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Taking Rdm To The Next Level With Data Science, Kathryn Vela

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

No abstract provided.

Point Of Learning: Teaching Point Of Care Tools At The Stage Of Determination, Laura Zeigen

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

No abstract provided.

Pubmed By The Pics: Teaching How To Search The Easy Way, Margaret Vugrin

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

This session presents an innovative method for teaching PubMed searching skills using visual graphics in order to develop a strong searching skill base. This method can be utilized on other databases with a controlled vocabulary structure. It also differentiates and explains these differences with non-structured vocabularies. Most often used with novice searchers entering clinical years in medicine and other healthcare disciplines, it has also been used as a refresher for other students and faculty. This teaching strategy has been used successfully in one-on-one situations as well as in group presentations. Simultaneous search strategy instruction and sketching demonstrates searching concepts which …

Lanthorn, Vol. 54, No. 12, October 28, 2019, Grand Valley State University

Volume 54, July 15, 2019 - April 27, 2020

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Innovative Collaborations: Social Work Student Interns At Public Libraries, Sarah C. Johnson

Publications and Research

While the collaborative trend among professional social workers and librarians is garnering much-deserved attention, literature about social work students partnering with public libraries is virtually non-existent. In fact, there are at least 73 partnerships yet a scarcity of academic literature addresses social work interns within public libraries. While there are students at Canadian libraries, this research focuses on the bulk of known partnerships based in the United States. Emerging from a mix of interviews and public resources, the author’s inquiry fosters this call to action: Social work educators must initiate interagency collaboration with libraries in order for students to expand …

Supporting Open Access Through A Student-Driven Journal, Jennifer Raye, Olivia Macisaac, Sheel Patel, Anne Perez, Morgan Ragsdale, Spencer Lindgren

Scholarship and Professional Work

BU Well is Butler University's open-access, multimedia, student-driven healthcare journal. BU Well was founded in 2014 as the first open-access, multimedia healthcare review journal in the nation. BU Well is a two year course for Butler University Health Science students, with students researching and producing the written articles, along with a multimedia component. When submitting, authors work with students on the editorial team to co-create an infographic and video. Continuing with the student-run model, the editorial board consists of upper-level health science students. With 2019’s Volume 5, students introduced podcasting as a multimedia component option. Once published, BU Well is …

Annual Report Of The Indiana Universiy Maurer School Of Law Digital Repository, 2018/19, Richard Vaughan

Digital Repository Annual Reports

A brief annual report documenting the use and growth of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Jerome Hall Law Library, Digital Repository. Includes lists of the most downloaded documents and attached Excel spreadsheets of data.

How Does Free Help Me? Mind-Blowing Things Like The Mapping Our Dna, Open Access Week Committee, Ucf Libraries

Open Access Week

How does free help me? Mind-blowing things like the mapping our DNA

Posted: October 24th, 2019

Ever hear of a little company called 23andMe? For around $100, you can get a breakdown of your global heritage. You can even get it for your dog or cat.

The availability to learn more about our own ancestry or genetic health markers is a result of the Human Genome Project. The original mapping of human DNA took thirteen years to complete, and involved 20 institutions around the globe. It is considered the world’s largest collaborative biological project, with a price tag of …

Foundational Pharmaceutical Sciences I Bps 337, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Clinical And Therapeutic Sciences I Php 327, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 54, No. 11, October 22, 2019, Grand Valley State University

Volume 54, July 15, 2019 - April 27, 2020

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Gov Docs Are Special Too! Primary Source Instruction Using Government Information Collections, Jen P. Kirk, Megan Graewingholt, Sarah Dobransky

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

• Introduction - 3 Presenters
• Case Studies and Lesson Plans
• Discussion Questions

1. Selecting Sources
2. Addressing Challenges
3. Outcomes

• Recommended Resources
• Questions/Discussion

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 044, Number 05, October 21, 2019, Grand Valley State University

2019-2020, Volume 44

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Barriers To Publication: Stories Of Ph.D. Students From Malaysian Universities, Lantip Diat Prasojo Prasojo, Akhmad Habibi, Muhammad Sofwan, Mohd Faiz Mohd Yaakob, Amirul Mukminin, Lia Yuliana

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aimed at elaborating barriers to publication perceived by doctoral (Ph.D.) students from Malaysian universities. We interviewed 7 Ph.D. students from 3 Malaysian universities. Besides, we also distributed a survey instrument to 125 participants who attended doctoral programs in 12 Malaysian universities. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the interview data. Meanwhile, descriptive statistics, t-test, and ANOVA were applied for the survey data analysis. Findings revealed some external barriers such as lack of funding for publication fee, lack of funding for professional translators, a response time of the reviewers, negative results of the review, and difficulties in coordinating with …

Applying Evidence-Based Research Principles In Review Design: Supporting Graduate And Faculty Research In The Life Sciences, Chris Fournier, Kate Ghezzi-Kopel

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

The reproducibility crisis in published scientific work is changing the way that research is designed and conducted. Librarians in academic institutions can play a key role in promoting improved adherence to evidence-based guidelines for performing literature reviews. The Cornell Systematic Review Team has developed a checklist, https://osf.io/2edg9/?pid=ezqpd, that can be used in research consultations as a conversation framework when assisting patrons with review design. This checklist is informed by widely accepted best practices for development of a sound systematic review protocol. Discussing this checklist with patrons promotes increased transparency, reduction of bias, and improved reproducibility of graduate student and …

Considering "Atmosphere" When Facilitating Information Seeking By People With Invisible Disabilities In Public Libraries, Rebecca Muir, Kim M. Thompson, Asim Qayyum

Faculty Publications

Twenty percent of Australians reported having a disability in 2015. Disability may occur at any time during the lifespan, however most disabilities are invisible. When a disability is invisible, or not immediately apparent to an outsider, individuals may need to self-identify to access inclusive services, or accommodation may never be offered at all.

When the perceived number of information seekers with a disability is low, information organisations may deem services unnecessary. Considering information access is a human right, information service providers and researchers need to seek low cost and low effort ways to facilitate information access and information seeking behaviors. …

Speak Up Through Video: Campus Collaboration For Effective Flipped Learning, Susan Franzen, Julie Derden

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

Let’s face it, sometimes librarians repeat the same content over and over. Or we have to present information that students find uninteresting and difficult to understand. To make repetitive, challenging library information engaging and entertaining, two librarians collaborated with their campus television production team to create videos to flip library instruction for education and nursing majors. After sharing basic information with a team of creative production interns and their faculty advisor, both librarians were thrilled with the inventive, instructive videos produced. One video featured a game show of data and statistics for a public health nursing course. The second used …

Changing The Expectations: Disability In The 21st Century Hpr 226g, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Student Learning: An Assessment Of Information Literacy Learning In Nursing Research One-Shots, Stephanie Wiegand

University Libraries Publications

Background

The objective of this research is to assess student learning in a library one-shot for Nursing students who are beginning to navigate the scholarly research system and to identify and procure primary and secondary research studies to support a clinical change.

Methods

NURS 380 is the research and evidence-based practice course for second-year nursing students taken in concert with clinical experiences. Three sections of this course (36 students each) were given the same lecture, hands-on practice, and facilitated research time with the same librarian during a three-hour session of the course. At the end of each session, the librarian …

Elevating Librarian-Mediated Search Services: When 2nd Best Isn't Good Enough, Danielle Westmark, Cynthia M. Schmidt, Teresa L. Hartman

Posters and Presentations: Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library

Objective: To optimize librarian-mediated search services, librarians must consider all aspects of their search service that affect service utilization and efficacy. The library literature provides little information concerning the format in which libraries are providing literature search results and even less on the effect of format on search service utilization.  At our academic health science library, the number of search requests received rose dramatically after we began providing results in RefShare format. RefShare is the collaboration tool available in ProQuest’s RefWorks®.  We wanted to know how other libraries were providing results and whether they had seen format affect search service …

Gender Equality And Sustainable Development Goals: The Role Of The Library And Information Professionals In Nigeria, Olalekan Moses Olayemi, Kemi Jummai Olayemi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Attempts have been made in Nigeria to address the issue of women's right, responsibility with a view to improving the socio-economic and political lots of Nigerian women as a whole. But global indices have steadily placed Nigeria within groups of low performers in terms of gender equality, with opportunities for improvement in a wide range of areas. To address the gender imbalances and respond to the challenges faced by women in the country, efforts must be made by all individuals and professions to address this inequality. The aim of this paper is to uncover the contributions and roles of libraries …

Going It Alone: Successes And Failures Developing A Single-Staff Systematic Review Service, Jenessa Mcelfresh

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: The purpose of this study is to document the successes and failures of solely developing and supporting a systematic review consultation service. While these insights are specific to the systematic review service creation process, the tips can be applied to any service idea met with high demand and little resources.

Methods: The systematic review service described in this study was developed at a non-health sciences specific university library at a Carnegie-R1 research institution. The service has a multi-tiered approach created using best practices identified from systematic review services offered at other institutions, and the strengths and weaknesses of the …

Squircle: One Month To Renegotiate License Agreements And Pricing To Include New Hospital Acquisitions, Jean Gudenas

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: To develop an adhoc workflow for renegotiating license agreements and pricing to support the medical center’s acquisition of new hospitals.

Methods: In reaction to the acquisition of new hospitals, the Library had to develop an adhoc workflow to inform vendors of the newly acquired hospitals, update license agreements, renegotiate pricing, and negotiate a funding increase to a shared services agreement. Collaborating with the Health System Administration Planning Team (HSAPT), a timeline was established as to when the hospitals would receive access to various services, including all library-subscribed and purchased material.

Results: The project timeline had a go-live date of …

Factors Motivating Older Population For Social Media Adoption, Muhammad Ramzan Dr, Hina Adeeb, Muhammad Asif

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Social media has become essential part of almost everyone’s life nowadays. Everyone is attracted to social media these days with bearing all its positive and contrary negative effects. The present research study aims to investigate the factors that motivate the older population to adopt Internet and social media. Previous studies have shown significant relation between age and social media usage. Cross sectional research with multistage cluster sampling design was employed to investigate the relationship of attitudinal, normative and control beliefs on older population to adopt social media. It is hypothesized that attitudinal, normative and control beliefs have significant positive relationship …

Squaring The Circle Through Outreach: Building Student Engagement From Scratch, Kay Strahan, Hilary Jasmin

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

OBJECTIVE The Library works with campus and community partners in order to make a positive impact on students, campus, and community. This poster describes a year of student events and engagement, the challenges and insights from those events, and the collective impact they have had on meeting student needs, increasing library visibility on campus, and enhancing communications between students and the library.

METHODS Needs assessment survey was conducted in Fall 2018 to measure what students would most like from the Library. Adjacently, the Library executed a number of events at varying times of year to engage the students such as …

Shaping Librarianship In Graduate Medical Education, Carrie Cullen, Laura Murray

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

TITLE: Shaping Librarianship in Graduate Medical Education

OBJECTIVE: To reshape the role of faculty librarian in graduate medical education by establishing relationships and demonstrating the value of health sciences librarians as partners in research and medical education.

METHODS: The librarian previously assigned as a liaison to graduate medical education at a public research institution left the position nearly one year before a successor was hired, and little was known about their activities in this role. This poster illustrates the efforts of two newly hired librarians to define and develop the role of an academic research and education librarian embedded in …

Fighting Size: The Negotiation For Study Space In The Face Of Aging Collections, Anya Mckinney

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

OBJECTIVE Meeting departmental goals and student expectations are a challenge with evolving budgets and changing perspectives on the purpose of library space. Repurposing library space to meet student needs while maintaining appropriate collections is a challenge and an opportunity for librarians and patrons alike. At South College, institutional growth and student demand for study space, both physical space and time, highlighted a need for change within the physical confines of the library department.

METHODS The libraries at the main South College campus and three other campuses underwent extensive remodeling to provide additional study space for students. The institution and Head …

Shaping Wikipedia Editing As A Teaching And Learning Tool To Promote Deep Learning And Information Literacy, Nadine Dexter, David Lebowitz Md, Amin Azzam Md

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Research has shown that at least 94% of medical students use Wikipedia as an information resource (Usaid, 2012), despite medical school faculty telling them not to. In fact, medical schools do not train students to improve Wikipedia or use it critically (Azzam, 2017). The Wikiproject Medicine course was created at the invitation and in partnership with Dr. Amin Azzam at the University of California San Francisco, who started the original program in 2013. This class is offered to 4th year medical students and gives students an opportunity to edit already existing health related articles in Wikipedia to improve their quality …

Let's Play Kahoot! Teaching Epocrates To High School Students Through Online Game-Based Learning, Terri Johnson, Thesla Brene-Anderson

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Poster Title: Let’s Play KAHOOT! Teaching Epocrates Through Online Game-Based Learning to High School Students.

Background: The Florida State University College of Medicine hosts a one-week residential summer program on campus for high school students. The Science Students Together Reaching Instructional Diversity & Excellence (SSTRIDE) Summer Institute motivates students to excel academically, introduces students to a variety of clinical settings, provides standardized test preparation for ACT and SAT, provides mentoring, exposes students to college life, gives students a perspective on the life of a medical student, expose students to certain aspects of the medical school curriculum through interaction with faculty …

Collaboration Picnic: Developing And Maintaining A Growing Network Of Research Partners Across The United States For Successful Research Production, Jenessa Mcelfresh, Rachel Keiko Stark

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: The objective of this study was to highlight and document the ways that collaboration, specifically across great geographic and institutional differences, can be an asset when engaging in research in health sciences librarianship.

Methods: Impact and success were measured through formal outcomes (publications/presentations) and informal observations, primarily focusing on the collaboration experiences of two health sciences librarians in non-health sciences academic libraries. The history of collaboration spans from 2015-present day and includes demonstrated outcomes on the local, regional, and national level.

Results: The results of this study of collaboration demonstrate that long-term research collaborations across geographic and institutional boundaries …