2022 MCMLA Annual Virtual Meeting

OCTOBER 27-28, 2022

The theme for this year’s meeting is “Diversify”.  Diversify as in branching out, broadening ideas, changing up operations, bringing along change or making health sciences librarianship more inclusive.  The meeting will take place virtually from October 27-28, 2022.

 
Submission to present at the MCMLA Annual Meeting is open to members and non-members of MCMLA. Papers will have 20-30 minutes for their presentation, while lightning talks will have 5-10 minutes. For accepted submissions, at least one author should be in attendance in order to present at the virtual conference.

View schedule with abstracts here [PDF file]  

Friday, October 28, Paper Session 1, 
10:05am - 10:55am Central / 9:05am - 9:55am Mountain

1.     Burnout Prevention for Health Science Library Staff: Self Care for the Health Information Specialist

2.     Piloting a Buddy Program for New Hires

Friday, October 28, Lightning Talks Session 1,
11am - 11:50am Central / 10am - 10:50am Mountain

1.     Highlighting Hidden Costs: Assigning a Dollar Amount to the Library’s Contributions to Systematic Reviews

2.     Pix or It Didn’t Happen: What types of graphics attract medical students to articles and resources?

3.     The Proximity Project: Utilizing Mapping to Enhance Outreach

4.     Earn While You Learn

5.     Building an Interprofessional Search Strategy for Manual Therapy Literature: Where's the Vocabulary?"

6.     Leading and Following as Dance

Friday, October 28, Paper Session 2,
1:05pm - 1:55pm Central / 12:05pm - 12:55pm Mountain

1.     3D Printing at An Academic Library- Seven Years Later!

2.     Open Educational Repository Produces Licensed Resources to Sustain Project

Friday, October 28, Lightning Talks Session 2, 
2pm - 2:45pm Central / 1pm - 1:55pm Mountain

1.     Responding to the growing need for multilingual and multicultural health information

2.     Increasing Healthcare Student Empathy Through Collection Development: Graphic Medicine in the Academic Health Sciences Library

3.     Office 365 Apps for Library Statistics

4.     A Brief Overview of the MLA 2022 Immersion Session on Using the AVSL Criteria and Algorithm to Create a Vetted Journal Program

5.     “Embedded Librarian in Neurology Case Report”

6.     Difficult Conversations: Utilizing a Living Library Program to Promote Empathy in Healthcare Workers at an Academic Health Sciences Library