HSIG Webinar: Embedded Librarianship: The Ambulance Riding Librarian

• Wanda Whitney
• August 27, 2013
• Events and Meetings
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Join the ACRL Health Sciences Interest Group (HSIG) as Kacy Allgood, the Ambulance Riding Librarian, tells us all about her adventures as an embedded librarian in a very non-traditional setting.

• WHEN: Sept. 12th, 1pm Eastern
• WHERE: Online – url to be provided
• FREE! No cost for this webinar.

Registration: http://schedule.library.ipfw.edu/event.php?id=385436

Questions?:   johnsons@ipfw.edu OR 260-481-6502

FULL DESCRIPTION:

In 2012, Kacy Allgood was awarded the Grace and Harold Sewell Fellowship for embedded medical librarians. She currently provides information services to Indianapolis EMS, the largest 911 ambulance service in Indiana, the Indiana University Department of Emergency Medicine – Division of Out-of-Hospital Care, MESH, a disaster preparedness agency & healthcare coalition and Indiana Emergency Medical Services for Children. All of these agencies collaborate to provide evidence-based prehospital care for Indianapolis. Kacy got her EMT-B from Decatur Township Fire Department (Indianapolis) in 1998, an undergraduate in Business in 2003 and her MLS in 2007 – both from Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis. Prior to her work for emergency medical services, she spent four years as a reference librarian at the Indiana University School of Medicine Library. She also spent several years in market research. When she’s not working, she likes to bike, swim, hike and get her cats stoned on catnip.
For more information on Kacy’s experiences, see her blog at http://www.ambulanceridinglibrarian.com/