Clinical Librarianship Post COVID – An Interactive Session with Elaine Alligood: An NNLM Region 6 Special Event Feb 24 at 1pm

 NNLM Region 6 Special Event

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Clinical Librarianship Post COVID – An Interactive Session with Elaine Alligood

February 24, 2022

2:00-3:00 PM EST/1:00-2:00 PM CT

Platform: Zoom

 

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Join your Region 6 colleagues in a conversation about the path forward for clinical librarianship as we emerge from the pandemic.

Elaine Alligood, Clinical Librarian-Informationista, recently retired from the VA Boston Healthcare System, will lead us through a 1-hour, interactive session. We will discuss what our roles look like now, share our challenges and successes with each other, and brainstorm new opportunities to pursue.

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

Speaker Bio

Elaine Alligood, MLS, recently retired from her role as Chief of Library Service for the Boston VA Healthcare System. As a member of the New England VA Library Re-Design Task Force, she helped develop a consolidated, network-wide, 24/7 virtual knowledge library, accessible across VA New England. One of the co-developers of the MLA CE program on Diagnostic Error and the Librarian’s Role in Patient Safety, Elaine believes medical librarians’ transforming roles perfectly align us with the clinical and research staff’s ever-changing information needs, and that moving librarians out of the library to where information needs occur – at the point of care and research – benefits clinicians, researchers, and patients. Elaine earned her MLS from the University of Maryland School of Library and Information Science. Prior to joining the Boston VA Healthcare System, she held positions at the Johns Hopkins University Welch Medical Library, the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library, Elsevier Science Publisher’s North American EMBASE Department, Harvard University Countway Medical Library, and the VA Technology Assessment Program as Informationist and Knowledge Manager.  

 [Thank you, Erica for setting this up!]

 

Erica Lake, MLS, AHIP (she/her/hers)

Medical and Academic Library Outreach Coordinator

Network of the National Library of Medicine, Region 6

Hardin Library for the Health Sciences

University of Iowa

319-467-4850

erica-lake@uiowa.edu

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