Happy New Year #medlibs!

Edit: Transcript available at http://bit.ly/WGM1K9  

On Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern, join us to add your voice to the ideas from the last chat in December on directions for 2013 - and sign up to take a role in having them happen.

Effective immediately, Nikki Dettmar will only be able to moderate/reliably participate on the second Thursday of each month due to a number of work and professional organization commitments that are increasing this year. To be more direct: this means that if others do not step up to take on development, promotion, hosting & archiving #medlibs chat duties on other Thursdays, that chat will be it for the month. We have many great ideas that will take a lot of others pitching in to help - especially where a potential journal club & interprofessional Twitter hashtag chats are involved. Many hands (and connections) make light work!

Never participated in a Twitter hashtag chat before? Check out this overview and come on in! We're a supportive community going through some exciting changes ahead and especially welcome library school students and others who are new to both the field and Twitter. 

Wrapping it up: Directions for 2013

Edit: Our brainstorming document of where we're headed - journal club! woohoo! 

Revisiting the beginning when our chat launched in June this year, the concepts of Sharing, Ideas, Medical & Knowledge are crystal clear as desired outcomes:

Last week in our free range discussion, collaborating across established hashtags was discussed.

This week, on Thursday December 13 (our last organized chat of 2012) at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern come ready to share with your fellow #medlibs on Twitter with descriptive URLs ready to include when applicable:

1. What other hashtag chats would be good interprofessional opportunities to invite to #medlibs?
2. What topics should we cover in these interprofessional #medlibs chats? 
3. How can we encourage other medical librarians to participate in #medlibs chats?
4. What topics would you like to discuss in 2013 on #medlibs chats?

If you can't make it please comment below with your ideas, and spread the word. Never participated in a Twitter hashtag chat before? Check out this overview and come on in, we're a supportive community.

Free range first Thursday

Edit: Transcript http://bit.ly/11O0WIA 

Over the past month we've served disaster information needs, explored libraries in social media and discussed continuing education in an online era after the last free range was all about Hurricane Sandy. This Thursday (December 6, 2012) at 6pm Pacific/9 Eastern join us on Twitter for a #medlibs discussion about these topics or anything else you'd like. How are you putting the knowledge you've gained from our chats to use? Did you register for the April 2013 data management MOOC? (thanks for the link, @ultimatelibrarn) Join the conversation and let's find out!

Never participated in a Twitter hashtag chat before? Check out this overview and come on in, we're a supportive community.

Continuing Education in an Online Era

Edit: Transcript at http://bit.ly/V7R6wy 


What online continuing education (CE) opportunities are you pursuing these days? Are they meeting your/your career's needs? Why or why not? Have things changed for what we need from CE to hit the ground running now compared to the past? Inspired by Nikki's thoughts along these lines that she may or may not be able to pull her act together and write about on Tuesday night, and it sounds like Sally has some thoughts along these lines as well.

Come to the Thursday, November 29, 2012 #medlibs chat at 6pm Pacific/9 Eastern as we explore more along these lines.

Never participated in a Twitter hashtag chat before? Check out this overview and come on in, we're a supportive community.

NO chat this week - Happy Thanksgiving!

That should have been obvious with the Thursday overlap, but just in case it wasn't here is the blog post saying it's so. We'll see you next Thursday, November 29th!

Medical Librar* in Social Media

Edit: Transcript available at bit.ly/WaswtU  
Storify (curated transcript) http://sfy.co/dB9T

Website? Check. Facebook page? Maybe... is it your library's or your public relations department's? What  about Twitter? Are you using Twitter solely for your personal professional development (and fun)? As an automatic electronic news channel? Engaging with your users via their hashtag chats?

Come to the Thursday, November 15, 2012 #medlibs chat at 6pm Pacific/9 Eastern as we explore together how things are evolving for medical librarians and libraries in social media, including these chats! 

Never participated in a Twitter hashtag chat before? Check out this overview and come on in, we're a supportive community.

Serving disaster information needs

Edit: Transcript available at http://bit.ly/TcBK98 
Curated Storify 

We are all at different kinds of libraries and have different groups we serve. But when disaster strikes, we have one thing in common – we have the skills necessary to meet the information needs of those groups.

Come to the Thursday, November 8, 2012 #medlibs chat at 6pm Pacific/9 Eastern to share how you've assisted those you serve. The National Library of Medicine Disaster Information Management Research Center (@NLM_DIMRC) will be joining in on the conversation! You may want to review last week's chat which focused on emergency preparedness for libraries, or our brand new condensed Storify coverage of it, and our thoughts continue to be with libraries affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Never participated in a Twitter hashtag chat before? Check out this overview and come on in, we're a supportive community.