WHMIC teams up with MAHSLIN to offer continuing education event

MAHSLIN partnered up with the Western Massachusetts Health Information Consortium Collaborative (WMHIC) to host a CE event, Ninja Strategies and Labyrinthine Travels in Librarianship.

Details on the program follow:

Location: Baystate Health Conference Center
Date: Friday, September 26

Time: 9:00am-12:45pm

Session 1:
Ninja Teaching: Stealth Strategies to Conquer Any Teaching Scenario In this interactive session, participants will identify effective teaching strategies and practice implementing them. The session will focus on three common teaching scenarios for librarians, including:
1. One-to-One (e.g., Medical resident walks into the library and asks for a tutorial)
2. Small Group Instruction (e.g., A group of five nurses ask for assistance in researching a quality improvement project)
3. Classroom (e.g., Faculty asks for an introduction to library services for incoming allied health students)
Presented by:  Rebecca Blanchard, PhD, MEd, from Baystate Health, Academic Affairs Division. Dr. Blanchard is the director of medical education and research, and focuses her efforts on developing innovative educational curricula, conducting education research, and developing the academic prowess of faculty and staff. She also conducts "ninja teaching" (teaching faculty and staff when they don't realize it) on education and education research.

View the powerpoint from this session here. 

Session 2:
The Use of Labyrinths in Stress Reduction Presented by:  Donna Zucker, RN, PhD, FAAN, from University of Massachusetts, School of Nursing.

Dr. Zucker researches the prevention of communicable diseases and the efficacy of behavioral modifications for those at high risk of addiction, contracting hepatitis C or HIV.  With the Sheriff's Office of Hampshire County she has initiated two programs with incarcerated offenders:  a peer education program to prevent the spread of communicable diseases and the development of a labyrinth walking curriculum.  In this latter project, Dr. Zucker worked with a landscape architecture student to develop an outdoor labyrinth at the county jail.  Currently she is completing a labyrinth walking study in high stress library environments.  Data indicates that labyrinth walking is highly satisfying and reduces stress.  Participants will have an opportunity to walk a portable labyrinth.

View the powerpoint from this session here. Find a labyrinth near you here.

GCC hosts summer meeting

On Friday, June 6th, Greenfield Community College hosted the WMHIC group for the summer quarterly meeting. Following the business meeting and institutional updates, GCC librarian, Liza Harrington, and GCC science faculty, Amanda Hyde, presented on their ACRL Assessment in Action project from the past year. Slides from their presentation are available here, and their full report (as well as the poster they presented at ALA Annual 2014) is available on the GCC library website.

Mt. Holyoke hosts an Affordable Care Act Information Session

This past Friday, WMHIC members gathered at the Mt. Holyoke College Library to admire their Chihuly statue and learn about the Affordable Care Act. Heather Goodhind, MPH (Navigator Coordinator at Caring Health Center), and Christie Hager, the regional director for region 1 of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, presented. The full text of our minutes available here.

STCC library hosts a PubMed refresher

For our winter quarterly meeting, the library at Springfield Technical Community College hosted WMHIC for a business meeting, followed by a refresher on PubMed and PubMed Health by Stephanie Friree, Outreach Coordinator for NN/LM NER. See our full minutes here and the slides from the presentation here.

AIC hosts fall meeting

This September, members of WMHIC met at American International College's Shea Library to discuss the college's new public health program, their Tutu Lecture Series, and receive a tour of the library. To see our institutional updates and read the full minutes from the meeting, continue here.

Fall Meeting next week!

Our fall meeting will take place next Friday. Join us!

 Day: Fri, Sept 13
Time: 9:00am-12:00noon
Place: American International College, Shea Library
Directions: http://www.aic.edu/visitors/directions 
Parking: street parking on State Street, Wilbraham Road or Concord Terrace

Agenda
9:00-10:30: checking in, institution updates
10:30-12noon: topic discussion, library tour

Topic: We will have the director for the Public Health program at AIC come speak. If time allows, we may hear about the Desmond Tutu Public Health Lecture Series and take a tour of the library.

Berkshire Medical Center hosts summer meeting

The most recent WMHIC meeting took place this summer at Berkshire Medical Center. After the business meeting, Diana Davis from the Massachusetts Library System discussed the Massachusetts broadband initiative. Full meeting minutes here.