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Official blog for FHSLA news and events

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September Updates

9/23/2024

 
Executive Committee Recap
Below you will find a recap of this month’s executive committee meeting. We encourage you to continue engaging with your FHSLA colleagues so we can keep this community thriving and open for continued support of one another. 

Engage with FHSLA
Did you attend MLA Portland in May? We'd love to hear about your experience! Many members were not able to attend the MLA annual meeting, so it would be great to get a recap from our fellow FHSLA members. Send your recaps to [email protected].

Executive Committee

Just a reminder of your Executive Committee:
Vice President: Roxann Mouratidis
Treasurer: Dottie Kelly
Immediate Past President/Strategic Planning Chair: Jorge Perez
Webmaster: Pammy Herring
CE Chair: Ardis Hanson
Honors and Awards: Carrie Driggers-Adams
Membership Chair: Janet Chan
Blog Editor: Courtney Pyche

October Fall Meeting
The October mid-year planning is in full swing! You should have received an invitation to register for the October 17th virtual meeting. This half day meeting, focusing on the power of our professional organization will focus on networking, collaboration and engagement. The meeting is free to register and will include a 1 hour CE. If you would like to present on Library updates, be sure to fill out the form to sign up!

Spring Annual Meeting

The Spring annual meeting planning is in progress. The plan is to have the meeting held in Tampa. We are currently working with USF to find a venue for the meeting. If you have a recommendation for a venue in Tampa, please email Angie Novak

Coffee Talk
A big thank you to the Membership Committee for being committed to scheduling new and interesting events for members. In July, they hosted FHSLA's first Virtual Coffee Talk event. In this session, members joined together virtually to discuss their favorite tech tools. You can find the list of favorite tech tools on Padlet.

Strategic Planning

Our Strategic Planning is working hard on this year's initiative to create a master manual document that details executive board position descriptions and tasks, committee tasks and planning for annual meetings. Led by our past president Jorge Perez, the members who volunteered for this committee are making progress to gather information and create a working document that can be referred to during future terms.

Bylaws
The bylaws committee, let by Secretary Allison Howard is also making a ton of progress to update FHSLA's bylaws document. We think you'll really like the new look and feel of the document as well as the updates/additions we're making to language. It will be easier to follow and more complete once the project is finished. 

Membership Directory

Our website has recently been updated with a membership directory! Members should have received a registration email with instructions to register for the website to gain access to the directory. Thank you to Pammy Herring and Janet Chan for working together to get this done! If you did not receive a registration email or you need help with logging in please contact Pammy Herring at [email protected].

A Letter from the President

5/17/2021

 
Hello FHSLA Members!
My name is Susan Harnett and I will have the privilege of serving as your FHSLA President for 2021-2022.  A little background on me: I am the Medical Information Services Librarian at Borland Library, University of Florida in Jacksonville.  I have been at UF since 2016, and previously worked as a clinical librarian at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA; and Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA.  I live in Ponte Vedra with my husband and three cats; my 22 year old daughter is a recent UF graduate starting her first job, and my 24 year old son works in IT Security. 
I would like to thank our outgoing President, Jaclyn Castek, for her leadership during these very unusual times, and Past President Tara Brigham for her invaluable assistance as I learn the ropes. I would also like to thank the members of the Executive Committee:
  • Lauren Atkins-Secretary
  • Melinda Johnson-Treasurer
  • Carrie Adams, Chair, Honors & Awards Committee
  • Mitzi Mack-Social Media Coordinator
  • Stephanie Harris-Chair, Membership
  • Tim Kircher and Janet Chan- Co-Chairs, Newsletter/Blog 
  • Jorge Perez-Webmaster
  • Mary Kate Haver and Erica Powell-FHSLA/TBLC Collaboration Special Committee Co-Chairs
who all worked hard to develop programming and partnerships promoting health science librarianship and health education.  And I extend a special thank you to all our FHSLA members, whose enthusiasm, ideas and flexibility helped FHSLA meet the challenges of this very unique and trying year.
Some of our achievements this year were:
  •  Virtual Annual Meeting “Inclusion and Social Distancing” (April 2021), featuring
  • Implicit Bias Training for Information Professionals (Kelsa Bartley, Shannon Jones and Dr. Kimberly L. Reynolds
  • Poster Session 
  •  Vendor Presentations
  • Adapting Services for Remote Access Panel Discussion (Shalu Gillum and Carly Lambert, UCF; Lydia Howes and Geoff Pettys, SIU; Devica Samsundar, Baptist Health)
  • Predatory Publishing CE (October 2020)
  • TBLC/FHSLA Webinar Collaboration

As a small (but mighty!) organization, we depend on talented volunteers to keep us moving. If you haven’t volunteered for one of our committees, feel free to contact me, or any of our executive board members to learn more about opportunities and upcoming projects.  I look forward to working with everyone!

Susan Harnett. President, 2021-2022

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    ​Courtney Pyche

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