Posting on behalf of a colleague. Please respond to Jim Comes or Nancy Harger directly -- their contact information is below. Thank you. Donna Berryman, MLIS Outreach Coordinator New England Region, NN/LM U Mass Medical School Worcester, MA ________________________________________________________ Jim Comes and Nancy Harger from the University of Massachusetts Medical School Library are attempting to identify librarians who serve on Institutional Review Boards (IRB). Currently, librarians have varying degrees of responsibility and involvement on the IRB. We are interested in meeting with librarians serving on IRBs to discuss issues, challenges, opportunities, roles and degree of involvement. We have struggled to define our role, search the literature to support the research proposal and/or safety of the volunteers. If you have similar concerns or experiences you would like to share, please contact us. Our intentions are to meet informally at MLA to gauge the degree of interest and explore the possibility of creating an informal or formal group of IRB librarians. Thanks. Jim Comes ([log in to unmask]) and Nancy Harger ([log in to unmask]) James F. Comes Ed.D., M.S.L.S., MS Associate Director Reference, Education, Research Services The Lamar Soutter Medical Library Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School 55 Lake Av. North Worcester, MA 01655 (w) 508-856-6810 (fax) 508-856-5899 [log in to unmask] Nancy E. Harger, MLS Information Literacy Librarian Lamar Soutter Library UMass Medical School 55 Lake Ave. North Worcester, MA 01655 508 856-3334 [log in to unmask] _________________________________________________________________ Invite your Hotmail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us