Kathleen, Plan, Hannah, AAMC

Congratulations Kathleen
Kathleen Carlson’s appointment as a Clinical Education Librarian has been renewed on the recommendation of the Appointments, Continuing Status and Promotions Committee. Kathleen is the Health Sciences Librarian at the ASU Downtown Phoenix Campus and works closely with Jacque and Lindsey in support of our students.

Strategic Plan
In the September 24th update I described the status of the strategic plan. Today the Administrative Team met and agreed that we are very close to finalizing a draft for you to review. We have scheduled a meeting for next week to put the finishing touches on the DRAFT that you will be asked to respond to.

Thanks Hannah
I want to thank Hannah and others who helped us think through the problem of late-night study hours for AHSL. In response to the idea of turning Java City into a 24/7 study area Hannah offered several alternatives and did some “out of the box” thinking about the problem. The result is our pilot test of extended hours for the whole building.

AAMC
Jeanette, Jacque and Gary just returned from the AAMC/AAHSL meeting in Washington, DC. AAMC is the Association of American Medical Colleges and AAHSL is the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries. Jeanette is a member of the AAHSL Assessment and Statistics Committee that works on measuring our value and allows us to compare ourselves to other libraries. Jacque has formed a group for librarians at new health sciences libraries to meet and share experiences. Gary will be serving as AAHSL President-elect over the next year. This meeting is a wonderful opportunity to learn what is going on at other medical school libraries and to learn more about issues facing academic medicine. Speakers at this meeting, in addition to a variety of Deans and Associate Deans were Malcolm Gladwell, author, and Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. A discussion presenting differing takes on the current political situation was presented by Donna Brazile, Democratic strategist and Al Gore’s campaign manager and Amy Holmes, Co-host of the Washington Times and Talk Radio Network's "America's Morning News."