About Mark MacEachern

I'm a health sciences librarian living and working in the midwest US.  I'll try to stay focused on 'matters librarian', but I can't promise anything. 

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Wednesday
Jan272010

A Day in the Life - Wednesday

  • Provided the Nuclear Medicine Fellows with a talk on strategies for keeping current with the literature.  The talk was part of their Lecture Series, which I contribute to 4 times over the course of the year, covering topics pertinent to clinical and research work.  It's a small group, so it's more discussion than lecture.
  • Read through and made edits to the Article Discovery Working Group report I mentioned on Monday.  The report's due at the end of the week, so we agreed to get the Google Doc completed today (more or less).  We're having a prolonged meeting tomorrow to wrap things up. 
  • Met with two colleagues to discuss an EBM pharmacy course we're teaching in February.  To prep, we need to record the 'lectures' in advance and upload them to the course site.  Why?  Because the course is all team-based learning.  This means there's very little in the way of lecturing.  Which means that class time is devoted to things other than lecturing.  Things like teamwork and team exercises.  Beyond the recordings, we still have a lot to do - but we have a few weeks...
  • Most of my day was spent constructing and reconstructing a systematic review search for a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.  I might work on it a bit tonight, but regardless I'll have to work on it tomorrow. 
  • And - a colleague gave me a homeless - yet domesticated - plant.  It's green and on my desk.

The big news of the day was, of course, this:

If I had a HOF vote, I wouldn't've voted for Dawson. But now that he's in I'm glad he's going to be wearing an Expos cap. It would've been ridiculous otherwise. (From Big League Stew's Flickr photostream)

And - oh yeah - there was something about  an iPad as well...

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