39th SALIS Conference Presentations 2017

Real Health: The Importance of Professionals in Today’s Information Climate
Presentations and Posters: Substance Abuse Librarians & Information Specialists and
Association of Mental Health Librarians, May 3-6, 2017
Worcester, Massachusetts

Thursday, May 4

Activist Librarian II: Engaging in LGBT Cultural Competencies
Juan Carlos Vega, Activist Librarian & Information Consultant

Misperceptions and the Misused Language of Addiction: Words Matter
Richard Saitz, Boston University School of Public Health

Public Health Echo Chambers …
Brittany Seymour, Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Natalie Gyenes, MIT Media Lab

Creating a SALIS Legacy
Andrea Mitchell, Barb Weiner, Meg Brunner, & Christine Goodair

mHealthApps in Treatment of Mental
and Substance Use Disorders. (poster)
Amy Faltinek, Texas University

Friday, May 5

Information Requests from External Audiences
Karen Palmer,
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse

Bibliotherapy: A Brief Tour of Mental Health Literature …
Matthew Noe and Len Levin,
UMass Medical School

Reaching Military Veterans …
Eric Helmuth,
Boston Univ. School of Public Health

Opioid Addiction and Treatment
Amy Harrington,
UMass Medical School

Countering Distraction, Chaos and
Disconnection …
Madeleine Charney,
UMass Amherst Libraries

Implementation of the Child Trauma Training Center …
Zlatina Kostova and
Genevieve Kane-Howse,
UMass Medical School

Saturday, May 6

Finding Authoritative Sources —
For Free!
Claudia Dold,
USF-Tampa

Designing a Web Portal for Persons with Serious Mental Illness …
Len Levin and
Zlatina Kostova,
UMAS Medical School