2nd Quarterly Meeting
June 18, 2004
Location: College of St. Mary, Library
Present: Siobhan Blackwell, Angela Arner, Robin Bernstein, Heather Brown, Marty
Magee, Kenny Oyer, Karen Meir, Anne Heimann, Elizabeth Grama, John Mitchell,
Jeanne Burke, Shawn Ammon, Judith Healy, Tom Gensichen, Mary Helms, Judi
Bergjord, Teri Hartman
1. Call to order by Tom Gensichen, 2:10 pm.
2. All members present introduced themselves, and welcomed John Mitchell as a
new member from Creighton.
3. Approval of March minutes: Kenny Oyer made the motion to approve the March
26, 2004 minutes with the following changes: Karen Mier announced that the John
Moritz Library will be at 515 S. 26th St. after their May/June move. The library
will be at that location until 2006 when the new campus for Nebraska Methodist
College is complete. Jeanne Burke seconded. Motion carried.
4. Executive Secretary’s report: Mary Helms distributed the ICON financial
reports, and reported on the difficulty in receiving the MLA giveaway box she
mailed from Washington, D.C. She reminded members that if they wish to do
mailings to the ICON membership, she has petty cash and stamps available. She
reported on the Ariel grant financial report, and said that she is also doing
quarterly reports to DPM.
5. Communication’s Coordinator report: Shawn Ammon has updated the ICONnection
on the website.
6. Committee Reports
a. Bylaws – no report
b. Membership – Mary Helms announced the following new member to ICON: John
Schleicher, UNMC
c. Resource
1. ARIEL: Installation experiences are not going smoothly, due to apparent lack
of IT department support in ICON members’ locations. It appears that only an
annual progress report is required. The Ariel Grant committee was urged to meet
and discuss alternative plans for workstations that are not able to be placed as
originally planned due to network difficulties, and involve grant personnel at
NLM. Sister Judy Healy offered demonstrations of the new Ariel workstation in
place at the College of St. Mary’s library.
d. Continuing Education: Jeanne Burke reported on the May 14th First Technology
Workshop workshop, and said that ICON will plan to hold another in the future.
She is still working on a planned October 29th marketing workshop, location to
be determined. Mary Helms offered a tour of the new Durham Research Center at
UNMC. Teri Hartman asked the members present for interest in the upcoming MLA
teleconference-no members present expressed interest in attending. Siobhan
Champ-Blackwell reported that the University of North Carolina has free webcasts
for minority health, and will get the urls to Shawn Ammon to post to ICON
members. Marty Magee suggested that Scott Childers, Chair of the New Members
Technology roundtable group of the Nebraska Library Association as a
collaborative member of the next technology day planning committee.
7. Old Business
a. MCMLA in Omaha 2007: MCMLA Executive Board is working to approve the
partnership of the Midwest Chapter and the MCMLA to plan this meeting. Since Jim
Bothmer was not present, the members felt obligated to nominate him to the
office of Chair, Planning Committee for MCMLA 2007. Kenny Oyer moved, Karen Mier
seconded to nominate Jim Bothmer to serve as the Chair of the Planning Committee
for MCMLA 2007. Motion carried with 5 abstentions.
Siobhan Champ-Blackwell moved, and Mary Helms seconded for Teri Hartman to be
co-Chair of the Planning Committee, MCMLA 2007. Motion carried with ICON members
saying, “You’re it!” to signify their Ayes. Mary Helms stipulated that Jim
Bothmer would have to do the majority of the work.
8. New Business
a. NLA/NEMA booth: There was no interest from the ICON members present to host a
booth at this year’s NLA meeting. Siobhan Champ-Blackwell and Marty Magee
volunteered to distribute ICON brochures at their NN/LM booth during the NLA
meeting.
9. RML News: Marty Magee distributed handouts describing free full-text access
to biomedical journals through PubMed, and information on requesting free
marketing materials. Siobhan Champ-Blackwell distributed information on
accessing her new blog, “Bringing Health Information to the Community” ,
available at http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC . She will also send Shawn
Ammon the url for the Title 6 requirements to have multilingual resources if
anyone in an institution receives HHS money. Sister Judy Healy said that
libraries should encourage grant writers to write in resources to help the
library and facility to remain compliant with this new requirement.
10. Announcements
Karen Mier – the John Moritz library staff is looking forward to showing their
new location to ICON members at the September meeting. She reported that they
still have a location in the Methodist Hospital manned 4 days per week.
11. Adjournment: Mary Helms moved, Kenny Oyer seconded to adjourn the meeting at
3:15.
2004 Meetings
Sept. 17 – 2:00 – Methodist
Dec. 10 – 2:00 – McGoogan Library, UNMC
Presentation by 7 ICON members that had attended MLA 2004, and distribution of
MLA giveaways to members present followed adjournment.