Boston Marathon: Serving disaster information needs

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Select resources shared

• Use the Boston Marathon runner tracker, text instead of calling (SB Nation)
• I'm OK! (app) (Lifehacker review)
• People Locator for Boston Marathon (NLM)
• Project: Lifeline & bReddi Facebook apps (HHS Public Health Emergency)
• Coping with the disaster (NN/LM NER blog post)
• Why Boston Hospitals Were Ready (New Yorker)
• Ammonia in Industrial Settings: How to find information (DISASTR-OUTREACH email)
• Chemical Emergency Medical Resource Comparison (CHEMM)
• Apr 25th webinar: Essential Disaster Health Information on Mobile Devices (DIMRC)
• Zombie Preparedness tools for educators (CDC)
• One Page Service Plan (NN/LM Emergency Preparedness)

What do you do when your library is impacted by events, such as this week's tragedy at the Boston marathon (edit: and West, TX chemical explosion...) that had hospital and public librarians in the area reeling?

Join us on Thursday, April 18th at 9pm Eastern time on Twitter for the #medlibs chat to discuss this with the National Library of Medicine Disaster Information Management Research Center (@NLM_DIMRC), which is a great place to start looking for tools and information to supplement your local resources and services. We will also have Myrna Morales (@SeerGenius) and Michelle Eberle (@MichelleEberle) from the New England Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, who were both at the Boston Marathon. NN/LM can work with you to partner you up with buddy libraries and help you deal with the emotional impact. You are never alone when a disaster of any level hits.

Never participated in a Twitter hashtag chat before? Check out this overview and come on in, we're a supportive community. Your host for the chat (Nikki Dettmar @eagledawg) is happy to answer your questions on how to participate, and you may want to see the information and transcript from our November 5, 2012 chat with DIMRC about Hurricane Sandy as well. We look forward to having you join us!

So you want to be a medical librarian?

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Join us Thursday April 11th, for a #medlibs Twitter chat at 6pm Pacific/9 Eastern on the topic of becoming a medical librarian, hosted by Kate Flewelling (@flewkate).

Experienced librarians: What's the best career advice you ever got? What was your path to medical librarianship?  What skills do you look for when hiring a new librarian?  New and aspiring medical librarians: Bring your career questions!  

Some resources to get the discussion rolling:

Cleveland AD. Miles to go before we sleep: education, technology, and the changing paradigms in health information. J Med Libr Assoc. 2011 Jan;99(1):61-9.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016652/ (Dr. Cleveland's inspiring and challenging 2010 Janet Doe lecture on the current and future training needs for health information professionals)

MLA Career Center: http://www.mlanet.org/career/

Why I Won't Hire You http://www.liscareer.com/wilcox_wonthire.htm (not specifically medical but one of my all-time favorite career advice articles)

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#medlibs support and involvement with clinical and translational science

Edit: Lots of great explanations and links in the transcript, available at http://bit.ly/14RO73m 

Join us tomorrow, Thursday April 4th, for a #medlibs Twitter chat at 6pm Pacific/9 Eastern on the topic of CTSAs and libraries, hosted by Kristi Holmes (@kristiholmes).

Clinical and Translational Science: What is it? Where can I learn more information? How can libraries get involved? What types of library-based activities are already happening? What about libraries and CTSAs?

We invite everyone to join, no matter your perspective. We’ll be able to ask questions about this growing area for libraries and learn about service areas. We'll have a variety of great examples of ways that different types of libraries have begun to offer support and collaboration in this area. Best of all, we can share and learn from our colleagues who may already be working in this area to get their perspectives (at CTSA-awarded and CTSA-minded institutions – which is pretty much everywhere!)

Come join us! Share your questions! Share your experiences and tips! Share your goals and challenges! You can even share your favorite flavor of ice cream.

Helpful background information:

• CTSA Portal homepage: https://www.ctsacentral.org/
• Learn more about the CTSAs: https://www.ctsacentral.org/articles/learn
• CTSA work areas (SGCs and KFCs): https://www.ctsacentral.org/committees 
• CTSA information from NCATS: http://www.ncats.nih.gov/research/cts/ctsa/ctsa.html 

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#medlibs cornucopia: NIH Public access policy, (alt)metrics, flipped classrooms/blended learning

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This week on the #medlibs chat, a cornucopia of topics, including

1. The NIH Public Access Policy
2. (alt)metrics
3. Flipped classrooms/blended learning (later in April)

Never participated in a Twitter hashtag chat before? Check out this overview and join the Thursday night smorgasbord with your favorite beverage in hand.

Click through for details on the 3 topics, plus linkage

Open mic night

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This will truly be an open free range chat as lead moderator Nikki Dettmar (@eagledawg) will be off the grid for this week's chat on Thursday, March 21st at 9pm Eastern/6 Pacific! What's on your mind, #medlibs?

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Chat with the Ambulance Riding Librarian

Edit: Transcript available at http://bit.ly/Z2wIwz

• ISUM Mobile Resources
• IU Emergency Medicine Resources (additional apps at the bottom)

This Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific join Nikki Dettmar (@eagledawg) as she welcomes Kacy Allgood (@AmbRidLibrarian), who blogs as Adventures of an Ambulance Riding Librarian!

From Kacy's entry:

Want to know who my stakeholders are?  What types of value-added services I provide? The best and worst things I've seen at this job? Ask and find out!  Don't have a question, but want to read along to see how many bad jokes I can make in 140 characters?  Then please join us.  Not a librarian?  That's great too!  EMS and all other professions & related questions welcome.

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Apps and Tablets Chat

Edit: Transcript available at http://bit.ly/15AWGNx

Tomorrow (Thursday 3/7/13) at 6pm Pacific/9:00pm Eastern, Michelle Kraft (@krafty) will be hosting the #medlibs chat on apps and tablets.  What are you doing with apps? Are you creating a library specific app, catalog app, etc? Or do you have a good app guide that you want to share with others?  Is there a push for tablets within your institution, if so which one?  Can tablets access the EMR so that your docs & nurses can treat patients and do research with one device?

What other trends do you see or want discussed about apps and tablets? For more details check out her blog post. 

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