Best Bytes: TripIt – Organize your business and personal travel
Posted on | November 1, 2010 | No Comments
Submitted by Janet Crum, Director of Library Services, City of Hope
Whether you travel for business, pleasure, or both, you know that organizing the information you need for a trip can be a challenge. Until recently, whenever I traveled, I printed out a stack of documents: flight itinerary, shuttle or rental car reservations, hotel confirmation, maps and directions to various places, and conference or meeting information. Then at each stage of the trip, I’d fumble in my bag for the right piece of paper. For my most recent trip, to the Library Assessment Conference in Baltimore, I tried an online tool called TripIt. TripIt combines text recognition, mobile apps and interfaces, and social networking into a handy tool for managing your travel itinerary. TripIt keeps track of all your reservations and schedules, maps and meetings, accessible from your computer or mobile device. A basic account is free. Just sign up with TripIt or link your Google or Facebook account to get started.
A.N.T.S.: new open source group project
Posted on | October 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
Submitted by Kathleen Carlson, Blog Chair
Do you want to create short tutorials but don’t know how to go about it? Do you want to share the videos you create with other librarians? ANTS could be the solution to these questions. ANTS, the Animated Tutorial Sharing Project is an Open Source group project. It started in 2004 by a group of librarians in Western Canada and has expanded to include librarians in the rest of Canada and the United States. The goal of this Open Source project is to help librarians that want to create and share short video tutorials. Screen casting tools such as Camtasia, Captivate, JING and Screenr are just some of the software that is being used.
The Louise M. Darling Fund Committee at UCLA invites you to MLA’s :ABCs of E-books: Strategies for the Medical Library
Posted on | October 22, 2010 | No Comments
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
UCLA
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library Classroom (12-077X CHS)
10:30 – 11:30a.m. Wraparound discussion session I
11:00a.m. – 12:30p.m. Webcast
12:30 – 1:30p.m. Wraparound discussion session II
Goal:
The goal of this webcast is to familiarize information professionals with electronic books and the associated collection management issues related to various platforms, pricing models, licensing agreements, term of ownership, resource management and access methods so that they have the knowledge to make informed decisions which will best serve their constituents.
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New changes coming to MLGSCA Link
Posted on | October 20, 2010 | No Comments
Hi everyone-
Just wanted to let you know that I am working on changes for the ‘Link.’ I am experimenting with the layout and trying to implement a third column for the advertising. Let me know what you think and if something is missing. Jacque Doyle and I are working on adding the MLGSCA logo at the top of the blog. We are also trying to add statistics for the blog. You can contact me at kathleen.carlson@asu.edu.
A First Timer’s Thoughts: Access 2010 Conference
Posted on | October 17, 2010 | 2 Comments
Written by Kathleen Carlson, MLGSCA Blog Chair
Here are the musings of a first time attendee at the Access 2010 Conference, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (Oct. 12-16). This is the annual conference of the Canadian Library Association, Emerging Technologies Interest Group. The featured event is the Hackfest which is a pre-conference event. The Hackfest is a chance to engage in a kind of librarianship we don’t often get to engage in, without long-term commitments, politics, departmental rivalries. Unless you’re actually there it’s hard to see just how much fun it is, how much you can learn, and how refreshing (and tiring!) it can be to work so hard on something somebody else suggested and even pay for the privilege.
This year approximately 40 people attended the Hackfest at the University of Winnipeg and the challenges were not unveiled until the morning we all met. There were five Hackfest teams and my team’s challenge was to ‘Create a mobile app for discovering information, historical photos, about a person(s) in a cemetery.’ (The reason I selected this challenge was because of the ghoulish subject matter and proximity to Halloween).
Deborah Klein Recipient of Professional Development Award Fall 2010
Posted on | October 13, 2010 | 1 Comment
Submitted by Laura Stubblefield, Chair, MLGSCA Award Committee
Deborah Klein (Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center) is our Professional Development Award recipient for Fall of 2010. The award will provide financial assistance for travel and registration to the University of Pittsburgh Systematic Review Workshop: the Nuts and Bolts for Librarians (November 2010).
If you would like to apply for the MLGSCA Professional Development Award, the next deadline is Feb. 28, 2011.
Posted 10/13/10
Call for Proposals for ‘Online Northwest’ due Oct. 15th
Posted on | October 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
Online Northwest is a one-day conference focusing on topics that intersect libraries, technology and culture. The conference is sponsored by the Oregon University System Library Council.
The 2011 conference will be held at CH2M Hill Alumni Center, Corvallis, Oregon (on the Oregon State University campus) on Friday, February 11, 2011.
The conference explores how technology is being applied within library settings and how technology is affecting library patrons and services.
Academic, public, school, and special librarians are strongly encouraged to submit proposals.
Books Panel Seeks Volunteers for Project Working Group
Posted on | October 7, 2010 | No Comments
The MLA Books Panel aims to release a publication on the “Best of Conference” following MLA ’11 in Minneapolis. The goal of this publication is to provide additional opportunity for MLA members to pursue authorship and to increase dissemination of research and best practices in health sciences librarianship. The Books Panel is currently seeking individuals with expertise in one or more of the following areas, to participate in an informal project working group:
• Judging quality of conference abstracts and/or presentations
• Ranking significance of research and its relevance to professional practice
• Editorial process and tools
• Publishing process and tools
Volunteers will work on a compressed timeline to develop preliminary publication guidelines and may assist with selection of potential authors from MLA ’11 program, under direction of the MLA Books Panel. Interested individuals should send a brief CV and description of relevant expertise to: Kristin Hitchcock, MLA Books Panel Chair, at Hitchcock@aaos.org . Please reply by October 15th.
Kristin Hitchcock, MSI, AHIP
Medical Research Librarian
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
847-384-4321
2010-11 Certificate of Advance Study in Health Science Librarianship at University of Pittsburgh
Posted on | October 7, 2010 | No Comments
Submitted by Judy Consales, Associate University Librarian for Sciences Director, UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Pacific Southwest Region
Applications are now being accepted for the 2011-2012 Certificate of Advanced Study in Health Sciences Librarianship at the University of Pittsburgh. This yearlong program, beginning in May 2011, provides librarians with in-depth knowledge of the health care environment and advanced skills in managing health sciences collections and resources. Graduates will be prepared to play a key role in helping clinicians, researchers and healthcare consumers to keep pace with the expanding knowledge base in the health sciences.
HealthCAS is an online 15-credit post-master’s program offered jointly by the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences and the University’s Health Sciences Library System. The partnership between an ALA-accredited LIS program and a world-class, dynamic health sciences library offers a unique educational experience. The HealthCAS curriculum is based on contemporary applications of current information management theories and technologies and the varied and rich experiences that practicing medical librarian instructors bring to the program.
Accepting Nominations for NAHRS Award for Professional Excellence
Posted on | October 7, 2010 | No Comments
By Judy Kraemer, Long Beach Memorial/Miller’s Children Hospital
NAHRS Award for Professional Excellence Nominations: The Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section (NAHRS) seeks nominations for the NAHRS Award for Professional Excellence. This award recognizes a NAHRS member who exhibits outstanding leadership and exceptional librarianship in meeting the information needs of nursing and allied health professionals. The nomination may be made for service and contributions to the information needs of nursing and allied health professionals as demonstrated by excellence in leadership and librarianship, a history of professional publications, conference presentations and participation in NAHRS and MLA. The nominee must be a member of MLA and a member of the NAHRS Section. For additional details, see the nomination form . All nominations must be received no later than December 1, 2010. The recipient receives a $100 cash award and will be recognized at the 2011 NAHRS Annual Business Meeting.
Posted 10/7/10
Consensus Report: The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health
Posted on | October 5, 2010 | No Comments
Submitted by Kathleen Carlson, Arizona State University
The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, a 600 page Consensus Report was released today (Oct. 5, 2010).
Topics: Health Care Workforce, Quality and Patient Safety, Health Services, Coverage, and Access
Activity: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine
Board: Studies under the IOM Executive Office
With more than 3 million members, the nursing profession is the largest segment of the nation’s health care workforce. Working on the front lines of patient care, nurses can play a vital role in helping realize the objectives set forth in the 2010 Affordable Care Act, legislation that represents the broadest health care overhaul since the 1965 creation of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. A number of barriers prevent nurses from being able to respond effectively to rapidly changing health care settings and an evolving health care system. These barriers need to be overcome to ensure that nurses are well- positioned to lead change and advance health.
Celebrate National Medical Librarians Month with affiliate MLA membership
Posted on | October 5, 2010 | No Comments
Do you know anyone who is particularly pleased with services provided by you, your colleagues, and/or your medical library?
MLA is offering a special affiliate membership in conjunction with Medical Librarians Month. The MLANET website provides information about National Medical Librarians Month and the affiliate membership. Download the affiliate membership brochure for details.
From the affiliate membership brochure:
In celebration of National Medical Librarians Month, the Membership Committee of the Medical Library Association invites you to honor your favorite medical librarian by becoming an affiliate member of MLA.
Certificates of appreciation will be issued to medical librarians so honored and to those who take this opportunity to express gratitude for their services. The affiliate membership fee is $100, and it includes the following:
- Electronic access to JMLA, MLA’s peer-reviewed scholarly journal
- Networking opportunities
- Member discounts on MLA annual meeting registration fees
- Consumer health resources
- Opportunity to serve on national committees
- Membership in specialty sections
- Legislative alerts
If you would like to help in this promotion, please print out the affiliate membership brochure for distribution to library patrons or other interested parties.