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The Impact Of Library Instruction On Medical Student Information Seeking Behavior, Angela Barr

Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC- MLA) Annual Meeting Posters/Presentations

Background

To describe initial efforts to impact the information seeking behaviors of medical students during Grand Rounds exercises completed in their first and second years of pre-clinical education.

Description

Librarians received student responses to an information literacy question that is embedded in the Grand Rounds activity and analyze the data as follows. Sources were tallied and grouped according to resource type. Next, librarians attempted to assess the quality of certain sources. Third, search terms provided by students were aggregated and analyzed to determine frequency of use. Finally, a DML librarian-educator presented the compiled data to the entire class, making suggestions …

Research Outside The Library: Perspectives Beyond The Scholarly Literature, Lara Sapp, Carolyn Schubert, Liz Chenevey

Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC- MLA) Annual Meeting Posters/Presentations

Background

Assignments in the health and behavioral sciences disciplines typically require students to locate peer-reviewed articles. However, relevant stakeholder perspectives cannot be gained if students only rely on scholarly literature, books, and other library-supported resources. This lightning talk will discuss an assignment that “took students beyond the library” to discover established knowledge and gaps related to their research. The purpose of the assignment was to help them uncover problems, issues, and questions that might guide the direction of their projects.

Description

Students in an Honors course, designed to support their research project proposals, were required to locate and interview three …

Choose Environmental Health And Justice As Your Next Adventure, April Wright, Faith Steele, Tiffany Chavis, Christine Nieman

Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC- MLA) Annual Meeting Posters/Presentations

Background

With health outcomes and disparities being linked to environmental degradation, libraries and librarians have an opportunity to empower their communities with information. Librarians, public health practitioners and community scientists can benefit from learning about environmental health and justice, specifically about how these topics can have an impact on heath literacy and rural health.

Description

Environmental conditions as a social determinant of health was identified by Healthy People 2030 as one of its priority areas. Our lightning talk will discuss the importance of understanding environmental health and justice issues related to medically underserved communities. Environmental justice issues are known to …

Giving It All You’Ve Got: The Value Of Extending Hours In An Academic Health Sciences Library, G.J. Corey Harmon, Kerry Sewell

Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC- MLA) Annual Meeting Posters/Presentations

Objective

University libraries’ student satisfaction surveys regularly reveal student demand for increased operating hours to accommodate student learning. While academic libraries may provide extended hours, use of such models in academic health sciences libraries appears to be less widely adopted, perhaps due to budgetary concerns and lower general gate counts than academic library counterparts that may already provide extended hours. In the face of student demands, our institution shifted its budget to provide an additional 10 weekend hours, between Friday and Sunday, to help meet these demands. This study assessed the return on investment for those increased hours by tracking …

Mapping It Out: Developing A Library Internship Program, Emily Hurst, Roy E. Brown, John Cyrus

Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC- MLA) Annual Meeting Posters/Presentations

Background

Newly graduated librarians often do not possess the knowledge and skills essential to practicing in a health sciences library. This mismatch in experience and expectations stems from a lack of exposure to health sciences librarianship and the typically general nature of graduate education in library and information science. This gap in skills and understanding stems from a lack of opportunities to develop in these areas. At the same time, many experienced health sciences librarians do not have the supervisory roles as a regular part of their work, resulting in fewer opportunities to build managerial skills and experience. In 2019 …

Resources For Osteopathic Medicine, Elaine Powers, Jessica Muller

Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC- MLA) Annual Meeting Posters/Presentations

Background

Collection development for Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (COMs) has been a challenge since strictly osteopathic resources are somewhat specialized in regard to content and acquisition.

Description

This poster will present a list of textbooks and journals needed to develop an osteopathic library collection. Organizations and publishers with osteopathic resources will also be described.

Conclusions

A “top ten” list of osteopathic titles as well as a comprehensive list of osteopathic books and resources provide collection development guidelines for Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine as well as for librarians in other types of medical facilities. Creation of a QR code will provide …

Successes And Challenges Of Being Interim Leaders During A Pandemic, Roy E. Brown, John Cyrus, Emily Hurst

Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC- MLA) Annual Meeting Posters/Presentations

Background

Assuming an interim leadership role presents personal opportunities for professional growth and organizational challenges. These challenges may stem from the temporary nature of the position and a lack of clear direction or decision-making authority. External forces, in this case the COVID-19 pandemic, also contribute to interim leaders' challenges. Library administration at a large public research university with multiple interim positions worked to identify potential challenges and possible solutions for those designated to interim leadership roles.

Description

This session will describe a plan created to facilitate the transition into and out of interim positions, set expectations for these roles, and …

Roll For Initiative! 101 Just Leveled Up: Choosing Intentionality In Course Redesign, Jennifer Monnin, Faythe Thurman, Kelly Diamond, Celia Shi, David Roth, Virginia Desouky

Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC- MLA) Annual Meeting Posters/Presentations

Background:

As demand for the health sciences (HS) section of the Library's introductory credit-bearing information literacy course outpaced available course seats and after a change to the course registration software made the section difficult to locate, a need was identified to update the coursework to be more relevant to HS students' specific learning needs. Three HS librarians and the Libraries' Office of Curriculum and Instructional Support (OCIS) collaborated to revamp this section to better meet the needs of future healthcare professionals. The revamped coursework was instituted beginning Fall 2021, and in Fall 2022 the section became its own unique class. …

Setting Off On A New Path: Reimaging A Library Department Annual Report, Jackson Hoch, Roy E. Brown, Emily Hurst

Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC- MLA) Annual Meeting Posters/Presentations

Background

Academic libraries annually produce reports highlighting the previous year's achievements while highlighting new resources, services, and programs. These are intended to communicate with different groups with different interests. The library in these reports must discuss what was done and how those activities provided value to the community of users. The librarians at a large public research university debated the effectiveness of the annual report produced within their department. An internship project was created to rethink the department’s annual report and develop a plan to determine its effectiveness. The project intended to allow the intern to learn more about how …

Book It Forward: An Engaging Community Project, Jessica Bauer, M. J. Tooey

Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC- MLA) Annual Meeting Posters/Presentations

Background

A two-fold need was identified in our community:

1. Parents and caregivers frequently have a need to do something with books their children have outgrown or left behind.
2. Many schools and daycare centers in the local community served by our university don’t have adequate books and reading materials for students and have a need to boost their libraries. Working with the university’s Community Engagement Center, the library launched a two-month book collection drive on campus.

Description

Staff from across the library created announcements and graphics promoting the drive and developed criteria for accepted donations. The team reached out to contacts …

Online Escape Rooms: What Do The Students Think?, Emily Gorman

Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC- MLA) Annual Meeting Posters/Presentations

Objective

Gamification is an increasingly popular teaching method for enhancing student engagement during instruction. Multiple learning games have been used over the last several years to introduce first-year pharmacy students to library and drug information resources. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of an online escape room-style game and to investigate student perspectives on this style of learning.

Methods

A librarian developed an online escape room-style learning game and facilitated the activity with first-year pharmacy students as part of their introductory laboratory course in Fall 2020. The escape room was adapted from a previously successful in-person …

Adventuring Into A University Common Read Program, Emily Hurst

Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC- MLA) Annual Meeting Posters/Presentations

Background

Each year a selection committee at a large urban university selects a book for all first year students. Books are sent out to students and then the title is used throughout many freshman level classes. Librarians are involved in the selection of the book, the creation of a resource guide with related information, and the creation of potential programs to support the themes and topics addressed in the book. The largest event is organized through the common read program and involves a lecture to the university community from the book author. For many years the book and common read …

The Self-Taught Marketers Guide To Creating An Annual Report, Everly D. Brown, Patrick T. Waugh, Tara R. Wink

Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC- MLA) Annual Meeting Posters/Presentations

Objective

To produce an easy-to-read, visually appealing, 1-4 page annual report for the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HSHSL). The report should be a mix of interesting statistics, highlights, stories, quotes, and photographs to promote the HSHSL’s annual accomplishments to the campus.

Methods

We gather all of the stories and statistics we think will be eligible material for the annual report, pulling content and ideas from: newsletters, workshops, blog posts, events, exhibits, and meetings with division and department heads. An annual report committee and visual designer decide upon the top stories and statistics, focusing upon …