Dear Readers,

FHSLA is looking for new ways to communicate with its members. We are pleased to introduce the addition of comments for our blog. To use this feature, look for the comments underneath the title of the post you wish to comment on.

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To launch this feature, FHSLA would love your feedback about online learning opportunities. Please use the comments to answer this question.

Beside the commonly used slide show webinar, are there any educational formats that you have participated in or heard of that you find engaging or enjoyable?

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We look forward to hearing from you!!

Registration is now open for the MLA CE: Easy Steps to Building a Team Based Systematic Review Service

In this webinar, you’ll learn how you can use a flexible systematic review service toolkit to create or upgrade a systematic review service based on your resources and researcher needs. 

Presented by Stephanie Roth, AHIP, who is a Biomedical & Research Services Librarian at Temple University Health Sciences Library in Philadelphia, PA. 

Co-sponsored by:  The South Florida Health Sciences Library Consortium & The Florida Health Sciences Library Association 

There are 25 codes for this webinar 

If you are a member of SFHSLC or FHSLA, please email Francisco Fajardo for the code – [email protected] 

Register, participate, and earn 1.5 MLA continuing education (CE) contact hours.

To learn more about the course visit  http://www.medlib-ed.org/products/3363/easy-steps-to-building-a-team-based-systematic-review-service 

This course also serves as an Elective for Level II of the Systematic Review Searching Specialization (which will launch in 2023)

Hello and welcome to the 2022-2023 Executive Committee members!

 
Please join me in congratulating Jorge Perez (University of Miami) as Vice-President/President Elect. Jorge has been an integral part of FHSLA and has previously served as Webmaster. We are also welcoming Dottie Kelly (Baycare Health System) as Treasurer, Pamela Herring (UCF) as Webmaster,  Ardis Hanson (USF) as Chair, Continuing Education; and Victoria Rodrigues (Orlando Health), as Co-editor, Blog/Social Media.  We’d like to thank out outgoing executive committee members Tim Kirchner, Co-editor of the Newsletter, Blog and Social Media (State College of Florida); and Melinda Johnson (Nova Southeastern), Treasurer for their service and commitment to FHSLA.

 

We are continuing our partnership with the Tampa Bay Library Consortium providing health information programming to TBLC members. If you have a great idea for a presentation, please contact co-chairs Mary Katherine Haver at [email protected] or Tara Brigham at [email protected] for more information. We are also planning a return to an in-person meeting for 2023, and we are excited to be able to see everyone again! Check the FHSLA blog for updates, opportunities, member and resource spotlights and other information.  Please contact our blog editors, Janet and Victoria, with news from your library.

 

FHSLA is a statewide, grassroots organization staffed by volunteers from health science libraries across Florida.  Please consider volunteering for one of our committees or for an executive committee position. We are happy to speak with you about service opportunities with FHSLA.

Susan Harnett, MLS, AHIP-D 
Medical Librarian
Nemours Children's Health, Jacksonville

​Last year I became a Senior Member of the Association of Health Information Professionals (AHIP). For those who have not applied for AHIP, there is a lengthy list of requirements you must meet in order to become a member. While Continuing Education Credits do go a long way, there are many other professional activities you must complete in order to have your application approved. If it wasn’t for my involvement with FHSLA, SCMLA and the Tampa Bay Area Medical Library Network (TaBaMLN) I would probably still be trying to earn enough points. I have served on several different committees and have been President of both FHSLA and TaBaMLN. While serving on an organizations board of officers in any capacity will earn you points, I feel that serving as president really helped me understand how organizations work and what people hope to get out of them. Not only  that, it also gave me skills that I used in my role as a leader at my organization and helped connect me to other professionals in hospital libraries.  

For more information about membership in AHIP, please visit  https://www.mlanet.org/academy