The Medical Library Association is sponsoring a series of webinars that will take place over the second half of 2015. Two of them will be held in August, while the remaining four will take place between October and December. (The dates and times for the last four webinars have not yet been determined.) The National…
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ALA Conference Sessions of Interest to HSLI Members, Part II
Additional sessions (held between Saturday afternoon and Monday) at ALA that might be of interest to HSLI members are listed below. Sessions that are starred are being presented by current or former HSLI members. For more information on a particular session, click on the title. Saturday, June 27 (afternoon) 12:30 – 2:00 PM “Mapping Buried…
ALA Conference Sessions of Interest to HSLI Members, Part I
The following sessions at this year’s ALA conference might be of interest to HSLI members who are attending. (Sessions being given by current or past members of HSLI are starred.) For more information on a particular session, click the title. The list below includes sessions through Saturday morning. I will post a list of the…
NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program Seeking Applicants
The National Library of Medicine, in collaboration with the AAHSL (Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries), has announced that the application process for the 2015-16 class of leadership fellows is now open. The deadline is July 20. Candidates should have a serious interest in eventually becoming the director of a health-sciences library and should already…
American Public Health Association Webinars
The American Public Health Association is sponsoring a number of upcoming webinars that are related to raising public awareness of health-related issues, among them changing trends in environmental health and the ongoing impact of the Affordable Care Act. The list of webinars and dates is below. (Note that all times are Eastern.) All of the…
“Hospital Libraries: Challenges and Opportunities” Webinar
The recording for this webinar is now available. During the question-and-answer session, the issue of increasing a medical or hospital library’s visibility among physicians, beyond having library staff serve on institutional committees, was raised. Attendees suggested the following approaches. -Ask physicians what their specific research needs are; particularly if an evidence-based approach is necessary, an “evidence-based toolkit”…
NN/LM (MAR) Symposium on the Affordable Care Act
For anyone who might be interested, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region, will be holding a symposium on the role that libraries of all types (medical and hospital, public, and academic) can play in promoting awareness of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The full-day event, titled “The Affordable Care…
Library Advocacy Unshushed: Values, Evidence, Action
The American Library Association is proud to announce its partnership with the Canadian Library Association (CLA) and the University of Toronto iSchool in offering its popular MOOC (Massively Open Online Course), entitled “Library Advocacy Unshushed: Values, Evidence, Action”, beginning February 1, 2015. Offered through the EdX consortium, in which the University of Toronto collaborates with…
Value Study as a Tool for Library Advocacy Webinar
The Value Study as a Tool for Library Advocacy, a presentation of the results of the Value Study and discuss how results are being used by librarians across the country. Presenters: Joanne Gard Marshall, Distinguished Research Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Julia Sollenberger, Associate Vice President…
Measuring What Matters to Stakeholders – Notes from the class
On March 20, 2014, HSLI sponsored the CE class “Measuring What Matters to Stakeholders” as a pre-conference to the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries conference. The session sparked a lively discussion between academic and hospital libraries about what to assess, how to assess it, and how to effectively communicate assessment results. The class…