Thursday, January 27, 2022

Time to Reinvent Clinical Librarianship for a Post Pandemic World


If you are on the HLS List, you may have seen an invitation for the following from The Massachusetts Library System:

Community Chat: Clinical Librarianship Post COVID

 This session will be hosted by Elaine Alligood, Clinical Librarian - Informationista, recently retired from the VA Medical Center Knowledge Library.

Check out Elaine's article:  2021 Clinical Librarians - A Call to Re-think and Re-invent! in the Journal of Hospital Librarianship / July 2021


By the time I tried to sign up for it, the only option was for the waiting list.  ;-(  I hope they post a recording of the session.    But then I thought: Why not share the article and offer up the question to my own WHSLA community?


What are your thoughts?  Have you tried -- or do you have plans to try any of the ideas Elaine suggested for reinventing Clinical Librarianship in a post-pandemic world?

  • Give up the Library Space and Go Digital
  • Adopt a Just do it Approach
  • Librarian Rounds - Walking & Talking to the Executive Suite
  • Librarian Rounds - Walking  & Talking to Clinicians
  • Emergency Room Rounds - Walking & Talking to non-clinical staff
  • Clinical Librarianship
  • 21st Century LATCH
  • Identify Key Users
  • Develop a Clinical Trainee Support System
  • Patient Health Literacy
  • No Patient Health Literacy?
  • Create a Brief You Tube Channel
  • Build Buzz - Tasteful Library Promotion
  • LEAN Organization - Take the 5S Approach
  • Solo Clinical Librarian's LEAN 5S process adapted for the virtual clinical library


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