The skills and expertise librarians need to perform successfully in increasingly sophisticated informatics environments, with contributed papers addressing competencies and strategies for development specific to different disciplines and environments. This program will focus on building librarian competence in providing mental health information to consumers. An Information Odyssey Skills and expertise health sciences librarians need to successfully offer GIS services, including the challenges and opportunities in delivering GIS services, collaborative roles for librarians, core competencies or strategies for developing these competencies, or GIS information resources. Contributed Public Services, Medical Informatics, Federal Libraries Using the Web and Other Technologies to Enhance Reference Services Webline and real-time reference via the Web, and other innovative uses of technology to enhance reference services. Contributed Public Services Providing Reference Services Differently Combining reference with circulation and other innovations in reference service.
Papers can be overviews of projects or parts of projects.
Research and practice in making digital resources scalable, operational parts of the biomedical library. Contributed National Program Committee General Papers on subjects that do not relate to any of the above themes.