NNLM Podcast - Episode 6: What is a Medical Librarian?

NNLM DISCOVERY PODCAST

Medical Librarians: A Story from Region 7

APR 05, 2023 SEASON 1 EPISODE 6

Network of the National Library of Medicine

Episode 6  “Medical Librarians” [about 19 min.]

What is a medical librarian? NNLM Region 7 Education and Outreach Coordinator, Margot Malachowski talks to four medical librarians (Anne Romano, Tim Kenny, Chloe Rotman, and Jill Tarabula). Their stories remind us that in a world of instantly accessible information, medical librarians serve an important role that allows clinicians to focus more time on patient care.

This podcast series explores how the Network of the National Library of Medicine - part of the National Library of Medicine - is engaging with communities to provide access to trusted information for the purpose of improving the public's health. Listen to the full series.

Very few people know what a medical librarian is or does.  You don’t find medical librarians portrayed on Chicago Hope, or House, or ER.  Hollywood is missing out on some great storylines!  On this episode of the NNLM Discovery Podcast, Region 7 Education and Outreach Coordinator, Margot Malachowski interviews four medical librarians from her region.

Their stories remind us that even in a world of instantly accessible information these information navigators serve an important role that allows clinicians to focus their time on caring for patients rather than refining searches of medical literature.

The NNLM is the outreach arm of the National Library of Medicine with the mission to advance the progress of medicine and improve the public health by providing all U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and improving the public's access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health. The seven Health Sciences Libraries function as the Regional Medical Library (RML) for their respective region, with Region 7 consisting of: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont,  Learn more about NNLM Region 7. 

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Save the date: MIRL 22 (Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries) on Thursday, November 17, 2022 (virtual)

Save the date for the Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium, a free virtual event with a focus on Institutional Repository (IR) management, curation, and promotion in a health sciences environment. The second annual symposium will take place virtually on Thursday, November 17, 2022.

MIRL Symposium 2022 is a platform-neutral conference. Our goal is to gather together IR practitioners and those with an interest in IRs at hospitals, academic medical centers, and other health settings for discussions and sharing of case studies and best practices for digital archiving of institutional content. 

The conference will be a mix of presentation types. Potential topics range from the impacts of changing funding agency mandates, challenges and success in innovation, staffing, migration of repositories, and strategies for the continued promotion of open access health sciences content. 

Our keynote will feature Dr. Lisa Federer, Data Science and Open Science Librarian at the National Library of Medicine, presenting on “The NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy: Roles and Opportunities for Libraries and Institutional Repositories.”

A call for papers and presenters will be coming this summer. Registration will open in September 2022. 

Questions can be directed to Steven Moore, Librarian at Sladen Library, Henry Ford Health.

 MIRL 2022 planning group members:

• Lisa Buda (Rochester Regional Health)
• Anthony Dellureficio (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
• Brenda Fay (Advocate Aurora Health)
• Sara Hoover (Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, George Washington University)
• Ramune Kubilius (Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)
• Steven Moore (Sladen Library, Henry Ford Health)
• Lisa Palmer (Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School)