Category: Librarianship
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MLA ’18 Review
MLA’18 has come and gone, and as much as I was looking forward to it, I am so glad it’s over and I’m back home. It was my intention to spend the next day or so after my return to the office reviewing my notes and digging into presentations and posters I didn’t have time…
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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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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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MLA ’17 Review
I attended my first MLA conference last month and I can safely say that I did everything I set out to do. Of course, I realized by my second day as I was running from meeting to meeting that I had bitten off slightly more than I could chew during the first part of the…
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Seattle, Here I Come!
Like many health sciences librarians across the country, I am gearing up for the annual conference of the Medical Library Association in Seattle this weekend. I joined the field just a little too late to attend last year’s conference in Toronto, which was disappointing to a recent graduate. But I am very excited that this year’s…
Kathryn Vela 