Tia Drake and Dr. Rebecca McAlister

Committee Member Nancy Bennett presents Dr. Rebecca McAlister and Tia Drake with their Community Spirit Awards

The Office of Graduate Medical Education (GME) is responsible for the training and education of the residency programs. Over the last three years this Office and the Becker Medical Librarians have had a great relationship in the training and learning process afforded by Becker Library in advancing the knowledge of the medical residents in the access and use of library resources and services. It is from this level of cooperative work that some of the reference staff has been involved in some Grand Rounds presentations and Special seminars planned by the varying residency programs.

Thanks to the efforts of Tia Drake of the GME Office and Dr. Rebecca McAlister, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, for allowing the library to work so well with you.

Ron Heller

Committee Member Tim Brooks presents Ron Heller with the Outstanding Performance Award

Throughout the University Ron Heller is regarded as an expert in “development” and is known to provide great customer service to all. He is insightful and his ability to ask the tough questions that others do not (or do not want to) gives Ron an edge in performing above and beyond. His openness about sharing his knowledge enables Ron to strive to allow the users to have the knowledge and skills to solve their problems.

Kim Lipsey

Committee Member Joelene Swearingen presents Kim Lipsey with her Bright Idea Award

A bright idea Award is given to Kim Lipsey for identifying a need within the medical center and creating a product to fill the need by bringing together disparate elements of our work into one workshop. The idea of offering a half-day workshop entitled, “From Research To Presentation,” composed of the following independent courses – searching MEDLINE, Finding Statistics, EndNote, Creating PowerPoint Presentations, and Evaluating Web Resources, allowed participants to see the big picture - from doing the basic research to presenting their work - in one continuous flow. Kim recruited members of the reference department to teach individual course sessions. A dated workshop was offered to the university community by e-mail and within 24 hours there were 200 registrations. This bright idea generated SIX additional worships, and the library continues to offer the course.

Philip Skroska

Committee Member Carol Coplin presents Dr. Paul Anderson, who accepted for Phil Skroska, with the Outstanding Performance Award

Phil Skroska of Archives and Rare Books manages the Visual Collections in ARB and has developed this photographic and graphic archive into one of the library’s most important resources. It is used frequently by branches of the Chancellor’s Office and the Dean’s office, as well as many faculty and scholars around the world.

He also assembled a short illustrated “historic tour” brochure for use during the annual Alumni Days. His work output forms an essential part of the content of two successful Missouri State Library-funded projects.

Lilla Vekerdy

Committee Member Kevin Sleeter presents Lilla Vekerdy with her Outstanding Performance Award

Lilla Vekerdy has offered a hands-on course as Course Master and teacher for “Topics in the History of Medicine” to second-year students. Lilla goes beyond that by encouraging the ARB staff to sit in on the course and to learn more about the history of medicine and rare book collections.

The designs and invitations and posters for the annual Historia Medica Lecture series, and the arranging for outstanding speakers are all done by Lilla.

In addition, thanks to Lilla, many local and foreign scholars have remote and in-house access to copies of material from rare and fragile resources as a result of the digital reproduction services program that she started.