Discussion About #Medlibs Discussion
Last week’s #medlibs chat was about conference codes of conduct and it was co-hosted with officers from the MLA Relevant Issues Sections. http://bit.ly/1mkgcnB
I was on vacation when I participated in the chat so forgive me for the tardiness of this post.
Increasingly, professional and tech conferences are adopting anti-harassment policies and codes of conduct. The Relevant Issues Section of MLA would like to explore having one for MLA meetings.
For background, check out:
Codes of Conduct 101
Why ALA Needs a Code of Conduct: describes ALA’s new Code of Conduct and provides historical context
Sample...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - July 24, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: #medlibs chat Source Type: blogs
Behind the Scenes: What does the President Elect Do?
During this year, the majority of my “Behind the MLA Scenes” posts will be focused on what I am doing as the president elect of MLA. There are several reasons why I am doing this.
First, I think it is always helpful to bring more transparency to the organization. As I have said several times, MLA doesn’t try to hide anything but even when you are trying to be transparent it still can be difficult to make sure the message gets out to everyone.
Second, I think it is important to detail what I am doing so that others have an idea of the day to day (month to month?) job duties of the president elect. I hope this help...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - July 23, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Behind the Scenes Source Type: blogs
Behind the Scenes: What does the President Elect Do?
During this year, the majority of my “Behind the MLA Scenes” posts will be focused on what I am doing as the president elect of MLA. There are several reasons why I am doing this.
First, I think it is always helpful to bring more transparency to the organization. As I have said several times, MLA doesn’t try to hide anything but even when you are trying to be transparent it still can be difficult to make sure the message gets out to everyone.
Second, I think it is important to detail what I am doing so that others have an idea of the day to day (month to month?) job duties of the president elect. I hope this help...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - July 23, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Behind the Scenes Source Type: blogs
Friday Fun: A Little Editing and Anything Can Be Said or Sung
I am stretching the focus of my blog today. While this has nothing to do with libraries or medicine, it makes me giggle. I think it is funny, so it loosely fits into the blog through a Friday Fun post.
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon has been having a little fun with Brian Williams and his news casts. Through the use of editing, they have gotten Brian Williams to perform various rap songs. Here are my two favorites.
Brian Williams rapping “Baby Got Back”
Brian Williams and Lester Holt rapping “Rapper’s Delight”
According to Jimmy there is some poor guy who is very good at edi...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - June 20, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Newbie Medlibs: Experiences
One of the reasons I like Twitter is that I can follow or read about new people with interesting ideas. On Monday, Steven Chang tweeted a link to his blog post about his experiences and reflections on his first month of being a hospital librarian.
His blog post had me thinking about newbie medical librarians and the support (or lack of support) they have as they start their new jobs. Steven is a medical librarian in Australia, so his library school experience might be a bit different than those of us who got the MLS (or equivalent) in the United States. I can only speak of my experiences of when I was in library schoo...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - June 19, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Splitting My Personality
Long ago when I started playing with Twitter, I was really just testing things out to see how they worked and how I might use it in my day to day personal and professional life. Well we have long since passed the tipping point. My little endeavor has moved beyond experimental, more professional people are contacting me through Twitter. More people are following me for information about libraries, information resources, and general biomedical information. So I have decided to split my Twitter personalities.
@Krafty will focus primarily on libraries, medicine, healthsci, and more professional type of things. Don̵...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - June 11, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Twitter Source Type: blogs
Catch the Leiter Lecture Live Online Thursday
The Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lecture will be on Thursday June 12, 2014 at 1:00pm ET online http://videocast.nih.gov and on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Terrence Sejnowski, PhD, will discuss “The BRAIN Initiative: Connecting the Dots.”
Dr. Sejnowski is a pioneer in computational neuroscience and his goal is to understand the principles that link brain to behavior. He is interested in the hippocampus, believed to play a major role in learning and memory; and the cerebral cortex, which holds our knowledge of the world and how to interact with it. His laboratory uses both experi...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - June 10, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Annual Meeting MLA Events/News NLM Source Type: blogs
Searching for MLA’s Next Executive Director
We will be sad to see Carla Funk leave as MLA’s executive director. Carla has given us many years of her guidance and wisdom. Carla will be staying on with us while we search for the next executive director, and the process to select that person has begun.
Linda Walton, MLA’s current President, posted on her Facebook page that the search committee has been formed and we will first be looking at and identifying a search firm to help us find the right candidate. We will also be review the current job description for the MLA executive director.
We are in the very very beginning of the process (we haven’t...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - June 9, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Behind the Scenes MLA Events/News Source Type: blogs
Last Chance to Nominate for the Board or President
The last day to submit a name to nominate for the Board or President is May 12th.
I always hear on various discussion groups or from people personally that they are fed up with MLA.
MLA isn’t going in the right direction.
What has MLA done for me lately?
What is MLA doing to help hospital librarians, academic librarians, etc.?
MLA is just an “old boys club” unless you have a name you don’t get on any committees.
MLA is unresponsive to the needs of the real medical librarian.
You get the idea. My response is: “What have you done to help shape MLA and change things you find to be a problem?&...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - May 8, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Behind the Scenes MLA Events/News Source Type: blogs
