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Understanding How Regulatory And Ethical Principles Mitigate The Spread And Propagation Of Harmful Health Information: A Successful Fulbright Scholar Award Narrative, Bethany S. Mcgowan

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I used a Fulbright Scholar Award to work with librarians, information studies scholars, and policymakers in Finland to investigate what policies or policy tools were available to help balance the need between propagating accurate information, curbing dis/misinformation, and ensuring human rights of access to information. This policy assessment helped me understand how regulatory and ethical principles can mitigate the spread and propagation of harmful health information.

Introduction To Systematic Review Methodology Course Syllabus, Bethany S. Mcgowan

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The course syllabus for a 3-credit course on systematic review methodology, tailored to graduate students from across multiple disciplines.

Specialized Regional Conferences Support The Professional Development Of Subject Librarians: A 5-Year Analysis Of The Great Lakes Science Boot Camps For Librarians, Bethany S. Mcgowan, Jennifer Hart, Karen Hum

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Conference attendance can play an important role in supporting the professional development of subject librarians by offering opportunities that allow librarians to learn about new services, strategies, and technologies while growing and maintaining professional networks. However, barriers such as accessibility challenges, budgetary and resource restrictions, difficulty measuring learning gains, and difficulty measuring the value of professional development when applied to the job can restrict opportunities for many librarians. Specialized regional conferences have the potential to reduce many of these barriers. How can librarians, library administrators and conference organizers quantify the value of regional conference attendance as an accessible means for …

Learning Objective Measures And Participant Comments From The Great Lakes Science Boot Camps For Librarians, 2015-2019, Bethany S. Mcgowan, Jennifer Hart, Karen Hum

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5 of these 6 Excel files include Likert measures of participant responses to questions measuring the achievement of learning objectives for the Great Lakes Science Boot Camps for Librarians and Library School Students, from 2015-2019. Free-text comments are also included. 1 Excel file contains a coded dataset for free-text comments from 2015-2019, along with the results of a Principal Component Analysis.

This data complements the C&RL article, Specialized Regional Conferences Support the Professional Development Needs of Subject Librarians: A 5-Year Analysis of the Great Lakes Science Boot Camps for Librarians.

Graduate Student Confidence Following A For-Credit Systematic Review Course Pilot: Qualitative And Quantitative Data, Bethany S. Mcgowan, Jason B. Reed, Jane Yatcilla

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3 Excel files and supplementary tables that describe the qualitative and quantitative results of data analysis related to the case study, 'Graduate student confidence following a for-credit systematic review course pilot: a case report' (Journal of the Medical Library Association, April 2021). The course syllabus is also included as a Word document.

Appendices And Codebook For Evaluating Nursing Faculty's Use Of Frameworks And Standards In Information Literacy Instruction: A Multi-Institutional Study, Bethany S. Mcgowan, Laureen Cantwell, Jamie Conklin, Julie Planchon Wolf, Maribeth Slebodnik, Rebecca Raszewski, Sandy Mccarthy, Shannon Johnson

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In January 2018, the ACRL Health Sciences Interest Group (HSIG) convened a working group to revise the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Nursing (2013) into a Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education for Nursing. For nearly two years, the working group has conducted research to understand how nursing faculty integrate information literacy instruction in nursing education. Results from a review of the literature and surveying of nursing faculty at nine higher education institutions suggest that a majority of nursing faculty are unaware of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education but are intentional in using the …

2018 Great Lakes Science Boot Camp Schedule And Assessment Survey, Bethany S. Mcgowan

Libraries Faculty and Staff Supplemental Materials

These supplemental materials include a full schedule of events for the 2018 Great Lakes Science Boot Camp for Librarians at Purdue University, as well as a post-event participant assessment survey.

Introduction To Systematic Review For The Health Sciences, Jason B. Reed, Bethany Mcgowan, Jane Yatcilla

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Final syllabus for ILS 595 Introduction to Systematic Review for the Health Sciences. Offered spring 2019.