MLA EMTS Blog

Enhancement or Crutch? Alternative PubMed Interfaces

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Amy Blevins

Our latest guest blog post comes from Keith Engwall (@librariandad), and he is the Web and Emerging Technologies Librarian at the OUWB Medical Library at Oakland University. Below is his post.

As a relatively new medical librarian, and thus fledgling PubMed user, I have a deep empathy with students and others who are learning to use PubMed in live-fire situations. Under the hood, PubMed is very impressive with its deep subject specificity, natural language mapping, and other features that let you hone in on a topic with remarkable precision. But in terms of interface, PubMed is about as intuitive and agile as an aircraft carrier.

Apparently, this sentiment is shared enough to result in a veritable cottage industry of alternative interfaces. The Health Libraries Wiki (HLWIKI International) has a list of alternative PubMed interfaces at http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/PubMed_Alternative_Interfaces. I’ve had an opportunity to try out one of the “best of breed” interfaces, gopubmed.org by TransInsight, a semantic search company operating out of Germany. I have found it to be incredibly useful for creating searches and analyzing the results. Whether this speaks to the power of the tool or to the inexperience of the user, I cannot say for sure.

Searching gopubmed.org starts off with a very google-esque feel. You are presented with a simple search box, and as you begin typing, gopubmed maps your terms on-the-fly to MeSH terms, journal titles, authors, etc., which appear in a dropdown list below your search. Select one and click Find, and your initial results are supplemented by a rich array of semantic filters along the left side. Top concepts include the MeSH terms that most frequently occur within your result set as well as related terms from the Gene Ontology (http://www.geneontology.org/). Selecting a term will pull up a menu to combine the term into your search (or exclude it). This provides a quick way to drill down to a very specific result set with only a few clicks.

The statistics link at the top of the result set reveals an array of visualizations of data from your results: bar graphs for the top (by number of articles) journals, authors, locations, etc.; a time-graph of articles published by year; a global map showing publication locations; and an author-network map showing collaborations (only available for result sets under 20,000).

The site is not without its shortcomings. Notably absent from the search filters, as far as I can tell, are subheadings or even a link to MeSH (a link to Wikipedia is a curious substitute) so that you can identify the subheadings yourself. An odd oversight, considering the search interface recognizes MeSH terms qualified by subheadings. The link to lop off all but the first 20,000 results (for the sake of author analysis) produces results that are incomplete enough to be misleading. It would be better to simply refuse the user until they narrow their results with appropriate filters. I have not yet determined whether it is possible to configure gopubmed to use our link resolver, so I don’t know whether or not that would be an issue.

In my mind, the aspect of this tool that trumps all others, and may make up for its shortcomings, is the intuitive way in which it utilizes MeSH terms in a search. PubMed will automatically map keywords to MeSH terms, but does so in a way that is very opaque and complicated. An entire session of an online PubMed course I took last year was dedicated to untangling the mapped search and the removal of irrelevant portions. We find that students tend to struggle with MeSH (either that or they ignore it altogether), and the process of finding correlating MeSH terms is so complicated that they don’t even bother.

Still, I’m not entirely certain whether, in the long run, gopubmed would serve as a tool or whether it would end up being a crutch. Just because a tool is easy to use doesn’t mean it is the best tool for the job. What do you think? Would you include gopubmed (or some other alternative interface) in your research instruction? Why or why not?

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Experiences with Online Education, StudiUM, and Flipped Classrooms

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Amy Blevins

Natalie Clairoux is a librarian at the Bibliothèque de la santé at the Université de Montréal. Her duties include reference services, information literacy workshops and Health Sciences Libraries website coordination. Below is her guest post.

As I was reading Keith’s post, I thought I could share my latest experience in online education. I recently participated in a virtual course and thought other librarians may be interested in this new form of library involvement in health sciences education.

First, here is a bit of background. At Université de Montréal (UdeM), StudiUM, a Moodle-based virtual learning environment, was introduced in the Fall 2011 semester. The platform becomes the course’s reference point where professors may deposit course notes and presentations, students can hand in assignments and get their grades, and the whole class interacts using forums or blogs. Assessment tools are also available.

StudiUM has rapidly gained in popularity, as 1839 of the 5314 courses offered during the Winter 2013 semester were StudiUM-based; at the same time, 78% of all students had at least one course on StudiUM. UdeM Libraries were able to get involved early in the project, and as a result, all courses have a default Libraries module that includes a catalog search box, access to the library patron’s profile and a link to the corresponding subject guide, as shown on the figure below.

The trickiest part for librarians is to gain access to courses. Professors may give us reading-only or writing access. Last year, UdeM librarians had reading access to 31 courses and writing access to 38 courses. For example, library instruction is integrated in two scientific communications courses in the Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences undergraduate programs, and I am lucky to have a writing access in both courses in StudiUM: I can thus post PubMed and EndNote presentations in advance, add hyperlinks to required readings or to other interesting resources, which may be anything from a comic strip on the perils of oral presentations to the new trend of video abstracts.

Which finally brings me to the heart of the matter. Last March, a professor asked me to participate in a summer Ph.D. course in Biomedical Sciences that is mainly offered online and titled “Career as Health Sciences Researcher”. In fact, the 37 students will meet only three times during the semester; each week, they must read course materials related to a specific topic, from grant writing to patents, and participate in online forums in StudiUM, for which they are graded. I thus provided a 5-page document on the ethical use of scientific documentation which introduced basic notions such as plagiarism, citation, copyright, end-user licenses, scientific integrity, authorship, scientific publication policies and article retractions. Links to relevant library guides were naturally included. Next, I monitored the course’s forums during my assigned week, typically twice a day, and made sure that the discussions on my topics were active or added new topics to spark interest. I was quite impressed with the quality of comments that were posted!

As I was introduced to the concept of “flipped classrooms” at the MLA meeting recently, I realized that I had actually just participated in one! This intervention required a minimal time investment and will hopefully convey the librarians’ expertise in scientific communication to another cohort of students.

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#FOAMed and Medical Libraries: Where and How Should They Intersect?

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Amy Blevins

At the MLA meeting in Boston, our EMTS members expressed an interest in writing for the EMTS blog. Our first guest writer is Keith Engwall (@librariandad), and he is the Web and Emerging Technologies Librarian at the OUWB Medical Library at Oakland University. Below is his post on FAOMed and MOOCs.

At the recent MLA Conference (my first), I became aware of a recurring theme: evolving methods of instruction and/or learning. There are a lot of us who are trying out some very brilliant and innovative things in providing instruction, and meanwhile, there are a lot of us (particularly us newbies) who are trying to get our heads wrapped around the subject matter.

The topics of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and FOAMed (Free Open Access Medical Education) have been coming up a lot lately, both on the fringes of my attention and front and center. At my medical school (Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine in Rochester, MI), there has been a lot of recent discussion of MedEd Portal, an open access resource that includes a peer reviewed publication arm, a collaborative hub (iCollaborative), and a continuing education directory. The topic came up at an annual medical education event lecture this morning. And MOOCs are even showing up in the news, generating buzz about the future of higher education.

It has me thinking, how are/should we in Medical Libraries be engaging with this space? It seems to me that there are opportunities for us from both the learning and the teaching side. Over at the New Members SIG, we are looking at a Coursera course in November on Clinical Terminology to help us better communicate with physicians, faculty, and/or students. On the other side of things, I tried searching iCollaborative for resources relating to library and/or research instruction and didn’t find very much. That seems like the perfect place for us as instructors to upload instructional materials, course guides, tutorials, etc. so that we may share our expertise and insight in the very same space that our patrons may be collaborating on their instructional initiatives. I suspect that there may be some interesting opportunities for collaboration, not just with each other, but with physicians, medical faculty, etc. To what extent are we already engaged in this space? How can we broaden that engagement to be inclusive of more libraries, both to bring in additional expertise and to provide opportunities to learn from each other?

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2012-13 Annual Report

Posted on April 24, 2013 by EMTS

The 2012-13 EMTS Annual Report was filed on April 15. Elements of this report will be discussed during the EMTS Business Meeting in Boston (Tuesday, May 7, 4:30-6:00pm; Hynes Convention Center, room 203).

FYI, the report is divided into “goal” sections that relate to general MLA goals and, when applicable, also relate to specific 2012-13 MLA Presidential Goals.

-Jim Brucker, Chair EMTS

Educational Media and Technologies Section
2012-13 Annual Report

Goal 1: Recruitment, Membership and Leadership in the Profession

Objective: Increase section membership by examining social networking (Facebook) followers and contacting MLA members who are (1) part of the EMTS Facebook group and (2) not current members of EMTS.

NOTE: This is compatible with the MLA Presidential priority of “Expanded membership.”

Results and Summary:
The Facebook followers were compiled and analyzed during Fall 2012. At that time, of the 82 followers, 59 were not EMTS members, and 26 of those 59 were not MLA members. Instead of contacting each person directly (which might not have been possible in Facebook without being personally affiliated with each of those people), the Chair issued multiple Facebook group posts to encourage non-members to join MLA and EMTS. As of 4/12/2013, only two of those 59 went on to become EMTS members.
The resulting list of non-members should be provided to the EMTS board, with the suggestion that these people be contacted individually in 2013, assuming this would be more effective than the general group contact efforts of late 2012.
The Chair sent personalized welcome letters to new members in September 2012 and April 2013, and general “from the chair” messages were issued to EMTS membership in September 2012 and February 2013.

Goal 2: Life Long Learning

Objective: Participate in MLA program planning and advocate for MLA CE courses in EMTS areas of specialization.

Results and Summary:
Emily Hurst and Jeanne Burke created the section programming for the 2013 Annual Meeting. This occurred before the election of a 2012-13 Chair-Elect. Once Sheila Snow-Croft was elected to the Chair-Elect position, she worked with Emily and Jeanne to finalize the 2013 programming, and will report on the results of the programs during the 2013 EMTS business meeting. Ryan Harris continues to serve as the EMTS CE Chair.

Goal 3: Advocacy

Objective: Increase overall participation within the section, focusing on voter participation and volunteering for open officer positions.

NOTE: This is compatible with the MLA Presidential priority of “Energy into action.”

Results and Summary:
Dale Prince (EMTS Nominating Committee Chair), Beth Whipple and Ryan Harris assembled a 2013 election ballot, and Amy Blevins (EMTS Communication Coordinator) issued multiple calls for voting through Facebook, the blog and the email list. The ballot included two people running for the Chair-Elect position. The ballot was issued during January-February 2013, and the results were announced on February 12. 98 EMTS members voted. This is a 51% increase in voter participation compared to the 2012 election.

Election results:
Molly Knapp, EMTS Chair-Elect
Amy Blevins, Secretary/Treasurer
Pat Devine, EMTS Nominee to the MLA Nominating Committee

2013-14 EMTS Officers (goes into effect after the 2013 Annual Meeting):
Chair: Sheila Snow-Croft
Chair-Elect: Molly Knapp
Section Council Representative: Jim Brucker
Secretary/Treasurer: Amy Blevins
Communications Coordinator: Amy Blevins
Membership Chair: Jeanne Burke
Website Editor: Brandi Tuttle
Chair, Bylaws Committee: Dave Piper
Chair, EMTS Nominating Committee: Jim Brucker
Chair, CE: Ryan Harris

Additionally, the section once again offered an “Annual Meeting Attendance Grant” to two EMTS members who demonstrated section-specific participation in the upcoming 2013 MLA Annual Meeting. This grant is offered to encourage participation in section-sponsored programs and in the overall MLA Annual Meeting. Brandi Tuttle (Secretary/Treasurer) organized the effort and review, and Brandi, Jim Brucker (Chair) and new member Nandita Mani reviewed the three applications, scored them against a rubric, and decided on the two awardees. Awards will be distributed during the 2013 EMTS Business Meeting.

Also, EMTS will release a membership survey in April 2013. This survey will mirror a survey from MIS. There is a considerable degree of overlapping membership between the two sections, and they will share survey results with each other later in 2013 in order to foster greater cross-section synergy.

Goal 4: Creating and Communicating our Knowledge

Objective: Create a Useful Technologies platform to share compiled information with the entire EMTS membership.

Results and Summary:
The Useful Technologies information was located as a stand-alone document, but not updated. This will be a central discussion topic during the 2013 EMTS Business Meeting, with the goal of finding a leadership volunteer to carry the effort forward into the 2013-14 term.

Objective: Update and redesign the EMTS website to give it a fresh, new look.

Results and Summary:
Brandi Tuttle (EMTS webmaster) and Wayne Loftus continued their work on the redesign, and Brandi maintained the current EMTS website simultaneously. Brandi will continue to serve as the EMTS webmaster during 2013-14, and will work with Wayne to complete the redesign and migrate the section to the new website.

Goal 5: Building a Network of Partners

Objective: Encourage a continuous flow of communication through a variety of channels. Avoid “dead air” on both the email list and the Facebook group.

Results and Summary:
Amy Blevins (Communications Coordinator) and Dale Prince worked throughout the 2012-13 term to keep the EMTS Facebook group vibrant and topical. Other EMTS members contributed to the email list, and Amy also maintained the section blog. The Facebook group seemed to be the steadiest mode of communication and section-member connection.

2012-13 EMTS Officers
Chair: Jim Brucker
Chair-Elect: Sheila Snow-Croft
Section Council Representative: J. Dale Prince
Secretary/Treasurer: Brandi Tuttle
Communications Coordinator: Amy Blevins
Membership Chair: Jeanne Burke
Website Editor: Brandi Tuttle
Chair, Bylaws Committee: Dave Piper
Chair, EMTS Nominating Committee: J. Dale Prince
Chair, CE: Ryan Harris

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EMTS Business Meeting Agenda for MLA 2013

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Amy Blevins

Hello, fellow EMTS members!

As you might have noticed, we have our section Business Meeting scheduled during the 2013 MLA Annual Meeting:

EMTS Business Meeting
Tuesday, May 7
4:30-6:00pm
Hynes Convention Center, room 203

This meeting marks the 40th anniversary of the Educational Media and Technologies Section, and we will be giving away a new iPad Mini to one lucky EMTS member. To be eligible, you must (1) be a current member of EMTS and (2) attend the entire business meeting. We will be distributing raffle tickets at the beginning of the meeting, and then conducting the lucky draw at the end of the meeting. Current EMTS Board Members (this includes me) are not eligible, so, as a regular EMTS member, this increases your chances of winning. We will have a current-membership list at the meeting.

Now, about the Business Meeting itself. Below is the agenda. Please note the “discussion points” in #9. If you have questions or comments about those items, go ahead and post them to the email list, or comments via Facebook or the EMTS blog (particularly if you want to contribute to the discussion, but will not be in Boston). Otherwise, I really want everyone to bring their opinions and ideas to this meeting, as I’m relying on all of you to help set some direction for our section.

EMTS Business Meeting Agenda (5/7/2013, 4:30-6pm @ Hynes Convention Center room 203)

1. Welcome and general section update

Overview of 2012-13 EMTS Annual Report
Introduction of new 2013-14 Board members

2. 2013 Section Travel Grant Awards
3. MLA 2013 Programming report
4. Section Council report
5. Website update
6. Treasurer update
7. Communications update
8. Membership update
9. General discussion points

MIS/EMTS Membership Survey
Directions for “Useful Technologies” info/wiki
The EMTS email list – should it include lapsed members?
Possibilities of an EMTS strategic plan

10. iPad Mini winner!
11. Group photo!

Thanks, everyone. I’m looking forward to a lively meeting, and thank you all for your ongoing support.

Sincerely,
Jim Brucker, EMTS Chair

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2013 Annual Meeting Attendance Grant Winners

Posted on April 12, 2013 by EMTS

Hi everyone,

After careful review of applications to the EMTS MLA Attendance Grant, the grant subcommittee has selected the two winners:
Natalie Clairoux
Amy Blevins

Congratulations, Natalie and Amy!

Thank you, everyone who applied – all of the applications were quite impressive. Also, thank you to Brandi Tuttle for organizing this effort and leading the review process, and to EMTS member Nandita Mani for acting as a reviewer (along with Brandi and me).

The awards will be issued during our EMTS Business Meeting in Boston:

Tuesday, May 7, 4:30-6:00pm @ Hynes Convention Center room 203

We will soon provide more information about our Business Meeting, including the agenda and details about a fabulous giveaway prize.

Cheers,
Jim

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2013 Election Results

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Amy Blevins

The election is over. Congratulations to our new board members. Molly Knapp will be Chair-Elect, Amy Blevins will be Secretary/Treasurer, and Patricia Devine is the new EMTS Nominee to the MLA Nominating Committee! All positions will begin after the MLA Annual Meeting in May.

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EMTS 2013 Elections

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Amy Blevins

This year, Chair-Elect, Secretary/Treasurer, and EMTS Nominee to the MLA Nominating Committee are up for election. The EMTS Nominating Committee will be sending electronic ballots to the EMTS membership by January 25, 2013. Following are the positions and bios of the candidates for those positions.

Chair-Elect

Maureen “Molly” Knapp is a Research Support and Education Librarian at the Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. A librarian with over a decade of experience, she received her master of library and information science degree from the University of South Florida (Tampa) in 2002. Ms. Knapp is a Senior Member of the Medical Library Association’s Academy of Health Information Professionals, and a 2010 NLM Fellow in Medical Informatics at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. An enthusiastic pedagogue, Ms. Knapp received the 2012 Librarian of the Year award from the South Central Chapter of MLA for her work on the online class ‘Get Mobilized: an introduction to mobile resources and tools in health sciences libraries.’ Her research interests include digital projects in health sciences libraries and online education.

Marie Ascher is currently the Associate Director for User Support, Education, and Research (USER) Services at the New York Medical College Health Sciences Library (HSL) in Valhalla, NY, a position she was promoted to in 2010 after working as the Head of Reference & Information Services since 2001. Prior professional positions were at The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) and Hunter College Health Professions Library in New York City. Notable professional achievements and interests include the development of several community based information outreach projects in East Harlem, serving as the founding editor of the NYAM’s Grey Literature Report, establishing a social media presence for the HSL, leading a team in the development, implementation and evaluation of local information management competencies, usability testing, training in evidence based health care, and technologies for distance learning and service. Service to MLA includes chairing the Core Public Health Journals project, serving on the Research Agenda Committee, serving as the Allied Representative to the Public Health Partners, and serving on the Health Information Literacy Task Force. Marie has previously served as Chair of the Public Health/Health Administration Section as well as the New York-New Jersey Chapter of MLA. She lives with her 8-year-old twin daughters and a vizsla, two turtles and two fish, and likes a good sandwich.

Secretary/Treasurer

Jin Wu has been the Emerging Technologies Librarian at the Norris Medical Library at the University of Southern California since April 2010. She has been instrumental in fostering the use of new technologies by both library staff as well as library users. She also has been involved in a national survey of student use of technology, revitalizing the library’s tutorials, and re-designing the library’s web site. She also currently serves as chair of the Health Sciences Libraries Emerging Technologies Committee and Web Committee.

Amy Blevins is one of the Clinical Education Librarians at Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa. She has had the great pleasure of being a member of EMTS since 2006. At the 2007 meeting, she volunteered to help out with the Nominations Committee, which led to being elected as the chair-elect in the 2008 election. Since then, she’s served as Chair, Section Council Representative, and most recently as the Communications Coordinator (a new position designed to leverage the blog, list serv and Facebook pages). She is no stranger to taking notes in meetings, and feels that leading the Section Shuffle task force last year has given her a bit of experience with budget planning. Having served on the board for the last few years, she is familiar with the yearly expenses that the section is likely to encounter. She looks forward to serving the section in a new capacity as the Secretary/Treasurer.

EMTS Nominee to the MLA Nominating Committee

Patricia Devine is the Network Outreach Coordinator for the NN/LM, Pacific Northwest Region in Seattle, Washington. She coordinates the membership program and provides health information outreach to health care professionals and healthcare consumer groups. Her professional interests include health information literacy and healthcare disparities, and she is the convener of the newly formed Health Disparities SIG. Pat received her MLS from the University of Washington.

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Letter from the Chair

Posted on May 11, 2012 by EMTS

My year as chair is winding down, and while I can’t say that I would want a whole additional year as chair—I’d make fewer mistakes and would know the timeline of when things should be done a little better—I can say that the year has been very rewarding. The EMTS Board is the most active, supportive, and responsive group of people I’ve worked with since becoming active in MLA. I want to thank them all for making the year far less uncertain than it could have been. For a change, I did not feel that filling out an Annual Report was a paean to the art of misdirection; I honestly feel that EMTS is an effective and active section that makes a difference in its member’s lives. And, if this is not true, then the EMTS board is truly interested in making appropriate changes.

I’d especially like to thank Jim Brucker (Chair-elect) for his hard work on the 2012 program (http://emts.mlanet.org/blog/?p=69) and Amy Blevins (Past-Chair) for her gentle nudges and always prompt responses to my inquiries about what I should be doing next. I also want to thank those who volunteered to run for office and those who accepted appointments without (much) complaint. Without you, EMTS would grind to a halt.

2011-2012 was a busy time for EMTS. We, like other sections, had to respond to the programming needs of the 2013 joint meeting in Boston. Fortunately, Jeanne Burke and Emily Hurst stepped to the fore, volunteering for programming planning, a duty that has traditionally fallen to someone else, but the accelerated planning for that meeting precluded the possibility of assigning it to a Chair-Elect. That position would not be filled for another 6 or 7 months after program planning began. For this reason, we had two program planning threads going at once. For the 2013-2014 period (and thereafter), we are taking a more proactive stance on MLA educational opportunities and have appointed Ryan Harris as CE Chair who will work with the MLA Continuing Education Committee to ensure that the educational needs of EMTS members is met. (Other 2011-2012 accomplishments may be found in the Annual Report: (http://emts.mlanet.org/business/reports/annual/annual1112.pdf))

EMTS also polled its membership to see how they would like to see money in the EMTS treasury being spent. In addition to our usual expenditure, EMTS will be giving a $125 travel stipend to EMTS officers attending the Annual Business Meeting and will be giving $25 thank you gift to those who moderate EMTS-led programs at the annual meeting. Neither of these outlays will have much of an effect upon the EMTS treasury.

In closing, I’d like to invite all of you to the EMTS Business Meeting at MLA Annual on 20 May 2012, Rm 204 of the Conference Center from 3:30 to 4:30PM. We will welcome people to their new roles (chair, chair-elect, and CE chair), give an overview of the past year, discuss what we will do in the next year, and have snacks. I will also have a list of current members so that appointments may be made in absentia, so keep that in mind.

Dale Prince
Chair
Educational Media and Technology Section

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EMTS Programming at MLA 2012 Annual Meeting

Posted on April 16, 2012 by EMTS

This year, EMTS is lead-sponsoring two programs at the MLA Annual Meeting in Seattle, and co-sponsoring two others. All of these programming topics are direct responses to a 2011 EMTS membership survey, and the paper topics were selected through a blind peer review process.

Connecting with the away team: Leveraging mobile technology (EMTS co-sponsor, Sunday 5/21 4:30-6pm) highlights innovative uses of mobile technology, including smart phones and iPads, to support outreach in both education and clinical setting. Topics include:

STAT!Ref lecture (topic to be announced)
Keeping Score: Use of iPads by Clinical Faculty
Information use and mobile devices in medicine: A multi-university study
iPads as a Tool to Enhance Communications and Access to Emergency Preparedness Resources

Becoming a better teacher: How to coordinate, execute and assess instruction (EMTS-lead sponsor, Monday 5/21 10:30am-Noon) focuses on innovative approaches to instructional design, pedagogy and comprehensive assessment of instructional efforts. Topics include:

Hitting A Home Run: Collaborative Curriculum Design
Transcending personal stats: Leveraging peer review to improve teaching and redesign interactive class content
Bringing New Methods into Library Instruction: A Case Study in Team Based Learning
Assessing the FACTTS: An Evidence-Based Medicine and Critical Appraisal Course for Medical Students

Loading the bases: Teaching with technology and multimedia (EMTS-lead sponsor, Tuesday 5/22 2-3:30pm) focuses on the incorporation of technology and multimedia with on-site and distance education efforts. Topics include:

Windup and the Pitch: Delivering Instruction Using Videos
Cracker jack instruction: creating, implementing and managing a no-budget online continuing education course
Blended learning in action: Custom designing an extensible online tutorial to enhance interactive classroom content in a Medical Decision Making course
Presentation Excellence: Moving Beyond Powerpoint

Finally, EMTS is again co-sponsoring the popular Tech Trends session on Tuesday 5/22 6-7:30pm, featuring a panel review of current topics in cutting-edge technology and media, and how they impact our profession. This will include the following presenters:

Fatima Mncube-Barnes (Meharry Medical College), Gabriel Rios (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Kimberley Barker (Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia), Michelle Frisque (Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University), Emily Hurst (National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region), Eric Schnell (Prior Health Sciences Library, Ohio State University).