This afternoon I went to a session discussing the role of the Librarian in Translational Science/Research, the joining together of basic science with health research for the benefit of patient care. Interesting perspectives from an MD and a Bioinformationist.
Kristi Holmes from Wahington Uni St Louis was particularly interesting, a bioinformationist based in the library she gave some good practical hints on raising the profile of the services you can offer to researchers. One tip was to organise webinairs of resources useful to this user group and advertise them via the library, vendors seem happy to do this. I have emailed her to ask for her full presentation and will ask her if it is ok to distribute to HLGW members if you are interested, she had many more useful hints and tips. Becker Medical Library at Washington Uni have produced a Research Impact tool which I certainly hadn’t come across before, you can see it at http://becker.wustl.edu/impact/assessment something again that may be useful for our users involved in research.
Tuesday evening was the MLA Luau. A lovely meal outdoors under starry skies with entertainment of the hula variety, a nice fun evening. Will try to upload some photos!
May 21, 2009 at 12:48 pm |
The Becker website with the Research Impact tool is interesting. Especially interesting to see a Library creating this kind of thing.