tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73624146675763920242024-03-18T13:36:50.832-05:00WHSLA blogA blog from WHSLA (Wisconsin Health Sciences Library Association) featuring posts on medical and health science libraries, NLM, and learning opportunities for medical and health science librarians and library staff. Brenda Fay (webmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02477460395898322698noreply@blogger.comBlogger916125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-75453132249939336512024-03-15T10:59:00.005-05:002024-03-15T10:59:52.680-05:00 Join the committee to promote medical librarianship in Wisconsin’s information schools!<p><span style="font-family: arial;">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">If
you are interested in participating, please email Barb Ruggeri (barbara dot ruggeri at aah dot org) </span><span style="font-family: arial;">or Hayley
Severson (hseveron at mcw dot edu) </span><span style="font-family: arial;">by April 10</span><sup style="font-family: arial;">th</sup><span style="font-family: arial;">. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6fNySx_wUhGrsyjPCMPvrbKGwIbKmuYbo9dBk-ICgbC_0wRrsC17_x4X0QdVFCuHOKdXw0gyXYSBOdoQR9KjrnTyVB8MpWfKt74BvuGrrveuchyLPvaLwvxSVleVBObP9dNasIoGxG7005Df1Hqe7-kvReytSXVhVTtGk_o8eRllTKM-tQh8SWs2-BwI/s445/UWM%20SOIS.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="92" data-original-width="445" height="83" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6fNySx_wUhGrsyjPCMPvrbKGwIbKmuYbo9dBk-ICgbC_0wRrsC17_x4X0QdVFCuHOKdXw0gyXYSBOdoQR9KjrnTyVB8MpWfKt74BvuGrrveuchyLPvaLwvxSVleVBObP9dNasIoGxG7005Df1Hqe7-kvReytSXVhVTtGk_o8eRllTKM-tQh8SWs2-BwI/w400-h83/UWM%20SOIS.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM9D531STkQFntUwK9QrhPDNXUhLamxnd9_0E9x-yb_cWA9iWjK8-T-DmjCKIBHa7L4ieJHZTGmARt_LrrviYaXv9okcUuB1t9zEwre4J_Yf5NOdxjVwl2XbNqAO0a3bLdxpzF1njpgtwH-FkWx3Qd8C31G_7qFkmUBdZ5a7mI209bIH_HZDqFhVfHgAw/s450/iSchool%20logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="89" data-original-width="450" height="79" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM9D531STkQFntUwK9QrhPDNXUhLamxnd9_0E9x-yb_cWA9iWjK8-T-DmjCKIBHa7L4ieJHZTGmARt_LrrviYaXv9okcUuB1t9zEwre4J_Yf5NOdxjVwl2XbNqAO0a3bLdxpzF1njpgtwH-FkWx3Qd8C31G_7qFkmUBdZ5a7mI209bIH_HZDqFhVfHgAw/w400-h79/iSchool%20logo.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p>Brenda Fay (webmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02477460395898322698noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-58405419829939252402024-03-11T10:46:00.006-05:002024-03-11T10:47:41.934-05:00Spring Board Meeting Announcement News!<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Last Friday's WHSLA Board Meeting included two milestone announcements from members in the Madison and Fox Valley areas. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">C</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ongratulations,
Michele Matucheski on 25 years at Ascension NE Wisconsin- Mercy Campus
Medical Library on April 4</span><sup style="font-family: verdana;">th</sup><span style="font-family: verdana;">!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">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 </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">UnityPoint Health-Meriter Medical Library. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Please join us in congratulating them on these anniversaries.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg59YrMb-FUAQK_Ie9dUsfbE5NAPu2tSQXkTQsABmPZzbDm9zF9deVP_BqqYpu-2jC-GO2eS9TmJkLkVTxbPWkZb9xpespwVDZbI_h0syRZlBkkJHAIJIeOjcNqe0W3nz1kx7g3QCO3bSwfLSNE2rfgCWGGJBc76Fd1hGLEKWYRi7LhvVxYfzu8gw8Cg2Q/s1280/Slide1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg59YrMb-FUAQK_Ie9dUsfbE5NAPu2tSQXkTQsABmPZzbDm9zF9deVP_BqqYpu-2jC-GO2eS9TmJkLkVTxbPWkZb9xpespwVDZbI_h0syRZlBkkJHAIJIeOjcNqe0W3nz1kx7g3QCO3bSwfLSNE2rfgCWGGJBc76Fd1hGLEKWYRi7LhvVxYfzu8gw8Cg2Q/w640-h360/Slide1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p>
<u5:p></u5:p>Brenda Fay (webmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02477460395898322698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-47705152918944047112024-03-07T11:19:00.003-06:002024-03-07T11:19:54.897-06:00Most concerning: DOI archive issue/Missing scholarly publications<div class="nH" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="V8djrc byY" jsaction="JcCCed:.CLIENT" style="align-items: flex-start; display: flex; padding: 20px 0px 8px 72px;"><div data-num-unread-messages="0" data-num-visible-messages="1" jsaction="click:WB9jdf(uwgaE),V3JrLd(hTKvwd); keydown:EE1fDd(uwgaE),Luq7he(hTKvwd); focus:xfMayf(r4nke);" jscontroller="anoPNd"><div class="ha" dir="rtl" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border-right: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.375rem; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkYi2D1ZQkqTwMq4xV5t5MvDcn-iDeY72cli73bf43pdQ8X0jKtivcVUCMRg8VVpGhLsNSx93b3XUJidpyF-LZyofed6FMN1s-gk9TpP9nrhnKBrmKyEVGwXyvtTc4LYmZtkIbJ0o2Awpj_npS6bZUlYKVzXncZH5TYoN5KEPBR7lf1LH1MxLMg6_Gzyg/s793/Missing%20DOI.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="793" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkYi2D1ZQkqTwMq4xV5t5MvDcn-iDeY72cli73bf43pdQ8X0jKtivcVUCMRg8VVpGhLsNSx93b3XUJidpyF-LZyofed6FMN1s-gk9TpP9nrhnKBrmKyEVGwXyvtTc4LYmZtkIbJ0o2Awpj_npS6bZUlYKVzXncZH5TYoN5KEPBR7lf1LH1MxLMg6_Gzyg/w640-h402/Missing%20DOI.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="ha" style="background-attachment: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-image: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-size: inherit; border-right: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.375rem; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div></div></div></div><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The promise of doi isn't quite working out the way we'd hoped or planned.</span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00616-5?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=ddda388f7f-briefing-dy-20240304&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-ddda388f7f-52178028 " target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Read the full article ...</span></a></p>Michele Matucheski, Ascension Wisconsin Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021698238396652753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-36294954455315348292024-03-06T12:22:00.004-06:002024-03-06T16:09:08.374-06:00Introduction to Zotero for Citation Management [Free Webinar]<p> <img height="169" src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/vY8JCbkXPURIdi2VU6__CJ-rEa3PeOYs1CaB-1kC_TGEqMby-0MhFTkKfkEkTmNkGnt8xTrnpwFzT5YlqCkNuyryjs_qwnz0g3xGHetrLWgvhKr3e9_xAMZUjfw7vRcp4Pme_RlXgsHez2Hut1099wg" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="169" /></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><u></u></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="color: #666666;">March 22, 2024 at 9:00 AM EST on Zoom<br />Presenter: Kathryn Vanderboll, MLIS</span></b><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Taubman Health Science Library</span></span></b></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="color: #2954d1;"><a href="https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xl2D_4v_QPa5gbUs_CwhMg#/registration" target="_blank">REGISTER HERE</a></span></b> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;">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:<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 47.25pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u></u><span style="color: #333333;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><u></u><span style="color: #333333;">Create and organize personal and group libraries,<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 47.25pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u></u><span style="color: #333333;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><u></u><span style="color: #333333;">Invite collaborators to view or contribute to those libraries,<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 47.25pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u></u><span style="color: #333333;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><u></u><span style="color: #333333;">Annotate the PDFs you read,<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 47.25pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u></u><span style="color: #333333;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><u></u><span style="color: #333333;">Add a bibliography and in-text citations in your Google Docs or Microsoft Word document. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;">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. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/zIjYCXD28Yh4w6NPMt63nDV?domain%3Dumich.zoom.us&source=gmail&ust=1709828229895000&usg=AOvVaw1RNjXTP_tDJoXBWP7_gGLw" href="https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xl2D_4v_QPa5gbUs_CwhMg#/registration" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2954d1;">REGISTER HERE</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;">See <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/lozfCZ6N7ZF7JmRqoSKoLtA?domain%3Dguides.lib.umich.edu&source=gmail&ust=1709828229895000&usg=AOvVaw2DRIvvxM_wzgPXy_Cn_OXZ" href="https://guides.lib.umich.edu/globalhealth/webinars" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://guides.lib.umich.<wbr></wbr>edu/globalhealth/webinars</a> for past recordings and upcoming webinars in Taubman Health Sciences Library's Global Health Webinar Series. </span></span></p></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-840b5720-7fff-e876-82da-0811f21999a9"><div><br /></div></span>Michele Matucheski, Ascension Wisconsin Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021698238396652753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-81630195520479251872024-02-28T16:23:00.002-06:002024-02-28T16:23:59.175-06:00The Legacy of Freedom House: The Black Men who became America's First Paramedics<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4SNWxaCFKaNEJEvMJQU9F3_lav64nDOarjEmJsPH8gZYq7yVzvGTQ5boKkdgkYp8XTC7bv-TUgpmB4ZAAgy5Yx3ODo4WuASxbFYW8tJU-q_dTYjcB6CTM1CCsU8cKkVOOoAUdgf3owoOgSwlvqqjCl41-0g1T_9BtuQuGXRX71Ci2SUvBPcZxCBYSoZI/s903/Freedom%20House%20in%20Pittsburgh.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="557" data-original-width="903" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4SNWxaCFKaNEJEvMJQU9F3_lav64nDOarjEmJsPH8gZYq7yVzvGTQ5boKkdgkYp8XTC7bv-TUgpmB4ZAAgy5Yx3ODo4WuASxbFYW8tJU-q_dTYjcB6CTM1CCsU8cKkVOOoAUdgf3owoOgSwlvqqjCl41-0g1T_9BtuQuGXRX71Ci2SUvBPcZxCBYSoZI/w640-h394/Freedom%20House%20in%20Pittsburgh.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://clarionevents.zoom.us/rec/share/g-prpk_nT7jlMP7g1ToW4FvYxjSrVK-28L7DaOR43tvB-Io0ylmfStAZGEneB1vC.AeGaOIIaSlCaLv8_">Zoom Meeting Recording</a> [1 hour 4 min.] Sponsored by JEMS in February 2024.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Kellee Selden highly recommends this JEMS webcast:</b><br /></span></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I attended this very interesting webinar. It was entitled: <b>The Legacy of Freedom House: The Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics. </b>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.</i></span></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><table style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; width: 1098px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; width: 689.2px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><b><br /><br />Additional Resources:</b><br /><br /><a href="https://www.jems.com/exclusives/freedom-house-first-to-serve-in-ems/" target="_blank">Freedom House: First to Serve in EMS</a></span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.jems.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/american-sirens-681x1024.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="532" height="377" src="https://www.jems.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/american-sirens-681x1024.jpg" width="251" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.jems.com/commentary/book-review-american-sirens-needs-to-be-required-reading/" target="_blank">Book Review: ‘American Sirens’ Needs to Be Required Reading</a><br /><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1pGFo0OmfwY?si=OB8kxFjLEYAFiyqD" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pGFo0OmfwY" target="_blank">Freedom House Ambulance: The FIRST Responders</a> [28 min. video]</span><br /><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SvOHFMQRgAY?si=isyuj5D92TVuWkUL" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvOHFMQRgAY" target="_blank">Unsung History: Freedom House Ambulance: The First Paramedic & EMT Service</a> [2 min.]</span><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>Michele Matucheski, Ascension Wisconsin Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021698238396652753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-61054441317657277032024-02-26T13:13:00.000-06:002024-02-26T13:13:18.920-06:00Book review: The Wall<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Thank you to Robert Koehler for this book review. <span><br /><br /></span><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Wall by Marlen Haushofer</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In this gripping novel, a nameless woman is visiting friends at a hunting lodge in the Austrian Alps. Her companions had gone to a nearby village for drinks the night before. She wakes the next morning to discover they have not returned. Going to investigate, accompanied by the lodge owner’s dog, she encounters an invisible, impermeable barrier which has cut her off from the rest of the world. Worse still, it soon becomes evident that no one else is left alive on the other side of this wall. Published in 1963, The Wall, written by the Austrian author Marlen Haushofer, is usually labeled a work of dystopian fiction. While it does include the trappings of the genre, its true focus is on a woman coming to terms with the reality of her isolation and the struggles she undergoes daily to survive.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">She is not completely alone. Besides the dog, there is a cow, and she is soon joined by a cat as well. These animals become an integral part of her life and of the story itself. The book describes, without chapter breaks – in what she calls a report – the first two years of her life following the appearance of the wall. She is the mother of two daughters, and while she is haunted by such ghosts from her past, the story is the description of a person shedding her old self, and the emergence of a truer essence. Written in diary form, it is a meditation on the meaning of life and of humans’ relative insignificance in the natural world.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Published at a time when fears of nuclear war were high, Haushofer’s novel imagines a scenario in which human civilization disappears in the blink of an eye. It has strong feminist overtones, showing how a woman could survive without the help of men in her life. It also draws on the story of Robinson Crusoe and on Thoreau’s Walden. Just as importantly, the characters of the animals in her life are vividly provided in their starring roles. This book captivated me from the beginning and kept me spellbound to its very end. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4swKmR9FippQE-znrBmgVX1kXfR9FeziAIgtkSrBaUoIKzJFRA0ejq3P-4d1o562wjEtA0TtlJJjrKGOeKwMsm3WssRbmj8_jWtR6xeGhEw6x8OYNhL-SrQ0KqX5pZkWgscLKAm0lgzeh5j9MHo6GCiI2Lh6AM39-dY51SmTyL5r1KTf5gGQiJ1l7i2Y/s2400/haushofer_wall_cover_rgb%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Cover image" border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="1557" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4swKmR9FippQE-znrBmgVX1kXfR9FeziAIgtkSrBaUoIKzJFRA0ejq3P-4d1o562wjEtA0TtlJJjrKGOeKwMsm3WssRbmj8_jWtR6xeGhEw6x8OYNhL-SrQ0KqX5pZkWgscLKAm0lgzeh5j9MHo6GCiI2Lh6AM39-dY51SmTyL5r1KTf5gGQiJ1l7i2Y/w260-h400/haushofer_wall_cover_rgb%20(1).jpg" title="https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-wall-1/" width="260" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-wall-1/"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-wall-1/</span></a></div><div><br /></div>Brenda Fay (webmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02477460395898322698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-65575313894360837852024-02-23T15:33:00.000-06:002024-02-23T15:33:00.150-06:00Book review: Brotherless Night<p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Thank you to Mini Prasad for this book review. Robert Koehler shared <a href="https://whsla-wi.blogspot.com/2024/01/book-review-brotherless-night-by-vv.html" target="_blank">his review</a> of this title in January 2024. </span></span></p><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a name='more'></a></span></span><p aria-hidden="true" class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Book Review: Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan</b></span></p><p aria-hidden="true" class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I just finished reading V. V. Ganeshananthan’s novel Brotherless Night. This novel is set during Sri Lanka’s civil war in the 1980s and chronicles the main character, Sashikala (Sashi) Kulenthiren’s dream of becoming a doctor.</span></p><p aria-hidden="true" class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sashi, her parents and four brothers live in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. They are of Tamil origin and living in a time when anti-Tamil hatred spreads across Sri Lanka. The civil war between the Tamil Tigers (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam – LTTE) and Sinhalese majority wreck Sashi’s family. The first signs of violence that Sashi experiences is the town library, where she and her brothers study, is burned down.</span></p><p aria-hidden="true" class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As the violence increases, Sashi is determined to continue her studies to become a doctor. While in the first year of medical school, Sashi is recruited by a friend to help the LTTE as a medic. Although she does not agree with the LTTE, she wants to help the people who have been embroiled in this violent war. Sashi’s parents try to send Sashi and her younger brother out of the country because of the worsening conflict. He leaves for England but Sashi joins up with her anatomy professor, Anjali Premachandran, from her medical college and the Anjali’s husband to put together documents to expose the LTTE, the Sri Lankan government and the Indian peacekeeper’s cruelty and violence towards innocent people.</span></p><p aria-hidden="true" class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I had heard bit and pieces of the Sri Lanka – Tamil conflict but never knew the full impact of the civil war on the Tamil people in Sri Lanka. Although this is a novel, it is based on the civil war that happened in Sri Lanka. Anjali Premachandran was based on Rajani Thiranagama, a professor of anatomy at the medical school. Rajani was assassinated by the LTTE cadres after criticizing them for their atrocities, just as Anjali was in the novel.</span></p><p aria-hidden="true" class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I highly recommend this novel.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNnWeE-wDdSzEB4EFiYPDdDrfGls9iX_Y81ZNwVJQXv4EOAnFOLQMh9mU9YsTMgcW0lqe4zDcR7hwwK4k1CFXcBZzfohLfwWUSjSdlV9wroO5hNAnx-OaMz6RLTvKjFfaC_ebSEwwnaIMKwJU9NgpqfHEoG6-lDkUeBQQgtNcbODiECelJUKF24Q5M7eY/s542/Brotherless%20Night.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="351" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNnWeE-wDdSzEB4EFiYPDdDrfGls9iX_Y81ZNwVJQXv4EOAnFOLQMh9mU9YsTMgcW0lqe4zDcR7hwwK4k1CFXcBZzfohLfwWUSjSdlV9wroO5hNAnx-OaMz6RLTvKjFfaC_ebSEwwnaIMKwJU9NgpqfHEoG6-lDkUeBQQgtNcbODiECelJUKF24Q5M7eY/s320/Brotherless%20Night.jpg" width="207" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p>Brenda Fay (webmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02477460395898322698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-59358345281485685082024-02-23T14:04:00.002-06:002024-02-23T14:06:25.656-06:00Random TED Talks to get you thinking<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">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. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">What do you think? Anything here you'd like to view?</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">TED-Ed: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/shannon_n_tessier_can_you_freeze_your_body_and_come_back_to_life" target="_blank">Can you freeze your body and come back to life?</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">AI: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/ray_kurzweil_get_ready_for_hybrid_thinking" target="_blank">Get ready for hybrid thinking</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Business: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/amory_lovins_a_40_year_plan_for_energy" target="_blank">A 40-year plan for energy</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Communication: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/cleo_wade_want_to_change_the_world_start_by_being_brave_enough_to_care" target="_blank">Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Education: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_m_stephenson_and_david_l_suskind_what_is_a_poop_transplant_and_how_does_it_work" target="_blank">What is a poop transplant, and how does it work?</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Health: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/carolyn_jones_a_tribute_to_nurses" target="_blank">A tribute to nurses</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Language: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/karen_bakker_could_an_orca_give_a_ted_talk" target="_blank">Could an orca give a TED Talk?</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Leadership: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/sandrine_dixson_decleve_5_keys_to_shifting_to_a_well_being_economy_and_the_cost_of_inaction" target="_blank">5 keys to shifting to a well-being economy -- and the cost of inaction</a> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mental Health: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/annie_murphy_paul_what_we_learn_before_we_re_born" target="_blank">What we learn before we're born</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Motivation: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/martin_danoesastro_what_are_you_willing_to_give_up_to_change_the_way_we_work" target="_blank">What are you willing to give up to change the way we work?</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Personal Growth: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/linden_vazey_can_you_be_yourself_at_work" target="_blank">Can you be yourself at work?</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Psychology: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/jen_gunter_what_s_normal_anxiety_and_what_s_an_anxiety_disorder" target="_blank">What's normal anxiety -- and what's an anxiety disorder?</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sleep: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_kwartler_what_causes_insomnia" target="_blank">What causes insomnia?</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sports: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/david_epstein_are_athletes_really_getting_faster_better_stronger" target="_blank">Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger</a></span></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYYmCcEwaCfm_PjeB1PCwwDcLr0BGqCbPiRCYWjEDNaYjPnQttaNjW3v6PCAHYXdqSgxfxygvYlt8sdYbVR0pNq0gg0LpR1IRuRxEwEI8tUZjGRzVodsWlIa4SRivK3rMVb8qbZrbGcBJM-K-VgvJ6VoBGBHwptENOtyIqrs2onOJqoskK-4Oly-PbJOQ/s238/Screenshot%202024-02-23%20140348.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="45" data-original-width="238" height="61" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYYmCcEwaCfm_PjeB1PCwwDcLr0BGqCbPiRCYWjEDNaYjPnQttaNjW3v6PCAHYXdqSgxfxygvYlt8sdYbVR0pNq0gg0LpR1IRuRxEwEI8tUZjGRzVodsWlIa4SRivK3rMVb8qbZrbGcBJM-K-VgvJ6VoBGBHwptENOtyIqrs2onOJqoskK-4Oly-PbJOQ/w320-h61/Screenshot%202024-02-23%20140348.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Brenda Fay (webmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02477460395898322698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-29200034520200317672024-02-19T08:49:00.001-06:002024-02-19T08:49:00.262-06:00Would You Give Your Kidney to a Stranger?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://wpr-public.s3.amazonaws.com/ttbook/styles/story_full_image/s3/images/human_body_kidney.png?itok=r8O1IoWA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://wpr-public.s3.amazonaws.com/ttbook/styles/story_full_image/s3/images/human_body_kidney.png?itok=r8O1IoWA" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><audio controls="controls" height="40" preload="none" width="300"><source src="https://podcast.wpr.org/tbk/tbk190223a1_mezrich_makinia.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"></source></audio><br /> <p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">MM: I heard <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/would-you-give-your-kidney-stranger" target="_blank">this podcast </a>from Wisconsin Public Radio and <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/" target="_blank">To the Best of Our Knowledge</a>, and it stuck with me, so I thought I'd share it here on the WHSLA Blog. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">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.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="field field-name-field-by field-type-entityreference field-label-inline clearfix" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: "PT Sans", "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="field-label" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: left; font-weight: 700;"><i>By: </i></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-by field-type-entityreference field-label-inline clearfix" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: "PT Sans", "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: left;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/mark-riechers" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #252468; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>Mark Riechers</i></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: "PT Sans", "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em;"><i>When Missy Makinia saw on Facebook a little girl in her community needed a kidney, she immediately thought she could spare one.</i></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: "PT Sans", "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em;"><i>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.</i></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: "PT Sans", "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em;"><i>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."</i></p></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: "PT Sans", "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em;"><i>"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 "<a href="http://ttbook.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #252468; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">To the Best of Our Knowledge</a>" host Anne Strainchamps.</i></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: "PT Sans", "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em;"><i>Mezrich is Makinia's doctor and a renowned transplant surgeon.</i></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: "PT Sans", "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em;"><i>"These chains can crisscross the country over a period of months," he said.</i></p></div></div></div></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/would-you-give-your-kidney-stranger" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Read more ...</span></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Michele Matucheski, Ascension Wisconsin Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021698238396652753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-77115082362681882342024-02-16T09:46:00.001-06:002024-02-16T09:46:00.135-06:00Summary of Ashley Zeidler's Creative Commons Licensing Guide <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdBHCmYYOLJR7ZfHpYyQijerejL9Oz8RKU5HhhbvbkbwuEv0rxDBiDuy0OpqIpEPxqt_APEt5HnqdreWbEbCwxhKx0s58wBuYebysxhTBOnP_pzTdP-gxU9TNYc0pp3fmTHgNQaeX959crTda9uRtNDRZqzzmTrotT51Qr5MLNo6O2D5M0BKHByZERkBA/s2250/AZ.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdBHCmYYOLJR7ZfHpYyQijerejL9Oz8RKU5HhhbvbkbwuEv0rxDBiDuy0OpqIpEPxqt_APEt5HnqdreWbEbCwxhKx0s58wBuYebysxhTBOnP_pzTdP-gxU9TNYc0pp3fmTHgNQaeX959crTda9uRtNDRZqzzmTrotT51Qr5MLNo6O2D5M0BKHByZERkBA/s320/AZ.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://mcw.libguides.com/prf.php?id=5aedeb7b-7cdb-11ed-9922-0ad758b798c3" target="_blank">Ashley Zeidler, MLIS</a>, 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.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In her presentation, Ashley gave an overview of the following:</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">The Creative Commons Certification Online Course </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Creative Commons (CC) Licenses</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Creative Commons Resources & Search Tools</span></li></ol><p></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;">She highlighted the following Creative Commons Search Tools that make it easier to find images in the Creative Commons: </span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://search.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">CC Search</span></a></li><li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Flickr</span></a></li><li><a href="https://images.google.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Google Image Search</span></a></li><li><a href="https://thenounproject.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Noun Project</span></a></li><li><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Wikimedia Commons</span></a></li><li><a href="https://unsplash.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Unsplash</span></a></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Ashley distilled what she learned into a LibGuide for The Medical College of Wisconsin's Library on <a href="https://mcw.libguides.com/creativecommons" target="_blank">The Creative Commons Licensing</a>. * Please see her guide for more detailed info. on all aspects of The Creative Commons and licensing.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">* Ashley's guide is licensed under CC BY, so it can be re-used and adapted via the Creative Commons.</span></div><p></p>Michele Matucheski, Ascension Wisconsin Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021698238396652753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-86393063873158442772024-02-15T16:11:00.004-06:002024-02-15T16:11:34.692-06:00Generative AI in Health Sciences Libraries (webinar recording)<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Generative AI in Health Sciences Libraries: What to Do Now" is presented by Lauren Hays Ph.D. from the University of Central Missouri.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In this webinar, Lauren Hays shared about the current state of generative AI. Then, she led a discussion about how this technology is impacting health sciences libraries and how it may impact health sciences libraries in the future. The webinar ended with information on how to effectively incorporate generative AI and address challenges it creates. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The session was interactive and practical. Attendees were encouraged to bring their ideas and questions. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Network of the National Library of Medicine is funded by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. Learn more at <a href="https://nnlm.gov"><b>https://nnlm.gov</b></a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #065fd4; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TjEETbZty0w?si=83t3OLSjFF435YDK" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div>Brenda Fay (webmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02477460395898322698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-76611311932506264442024-02-14T15:41:00.001-06:002024-02-14T15:41:00.348-06:00 Why I Love Being a Hospital Librarian<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzWL77l3Sm0ckGEcKVD8dGIBPLfcjBXWkwkwWqnK9-F4uKeIV5wKAxB0aR3kXaJ47yBr9cwaJHkNASEf4__IYeO4K-Ug6ZbUkInzcJwQCodPvNfLoIftfXGbhppNzce2b0geNtno4Mz7U6oN_WkcuPnCqJa9zVyHzxRT4R3hRpyM4KJKBPU7smdn9oRs/s311/Hearts.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="311" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzWL77l3Sm0ckGEcKVD8dGIBPLfcjBXWkwkwWqnK9-F4uKeIV5wKAxB0aR3kXaJ47yBr9cwaJHkNASEf4__IYeO4K-Ug6ZbUkInzcJwQCodPvNfLoIftfXGbhppNzce2b0geNtno4Mz7U6oN_WkcuPnCqJa9zVyHzxRT4R3hRpyM4KJKBPU7smdn9oRs/s1600/Hearts.PNG" width="311" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP, of Ascension Health Care - Wisconsin, was asked to be part of a panel discussion hosted by the Hospital Library Caucus of The Medical Library Association on February 14, 2024.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-ae8ab001-7fff-297f-31e5-8ab302563282"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I’ve been working in medical libraries for the past 30 years.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I started out as a runner in a medical school library, picking up ILL articles – I did NOT have to copy them!</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When I was in Library School, I worked as a medical library technician at one of the area hospitals. It was the perfect “lab” for what I was learning in school.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When I graduated, I got a professional job as a Reference Librarian back at the medical school library, but I missed being in the hospital library, where the drs would stop in asking for research, articles – or they just stop in to tell you their latest jokes. You realize they are just people, not gods.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Why I Love Being a Hospital Librarian</span></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It’s a profession that is cooperative and collaborative. Here we are sharing what we know …</span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sheer variety of what I get to do on any given day</span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As a Solo, I have to wear all hats. I don’t have a Systems Librarian to troubleshoot access or build websites. There’s no separate dept. for reference or instruction – I do the research and training. I do the marketing and outreach, writing blog posts for the library newsletter. There’s no one else to do it. Archives, database renewals, negotiating licenses, ordering supplies, and everything else …</span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In an academic library, those jobs would be split up among multiple people. Everyone siloed for specific tasks. I get to do them all - so you get lots of experience in a hospital library that someone in a larger library might not have.</span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I can’t think of another job that would let me do so many interesting things.</span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I learn new things every day just by the nature of research, or having to figure things out.</span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I have a lot of autonomy with my job. I set the priorities for my day.</span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Connection to purpose here in the hospital: I may not be in direct patient care, but I do support those who are. </span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">People in hospitals may be dealing with life & death issues – I learned so much from the Hospice and Palliative Care Physicians. It seemed like they held the keys to the Universe, because they were not afraid to face death and dying with their patients.</span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">One of our drs switched from Pediatrics to Public Health / Population Health. I asked why … He said In Pediatrics, he helped 1 patient /family at a time. In Public Health, he could help set policy and that way he had a much bigger impact, affecting many more people at one time. Some of what I do is one person at a time, but some of it is on the policy level with a much bigger impact. </span></span></p></li></ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And that is why I LOVE being a Hospital Librarian!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;">___________________________________________________________________</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What do YOU love about being a Health Science Librarian? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tell us and you could have your own post here on the WHSLA blog!</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span>Michele Matucheski, Ascension Wisconsin Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021698238396652753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-53212549430040462032024-02-07T13:52:00.006-06:002024-02-23T12:56:45.606-06:00Spring Board Meeting: Friday, March 8 from 1-2:30 pm (virtual)<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">All WHSLA Members are invited to the Spring 2024 Board Meeting to be held on Friday, March 8 from 1-2:30 pm via Microsoft Teams. While only Officers may vote, all are welcome to attend and participate in the meeting. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.whsla.org/whsla-business/officers-committees/" target="_blank"><b>Current </b></a></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.whsla.org/whsla-business/officers-committees/" target="_blank">Officers and Committee members</a> </b>have received their invitations</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">. If you are part of the general membership and would like to attend, please email brenda dot fay at marquette dot edu. </span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf1OuaaRZpjRKOyPy9_VcUKGwbzuRMCw_K5uUDqbDVUQhrAfghZ4qq-dI9HUyNPSvVT_cYtBA7P6jU894Duno0xptvK8XXaFGsDm33ckwCG5lKkcwli935xEVY_QNqUvm6xQwYhEqFGNnnsNEaftzbDR9N7tjVPE8iE-AG_1KTjjZiGMRyzGcFO-Vw2wE/s512/Tulips_in_Mykolaiv.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons" border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="512" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf1OuaaRZpjRKOyPy9_VcUKGwbzuRMCw_K5uUDqbDVUQhrAfghZ4qq-dI9HUyNPSvVT_cYtBA7P6jU894Duno0xptvK8XXaFGsDm33ckwCG5lKkcwli935xEVY_QNqUvm6xQwYhEqFGNnnsNEaftzbDR9N7tjVPE8iE-AG_1KTjjZiGMRyzGcFO-Vw2wE/w400-h265/Tulips_in_Mykolaiv.jpg" title="Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons</span></div><br /><p></p>Brenda Fay (webmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02477460395898322698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-22618181083938324312024-02-02T16:25:00.001-06:002024-02-02T16:25:14.818-06:00Book Review: Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See<p> <a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1683735261i/62919732.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="527" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1683735261i/62919732.jpg" width="211" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I recently finished reading Lisa See's latest book, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/62919732" target="_blank">Lady Tan's Circle of Women</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's a book of historical fiction based on the real life of a female physician in China in the 1500s. Her practice covered mostly women with afflictions due to foot binding. She lost her own mother due to an infection in her bound feet when she was still a girl. After that, she went to live with her grandparents, who were both physicians, and to whom she apprenticed. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">For childbearing cases, she worked with a midwife who became her best friend and confidant. Midwives could do things higher-born physicians could not -- like touch blood (There's plenty of blood in childbirth), and forensic exams. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Although I still do not understand the philosophy informing Chinese medicine as far as the 5 pulses or the many herbal remedies, I can't argue with centuries of practice. Lady Tan got results. The real Lady Tan wrote and published a book about some of her medical cases, and her remedies are still used today in Chinese traditional medicine. Apparently, Lady Tan and her friend even both got to go to The Forbidden City to help the Empress bear a child -- The trip of a lifetime for them both!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Ever since <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40873273-snow-flower-and-the-secret-fan" target="_blank">Snow Flower & The Secret Fan</a> fell into my lap years ago, I've come to trust Lisa See as a storyteller. Her novels focus more on the relationships and friendships of women, rather than romance. There were so many moments when things could have turned ugly, catty, or mean, but they didn't. The women in Lady Tan's Circle looked out for each other, and became family. What other choice did they have?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Highly recommended!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Read more at <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/62919732" target="_blank">Good Reads.</a></span><br /><br /></p>Michele Matucheski, Ascension Wisconsin Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021698238396652753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-33409826817600342412024-01-18T13:03:00.000-06:002024-01-18T13:03:07.331-06:00Secrets of the Dead: Ben Franklin's Bones [PBS]<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" height="332" src="https://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365411224/" style="border: 0;" width="512"></iframe></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Secrets of the Dead: Ben Franklin’s Bones</strong></span><span style="background-color: white;"> reveals some questionable practices in medicine. In the 18th century, private anatomy schools were set up across London to give medical students the opportunity to learn anatomy by dissecting human cadavers. But supply lagged behind demand. Anatomists needed many more bodies than the ones of hanged murderers, which were the only bodies legally available at that time for their study. This created a business for body snatchers, also known as “resurrectionists,” who exhumed corpses from graves to sell to the anatomists.</span></i></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This Secrets-of-the-Dead episode was published back in 2015, but I recently saw it on Wisconsin Public Television. I had no idea that Ben Franklin had so many friends and acquaintances in the medical / anatomy world. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We owe a huge debt to the people who were body-snatched from their graves in the name of furthering medicine, science and our understanding of human anatomy. Now people have the option to donate their bodies to science after death as a personal choice. That was not the case in the 18th century when this mode of inquiry was at it's peak.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://museum.rcsed.ac.uk/" target="_blank">The Surgeon's Hall Anatomy Museum</a> in Edinburgh and <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/" target="_blank">The Hunterian Museum</a> in Glasgow are some of my favorite museums, and <a href="https://muttermuseum.org/" target="_blank">The Mutter Museum</a> is on my bucket list of places to see someday. But I have a new consciousness about the specimens on display now. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">How do we let them finally rest in peace? Do we honor them for the educational purposes they took on in being displayed in perpetual preservation? What about the medical curiosities with less of an educational slant?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A recent NNLM Webinar got me thinking about all this in a new light. If you want to know more, please see: </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #3367d6; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><a href="https://whsla-wi.blogspot.com/2023/12/holding-space-to-discuss-complicated.html" style="color: #0f8baf; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: small;">Holding Space to Discuss a Complicated Past: Exploring Medical Libraries’ Role in Perpetuating Racial Science, An NNLM Region 6 Spotlight Speaker Webinar</span></a></h3></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Michele Matucheski, Ascension Wisconsin Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021698238396652753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-30207986154011786362024-01-05T11:56:00.006-06:002024-01-05T11:56:59.881-06:00Liz Suelzer on Wisconsin Public Radio discussing Retractions in the Professional Literature<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi__Rv3Ct344SvSWXodS37xITCxPROql90Ffp690v4gCH3oHh_UOEX7nSf2f5m_76YfGb7eNuEQD-PeGn0HFVK5nwDKQTTzoGmksOxrYJW8EeF_BsUO8RbFX6c631HB8_ybuqmX95LFlMdtPL8mP7bXPMvHCVwGQnn_d8An11JKxrekMWwV4xKnBbUzt-4/s291/retraction%20watch.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="120" data-original-width="291" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi__Rv3Ct344SvSWXodS37xITCxPROql90Ffp690v4gCH3oHh_UOEX7nSf2f5m_76YfGb7eNuEQD-PeGn0HFVK5nwDKQTTzoGmksOxrYJW8EeF_BsUO8RbFX6c631HB8_ybuqmX95LFlMdtPL8mP7bXPMvHCVwGQnn_d8An11JKxrekMWwV4xKnBbUzt-4/s1600/retraction%20watch.PNG" width="291" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">by Karen Hanus, Director Advocate Health - Midwest Library in Milwaukee</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/8fxpCQWB9AhXO2QV9CxVUj2?domain%3Dlibrary.aah.org&source=gmail&ust=1704464459163000&usg=AOvVaw0i9MD-xD3y3DVf4YVSN1QI" href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/8fxpCQWB9AhXO2QV9CxVUj2?domain=library.aah.org" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Liz Suelzer</a>, Application Support Analyst Sr for the Advocate Health – Midwest Library was interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio’s <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/xNFgCR6D38FGEM6YQHNggtB?domain%3Dwpr.org&source=gmail&ust=1704464459163000&usg=AOvVaw2RWxR8cHVWJeiqMdF14N_1" href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/xNFgCR6D38FGEM6YQHNggtB?domain=wpr.org" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Morning Show</a> on January 5, 2024. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Listen here: </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.wpr.org/watchdogs-more-academic-and-scientific-papers-should-be-retracted-and-more-quickly" target="_blank"><b>Watchdogs: More Academic and Scientific Papers should be Retracted, and more quickly</b></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Liz and Ivan Oransky of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/za7dCVOK3Ji23WJBXfyaZ6E?domain%3Dretractionwatch.com/&source=gmail&ust=1704464459163000&usg=AOvVaw1sAHhsBOJJRejl-Cifsinp" href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/za7dCVOK3Ji23WJBXfyaZ6E?domain=retractionwatch.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Retraction Watch</a> talk about:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">retractions</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">the process of going through a retraction</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">and the impact that retracted articles have on science and research. </span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Liz and a team of other WHSLA librarians published two articles in JAMA Network Open about article retractions in 2019 and 2021.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Published articles:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Suelzer EM, Deal J, Hanus KL, Ruggeri B, Sieracki R, Witkowski E. Assessment of Citations of the Retracted Article by Wakefield et al With Fraudulent Claims of an Association Between Vaccination and Autism. JAMA Netw Open. 2019;2(11):e1915552. Published 2019 Nov 1. doi:<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/CohrCW6X3WF6OME3xcnNuMA?domain%3Djamanetwork.com&source=gmail&ust=1704464459163000&usg=AOvVaw1nlFqb9_fs_33H5l9EIJjh" href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/CohrCW6X3WF6OME3xcnNuMA?domain=jamanetwork.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">10.1001/jamanetworkopen.<wbr></wbr>2019.15552</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Suelzer EM, Deal J, Hanus K, Ruggeri BE, Witkowski E. Challenges in Identifying the Retracted Status of an Article [published correction appears in JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Feb 1;5(2):e223513]. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(6):e2115648. Published 2021 Jun 1. doi:<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/7714CXD28Yh428QAGcm2Wxm?domain%3Djamanetwork.com&source=gmail&ust=1704464459163000&usg=AOvVaw0FzDiEd9kd8eFUzFQuZrNA" href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/7714CXD28Yh428QAGcm2Wxm?domain=jamanetwork.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">10.1001/jamanetworkopen.<wbr></wbr>2021.15648</a></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Congratulations, Liz! Thank you for making a unique contribution to our profession.</span></p>Michele Matucheski, Ascension Wisconsin Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021698238396652753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-18472073714068306862024-01-05T08:57:00.008-06:002024-02-23T15:18:16.879-06:00Book review: Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Thank you to Robert Koehler for this book review. </span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><h3 style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https:/robertupatdawn.wordpress.com/2023/10/06/brotherless-night-v-v-ganeshananthan/__;!!PrVBqlTvcBbYrqSF!D8EjIV9qKkvwoSIlgaS6txeRf6xPqeMolzl4triSj2IPKzKC_q0NfiBUchf5q93A-5pNlz8Bif_jr5_uOIvwoZGCbSKJ$"><span style="color: #9c4617;">Brotherless Night / V.V. Ganeshananthan</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXvsI0laSy_B0s05gYrBACisVDmvSNLgTXsjDlwkweYA1-mUFGxuv4xLRptND9IctOtZ9pi9-wiu29IucoCGODUYs6K037G-c_FwI4_BtLq3km54JOqb7WM1pT7dieD7KV99lxnSV-zI3oEkc4eIcJpWuIvBn5lmDewkNkGvmjQKiYPV61PHiFziG3z0Y/s542/Brotherless%20Night.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="351" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXvsI0laSy_B0s05gYrBACisVDmvSNLgTXsjDlwkweYA1-mUFGxuv4xLRptND9IctOtZ9pi9-wiu29IucoCGODUYs6K037G-c_FwI4_BtLq3km54JOqb7WM1pT7dieD7KV99lxnSV-zI3oEkc4eIcJpWuIvBn5lmDewkNkGvmjQKiYPV61PHiFziG3z0Y/s320/Brotherless%20Night.jpg" width="207" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/57844/brotherless-night-by-v-v-ganeshananthan/"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/57844/brotherless-night-by-v-v-ganeshananthan/</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In this novel’s opening pages, Sashikala Kulenthiren, the story’s
narrator, is a sixteen year old student living in the majority-Tamil city of
Jaffa, a city in northeast Sri Lanka. She is a student preparing to take
exams that will allow her to go to medical school. The year is 1981 and
in the following chapters, Sashikala describes the beginnings of Sri Lanka’s
three decades long civil war and its effects on her family, community, and
personal life. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The civil war, sparked following anti-Tamil pogroms carried out by
the country’s majority Sinhalese population, has led to the formation of
militant groups demanding the creation of an independent Tamil state. One
of these, the Tamil Tigers, soon becomes the dominant force in and around
Jaffa, and two of Sashikala’s brothers plus a close friend decide to become
members of the group. While she is sympathetic with the rebels’ cause,
she is deeply troubled by the Tamil Tigers’ ruthless suppression of community
members who refuse to take part in the rebellion or who dare to question the
terrorist tactics they are using against the government. This leads to
the killings of a number of professors and other people she knows in the years
following.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><em><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Brotherless Night </span></em><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">describes
Sashikala’s moral journey as she tries to navigate her way through the
unfolding conflict. A gifted storyteller, Ganeshananthan captures this
young woman’s dilemma as she is forced to decide on how much support to provide
the Tamil Tigers as a physician, and whether or not to remain silent against
their terrorist tactics and the brute force they employ to keep citizens in
line. For those wishing to know more about the Sri Lanka civil war, this
novel vividly captures its complexities and presents a heartrending portrait of
the conflict as seen through one woman’s eyes. I whole heartedly
recommend this haunting read.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A review of Ganeshananthan’s debut novel, Love Marriage, can
be found <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/robertupatdawn.wordpress.com/2023/12/22/love-marriage-v-v-ganeshanathan/__;!!PrVBqlTvcBbYrqSF!D8EjIV9qKkvwoSIlgaS6txeRf6xPqeMolzl4triSj2IPKzKC_q0NfiBUchf5q93A-5pNlz8Bif_jr5_uOIvwobE_Nxg7$">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p>Brenda Fay (webmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02477460395898322698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-56297767714025690152024-01-04T08:10:00.001-06:002024-01-04T08:10:00.250-06:00Free February Webinars from UW-Madison's Information School<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi9ilPDZAQLzbFMO8b194iJ3EtHiFciDTN04VlNBv5NTGZz2YEsr9YBRkW9I-gz84UzDdSj8LrDVaPF9JjqsqtSRsVMBKTzq6roi1smWVPUPbO4nbQImY53tQIlK2w1uuh53ceUq1VcchXNXsWeD5i_OUIeA2J55enJjKcLPD_QdZC90JjJrlnch1kIDs/s425/I%20School.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="85" data-original-width="425" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi9ilPDZAQLzbFMO8b194iJ3EtHiFciDTN04VlNBv5NTGZz2YEsr9YBRkW9I-gz84UzDdSj8LrDVaPF9JjqsqtSRsVMBKTzq6roi1smWVPUPbO4nbQImY53tQIlK2w1uuh53ceUq1VcchXNXsWeD5i_OUIeA2J55enJjKcLPD_QdZC90JjJrlnch1kIDs/w400-h80/I%20School.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #717a80; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #9b0000; font-size: 20px;">Free February 2024 Webinar Series</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="color: black; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Feb 9 - Library Scavenger Hunts</li><li style="color: black; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Feb 13 - Have Wagon, Will Travel. 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Some sessions fill up, so register early for ones you are mist interested in. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Happy learning!</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.nnlm.gov/training/class/how-apply-nnlm-funding-0" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">How to Apply for NNLM Funding</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - 12 pm CST, January 24</span></li><li><a href="https://www.nnlm.gov/training/class/2023-lgbtq-health-education-and-advocacy-summit-0" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">2023 LGBTQ+ Health Education and Advocacy Summit</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> - 2:30 pm CST, January 24</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.nnlm.gov/training/class/mesh-changes-and-pubmed-searching-2024" target="_blank">MeSH Changes and PubMed Searching 2024</a> - 12 pm CST, January 25</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.nnlm.gov/training/class/nnlm-book-discussion-feb-1-2024-apr-30-2024-history-medical-libraries-and-medical" target="_blank">NNLM Book Discussion, Feb 1, 2024 - Apr 30, 2024: The History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship</a> - various times</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.nnlm.gov/training/class/generative-ai-health-sciences-libraries-what-do-now" target="_blank">Generative AI in Health Sciences Libraries: What to Do Now</a> - 10 am CST, February 7</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHkqwTvlVC6oJJbeaStQv8vJbqiRf0-PzDHMwOCGHUJ_WQgE5ShSMFMH3MFLeyfeT_v5QiQeCbSjQw_vhAKXZQ0Fg_AUyfwAmnnomk0kXOnOZkKcQ0xadO6d48L2NMSC66VaibaNffe6MYjsczyCbFDUHc9yIS9mKccCkh0g7V7evSsFVLJsqOh4nCI2Y/s812/whsla%20blog1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="812" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHkqwTvlVC6oJJbeaStQv8vJbqiRf0-PzDHMwOCGHUJ_WQgE5ShSMFMH3MFLeyfeT_v5QiQeCbSjQw_vhAKXZQ0Fg_AUyfwAmnnomk0kXOnOZkKcQ0xadO6d48L2NMSC66VaibaNffe6MYjsczyCbFDUHc9yIS9mKccCkh0g7V7evSsFVLJsqOh4nCI2Y/w400-h259/whsla%20blog1.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Brenda Fay (webmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02477460395898322698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-52920504081148430852023-12-20T13:41:00.002-06:002023-12-20T13:41:22.875-06:00The health benefits of watching Dr. Who? BMJ's Christmas issue has arrived! <p><span style="font-family: arial;">Every year the BMJ publishes a Christmas issue with light-hearted articles. This year's issue has arrived complete with articles on <u><a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-077276" target="_blank">Barbie</a></u>, <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-077143" target="_blank">Dr. Who</a>, <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-077695" target="_blank">AI Christmas cards</a>, and more! </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsm7uhFnlBinrNQkJuA-Lr8fnukYC-kDTQlVFCkDZRK1CNSujx96ptXoVt3KwG2Xg3-XXQ6J9otmnBB6X7V4f0edgQK23HqynZEEjdRxc33_2ysYtm0mV1caU7KWUEv6-5jRszguNjM0_IJnGraXXXTVzdgVVhULj7XOJlpVJ3RQ4f7HahxulPSx2-zOs/s1093/tardis%20xmas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1093" data-original-width="945" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsm7uhFnlBinrNQkJuA-Lr8fnukYC-kDTQlVFCkDZRK1CNSujx96ptXoVt3KwG2Xg3-XXQ6J9otmnBB6X7V4f0edgQK23HqynZEEjdRxc33_2ysYtm0mV1caU7KWUEv6-5jRszguNjM0_IJnGraXXXTVzdgVVhULj7XOJlpVJ3RQ4f7HahxulPSx2-zOs/s320/tardis%20xmas.jpg" width="277" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-077143"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-077143</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p><br /></p>Brenda Fay (webmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02477460395898322698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-75240116960020980282023-12-09T08:16:00.001-06:002023-12-09T08:16:00.157-06:00The CDC's National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/images/nwss-banner.jpg?_=87252" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="60" data-original-width="800" height="48" src="https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/images/nwss-banner.jpg?_=87252" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;">Proud Mama Disclaimer: </b><span style="font-family: arial;">My kid grew up and got a job as a professional microbiologist at the WI State Lab of Hygiene, working in their Wastewater Surveillance Lab, a new dept. begun during the Covid pandemic to track levels of infectious diseases (not just Covid) in participating communities. That's how and why I know about this hidden data mine, and wanted to share it with all of you. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-nationaltrend.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">NWSS - National and Regional Trends Dashboard</a></span></p><p><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/how-wws-works.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">How Wastewater Monitoring Works</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">From the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/about.html" target="_blank">CDC Website about NWSS</a>:</span></p><div class="row " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Open Sans", apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="col-md-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; max-width: 100%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 1015px;"><div class="card mb-3" style="background-clip: border-box; border-radius: 0.25rem; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: 1rem !important; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative;"><div class="card-body bg-quaternary" style="background-color: rgb(226, 232, 237) !important; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 auto; min-height: 1px; padding: 1rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Wastewater monitoring is a valuable, efficient, and robust tool that public health officials can use to guide public health decision making across the nation.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="row " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Open Sans", apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="col-md-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 25%; max-width: 25%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 253.75px;"><img alt="National Wastewater Surveillance System logo" class="img-fluid" src="https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/images/NWSS-full-logo-medium.jpg?_=62552" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></div><div class="col-md-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 75%; max-width: 75%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 761.25px;"><div class="cdc-textblock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) provides the public health infrastructure to monitor infectious diseases through wastewater across the country. Wastewater monitoring data can help local public health agencies identify outbreak trends early, direct prevention efforts to where they are most needed, and provide additional insight into disease spread that complements other public health surveillance data. Health departments, community leaders, and individuals can use wastewater monitoring data to make decisions about how best to protect their community.</p></div></div></div><div class="row " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Open Sans", apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="col-md-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; max-width: 100%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 1015px;"><div class="card mb-3" style="background-clip: border-box; border-radius: 0.25rem; border: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: 1rem !important; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative;"><div class="card-header h4 bg-primary" style="background-color: rgb(41, 67, 78) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.125); border-radius: calc(0.25rem - 1px) calc(0.25rem - 1px) 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; font-size: 1.26rem; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 1rem;">Value of Wastewater Monitoring</div></div></div></div><div class="row " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Open Sans", apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="col-md-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 16.6667%; max-width: 16.6667%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 169.156px;"><div class="float-md-right ml-md-3 pt-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right !important; margin-left: 1rem !important; padding-top: 0.5rem !important;"><img alt="ticking clock" class="img-fluid" src="https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/images/Clock-thumbnail.png?_=43408" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" title="Clock" /></div></div><div class="col-md-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 83.3333%; max-width: 83.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 845.828px;"><div class="card border-0 rounded-0 mb-3" style="background-clip: border-box; border-color: rgb(224, 224, 224); border-image: initial !important; border-radius: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-width: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: 1rem !important; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative;"><div class="card-body " style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 auto; min-height: 1px; padding: 1rem;"><h5 class="mb-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 1.13rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Wastewater monitoring provides early detection of increasing cases.</span></h5><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Wastewater data can show changes in disease trends before trends are seen in clinical cases. This information can be used to prepare health care providers and hospital systems for upcoming increases in visits and hospitalizations and can inform other public health prevention efforts.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="row " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Open Sans", apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="col-md-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 16.6667%; max-width: 16.6667%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 169.156px;"><div class="float-md-right ml-md-3 pt-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right !important; margin-left: 1rem !important; padding-top: 0.5rem !important;"><img alt="people" class="img-fluid" src="https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/images/People.png?_=43250" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" title="People" /></div></div><div class="col-md-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 83.3333%; max-width: 83.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 845.828px;"><div class="card border-0 rounded-0 mb-3" style="background-clip: border-box; border-color: rgb(224, 224, 224); border-image: initial !important; border-radius: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-width: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: 1rem !important; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative;"><div class="card-body " style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 auto; min-height: 1px; padding: 1rem;"><h5 class="mb-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 1.13rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Wastewater monitoring is independent from medical systems.</span></h5><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Wastewater can detect infection in a community whether or not people have symptoms. Unlike other types of public health reporting, wastewater surveillance (monitoring) does not depend on people having access to healthcare, visiting a doctor when sick or availability of testing for an infection.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="row " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Open Sans", apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="col-md-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 16.6667%; max-width: 16.6667%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 169.156px;"><div class="float-md-right ml-md-3 pt-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right !important; margin-left: 1rem !important; padding-top: 0.5rem !important;"><img alt="Diagram of plumbing system" class="img-fluid" src="https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/images/Plumbing-thumbnail.png?_=43254" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" title="Plumbing" /></div></div><div class="col-md-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 83.3333%; max-width: 83.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 845.828px;"><div class="card border-0 rounded-0 mb-3" style="background-clip: border-box; border-color: rgb(224, 224, 224); border-image: initial !important; border-radius: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-width: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: 1rem !important; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative;"><div class="card-body " style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 auto; min-height: 1px; padding: 1rem;"><h5 class="mb-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 1.13rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Wastewater monitoring is fast and efficient.</span></h5><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">From toilet flush to results only takes about five to seven days. Wastewater testing at a single treatment plant can provide information on community-level disease trends for hundreds, thousands, even millions of people.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="row " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Open Sans", apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="col-md-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 16.6667%; max-width: 16.6667%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 169.156px;"><div class="float-md-right ml-md-3 pt-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right !important; margin-left: 1rem !important; padding-top: 0.5rem !important;"><img alt="generic us map" class="img-fluid" src="https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/images/us-map.gif?_=62120" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" title="us-map" /></div></div><div class="col-md-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 83.3333%; max-width: 83.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 845.828px;"><div class="card border-0 rounded-0 mb-3" style="background-clip: border-box; border-color: rgb(224, 224, 224); border-image: initial !important; border-radius: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-width: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: 1rem !important; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative;"><div class="card-body " style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 auto; min-height: 1px; padding: 1rem;"><h5 class="mb-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 1.13rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Wastewater monitoring has national coverage.</span></h5><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Wastewater monitoring is implemented in all 50 states, 3 territories, and 5 tribal organizations. Wastewater monitoring can be implemented in any community that is served by municipal wastewater collection systems.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="row " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Open Sans", apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="col-md-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 16.6667%; max-width: 16.6667%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 169.156px;"><div class="float-md-right ml-md-3 pt-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right !important; margin-left: 1rem !important; padding-top: 0.5rem !important;"><img alt="Virus" class="img-fluid" src="https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/images/Virus.png?_=43258" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" title="Virus" /></div></div><div class="col-md-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 83.3333%; max-width: 83.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 845.828px;"><div class="card border-0 rounded-0 mb-3" style="background-clip: border-box; border-color: rgb(224, 224, 224); border-image: initial !important; border-radius: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-width: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: 1rem !important; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative;"><div class="card-body " style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 auto; min-height: 1px; padding: 1rem;"><h5 class="mb-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 1.13rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Wastewater monitoring can be used to track emerging health threats.</span></h5><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Wastewater monitoring can be rapidly adaptable to track emerging health threats. Wastewater surveillance has been used to monitor changes in COVID-19 and mpox cases in communities across the United States. CDC is working to better understand how wastewater surveillance can also be used to detect and respond to other infectious disease threats like antibiotic resistance and foodborne diseases.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="row " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Open Sans", apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="col-md-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 16.6667%; max-width: 16.6667%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 169.156px;"><div class="float-md-right ml-md-3 pt-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right !important; margin-left: 1rem !important; padding-top: 0.5rem !important;"><img alt="examining new variant" class="img-fluid" src="https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/images/Variant-thumbnail.png?_=43256" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" title="Variant" /></div></div><div class="col-md-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 83.3333%; max-width: 83.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 845.828px;"><div class="card border-0 rounded-0 mb-3" style="background-clip: border-box; border-color: rgb(224, 224, 224); border-image: initial !important; border-radius: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-width: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: 1rem !important; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative;"><div class="card-body " style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 auto; min-height: 1px; padding: 1rem;"><h5 class="mb-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 1.13rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Wastewater monitoring can be used to track variants.</span></h5><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Wastewater surveillance can provide information on the variants that are present in a community. When new variants of concern arise, wastewater surveillance can provide an early warning that these variants may be spreading in communities.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="row " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: "Open Sans", apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="col-md-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 16.6667%; max-width: 16.6667%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 169.156px;"><div class="float-md-right ml-md-3 pt-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right !important; margin-left: 1rem !important; padding-top: 0.5rem !important;"><img alt="Person pointing to words on a board" class="img-fluid" src="https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/images/wastewater-monitoring.gif?_=59178" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></div></div><div class="col-md-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 83.3333%; max-width: 83.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 845.828px;"><div class="card border-0 rounded-0 mb-3" style="background-clip: border-box; border-color: rgb(224, 224, 224); border-image: initial !important; border-radius: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-width: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: 1rem !important; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative;"><div class="card-body " style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 auto; min-height: 1px; padding: 1rem;"><h5 class="mb-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 1.13rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Wastewater monitoring is complementary to other public health surveillance data</span></h5><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Wastewater surveillance data are most useful when used with other surveillance data. When reviewed together, wastewater and other surveillance data can provide a more complete picture of disease spread within a community.</p></div></div></div></div>Michele Matucheski, Ascension Wisconsin Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021698238396652753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-52717216506422182322023-12-08T11:36:00.001-06:002023-12-08T11:36:00.160-06:00Why Can't Robots Pass CAPTCHA Tests?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWpXfgIybA3dvPnFawxaT83eR502LyuVs8r0g105EM80NLH2XJilyZjWxL_WyzT7XijpUjB7UdL68REVsmj5ZGBej5BnL71Ns87fEQ06AoHzJUIBQ5m0eOy3ir3RU6YvnZN1zg9uLkUY-DvXro2BX9ThyphenhyphenDvsjVc2CmI1nBi6l2dXYz1vlQsaGpAjVrh_g/s571/Captcha.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="571" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWpXfgIybA3dvPnFawxaT83eR502LyuVs8r0g105EM80NLH2XJilyZjWxL_WyzT7XijpUjB7UdL68REVsmj5ZGBej5BnL71Ns87fEQ06AoHzJUIBQ5m0eOy3ir3RU6YvnZN1zg9uLkUY-DvXro2BX9ThyphenhyphenDvsjVc2CmI1nBi6l2dXYz1vlQsaGpAjVrh_g/w400-h395/Captcha.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://americasbestpics.com/video/why-can-t-robots-pass-captcha-tests-why-can-t-3sCzyGooA?s=cl" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Why Can't Robots Pass CAPTCHA Tests?</span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Now you know!</span></p>Michele Matucheski, Ascension Wisconsin Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021698238396652753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-82759264972740338532023-12-06T11:12:00.002-06:002023-12-06T11:12:29.850-06:002023 Space Telescope Advent Calendar<p> <a href="https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/N9HjvDMfe9JgdK9yG2KppVAufXw=/1500x1374/media/img/photo/2023/12/2023-space-telescope-advent-calenda/a01_weic2316a/original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="800" height="587" src="https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/N9HjvDMfe9JgdK9yG2KppVAufXw=/1500x1374/media/img/photo/2023/12/2023-space-telescope-advent-calenda/a01_weic2316a/original.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7668275284358096482" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Atlantic</a> is continuing it's holiday tradition with <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/12/2023-space-telescope-advent-calendar/676192/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">the 16th annual Space-Telescope Advent Calendar</a>, featuring images from both NASA’s Hubble telescope and its new James Webb Space Telescope. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 0px;"></p><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Every day until Monday, December 25, the page will present a new, incredible image of our universe from one of these two telescopes. </span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Be sure to come back every day until Christmas, and follow on social media for daily updates. </span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Enjoy these amazing and awe-inspiring images, as well as the continued efforts of the science teams that have brought them to Earth. </span></li></ul><p></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Wishing you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Peace on Earth.</span></p></div>Michele Matucheski, Ascension Wisconsin Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021698238396652753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-31645682050832490752023-12-05T08:18:00.001-06:002023-12-05T08:18:00.257-06:00Holding Space to Discuss a Complicated Past: Exploring Medical Libraries’ Role in Perpetuating Racial Science, An NNLM Region 6 Spotlight Speaker Webinar<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ERyzCGKHtvs?si=zQhcSY3u7tY7hhjk" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERyzCGKHtvs" target="_blank"><span class="il" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Holding</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Space</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERyzCGKHtvs" target="_blank"> to Discuss a Complicated Past:</a> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">Exploring Medical Libraries’ Role in Perpetuating Racial Science, A Region 6 Spotlight Speaker Webinar.</span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #131313; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Based on a recent commentary published in the Journal of Medical Library Association (JMLA) called, “Medical Libraries and Their Complicated Past: An Exploration of the Historical Connections Between Medical Collections and Racial Science,” this webinar presentation will briefly dive into the historical connections between medical libraries and racial science, especially focusing on empire building. This presentation will highlight ways for library workers, particularly those involved in library instruction, to engage their learners critically in understanding how medical sciences and collections have been shaped by racial science discourse that still endure in today’s medical practices experienced by patients who identify as Black, Indigenous, or persons of color.</span></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #131313; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Guest Speakers</span></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #131313; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Raymond Pun (he/him), Ed.D., MLS, </b>is the Academic and Research Librarian at the Alder Graduate School of Education, a teacher residency program in California. In this role, he provides research support to graduate students/preservice teachers and teacher educators Pun is also a faculty member in the MA Pathway Program at Alder GSE. In addition, Pun is an active member in library associations such as the Librarians, Archivists, and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences (LAMPHHS).</span></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #131313; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Nicollette Davis </b>(she/her) is an Assistant Librarian for Social Work, Kinesiology, and Health Sciences at Louisiana State University and based in Baton Rouge, LA. In 2023, she was selected as an Emerging Leader by the American Library Association. Her interests include critical librarianship, BIPOC community building, community engagement, and person-centered practices in LIS.</span></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #131313; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Patrice R. Green</b> (she/her) is the Curator for African American and African Diasporic Collections at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2022, she was selected as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow for Diversity, Inclusion, and Cultural Heritage based at the Rare Book School. Green holds master’s degrees in Public History and Library and Information Science from the University of South Carolina, with training focused on museums and material culture, historic preservation, and archives and preservation management. Her interests include archival representation, knowledge justice, and Black history and culture. Additionally, her work has allowed her to develop and steward collections that center Black life, enhance teaching and learning experiences, and cultivate Black memory</span></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #131313; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Objectives:</span></b></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #131313; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This webinar aligns with NNLM's objectives of empowering libraries and other members to cultivate a well-trained workforce in biomedical and health information resources while also striving to enhance health equity through valuable information. Focused on library workers, particularly those involved in library instruction, the webinar delves into the importance of engaging learners in understanding the historical influence of racial science discourse on medical sciences and collections. It sheds light on the enduring impact of these narratives on today's medical practices, especially for patients who identify as Black, Indigenous, or persons of color. The webinar aims to promote greater awareness and informed discussions within the medical librarianship community and beyond by addressing this crucial topic.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #131313; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Network of the National Library of Medicine is funded by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. Learn more at </span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #065fd4; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" force-new-state="true" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVM1NVFfYjFEQVFfNHVJZEFfQlBhd0dEZGtVZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttTzB3R3VLTjhJTUtpS2VrWk40MF9TcWNnajkyNFpXOFBic2dYUXAzMVhkVlZiZlVmRVY0WVZseXNpWWExa2xtY0FOVVhfTUdaczd0TVJmQU9YeWhDaGdYUUFWUlRNejBSM3FrYV9jcVVxb3puMlRuTQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fnnlm.gov%2F&v=ERyzCGKHtvs" rel="nofollow" style="display: inline; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://nnlm.gov</a></span></span></p></blockquote>Michele Matucheski, Ascension Wisconsin Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021698238396652753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362414667576392024.post-90630091318265082412023-12-04T16:30:00.003-06:002023-12-04T16:30:57.784-06:00An overview of the 2024 WHSLA budget<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The 2024 WHSLA budget has been approved. Projected expenses i</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">nclude usual business costs like our Google Sites hosting, State of WI tax exempt fees, Librarian and Library of the Year awards. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">An increase in continuing education funding was proposed and accepted due to NNLM Region 6 no longer funding MLA webinars. WHSLA will also continue to offer two, $500 professional development/AHIP awards. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Watch your email for more information regarding WHSLA-sponsored CE, professional education, and development opportunities. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Money-2180330_1920.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Money-2180330_1920.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>Brenda Fay (webmaster)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02477460395898322698noreply@blogger.com0