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     Professional issues: health information literacy  Professional issues: international library relations
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     Professional issues: papers and presentations  Professional issues: patient safety, patient engagement
     Professional issues: publishing, authorship  Professional issues: social media tools and best practices
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     Specialty librarianship: archives & special collections  Specialty librarianship: cancer
     Specialty librarianship: chiropractic  Specialty librarianship: clinical, informationist, embedded librarians
     Specialty librarianship: consumer health  Specialty librarianship: corporate libraries
     Specialty librarianship: dental  Specialty librarianship: federal (military, VA. etc.)
     Specialty librarianship: health associations  Specialty librarianship: healthcare informatics
     Specialty librarianship: history of the health sciences  Specialty librarianship: hospital
     Specialty librarianship: LRCs, computer labs  Specialty librarianship: mental health
     Specialty librarianship: nursing  Specialty librarianship: pharmacy, drug
     Specialty librarianship: public health  Specialty librarianship: solo or one-person librarianship
     Specialty librarianship: veterinary  
    Expertise: Technical Services:
     Technical services: acquisitions  Technical services: collection development
     Technical services: electronic resource management  Technical services: indexing, cataloging, metadata
     Technical services: library systems administration  Technical services: resource identification and selection
     Technical services: serials management  
    Expertise: Technology:
     Technology: digitization, digital repositories  Technology: emerging technologies
     Technology: Integrated library systems, federated search, discovery tools  Technology: mobile technology & devices
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