Catherine K. Craven, MLS, MA
Clinical Librarian
Welch Medical Library
410-502-7574
E-mail: ckcraven@jhmi.edu
Whom I serve
If you're in the following departments/areas, don't hesitate. Please contact me. I am your official Welch Library liaison:
- Dermatology (Hospital and School of Medicine)
- Emergency Medicine (Hospital and School of Medicine)
- Oncology (Hospital and School of Medicine)
- Ophthalmology (Hospital and School of Medicine)
- Otolaryngology (Hospital and School of Medicine)
- Physical Med. & Rehab. (Hospital and School of Medicine)
- Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences (Hospital and School of Medicine)
- School of Medicine (Administration, Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Medical Students)
What I can do for you
As your Welch clinical informationist, it's my job to help you do yours. I want to ensure that you maximize your ability to access and effectively use state-of-the-art information resources and technology when you need it, wherever you are - in your office or home office, in your classrooms and clinics, on-the-go and at the point of care.
As a professional librarian and National Library of Medicine-trained medical informatics researcher*, I want to make sure that you are the best information searchers you can be - and to work on your team as your information expert.
As we get to know each other, we'll discover how I can best help you. For now, however, here is a sample of some of the services I can provide:
- Information resource orientations - general and topic-specific -- for new and current faculty, staff, students, residents and fellows;
- Consultations - for small-group and individual instruction sessions. I'll come to you - and no question is too big or too small;
- Hands-on group workshops with searching practice - again, general and topic-specific sessions;
- A-Z information-use and workflow assessment and knowledge-management solution planning - from how to use RefWorks, RefMan and Endnote to how to harness and leverage implicit organizational memory and expertise;
- Mobile-computing needs assessment and solution guidance;
- Indepth literature searching/support for ongoing projects.
Getting to know you
To expedite getting to know your needs, don't be surprised if I ask to
A) Set up an appointment to meet with you;
B) Attend faculty and staff meetings and departmental orientations and functions;
C) Participate in your Journal Club;
D) Sit in on Grand Rounds;
E) Round with you in your clinic.
In fact, beat me to the punch. Go ahead, invite me!
* Additional details about my training, experience and useful skills: database management systems coursework and project experience; a year of graduate statistics coursework; NSF and NIH grant writing and editing experience; master’s degree in journalism; leadership positions in state- and national-level organizations, including the American Medical Informatics Association.
