HSLIC News

HSLIC is excited to welcome Jonathan Pringle, MAS, as the new Scholarly Communications and Digital Librarian.  Jonathan has a Master of Archival Studies with a First Nations Concentration from the University of British Columbia and is a certified Digital Archives Specialist from the Society of American Archivists.  For the past 8 years, he has worked as an Associate Archivist at Cline Library at Northern Arizona University and at the Museum of Northern Arizona for the three years prior. 

Jonathan is excited for creating greater visibility for the services HSLIC provides, particularly in the areas of scholarly communications, the digital repository and special collections. He enjoys using technology and developing policies to improve workflows that benefit the end user.  The medical field is new and he is finding where his strengths lie and how to best apply them in the new environment.  He has described the new position as having many opportunities and sees it as a “pick your own adventure”.

He and his husband Eston, along with their two cats Pixel & Clutch, are enjoying life in Albuquerque.  He has found the Duke City friendly and relaxed.  Jonathan likes meeting colleagues and invites you to stop by his office in the RAD suite.

On Thursday, October 24, members of the HSC community celebrated the launch of the book "Multidimensional Concept: Understanding Connections among Culture, Community, and Health" edited by Dr. Janet Page-Reeves.  The book has 19 chapters and over 40 authors from UNM, New Mexico, School of Medicine's Family and Community Medicine, including their Chair, Dr. David Rakel, and HSLIC faculty member Gale Hannigan, PhD, MPH, AHIP.  The collection highlights the unique interconnections between culture and health among communities in New Mexico and expands the concept of well-being as it relates to peoples’ everyday lives across the United States and internationally. 

The book will soon be available in HSLIC's collection.

HSLIC employees joined other members of the HSC community at Running Medicine's Flash Mob Walk/ Run on Friday, October 11.  It was a beautiful day and the event was great opportunity to enjoy the sunshine while catching up with coworkers & meeting people from across campus.

Future events are coming up at 12:15-12:45 p.m. on Friday October 25, November 8, and November 22.  The group will meet on the plaza outside of the library.  All walking and running speeds are welcome.

More information on the Running Medicine group, including their regular weekly meetings, can be found on their website: runningmedicine.org

Education Day is an annual event put on by the Office for Continuous Professional Learning (CPL) and gives HSC Faculty, Residents, Staff or Students a chance to share with the HSC community the great resources, opportunities to share education knowledge, and collaborations for innovation work happening around campus.  If you missed the opportunity to attend the Education Day posters and presentations you’re in luck.  They are now posted in the UNM Digital Repository.  You can find a copy of the agenda as well as a full document with all of the abstracts.  If you presented and your poster is not yet included, there’s still time to submit it.

It’s only been 5 days since Education Day and the material has already been downloaded 192 times.  Including your work in the Digital Repository is an excellent way to make it findable and accessible.  If you are interested in finding out more, please contact Data Management Expert Lori Sloane at lsloane@salud.unm.edu.

The Public Access team created a poster for Education Day which featured our Virtual Reality Lab. The poster highlighted a variety of applications where virtual reality can be utilized in all aspects of medical education. Faculty, staff and students were able to participate in workshops and presentations which featured resources that focus on the scope of education innovation within the Health Sciences Center (HSC).

HSLIC faculty and staff are eager to collaborate with other HSC departments to encourage integration of this technology into existing curricula and open a dialog regarding future projects, application purchases and the possibility of developing custom applications. 

The poster can be found in the Health Sciences Center Digital Repository.

Image taken by Lynn M. Lessard

We had a terrific time at our first ever Bullet Journaling event! It was really wonderful to meet so many students and employees of UNM and hear your needs for moving forward with work, research, writing, and school work.This was our first time offering an event like this and your participation has shown a need and your honest feedback has helped us to see where we can improve.

This event was initially envisioned as a drop-in-and-out session as a follow up to our Managing Impostor Syndrome workshop (where we discussed what impostor syndrome was, how it impacts your work, and how different techniques can help to manage it) where people could work on their bullet journals or download habit-tracking applications and ask one-on-one questions while they worked. However, two main comments came out that showed us we need to rethink this structure. Most attendees indicated that they would have preferred a workshop about bullet journaling and some others indicated an environment for group support would be useful. This was great to hear and we are so glad you shared this with us.

Moving forward we will be changing the structure in the spring 2020 semester. This new structure will start with an Introduction to Bullet Journaling and Habit-Tracking workshop that will cover what bullet journaling and habit-tracking are, how you can implement them into your workflow, resources for inspiration, and an expansive review of how these techniques can help with various concerns. Since everyone has different needs though, the workshop will then be followed by monthly sessions that will be based around a specific theme (like “bullet journaling/habit-tracking for research” or “bullet journaling/habit-tracking for managing impostor syndrome”) and will include a quick lecture, time to implement the theme into your bullet journaling/habit-tracking, and group discussion of what was done. So be on the lookout for information regarding our newly formatted workshop structure and thank you to all who attended and helped to show us what your needs and expectations are!