Continuing Education Biographies
Maryanne Blake, MSLS has taught Measuring the Difference an evaluation workshop, contributing her experiences as Outreach Coordinator for the Regional Medical Library for ten years. Prior to coming to the NN/LM PNR, Maryanne was a hospital librarian at the VA Medical Center and Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, clinical librarian at George Washington University Hospital and the Himmelfarb Library of George Washington University Medical School and also at the Lombardi Cancer Center of Georgetown University Medical School in Washington, DC.
Betsy Kelly, MLS, MBA has formal evaluation training through the University of Illinois and continuing education courses. She has over 25 years of administrative level library experience and works part-time developing the evaluation program for the RML contract. She also works with funding applicants to incorporate evaluation into their program proposals.
Peggy Baldwin received her MLA from the University of Oregon 8n 1977; since 1984, she has been the Library Director at Providence Portland Medical Center. As an undergraduate, Peggy majored in business administration, minored in applied math, and took several computer-programming classes. With the invention of the PC, and real computing power being put in the hands of consumers, Peggy has been increasingly interested in the potential of computing for improving our work and lives. As the proud owner of a Sony Clie (Palm operating system PDA), she has tried a multitude of applications and investigated uses for libraries and in medicine. Peggy participated in the MLA teleconference "Sync or Swim: Managing the Flood of PDAs in Health Care" in February 2002. She has had to convince her husband that she would be more upset if he left her than if she lost her Visor.
Andrew Hamilton is a Senior Reference & Instruction Librarian at the Oregon Health & Science University Library. Prior to joining the OHSU Library staff in 2002, he served as a MEDLINE trainer for six years with the National Training Center & Clearinghouse (NTCC) at the Middle Atlantic Regional Medical Library and traveled the United States teaching Librarians how to search NLM electronic resources such as PubMed. Andrew has earned two BS degrees in Microbiology and Biology/Genetics from Oregon State University and earned his MLS degree as part of a Drug Information Specialist Double Master's Program, graduating from St. John's University with a dual MS - Pharmaceutical Sciences/MLS degree.