The OERC Expanding Its Limits at MLA ‘15

Posted by nnlmneo on May 13th, 2015 Posted in: Blog

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The OERC will do its part in keeping Austin weird this week at the 2015 Medical Library Association conference.  If you happen to be around, stop by our presentations on Sunday (5/17) afternoon and say hi.

First up, Cindy Olney and other members of the !VIVA! Peer Tutor Project Team the will be exhibiting their poster:

Collaboration without Limits: A High School Student Intern and Health Care Providers Band Together for Patient Health Literacy (#49)
Austin Convention Center, Level One, Exhibit Hall 4
2:00 – 2:55 pm

South Texas ISD librarians Sara Reibman (who designed the poster), Lucy Hansen, and Ann Vickman also will be at the poster session. They have been training high school students to use and promote MedlinePlus and other health information resources since the !VIVA! Peer Tutor Project started in 2002. This poster describes a health information outreach project conducted by STISD high school student Yawar Ali and featured in a previous OERC blog post. We are hoping that Yawar will be joining us via Skype.

Karen Vargas will be presenting the following paper later on Sunday afternoon:

Boot up Your Lifelong Learning: Community Colleges and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) Outreach Initiative
Austin Convention Center, Level Four, Ballroom E.
5:05-5:20 pm

Her co-presenters are Lisa Huang from Collin College (McKinney, TX) and Michelle Malizia, University of Houston. The panel will describe how one community college pushed the limits and collaborated with its regional medical library to offer educational opportunities in support of the Five-Year NN/LM Community College Outreach Initiative.

For our colleagues who are also attending MLA ‘15, we hope to see you there!