Leadership and Management Chat

Transcript: http://bit.ly/1DFD3pO

Leadership & Management
Thursday, February 19, 2014
9:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Pacific time
#medlibs Twitter chat
Led by Teresa Knott (@tlknott)

According to Peter Drucker, “management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Over the last 10-15 years, there has been a great deal more focus on building leadership skills while downplaying management skills.

To me, they are complementary skills that come together to create a successful organization. I think this graphic sums it up nicely, http://www.championsforgrowth.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Leadership-AND-Management.jpg.

 Here are some questions we may address on Thursday, February 19:

•  What traits did your best managers share? 
•  What characteristic should every leader possess? 
•  What mistakes do you commonly see leaders make? 
•  Do you have resources that you would suggest for people to improve their management or leadership skills? 
•  What are you doing to ensure that you continue to grow and develop as a leader? 
•  What is the best advice you’ve gotten about building management skills? 
•  Where do you see leaders in your organization? 
•  Is leadership or management different in hospital or academic libraries? 
•  How have you found opportunities to grow you skills in management and leadership? 
•  If you’ve done a leadership program, what was the most important takeaway? 
•  How have you seen line librarians move into management or leadership positions in flat organizations?

Love & Hate Chat

Transcript: http://bit.ly/1zQlkLi 

Love & Hate in Medical Libraries
Thursday, February 12, 2015
9:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Pacific time
#medlibs Twitter chat
Led by Michelle Kraft (@krafty) and Nikki Dettmar (@eagledawg)

We had so much fun with this chat last year we're reprising it this year! One day you are Katrina and the Waves and you are "Walkin' on Sunshine" everything is good and falling into place.  Your searches are matching up just perfectly with MeSH, patrons are writing thank you emails, the CEO just praised you, and a new project is going like gang busters.  Life in the library is perfect.

BUUUT the next day (or week) you are Joan Jett growling, "I Hate Myself for Loving You" as nothing you do seems to be working.  PubMed keeps crashing, patrons are upset because you can't get the article from the  Journal of Big Toe Science written in Hindi rushed the same day and translated into English, your budget was cut more than expected, and administration or IT (take your pick) throws cold water all over your pet project.  Life in the library is like a bad relationship, where "I Love To Hate You" from Erasure can be the norm sometimes.

Like any career, medical librarianship has its ups and downs.  Saturday is Valentine's Day and to get in the spirit the #medlibs Twitter chat will be having fun discussing our love/hate relationships with medical librarianship.

So grab some wine and chocolate and curl up with your laptop and chat with us this Thursday 9pm eastern.  Don't forget to follow the hashtag #medlibs to watch and participate in the discussion.  Lurkers and late arrivals are always welcome.

For more information or questions tweet @eagledawg or @krafty or drop us an email.
(post duplicated on http://kraftylibrarian.com/?p=2595)

Scheduling chat

Transcript: http://bit.ly/1DLcYUx 

Topics & Scheduling/Open Mic  

Thursday, February 5, 2015
9:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Pacific time
Led by Nikki Dettmar (@eagledawg)

Thanks to your ideas and interests we are solidly scheduled through Winter, but Spring and the Medical Library Association meeting in May will be upon us before you know it! 

Bring your ideas, enthusiasm and calendars - the dynamic networking of #medlibs can't happen by itself without you and some planning.  Also please don't feel that you need to be the expert resource to lead a chat - as long as you have a strong interest, well developed questions, and some resources to share our group hivemind usually takes care of the rest!

Dual language library technology instruction

Transcript: http://bit.ly/1zjKLmN

Medical Librarianship & Technology for an International Audience

Thursday, January 29 2015

9:00pm Eastern/6:00 Pacific

Hosts Myriam Martinez-Banuelos and Michele Whitehead (@whiteheadml)

Join us on the Twitter #medlibs chat on Thursday at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern time for a 1 hour discussion. Never participated in a Twitter hashtag chat before? Check out this overview and come on in, we are a supportive community and welcome all newcomers.

Medical librarians have much to offer to international audiences when it comes to disseminating information about the profession, technology, and the evolving landscape of librarianship and medicine. The literature on diversity specifically in educational settings and professional practice can be a great starting point, but part of the learning and preparation can come from experience. The hosts developed and offered a course to library school students in Costa Rica on medical librarianship and technology. There were a number of challenges, both anticipated and surprising, but a few considerations for “best practices” emerged from this experience.

We will tackle some of the following questions:

1. What are some relationship building approaches with an international group that assist in making connections early on to even get an opportunity to offer a class? 
2. Once a class is scheduled, what are barriers to being able to offer instruction to a non-English speaking audience (some things to consider: time, resource availability and content, translation and interpretation, culture, medical knowledge, etc.) 
3. Are there valuable lessons to be learned with this type of audience, as instructors, that can translate into other types of teaching?

Meaningful Use and EHRs

Edit: Transcript http://bit.ly/1Bj7S1B 

Meaningful Use/Electronic Health Records Chat

Thursday, January 22 2015

9:00pm Eastern/6:00 Pacific

Host Robert Johnson (@re_johns)

Join us on the Twitter #medlibs chat on Thursday at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern time for a 1 hour discussion. Never participated in a Twitter hashtag chat before? Check out this overview and come on in, we are a supportive community and welcome all newcomers.

Continuing some of our previous week's discussion of what the medical library will be dealing with on the horizon over the next 5 years, Meaningful Use Stage 2 is here and Stage 3 is around the corner. Are you involved with your hospital or clinical entity's efforts to disseminate information to patients, or just wondering what Meaningful Use means? Join us and share your stories of helping patients become involved in their care!

Have information and links to share? Tweet on the #medlibs hashtag and we'll update the post to include them! 

Journal Club: Vital pathways for hospital librarians

Edit: Transcript http://bit.ly/1x845jD & Michelle Kraft's addendum http://bit.ly/1u9wMBc

#medlibs Journal Club Chat
Thursday, January 15, 2015

9:00 pm Eastern / 6:00 pm Pacific
Led by Tony Nguyen 

We're having a Journal Club discussion Thursday! #medlibs will have a chat related to the following article:

Holst R, Funk CJ, Adams HS, Bandy M, Boss CM, Hill B, Joseph CB, Lett RK. Vital pathways for hospital librarians: present and future roles. J Med Libr Assoc. 2009 Oct;97(4):285-92. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.97.4.013. PubMed PMID: 19851493; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2759170. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19851493.

This article is older than I would like, but it’s a good way to reflect what the authors considered/envisioned then and consider what you think will occur in five years. The focus of the article is related to hospital librarians, but it’s possible to consider parts applicable to your institution.

Topic 1: In the six years since publication of this article, have you implemented or considered implementing anything the authors mentioned? Were there problems getting something off the ground?

Topic 2: What new trends came up that were unknown entities that your library tackled over the past six years that weren't mentioned?

Topic 3: Are there new things on the horizon that your library will need to address in five years?

Last year, one of our journal club topics touched upon this: http://medlibschat.blogspot.com/2014/02/journal-club-library-and-information.html. Please feel free to refer to that as well as the MLA Vital Pathways https://www.mlanet.org/resources/vital/index.html. This would benefit you in thinking about changes and relevance in medical, hospital, and health sciences libraries.

Join me Thursday as we discuss this article and think about sustainability, new ideas, and the future of hospital and medical libraries.

Sexual Education & Social Media Chat

Edit: Transcript http://bit.ly/1wzRqWm

Sex Ed On Social Media: Quirky or Quality?

Thursday, January 8 2015

9:00pm Eastern/6:00 Pacific

Host P.F. Anderson (@pfanderson)

Join us on the Twitter #medlibs chat on Thursday at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern time for a 1 hour discussion. Never participated in a Twitter hashtag chat before? Check out this overview and come on in, we are a supportive community and welcome all newcomers.

Librarians have a mixed reputation when it comes to sex. There is the whole meme of the "sexy librarian" contrasted with "shhhhh" and the "sarcastic librarian." As medical librarians, though, we need to be able and willing to research and discuss sexual expression related medical topics with accuracy, openness, and compassion. We have information resources, databases, strategies, and standards that may not be readily accessible to the general public.

Sexual health and sexual education is of critical importance in public health. Issues range from sexually transmitted diseases to sex abuse, gender equality to gender identity, family planning to sex worker support. In our work, we support individuals of all ages and genders, some with diagnoses that impact on their sexual expression or health. We also support professionals working with individuals, families, and communities. We all want to give people the best information to support the best personal decisions.

Then social media enters the information equation. People educate each other about matters of importance, media stars express opinions or tell stories that influence public attitudes and behaviors, and sex positive advocates such as Laci Green (probably the most prominent name of the sex positive movement) become a different type of media star. Public health professionals and medical librarians work so hard to create authoritative information resources, but then sometimes it seems as if that work misses the target audience, while non-professional messages reach them.

For medical librarians to work effectively in this realm, we need to ask ourselves several questions.

1. What are some of the most popular sexual education and advocacy channels in social media? Are we aware of the most influential ones, and their messages? 
2. Do popular sex ed resources promote helpful or hurtful messages? Are there sex ed social media channels we could share, or ones we should avoid recommending? 
3. Do popular sex ed resources reach the audience we want to reach? Why? What can we learn from them? 

Links:

CDC. A Public Health Approach for Advancing Sexual Health in the United States: Rationale and Options for Implementation, 2011:http://www.health.state.mn.us/topics/sexualhealth/SexualHealthReport2011.pdf

Public Health Reports 2013 128 Suppl 1: Understanding Sexual Health http://www.publichealthreports.org/issuecontents.cfm?volume=128&issue=7

Laci Green:
- Web http://lacigreen.tv/
- Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/lacigreen
- Facebook https://www.facebook.com/officiallacigreen
- Tumblr http://lacigreen.tumblr.com/
- Twitter https://twitter.com/gogreen18
- Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/pub/laci-green/62/97a/72a