{"id":5882,"date":"2017-06-07T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2017-06-06T19:41:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T02:41:59","slug":"mlgsca-spring-2017-professional-development-awardee-andrea-harrows-attendance-at-mla-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=5882","title":{"rendered":"MLGSCA Spring 2017 Professional Development Awardee Andrea Harrow’s Attendance at MLA 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrea Harrow was one of MLGSCA’s Spring 2017 Professional Development Awardees (see http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=5866<\/a>). As an awardee of our Professional Development Award, she was required to provide a 500-word summary on her professional development activity for our blog. The following is her summary of her attendance at the Medical Library Association 2017:<\/p>\n

MLA2017 – the Reprise:\u00a0 <\/strong>My salutations and thanks are due to MLGSCA and the Awards Committee for approving my professional development grant request.\u00a0 Wow, what a whirlwind it was attending MLA2017: Dream, Dare, Do.\u00a0 The best part for me was connecting with colleagues, or as MJ Tooey (University of Maryland, Baltimore) would say, \u201cfrolleagues\u201d (pronounced frah-leagues) these are our friend-colleagues.\u00a0 MJ welcomed mentors and mentees at the New Members\/First-Time Attendee breakfast on Sunday morning, bright and early 7am.\u00a0 We ate and rotated through speed-dating-like 3-minute introductions to several librarians.\u00a0 I formally introduced myself to my first-time attendee roommate Helen Chang (St. Joseph\u2019s Medical Center, Stockton,) met my assigned mentee Joy Rodriguez (Kaiser, Fresno) and chatted with a couple other first-timers.\u00a0 MJ reminded us to keep a smile on and introduce ourselves and start conversations with as many frolleagues as possible as we navigated the conference for the next four days.<\/p>\n

\"Andrea

Andrea Harrow (Spring 2017 Professional Development Awardee) and Helen Chang (her roommate for MLA2017)<\/font><\/p><\/div>\n

MLA and NLM Updates and Plenary Speakers:\u00a0 <\/strong>Teresa Knott, outgoing MLA President welcomed us both tearfully and joyfully and gave us a synopsis of MLA achievements and goals for the past and future two years, as she bid us farewell.\u00a0 Teresa\u2019s list of accomplishments included working on the MLA Competencies for Lifelong Learning and Professional Success<\/em><\/font><\/a>.\u00a0 All MLA members are encouraged to review the competencies on the new educational platform MEDLIB-ED (on MLAnet.org<\/font><\/a>) and complete a self-assessment on how we are doing and where we need more education and experience.\u00a0 Teresa also announced a newly endowed MLA Research department that would bestow grant monies to MLA members seeking research support.<\/p>\n

John P McGovern Award lecture:\u00a0 Calling all Adventure Librarians\u2026 Julie Angus, adventurer, author and scientist said she could have used your help when she and her husband were preparing to travel 43,000 miles by bike and rowboat to circumnavigate the planet.\u00a0 The dream may sound extreme, but the actuality of what they endured, hurricanes, near-misses with freighters, unrelenting sun and 4 months at sea, almost defies belief.\u00a0 Some considered the couple foolhardy, but I think they proved themselves well prepared and resilient to have survived an unusually early and perilous hurricane season\u2026 in a rowboat!<\/p>\n

The Open Forum later that day, \u201cActivism in a Time of Turbulence\u201d gave us some reassurance that change is the only constant.\u00a0 Katie Gibbs explained to us that Canada had gone through anti-science rhetoric and policy under the previous Harper administration, similar to what we are now experiencing under Trump.\u00a0 She is affiliated with the group Evidence for Democracy which asks Canadian politicians to take the Science Pledge to safeguard \u201chonest and timely communication of scientific information; and make public the evidence considered in government decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Janet Doe Award Lecture: Julia Sollenberger (University of Rochester) presented, \u201cLooking inside Ourselves: A Culture of Kindness\u201d and asked us all to look inside ourselves toward a bio-psycho-social model of health and disease.\u00a0 Julia had attended a four-day retreat near Rochester, MN to get inside and experience mindfulness herself.\u00a0 She cited eminent physicians and their work with evidence-based mindful practice and stress reduction in healthcare.\u00a0 These same practices are translatable to any workplace environment, or relationship.\u00a0 \u201cWe have control of how we interpret reality and our response to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joseph Leiter NLM\/MLA Lecture: Patricia \u201cPatty\u201d Flatley Brennan spoke with passion about Data Powered Health and the NLM being a Platform for Discovery, and a Pathway to Engagement.\u00a0 NLM will be a hub (not a dump!) for data science, and will Collect and Preserve with Purpose.\u00a0 Patty reported that data sets and models would be searchable with a PubMed-like interface.\u00a0 NLM will provide a resource center for storage options to make data access fair, will provide guidelines, and train the next generation workforce of data science specialists.\u00a0 Policy will emphasize permissive and confidential access to data.\u00a0 Technology will enable \u201cCare between the care\u201d \u2013 going where care happens, i.e. cellphones and home devices to bring continuing care and alerts back and forth between the patient and provider.<\/p>\n

Plenary Session 5: Hope Jahren, award-winning scientist, professor of geo\/paleobiology, and author read to us from her best-selling book, Lab Girl, 2016.\u00a0 Hope would be anyone\u2019s dream professor but she had some outdated ideas about libraries and librarians, \u201cstatic and dependable\u201d were the terms she used to describe libraries.\u00a0 I guess we still have some work to do in upending stereotypes and preconceived ideas about librarians.\u00a0 I wish Hope could have recognized us as fellow scientists.<\/p>\n

Diversity and Inclusion, and Relevant Issues: <\/strong>\u00a0I attended a forum, presentations and Special Interest Group (SIG) for these two topics which shared many of the same social justice, human rights concerns.\u00a0 Our \u201cdifferently-abled\u201d friends, colleagues, and patrons are also known as \u201cfunctionally diverse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clinical Librarian: <\/strong>\u00a0This was another conference education theme that appealed to me.\u00a0 In addition to established clinical rounds with medical students and resident programs, clinical librarians are finding consult opportunity during \u201cturnover rounds\u201d as well as with patient information consults during hospital stays.\u00a0 A patient information consult has an ICD-10 code for billing, but not yet so for library consult.<\/p>\n

\"Kevin

Kevin Baliozian (MLA Executive Director) and Andrea Harrow (Spring 2017 Professional Development Awardee)<\/font><\/p><\/div>\n

MLGSCA, NCNMLG, Grants & Scholarships Committee business meetings:<\/strong> Chapter, Section, and SIG meetings offer another opportunity to meet and collaborate with frolleagues.\u00a0 The MLGSCA meeting offered opportunity for discussing educational, recruitment and social connection needs.\u00a0 With the plethora of MLA webinar offerings, local face-to-face meetings with a CE component are gaining value and may be making a comeback.\u00a0 Knowing the MLA webinar schedule in advance will help Chapters to plan topics that complement, but do not duplicate MLA CE offerings. \u00a0MLGSCA Library tours and happy hours were also proposed, as was mentoring for publication and poster creation.<\/p>\n

\"Andrea

Andrea Harrow (Spring 2017 Professional Development Awardee), unknown (MLA 2017 Attendee), and Joy Rodriguez (Andrea’s mentor)<\/font><\/p><\/div>\n

What I missed\u2026 <\/strong>I missed plenty!\u00a0 I do regret missing the Hospital Libraries Section, Cancer Libraries Section meetings due to concurrent scheduling conflicts.\u00a0 I am extremely humbled to have received the Scroll of Exemplary Service from the HLS. It means a lot to a solo librarian to be recognized by her peers!<\/p>\n

Submitted by Andrea Harrow (Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Congratulations, Andrea, once again.<\/p>\n

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To learn more about the MLGSCA Professional Development Award, visit\u00a0http:\/\/mlgsca.mlanet.org\/beta\/index.php\/awards\/professional-development-award<\/a><\/p>\n

To\u00a0read more about MLA2017, visit\u00a0http:\/\/www.mlanet.org\/p\/bl\/et\/blogid=82&per=40&sort=0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrea Harrow was one of MLGSCA’s Spring 2017 Professional Development Awardees (see http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=5866). As an awardee of our Professional Development Award, she was required to provide a 500-word summary on her professional development activity for our blog. The following is her summary of her attendance at the Medical Library Association 2017: MLA2017 – the Reprise:\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5932,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions\/5932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}