Past Mid-Continental Chapter CE Offerings
Courses offered at annual chapter meeting unless noted otherwise.
2015 (Virtual)
Symposium of Sages. 1 hour total. Free with paid conference registration.
Video Made the Library Star. Erin Wimmer. Sharing the library’s value through fun, innovative,
and inexpensive multimedia. Participants will acquire tips for implementing a video project by
identifying free or inexpensive ways to create videos, steps to take to prepare for a video
project, recognizing opportunities and challenges, and promotion of the finished project.
Be a Wiz at Visualizing Data. Monica Rogers. Learn how to visualize data through a brief
demonstration using Tableau software and discuss the variety and types of visualizations
available such as charts, tables, interactive graphs, etc., as well as taking into account other
considerations when creating data visualizations.
It’s Who You Know: Building and Maintaining a Personal Network. Lisa Traditi. Networking
is the art of developing mutually beneficial relationships with the people around you. Librarians
can and should easily develop this skill and use it to promote themselves, their library services,
and to create constructive working relationships with people at all levels within the organization.
Participants will acquire knowledge of how networking can help them personally and
professionals as well as tips and tricks for building and maintaining constructive, positive
relationships with people at all levels of influence.
2013 (Salt Lake City)
 Pubmed for Trainers. Sharon Dennis, Rebecca Brown, Jessi Van Der Volgen. 15
hours. Free
 Teaching about evidence-based practice. Lisa Traditi. 4 hours. $100. This course will
provide participants with the information necessary to start teaching or improve classes
on searching the literature for the evidence and applying evidence to health sciences
practice. Participants will explore the librarian's role in evidence-based practice (EBP),
develop learning exercises using evidence-based database resources, explore and
develop methods for integrating EBP into the curricula of health sciences programs, and
leave with planning and marketing tips for their evidence-based health care instruction.
This course uses demonstration, small and large group learning formats, and discussion
in a highly interactive and hands-on style.
 Why health services research matters. Erica Lake, Jessi Van Der Volgen. 4 hours.
$100. One of the main components of the current healthcare reform bills is to expand
insurance while increasing efficiencies through cost containment. Comparative
effectiveness, health technology assessment, and quality improvement research help to
weigh the strengths and weaknesses of various therapeutics, diagnostics, and
treatments. Healthcare administrators and clinicians will be increasingly in need of this
type of information, as they strive to affect change in the cost and quality of care. This
course provides an overview of the health services research field resources and search
strategies to aid librarians in locating current literature to inform decision making.
 Applying information expertise to the challenge of diagnostic error reduction. Lori
Zipperer, Barbara Jones. 4 hours. $100. This four-hour session for information
professionals focuses on how librarians can work with clinicians to combat diagnostic
error through recognition and disruption of the impact of bias on the evidence access,
identification and use process. This innovative session will highlight personal awareness
tools and the partnership opportunities for librarians as they work together to reduce
factors contributing to diagnostic error.
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Symposium of Technology Sages. Abby Adamczyk, Nancy Lombardo, James Britsch,
Rachel Vukas, Ben Harnke, Emily Eresuma. 4 hours. $100. Join six librarians who will
share their technology tips and tricks with you. Each instructor will give a short
presentation on a technology topic. Productivity Tools: Abby Adamczyk will discuss
various productivity tools that you can use to change the way you work. This will include
tools to track time and effort, tools for project management, and tools for managing your
email. We will talk about what each type of tool is used for and provide you with some
free or free-to-try options. Digital Collections: Which DAM tool is best for you? Nancy
Lombardo will briefly review some strategies for identifying the best Digital Asset
Management tool for your digital collections. There are many considerations, including
what type of collection you support (IR, EAD, Media resources, etc.) We will cover a list
of criteria to consider, as well as a mechanism for weighting and scoring a system. A list
of some of the more prominent DAMs available will also be provided. Google Scholar:
James Britsch will talk about Google Scholar and share some tips on how to take
advantage of its features. This session will cover topics such as: Searching Google
Scholar for articles, Bringing up citations for articles in APA, MLA, and other formats
automatically. Creating author profiles which allow the public to see who you are, what
you have published, and who is citing your work. Creating alerts that automatically email
you every time an article cites your work. Google Scholar Metrics, which shows the most
popular journals and articles on any topic. Citation Management Tools: Citation
Management Tools not only generate formatted bibliographies, but can also assist you in
collecting, organizing and sharing your resources. Rachel Vukas will examine and
compare some of the most popular tools, including free options. Tools for Coordinating
Census Data: Ben Harnke will discuss how to coordinate census data.Tools for
Gathering Statistics: Emily Eresuma will discuss tools to help you as you gather
statistics, focusing on Zoho.
2012 (Kansas City)
 Pubmed (15 MLA CE credits). Three online sessions, one in person session. Free.
 It’s Delivery Time: Maximize your Message with Effective Nonverbal Delivery (4
MLA CE credits). Instructor Jennifer Martin, PhD, professor of theatre Emerita at UMKC.
$100. Research shows that between 67 and 93 percent of all face-to-face
communication is nonverbal. Yet, most of us use ample time shaping the content of what
we deliver, and little time preparing the delivery of the message. Using the Three Mode
Perceptual Model, this class provides a framework for understanding how others
perceive us and the message we deliver. After learning the TMPM techniques,
attendees will apply them to three circumstances in your work life: an instructional
setting (ex., the beginning of a class), a formal presentation (ex., giving a paper), and an
informal self-introduction (ex., elevator speech). Attendees will practice the nonverbal
techniques for each type of presentation, so before the class please prepare a 90
second script for each of the professional circumstances.
 Positioning the professions: STM publishing. Jean Shipman and Tom Richardson,
instructors. 4 hours. $100. Librarians, publishers, and authors are affected by present
and future challenges and changes to the STM (science, technical, medicine) publishing
process. This class will enrich your knowledge and understanding about scholarly
communication environments from a librarian’s and a publisher’s perspective. Topics
such as peer review, ethical issues, online publishing, business models, and archiving
will be covered. Through lecture, slides, discussion, and dialogue, attendees will identify
shared goals and constituents, as well as schisms that divide these two groups. In doing
so, they will find out how communication and best practices can be effected, and put into
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practice in areas such as collection development, digital libraries, and institutional
repositories.
Statistical literacy for medical librarians: swimming in a sea of conflicting medical
claims. Stephen Simon, instructor. 4 hours. $100. In your role as librarian, do you need
to know, or want to increase your knowledge about statistical concepts such as
confidence intervals, odds ratios, p-values, and measures of risk? Do you strive to
interpret the medical literature, and wish you understood more clearly how studies relate
to research findings and conclusions? If so, this class is for you. We will use selected
articles from the medical literature as examples, and through a combination of lecture,
practice, and quizzes to check your knowledge, help to further your understanding of the
statistical terms and methods behind randomized trials, observational studies, and metaanalysis.
Power up your presentations. Rebecca Graves, instructor. 4 hours. $100. Do you
teach, inform, persuade, or entertain groups? What will your audience take away from
their experience? Come learn how to use data-dumps, visualization (SQVID, Six Ways
of Seeing), PowerPoint, and performance, to enhance your presentations. Use your
imagination to design content, and creatively use tools to deliver an enlivened
presentation. Participants are encouraged to come with a presentation to work on.
Copyright Webinar. Marie Reidelbach, Mary Helms. August 29. This session is jointly
sponsored by the MCMLA Education Committee and the NN/LM MidContinental Region,
who through the Professional Development Award, provided funding to attend a recent
conference, Managing Copyright Use. Responding to the ever increasing role of
technology in education, Marie Reidelbach will present information for educators
involving copyright, fair use, and intellectual property. Issues in the academic
environment related to using others’ materials in the classroom as well as the publication
of one’s own research will be highlighted. Mary Helms will also be available to address
some of the more commonly asked questions, particularly relating to resource licensing,
following the presentation.
2011 (St. Louis)
 Pubmed (free)
 Disaster Literacy 101. Robin Featherstone, instructor (free)
 Emerging technologies for librarians. Melissa DeSantis and Gabe Rios, instructors
($75)
 Librarians and Patient safety: we need leaders. Lorri Zipperer, instructor ($105)
 Symposium of sages ($75). Project management, Marty Magee; Conflict management,
Jerry Perry; Advisory boards, Claire Hamasu; Statistical analysis, Barb Jones;
Negotiating with vendors, John Bramble and Lynn Fortney; Consortiums/networking,
Peggy Mullaly-Quijas, Joyce Sickle, Dick Kammer.
2010 (Wichita)
 Online schoolhouse: intermediate screencasting and instructional design basics
($50). Rebecca Brown and Marty Magee, instructors
 NLM Gateway and Clinicaltrials.gov (free).
 NLM training pubmed (free)
 The agile librarians guide to thriving in any institution ($50). Michelynn McKnight
($50)
 Symposium of sages ($50). Time management, Lynn Fox; Health information literacy,
Jean Shipman; Publishing smart, Jeanne LeBer; Creating influence, Lisa Traditi;
Interlibrary loan, Heather Brown; Sources for Continued Learning, Marty Magee; Focus
Group Interviewing, Claire Hamasu; E-resources collection development, Stephanie
Nicely Aken
2009 (Breckinridge)
2008 (Cody)
 Creating influence: getting what you want
 If a picture’s worth a 1000 words: enhance your presentations by adding still and
animated screen captures.
 Introduction to Blogs and Wiki's
 Introduction to Study Design and Critical Appraisal
 Measuring Your Impact: Using Evaluation for Library Advocacy
 NLM Gateway and ClinicalTrials.gov**
 PubMed**
2007 (Omaha)
 Emerging Mobile Technologies
 Leadership Skills
 Bioinformatics Primer
 Getting Magnetized. Peg Allen.
 Expert Searching Nursing & Allied Health. Peg Allen.
 Research for Beginners
 Patient Safety
2006 (St. Louis)
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Business Reference and Competitive Intelligence Resources on the Web
Expert Searching for Nursing and Allied Health
Network and Security Primer: A Technical Discussion for Non-technical Staff
Thinking Like a MBA: Time, Money, Resources and Change Management in the
Library. Marty Magee.
It’s About Space, It’s About Time: File and Time Management
Introducing Bioinformatics: A Primer for Librarians
2005 (Salt Lake City)
 Searching PubMed
 Focus Group Interviewing: A Qualitative Research Methodology for the Library
 The Librarian as Professional: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
Complexity
 Technology Marathon: Setting the Pace, Creating a PowerPoint Poster
 Evidence-based Librarianship
 Technology Marathon: Setting the Pace: Tablet PCs for Instructing
 Technology Marathon: Setting the Pace, PDA
 Technology Marathon: Setting the Pace, Creating a Camtasia Movie
 Technology Marathon: Setting the Pace, Video-conferencing and Voice Over IP
 Becoming a Green and Sustainable Library
2004 (Kansas City)
 Consumer Health Libraries: Managing for Your Customer Base and Environment
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Dilbert in the Library
Entrepreneur Librarianship
Medical Library Downsizing: Administrative, Professional and Personal Strategies
for Coping with Change
No Comprende?: Spanish Health Information Resources for English Speaking
Librarians
Proving Your Worth: Professional Business, Marketing, and Political Tools
Today’s Technology: An Update
2003 (Sioux Falls)
 Consumer Health: an Evidence-Based Approach to Complementary and
Alternative Medicine
 Copyright & Database Protection
 PDAs in Libraries & Health Care Settings
 Research for Beginners: Seven Steps to Success
 Teaching Adults: Is It Different?