MAR Technology Improvement Award Winners
The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Middle Atlantic Region (MAR), is pleased to announce the following award winners for the Technology Improvement Awards.
The purpose of the Technology Improvement Awards is to improve information services to health professionals and health care consumers through the application of appropriate technologies; to improve the adequacy of Internet connections in NN/LM-MAR libraries; or to introduce National Library of Medicine (NLM) services to a hospital that previously lacked access to these services.
Congratulations all!
Technology Improvement Award Recipients
- Microfiche Scanner Update Project
Barney A. Slotkin Memorial Library, Kennedy Memorial Hospital, Cherry Hill, NJ
Francine Silverman - White Nights
Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences, New York, NY
Irina Meyman - Get the Picture? Improving Graduate Medical Education with DVD Technology
Health Sciences Library, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY
Gail Hendler - Going Electronic
Holy Name Hospital, Teaneck, NJ
Keydi Boss - Saint Peter’s University Hospital 2007 Technology Project
Medical Library, Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ
Jeannine Creazzo - Lending Laptops in Group Study Rooms / UPS for Library’s Servers
D. Samuel Gottesman Library, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Nancy Glassman - Riverview Medical Center’s Mobile Computer Lab
John V. Movelle, M.D. Medical Library, Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, NJ
Amy Edwards - Portable Interlibrary Loan / Document Delivery Scanning Station
Levy Library, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Theodora A. Bakker - Patron Computer Access in the Harold Fink Memorial Library/Reorganization and Increase
Harold Fink Memorial Library, Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, NY
Laraine Tursi - Reading Room Wireless Project – NYAM Library
The New York Academy of Medicine Library, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY
Yixiong Xu - St. Francis Medical Library Printer Grant
St. Francis Hospital, Wilmington, DE
Rosemary Figorito - Polisher Research Institute Improvement of Knowledge-Based Information Access Services
Edward and Esther Polisher Research Institute Library,
Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life, North Wales, PA
Rachel Resnick - Mobile Computer Technology Initiative for Samaritan Medical Center Circuit Rider Librarians
of the Hospital Library Program of the Northern New York Library Network
Hunter-Rice Health Sciences Library, Samaritan Medical Center, Watertown, NY
Michael Chartrand
A special thanks also to our Technology Committee, including Wendi Ackerman, SUNY Upstate Health Sciences Library; Stewart Brower, University of Buffalo Health Sciences Library; Leigh Mihlrad, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Susan Robishaw, Geisinger Health System; Michael Wood, Weill Medical College Library; and RML Liaison Gregg Headrick.
