Charlotte Beyer

librarian, information literacy cheerleader, teacher, Mrs. Wheezy. thoughts are my own

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@NoetheMatt The number of responsibilities can vary where you work. Grad school was at an institution with multiple libraries in the system, but I spent most of my career at small libraries where there are less resources/staff etc.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@NoetheMatt From what I have been told is connected to simplifying pay grades for HR and easier for auditors who audit job descriptions. It's a mess.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@NoetheMatt There is a fun trend required by HR to make one librarian job description instead of specialized ones more specific for areas of expertise.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@andyhickner @umsi One of the challenges with salaries is that university HR will look at data from other institutions as the standard, but some do not ask if the standard is fair.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@NoetheMatt We get asked all of the time and it is as many have responded. Onsite walk up access is the only thing allowed at this time due to cost which even if vendors offered it would be more than the university would want to afford.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@angspenc I call it the good enough quotient...if they find something good enough they don't question anything and if they don't find anything they assume it can't be found.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@RoxanaDaneshjou The medical librarian community has noticed more students doing multiple systematic and scoping reviews in their clerkship years per student. Some are good work, but some are not high quality as they rush. Some are published in predatory journals with little peer review.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@carrieprice78 I spent over an hour trying to make it work before reverting to the classic view.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@__apf__ Free pianos are never free.

[Christopher David @Tazerface16]

My parents are both in the 80s, and I am only now just realizing this morning how they are being regularly victimized by low-level scams targeted at older folks.

There are entire industries solely designed to target seniors and extract small/medium amounts of money from them...

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@ashort221 @krafty As a community based graduate health sciences school this is an issue I have to bring up often as those trying to entice clinical partners will offer things without thinking about the potential impact.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@AmandaRossWhite @chicalibrarian It depends on institutional culture. At my place we are currently non-faculty professional staff with no professional pathway so conference participation does not matter to the university. I am making progress to change that but it is hard and other institutions may be similar.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@chicalibrarian For registration costs, the conference venue has things like minimum food costs and cost per number of rooms as well as insurance,etc. I would imagine livestreaming and hosting online has costs as well. The hard part is dividing it among members with our smaller group.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@pat_devine I meant ALA.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@pat_devine I think one thing which hurts us is the size of the membership we draw from combined with low salaries/PD money. The smallest of those associations is 38k and some of them have over 100k members which is larger than MLA.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@chicalibrarian I remember even before the pandemic there were things said about SLA's financial management and financial health. They are about the same size as MLA which some members being in both. So I don't know if that would be enough.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@chicalibrarian One of the challenges is that health sciences librarianship is a piece of a larger profession so it is a smaller group to begin with. Add to that shrinking professional development funding and growing responsibilities and the pool gets even smaller.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@chicalibrarian @tcshields @kgonza AAHSL is basically a group for library administration or those who want to go into it in institutions associated with MD or DO programs. If there are hospital librarians or health sciences librarians not associated with them that data will be missing.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

@chicalibrarian Thank you for the background and info. I think that the caucuses are a lot of groups and a large part of membership engagement so that would be a loss of an important voice on the board.

[Charlotte Beyer @referencediva]

Staffing the center for the next few hours....come and say hi :) #medlibs #mlasla2023

[Adela Justice #FireMikeMiles @chicalibrarian]

I promise you your resume has a typo on it, maybe more. Go get it checked! #mlasla23