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Down Long Wiggled Roads: Familiar and New Health Sciences Information Places (22nd Health Sciences Lively Lunchtime Discussion) Recording

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This session is a no holds barred session for lively discussion by conference attendees with an interest in the health sciences. Rittenhouse is a conference sponsor supporting this session. Boxed lunches will be provided.

RSVP Required for the sponsored lunch: 

The 22nd Health Sciences Lively Lunchtime Discussion session will feature a panel of 3 librarians who will present on relevant and timely collection development topics before the conversation is opened up to all attendees. Expanding upon topics previously discussed at Charleston, presentations will address the challenges of collection building and providing resources to our constituents during times of uncertainty. While traveling over the ever-changing health sciences collections landscape, we will visit the twisty and, sometimes, unpaved paths of seeking alternative funding sources, being responsive to emerging technological developments, and integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) considerations and criteria into our collections work.

Sarah McClung will discuss the “ins” and “outs” of grant writing and funding proposals for health sciences collections projects, including the value and complexity that partnerships bring to the process. Karen Gau will provide a snapshot of DEI collections projects and pilots underway at various institutions. Andrea McLellan will briefly guide us through the alleys and gullies of addressing demand and acquiring virtual reality resources for our collections.

Moderator Ramune Kubilius will briefly highlight and share a link to this year’s edition of the annual “Developments” handout that she has compiled, of interesting and noteworthy trends of the past year. To conclude the session, attendees will be invited to participate in a lively discussion of the trends, innovations, and challenges surfaced (and inspired) by the presentations.

(Note: The session title, "Down long wiggled roads", was inspired by a snappy line in the book, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!)

This session is a no holds barred session for lively discussion by conference attendees with an interest in the health sciences. Rittenhouse is a conference sponsor supporting this session.

The 22nd Health Sciences Lively Lunchtime Discussion session will feature a panel of 3 librarians who will present on relevant and timely collection development topics before the conversation is opened up to all attendees. Expanding upon topics previously discussed at Charleston, presentations will address the challenges of collection building and providing resources to our constituents during times of uncertainty. While traveling over the ever-changing health sciences collections landscape, we will visit the twisty and, sometimes, unpaved paths of seeking alternative funding sources, being responsive to emerging technological developments, and integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) considerations and criteria into our collections work.

Sarah McClung will discuss the “ins” and “outs” of grant writing and funding proposals for health sciences collections projects, including the value and complexity that partnerships bring to the process. Karen Gau will provide a snapshot of DEI collections projects and pilots underway at various institutions. Andrea McLellan will briefly guide us through the alleys and gullies of addressing demand and acquiring virtual reality resources for our collections.

Moderator Ramune Kubilius will briefly highlight and share a link to this year’s edition of the annual “Developments” handout that she has compiled, of interesting and noteworthy trends of the past year. To conclude the session, attendees will be invited to participate in a lively discussion of the trends, innovations, and challenges surfaced (and inspired) by the presentations.

(Note: The session title, "Down long wiggled roads", was inspired by a snappy line in the book, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!)

Andrea McLellan is the Head of Collections and Technical Services at McMaster University Health Sciences Library, in Hamilton, Canada. She is active on the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) Information Resource committee, the Collection Assessment and Evaluation Subcommittee, and is co-moderator of the OCUL Assessment Community. In addition to collection activities, she serves on the McMaster University Undergraduate Medicine Curriculum Committee and is past chair of the Medical Library Association User Experience Caucus.

Karen Gau oversees the expenditure of collections funds earmarked for the health sciences. She evaluates health sciences print books, ebooks, databases, journals, multimedia and other resources for inclusion in VCU Libraries' collection. 

A longtime health sciences librarian who has had various roles in MLA (Medical Library Association), most recently as a member of the Special Program Committee for the 2022 Collection Development/Publishing/ Resource Sharing Summit. Member of SLA (Special Libraries Association); board member in its SLA-IL chapter. Member of regional and state health sciences library organizations. Involved with Charleston Conference as one of the program directors; recruiter and compiler of “And They Were There” conference session reports for Charleston Hub; part of the planning group that organizes health sciences Lively Lunchtime sessions (22nd in 2022).  

Sarah McClung is the head of collection development at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) where she oversees the development and management of the Library’s extensive health sciences collections and serves as the interlibrary services manager. She was the 2022 recipient of the Medical Library Association's Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences. She represents UCSF on many UC-wide groups and has held multiple leadership positions in the Medical Library Association, the Northern California and Nevada Medical Library Group, and the Librarians Association of the University of California. She has worked in academic health sciences libraries for over a decade.