Professional Development

Certification

  • MLGSCA/NCNM Spring Symposium (03/2023)
  • Provisional Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals through the Medical Library Association. (07/2020 - Present)

Classes

  • Enhancing AI Interactions – Leveraging the CLEAR Framework for Effective Prompting (10/2024)
  • How PubMed Works: Automatic Term Mapping (09/2024)
  • Data.gov: Update on Open Government Data Act (09/2024)
  • ClinicalTrials.gov for Librarians – NNLM Class (09/2024)
  • School Libraries and AI (09/2024)
  • SCELC Channel One: Practical Uses of Generative AI for the Classroom and the Library (09/2024)
  • Confronting Book Bans: A Panel Discussion (07/2024)
  • Unlocking Insights with Generative AI: How to Enhance Research Efficiency in the Library (05/2024)
  • AI in Action: How Librarians are Implementing and Supporting AI in their Institutions (03/2024)
  • 2024 MeSH Highlights - NNLM (02/2024)
  • Breaking Down AI Fundamentals for Medical Librarians (02/2024)
  • Reacting Data Management Plans with the DMPTool (11/2023)
  • Revolutionizing the Library Experience: Unveiling the New EBSCOhost (11/2023)
  • How to Do Research and Get Published (11/2023)
  • Driving Student Success: Leveraging Technology to Connect Libraries, Faculty, and Students (11/2023)
  • Rigor and Reproducibility in Academic Medical Libraries (10/2023)
  • It Takes a Working Group to Create Strong Reviews: Enhancing Systematic Review Support and Services (08/2023)
  • AI and Machine Learning: Transforming the Modern Campus (07/2023)
  • Intro to Scopus (vs. Web of Science) (07/2023)
  • ChatGPT generated PubMed search strings (06/2023)
  • A funny thing happened on the way to an assessment: Lessons learned during a mixed-methods library research project (05/2023)
  • Exhaustive Search Strategy for Systematic Reviews (05/2023)
  • Avoid SR Pitfalls (04/2023)
  • Liaison Librarianship: New Models and Best Practices (04/2023)
  • Medical Subject Heading Changes and PubMed Searching (03/2023)
  • Selecting and Using Data Extraction Tools for Systematic Reviews (03/2023)
  • Systematic Review Series: I’ve Never Done a Systematic Review. Where do I start? (02/2023)
  • JBI Systematic Review Training (01/2023 - 04/2023)
  • Accessibility for LibGuides (10/2022)
  • Creating Online Forms and Surveys in LibWizard (10/2022)
  • What’s going on with my search? Database quirks (10/2022)
  • Find it Faster! Using Subjects and Tags in LibGuides (10/2022)
  • Build-a-Guide: Promote your library services (10/2022)
  • How to Get the Most out of Wild Apricot (09/2022)
  • Getting Started and Getting Confidant with Statistics (07/2022)
  • Essential Searching Skills for Librarians on Systematic Review Teams (05/2022)
  • Talking Tools: An Introduction to Systematic Review Tools (04/2022)
  • Aligning the Three Pillars of Effective Instruction - MLA (03/2022)
  • Help Authors Find the Best Journal for Their Manuscript (03/2022)
  • Systematic Review for Beginners: How Librarian Participation Creates Better Evidence - MLA (09/2021)
  • Health and Wellness @ the Library: The Essential of Providing Consumer Health Services (03/2021)
  • Explore Your Identity to Improve Your Practice: An Introduction to Critical Health Sciences Librarianship (11/2020)
  • NLM Drug Information Resources The National Library of Medicine provides a variety of resources to locate the most up-to-date information on drugs. This one-hour webinar designed for health sciences librarians and other health information specialists will provide an overview of locating relevant consumer and clinical drug information, as well as normalized names for clinical drugs. The session will include interactive audience participation with hands-on exercises, polls, and discussion. (10/2020)
  • Unconscious Bias: Understanding Bias to Unleash Potential (10/2020)
  • Instructional Design Course Fair Use Isn't Everything: Copyright, Public Domain, and Creative Commons (07/2020)
  • Instructional Design Course Eye-Catching in a Good Way: Basics of Graphic Design (06/2020)
  • Best Practices for Building LibGuides and Accessibility Tips Are you looking to get the most of LibGuides' built-in features to increase consistency across your guides? Seeking out ideas for creating your own style guidelines? Looking for tips on how to make your guides more accessible? Or are you looking to pick up some writing and design tips to make your guides more effective? Then this session is for you! The purpose of this session is to give regular and admin users an overview of some best practices for managing your LibGuides site and the content within. (06/2020)
  • Instructional Design Course Introduction to Instructional Design (06/2020)
  • 5 Things LibGuides Admins Should Know Learn tips and tricks that you can put into practice right way! Enhance your skills and come up with new ideas to share with your staff. For this session, you will need to be an Admin. We'll cover: User Profiles that Pop. Account Access and permissions. Setting up search results for LibGuides and LibAnswers. Storage and BluePrint Guides for staff. Stats! (06/2020)
  • Engaging Online Learners with Quizzes & Tutorials With the move to Online instruction across the world, learn how you can create online quizzes and tutorials to supplement your instruction programs. LibWizard Full Platform is needed for Quizzes and Tutorials. Learning Objectives: Creating quizzes Setting up self-grading Building tutorials Embedding tutorials (06/2020)
  • LibGuide Training Session (05/2020)
  • Copyright, Libraries, and the Unexpected Turn, Copyright with attorney Kenny Crews (05/2020)
  • Take Your Research Guides from Good to Great Research guide users increasingly expect high-quality experiences on mobile and tablet devices. Andy Hickner, an experienced web professional and LibGuides expert, will show you the latest on making research guides accessible and user friendly and how to get data that allow you to continually improve your guides and demonstrate their impact. (05/2020)
  • ACRL Presents: Copyright for Campus Closures: Exploring the Copyright Issues around Moving Instruction and Reference Online This presentation and Q&A session with Sara R. Benson, copyright librarian at the University of Illinois iSchool and editor of ACRL’s Copyright Conversations: Rights Literacy in a Digital World, aims to provide information on the copyright issues involved in rapidly moving your instruction and reference online. (03/2020)
  • ACRL Presents: “Pandemic Pedagogy: Resources for Library Instruction at a Distance” Join us for a facilitated conversation about tools, resources, and strategies for shifting information literacy to support remote teaching and learning presented by Jenn Kelley, Associate Professor/Reference Librarian at the College of DuPage. Participants will have the opportunity to share their own approaches and co-create a collaborative guide of best practices. (03/2020)
  • ACRL Presents: Moving Library Instruction Online Is your campus closing due to COVID-19? Join Melissa Wong for a crash course in moving your library instruction online. Melissa will address options for both synchronous and asynchronous instruction, discuss how to engage students in active learning while online, and provide a short list of best practices. (03/2020)
  • ACRL Presents: Understanding Fair Use Through Case Law Academic and research libraries often cite fair use for the activities that we engage in to make content available to stakeholders. Depending on your perspective, fair use is a right or a defense outlined in United States Copyright Law. What most can agree on is that in the United States, we rely on case law to help us understand fair use and to implement strategies for sharing content based on that understanding. This webinar will give a back-to-basics overview of fair use and utilize case law to illustrate each  factor of a fair use analysis. (02/2020)

Seminars and Conferences

  • MLGSCA Virtual Symposium (06/2024)
  • Medical Library Association Conference (05/2024)
  • MIRL Symposium (11/2023)
  • Medical Library Association Conference (05/2023)
  • MIRL Symposium (11/2022)
  • Medical Library Association Meeting in New Orleans (05/2022)
  • 2021 Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries Symposium (11/2021)
  • American Library Association Conference (06/2021)
  • Association of SDA Librarians Conference (06/2021)
  • Medical Library Association Conference (05/2021)
  • LLU Faculty Colloquium (09/2020)
  • LLU One Summit (09/2020)
  • Medical Library Association 2020 vConference Envision our future and celebrate our past at the MLA ’20 vConference, August 10–14, 2020! While the theme, “2020 Vision: The Future in Focus,” encourages us to look forward, we cannot look forward without learning from our history. (09/2020)
  • SpringyCamp 2020 - The New Now: Promoting Access & Redefining Services Presentations on how SpringShare clients have used SpringShare software to promote library programs, especially during the Covid shutdowns. (08/2020)
  • Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium 2020 Virtual Colloquium Colloquium is a dedicated forum to discuss current issues in the field of electronic resource licensing, digital librarianship, the role of social networks in libraries, and more. Reserved for librarians and staff of SCELC Member & Affiliate institutions, the Colloquium presents lightning talks and panels of speakers recognized for their expertise on a particular topic. (07/2020)

Special Projects

  • ADA Compliant LibGuide Template Created a template for LLU Library Guides that provides structure and standardization. It also makes sure that we follow ADA guidelines for online accessibility, making sure that our information can be viewed by screenreaders and other assistive devices. (03/2020 - 07/2020)