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An Academic Library-Biotech Industry Partnership: Defining A Collaboration, Deborah A. Crooke, Marie T. Ascher, Marta Ambroziak May 2015

An Academic Library-Biotech Industry Partnership: Defining A Collaboration, Deborah A. Crooke, Marie T. Ascher, Marta Ambroziak

NYMC Faculty Posters

New York Medical College opened BioInc@NYMC, a multimillion-dollar government-funded biotechnology incubator, in October 2014. To spur medical innovation and economic development, the public and private sectors collaborated to provide biotech start-ups with state-of-the-art facilities. By April 2015 four start-up companies had joined the incubator. The Health Sciences Library was given a unique opportunity to interface with the private biotechnology industry and define an academic library-biotechnology industry partnership.


The Mla Research Agenda: What Do We Know? The Systematic Review Project: A Status Report, Marie T. Ascher, Heather Holmes, Jonathan Eldredge May 2014

The Mla Research Agenda: What Do We Know? The Systematic Review Project: A Status Report, Marie T. Ascher, Heather Holmes, Jonathan Eldredge

NYMC Faculty Posters

Objectives: The Research Agenda Committee of the MLA Research Section published the second MLA Research Agenda in 2012. The Research Agenda is a list of "the most important and answerable questions facing the profession." In 2013, the committee proposed teams of librarian researchers be deployed to conduct systematic reviews to determine the evidence relative to these questions.


Addressing Information Management Competency Attainment Through Consultations: An Effective And Sustainable Strategy?, Marie T. Ascher, Penny Liberatos May 2013

Addressing Information Management Competency Attainment Through Consultations: An Effective And Sustainable Strategy?, Marie T. Ascher, Penny Liberatos

NYMC Faculty Posters

Objectives: To study the application of local information management competencies in the context of a research methods class in the university's behavioral sciences program. We sought to measure competencies, address them through targeted individualized consultative instructional sessions, and evaluate improvement of skills as well as the sustainability of this level of concentrated individualized service.


Addressing The Mla Research Agenda Questions: Where Are We Now?, Marie T. Ascher, Heather Holmes, Jonathan Eldredge May 2013

Addressing The Mla Research Agenda Questions: Where Are We Now?, Marie T. Ascher, Heather Holmes, Jonathan Eldredge

NYMC Faculty Posters

No abstract provided.


Seeking Out New Blood (And Brains!) For Section Membership Through Quick Response (Qr) Codes And Zombies, Marie T. Ascher, Beth Whipple May 2012

Seeking Out New Blood (And Brains!) For Section Membership Through Quick Response (Qr) Codes And Zombies, Marie T. Ascher, Beth Whipple

NYMC Faculty Posters

Objectives: Although the Medical Informatics Section (MIS) is one of the largest MLA sections, new ways to enhance section membership breathe life into a section. The creation of a Zombie Hunt game is a novel interactive approach to encourage people to join our section, have fun, and use some technology during MLA '12.


Mla Amplified: Content Analysis And Tweeter Tales, Marcus Banks, Marie T. Ascher May 2011

Mla Amplified: Content Analysis And Tweeter Tales, Marcus Banks, Marie T. Ascher

NYMC Faculty Posters

Objectives: During the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, in addition to the conference blog with official bloggers, there was an active Twitter stream using the hashtag #mla2010. Lorcan Dempsey has coined the term “amplified conference” to refer to conferences which employ social media and networking tools (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc.) to communicate conference content. This poster presents an overview of the #mla2010 Tweets as a social and intellectual history of the meeting.


Redesigning A Mobile Site: Lessons Learned, Jovy-Anne O'Grady, Marie T. Ascher, Afsar Mohiuddin, Diana J. Cunningham May 2011

Redesigning A Mobile Site: Lessons Learned, Jovy-Anne O'Grady, Marie T. Ascher, Afsar Mohiuddin, Diana J. Cunningham

NYMC Faculty Posters

A mobile site redesign was conducted at a medium-sized academic health sciences library with the goal of creating a site that meets the mobile information needs of its users.


10 Steps To An Engaging Annual Report, Marta Ambroziak, Jovy-Anne O'Grady, Rie Smethurst, Diana J. Cunningham May 2011

10 Steps To An Engaging Annual Report, Marta Ambroziak, Jovy-Anne O'Grady, Rie Smethurst, Diana J. Cunningham

NYMC Faculty Posters

No abstract provided.