SCMLA 2016 CE Instructor:
Skye Bickett, MLIS, AHIP
Assistant Director of Library Services
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (GA-PCOM)

Skye Bickett, MLIS, AHIP, is the assistant director of library services at the Georgia Campus of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (GA-PCOM). In this role, she manages the library and provides support to students, faculty, and staff.  She is currently embedded in the curriculum of the School of Pharmacy, Biomedical Sciences Masters, and Physician Assistant programs at GA-PCOM. She assists with research activities, creates online material to supplement course work, and offers education on evidence-based practice, research methods, drug information, and the use of library resources.
She has presented papers and posters at various library and academic associations; is involved in leadership activities for these associations; serves as the editor for the Alternative and Complementary Therapies column of the Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet; and volunteers as a library selector for several sections of Doody’s Core Titles.

SCMLA 2016 CE Instructor:
Carolann Curry
Library Assistant Professor 
Reference & Outreach Librarian
Mercer University

Carolann Curry graduated with a double major in English and Mass Communication from Flagler College in 2006. In 2009 she received her Masters of Library and Information Science from Valdosta State University. While working on her library degree, Carolann worked full-time as a library assistant at Mercer University Medical Library. Upon the receipt of her masters, Carolann was promoted as the Document Delivery Librarian at Mercer Medical Library and managed the library’s interlibrary loan and document delivery department. She currently works as the Medical Library’s Reference & Outreach Librarian. Carolann has worked in both public and academic health sciences libraries and has been involved in reference and research activities since 2009. When she’s not working, Carolann enjoys horror movies and spending time with her boyfriend in their ever-growing multi-cat household.

SCMLA 2016 CE Instructor:
Anna Krampl, MLS
Assistant Professor
Head of Public Services
Mercer University

Anna Krampl graduated from Berry College in 2002 with a degree in History. In 2005, she received her Masters of Science in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Afterward she was hired as a Reference Librarian at the Mercer University School of Medicine Medical Library in the fall of 2002. Still at Mercer she is currently Assistant Professor and works as Head of Public Services for the Macon campus library. Her research interests include identifying predatory publications, and best search-practices for PubMed and other library resources.   

SCMLA 2016 CE Instructor:
Nancy Patterson, MLS
Outreach and Education Coordinator
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
Southeastern/Atlantic Region (NN/LM SE/A)

Nancy is an Outreach and Education Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Southeastern/Atlantic Region (NN/LM SE/A) based at the University of Maryland's Health Sciences and Human Services Library in Baltimore, Maryland. In that role, she teaches classes on National Library of Medicine (NLM) resources and facilitates health outreach projects funded by NN/LM SE/A.

Previously, she served as the Community Outreach Coordinator at NN/LM SE/A - a position she began in 2009, where her focus was on increasing the health literacy of underserved populations. Her background includes work in public and art libraries as well as a medical library and encompasses arenas from outreach to reference to programming to resource-sharing. The world of librarianship is vast!

Nancy is grateful for your attendance today and hopes to contribute to your own adventures in librarianship. She can be reached at:
npatters@hshsl.umaryland.edu
(410) 706-2858

SCMLA 2016 CE Instructor:
Christine Willis, MLIS
Director of Knowledge Management & Learning Resources
Shepherd Center

Christine Willis, MLIS, is the Director of Knowledge Management & Learning Resources at Shepherd Center in Atlanta, GA. She oversees the Noble Learning Resource Center and provides research assistance to clinicians as well as consumer health information for patients and families.  Her research interests include health literacy, library services for people with disabilities, and teaching clinicians how to access and assess evidence-based research to be applied in their practice.

She has written book reviews for the Consumer and Patient Health Information Section newsletter and serves as co-editor of the Collection Development Section newsletter.  Christine is actively involved in the Atlanta Health Science Libraries Consortium and the Georgia Health Sciences Library Association.  Through these organizations she has presented on the history of AHSLC and is part of a statewide health literacy campaign; both projects have been presented recently at professional meetings.  She will present a course on literature searching at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine this Fall.  She has been published in the Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet and in Medical Reference Services Quarterly.