Category: Outreach
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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…
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HEALWA Road Trip
This week I was lucky enough to be invited to provide HEALWA instruction to school nurses in the North Central Educational Service District in Washington State. This meant a three-day road trip to Moses Lake, Wenatchee, and Omak, teaching one-hour HEALWA workshops at each site. There’s a fair bit of planning that goes into these…
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Working on the Fringe
I have a BS in biology and an MLIS, and my education has served me well so far. However, I am not educated in medicine, and that has been something of a stumbling block for me in my outreach work. The outreach I do as part of my job is targeted to healthcare professionals in…
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DIY Learning
I mentioned in a previous post that I planned to work on an online self-study module to provide another avenue for people to learn about health information resources. Now, approximately a month later, I am ready to launch this new learning resource to my target audience. I have high hopes that it will meet their…
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Getting the Word Out
I have learned a lot of new skills on the fly over the past six months, mainly involving technology. The skill I have spent the most time learning by a large margin is how to send emails to a large number of people as efficiently as possible. I needed to learn this skill because a large…
Kathryn Vela 