This session includes the following presentations: Reference Management Team (RMT) Update, Nancy McClements Referring Outside the Box: Wisconsin Historical Society, Rick Pifer Introduction to eBooks, Barb Hamel eBook Collections at UW-Madison: A Comparison of Database Design, Amy Kindschi OPAC Update on Google and HathiTrust in MadCat and the Google Project, Nancy Spitzer & Jeanne Witte Save the Cows! Data Curation for the Rest of Us, Dorothea Salo & Jaime Stoltenberg RAIG Marketing Committee Survey Distribution, Pamela O’Donnell

Geoff Norman, PhD, give an exploration of research in cognitive psychology addressing issues of learning, remembering , transfer and problem-solving and how this can change the way we teach medical students.

As the complexity of medication therapy has increased for hospitalized patients, the importance of skilled pharmacists and advanced pharmacy services in hospitals has become critical. In August 2008, the Hospital Pharmacy Section of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) will host a Global Conference on the Future of Hospital Pharmacy, bringing hundreds of delegates from over 100 nations to Basel, Switzerland to address issues that will shape the future of hospital pharmacy practice. Lee Vermeulen, who chaired the Steering Committee for the Conference, presents a summary of the Conference consensus statements. In addition, a global survey of hospital pharmacy practice was conducted by the Vermeulen in preparation for the Conference, and a summary of the results are presented.

Sheryl Magzamen, PhD, gives an overview of air pollution and asthma and discusses marginal structural models and how they are used for causal inference problems.