End of June, I was invited to deliver a lecture on “Selection of studies” for doing a systematic review. This was at a three day workshop on systematic reviews at ACTREC – which is a centre of the well known Tata Memorial Hospital in my city. A friend of mine – Satish is the librarian there and he was delivering the lecture on the topic I normally take – which is – Literature searching. I enjoyed this change. More so because about ten years ago I had actually done the screening of studies for a major review.
At that time I was coached by another expert and remembered many steps. I planned my talk. Oh yes – this time I took the help of AI, and it made my job faster. But – I did tweak it a lot and proudly claim it IS “My talk”. I believe in doing it by myself, with help from AI.
After my talk there was a practical session where Satish, another librarian friend Medha, my colleague Dipti and I – all helped coordinate a literature searching demo cum practical.
The fun part of the day, was a fond memory – Medha, Satish and I had all started our careers in librarianship – not in a medical library, but in the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism. We recalled our respective days out there fondly, and sent a picture of the three of us, to another long time (now retired) librarian of the IIG – telling her – “We wish you were with us now for this picture!”
Some events are livened up thus!
– Vasumathi Sriganesh –