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Human Books: Social Media, Unplugged, Patricia Wynne, Mslis, Dorothy E. Berenbrok, Mslis, Gary E. Kaplan, Mslis, Ahip, Helena Washington, Mslis

Academic Commons and Scott Memorial Library Staff Papers and Presentations

Objectives

Purpose: Enable health sciences students and staff to engage in dialogue to challenge common prejudices in a positive manner and to promote empathy for the patients and families they encounter.

Methods

Setting/Participants: Academic Health Sciences library serving students and staff in an urban hospital and university. The ‘reader’ participants included students, staff, and faculty from the academic medical center. The ‘book’ participants included volunteers from both inside and outside the institution.

Results

Brief Description: Adapting an international program, The Human Library, the library recruited ‘books’ who had experienced discrimination based on aspects of their lives such as race, sexual …

Evidence Based Practice (Ebp) Literature Searching Skills-Part 1 And 2, Patricia Wynne, Bsn, Ms

Academic Commons and Scott Memorial Library Staff Papers and Presentations

Two PowerPoint presentations presented at 8th Annual Nursing Research Conference, Christiana Hospital, Newark Delaware.

Part 1: slides 1-30

Part 2: slides 31-47

Library Catalog, Education Services

Academic Commons and Scott Memorial Library Staff Papers and Presentations

2 page handout highlighting library catalog features.