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Nelia Wurangian-Caan, MLS
Chair, Technical Service, University Libraries
Library Faculty
Associate Professor, University Libraries
Service    International Service
  • Website Development & Management: International Nursing Council website. ( 7/2009 - 9/2011 )
  • AHIP (Academy of Health Infornation Professionals) Mentor: Serves as librarian mentor to probationary AHIP member: Vicki Harden of Milliman Care Guidelines, San Diego, CA.  Provide assistance in completing application for AHIP Senior membership as she qualifies this year. ( 6/2009 - 9/2011 )
  • MLA Colleague Connection:  for first time MLA attendee from Hong Kong Medical University. ( 5/2010 )
  • Professional Mentoring: Organized and directed library mentorship training for Dr. Abdul Habib Shafaq, visiting librarian from Kabul Medical University in Afghanistan.

    ( 3/2008 - 8/2008 )
  • International Lecture Tour: "Finding the best evidence using PubMed and other nursing resources," a week of presentations at a Nursing conference in Nigeria under the sponsorship of AHI.  ( 2/2007 )
  • Member, MLA/Cunningham - Cunningham Itinerary Committee of the Medical Library Association ( 7/2004 - 6/2006 )
  • Internatiional Lecture Tour: 2-week lecture tour of nursing schools in the Philippines - Spent 2 weeks lecturing in nursing informatics and access to PubMed and other nursing resources to nursing students in 4 schools of nursing in the Philippines: Mountain View College, Mindanao Sanitarium and Hospital, Phlippine Advent College, and Adventist University of the Philippines. ( 2/2006 )
  • Website Development & Maintenance: Develop and maintain the ANI (Adventist Nursing International) website ( 7/2004 - 0/2006 )
  • Library Orientation for Visiting Clinicians: Provide library orientation to visiting international clinicians and scholars, under the auspices of the LLU Global Health Institute. ( 1/2006 - Present )
  • Webmaster: International Nursing Council website (INC) update & maintenance ( 7/1988 - Present )
  Community Service
  • Catalog-in-Publication: In response to a request from Humberto Rasi, created a CIP (Cataloging-in-Publication) record for a Spanish translation of Cadwallader''''s Principles of education in the writings of Ellen G. White (2010) / by Silvia de Rocher, and others; editorial supervision by Humberto M. Rasi. ( 11/2010 - 10/2011 )
  • Supervision of Volunteers: Served as mentor and supervisor for 3 volunteers to the Technical Services Department; one of them was a professional librarian. ( 7/2010 - 6/2011 )
  • Catalog-in-Publication: Provide consultation and CIP (Cataloging in Publication) for faculty publication:  Breath : causes, diagnosis and treatment of oral malodor / Sean S. Lee.   ( 5/2009 - 7/2009 )
  • Website Development & Management: Faculty Development-IFAC webpages - Develop and maintain webpages for Faculty Development in Education subcomittee of IFAC. ( 7/2004 - 7/2009 )
  • Colleague, LLU Formative Dialogues in Teaching program ( 2/2006 - Present )
  Society Memberships (professional)
  • MLA Colleague Connection, 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010 ( 5/2006 - 5/2010 )
  • Academy of Health & Information Professionals (AHIP) Mentor:  David Zwerdling, librarian at the Barzilai Medical Center in Israel (awarded Distinguished Member category in 2007; recently retired) ( 6/2000 - 0/2007 )
    Regular Member
  • Member, International Cooperation Section of MLA ( 7/2004 - Present )
    Regular Member
  • Member, Association of Adventist Librarians ( 7/1989 - Present )
    Regular Member
  • Member, Nursing & Allied Health Resources section of MLA ( 7/1989 - Present )
    Regular Member
  • Distinguished Member, Medical Library Association ( 7/1989 - Present )
    Regular Member
  Committee Membership (LLU)
  • Member, TNT - LLU School of Nursing''''s Today''''s Nursing Technology (TNT) ( 7/2000 - 10/2011 )
  • Member, Library Faculty Affairs Committee ( 7/2000 - 7/2011 )
  • Secretary, Library Faculty, 2010-2011. ( 7/2010 - 6/2011 )
  • Member, Faculty Education Development Comittee of UFC (formerly IFAC) Member, 1992-2011;  Faculty of Education Development subcommittee on Marketing the Education Conference, February, 2011 ( 7/1992 - 6/2011 )
  • Member, ADCOM - LLU Libraries administrative committee ( 7/1987 - 0/2011 )
  • UFC Alternate ( 7/2009 - 9/2010 )
  • IFAC Alternate ( 7/2005 - 6/2006 )
  • Member, Library Search Committee - Library Search Committee - 07/01/2004 to 08/01/2005 Interviewed applicants for the position of Director of the EG White Estate and associate Director of Archives and Special Collections. ( 7/2004 - 6/2005 )
  • Website Development & Maintenance: Chair, Adventist Nursing International Website Committee ( 7/2004 - 6/2005 )
  • Member, Learning & Technology Subcommittee of IFAC ( 7/2004 - 6/2005 )
  • Member, INC - International Nursing Council (INC): Web designer & master, hospitality director ( 1/1989 - Present )
  • Member, Library Faculty Committee ( 7/1982 - Present )
  Accreditation Support -- LLU
  • AHIP (Academy of Health Infornation Professionals) Mentor: Serves as librarian mentor to probationary AHIP member: Amani Magid of Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Doha, Qatar. Will provide assistance in completing application for AHIP membership when she qualifies in 2012. ( 4/2010 - 4/2012 )
  • Member, Faculty of Education Development subcommittee on Marketing the Education Conference, February, 2011 ( 2/2011 - 10/2011 )
  • Library Clinic: Hold regular research consultations during Library Clinics in the School of Nursing, twice a week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from 11am--1:00pm) ( 7/2010 - 6/2011 )
  • Research assistance:  Supplied DOI numbers for citations to Patricia Jones' bibliography for a manuscript to be submitted for publication

    ( 2/2011 )
  • Catalog-in-Publication: Provided CIP for "Who watches; who cares? : misadventures in stewardship" /  Douglas Hackleman. ( 7/2009 - 10/2009 )
  • AHIP (Academy of Health Infornation Professionals) Mentor: to provisional member Luzviminda Sinha of Ohio Children''s Hospital, from 2004; finally awarded AHIP certification  in 2008. ( 10/2004 - 10/2008 )
  • Faculty Information: Designed and developed a Faculty Information cataloging project using the Library''s integrated library system.   The objective of this project is to provide easy point-and-click access to faculty publications by providing direct links to the full-text of their publications.    ( 7/2011 - 7/0000 )
  • LLU Policy handbooks: Coordinated indexing of all LLU policy handbooks...

    ( 7/2008 - Present )