporting Effective Research in Population Studies: The Population Digital Library”

Speakers: Susan Rohner, Public Health Librarian, Welch Library, Johns
Hopkins University and Claire Twose, Health Research and Practice Librarian, Welch Library, Johns Hopkins University

Location: Philadelphia Marriott, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, Rooms 302- 304

Presentation: PDF Slides

12:00 – 2 PM Lunch
2 – 3:30 PM “APLIC Librarians Respond to Change”Moderator: Julia Cleaver, Senior Information Specialist, Ipas Resource Center

Panelists: Bill Barrows, Associate Director for Information Services and the Library, Family Health International, Gretl Cox, Information Resource Manager, Family Health International, Institute for HIV/AIDS, Tara Murray,
Information Core Director, Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, and Mary Panke, Senior Librarian, Population Action International

Location: Philadelphia Marriott, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, Rooms 302- 304

3:30 – 3:45 PM Break
3:45 – 4:45 PM “Latin American & Caribbean Information Resources”

Speaker: Joe Holub, Research and Instructional Services Librarian,
and Latin American Studies Bibliographer

Location: Philadelphia Marriott, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, Rooms 302- 304

PDF Handout

Population Association of America (PAA) 2005 Annual Meeting Program

Accomodations:

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1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107,
(215) 625-2900

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Travel:

New Century Travel Buses (Inexpensive travel bus to and from NYC or DC)

Speaker Bios

William (Bill) Barrows

Associate Director for Information Services and the Library, Family Health International

William Barrows, MLS, MTID, is Associate Director for Information Services and the Library. He opened the library in 1975 and now supervises the library and information services staff of five who manage a collection of 800 periodicals, 8,000 books and reports, 24,000 documents and the archive of FHI published papers and reports from 1971 to the present. The staff provides search services in a number of databases and access to 83 online journals. He has provided technical assistance to libraries in Egypt, Kenya, Jamaica, and Ghana. Before coming to FHI he was a Peace Corps volunteer with the family planning program in India from 1967-69. He completed an MTID in demography and development studies at North Carolina State University and Masters in Library Science at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. He has been a member and officer of the Association of Population/Family Planning Libraries and Information Centers-International since 1977 and a member of the Medical Library Association over 10 years.

Stacia Burnham

Librarian, International Center for Research on Women

Stacia Burnham earned her MLIS degree from the University of South Carolina in 1999, where she held a two-year graduate assistantship in the Reference Department at USC’s main library.

After spending three years as an elementary school librarian in the Montgomery County, Maryland public school system, she took on a new challenge by joining the International Center for Research on Women(ICRW)in Washington, DC.

As a solo librarian at ICRW, Stacia is responsible for all aspects of library services and management for a 60-person staff, with offices in two (soon to be three…) countries. In addition to her more “traditional” library work, Stacia has been a leader within ICRW in initiating a strategy for improving institutional information management.

Before beginning her career in librarianship, Stacia earned a degree in English from Grinnell College, and spent two years with the Peace Corps in Kazakhstan. She looks forward to returning overseas this year to assist with a knowledge sharing workshop ICRW is coordinating for its partner organizations in Ghana.

John Carlson

Senior Special Librarian, University of Wisconsin Madison, Center for Demography

John Carper

Librarian, John Snow, Inc., and World Education, Inc.

John is currently the librarian at John Snow, Inc. and World Education, Inc., two sister organizations that often collaborate on health and literacy projects. Prior to his current position, John worked at several Harvard University Libraries: the Countway Library of Medicine, the Cabot Science Library, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Library.

Michael W. Carroll

Associate Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law

Michael W. Carroll is an Associate Professor at the Villanova University School of Law, and he serves on the Board of Directors of Creative Commons, Inc. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of intellectual property law and cyberlaw. Prior to joining the Villanova faculty, Professor Carroll was an associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., specializing in intellectual property and e-commerce issues. He also served as a law clerk to Judge Judith W. Rogers, U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and Judge Joyce Hens Green, US District Court for the District of Columbia. Professor Carroll received his A.B., with general honors, from the University of Chicago and his J.D. magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Professor Carroll’s recent scholarship includes (1) Whose Music Is It Anyway?: How We Came To View Musical Expression As A Form of Property, 72 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1405 (2004); (2) A Primer on US Intellectual Property Rights Applicable to Music Information Retrieval Systems, 2003 U. Ill. J. L. Tech. & Pol’y 313; (3) Disruptive Technology and Common Law Lawmaking: A Brief Analysis of A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 9 Vill. Sports & Enter. L.J. 5 (2002).

Julia Cleaver

Senior Information Specialist, Ipas Resource Center

Gretl Cox

Information Resource Manager, Family Health International, Institute for HIV/AIDS

Gretl Cox received her MLIS from Catholic University of America (Washington DC). She intended to use this training together with her liberal arts background and good foreign language skills, so she could work in an Academic setting. After a few years in Academia, Catholic University, and Federal Libraries, Library of Congress and US National Gallery Library, she began working at the USAID Library as Head of Technical Services. She was introduced to family planning and demography during the years she worked at John Snow Inc., Currently she works as Information Resource Manager at the Institute for HIV/AIDS of Family Health International.

Joann Donatiello

Population Research Librarian, Donald E. Stokes Library for Public & International Affairs and The Ansley J. Coale Population Research Collection Princeton University

Joann Donatiello is the Population Research Librarian at Stokes Library, Princeton University. Prior to her current position, she was the Information Specialist at the Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University where she started the library and the Reference and Special Collections librarian at the Guggenheim Library , Monmouth University . Prior to her career in librarianship she was an assistant lobbyist for the American Chiropractic Association and a market research project director. She also worked as a market research consultant while living abroad for four years.

Joann holds an M.L.S from Rutgers University as well as an M.A. in political science. She is currently on the APLIC board.

Daniel Edelstein

Data Specialist/Consultant, Social Science Reference Center, Princeton University

Joe Holub

Research and Instructional Services Librarian, and Latin American Studies Bibliographer

Stephen Matthews

Senior Research Associate at the Population Research Institute; Associate Professor of Geography, Demography, and Sociology; and Director of the Population Research Institute’s GIA Core, Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Stephen A. Matthews is an associate professor of Geography, Demography and Sociology, senior research associate at and director of the Geographic Information Analysis Core at the Population Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University.

Matthews’ training and research experience in geography and planning have focused on the application of GIS technologies and statistical methods to health service utilization and accessibility, and epidemiology. Part of his current work focuses on the integration of GIs and ethnographic research methods in explorations of how low-income and minority women navigate space relative to their daily routines in both the Three City Welfare Project (Boston, Chicago and San Antonio) and the Family Life Project based in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. In ongoing projects he is exploring issues around (a) race/ethnic segregation, (b) adolescent health, (c) food deserts and nutrition, (d) contextual effects on reproductive health, (e) population and environment relations, (f) Black Death, and (g) religion and the built environment.

Matthews is a regular member of the Community Influences on Health Behavior review panel at NIH (formerly SNEM-1) and has been a consultant to Population Centers on both computing and GIs/spatial analysis infrastructures. He has developed training materials for the integration of population, reproductive health and geographic databases for the UN Statistical Division and also served as a technical consultant to the Population Division of the United Nations regarding the Global Population Information Network (POPIN). Matthews was a member of Macro International’s MEASURE+GIs Working Group assessing the potential use and availability of geo-coded and contextual data on Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) clusters. More recently he has coordinated the GIs and spatial analysis workshops at the Population Association of America (PAA) meetings (1998-2003), and in 2003 hosted the CSISS sponsored Population Science and GIs workshop at Penn State. Matthews was the inaugural chair of Penn State’s GIs Council, and currently serves as the Social Science Research Institute’s representative on the GIs Council.

Matthews is past chair of both the Medical Geography Specialty Group and the Census Advisory Committee of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), has served the AAG as liaison to the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS), and has been PRI’s representative at the Association of Public Data Users (APDU). He was the North American Book Review Editor for the journal Health and Place (1994-1998) and has served on the journal’s editorial board since 1994. In Fall 2004 Matthews joined the editorial board of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (2005-2008).

Tara Murray

Information Core Director, Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University

Tara E. Murray is the Information Core Director for the Population Research Institute (PRI) at Penn State. She manages the library and data archive for PRI, a population center supported by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). She is president of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of SLA and a member of the APLIC-I board of directors.

Murray received her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and her B.A. with a concentration in German Studies from Bard College. Prior to joining the staff of the Population Research Institute, she was the library director for the Carnegie Library of Homestead in Munhall, Pennsylvania and a reference librarian at Duquesne University. She currently publishes a blog called diy librarian.

Mary Panke

Senior Librarian, Population Action International

Mary Panke, Librarian, holds a BA in English Literature from Carleton College and an MLS from Columbia University. She worked as solo librarian for the Washington Office of the Electric Power Research Institute; as Reference Librarian for the Environmental Protection Agency; and as Internet Librarian for the United Nation’s Environment Programme, prior to her current position as Senior Librarian at Population Action International (PAI). Over the past 2 decades Mary’s library experience has accrued in many guises, ranging from setting up a traditional special library, to pioneering a pre-web online reference and referral service for a network of member companies. Oddly enough for someone who loved reading English Literature but NOT writing the term papers, her library work has from the very outset always included writing, whether technical reporting on information and environmental topics, or more recently, speechwriting for her organization’s CEO. Mary’s current work also includes management of a project to organize PAI’s internal electronic files for improved access and long-term archival storage.

Susan Rohner

Public Health Librarian, Welch Library, Johns Hopkins University

Susan Rohner is a public health librarian with the Welch Medical Library of the Johns Hopkins University. She works at the Lilienfeld Memorial Library serving the students, faculty, and staff of the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a liaison to the department of Population and Family Health Sciences faculty within the school.

Susan received her MLS from Syracuse University and a BS in Health Education from the State University of New York College at Cortland. She is an adjunct instructor at Syracuse University, where she teaches a course on medical librarianship. She has previous work experience in family planning clinics and for a county health department as a health educator.

Kristi Thompson

Data Specialist/Consultant, Social Science Reference Center, Princeton University

Claire Twose

Health Research and Practice Librarian Welch Library, Johns Hopkins University

Claire Twose, MLIS has been the Health Research and Practice Librarian at Welch Library, Johns Hopkins University, since September 2003. In this role she provides liaison services to seven departments in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Medical School, with a particular emphasis on the department of Population and Family Health Sciences. Prior to this she completed the two-year National Library of Medicine Associate Fellowship Program.

Katherine (Kay) Willson

Manager of Information Services, Futures Group

Katherine (Kay) Willson, is the Manager of Information Services for Futures Group. She has been a full-time employee of Futures Group since 1975. Her MLS and undergraduate degrees are from the State University of New York at Albany. She has developed a wealth of knowledgeable contacts and authoritative resources in the field. Her subject specialties include international development (especially population policy) and social marketing (especially contraceptive social marketing).

Initially responsible for the SCOUTâ„¢ Forecasting System at The Futures Group and involved with other aspects of futures studies, Kay has also worked extensively in the area of business competitive intelligence (with an emphasis on the telecommunications industry).

Throughout her professional career, Kay has been anticipating and identifying the changing information needs of Futures Group staff and clients providing them with the information they need. In addition to providing access to external information sources, Kay is responsible for collecting and organizing materials that document the rich and diverse corporate experience of Futures Group and enhancing access to those materials for the staff and the public.

Kay is active in professional societies, having been a member of the SLA (Special Libraries Assn.) since 1975 and has served as Secretary, Membership Chair and President of the local Connecticut Valley Chapter. She is currently the Recording Secretary of APLIC-I.

Conference Photos

Courtesy of Yan Fu

Between Sessions

The Annual Banquet