The Power of FHSLA is THIS WEEK!

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. or a more detailed schedule and to register, visit: https://guides.med.ucf.edu/fhslaOctober2024/home  

If you would like to present on Library updates, be sure to fill out the form to sign up! 

Hope to see you there!! 

FHSLA is hosting a meet-up for members attending the SCMLA/MAC 2024 annual conference in Charleston, SC. 

The Gold room at the Francis Marion Hotel will be available for any groups that would like to meet up on October 29th from 4:30-5:30pm. Maggie Ansell has graciously agreed to be our point of contact for the meet-up. If you have any questions or want to confirm you will be available, please email her at [email protected].   Thank you, Maggie! 

Position Title:  Librarian I – Reference & Instruction – NSU Health Professions Division Library - Tampa Bay Campus​
Location Name: NSU Tampa Bay Regional Campus - HPD Library
County: Pinellas
Region: Central Florida
Address: 3400 Gulf to Bay Blvd
City: Clearwater
Zipcode: 33759
ALA accredited Masters required: Yes
Salary: 48,200$ USD / Year
Essential Job Functions:

• Designs and develops learning modules for online and self-paced learning.
• Creates and delivers a wide range of information literacy services to students and faculty, including classroom teaching, via LMS systems such as Canvas, WebCT/Blackboard courses, and individualized training.
• Provides professional reference services to all affiliated HPD and NSU local and distant library users in person, by phone, and via computer.
• Performs bibliographic searches in a wide variety of medical and educational databases, medical/health journals, and print collections.
• Consults with faculty and students to identify, evaluate, and recommend relevant instructional information technology for use and purchase, using present and emerging information and technologies.
• Promotes instruction design resources and services to college faculty; maintains up-to-date knowledge of techniques for assessing the impact of technology use on teaching and learning.
• Acts as liaison to one or more colleges in the Health Professions Division with responsibility for participation in curriculum development, instruction and design of teaching resources, and responsibility for selection and evaluation of curriculum-specific resources.
• Collaborates with faculty in research projects and writing for publication.
• May be expected to assume responsibility for supervision of library support staff, volunteers, and/or student employees.
• Completes special projects as assigned.
• Performs other duties as assigned or required.

Marginal Job Functions:

• Participates in relevant campus committees to ensure cooperation between the Health Professions Division Library and other groups both within and outside the University, as assigned.
• Monitors/assesses the performance of oneself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective actions.
• Searches standard reference materials, including online sources and the Internet, to answer patrons’ reference questions.
• Establishes and maintains productive relationships within and outside NSU.

Education/Qualifications:
Master's degree from an ALA accredited program.

​Multilingual Skills Required: No

Contact Person: Majid Anwar, Director, Reference & Instruction
Contact Email: [email protected]
Contact Phone: (954) 262-3107

How to Apply / Instructions:
NSU only accepts applications/resumes via the NSU Careers online portal.
https://nsucareers.nova.edu/en-us/job/499940/librarian-i-reference-instruction-992136

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].