Category: Resources
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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,…
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Continuing Education
I am blown away by how much I’m learning in my first position as a health sciences librarian. As I am coming close to finishing the research paper mentioned in the previous post, I am starting to think about where I should submit my paper for publication. So now I’m delving into the world of…
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4 Tips to Conquer Writing Anxiety
I have spent the last few weeks working on putting together a research paper to submit for publication. This is the first research paper that I have written and will have (hopefully) published as a professional librarian; as a result, I have been experiencing some writing anxiety that has been preventing me from making as…
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Data Analysis is Not For the Faint of Heart
The last few weeks have been very exciting for me because I have been working on my first research project as a professional librarian. To support my outreach work to health professionals in the community, I surveyed K-12 school nurses about their information needs. The collection period is over, and now it’s time to dig…
Kathryn Vela 