Hello-
FY2008-09 Form
Just a reminder that there is a new form for logging instruction and outreach statistics for FY 2008-09, meaning anything after July 1, 2008. I've seen some August and September statistics on the FY 2007-08 form, so please change your bookmarks to: https://hsllibs.wufoo.com/forms/hsl-instruction-outreach-statistics-200809/. I've also posted this link on the LEIS page in the FY2008 section.
Don't forget about outreach
Also, I encourage you to log not only all of your instruction efforts (except for consultations, of course, which now go into Desk Tracker), but also to log your outreach efforts. Have you spoken to any outside groups or unaffiliated professionals? Have you done any exhibits, either on or off campus? These need to be logged. As an official Outreach Library for the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), we have a contractual obligation to provide outreach to the region and we need to be able to report these efforts to the GMR. Also, of course, we need to have a clear picture of what outreach we are doing for our own internal purposes.
Thanks very much,
Martha
Greetings,
Those of you who do instruction might be interested in this 12-minute video from NLM: Branching Out: The MeSH Vocabulary (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/video/). We watched this during the NTCC PubMed class on Tuesday. I think it could be useful to push this out to students before an integrated instruction class to introduce them to the concept of MeSH. We could also post this and other similar videos and presentations on WebCT/Vista or Moodle pages as supplementary material. Should we post this on our Bio-Med Web page? What do you think?
The NTCC trainers also showed these cute little animated tutorials from the University of Lethbridge Library about Boolean Operators: http://www.uleth.ca/lib/guides/research/display.asp?PageID=35.
There's a bunch of other instructional material on the NLM Distance Education Program Resources page (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/dist_edu.html).
Martha