MidContinental Region News
Serving the biomedical information needs of Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Utah, and Wyoming.
Apr
12
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Written by: Caroline Marshall, MLS, AHIP, Senior Medical Librarian, Public Services, Cedars-Sinai Medical Library, Los Angeles, CA There is a great deal of discussion about Big Data. We all think other people are doing it, we think we should be doing it, but we are not sure how to get involved (Tattersall & Grant, 2016)…. Read More »
Posted in: Community College/Academic Libraries, Data Science, Health Sciences
Apr
10
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This webinar (recorded 4/4/2018) provides a general overview of citizen science, highlight recent activities to support libraries as community hubs for citizen science, and showcase free resources available to librarians who want to jump in now by promoting citizen science at libraries leading up to, during, and after Citizen Science Day on April 14, 2018…. Read More »
Posted in: Community College/Academic Libraries, Health Sciences, K-12, Public Libraries
Apr
10
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This archived session features guest speakers Alison Wessel and Olivia Glotfelty, who discussed the development of escape rooms at libraries in Delaware and Pennsylvania. Both speakers describe their experiences planning and implementing these escape rooms and how they proved beneficial to their audiences and libraries. View archive at https://youtu.be/EH_0j8jABKs. Sponsored by NNLM MAR. /da
Posted in: Community College/Academic Libraries, Health Sciences, K-12, Public Libraries