SCC/MLA 2025 Annual Meeting | Little Rock, Arkansas | October 24-29, 2025
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| Date: | Saturday, October 25, 2025 |
| Time: | 8:00am-10:00am |
| MLA CE Credit: |
2 Credit Hours |
| Fee: | $25 |
Reading the Room: How Subtle Dynamics Shape Your Workday
This session offers an engaging exploration into the subtle influences shaping professional environments, specifically tailored for medical librarians. Through a thoughtful and non-confrontational approach, we will delve beneath everyday workplace interactions, highlighting how perceptions, communication styles, and unconscious factors collectively impact personal wellness and professional excellence. This interactive session will integrate real-world scenarios from library settings, providing attendees with practical tools to foster healthier, more inclusive, and productive professional relationships.
At the end of the workshop participants will be able to:
• Identify subtle factors influencing workplace dynamics, including unconscious bias and communication barriers.
• Develop strategies to manage and positively redirect challenging interactions in professional environments.
• Apply enhanced interpersonal skills to improve professional collaboration and personal wellness within their roles.
• Recognize the link between inclusive professional practices and personal wellness and implement actionable steps to foster inclusive excellence.
Instructor:
Dr. Michael Hicks – Community Mental Health Specialist Educator – TSC Training Development LLC
| Date: | Saturday October 25th, 2025 |
| Time: | 8:00am-10:00am |
| MLA CE Credit: |
2 Credit Hours |
| Fee: | $30 |
Project & Data Management in Evidence Syntheses
Consulting on evidence syntheses projects is now a common task for many medical librarians. Utilizing appropriate project and data management through the projects is vital to the review being conducted efficiently and matching appropriate standards. This course will provide a strong foundation in the principles and best practices for project and data management in systematic reviews and other syntheses types.
At the end of the workshop participants will be able to:
• Define project management for systematic reviews and best practices
• Use template for data management for systematic reviews
• Describe important data to track for evidence syntheses
• Use checklist for consulting with review authors
Instructor:
Margaret Foster – Evidence Synthesis & Scholarly Dissemination Librarian, Texas A&M University
| Date: | Saturday October 25th, 2025 |
| Time: | 1:30pm-4:30pm |
| MLA CE Credit: |
3 Credit Hours |
| Fee: | $40 |
Tools to Support Searching for Evidence Synthesis
Searching for evidence syntheses projects can be time consuming. New tools are being developed to help in many of the processes, but it is difficult to keep up and learn about new tools. This course will provide an opportunity to learn about new tools to help across searching such as term finding, deduplication, translation of searches across new databases and platforms, grey literature searching, and citation chasing.
At the end of the workshop participants will be able to:
• Define searching standards using Cochrane MECIR standards as a checklist
• List tools to help with term finding and translating searches
• Describe options for deduplication
• Describe options and tools for grey literature and citation searching
Instructor:
Margaret Foster – Evidence Synthesis & Scholarly Dissemination Librarian, Texas A&M University
| Date: | Sunday October 26th, 2025 |
| Time: | 9:00am-12:00pm |
| MLA CE Credit: |
3 Credit Hours |
| Fee: | $40 |
4 Tools for Assessing Health Education Materials
How do you know if health education materials are easy-to-read? This 2-hour in person class or Webinar provides an overview of 4 free tools you can use to assess health education material. We’ll discuss the key elements, differences, and similarities of Clear Communications Index (CCI), Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM), Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT), and NLM’s Health Education Materials Assessment Tool (HEMAT). Learners will use NLM’s HEMAT to evaluate health education material in an exploratory exercise.
At the end of the workshop participants will be able to:
• Explain the benefits of assessing health education materials
• Identify the key elements, differences, and similarities of 4 health education material assessment tools
• Clear Communications Index (CCI)
• Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM)
• Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT)
• NLM’s Health Education Materials Assessment Tool (HEMAT)
• Use the NLM's HEMAT to evaluate health education materials
Instructor:
Molly Knapp – Training Development Manager – NNLM/University of Utah
| Date: | Sunday October 26th, 2025 |
| Time: | 1:00pm-3:00pm |
| MLA CE Credit: |
2 Credit Hours |
| Fee: | $25 |
Local Arrangements Committee
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| Jeff Slagell | LAC Co-Chair |
| Susan Steelman | LAC Co-Chair |