Continuing Education: Friday, May 15

Course information listed below includes course registration fee. Additional information such as learning outcomes and instructor bios can be found in MEDLIB-ED.

10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

CE100 Advanced Search Strategy Design: Search Filters, Text Mining, and Peer Review
Cost: $400 (nonmember: $700)
Attendance maximum: 25

In this advanced course in searching to support systematic reviews and other major projects, you will learn how to use methodological search filters to identify specific study designs, use text mining tools for strategy design, employ peer review of your search strategies, and more.

Instructors: Julie Glanville, MCLIP, Associate Director, York Health Economics Consortium, University of York, York, United Kingdom, and Carol Lefebvre, HonFCLIP, Independent Information Consultant, Lefebvre Associates, Oxford, United Kingdom

CE400 Do You Want to Be a Library Director? Knowledge, Skills, and Career Paths
Cost: $320 (nonmember: $570)
Attendance maximum: 25

This course is designed to inform, inspire, and, perhaps, even change the minds of MLA members who aspire to become academic health sciences library directors. The core topics are: What makes a great leader? What does a library director do? What are the hot topics in academic medicine and how do they affect a library? Is a library directorship right for you?

Instructors: Heidi Heilemann, AHIP, Associate Dean and Knowledge Management Director, Lane Medical Library and Knowledge Management Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; M.J. Tooey, AHIP, FMLA, Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs, and Executive Director, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland–Baltimore; and Gabriel Rios, Director, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University School of Medicine–Indianapolis

CE500 Charting a New Course: Practical Data Visualization for Librarians
Cost: $320 (nonmember: $570)
Attendance maximum: 25

Learn how to chart (and graph!) information that engages with and communicates to your audiences. Through a series of hands-on activities, you will gain practical and immediately useful skills in creating attractive and informative visualizations of qualitative and quantitative data using Microsoft Excel.

* Note: Attendees are required to bring a laptop computer or other device with WiFi capability to participate in interactive activities.

Instructors: Karen Gutzman, Head, Research Assessment and Communications, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Candace Norton, Instruction Librarian, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Christopher William, Bibliometrics Informationist, NIH Library, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

CE501 An Introduction to Using Computer Software for Qualitative Data Analysis Course Cancelled

Learn how to analyze interview, focus group, and other qualitative data using low-cost and free software. Hand coding is still a best practice, but it is tedious, and analytic software has a number of advantages. If you are ready to add a new tool to your research repertoire, join us on this adventure!

* Note: Attendees are required to bring a laptop computer or other device with WiFi capability to participate in interactive activities.

Instructor: Ayaba Logan, Independent Consultant, Ayaba and Associates, Charleston, SC

1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

101 Supporting Medical Education through Emerging Technologies and Innovation Services
Cost: $265 (nonmember: $490)
Attendance maximum: 30

Learn about the latest, amazing medical technologies, how academic medical libraries are using these technologies, and how you can justify requests for them at your institution. Interactive demonstrations of 3D printing, virtual and augmented reality, and more are included.

* Note: Attendees are required to bring a laptop computer or other device with WiFi capability to participate in interactive activities.

Instructors: Chelsea Misquith, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University School of Medicine–Indianapolis, and Elisandro Cabada, Assistant Professor, University Library, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

CE200 Archiving for Non-Archivists
Cost: $345 (nonmember: $615)
Attendance maximum: 15

Learn the essentials of archiving, in an afternoon. You will get grounded in basic archival history and theory and learn the essentials of archiving: arranging, describing, and preserving physical and digital works.

Instructors: Pamela Pierce, Repository Librarian, and Steve Duckworth, University Archivist, OHSU Library, Oregon Health & Science University–Portland

CE300 Journey to the Outer Limits of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Instruction
Cost: $265 (nonmember: $490)

A group of veteran evidence-based practice (EBP) instructors who have tried all the common approaches and developed new ones will show you how to develop and implement engaging and effective learner-centered approaches to teaching EBP.

* Note: Attendees are required to bring a laptop computer or other device with WiFi capability to participate in interactive activities.

Instructors: Laura Menard, Assistant Director, Medical Education and Access Services, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University School of Medicine–Indianapolis; Hanna Lee Schmillen, AHIP, Health Sciences Librarian, Libraries, Ohio University–Athens; Kathryn Houk, AHIP, Health Sciences Librarian, Health Sciences Library, University of Nevada–Las Vegas; Amy Blevins, Associate Director, Public Services, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University School of Medicine–Indianapolis; and Stephanie M. Swanberg, AHIP, eLearning Librarian, Medical Library, Oakland University, Rochester, MI

Continue to CE Courses: Saturday, May 16