Wishes for WHSLA!

Have you ever thought “I wish WHSLA…”?  The WHSLA Genie would like to hear your wishes! The WHSLA Board wants to be sure we are a viable organization going into this new decade!  

As a reminder…

WHSLA's purpose is to:

• promote the development of health science libraries and librarianship in Wisconsin
• provide a forum for the discussion of mutual problems and the exchange of ideas and information among members
• encourage the continuing education of all health science library personnel by sponsoring appropriate educational programs
• serve as a liaison to other organizations desiring input from WHSLA

What do you wish WHSLA could do to support you in your library work?  I will send out the official link to the survey via the listserv and blog soon!  Any questions?  Contact Deb Knippel. 

Thank you to Melissa De Santis, M.L.I.S., AHIP for permission to use/adapt her work.  You may want to carry out this theme for a needs assessment in your own library! 

 

Source:  De Santis, M., Houghton, V., & Fontenelle, C. (2017). "If the Library Genie Granted You Three Wishes, What Would They Be?": Results and Lessons Learned From an Annual User Feedback Campaign. Medical reference services quarterly, 36(1), 9–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/02763869.2017.1259886 (PMID: 28112639).

Image source:  "Aladdin's Magic Lamp" by ☼☼Jo Zimny Photos☼☼ is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Helpful Tips for Common Docline Login Issues: Avoid the dreaded "Permission Denied" Message

 

Helpful tips for common DOCLINE login issues. I am re-posting this because the dreaded "Permission Denied" message was the bane of my existence when the New Docline began.  Due to a perfect storm of other factors internal to my own organization and NLM, "Permission Denied" was a near constant and frustrating companion for me when New Docline was launching.  Talk about FMO!  Everyone else was moving on, and I couldn't even get on at the time.   My issues have since resolved [Hurray!], but I wanted to make sure this solution was out there for the rest of you.    -- Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP Medical Librarian - Ascension Wisconsin Avoid "Permission Denied" with new recommended Best Practices for Using Google & Gmail Accounts with DOCLINE  [pdf]  PDF contains bookmarked content helpful to both new and existing users. Docline - NLM's Inter-Library Loan System Questions about DOCLINE? See the DOCLINE Resources home page for quick tour videos, FAQs and more.  Contact your Coordinator for help using the system. Write to the Help Desk with feedback or to report technical issues.

MLA 2021: Call for papers, posters, lightning talks, etc

 From MLAnet.org

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The 2021 National Program Committee invites abstract submissions that support the annual meeting theme of “Transforming our Diversifying Communities." The call has been divided into two calls for submission:

• Call for papers and immersion sessions: Now open! Deadline is October 21, 2020, 6:00 p.m., central time
• Call for posters and lightning talks: Will open December 11, 2020. Deadline is January 22, 2021, 6:00 p.m., central time

Accept and decline letters will be sent in early December for immersion sessions and papers, and early February for lightning talks and posters.

How to Submit

• Submit your paper structured abstract with a description of a research project or program using the guidelines on MLANET.
• Groups (caucuses, chapters, and others) can submit proposals for substantial, focused content sessions (for example, invited speakers or panel presentations) in the first call. Previously known as special content sessions, these are now called immersion sessions.
• The MLA Research Caucus awards individuals with the best research-based papers and posters. Details about research awards for MLA ’21 will be provided once MLA’s new community structure is in place.

FAQs and More Information

• To review criteria for all abstract types, please see the MLA ’21 FAQ: Papers, Posters, Lightning Talks, and Immersion Sessions
• Previous MLA Research Award winners: 2020 | 2016–2017 | 2011–2015 | 2006–2010 | 2001–2005 | 1996–2000

Questions: Contact the Contributed Content Planning Group

Contributed Content Planning Group

• Papers: Barbara Ballew, AHIP, Alexa Mayo, AHIP, Kim Mears, and Jennifer Schram, AHIP
• Posters: Rebecca Carlson, AHIP, Kelsey Grabeel, AHIP, and Jessica Sender, AHIP
• Lightning talks: Charlotte Beyer, AHIP, Margaret Hoogland, AHIP, and Gregg Stevens, AHIP
• Immersion sessions: National Program Committee Contributed Content Working Group

Key Dates

2020

• September 15: Online submission site for papers and immersion sessions (formerly, special content sessions) opens
• October 21, 6:00 p.m., central time: Deadline for paper and immersion session submissions
• December: MLA sends notifications of acceptance for paper and immersion session submissions
• December 11: Submit abstracts for posters and lightning talks

2021

• January 22, 6:00 p.m., central time: Deadline for poster and lightning talk submissions
• February: MLA sends notifications of acceptance for posters and lightning talks

Submit Your Abstract Now

The Covid Drug Wars

The Covid Drug Wars that Pitted Doctor Against Doctor 

• from The New York Times Magazine - August 8, 2020
• You can also listen to it (like a podcast) if you prefer to multi task.
• There's a Wisconsin tie-in with a doctor at UW-Madison, who later went to Aurora-Milwaukee

Every once in a while, I stumble across a podcast, article, or discussion that sticks with me, and haunts me enough to share it with you here on the WHSLA Blog in the hopes that it might generate some additional discussion. This is such an article.

I found out about this fascinating article by way of Daniel Griffin, MD, PhD, a NYC physician and instructor at The Columbia University Medical Center.  He works in the trenches of The Covid Pandemic and gives a regular Covid-19 clinical update on the This Week in Virology (TWiV) Podcast.  He talked about this article back on August 23, 2020. 

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TWiV No. 656: See!  It can be done!

• from August 23, 2020
• Listen to the first 40 min. (or so) for Griffin's talk.  [Skip the first 5:30 min. of introductions.]
• They also have a Microbe tv version where you can watch the Zoom mtg, if you prefer.

I think it's helpful to hear Griffin's talk about it because he was seeing some of the same things in real life.   As a Medical Librarian during Covid-19, I was distressed about the lack of best evidence and how people were making treatment decisions.  It just goes to show that physicians are people, too.  Human Beings.  When confronted with so much human suffering,  the emotional drive to do something/anything can override what might be best for the patient -- esp. when you don't really know what treatments work or not.   

It's a fascinating look at what happened, and what went wrong.

I'd love to know what you think ...

Free Library Carpentry Workshops

The NNLM Training Office is pleased to announce a new opportunity for information professionals to build data skills through online Library Carpentry workshops, at no cost to participants.

Library Carpentry focuses on building software and data skills within library and information-related communities. Their goal is to empower people in these roles to use software and data in their own work and to become advocates for and train others in efficient, effective and reproducible data and software practices.

The target audience is learners who have little to no prior computational experience. The instructors put a priority on creating a friendly environment to empower participants and enable data-driven discovery. Those with some experience will also benefit, as the goal is to teach not only how to do analyses, but how to manage the process to make it as automated and reproducible as possible. To see some great examples of how you might use and apply these new skills, check out LibraryCarpentry.org.

In addition to participating in Library Carpentry workshops, NNLM members will also have the opportunity to receive training to become instructors for Library Carpentry.

To learn more about these opportunities, we invite you to attend an informational session hosted by members of the Library Carpentry community, and The Carpentries Executive Director, Dr. Kari L. Jordan.

Join us Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 11AM Pacific / 12PM Mountain/ 1PM Central/ 2 PM Eastern.

Information on applications and workshop dates will be available soon.

Contact nto@utah.edu for more information.

Thanks,
Rebecca Brown, MLS, AHIP, CPACC
Training Development Specialist
Network of the National Library of Medicine Training Office (NTO)
Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library
University of Utah

Reposted from Medlib-L. Sept. 18, 2020.

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Added October 15, 2020:

The NNLM Training Office is pleased to announce a new opportunity for information professionals to build data skills through online Library Carpentry workshops, at no cost to participants. 5 workshops will be offered October through January. Applications open now and more information. Questions can be directed to nto@utah.edu 


Jessi Van Der Volgen | Assistant Director | NNLM Training Office
Eccles Health Sciences Library | University of Utah | 801-581-4704

MedlinePlus to become the NLM Home for Information in Multiple Languages

 

Starting on October 1, 2020, materials that are part of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) HealthReach will become part of MedlinePlus, NLM's flagship website for health information for patients, families, and the general public. 

Established in 2007 as the Refugee Health Information Network, HealthReach has provided access to free, high-quality multilingual consumer health information resources for those providing services to individuals with limited English proficiency. We invite users to explore health information in multiple languages on MedlinePlus:

• MedlinePlus Health Information in Multiple Languages
• MedlinePlus Multiple Languages by Health Topic

This change to integrate HealthReach material into MedlinePlus, ending it as a stand-alone product, is part of the initiative to align and consolidate the Library's consumer health information to make it easier for online health information seekers to find and navigate trusted health information from NLM. 

This enhancement aligns with NLM's second goal of its strategic plan to reach more people in more ways through enhanced dissemination of information. Most material previously available at HealthReach will become accessible via MedlinePlus.

Please contact the NLM Support Center with any questions or suggestions.

Reposted from:  MedlinePlus to Become the NLM Home for Information in Multiple Languages. NLM Tech Bull. 2020 Sep-Oct;(436):e3.    ISSN 2161-2986 (Online) Content not copyrighted; freely reproducible.

More lessons from history

Sometimes when you're in the midst of something horrible, it's hard to imagine there will ever be an end to it.  But this article from the Journal of Hospital Librarianship reminds us that humanity has survived other pandemics.  We'll get through it eventually.

Side note, a man named Tony Labella is thought to have infected more than twice as many people with typhoid as Mary Mallon did.  Why doesn't anyone remember "Typhoid Tony?"

Image courtesy of the National Library of Medicine

Science backgrounds for all your videoconferencing needs

Finding yourself in more online meetings lately?  Have kids attending class virtually?  Head on over to the NIGMS Image and Video Gallery for a variety of scientific photos and illustrations to use as backgrounds!  

Thanks to Abbey Bigler for her Biomedical Beat Blog post suggesting this.  Who knew mouse retinas were so pretty under a microscope?

Does this neuron make me look smarter?

WHSLA Professional Development Survey - take by 9/15/20

Hi everyone,

I hope you all had a chance to enjoy some of our lovely Wisconsin summer. It sure seems like fall is upon us! I am writing to ask all of you to participate in the WHSLA survey concerning the use of the WHSLA professional development award money. 

There is an explanation of the issue that was brought up to the board several months ago in the survey.  Please take the time to read it and also read the options that were proposed by the ad hoc committee created to address the issue.

Once you have read through the options please select one and submit the survey. The survey is open now and will close in five days.

You can access it here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PVWHC9H

 

If you have any questions, please let me know. Remember not to reply to this email, but rather email me here: Dora at home

Sincerely,

Dora Davis

WHSLA Professional Development Coordinator

WHSLA Fall Board meeting coming up Thursday, Sept 17 at 10 am

WHSLA members, don't forget our fall Board Meeting is scheduled for next Thursday, September 17 at 10 am, held via GoToWebinar.

Board and Committee members please submit your reports asap to WHSLA President, Holly Egebo. 

If you would like to attend but haven't yet received your invitation, please email WHSLA President, Holly Egebo.