Dear Readers,
This month I caught up with Laura Murray, MSIS, MBA, AHIP, Graduate Medical Education Librarian at USF Health Libraries. Laura talked about her experience attending the MLA Research Training Institute (RTI) last year. If you have ever been interested in attending RTI, read her interview to learn more!
Best,
Janet

What motivated or inspired you to attend the MLA RTI? 
After Covid started, I started to focus on my professional goals and one of the things I wanted to do was to start my Ed.D. and publish again. I saw an email about the RTI program and talked to my supervisor about it. She really encouraged me to participate. This turned out to be a great decision because what I learned at RTI has laid the groundwork for my dissertation.  

What was the best/most helpful aspect of the MLA RTI training? 
Having regular course work and the expectation to have it completed really kept me on track. Having a mentor to talk to and guide us was essential. I cannot say enough good things about the mentors! Having a supportive supervisor was also a bonus.  

What was the most challenging aspect of the MLA/RTI training? 
Performing some of the teaching activities in front of my peers. I have imposter syndrome and had to work through this. Balancing RTI with my work was a challenge, but I loved the work I did with RTI.  

Have you been able to use any of your newly acquired skills in your professional practice? 
From day 1, I was able to network and learn from other medical librarians. Doing my own research has made me a confident researcher. I have also learned about best practices to build the curriculum for my residents and ways to approach teaching. I have connected with medical librarians across the country through RTI that I would have never connected with otherwise.  
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​What advice would you give to someone who was considering applying for the MLA RTI? 
Do it! You will gain more than you are afraid of. Convince your leadership to give you protected time to do this. This is very doable, and the leadership of this program is very supportive and always trying to improve. This program brought a lot of meaning to my job. Get out there and give yourself the gift that is this program! 

Dear Readers,

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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