AI for Libraries: Free Webinars

ai4Libraries

offers free webinars.

I hope you find some of the resources, recordings etc. interesting and useful.

• AI skills and proficiencies are on the list for MLA to add to our professional standards and guidelines.

Here's a snapshot of their 2025 offerings:

Recordings & Slides:

NNLM Reading Club: Winter Self Care

 

On behalf of the NNLM Reading Club team, we are pleased to announce the November 2025 theme, Winter Self Care. 

We are pleased to be featuring three new books related to this topic:

Wintering by Katherine May
How to Winter by Kari Liebowitz
Defeating SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) by Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D.

We would like to thank our NNLM Reading Club Advisory Group, which is made up of NNLM Members who worked together to choose this topic, select the three books we are featuring this month, and to develop book discussion guides. Books and health information resources are available on the NNLM Reading Club website.

Reprinted from the NNLM Region 6 Newsletter.

Note from Michele Matucheski: As a lover of Winter, I read Katherine May's Wintering last year and loved it. 

Open Evidence-Krafty Librarian

 

Did you catch the Krafty Librarian's post, "OpenEvidence: Smart Medicine or Smart Marketing?"  After meeting our new Internal Medicine Program Director, who had questions about it, I’ve been dabbling with OpenMedicine myself. While Michelle reports accurately that you need an NPI to create an account; I just used my hospital's NPI, and I was in without issue. (If you want a way around that)

The big question, of course, is its utility. I recently leveraged it not as a substitute for a comprehensive search, but to add to one. Specifically, I used it to reinforce my search results on best practices literature, giving me a quick double-check on established evidence to ensure I had a complete picture.

The original blog post raises vital questions about balancing slick presentation with true evidence integrity, and it challenges us to place resources like OpenEvidence in the correct context for our users. Is it a time-saver? Yes. Is it a perfect primary source? Probably not. We need to be the critical thinkers guiding our clinicians and researchers through the noise. 

https://kraftylibrarian.com/openevidence-smart-medicine-or-smart-marketing/ 

MLA Award Nominations Due November 15

 

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For fellow MLA members, this year's MLA award nominations are due November 15th, 2025. Nominate a colleague for one of the many MLA awards!

 The award categories include:

•  New to the profession
• Mid-career professionals
• Proven leader
• Organizational focus
• International focus
• Chapter & caucus
•  Lectureships

 Submit your nominations via MLA's Awards and Honors page. Note that you need to be signed into your MLA account in order to make a nomination. 

Thanks for reading, and I hope everyone has a great day!