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RDM for Librarians, Weeks 1 & 2
I was lucky enough to be chosen to be part of the first cohort of the Biomedical and Health Research Data Management for Librarians course, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Networks of Libraries of Medicine Training Office (NTO). The course officially started on January 8, 2018, and we are…
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How Do You Pick a Research Question?
I’m currently in-between research projects at the moment, and I’m trying to find that perfect question that both captures my imagination and would be useful to others in my field. My last research project, about the information needs of K-12 school nurses, sort of fell into my lap due to the nature of my outreach…
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Reflections on My First Year
This week marks the official one year mark of my time as an academic health sciences librarian. I’ve hit the one year mark at other jobs, but this anniversary has more meaning because now I have a career. And since anniversaries make people reflect, I’ve been thinking about what I’ve learned from this past year,…
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Facing My Worst Fear
At the end of August, I will be teaching a two-hour session that will introduce our first-year medical students to the principles of evidence-based medicine. Which means that I will be standing in front of 60 young adults for two hours, speaking. I have the material cold, and usually I can just stand in front of…
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A Guide for LibGuides
A presentation titled “Establishing a Peer Review Process to Evaluate Research Guides” by Heather Brown from the McGoogan Library of Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center during MLA ’17 discussed her institution’s experience with streamlining their LibGuides. She and her colleagues created a set of standards to which all guide creators must adhere,…
Kathryn Vela
Librarian at Large
Kathryn Vela 