Spring 2001
Cancer Librarians Section Newsletter

Member News

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Margaret Vugrin MSLS, AHIP, tells us that she has had the following posters accepted for presentation at such exotic locations as Sardinia and Havana…

Poster:
VIRTUAL MEETINGS TO SUPPORT THE CATCHUM CONSORTIUM; FORMING A COMMUNITY IN CYBERSPACE AND THE PRODUCTS WE HAVE CREATED
Accepted for Presentation:
EAHIL, European Association for Health Information and Libraries, Association Européenne pour I'Information et les Bibliothèques de Santé, EAHIL Workshop 2001 Cyberspace Odyssey, Alghero, Sardinia, June 7- 9, 2001.

The CATCHUM Project is an NCI-funded; University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston housed project that enhances the education of undergraduate medical students in the prevention and control of cancer across a consortium of eight Texas medical schools. Abstract follows.

Margaret Vugrin, Reference Librarian, MSLS (AHIP) Preston Smith Library, Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, Hershel Womack, MS, Photocommunications, School of Mass Communications, Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX, Melissa DeSantis; MLIS, Microcomputer Services Coordinator, UTHSCSA, San Antonio, TX; Gale Hannigan MLS, MPH (AHIP) Dir-Informatics for MedEd Texas A&M College of Medicine, College Station, TX; Cathy Montoya, MLS, Director - LRC, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,TX.

Poster:
HOW WE VIEW OURSELVES - LIBRARIANS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Accepted for Presentation December 5, 2000:
EAHIL, European Association for Health Information and Libraries, Association Européenne pour I'Information et les Bibliothèques de Santé, EAHIL Workshop 2001 Cyberspace Odyssey, Alghero, Sardinia, June 7- 9, 2001.

Margaret Vugrin, Reference Librarian, M.S.L.S., (AHIP) Preston Smith Library, Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, Hershel Womack, M.S., Photocommunications, School of Mass Communications, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.

Poster:
Accepted for Presentation December 15, 2000: (same as above):
Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, May 2001.

Poster:
Accepted for Presentation February 19, 2001
CATCHUM: Electronic Curriculum Resources to Support Cancer Prevention.

Authors: Cesar O. Freytes, MD, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; Gale G. Hannigan, PhD, Texas A&M University, Margaret Vugrin, MSLS, DavorVugrin, M.D., Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center; Hershel Womack Texas Tech University; and members of the CATCHUM Educational Task Force.Electronic poster presented at: CRICS V, the Pan-American Health Organization's Informatics Conference Havana, Cuba, April 24-27, 2001.