These interesting and potentially valuable upcoming webinars from the Medical Library Association address issues of interest to academic librarians as well.
Thanks,
Martha
Martha Earl, MSLS, AHIP
Director/Associate Professor
University of Tennessee Medical Center
University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
Preston Medical Library/Health Information Center
1924 Alcoa Highway
Knoxville, TN 37920
865-305-6616
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Subject line: MLA January Webinar: Buried under Systematic Review Requests? Want to Maximize the Return on Your Review Service?
Maximizing
the Return on Your Systematic Review Investment
Tuesday, January 29 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. central time
Are you buried under SR requests? Worried that your hard work at the beginning of a review project will be filed away, never to be seen again? Do you want to maximize the return on your review service?
An Informationist, a Project Manager, and a Methodologist/Clinician very experienced with systematic reviews share their strategies for identifying promising
projects, avoiding problems before they scuttle a project, and working with review teams to conduct successful--and published!--systematic reviews.
Audience
Health Sciences Librarians at academic and research institutions and hospitals with knowledge of systematic reviews.
Presenters
Whitney A. Townsend, MLIS is an Informationist in the Taubman Health Sciences Library at the University of Michigan.
She has been a member of numerous systematic and scoping review teams, instructs on systematic review searching and methodology for residents, fellows, and faculty, and is an instructor for the University of Michigan systematic review workshop, “Systematic
Reviews: Opportunities for Librarians.”
Jason D. Mann, MSA is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Internal Medicine who has been the Project Manager
for the Patient Safety Enhancement Programs, Systematic Reviews. In his four years with the group he has been involved in publishing eight systematic reviews. He is currently overseeing six ongoing systematic reviews and specializes in reviewing the efficacy
and operationalization of selected review topics.
RJ Schildhouse, MD is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan in the Department of Hospital Medicine,
and the Section Chief of Hospital Medicine at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. He has completed two systematic reviews as primary author (with more in progress) while balancing a full clinical and administrative workload.
Register
Here for From Protocol To Publication.
Coming in February
The
Librarian’s Role in Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis
Wednesday, February 13, 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. central time
Headlines and scholarly publications portray a crisis in biomedical and related sciences. In this webinar, you’ll learn what the crisis is and the vital role of librarians in addressing it. You’ll see
how you can directly and immediately support reproducible and rigorous research using your expertise and library services. You’ll explore reproducibility guidelines and recommendations and develop an action plan for engaging researchers and stakeholders at
your institution.
Register
here for Helping Science Succeed.
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Barry Grant
Education Director
Medical Library Association
cell: 406-529-2878
phone: 312-419-9094 x29
skype: barryagrant