NAHSL Webinar: Information Alerts and Early Warning: From Agents of Noise Towards Essential Awareness and Foresight
Description: From automated services to curated products, information and intelligence alerts that information professionals provide to our users are everywhere. Despite best intentions, these alerts too often contribute to organizational noise and distractions – if they’re not quietly relegated to the digital dustbin. As our stakeholders and organizational decision-makers demand more insight and foresight in our increasingly complex and uncertain world, how can we contribute through high value alerts, early warning systems, and other products that provide sound situational awareness – and a clearer view of the horizon? How do we break away from inefficient and low-impact alerts towards products and services that are essential to management awareness and foresight? How can we use these tools to separate signals from noise, and to help our users see patterns, trends, and developments?
In addition to a presentation of course topics, the course will engage participants through discussions, breakout exercises, and exercise debriefs. Participants are encouraged to ask questions, share their observations and experiences, connect course topics to their practices.
Instructor: Cynthia Cheng Correia, Managing Director, Knowledge inForm, Inc.
Founding & Past President, Council of Competitive Intelligence Fellows (2018-2021)
MCMLA Webinar: Allyship and Advocacy at Work: Moving from Awareness to Action
Date: September 13
Time: 3:00-4:30 Eastern/ 1:00-2:30PM Mountain / 2:00-3:30PM Central
Members from sponsoring chapters need not register as they will receive an email from their chapter with the presentation login information. Sponsoring members include the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association (SC/MLA), the North Atlantic Health Science Libraries (NAHSL), and the Northern California Nevada Library Group (NCNMLG).
The MCMLA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee along with the Education Committee have arranged for a special DEI presentation and discussion event, September 13, by Dr. Linda Grace Solis. Dr. Solis will speak for 60 minutes and then there will be a 30-minute discussion to follow.
Description: Each of us has a role to play in building an inclusive and equitable workplace. Even if you are not in a position of traditional or positional power, you can be an ally and an advocate for the people around you. In this session, you’ll have the opportunity to explore what it means to be an ally and an advocate at work, and you’ll walk away with concrete tools you can use to build a workplace culture that is inclusive and where everyone can feel a sense of belonging.
Short Bio: Linda Grace Solis, PhD, has long been passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues as related to medical education and to healthcare in general. Dr. Solis serves as faculty advisor for several learner affinity groups at UIWSOM and loves getting to know the learners through these groups. She delights in mentoring students on their journeys to and through medical school, especially those students who are from communities that are under-represented in medical education and healthcare. A lifelong fan of libraries of all kinds, Dr. Solis is fortunate to be a “librarian-in-law” through her sister, who has been a medical librarian for over 25 years. Dr. Solis holds a PhD in Leadership Studies from Our Lady of the Lake University.
NAHSL 2022 In-Person Workshop: Diversity & Inclusion in Libraries: A Call to Action and Strategies for Success
Date: Sunday, November 6th, 2022 from 12:00 PM –4:00 PM EST
Location: Rines A room at the Westin Portland Harborview, NAHSL 2022 Annual Conference in Portland, ME
Description: As information professionals, it is our collective responsibility to create opportunities where individuals are encouraged and supported to bring their most authentic selves to the library. This level of authenticity will come as a result of an intentional effort to cultivate spaces where people feel free to use whichever personal pronouns suit them, where individuals feel safe and comfortable to use the restroom that matches their gender identity, where librarians of color are offered the same support and professional development as their white counterparts, where diverse individuals can speak their truths and bring lived experiences to discussions without being attacked, mocked, or abused in the workplace, and where barriers are removed that may prevent people with accessibility issues from taking full advantage of library services and spaces. Tempered with experience and wisdom, this course will tackle challenges head on that diverse individuals face as it relates to libraries and librarianship.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
Instructors:
Shannon D. Jones, MLS, M.Ed, AHIP
Director of Libraries & Professor
Medical University of South Carolina
Beverly Murphy, MLS, AHIP, FMLA
Assistant Director, Communications & Web Content Management
DUHS Hospital Nursing & Watts College of Nursing Liaison
Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives
Cost: $100 for NAHSL members, $200 for non-members
See more information and registration here: https://northatlantichealthscienceslibraries.wildapricot.org/event-4916791
NAHSL Webinar: Creating Virtual Escape Rooms for Library Training and Marketing
Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Time: 1:00 PM –2:00 PM EST
Description: This one hour session will cover how to create virtual escape rooms in OneNote and PowerPoint. There will be a short discussion of the evidence supporting gamification in education. We will create a PowerPoint escape room together as a group for hands-on practice. Finally, we will discuss how escape room can be used for training, marketing, and outreach.
The session will provide opportunities for attendees to select different items for the PowerPoint escape room. A handout will be provided to attendees so they can follow along on their own PowerPoint programs. There will be a short breakout room where attendees will discuss how to use escape rooms for library programming, and a large group discussion where breakout rooms report out their main ideas.
Instructor: Jessie Casella, Librarian, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Technical Requirements: Webinar via Zoom
Cost: FREE
See more information and registration here: https://northatlantichealthscienceslibraries.wildapricot.org/event-4883183
Questions? Contact Eugenia Opuda, NAHSL Education Committee chair, eugenia.opuda@unh.edu
Two-day NAHSL Webinar: Python Bites: Learn to Code Python
Date: Wednesday, August 24 – Thursday, August 25, 2022
Time: 10:00 AM –11:30 AM EST each day for a total of 3 credit hours
Description: Python is a powerful, open-source and popular programming language with a wide variety of applications. Whether you're interested in web or software development, data analysis, or computational programming, this workshop series will provide the foundations needed to get started.
This introductory workshop series is for you if you:
Learning Objectives: Each individual bite has specific objectives, below is an overview of the content that will be covered within each section
Instructor: Paige Scudder, Research and Education Librarian, Dartmouth Library
Cost: $75 for NAHSL members, $150 for non-members
See more information and registration here: https://northatlantichealthscienceslibraries.wildapricot.org/event-4890233
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