A Practical Guide to Scholarly Activity for Health Sciences Librarians

Abstract

This guide to scholarly activities provides early- and mid-career health sciences librarians with a path to immersing in scholarly activities. The four levels walk librarians through increasing stages of scholarship. Early-career librarians will begin at the first level, navigating from discovering mentors and areas of research interest to level two, publishing a resource or book review and finding their first public speaking opportunity. More experienced librarians will find where they are on the path and continue to build their scholarship all the way to conducting and publishing original research and becoming leaders in their field.

Keywords:

• Health sciences librarian
• medical librarian
• publishing
• scholarly activity

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Carly Lambert for providing research support and to Natasha Williams for reviewing the manuscript.

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Notes on contributors

Terri Gotschall

Terri Gotschall, MLIS, AHIP ([email protected]) is the Scholarly Communications Librarian, Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL, USA.

Shalu Gillum

Shalu Gillum, JD, MLS, AHIP ([email protected]) is the Head of Public Services, Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL, USA.

Nadine Dexter

Nadine Dexter, Ed.D, MLS, D-AHIP ([email protected]) is the Director of the Health Sciences Library, Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library, Co-Director of Medical Informatics, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL, USA.