What's in a name?

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What's In a Name?
Thursday, March 27, 2014 
9:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Pacific time 

Join your host Tara Brigham (@TBrigham) for a discussion on our job titles, our workplaces and ourselves this week. Never participated in a Twitter chat before? Check out this overview and come on in, we're a supportive community!

Q1 What are you called?

Q2 Does it describe what you do?

Q3 Do you wish you could change your job title? Or have you already?

Q4 Do you think our titles mislead people into thinking we only do certain things?

Q5 What about the place you work - has that changed? Was it once called a library and is now called something different?

Open mic chat this Thursday

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Many thanks to Dan Wilson for rescheduling this Thursday's 'Preparing for Twisters and Other Things that Go Bump in the Night' for Thursday, April 3rd.

Feel free to hang out and chat about what's on your mind this Thursday, March 20th at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific.

NIH Public Access Policy chat

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NIH Public Access Policy
Thursday, March 13, 2014 
9:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Pacific time 

Join your host Yingting Zhang (@inforocks) for a discussion on the NIH Public Access Policy this week. Never participated in a Twitter chat before? Check out this overview and come on in, we're a supportive community!

The NIH Public Access Policy requires that all investigators funded by the NIH must submit or have submitted for them to the NLM’s PubMed Central (PMC) an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication. The final published paper must be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication in a manner consistent with copyright law. The final published paper must have a PMCID assigned within 3 months of publication. This policy is mandatory and applied to all NIH grants that were active in Fiscal Year 2008 (October 1, 2007- September 30, 2008) or subsequent fiscal years, and for all contracts awarded after April 7, 2008. Failure to comply with the NIH Public Access Policy could result in discontinuation of funding or no future funding.

For more information on NIH Public Access Policy, please visit its website: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/

Questions to consider:

• What impact does this policy have on your institution’s researchers? 
• As a librarian, what role do you play in assisting your institution’s NIH funded researchers to comply with this policy? 
• How long have you been involved in this role? 
• What approaches did you use to provide service in NIH Public Access Policy compliance? 
• Did you have any resistance from the researchers in terms of consulting, providing workshops, or acting as a delegate? 
• Do you submit manuscripts to PMC for your NIH funded researchers? 
• Do you also assist them by submitting to your institutional repository? 
• If yes, could you share your experience?

Networking and Job Hunting

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Networking and Un/Underemployed Chat 
Thursday, March 6, 2014 
9:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Pacific time  

Are you a library school student or new grad disheartened by nearly every job posting that comes through on MEDLIB-L (one of the major listservs for the medical library field) having 3 years of experience in the field as a qualification?

Do you have those 3 years of experience yet are not finding job opportunities that are a good match?

Stuck on how to even get rolling on the whole job search process? Check out Dean Hendrix & Michelle Zafron's Hire Me! Finding a Library Job resource.

Need some tips on networking or a refresher on general career tips? (you may want to scan an April 2013 #medlibs transcript)

Join your host Nikki Dettmar (@eagledawg) on Twitter at #medlibs on Thursday, March 6th at 9:00pm Eastern/6 Pacific as we welcome Naomi House (@needalibraryjob), librarian and founder of INALJ.com (the I need a library job resource website).

Naomi founded INALJ in 2010 after finding her job on a listserv, wanted a way to share all jobs she and her classmates at Rutgers MLIS program found, and INALJ grew from these grassroots on up! Naomi reports that she has heard of free time but has yet to experience it herself.

To date over 1400 fans have found jobs and the website is going further international this year with jobs in France, Sweden, the Middle East/Arabian Gulf and South Africa. Speaking of international opportunities, keep an eye on the Medical Library Association International Cooperation Section's international job exchange.

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