Hits from the Lit

Transcript: http://bit.ly/1ORPSBJ
Hits from the Lit
Thursday, July 30, 2015
9:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Pacific time
Led by Molly Knapp (@dial_m)

It's been well over a year since the last Hits from the Lit. Let's reconvene and share your favorite citations you've encountered while mucking around in the database trenches. We'll have a healthy laugh and get back to the serious business of #medlibs after this week.

Suggested (but certainly not limited to) categories:

• Institutional:
• Ex: somewhere in this building there is a zebrafish having a worse day than you
• Amusing Titles
• A clinical trial gone awry: the Chocolate Happiness Undergoing More Pleasantness (CHUMP) study
• We are all twelve
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=boogers
• Advances in bacon research
• serious research 

Dial_m hosts.

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Oral History chat

Transcript: http://t.co/gCrInkYHhd

Oral History #medlibs chat
Thursday, July 23, 2015
9:00 pm Eastern/ 6:00 pm Pacific
Led by Jana Lieberman

Come and join us on Twitter during the #medlibs chat for an informal discussion about the ”whys”, “wherefores”, and “hows” of oral history techniques that everyone can use. The Oral History Association defines oral history as: A field of study and a method of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities, and participants in past events. All of us can participate in oral history projects personally or at our institutions in order to preserve memories or provide continuity for current practices.

The Medical Library Association (MLA) has an Oral History Committee who has been completing oral histories with notable medical librarians since the 1970s. More information about the oral history project can be found at: https://www.mlanet.org/about/history/oral-history-project MLA has developed an oral history manual https://www.mlanet.org/pdf/oralhist_manual05.pdf which guides the work of the committee and gives insight into MLA practices.

We’ll see what we are already doing, talk about methods, and brainstorm future projects within our institutions and beyond! Come and join us!

Institutional Repositories Chat

Transcript: http://bit.ly/1Ldwj8b

Institutional Repositories: Thoughts on Making It Real

Thursday, July 16, 2015

9:00 PM Eastern/6:00 PM Pacific

Are you considering standing up an institutional repository? Have experience standing up an institutional repository? Join us on Twitter for our #medlibs chat as we discuss institutional repositories (IR) on with Jimmy Ghaphery (@jimmyghaphery), head of Digital Technologies at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries, as our special guest.

Just over a year ago, the VCU Libraries stood up an institutional repository, Scholars Compass, using Bepress software. Electronic theses and dissertations were shifted from DSpace to Scholars Compass.

According to Wikipedia, an institutional repository (IR) is an online archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.

There are many approaches to setting up IRs:

• Choosing and customizing a platform
• Open source or commercial
• Local or hosted
• Mediated use or self-service access
• Policies and procedures
• Defining success
• Relationship to national repositories

Please bring your expertise and/or questions for this conversation on setting up an institutional repository.

Selected resources:

Burns, C. S., Lana, A., & Budd, J. M. (2013). Institutional repositories: Exploration of costs and value. D-Lib Magazine, 19(1-2). doi:10.1045/january2013-burns http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january13/burns/01burns.html

Connolly, Ann.  bepress (2015). How am I Doing? A Framework for Repository Benchmarking http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/webinars/68/

Digital Commons: Getting Started Toolkit http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=toolkits

Salo, D. (2013). How to scuttle a scholarly communication initiative. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 1(4), eP1075. doi:10.7710/2162-3309.1075 http://jlsc-pub.org/jlsc/vol1/iss4/3/

Open Source IRs:

DSpace

Eprints

Fedora

Invenio

Proprietary IR software:

Digital Commons (Bepress)

Krafty Goes To Washington

Transcript: http://bit.ly/1GaNBus 

Thursday, July 9, 2015

9:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Pacific time

#medlibs Twitter chat

Led by Michelle Kraft @krafty

Actually the title of this post should be Krafty and Others Went to Washington, but I was having a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington moment and the title I used seemed to ring better than the longer one. Thankfully my post's title is about all I have in common with the movie staring Jimmy Stewart.  

As president of the Medical Library Association, I and the Joint Legislative Task Force (which includes some MLA members, AAHSL members, president of AAHSL, and some MLA staff) went to Washington DC to talk to members of the Senate and the House of Representatives regarding the funding of the NIH which in turn funds NLM.  The task force divvied up into three groups and the members of the three groups met with aids and staffers from their respective states.  I met with Senator Rob Portman's staff and Congresswoman Marcia Fudge's staff.  

The #medlibs chat will be a bit in the spirit of my "behind the MLA scenes" posts I do on my Krafty Librarian blog where I write about things happening within in MLA that aren't secret but people may not necessarily know about.  I will be chatting about my experience going to DC talking to staffers, their understanding of NIH and NLM, and in general how this type of talk can help any librarian wanting to get discuss their cause with somebody else.

So, come share your thoughts and perspectives! Never participated in a #medlibs or other Twitter chat before? Check out this overview and come on in, we're a supportive community and are especially keeping an eye out to welcome and support your participation if you've just heard about this community for the first time during the meeting.