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Officers

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President

Bette Sydelko
Wright State University Libraries

3640 Colonel Glenn Highway
Dayton, Ohio  45435

PH:  (937) 775-3840
bette.sydelko@wright.edu

The President presides over all OHSLA meetings and serves as official spokesperson of the group. The President, with approval of the Executive Committee, appoints committee chairs and members, the editor of OHSLA Voice, and the webmaster.

Bette SydelkoBette is Coordinator of Assessment and Outreach Services and Clinical Medicine Librarian for the University Libraries at Wright State University. For the previous 16 years she held several positions at the Wright State University Fordham Health Sciences Library, including reference librarian, outreach librarian and head of the reference and instruction services department.  Bette began her career as a circuit librarian at the Guthrie Healthcare System in Sayre, Pennsylvania.

She earned her M.S.L.S. from the University of Illinois School of Library and Information Science and also has a Master's in Education from Wright State.  While in library school she worked as a graduate assistant, honing her reference skills at the health sciences library and the agricultural sciences library. 

In 1994 when O.H.I.O. (Ohio Health Information Organization) and the State Council of Ohio Health combined to form OHSLA, Bette was one of the Charter members along with a few other currently active members of OHSLA.  She has been an officer in OHSLA twice before, serving as both Secretary and Treasurer. Current professional responsibilities include: Co-Chair of the Midwest Chapter/MLA annual meeting in Ohio for 2009 and member of the MLA Credentialing Committee.  Bette is also active on the OhioLINK User Services Committee, where she is the health sciences representative to the committee and participates on the WebRef Subcommittee. In addition to these service positions, Bette has been a selector for Doody's Core Titles for Health Sciences since it started in 2004 and also has written numerous book reviews for ESTREAMS, an electronic book review publication from Yankee Book Peddlar. She is a Distinguished member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals.



 

President Elect

This position is currently vacant due to the resignation of the 2009/2010 President.

 

The President Elect presides in the absence of the President and serves as Chair of the Program and Continuing Education Committee.
 


Marlene Porter

Marlene is currently the Director of the Mulford Health Science Library on the Health Science Campus at the University of Toledo (formerly the Medical College/University of Ohio).   Upon receiving her professional degree in 1979 at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, she came to Ohio and has since worked in several types of libraries throughout the state.  She has been an active participant in OhioLINK (Chair of User Services Committee 1996-1998, as well as numerous other subcommittees and taskforces), OHSLA (Secretary, 2000-2004), Midwest Chapter/MLA (Treasurer, 2006-Present; Co-Chair 2009 Annual Meeting) and the Medical Library Association (Public Services Section Chair, 2004-2005; Continuing Education Committee, 2002-2005; Bylaws Committee, 2006-Present).  She is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries (2006-Present) and an associate editor of the Biomedical Digital Libraries (2004-Present). Though her husband has helped her become a Buckeye, her heart still remains with the Nittany Lions in Pennsylvania where she resided the first 25 years of her life.

 

Past President

Marlene Porter
Mulford Health Sciences Library
University of Toledo Health Sciences Campus
3000 Arlington Ave Mail Stop #1061
Toledo, OH  43614-2598
PH:  419-383-4220
FAX:  419-383-6146
marlene.porter@utoledo.edu

The Past President serves as Chair of the Nominations and Elections Committee.


Treasurer

Jodith Janes
Alumni Library
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland OH  44195
voice:  (216) 445-7335
fax:  (216) 444-0271
janesj@ccf.org

 

The Treasurer is responsible for receipt and disbursement of all funds, and submits a written financial report at each meeting. The Treasurer also maintains the official membership list and serves as Chair of the Membership Committee.

 

Jodith is a Medical Librarian for the Alumni LibraryJodith Janes Cleveland Clinic Foundation a position she has held since 1989.   Current duties include providing reference services,  online searching assistance, both mediated and individual or group instruction.  She develops and presents education sessions to individuals and departments on library resources and database searching. 

She earned her MSLS from  Matthew A. Baxter School of Information and Library Science, CWRU in 1981.  While finishing her graduate work and then as a Librarian she worked on the "InfoHealth Project" where her responsibilities included development of criteria for selection of consumer health information books; and selection, purchase, and distribution of over $16,000 worth of books for ten public libraries.  She was co-author with Alan Rees of The Consumer Health Information Source Book.  2nd edition. New York: Bowker, 1984.  In 1983 she joined the library staff at Cleveland Health Sciences Library, CWRU as a Circuit Librarian providing library services to six area hospitals.  In 1985 she moved University Hospitals of Cleveland where she was Clinical Librarian to the Department of Internal Medicine and librarian to the Departments Dermatology, Pharmacy and Ophthalmology

She was a member of O.H.I.O, and served as Secretary for OHSLA 1998-1999.  She was Chair of MLA's Consumer and Patient Health Information Section in 1987-1988.  In 1987 she served on the planning committee for MidWest MLA Conference in Cleveland,  and has served in numerous positions in MLANO.  She is Distinguished Member of AHIP.  Since 1985 she has reviewed consumer health books for Library Journal.



Fern has worked in Health Sciences Libraries for overFern Cheek 30 years. She was in hospital libraries for 27 years, first at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI and at all 3 of the Mount Carmel Health Libraries here in Columbus. Currently, she is assistant professor and research librarian at the Prior Health Sciences Library at The Ohio State University. As the research librarian, she works with researchers offering her expert searching skills and sits on one of the Institutional Review Boards. She also participates in teaching and research.  

Fern has been active in COHSLA, serving as President in 2000, OHSLA, as one of the charter members, Midwest Chapter of MLA, serving as the Exhibits chair when the conference was hosted in Columbus in 1996. Fern also served a term as secretary in the O.H.I.O, one of the two regional organizations that merged to form OHSLA. She has also been a member of MLA since 1975.

Secretary

Fern Cheek
Prior
Health Sciences Library
The Ohio State University
376 W 10th Ave
Columbus, OH  43210
voice:  614-688-4505
fax:  614-292-5717
fern.cheek@osumc.edu

The Secretary records minutes of all OHSLA meetings and prepares minutes for distribution by the Communications Committee.


Regional Advisory Council Representative

Michael McGraw
Cleveland Health Sciences Library
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH  44106
PH:  216-368-1396
FAX: 
michael.mcgraw@case.edu

The Regional Advisory Council Representative serves as the communication link between OHSLA and the Regional Advisory Council (RAC) of the Greater Midwest Region of National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM). The RAC Representative is from a primary access library within the State of Ohio and serves a two-year term.

 

Mike is an Ohio native.  He received his BA fromMike McGraw Harvard University with a concentration in Government and including a junior year aboard at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Before earning his MLIS he served as a curator overseeing the digitization of a collection of orofacial radiographs and as an assistant librarian in a pediatric hospital library. He finished his MLIS at Kent State in 2003 and joined Cleveland Health Sciences Library in 2004 as Reference and User Services Librarian, where his focus is teaching online searching to the students, faculty and staff in CWRU's health science programs.
 

 

Non-Voting Members
 

Editor, OHSLA Voice

Leslie Lindsey
Craig Memorial Library
Miami Valley Hospital
One Wyoming St
Dayton OH  45409-2711
voice:  (937) 208-2617
Fax:  (937) 208-2569
lalindsey@mvh.org
 

The editor also serves as chair of the Communications Commitee


Archivist

Catherine Collier
Prior Health Sciences Library
The Ohio State University
376 W. 10th Ave.
Columbus, OH  43210
voice:  614.292.4861
fax:  614-292.1920

catherine.collier@osumc.edu


Listserv Coordinator

Wendy Hess
Summa Medical Library
Summa Health System/Akron City
55 Arch St: Suite G3
Akron, OH  44304
Work phone: (330)375-6108
Email: wendy.a.hess@gmail.com
hessw@summahealth.org


Webmaster

Susan Wehmeyer
Wright State University Libraries
127A Dunbar Library
Dayton, OH 45435
voice: 937/775-3565
fax: 937/775-2356
susan.wehmeyer@wright.edu

 

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