Update: HIV/AIDS Information Summit
Final arrangements are in place for the HIV/AIDS Information Summit, which will be held on Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at the Covel Commons Conference Center on the UCLA campus. In addition to the two featured keynote speakers, Gail Wyatt and Larry Peiperl, the Summit will include a series of panelists, who will address specific aspects of HIV/AIDS information dissemination. These speakers will include Gale Dutcher, Head of the Office of Outreach & Special Populations, National Library of Medicine; Lisa Hoskins and Vanessa Robison, representing the AIDS Education Global Information System (AEGiS); Claire Hamasu, Associate Director, National Network of Libraries of Medicine Midcontinental Region; Jenny Reiswig, Electronic Services Librarian, UCSD Biomedical Library; and Julie Kwan, Library Network Coordinator, PSRML.
Applicants to the Summit were asked to describe the challenges they faced in accessing and disseminating accurate and current HIV/AIDS information, as well as what they hoped the Summit would accomplish. Based on the input received from the applications, the Steering Committee developed the following breakout discussion questions:
- How to cope with geographic isolation and gaining access to full text information when a large academic library is not present?
- How to cope with the overload of HIV/AIDS electronic (and other) resources, and how to assure accuracy of the information?
- How to avoid duplication of websites, listservs, etc., and better collaborate to make use of existing HIV/AIDS websites?
- How to get HIV/AIDS information to hard-to-reach populations, such as minority groups and youth?
The breakout group discussions are expected to lead to recommendations for future outreach efforts and information dissemination related to HIV/AIDS information. Further details about the Summit are available at http://nnlm.gov/psr/aids_summit.html. Please direct comments or suggestions to Alan Carr at acarr@library.ucla.edu. AC