Friday, March 15, 2024

Join the committee to promote medical librarianship in Wisconsin’s information schools!

WHSLA is looking for volunteers to participate in a committee interested in outreach to the UW-Madison iSchool and UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies. The goal of this committee is to develop a connection between Wisconsin’s information schools and WHSLA for the promotion of job shadowing opportunities, practicum/fieldwork placements, and interest in medical librarianship as a profession.

If you are interested in participating, please email Barb Ruggeri (barbara dot ruggeri at aah dot org) or Hayley Severson (hseveron at mcw dot edu) by April 10th




Monday, March 11, 2024

Spring Board Meeting Announcement News!

Last Friday's WHSLA Board Meeting included two milestone announcements from members in the Madison and Fox Valley areas. 

Congratulations,  Michele Matucheski on 25 years at Ascension NE Wisconsin- Mercy Campus Medical Library on April 4th!

Long time WHSLA member and Treasurer, Robert Koehler, announced he is planning his retirement for this year.  No date set as yet.  In August, Robert will celebrate 39 years at UnityPoint Health-Meriter Medical Library. 

Please join us in congratulating them on these anniversaries.



Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Introduction to Zotero for Citation Management [Free Webinar]

 

 

March 22, 2024 at 9:00 AM EST on Zoom
Presenter: Kathryn Vanderboll, MLIS

Taubman Health Science Library

 

Are you struggling to organize the sources that you've found for your research (journal articles, books, websites, reports, videos, and more)? Do you want to share those sources with your colleagues around the world? Do you spend hours trying to format your bibliography? Join us for this workshop to learn about Zotero, a free citation management tool! You will learn to:

·  Create and organize personal and group libraries,

·  Invite collaborators to view or contribute to those libraries,

·  Annotate the PDFs you read,

·  Add a bibliography and in-text citations in your Google Docs or Microsoft Word document. 

Please note: To use Zotero, you will need a desktop or laptop computer - not a Chromebook or tablet - capable of downloading software. However, this is not required during the workshop.  REGISTER HERE

 

See https://guides.lib.umich.edu/globalhealth/webinars for past recordings and upcoming webinars in Taubman Health Sciences Library's Global Health Webinar Series. 


Wednesday, February 28, 2024

The Legacy of Freedom House: The Black Men who became America's First Paramedics


Zoom Meeting Recording [1 hour 4 min.] Sponsored by JEMS in February 2024.



Kellee Selden highly recommends this JEMS webcast:
I attended this very interesting webinar. It was entitled: The Legacy of Freedom House: The Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics. The speaker was John Moon, a member of the original group from the Freedom House with an eye opening story to tell about the men, the female doctor who sponsored them, their journey through the years of existence and how they wrote the first EMT manual. The story is amazing in many ways and well worth viewing.

Friday, February 23, 2024

Book review: Brotherless Night

Thank you to Mini Prasad for this book review. Robert Koehler shared his review of this title in January 2024. 

Random TED Talks to get you thinking

I love a good TED Talk as much as the next person, but I find I'm drawn to the same themes over and over again. To break me out of my TED Talk rut, I thought I'd visit their website and pick a random one from their categories. 

What do you think? Anything here you'd like to view?



Monday, February 19, 2024

Would You Give Your Kidney to a Stranger?



 

MM: I heard this podcast from Wisconsin Public Radio and To the Best of Our Knowledge, and it stuck with me, so I thought I'd share it here on the WHSLA Blog.  

Health Science Librarians (and others) will appreciate the descriptions of being in surgery while a donated kidney takes on new life ...  and what prompts someone to donate a kidney as a living donor.


By: 

When Missy Makinia saw on Facebook a little girl in her community needed a kidney, she immediately thought she could spare one.

The girl ended up getting a kidney before Makinia had a chance to donate — but Makinia, who lives in Ladysmith, decided to give hers to whoever might need it.

It makes her what's called a "humanitarian living donor," and it's the kind of selfless gift that can kickstart a whole chain of kidney donations, called a "non-directed kidney donor chain."

"She will donate her kidney. It will fly somewhere else in the country. Then that patient's donor will have a kidney go on a plane to somewhere else," UW Health transplant surgeon Dr. Josh Mezrich explained to "To the Best of Our Knowledge" host Anne Strainchamps.

Mezrich is Makinia's doctor and a renowned transplant surgeon.

"These chains can crisscross the country over a period of months," he said.

 Read more ...



Friday, February 16, 2024

Summary of Ashley Zeidler's Creative Commons Licensing Guide

 


Ashley Zeidler, MLIS, received one of the $500 WHSLA CE grants in 2023.  Last fall, she attended a 10-week virtual course on The Creative Commons (CC) and Licensing.  She graciously shared her learnings with WHSLA via the WHSLA Wisdom Chat on Feb. 9, 2024.

In her presentation, Ashley gave an overview of the following:

  1. The Creative Commons Certification Online Course 
  2. Creative Commons (CC) Licenses
  3. Creative Commons Resources & Search Tools

She highlighted the following Creative Commons Search Tools that make it easier to find images in the Creative Commons: 

Ashley distilled what she learned into a LibGuide for The Medical College of Wisconsin's Library on The Creative Commons Licensing. *   Please see her guide for more detailed info. on all aspects of The Creative Commons and licensing.

* Ashley's guide is licensed under CC BY, so it can be re-used and adapted via the Creative Commons.