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Associate Professor @slimnews. #healthinsuranceliteracy and #informationbehavior researcher. Health Literacy and Libraries Coeditor 🏳️‍🌈💍🤱🏼 She/her/hers

Kansas
Joined April 2008
It was an honor to host @safiya at #mlanet24 and co-facilitate such an engaging conversation! What a career highlight! I'm so inspired and motivated to continue to infuse advocacy in our important information work.
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Proud to announce my new book #HealthLiteracy and Libraries, coedited w/ Deborah Charbonneau and published by @RLPGBooks & @MedLibAssn. Thanks to the contributing authors for their expertise in 23 chapters full of examples, advice, and research. #medlibs rowman.com/ISBN/978153818079…
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Hey, #Medlibs If you're at the SCC/ SCMLA Joint Conference, come find me for some sweet #mlanet24 swag! 👀🌲🐥
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🚨New article🚨"Cosplayers used a myriad of tools to seek, organize, and share information about costume making. Participants identified that their information practices had evolved over time, and they shared sophisticated strategies..." Read more: informationr.net/infres/arti…
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I'm so excited to be co-chairing the #mlanet24 conference. Join us for the Official Invitation session now!
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Watching the @MedLibAssn Business Meeting from home with a sick Clara, and we are so excited to celebrate Mamá! Congrats again to @brenda_linares on being elected as the President-Elect of MLA! #medlibs #mlasla23
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Karin Saric uses the framework of creative placemaking to align art and libraries. This framework helps move away from dominant worldviews and make intentional use of local spaces. #mlasla23
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.@hannahfnorton presenting an overview of comparing results of an assessment of liaison services from 2003 and 2022. ALL services were ranked higher for usefulness in the 2022 survey than the 2003. #mlasla23
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Please join me now in Room 252A for my #mlasla23 presentation "I wish there was a one-stop shop for a lot of this": Participant design of an infertility consumer health resource cdmcd.co/nQKXzp
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I think it's particularly helpful for librarians to think about workplace well-being considering all the emotional labor we do as people who work with the public. I'm definitely going to share this Surgeon General report in my reference course. #mlasla23
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This is the most helpful breakdown I've seen of the different and distinctive elements of ChatGPT! #mlasla23
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Anyone else when they heard there's dinosaur DNA in PubMed? #mlasla23
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📣 Three cheers for @RyloLH and Kate Flewelling for being fantastic moderators and asking great questions while facilitating this engaging and important talk on Radical Empathy with @TerriGivens #mlasla23
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That toxic situation is not you. It's something that's happening. It's good to have some distance when living through a toxic situation. - @TerriGivens #mlasla23
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Great turn out for our @RTIatMLA Ignite Poster session! Come to 142C to hear 11 Fellows discuss their research projects. #mlasla23
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Amazing progress of @RTIatMLA Fellows! @susanlessick presents this slide mapping where the Fellows are along the research trajectory. We're especially thrilled that RTI Fellows have published 25 research articles following participation in the RTI. #mlasla23
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.@susanlessick presents on the assessments of research capacity of @RTIatMLA Fellows. #mlasla23
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@susanlessick will focus on the results of assessments related to: prior research engagement, confidence following the @RTIatMLA, and perceptions of performance and impact. We at the RTI are thrilled to see great results all around! #mlasla23
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Amanda Sawyer is doing a great job with the @NLM_NIH PubMed update! Proximity searching received this biggest appreciative ooo from the audience! nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd… #mlasla23
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Oooh! Going to think of a way to incorporate this into one of my @slimnews courses! ✍️ #mlasla23
Try creating a Value Proposition Haiku for your library! #medlibs #mlasla23
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Jonathan Eldredge presents a new tested method for formulating a question: Focus, Amplify, and Compose (an alternative to PICO). There are at least 8 frameworks for formulating questions in the published literature. #mlasla23
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I believe Jonathan said he has a 30 page (!) chapter on Critical Appraisal coming out soon (did anyone get the details?). In this slide, he shares some tips. #mlasla23
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