Claiming CE on the New MLA Website

Claiming CEs on MLA's New Website (1 min.)

 I am sharing this here because it took me a while to figure out what to do on the new website.  I thought others would have the same issues figuring out the "new logic" too.

Once you know what to do, it's not so bad ...  There are a few extra steps and a different starting place from the old Medlib-Ed page.

Dive into AI with the UW-Madison iSchool & WiLS October Webinar Series

Hello, health science librarians! This October, WiLS and the UW-Madison iSchool are joining forces to bring you a tech series that’s as groundbreaking as Frank Netter’s illustrations. Get ready to explore AI in libraries like never before!

Here’s what’s on the docket:

• Oct 3 – AI & Libraries: A Very Short Introduction: Your fast track to AI basics.
• Oct 10 – Navigating the AI Landscape: Information literacy in our digital age.
• Oct 17 – Uses and Abuses of AI in Libraries: (Free for WiLS members!) The highs and lows of AI in action.
• Oct 24 – Unlocking Tomorrow’s Libraries: The future with generative AI.
• Oct 31 – Can AI Be Fair?: The ethics of AI in libraries.

Grab the full series for just $150 (normally $200) if you're a WiLS member. And don’t miss the free October 17th webinar—open to all WiLS members!

**Ready to register?** Sign up for the full series here and use the discount link, or get your free pass for the October 17th session here. One registration per link, but feel free to register as many people as needed!

Not sure if your organization is a WiLS member?  Check here  or join for free! For questions, contact us at information@wils.org.

Let’s map out the future of libraries with AI—just like Frank Netter mapped out the human body! 

 

 

Piecing Together Systematic Reviews: Part 3 Production [NNLM Webinar]

Piecing Together Systematic Reviews. Phase 3: Production, an NNLM Webinar that took place on August 28, 2024.

Additional class materials can be found on the event page.

This session will cover the third phase of the PIECCESS review cycle, the Production phase of conducting a systematic review, during which the searches are completed. This will cover evaluating searches, translating between databases, deduplication, and grey literature.

The five-part series will introduce the review cycle framework, PIECCESS, as described in the book by Foster and Jewell (2022) Piecing Together Systematic Reviews and Other Evidence Syntheses. Throughout the phases, the potential roles for librarians, health care professionals and others interested in the process of systematic review will be discussed as well as categories of client, such as those who read reviews as compared to those who conduct reviews.

Speaker Information

Margaret Foster, MS, MPH, is the Evidence Synthesis and Scholarly Communication Librarian and the Head of the Center for Systematic Reviews and Research Syntheses at the Medical Sciences Library, Texas A&M University. She is the co-author of the first book written on systematic reviews for librarians- Assembling the Pieces of a Systematic Review: A Guide for Librarians (2017) and recently Piecing Together Systematic Reviews and Other Evidence Syntheses (2022). She received the Presidential Impact Award from Texas A&M University in 2018 and the Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award in 2024 from the Medical Library Association.

This presentation meets the NNLM goal to work through libraries and other members to support a highly trained workforce for biomedical and health information resources and data, improve health literacy, and increase health equity through information.

The AI scams infiltrating the knitting and crochet world - and why it matters for everyone

 

This is a fascinating and understandable look at how AI impacts some unexpected realms.  I'm sure there are at least some WHSLA Members who are also knitters, esp. now that sweater weather is back.

Read the rest of the article on ZDNet.

Here's the maker video the author above cites which is also very illuminating:

For those who don't readily understand (or care about) how AI will impact all of us -- and not just at work, this video illustrates the point with a knitting / crochet example.  Some of what AI does might look good and convincing, but a subject matter expert can spot the fakes.   And she shows you how you can, too. 

If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

It's conference season: Midwest Chapter MLA, WLA, MIRL, Charleston Conference

Despite MLA taking place in spring, I've always thought that fall felt like conference season. To that end, here are a few upcoming library and library-related conferences you might be interested in. 

Remember that WHSLA is offering a second $500 Professional Development award in 2024. To be eligible you must submit your name for the drawing by Friday, September 13, 2024 at noon. For more on eligibility requirements, see Dora's WHSLA email from Thursday, Sept 5.

Midwest Chapter MLA (virtual)

• Support our MLA regional conference and hear what your Midwest hospital and health science librarians are working on. 
• Virtual from October 9-11, 2024
• $
  

Wisconsin Library Association (Green Bay, WI)

• This year's theme is "All In: Include and Innovate" and features librarians from across the state representing different types of libraries. 
• In-person from November 5-8, 2024 
• $$
  

Charleston Conference (virtual and Charleston, SC)

• This serials and acquisitions conference is a great opportunity to network with publishers, vendors, and librarians interested in licensing, acquisitions, new purchasing models, publisher/library collaborations and more
• In-person from November 11-15, 2024
• Virtual from December 9-13, 2024
• $$$
  

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) 24 (virtual)

• Even if your institution doesn't have an institutional repository, consider attending this free symposium. You'll hear from small and large medical, health science, and hospital libraries about how they support, promote, and preserve the scholarly output coming out of their institutions
  
• Virtual event takes place on November 21, 2024
• Free; registration opens on September 23, 2024