All About ORCID

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ORCID and Libraries Chat
Thursday, October 30, 2014 
9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific 
Host: Kristi Holmes (@kristiholmes)

Hey #medlibs! As you all know, the issue of unique scholarly identifiers is one that has been of interest to our crowd for a long while. Join us on Twitter on Thursday, October 30th at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific to talk about probably the most well-known and broadly accepted, ORCID! What's ORCID, you ask? ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized. (Thanks, orcid.org!) This week we'll chat about some of the basics and hear from colleagues who are actively involved with ORCID projects.

• Who has an ORCID and how are YOU using it professionally? 
• What is the value of ORCID to different stakeholders? 
• What kind of broad integrations have been supported by ORCID so far? 
• How are LIBRARIES getting involved? 

Please share your projects, bring your questions, and settle in for the discussion.

If you want to get a jump start on the fun, ORCID is hosting a webinar the same morning of our #medlibs chat (Oct 30th at 8am Eastern - a bit hardcore for the 5am Pacific crowd!) of "Libraries, Researchers, and ORCID." Please see the ORCID blog at http://orcid.org/blog/2014/10/21/new-webinar-libraries-researchers-and-orcid for more information.

You may also find the recent OCLC Research Report, "Registering Researchers in Authority Files" of great interest, too. There is a lot of really great information about a host of related issues and efforts here! http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-registering-researchers-2014-overview.html

Gamification

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Gamification Chat
Thursday, October 23, 2014 
9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific 
Host: Molly Knapp (@dial_m)

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 “Gamification” is an informal umbrella term for the use of video game elements in non-gaming systems to improve user experience and user engagement. (Deterding, 2011) A 2013 fact sheet from the Entertainment Software Association reported  more than half of Americans play video games, with an average of two gamers in each game-playing household. Forty percent of all gamers are female, and 49% of gamers are between ages 18 and 49. The average gamer spends 13 hours a week playing video games.

The 2013 Horizon Report lists game-based learning on the two-or-three-year horizon for adoption in higher ed.  So is it any real surprise gaming is creeping into #meded? Apps such as Stanford's Septris and Sicko, JHU's Osmosis, and VisualDX's Mobile quiz  are just a few examples of gamification in medicine. Libraries are trying to adopt the trend as well, a few examples include Library Quest from Grand Valley State University, @jabengston's Zombie Emergency and Citation Tic Tac Toe from James Madison University Libraries.

Are you using games to to teach, build awareness or provide library services? What are the challenges and benefits of incorporating games into education? Has anyone ever defeated the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for Nintendo? Set down your controller and join #medlibs for a chat on gaming in libraries and medical education.

Links:

• Karl Kapp's The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education (2012): http://www.amazon.com/The-Gamification-Learning-Instruction-Game-based/dp/1118096347 
• B. Kim. "Harnessing the power of game dynamics." C&RL News (2012): http://crln.acrl.org/content/73/8/465
• C. Spina. "Gamification: Is it Right for Your Library?" AALL Spectrum (2013): http://www.aallnet.org/main-menu/Publications/spectrum/Archives/vol-17/No-6/gamification.pdf 
"The evidence behind mHealth gamification." Timothy Aungst, PharmD. iMedicalApps.com February 4, 2013: http://www.imedicalapps.com/2013/02/evidence-mhealth-gamification/

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

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How Do #Medlibs Use Twitter to Collaborate?

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More Than Memes: How Do #medlibs Use Twitter for Collaboration?
Thursday, October 16, 2014
9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific
Host: Cait Ford (@library_cait)
Co-host: David Tolmie (@dtolmie)

If you're reading this, chances are pretty good that you're familiar with the microblogging social media  platform Twitter. Twitter allows you to share with the world your thoughts, hopes, dreams, gripes, foibles, pictures of your cat, and anything else you can fit into 140 characters. With all the good and bad that can come with the use of social media, something great that has grabbed interest is the use of Twitter (in addition to other formats) to seek out, find and share ideas with like-minded folk – like us #medlibs.

Join us on Thursday night to chat about how you use Twitter in your professional life, and how it's facilitated the flow of ideas between medical librarians across the world.

Caitlyn (call her Cait, please) Ford (MLIS) is an Information Specialist at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health in Ottawa, Canada where she spends most of her time crafting literature search strategies. She is encouraged by her managers to engage with others and foster knowledge exchange and collaboration with colleagues by sharing resources, tips, tricks and keeping tabs on emerging technologies by using her personal Twitter account, as well as the organization's account. David Tolmie (MLIS) is an academic librarian at Bastyr University in Seattle with a keen interest in all things technology. He and Cait met via Twitter when she used the #medlibs hashtag asking why PubMed was throwing a fit; and a few months (and Tweets about boardgames and baking) later, they're collaborating on the chat!

Topics potentially covered in this chat:

1. Why did you start using Twitter as an information professional?
2. Do you have more than one account?
3. Do you Tweet mainly about library, science or your other professional activities? Or do you have a mix of professional and personal Tweets?
4. Do you Tweet from your own account, or make use of your organizations account (if one exists)?
5. Why did you start to follow/ use the #medlibs hashtag? (eg.: share articles of interest, share tips/tricks, crowd-source a tough ref Qs, etc)
6. Have you ever collaborated with another #medlib you met via Twitter on a project? (eg.: help with a difficult search; write an article, poster, presentation, etc.)
7. Do you see Twitter as a space for collaboration among information professionals?
8. Did you ever think you'd meet so many other great medical librarians through social media?

Other Conferences for Professional Development

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Other Relevant Conferences for Professional Development #medlibs chat
Thursday, October 9, 2014
9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific
Hosted by Emily Hurst (@hurstej)

From MLA to ALA each year librarians make the march to their professional meetings but what other job related conferences could librarians consider attending? How many of us have looked at the conferences and topics outside of “library-land?” Join us on Twitter Thursday night to find out!

Attending conferences focused on academic instruction, curriculum design, emerging technology, or a specific discipline can broaden a librarian’s perspective of their professional environment. Through conference attendance librarians can learn more about emerging trends in a specific discipline and come away with a better understanding of the faculty, students, or staff they serve. Information professional have always been quick to adapt and apply new strategies for information seeking purposes and learning about relevant issues is can be achieved by attending conferences outside of librarianship.

As the technology coordinator at the NN/LM SCR Emily J. Hurst, MSLS, AHIP has attended many meeting both inside and outside of the library realm. While the main focus of many of the conferences Emily has attended has been technology focused including SXSW Interactive and EDUCAUSE she has also participated in many discipline specific meetings including FENCE (http://www.eatright.org/FNCE/) and NCCHC (http://www.ncchc.org/). Emily is an avid tweeter and frequently shares the information she is exposed to at these meetings with others on Twitter. In Thursday’s chat Emily will guide us through some conferences to consider as well as some thoughts on justifying your attendance and how to stay involved via online sources.

Emily has been to a few conferences

Topics include:

• Wait?! You mean there are other conferences to attend not just ALA, SLA, PLA and MLA? How can I find out about these other conferences? Are some of these local?

• I actually learned something! Can I go back? A look at which conferences participants have attended and found useful.

• Writing justifications: How do we justify the need to attend meetings outside the scope of what may be seen as our profession?

• I can’t get funded to attend in person: Online sharing sessions and recaps of the top events. Yes! There really are ways to find out about conferences without attending.

• Get on the agenda and present at the next conference! Why not? It’s possible!