Rocking Midwest Chapter MLA!

Fall is a busy season for staff in the Greater Midwest Region office, this season took our team to exciting locations such as Traverse City, MI (cherry pies!), Springfield, IL (Lincoln!), St. Cloud, MN (Eh…Juno?), and Cleveland, OH (rock and roll!). In particular, our team worked hard to debut two new courses at the Midwest Chapter MLA meeting in Cleveland from October 5-8. Precision Medicine One of these courses was Open Science for Health Sciences Librarians, which was developed by content expert, Erin Foster from Indiana University (not the University of Indiana, I get it, I get it) in partnership with Sam Watson from our office. The course provided an overview of the role of open science and its components in health sciences research, its implementation throughout the workflow of the research process, locating and creating open sciences policies for use at your institution, and assessing open source tools currently available. The second course offered was Precision Medicine, which was developed by Dr. Colleen Campbell, Assistant Director of the Iowa Institute of Human Genetics, in partnership with office staff Sam Watson, Rachel Gatewood, and NNLM coordinator, Catherine Martin. The course provided participants with knowledge of genomics, an overview of the clinical applications of genomic medicine, an appreciation of the ethical and social issues inherent in the field and a review of NLM resources for health professionals and consumers. A highlight of the course w...
Source: The Cornflower - Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Tags: Conferences and Meetings General Source Type: news