{"id":16985,"date":"2023-05-30T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/?p=16985"},"modified":"2025-04-10T20:36:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T20:36:53","slug":"in-members-words-diane-fagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/in-members-words-diane-fagen\/","title":{"rendered":"In Members\u2019 Words: Diane Fagen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Diane Fagen is Library Assistant at UIC Crawford Library of the Health Sciences \u2013 Rockford.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How did you first learn about HSLI and become a member? What were your expectations when you joined?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I became a nursing school librarian in 1978, the hospital librarian affiliated with the nursing school told me about HSLI. Her name was Pru Dalrymple. Having come from a public library, I was new to health sciences libraries, so I was hopeful that I would meet individuals and learn of continuing education that would help me in my new position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is the most significant change you have observed in HSLI during your time as a member?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because I have&nbsp;been a member only intermittently, as I have changed jobs into other fields\u2013law, veterinary, finance, etc.\u2013I needed to join other organizations that were more appropriate to my various fields,&nbsp;so I am not immediately conversant with changes. I have just re-joined for this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is the most worthwhile or memorable experience you have had as an HSLI member?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1978 or 1979, Rockford Memorial Hospital (Rockford, IL) hosted the conference. One of the continuing ed. classes (\u201cStatistics for Libraries\u201d) was taught by Art Hafner. Memorable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another more recent meeting had a presenter who discussed copyright, but, unfortunately, she had misinformation and in answering a question gave an entirely incorrect answer. Also memorable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How has your involvement in HSLI affected you, professionally and personally?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Networking has been useful, and learning about the different ways in which health science libraries are organized and operate has been interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is one aspect of HSLI that you believe makes it truly unique as a library organization?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it is certainly structured, it has a more egalitarian feel, and seems to me to be more democratic and inclusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane Fagen is Library Assistant at UIC Crawford Library of the Health Sciences \u2013 Rockford. How did you first learn about HSLI and become a member? What were your expectations when you joined? When I became a nursing school librarian in 1978, the hospital librarian affiliated with the nursing school told me about HSLI. Her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-member-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16986,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985\/revisions\/16986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}