Sarah T. Jewell and Margaret Jane Foster, AHIP, authors of Assembling the Pieces of a Systematic Review: A Guide for Librarians, team up again to explore curated article sets, MEDLINE search issues specific to platforms, and epidemiological, clinical, and policy data sets in this rapidly changing COVID-19 information environment in COVID-19 Searching: Strategies and Sources on April 14.
Each brings her own perspective: Foster, Medical Sciences Library, Texas A&M University–College Station, is an academic librarian serving medical, veterinary, and public health faculty and students, and Jewell, Medical Library, Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, Bronx, NY, is a hospital librarian helping clinicians treat patients.
Participants will be invited to respond to online polls and share their search tips, database news, and favorite sources for COVID-19 information. This will be a highly interactive thirty-minute session!
This is the third in a series of weekly free, live, online conversations, Coping and Caring in the Time of COVID-19 for MLA members and the wider health information professional community. The conversations are designed to help you address professional and personal pain points related to the current crisis.
Date: Tuesday, April 14
Time: 10:00 a.m., pacific time; 11:00 a.m., mountain time; noon, central time; 1:00 p.m., eastern time
Audience: Medical librarians
Action item 1: Click Join the Slack workspace Medical Library Association, and use your browser or download the Slack application on your phone. If you already have Slack, add the workspace medicallibrar-t9h9995.slack.com.
Action item 2: Join the conversation during and after this session at #covid19-professional-partnerships in the MLA Slack workspace. Ask questions, provide support, and share experiences. Select the conversation directly in the Slack browser window or phone application, or connect at https://medicallibrar-t9h9995.slack.com/archives/C01177UT0BC.
On Tuesday, April 14, at the scheduled time: Open Slack to join the conversation, and open WebEx to join the session:
- Webex Password: MLACOVID
- No registration. No cost.
For questions and support, please contact Kate Corcoran.
Coming up
- April 21: Managing Remote Workers and Work: Michelle Kraft, AHIP, FMLA, Medical Library, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, and Ellen M. Aaronson, AHIP, Mayo Clinic Libraries, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 10:00 a.m., pacific time; 11:00 a.m., mountain time; noon, central time; 1:00 p.m., eastern time.
- April 28: Moving Instruction Online in Hurry! Ruby L. Nugent, Health Sciences Library, University of Nevada–Las Vegas, and Brandi Tuttle, AHIP, Medical Center Library & Archives, Duke University, Durham, NC: 10:00 a.m., pacific time; 11:00 a.m., mountain time; noon, central time; 1:00 p.m., eastern time.
Spread the word! Share ideas for topics and presenters! Volunteer to present! We welcome your feedback.
We look forward to the conversation on April 14!
