Education and Experience

Education

MPH, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, Aug 2005-current.
Major: Behavioral Sciences and Health Promotion
Thesis:  A systematic evaluation of the search strategies, methods, and selection of systematic reviews of interventions to prevent obesity

M.S., University of North Texas, Denton, TX, 2003.
Major: Library and Information Sciences
Specialty: Health Informatics

B.S. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 1998.
Major: Psychology

No degree. University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX August 1991- May 1996.

Library Experience

Social Sciences and Education Librarian, Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A&M University, August 2007-Current

• Provide reference assistance in person, phone, virtual, and email
• Liaison with the Health and Kinesiology Department and Women's Studies
  
• Provide instructional sessions for the Health and Kinesiology Department and Women's Studies and assist in other in instructional sessions
• Conduct collection development in subject areas relevant to the Health & Kinesiology Department and Women’s Studies

Reference Librarian, School of Public Health Library, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, September 2005 -August 2007

• Provide reference assistance in person, phone, and email
• Educate users on library resources through instruction sessions
• Create brochures and other educational materials
• Develop the collection in health promotion and behavioral sciences
• Assess needs of patrons
• Provide outreach to health promotion and behavioral sciences division
• Promote utilization of library resources
• Collaborate with library director and faculty to integrate information literacy competencies into the classroom
• Participate in planning of library activities

Adjunct Faculty, School of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas May 2005- May 2008

Graduate Library Assistant, University of Texas School of Public Health, August 2004 -September 2005

Library Associate II, Medical Sciences Library, Texas A&M University, March 1999 -July 2004

Documentation of Publications, Research, and Presentations

 Refereed Publications

Anderson, M. and Olmstadt W. 2003. “Providing systematic training for patient support groups.”. Journal of Hospital Librarianship. 3(3): 13-24.

Yoshii, A., Plaut, D. A., McGraw, K. A., Anderson, M. A. and Wellik, K. E. 2009 “Analysis of the Reporting of Search Strategies in Cochrane Systematic Reviews” JMLA: Journal of the Medical Library Association [accepted for publication]

Presentations

Juried Presentations

International

Plaut, D., McGraw, K. A., Anderson, M.J., Nguyen, L., Wellik, K. E., and Yoshii, A., “Analysis of the reporting of search strategies in Cochrane Systematic Reviews”. Juried poster session with published abstract, North American Conference on Systematic Reviews, Baltimore, MD, 2006

National

Plaut, D., McGraw, K. A., Anderson, M.J., Nguyen, L., Wellik, K. E., and Yoshii, A., “Analysis of the reporting of search strategies in Cochrane Systematic Reviews”. Poster presented at MLA Conference, Philadelphia, 2007

Olmstadt, William, and Anderson, Margaret J. “Information needs among genetic counselors”, Juried poster session with published abstract, 2005 MLA Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 2005

Regional/State

Trumble, J. M., Anderson, M. J., Caldwell, M., Chuang, F., Fulton, S., Howard, A., and Varman, B. “Systematic Evaluation of Evidence Based Medicine Tools for Point of Care”, Juried poster session with published abstract 2006, South Central Chapter of the MLA Conference, College Station, Texas, 2006

Anderson, Margaret J. “Feed the need for Public Health News: RSS Feeds, Blogs, and More”, Juried poster session with published abstract , 2006 MLA Conference, College Station, Texas, 2006

Anderson, Margaret J. “Systematic training for patient support groups”, Juried poster session with published abstract, 2002 South Central Chapter of the MLA Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 2002

 Invited Presentations 

            Regional/State

Anderson, Margaret J. “Emergency Management 101” presentation, University of North Texas All School Day, Houston, TX, March 2007 Duration: 30 minutes

Anderson, Margaret J. “Scholarly Research: Guide to effective and systematic literature searches” presentation, Texas A&M University, Black Graduate Students’ Association, Duration: 30 minutes

Other Presentations

            University (not related to professional assignment)

Anderson, Margaret J. “Virtual Worlds” Instructional Technology Showcase, Oct 31, 2007. Duration: 30 minutes.

Anderson, Margaret J. “A critical evaluation of search filters” TAMU Libraries Research Forum, Nov 2, 2007.  Duration: 20 minutes

Grants and Funded Research

Co-investigator “Meta-Analysis” $150,000 grant from TriCouncil of Nurses in collaboration with University of Texas School of Nursing Houston

 Applied for this grant with faculty from University of Texas Health Science Center at    Houston School of Nursing.  Funding was not approved.

Documentation of Professional Activities

Acronyms Used:  ALA - American Library Association, LIRT – Library Instruction Round Table, WSS- Women’s Studies Section, MLA-Medical Library Association

Elected Offices/Committee chairs

National

ALA, WSS, Assistant Editor, Women’s Studies Section- ALA Newsletter, 2008

MLA,VMLS, Editor, Newsletter of the Veterinary Medical Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association, 2001 - 2004

University

TAMU, Second Life Planning Committee

Teaching

            For credit courses

Co-instructor, Public Health Informatics (SRPH 640), Texas A&M Health Sciences Center, School of Rural Public Health, Spring 2008

Co-instructor, Disaster Management for Information Professionals (SLIS 5670), University of North Texas, School of Library and Information Science, Summer 2006-2008

Co-instructor, Community-Based Health Information (SLIS 5960), University of North Texas, School of Library and Information Science, Summer 2005-2008

Co-instructor, Evidence Based Public Health (PH 1430), UT School of Public Health, Spring 2006

            Facilitating

Library facilitator, “Learning to Practice and Teach Evidence-based Health: An intensive workshop”, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 2006

Library facilitator, “Learning to Practice and Teach Evidence-based Health: An intensive workshop”, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 2007

Honors

Certificate of Appreciation from the Texas A&M University College of Education & Human Development, July 2008

Research Award for Posters (1st place), MLA, 2007

Research Award for Contributed Papers (1st place), South Central Chapter of the MLA, 2006

McLemore Educational Opportunity Scholarship, 2003

Research Award for Contributed Papers (2nd place), South Central Chapter of the MLA, 2002

Louise David Scholarship, 2001