First Friday Forums are a networking space to share our challenges, ideas, successes, and more!
They occur the first Friday (or second if there's a holiday or schedule conflict) of every month at 9am PT / 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET starting in 2024. Previously, First Friday Forums occurred every other month. The announcement with a link to attend will be shared on the HSIG listservs and elsewhere. Each month is a new topic and a different facilitator. If you are interested in facilitating a conversation on a specific topic, please email jules.bailey@fsu.edu.
Everyone is welcome, regardless of your affiliation with ALA, ACRL, or HSIG.
Starting in 2024, we are now recording the presentation portion of First Friday Forums. If a forum includes time for discussion, we will turn the recording off so people may speak freely. In the past, First Friday Forums were never recorded.
We ask that all members of the conversation respect each other's privacy, so we can speak openly about the challenges we've faced and the solutions we can offer. Sometimes aggregate or anonymized notes are shared on the listserv and linked below.
Next First Friday Forum
May 3, 2024
Past First Friday Forums
December 2021: Facul-tastrophes: Challenges and Successes in Working with Faculty
February 2022: Systematic Reviews: Setting Reasonable Expectations
April 2022: Library Adaptations to COVID: Where are we going next?
June 2022: How can librarians conduct and collaborate on our own research?
August 2022: What’s in a One-Shot? Unpacking the Challenge of Health Sciences Library Instruction in the One Shot Format
October 2022: Staffing Shortages Solutions & Successes
December 2022: Lovely Library Lessons (celebrating our successes in 2022)
February 3rd, 2023: Communicating Evidence-Based Practice: Using Standards to Find Common Ground - facilitated by Caitlin Plovnick, Lead, Education and Curriculum Integration at the Medical Library, of New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine.
April 7th, 2023: ACRL Post-conference Chat
June 2nd, 2023: NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy facilitated by Mara Sedlins, Data Management Specialist at Colorado State University
August 4th, 2023: "How has the COVID-19 pandemic influenced reference, research, and instruction in health sciences libraries?" with Dr. Deborah Charbonneau and Dr. Emily Vardell
March 8, 2024: Evidence-Based Refresher: Best Practices, Tools, and Resources, facilitated by Howard Rodriguez-Mori (Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine) - recording - slides
April 5, 2024: Evidence Synthesis: Managing the Faculty Consultation, facilitated by Jules Bailey (Florida State University) and Anita Kuiken (Syracuse University) - recording - slides - chat
with Lisa M. Acuff, MPH, MS and Katie Hoskins, MLS, MEd, AHIP
with Susanne Markgren and Linda Miles
Padlet: What resources are available for becoming a health sciences librarian?
National Library of Medicine Resources for Citizen Science presented by Elaina Vitale Nv. 12, 2018
This recording no longer available.
