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Transitions
A lot has changed for me since the last time I wrote on this blog. Having spent the last three years living in Spokane for my work, my husband and I decided it was a good time to head back home to be closer to our family and core group of friends. It wasn’t an…
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Aligning Instruction to Objectives
I occasionally collaborate with the Evidence-Based Medicine team at our College of Medicine to provide in-class instruction to medical students. I was recently asked to teach a session on conducting literature reviews and was given a set of objectives that need to be met during the instruction. To keep my thoughts straight and make sure…
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Fair Use Week 2019
I realized I needed to learn more about fair use last year when the number of questions I received from faculty on the topic increased from one every few months to a few questions a week. I had never had an interest in anything related to copyright because it just sounded so boring (and honestly,…
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Setting Goals for 2019
We’re almost at the end of February, but I’ve still been hashing out the details of my personal and professional goals for 2019. I wanted to have this done by January 1, but the end of the year is always a crazy time for me, and I wanted to make sure I could set aside…
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Creating a Book Club on a Health Sciences Campus: Part 2
When I last wrote about our efforts to start an interprofessional book club on our campus in October, we were just about to have our first meeting to discuss three short stories. Since then, we have met two times, and we are currently planning our third and final meeting of the academic year. The first…
Kathryn Vela
Librarian at Large
Kathryn Vela 