Cheryl Rae Dee, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

University of South Florida, School of Library and Information Science

4202 East Fowler Avenue, CIS 2023

Tampa, FL 33620-7800

813/974-6361, Fax: 941/688-9829, E-mail: cdee@cas.usf.edu

Web Page: http://www.cas.usf.edu/~cdee/

 

HONORS and ACHIEVEMENTS

                                              

Medical Informatics Marine Biological Laboratory/National Library of Medicine Course Fellowship-

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. Sponsored by the National Library of

Medicine. Certificate, Spring Course, 2002.

            Thirty fellows selected by the faculty from 167 world-wide applicants. Faculty included Medical                        Informatics experts from around the country.

 

Medical Library Association Ida and George Eliot Prize for best published paper, 2000,

            http://www.mlanet.org/awards/honors/eliot.html

“Using Scientific Evidence to Improve Hospital Library Services: Southern Chapter/Medical

Library Association Journal Usage Study”. Co-authored with Jocelyn Rankin and Carol Burns.

Presented annually for a work published in the preceding calendar year that has been judged “most effective in furthering medical librarianship”. Prize money for the Eliot Prize was donated to the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association Martha Watkins’ Scholarship Fund.

 

First author of one of the top five “most highly cited” articles published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association.  The article, published with R. Blazek, “Information Needs of Rural Physicians: A Descriptive Study”. (1993) Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 81:259- 64 was identified “Snapshot in time: Citation Rankings.” (2000) Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. 88(1): 83-4.

            www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=35204&action=stream&blobtype=pdf

 

Medical Library Association Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship 1997.

            http://www.mlanet.org/awards/honors/colaianni.html

Annual award to honor a hospital librarian “(for) significant contributions to the profession through

overall distinction or leadership in hospital library administration or service production of a definitive publication related to hospital librarianship, teaching, research, advocacy.”

 

Medical Library Association Academy of Health Information Professionals Distinguished

Level Membership

http://www.mlanet.org/academy/roster1.html

Distinguished membership represents the highest level of certification

 

Medical Library Association Research Section Award for best-contributed paper: Southern

Chapter/Medical Library Association. Journal Usage Study. Presented by Cheryl Dee, written with Jocelyn Rankin, Carol Burns. 1996.

 

Hospital Library Section/Medical Library Association Professional Recognition Award for

Research, 1992 and 1993

http://www.mlanet.org/about/history/unit-history/hospital5.html

 

Institute for Scientific Information/ Medical Library Association Doctoral Fellowship, 1991.

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Michigan State University, BA

George Peabody College/Vanderbilt University, MLS

Florida State University, School of Library and Information Services, Ph.D. (1990)

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

University of South Florida, Assistant Professor, 2001-

University of South Florida, Visiting Professor, 1999-2001.

Watson Clinic Medical Library, Watson Clinic 1975-99

University of South Florida School of Library and Information Science

            Adjunct Professor in Health Science Librarianship, 1993-1999

University of Florida

Health Center Library; Assistant University Librarian Courtesy Appointment 1993-

University of South Florida, College of Nursing.

Courtesy Faculty Appointment. 2000-to present.

 

NATIONAL APPOINTMENTS

 

Medical Library Association Mentoring Task Force 1999-2001

The President of the Medical Library Association Board of Directors appointed the Mentor Program Task Force in February 1999 with the charge to define and develop a unified, comprehensive concept of mentoring within the Medical Library Association. The Task Force will establish a comprehensive mentoring program within MLA to assist members with their professional and career development.

 

National Library of Medicine National Network of Libraries of Medicine Southeastern/Atlantic Region 2. Regional Advisory Council 1996-2001

The Council serves as the Board of Directors for the National Network of Libraries of

Medicine Southeastern/Atlantic Region 2.

 

Medical Library Association Research Task Force 1993-5

Using Scientific Evidence to Improve Information Practice: The Research Policy Statement of the Medical Library Association, Medical Library Association, Medical Library Association, 1996.

http://www.mlanet.org/research/science1.html

 Developed by Prudence W. Dalrymple, Ph.D., Jacqueline D. Bastille, Jana Bradley, Ph.D., Cheryl Rae Dee, Ph.D., Betsy L. Humphreys, Joanne G. Marshall, Ph.D., Ann Carol Weller, Reneta E. Webb, Ph.D.

This policy statement expresses MLA's vision of research as a foundation for excellence in health information practice, for new and expanded roles for health science librarians, and for attracting excellent people to the profession. Using Scientific Evidence to Improve Information Practice written by the MLA Research Task Force, MLA, 1996.

 

PROFESSIONAL CHAIRMANSHIPS

 

Medical Library Education Section/Medical Library Association,

Chairman 1996-7

Hospital Library Section/Medical Library Association,

Chairman 1984-5

http://www.mlanet.org/about/history/unit-history/hospital3.html

Florida Health Sciences Library Association,

President 1982-3

http://www.library.health.ufl.edu/fhsla/about/fhistory.html

Polk County Library Association,

Co-Chairman 2002-3

President 1983-4

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION COMMITTEES AND AWARD JURIES

 

Medical Library Association-National

           

            MLA Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award 2002-3

            MLA Fellows and Honorary Members Jury 1995-96; 2000-1, Chairman, 2001-2002

Medical Library Association Mentoring Task Force Member 1999-2001

            Medical Library Association Local Arrangements Committee, Orlando 2001

Medical Library Association Research Task Force Member, 1993-5

HLS/Medical Library Association (MLA) Award Jury, Chairman, 1997-98

MLA Lois Colaianni Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship Jury, Chairman, 1994-95

MLA Doctoral Fellowship Jury 1991-1992;

MLA Rittenhouse Award Jury 1996-7;

MLA Continuing Education Course Development and Instructor: Information Needs of Health   Professionals

 

Medical Library Association-Section

 

Hospital Library Section 1973-; Chair Elect/Program Chair, 1983-4; Chairman 1984-5;

HLS Bylaws Committee Chairman 1978-83; HLS Strategic Planning Committee 1990-91; HLS Professional Recognition Committee 1991-93, 2001-3

Elected to Hospital Library Section’s “Scroll of Exemplary Service,” May 2002.

Medical Library Education Section 1993-, MLES Chair Elect/Program Chair 1996-7; Chairman 1997-8

Research Section 1988-

International Cooperation Section 1991-2000

Family Practice Interest Group 1975-7

Medical Informatics Special Interest Group 2000-

 

Medical Library Association-Chapter

 

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association, 1982-; Research Committee 1990-1997, Chairman, 1994-1996, active Ex-Officio member, 1996- ;Local Arrangements Committee, 1994, Chairman, Publicity Committee, Communications Committee 1995-96; Poster Session Committee 1995-6;

Honors and Awards Committee 2001-3, Chairman 2002-3;

 

Medical Library Association-State

Florida Health Sciences Library Association,

President 1982-3, Treasurer 1979-80; Strategic Planning Committee 2001-4

 

            Special Library Association-State

            Florida and Caribbean Chapter Special Library Association Executive Board USF SLIS Student                                   Faculty Chapter Advisor representative 2001-

“Creativity in the Workplace: How to Be Your Creative-Best in Today’s Challenging

Information Environment,” Co-Chairman, Local Arrangements Fall Meeting and November 8, 2002.

            Polk County Library Association

                        Co-President  2002-4;  Re-establisher of the Association after Association disbanded 2002

 

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA ACTIVITIES

Library Council, Ex Officio 2000-

SLIS Special Library Association Student Chapter Faculty Advisor 2001-

SLIS Curriculum Committee Chairman Fall 2002-

School of Nursing – Nursing Informatics Advisory Task Force 2000-

College of Arts and Sciences Open House: Advances in Knowledge Nov. 8, 2002, Coordinated SLIS’s participation and presented NIH research.

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES

 

American Library Association Accreditation External Review Panel

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Fall 1996.

          University of Albany, State University of New York, School of Information Science and Policy
 Fall, 2000

 

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS                                                             

ALISE

ASSIST

Special Library Association

 

PUBLICATIONS and REPORTS

 

Chat reference service in medical libraries: Part 1. An introduction. Medical

            Reference Services Quarterly. 22(2) Summer, 2003

Chat reference service in medical libraries: Part 2. Trends in medical school libraries. Medical

            Reference Services Quarterly. 22(2) Summer, 2003

Co-editor of  Hospital Information Services” Column With Jacqueline Doyle & Kay Wellick.  Medical
Reference Services Quarterly. 1995-to date

With K. Wellik. Current Environment of Hospital Library Reference: Transition to Technology (2000) Medical Reference Services Quarterly 19(4):89-98.

Data obtained from interviews with six prominent hospital librarians. The focus of the article is on the current reference environment in the hospital library. The interviewees' reference collections, services, and skills currently reflect the strong influence of technology.

With K. Wellik. Looking Ahead at Hospital Library Reference Work: Trends and the Future. (2001)

Medical Reference Services Quarterly 20(1):69-78.

Six interviewees look ahead at hospital library clients, funding issues in challenging financial times, and future reference trends. Interviewees offer their predictions for the future of hospital library reference work.

With JA Rankin, & CA Burns. (1998) Using Scientific Evidence to improve hospital library services:

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Journal Usage Study. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association.  86(3):301-6. Paper awarded the Ida and George Eliot Prize http://www.mlanet.org/awards/honors/eliot.html

Paper described the project that obtained Majors/MLA Chapter Project of the Year http://www.mlanet.org/research/science1.html for the Southern Chapter/MLA

Information Needs of Rural Physicians: A Descriptive Study.  University Microfilm, 1990.

With Ronald Blazek. (1993) Information Needs of Rural Physicians: A Descriptive Study." Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. 81:259-64.

Fifth most frequently cited article Bulletin of the Medical Library Association.

Medical Libraries in the Caribbean and Central America: A Preliminary Report. (1992) Third World

Libraries. 3(1):51-58.

With Jane Lambremont. Medical Library Association Continuing Education Syllabus 301 Information Needs of Health Professionals, Medical Library Association, 1993.

Course syllabus written for the Medical Library Association Continuing Education Syllabus 301 Information Needs of Health Professionals.

Book Review: M. Ringel's “Assessing Medical Information from a Desert Island with Telephone

Service”. Desert Island Press 1993. Reviewed in Bulletin of the Medical Library Association.

 63(1) 1995.

With Jacqueline Doyle & Kay Wellick. (1996) “Health and Information Services: Re-Focusing the

Hospital Information Services” Column Medical Reference Services Quarterly.  Fall, 1995

Library Consultant Report: Rapides Parish Medical Libraries for Rapides Parish Library,

April 1996. 125 p. Unpublished. Qualitative and quantitative profile obtained.

 

GRANTS

 

Submitted, October, 2002. Modeling Successive Medical Searches. National Institute of Health/National Library of Medicine. Cheryl Dee, Principal Investigator; Amanda Spink, Co-Investigator. $290,000.

The proposed study proposes to examine and model successive medical searching by medical searchers of National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases to model the process of successive medical search and provide criteria for enhancing NLM medical database systems and interfaces. The study objectives include examining successive medical searches by a set of medical information seekers participating in mediated medical database searches over time to characterize: 1. Progressive changes that occur over successive medical searches, including changes in information problems; information seekers' cognitive and affective states, and search queries, strategies and relevance judgments, and 2. Changes over time in the medical information resources. The study is an observational, longitudinal study. Data will be collected at the University of South Florida (USF).  

Submitted, October, 2002. Meeting Senior Citizens’ Information Needs. National Library of Medicine/National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Cheryl Dee, Principal Investigator. $14,617.

            The proposed study proposes to directly teach seniors to gather medical information independently, train librarians to teach seniors about medical searching, and to begin to gather information about the medical information needs and medical information seeking behavior of senior citizens. Library staff from the Polk County Library Cooperative, a library consortium consisting of 16 libraries in Southwest Florida, will be taught how to search PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, and MEDLINEplus with particular emphasis on meeting the needs of the senior citizens of the Polk County area. In another training session, introductory techniques covering how to search PubMed and MEDLINEplus will be offered to the senior citizens in Polk County at the Lakeland Public Library and also at the Polk County Library Cooperative computer training facility. A third training effort will be directed at teaching medical searching techniques to a small selected group of senior patients in the Day Treatment Program of the Peace River Center, Inc., a mental health facility.

 

 

National Institute of Health/National Library of Medicine Information Access Central Florida Library Outreach Grant. $79,224.00 December 28, 1999.

Grant initiates a high level of technologically current library services to the health professionals at 12 remotely located clinical sites in Polk and Hillsborough Counties. The project enhances and expands existing professional health information resources, or in several cases, initiates professional health information resources in these sites. The Principal Investigator planned, developed, organized, and will evaluation the grant. Sites include 10 altruistic remote sites and the University of South Florida St. Petersburg and Lakeland Campus servicing the College of Nursing.

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Research Grant for Journal Usage Study.

Financial assistance from a Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Research Grant. Grant funded the travel and data collection costs of the Chapter-wide Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Journal Usage Study, 1997.

Consultant to the Louisiana Area Health Education Center for the grant: Information Needs of Louisiana

Health Information Professionals. National Library of Medicine Information Access Grant. 1995. Grant Funded.

Grant provided money for consortia of health science libraries in Rapides Parish, LA.

National Library of Medicine Planning Grant for Education and Training of Health Sciences Librarians,

1995.

Perrault, Anna Principal Investigator.  Cheryl Dee assistant. University of South Florida School of Library and Information Science. Grant not funded.

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

“Searching the National Library of Medicine Databases.” University of South Florida School of Nursing, Nursing Informatics Seminar NGR 5635 guest lecturer. Fall 2002 (class of

Linda E. Moody, PhD, MPH, FAAN Distinguished Professor), Spring 2002 (Linda E.

Moody, PhD, MPH, FAAN Distinguished Professor), Summer 2002 (Linda E. Moody,

PhD, MPH, FAAN Distinguished Professor), Fall 2002 (Linda E. Moody, PhD, MPH,

FAAN Distinguished Professor), Spring 2003 (Elaine M. Slocumb, PhD, RN, BC).

With Andrew Todd. “Serving Medical and Nursing Students and Faculty Information Literacy Needs: Creating a Model for Distance Learners.” Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association, Nashville, TN, October 19, 2002.

“Introduction to Qualitative Research.” MLA Research Section Contributed Paper.  Panel: The Research

Process: The Beginning or How to Get Started. MLA Annual Meeting, Orlando. May 27, 2001.

“How to use the Internet in a Special Library Setting.” Special & Institutional Libraries Section Panel:

Special Librarians and the Internet.  Florida Library Association. April 27, 2000.

Moderator,  “Knowledge Management Contributed Paper Session” Southern Chapter Medical Library

Association, October, 2000.

"Continuing Education Opportunities for Physicians" Florida Medical Association Annual Meeting,

Jacksonville, 1989,

"Introduction to the National Library of Medicine’s Grateful Med" American College of Cardiology, Heart

House Meeting, Bethesda, MD, 1991,

"Information Needs of the Physician" Alabama Health Sciences Library Association Annual Meeting, Guntersville, Alabama, October, 1991

"What's Up Doc? Using Medical Information Resources."  Tampa Bay Library Association, Tampa, FL,

1991,

"Information Needs of the Physician” Visiting Faculty Lecturer. Rosary College School of Library and

Information Science, 1992

Medical Library Association CE 301 Course: Information Needs of Health Professionals

Eight-hour course presented when requested by organizations.  Target audience and educational objectives of this course is intended for all health science information managers. Course provides a forum to discuss the value of information, the ways health professionals seek and use information, and the role of the information manager in the search for quality information.

Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 5, 1995

Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, May 14, 1994

Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, May 8, 1993

Annual Meeting of the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Orlando,

Florida, October 22, 1994

Rosary College, School of Library and Information Science.  Park Ridge, Illinois 1994 

South Central Kentucky Area Health Education Consortia. Bowling Green, Kentucky,

September 24, 1994

     Maryland Association of Health Science Librarians, Baltimore, Maryland, March 10, 1995

Miami Valley Association of Health Sciences Libraries, Dayton, Ohio, April 21, 1995;

"Hospital Re-design in the 21st Century." Panel Moderator Medical Library Education Section.

            Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 1995

 Presenter “Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Journal Usage Study: A Qualitative Study of

            Journal Usage in 36 Hospital Medical Libraries.” Medical Library Association 1996.

“Bring It On Home to Me: Ways of Document Delivery“ Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association

1996.  Panel Moderator: Interlibrary Loans, and Collection Development.

“Medicine on the Internet” Florida Library Association. April 27, 2000.

 

 
LIBRARY CONSULTANT

 

Twenty-five hospitals in the Southeastern United States. 1980-2000.

 

CONTINUING EDUCATION

 

“Sharing Our Strengths: Cooperative International Distance Education in Health Sciences Knowledge Management.” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. February 19, 2001.  Invited Participant.

“Creativity in the Workplace: How to be Your Best in Today’s Challenging Information Environment.” Special Library Association, November 8, 2002.

 

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

 

Polk Senior Games      

Board of Directors and Event Manager, 1996-to date

Peace River Center for Personal Development, Inc.

            Board of Directors 1992-to date

VISTE, Volunteers in Service to the Elderly 2001-

All Saint’s Episcopal Church Child Development Center

Board of Directors 1994-7

St David’s Episcopal Church

Vestry

Friend of the Polk Public Museum

Friend of the Lakeland Public Library

Friend of the Polk Theatre

Watson Clinic Foundation volunteer

Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine volunteer