Medicine and Health Sciences Commons^™

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 …

Ranking Library Tasks For Redesigning A Medical Academic Health Center And University Mobile Web Site, Daniel G. Kipnis, Msi, Gary Kaplan, Mslis, Ann Koopman, Am, Brian Kysela, Joseph Zavorski

Daniel G. Kipnis

Objectives: (1) To determine what library-related tasks users most want to be able to perform on their mobile devices (smartphones, iPads,etc.), using a modified Likert scale, freetext and multiple choice questions to rank the most common tasks. (2) To redesign our existing Library mobile site.

Feeding The Fledgling Repository: Starting An Institutional Repository At An Academic Health Sciences Library., Ann E. Koopman, Am, Daniel G. Kipnis, Msi

Daniel G. Kipnis

In 2005, the Scott Memorial Library at Thomas Jefferson University started an institutional repository (IR), the Jefferson Digital Commons (JDC) . Originally intended as a showcase for faculty scholarship, it has evolved to serve also as a university press for original journals and newsletters, and as an institutional archive. Many lessons have been learned about marketing techniques, common IR issues, and advantages of an IR for a library. IR recruitment has come to be viewed as yet another form of collection development and has been integrated into all forms of the Library's outreach. Jefferson's academic health sciences environment has proven …

Promoting Your Institutional Repository On And Off Campus, Daniel G. Kipnis, Msi

Daniel G. Kipnis

Webinar presentation for Association for Library Collections and Technical Services.