WHSLA awarded two $500 CE stipends in 2016. Winners are asked to submit a report of a conference/course that they attended with the funds. Here is our first report from Elissa Kinselman-Vesely.
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On Friday, May 13th, I attended the CE course, “Leading
the Way: Preparing for and Enhancing Your Leadership Role.” The facilitators talked about different
leadership styles, attendees rated themselves to assign a predominant
leadership style, and using that framework, participants set 2 month, 6 month,
and 1 year goals for themselves.
On Saturday, May 14th, I attended the CE course, “Literature
Surveillance Apps: Tools for the Next Generation of Table of Contents
Notification Services.” The course
highlighted 4 apps that are currently available for monitoring, reading, and
sharing current literature: BrowZine, Docphin, Read by QxMD, and ReadCube. I really liked this 2-hour course.
I attended the Wolters Kluwer Sunrise Seminar on Sunday, May
15th. Ovid is now offering a web
scale discovery platform for medical libraries, but like all existing discovery
tools does not include the Wolters Kluwer product, UpToDate, in their central
index.
Following the Sunrise Seminar, I went to first Plenary
Session: Welcome and Presidential Address, followed immediately by the second
Plenary Session: John P. McGovern Award Lecture given by Dr. Ben Goldacre. Dr. Goldacre is a leader in the movement to
make clinical trials publications more transparent. Dr. Goldacre is an epidemiologist who has a
much firmer understanding of statistics and scientific methodology than I
have. Using various arguments, he
criticized The New England Journal of
Medicine for its editorial review process and publication bias; the editor
of NEJM responded to Dr. Goldacre’s statements a couple of weeks later with an
email to MLA participants. After lunch,
I went to the EBSCO technology showcase for PlumX, because I was curious about
the PlumX icon I’ve seen while using CINAHL.
It is really just a method of altmetrics, useful in environments where
scholarly communications are tracked and measured. Not particularly helpful in the community
hospital library setting. But at least
now I know! Following the technology
showcase in the hall of exhibitors, I spent the rest of the afternoon at paper
sessions: Bibliotherapy
in a Hospital Setting: Promoting Health and Well-Being to Health Care Providers;
Implementing
an Evidence-Based Decision-Making Model in a Health Care System; Did
you Remember to Wipe? An Exploration of the Attitudes of Clinical Staff and
Patients Toward Library-Supported, Shared Mobile Devices in Hospitals; Merger
Mosaic: The Impact of Mergers Among Health Care Institutions on Their Medical
Libraries: Best Case: Multiple Libraries Meld into Single Mosaic.
Monday, May 16th started again with another
Sunrise Seminar from EBSCO: “Solving the Findability Conundrum in Medical
Research.” They were talking about their
web-scale discovery platform, Discovery Health.
I had to leave the seminar early to meet with my EBSCO representative in
the coffee shop. Following coffee, I
attended the Janet Doe lecture by MJ Tooey.
Tooey’s lecture was titled, “We Can Be Heroes: MLA’s Leadership
Journey(s). After the Janet Doe lecture,
I attended more paper sessions: “Act
Like a Librarian, Think Like an Administrator”: Using Data to Communicate with
Administration ( I really liked this presentation); Medical
Library Marketing: An Investigation of Current Definitions and Practices; Understanding
User Needs Through Focus Groups; A
Five-Year Information Technology (IT) Roadmap for a Health Sciences Library;
Exploring
Tomorrow: Development of a New Technology Exploration Program and Space. Following the morning paper sessions, I
attended the EBSCO Medical Librarian Luncheon, and then spent some time in the
Hall of Exhibitors. I then sat in on the
Hospital Libraries Section Business Meeting and Ice Cream Social. Awards were presented and announcements were
made.
I spent Tuesday morning exploring downtown Toronto. The weather was sunny, but quite chilly, and
I walked around, visited Kensington Market, had lunch, and then returned to the
Toronto Convention Center for afternoon paper sessions. I listened to the following presentations: Teaching
Pharmacy Students How to Help Consumers Navigate and Select the Best Medicare
Plans; Collaborative
Collection Development: Building a Patient-Driven Consumer Health Library; Get
Appy! A Mosaic of Personnel Offer an App Bar for Patients to Apply Apps to
Their Health; Perceived
eHealth Literacy and Information Behavior of Older Adults Enrolled in a Health
Information Outreach Program; Libraries
as Publishers: Creating an Open Access Journal to Connect Patients and
Providers. The evening closed with
the President’s Awards Dinner.
On the final morning of the conference, Wednesday, May 18, I
sat in on Plenary Session 4: Ellen Jorgensen.
I’m not sure whether the lecture had an official title, but it focused
on the citizen science movement.
Jorgensen is the founder of a New York lab called Genspace, a place
where biotech hobbyists could engage in science. While interesting, I didn’t really see how Jorgensen’s
talk on “home-grown” biotech experimentation applied to medical libraries,
hospital libraries in particular.
At the end of Jorgensen’s talk, I was eager to hit the road,
so I headed back to Wisconsin. It never
ceases to amaze me how much I learn at MLA, but likewise, I always seem to
forget how exhausting the conference can be.
I’m always “conferenced-out” at the end of MLA! Thank you, WHSLA!
-Elissa Kinzelman-Vesely
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