41st Annual Conference (April 2008)

Orchestrating Innovation: Being Instrumental to Information Exchange

New Orleans historical markerSheraton New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
April 14-16, 2008

Links to presentation slides have been added to the program below.

Conference Program & Presentation Slides » Conference Photos » Links » Visitor’s Information » Conference Speaker Bios » Abstracts & Program Descriptions

APLIC-I is a global network of communication, information, and resource professionals dedicated to providing assistance and support to members and to other population and reproductive health colleagues, especially in developing nations.

Conference sessions will provide thought-provoking and informative content on managing information within our organizations, putting research into practice, communicating organizational activities to diverse audiences, and a fresh look at new – and familiar – search and retrieval tools. Attendees can also participate in a tour about disaster planning and recovery of library materials, as well as attend the Annual Banquet, the APLIC-I Board Meeting and the APLIC-I Business Meeting.

Registration is closed.

Attendees at the 2005 APLIC-I conference in Philadelphia

Attendees at the 2003 APLIC-I conference in Minneapolisphotos courtesy Yan Fu

Program & Presentation Slides

Monday, April 14, 2008
12:45-2:30 pm Tour
Martin Luther King Branch – New Orleans Public Library
Tour hosted by Donna Schremser, Director, New Orleans Public Library
Martin Luther King Branch – New Orleans Public Library
1611 Caffin Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117
(Meet in the Sheraton New Orleans Lobby at 12:45 – Transportation provided)
3:00-5:00 pm Board Meeting
All APLIC-I members are invited to attend.
Sheraton New Orleans
Edgewood, 4th Floor
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
8:30-9:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast Sheraton New Orleans
Nottoway, 4th Floor
9:00-10:15 am Keynote
Similes for Understanding and Explaining Library 2.0 Services and Tools
Steven L. MacCall, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alabama

Abstract » PDF Presentation slides » PDF List of websites

Sheraton New Orleans
Nottoway, 4th Floor
10:15-10:30 am Coffee Break Sheraton New Orleans
Nottoway, 4th Floor
10:30 am-
12:00 pm
Panel
Driving Up the Value of Internal Information
Abstract

Margie Shiels, Director of Library Services, Family Health International » PDF Presentation slides
Julia Cleaver, Information Services Manager, Ipas » PDF Presentation slides
Mary Panke, Director of Knowledge Resourcing, Population Action International » PDF Presentation slides

Sheraton New Orleans
Nottoway, 4th Floor
noon-2:00 pm Lunch
(on your own)
2:00-3:00 pm Session
Models for Synthesizing and Sharing Information Resources with Your Organization
Abstract » PDF Presentation slides
Peggy D’Adamo, Deputy Project Director, The INFO Project, Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University
Sheraton New Orleans
Nottoway, 4th Floor
3:00-3:15 pm Coffee Break Sheraton New Orleans
Nottoway, 4th Floor
3:15-5:00 pm Panel
Maximizing the Use of Free Resources for Research and Training
Abstract
Peggy D’Adamo, Deputy Project Director, The INFO Project, Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University » PDF Presentation slides
Yan Fu, Information Resources Manager, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan
Lori Rosman, Health Sciences Librarian, Johns Hopkins University Welch Medical Library
Sheraton New Orleans
Nottoway, 4th Floor
6:30-8:30 pm Banquet
The banquet is included in your conference registration.
Dickie Brennan’s Palace Café
605 Canal Street, at the entrance to the French Quarter, between Chartres and Royal Streets
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
9:00-10:45 am Meeting
APLIC-I Business Meeting, Election, and 2009 Annual Meeting Planning
All APLIC-I members are encouraged to attend and participate. Continental breakfast will be served.
Sheraton New Orleans
Nottoway, 4th Floor
10:45-11:00 am Break Sheraton New Orleans
Nottoway, 4th Floor
11:00 am-noon Session
Second Life: Research, Communication, and Organization in a Virtual World
Abstract » PDF Presentation slides
Eric Arnold, Tulane University Law School student
Elizabeth Townsend-Gard, Associate Professor, Tulane University Law School
Sheraton New Orleans
Nottoway, 4th Floor
noon-2:00 pm Lunch
(on your own)
2:00-3:30 pm Panel
Translational Research: Using Data to Inform and Influence Diverse Audiences
Abstract
Ian Askew, Director of Frontiers in Reproductive Health, Population Council » PDF Presentation slides
Ellen Carnevale, Director of Communications, Population Reference Bureau
Rebecca Clark, NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development » PDF Presentation slides
Sheraton New Orleans
Nottoway, 4th Floor
3:30-3:45 pm Coffee Break Sheraton New Orleans
Nottoway, 4th Floor
3:45-4:45 pm Session
Current Resources about Infectious Diseases
Abstract » PDF Presentation slides
Dr. Joseph Keating, Assistant Professor of International Health and Development, Tulane University
Sheraton New Orleans
Nottoway, 4th Floor

Links

Population Association of America (PAA) 2008 Annual Meeting Program

PAA Annual Meeting information

New Orleans Visitor’s Information

Things to do in New Orleans: A Guide for Conference Participants (PDF)

New Orleans Convention & Visitors Bureau

New Orleans Online (official tourism site)

Come early for the French Quarter Festival, April 11-13

PAA Local Arrangements Committee’s guides to live music and restaurants

Cafe Du Monde Beignets and Coffee (NewOrleansOnline.com, David Richmond)

Jazz Singer (NewOrleansOnline.com)Woman Looking at Fruit in French Market (NewOrleansOnline.com, David Richmond)photos courtesy NewOrleansOnline.com

Conference Speaker Bios

Eric Arnold is a third year student at Tulane Law School in New Orleans, LA. His academic interests are in the current issues facing and future potential of virtual worlds as well as the conflicts between intellectual property and the First Amendment. After graduation from Tulane, Eric will be working with independent content creators – game developers, filmmakers, animators – on unique models of digital distribution to get their works to the public. Eric earned his B.S. in psychology from Sam Houston State University.

Ian Askew has been with the Population Council since 1990, based firstly in the Dakar office, and since 1992 in the Nairobi office. Ian is currently Director of the Population Council’s Frontiers in Reproductive Health program (FRONTIERS), and has managed the Council’s Operations Research program in sub-Saharan Africa since 1995; he also serves as the Council’s Representative for the Nairobi office. Ian Askew has more than two decades of experience in undertaking reproductive health research, primarily in Africa but also in several Asian countries, with a particular focus on supporting results utilization by national RH programs. Before joining the Population Council, Askew was Deputy Director of the Institute of Population Studies at the University of Exeter, England, where he earned his doctorate in sociology.

Ellen Carnevale, Vice President of Communications and Marketing, Population Reference Bureau, is responsible for the management and strategic direction of PRB’s print and online publications, Internet technologies, marketing and membership programs, and media and public relations. Prior to joining PRB in 1996, she held editorial and management positions with both private-sector and public-sector organizations, including the American Society for Training and Development, The Washington Post Company, the Graduate School USDA, the International City Management Association, and the University of Wisconsin. Her past experiences as a reporter and editor have been in the fields of occupational health and safety, workplace ergonomics, employee training and development, and family planning. She has also held positions as a women’s reproductive health counselor and community educator, a counselor for people affected by alcoholism and drug addiction, a community educator in drug addiction, and a volunteer counselor with Planned Parenthood. She has a B.A. in social work from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and an M.S. in adult education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Rebecca Clark, Ph.D., is a program official in the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the major funder of social and behavioral research on population and one of the 27 Institutes that make up the National Institutes of Health. She oversees the Branch’s extramural portfolios on immigration, internal migration and population distribution, race and ethnicity, population and environment, and demographic methods. She manages the Population Research Infrastructure Program and the NICHD Mentored Population Research Scientist Development Award Program (K01) and co-manages the Branch’s National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training Grants Program (T32). She recently completed terms as a Director and Vice President of the Southern Demographic Association.

Julia Cleaver earned her MLS at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been at Ipas in Chapel Hill, NC for the last 7 years. As manager of Information Services and the Resource Center, Julia and her staff serve as actual and virtual librarians for a staff of nearly 200 located in 14 offices worldwide, as well as numerous telecommuters and consultants. Julia joined APLIC-I in 1996 when she was the librarian for Intrah (now IntraHealth) and has served as president and been on the board for much of that time.

Peggy D’Adamo MLS, MSB. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP), Ms. D’Adamo was curator of a special collection of alternative press materials and editor of the Alternative Press Index. She has worked as a media specialist, reference librarian, and indexer. At CCP she was Librarian for the Media/Materials Clearinghouse (M/MC) and Networking Manager for the INFO Project. She has conducted information training in Zambia, Morocco, Nigeria and Senegal. She has developed and provided support for a range of web sites including the INFO web site and the Implementing Best Practices in Reproductive Health Knowledge Gateway. She is currently Deputy Project Director of the INFO Project.

Yan Fu is the Information Resources Manager at the Population Studies Center of the University of Michigan, overseeing library operations to meet the information needs of researchers at the Population Studies Center and the Institute for Social Research. She has been an APLIC-I member since 2000, serving as a board member for some years. She was a co-editor of the Communicator from 2001-2005. Prior to her current position, she worked at the UM Taubman Medical Library, managing the interlibrary loan operations that provided lending services to peer institutions and hospitals and borrowing services to UM patrons at the medical, dental and public health schools. Yan received her MILS degree from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Joseph Keating is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health and Development in the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. His primary research interests focus on malaria, evaluation, and disease ecology in tropical and sub-tropical areas, particularly the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Keating has over 20 publications in peer-reviewed academic journals and 6 publications through the MEASURE Evaluation project. His publications are based on NIH, CDC, and USAID funded research projects in Kenya, Eritrea, Nigeria, and Haiti. His current research focuses on Anopheles mosquitoes and malaria in urban environments of sub-Saharan Africa; the evaluation of the COMPASS Project in Nigeria through MEASURE Evaluation; malaria in Haiti; and ITN use in Zambia. Dr. Keating completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Miami and holds a PhD in International Health from Tulane University, a Master’s degree in International Development Studies from Ohio University, and a Bachelor’s degree in biology from Marian College in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Steven L. MacCall, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies in the College of Communication and Information Studies at the University of Alabama. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. both in information science from the University of North Texas, where he studied under Dr. Ana Cleveland. He is currently actively involved in research and development projects related to future roles for health librarians spanning multiple dimensions, including software development for collaboratively managed clinical digital libraries and their integration into electronic health records, Web-publishing standards development, and library practices that support the use and archiving of “Web 2.0” tools, such as blogs, wikis and social networks, for clinical and consumer health populations. His publications may be found in the Journal of the Medical Library Association, Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, and Medical Reference Services Quarterly. He is the managing editor of the Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care and serves on the editorial board for the journal Biomedical Digital Libraries.

Mary Panke is Director of Knowledge Resourcing for Population Action International where she oversees library operations and manages an organization-wide Knowledge Management initiative. Before joining the staff at PAI, Mary was solo librarian for the Washington Office of the Electric Power Research Institute, Reference Librarian at the Environmental Protection Agency, and Internet Librarian for the United Nations Environment Programme. Mary received a BA in English Literature from Carleton College and an MLS from Columbia University. A past member of the APLIC-I Board, Mary has been a member since 2002.

Lori Rosman, works as a Health Sciences Librarian at Johns Hopkins University Welch Medical Library. She serves as a liaison librarian to various departments in the school of public health, school of medicine and the hospital. Prior to joining Welch Medical Library, Lori spent five years at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP) working in several different librarian/information management positions on projects primarily focusing on reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS prevention in developing countries. She has 8 years of experience as a public and academic research librarian. She was a 2007 recipient of the Sewell stipend to attend the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. Lori earned her Master of Library Science from the University of Maryland.

Margie Shiels earned her MLS at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been at Family Health International in Durham, NC for the last 11 years. As Director of Library Services, Margie and her staff serve as actual and virtual librarians for a staff of nearly 1500 located in over 70 countries. In addition to coordinating the efforts of her local librarians, Margie collaborates closely with her fellow FHI librarians in Arlington, VA and Nairobi, Kenya. Since 1996 Margie has been a member of APLIC-I. She has served the organization as a board member and an officer, including a term as president, for much of that time.

Abstracts & Program Descriptions

Tour: Martin Luther King Branch – New Orleans Public Library

Tour hosted by Donna Schremser, Director, New Orleans Public Library

The Martin Luther King Branch, located in a school in the Lower 9th Ward, took the brunt of Katrina’s storm surge and was completely destroyed. Nowhere else did the water rise so fast and with such force. Thanks to the effort of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology and to funding from the State of Louisiana Recovery School District and the Gates Foundation’s Gulf Coast Libraries Project, the library celebrated its grand reopening on October 5, 2007. We will tour the facility and hear from Donna Schremser, the director of the New Orleans Public library; Jim Mitchell, the Head of Branch Services; and Mary Ann Marx, the MLK Library Branch manager. Jim and Mary Ann will share their disaster and recovery experiences and insights on disaster planning.

Keynote: Similes for Understanding and Explaining Library 2.0 Services and Tools

Steven L. MacCall, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alabama

It has been said that a simile is like a picture in that an effective simile is worth a thousand words. Because of their descriptive power, similes can serves as a basis both for gaining personal understanding and for explaining new concepts to others. The presenter extends the power of similes to Library 2.0 as he uses a series of similes that provide a comprehensive conceptual basis for understanding and explaining Library 2.0 services and tools. Services (RSS and tagging) will be presented as Web 2.0 infrastructure, and tools (blogs, wikis, and podcasts) will be presented as a unified whole of basic Web 2.0 content creation.

Driving Up the Value of Internal Information

Julia Cleaver, Information Services Manager, Ipas

Mary Panke, Director of Knowledge Resourcing, Population Action International

Margie Shiels, Director of Library Services, Family Health International

Three APLIC-I members share three different roadmaps to building internal collaborative networks in their electronic work environments. Each system aims to bring a higher order of efficiency, coordination and knowledge resourcing to the day-to-day work of their organizations.

Models for Synthesizing and Sharing Information Resources with Your Organization

Peggy D’Adamo, Deputy Project Director, The INFO Project

Peggy will present several approaches to identifying, managing, synthesizing, summarizing, sharing and getting feedback on external information resources that you want to share with your own organization, including staff, faculty and students. She will cover how to make information more relevant and useful to your staff, how to present and organize information without spending all your time doing it, and how to get your organization involved in actively sharing.

Maximizing the Use of Free Resources for Research and Training

Peggy D’Adamo, Deputy Project Director, The INFO Project

Yan Fu, Information Resources Manager, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan

Lori Rosman, Health Sciences Librarian, Johns Hopkins University Welch Medical Library

The panelists will share their experiences with free search tools and discuss ways to maximize their uses. The knowledge and skills are helpful not only for information professionals but also for their clients who may not have access to licensed products. The panelists will present a list of helpful free resources, highlight the advanced features in PubMed, POPLINE and Google products and leave enough time for members to share their experiences and knowledge.

Second Life: Research Communication, and Organization in a Virtual World

Eric Arnold, Tulane University Law School student

Elizabeth Townsend-Gard, Associate Professor, Tulane University Law School

Virtual worlds give us the opportunity to redefine the rules and limits of the human experience. At the same time, they provide a three-dimensional forum to users that promises exciting possibilities for the future of communication and organization. Second Life combines these characteristics in a unique way that is attracting much attention from researchers, educators, and businesses alike.

The presenters will discuss the current uses of Second Life as a research and education tool, including Elizabeth Townsend-Gard’s experience bringing law students into Second Life to compare conceptions of property in real and virtual worlds. Creative opportunities for using Second Life as a communications tool will also be explored. Finally, the future potential of Second Life and other developments in virtual worlds will be examined.

Translational Research: Using Data to Inform and Influence Diverse Audiences

Ian Askew, Director of Frontiers in Reproductive Health, Population Council

Ellen Carnevale, Director of Communications, Population Reference Bureau

Rebecca Clark, NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

There are many ways that organizations are asked to demonstrate the value of their research or project activities. This is sometimes called translational research, research-to-practice, research utilization, or insight to action. Panelists will address the ways that they are involved with translational research activities, including communicating to different audiences such as the general public, policy-makers, and other population researchers. In addition, the session will cover getting research results used at the country level (Askew), taking data that is gathered and making it relevant to the general public as well as working with the news media (Carnevale), and funding translational research activities (Clark).

Current Resources about Infectious Diseases

Dr. Joseph Keating, Assistant Professor of International Health and Development, Tulane University

Dr. Keating will provide information about current web-based and/or print resources about infectious diseases. Drawing on his research on mosquitoes and malaria transmission, he will discuss resources available to identify statistics and prevalence, trends, emerging issues, and other information about current or previous epidemics. He will also share information about the organizations working to learn about and prevent the transmission of infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and avian flu.