Category: Librarianship
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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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Our Library Workshops Have Lived to See Another Term!
The last time I talked about the workshops presented by my library, I discussed how we were trying a new online format to boost accessibility and attendance. During the Fall 2018 term, my colleagues and I held six workshops on the following topics: PubMed Basics Using EndNote Basic in Research Research Data Management Basics Open…
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Planning a Conference – PNC/MLA 2018
Earlier this week, I attended the Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting in Spokane, Washington. It took place over two and a half lovely fall days in the downtown district, where I was able to sample some truly excellent coffee and macarons. The conference was just as fun as the last conference we held…
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Creating a Book Club on a Health Sciences Campus
I love going to MLA every year because I always leave with so many fun ideas to try out at my own library. At the last MLA meeting, one of those fun ideas was a book club. I came across two different posters about interprofessional education book clubs: “Book discussion groups for health sciences interprofessional…
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Building RDM Services, Slowly
Since attending the Biomedical and Health Research Data Management for Librarians course earlier this year, I have been working on launching research data services at my institution. The first step was completing the needs assessment that I chose to do for my Capstone Project as part of the course. This study revealed that researchers on…
Kathryn Vela 