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Evidence-Informed Decision Making At Monash Health, Cassandra Gorton

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium

This presentation explores the development, implementation, and value of the Evidence Report Service at Monash Health Library – an initiative designed to reinforce evidence-informed decision-making across one of Australia’s largest public health services. The service provides timely, tailored evidence summaries in response to clinical, operational, and strategic queries from Monash Health employees, helping inform policy, practice, and service improvements. This presentation will outline the collaborative workflows that underpin the service, from question clarification and systematic searching to screening and report building. Following a systematic literature search, reports are produced by health librarians in a consistent, branded format that enhances readability …

Expanding Our Ir After Health System Combination: Nurses Lead The Way, Jennifer Deal, Karen Hanus

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium

In 2022, Advocate Aurora Health in Wisconsin and Illinois combined with Atrium Health in North Carolina and Georgia with Wake Forest School of Medicine as our academic core. The combined organization called Advocate Health includes multiple legacy libraries with one library serving the Advocate Health Midwest region (legacy Advocate Aurora Health) and four libraries serving different markets and educational schools in the Advocate Health Southeast region. The Midwest region has an institutional repository (SHARE) that collects scholarly activity for all Midwest teammates. No libraries in the Southeast region had an institutional repository at the time of combination. Nursing as a …

Clearing The Hurdles: Strategies For Accessibility Remediation In A Digital Repository, Laura Riley, Lori Micho

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium

In July 2024, a new accessibility law in Colorado took effect, which requires state and government agencies—including libraries—to make their digital content accessible to users with disabilities. Recognizing that digital accessibility is both a legal obligation and a fundamental part of equitable access to information, the Strauss Library at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus developed a step-by-step remediation plan to bring its institutional repository into compliance. The project began by rewriting outdated accessibility policies, then transitioned towards assessing collections, setting priorities, and developing workflows to remediate inaccessible files. This presentation will outline the strategic approach the library adopted …

Lessons Learned From Showcasing Repository Usage Statistics To Inform And Inspire, Hilary Davis, Avkash Chandra

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium

After one year of going live with our repository, researchers are capitalizing on the repository's benefits to enhance the impact of their work. One key set of data that has driven more inspiration and inquiry from our internal stakeholders is the repository statistics. We know that data dashboards are a common leverage point in our organization, so we decided to bring the repository statistics into the internal environment in which our stakeholders are already investing their time and resources. Our challenge was to create a dashboard of repository usage statistics to inform, inspire, and motivate uploads to our digital repository. …

Working With Local Government Planning Staff: The Need-To-Know Basics, Kimberly K. Gerhart-Fritz

Civil Engineering Professional Development Seminar

Many civil engineers will need to interact with local government during their careers. Understanding WHAT local government planners do and WHY they do it can make that process much easier to navigate, for all involved.

Unwilling, Unable, Unsafe: A Policy To Meet Unusual Sharing Requests, Abigail Goben, Andrew Boyd

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium

As funders require increased sharing, researchers are facing increased requests where they have concerns about sharing the data both in and beyond repositories. In order to anticipate these requests and establish a mechanism for response, the University of Illinois Chicago developed a data policy and framework to address sharing requests where a research is unwilling to share the data, unable to share the data, or they feel that the request makes them or their study subjects unsafe. This lightning talk will provide an overview of the considerations of the policy, the framework of the committee who will implement it, and …

The Case For Data Sharing: Generalist Repository Real-World User Stories, Lisa Curtin

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium

The NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy presents a significant challenge for librarians tasked with guiding researchers through a complex data repository landscape. This session will provide attendees with both practical tools and illustrative examples to support open data sharing practices at their institutions. The first part of the session (5 minutes) will provide an overview of the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) toolkit. We will highlight key resources—such as the generalist repository comparison chart (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3946719) and a data submission checklist (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14278906)—which can be used to facilitate researcher consultations and clarify the process of complying with the NIH policy. …

Contributors

Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

Contributor bios of Regeneración v.2.

A Plática With Jimmy Santiago Baca, Nick Daniel Rivas

Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

A Plática with Jimmy Santiago Baca, interview by Nick Daniel Rivas.

A Trauma-Informed Approach To Video Review In Medical Institutional Repositories, Amanda Greenwood

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium

Since the 1970s, the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Medical Center Hour has hosted speakers who explore the relationship between medicine and society. When patrons request access to recordings that have not been digitized, staff must carefully review the footage to identify sensitive material such as PHI and apply redactions before making the video accessible. While this process ensures compliance with privacy and confidentiality requirements, it can surface deeper emotional and ethical concerns. Staff may be exposed to distressing content during review, and patrons may be confronted with emotionally challenging material with little preparation. This presentation discusses how trauma-informed …

Re-Membering Self, Rewriting Histories, Reclaiming Futures: Chicanafuturist Agency In V. Castro's The Haunting Of Alejandra, Julia Reade

Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

Re-membering Self, Rewriting Histories, Reclaiming Futures: Chicanafuturist Agency in V. Castro's The Haunting of Alejandra by Julia Reade.

A Research Note On The Impact Of Chicana Femtoring In Chicana And Chicano Studies, Elizabeth González Cárdenas

Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

A Research Note on the Impact of Chicana Femtoring by Elizabeth González Cárdenas.

El Corazón Del Movimiento Continúa: Chicana/O Prison Art, Artivism, And A Call To Creation, Trisha Martinez, Gerald Lovato, Eric Christo Martinez

Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

El Corazón del Movimiento Continúa: Chicana/o Prison Art, Artivism, and a Call to Creation by Trisha Martinez, Gerald Lovato, and Eric Christo Martinez.

Cultivating Collections: Growing The Ir Through Collaboration, Jennifer Langford

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium

This presentation highlights the mutually beneficial partnership between the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Dr. Margaret A. Newman Center for Nursing Theory and the Health Science Historical Collections (HSHC), which includes the campus institutional repository (IR). What began as a one-off project has developed into a long-term, ongoing collaboration that enriches both units while expanding access to scholarly resources. Through this collaboration, two new collections were created within the IR. The first makes available archival resources that support nursing theory curriculum, research, and scholarship, ensuring that faculty, students, and researchers have digital access to unique and historically significant materials. …

Smarter Repositories—Leveraging Ai And Apis To Power Institutional Knowledge, Nicole Bentinganan

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium

Institutional repositories (IRs) are vital tools for preserving and showcasing the intellectual output of healthcare organizations, yet they often struggle to keep pace with the volume and complexity of modern research. This presentation explores how a librarian-led initiative is reimagining the IR as a dynamic, accessible, and strategic resource. By integrating automated harvesting and metadata enhancement tools, the repository supports more efficient collection, organization, and discovery of institutional publications—without placing undue burden on library staff or researchers.

Journal V.2: Full Issue

Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

Complete volume 2 journal.

Tuscholarshare Update: Celebrating 5 Years Of Search Data Deposits, Will Dean, Travis Nace, Jenny Pierce

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium

Temple University Libraries are celebrating the 5th anniversary of our institutional repository, TUScholarShare in 2025. In this presentation, we will give an overview of the first 5 years of the repository and provide an update from our first MIRL presentation in 2021 on the use of an institutional repository to share strategies for evidence synthesis projects. Evidence synthesis projects are an important research method based on transparency and depositing strategies reinforces that ethos. Librarians and information specialists working on these projects often look for existing searches as part of their workflow, and we have expanded the service over the years …

Outage As Opportunity: Local Backups For Long-Term Access, Sarah Weirich, Tara Wink, Amy Lubinski

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium

In 2024, the Internet Archive (IA) experienced a DDoS attack and subsequent outage that disrupted access to its materials. The University of Maryland, Baltimore’s (UMB) Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HSHSL) was directly affected, as our institutional repository/digital collections platform, the UMB Digital Archive, relies on Internet Archive URLs for many of its digitized historical collections. Due to storage constraints, these collections were linked through IA URIs rather than hosted directly in the repository. Past digitization contracts with the Internet Archive provided only URIs to the scans, and HSHSL never received local copies, leaving us without any access to …

Global Sleep Secrets, Health Services

International Education Week

Travel the globe, no passport required! Learn how cultures around the world prioritize rest and relaxation, and pick up practical tips to improve your own sleep routine. Visit the Health Services table in Student Union on Thursday, November 20 to explore global sleep customs, grab a free sleep kit (while supplies last!), earn Bonus Bucks just for stopping by, recharge, relax, and rest--the world's way.

Exploring Repository Platforms In Academic Health Sciences Libraries: Current Trends And Next Steps, Xiao Zeng, Shuyi Liu

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium

As open access continues to expand in the health sciences, institutional repositories (IRs) play a critical role in preserving, disseminating, and enhancing the discoverability of scholarly and clinical outputs. Yet, the repository platforms and infrastructures adopted by medical and health-related institutions remain underexplored. This lightning talk presents findings from 171 U.S. universities and medical schools—members of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries—focusing on the institutional repository platforms they employ (e.g., DSpace, Digital Commons, EPrints). The analysis highlights the distribution of IR platforms, institutional choices between open-source and hosted solutions, and the extent to which repositories support institution-wide versus health …

Welcome And Introduction, Steven Moore

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium

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Journal Of Early Hearing Detection And Intervention: Volume 10 Issue 1, Pages 1-58

Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

No abstract provided.

Third Grade Reading Proficiency In Deaf/Hard Of Hearing Children Who Received Early Intervention, Jareen Meinzen-Derr, Cassandra Conrad, Mekibib Altaye, Elodie Betances, Jayna Schumacher, Susan Wiley

Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

Background

Early enrollment in Part C Early Intervention (EI) by age 6 months is linked to improved language and kindergarten readiness in deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) children, but its effect on later academic outcomes is unclear. This study examines whether earlier (<6 months) or later (>6 months) enrollment influences third-grade reading proficiency.

Method

This study used data linked from three Ohio state agencies for infants identified with permanent hearing loss born 2008-2014 who received EI; 412 had third grade standardized reading tests. Reading levels were categorized from limited to advanced. Logistic regression assessed the association between enrollment timing and reading proficiency, …

The Radical Middle: Caregiver Beliefs About Language Access For Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Children, Monica Zmudzinski, Krystal L. Werfel

Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

The purpose of this study was to explore the communication choices of caregivers of deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) children. Specifically, we explored what communication options caregivers were presented with, identify what factors impacted a caregiver’s decision to pursue spoken language, and identify what barriers exist to learning sign language. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 caregivers of DHH children who had decision making power at the time of their child’s diagnosis. Transcripts were coded using an inductive approach with triangulation between authors. Many families reported that minimal to no information was provided about communication options at the time …

Deaf Parents’ Infant-Directed Touch With Their Hearing And Deaf Babies: Intuitive, Cultural, Or In Need Of Instruction?, Brenda C. Seal Ph.D.

Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

No abstract provided.

Evaluating Preschoolers Who Are Deaf/Hard Of Hearing Using Listening And Spoken Language To Determine Special Education Eligibility, Kameron C. Carden, R. A. Mcwilliam

Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

The aim of this study was to increase understanding of evaluation practices used when determining special education eligibility for preschoolers who are deaf/hard of hearing (DHH) using listening and spoken language (LSL), particularly during the early intervention to preschool transition. Specifically, we explored alignment of school-based practices with recommended practices from the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE, 2018). An online survey was distributed to school-based special educators, including speech-language pathologists (SLPs), special education teachers, and teachers of the deaf within the United States that included a) evaluation practices, b) eligibility requirements, and c) practice demographics. Participant …

Developing A Research Agenda In Partnership With Parents Of Deaf/Hard-Of-Hearing Children, Carrie A. Davenport, Ursula M. Findlen, Ann Schenk Mcalearney, Lisa Vaughn

Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

Background: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an excellent fit for understanding and addressing the unique and diverse needs of deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) children and their families.

Objectives: We describe lessons learned from a capacity building project initiating an academic-community partnership between a multidisciplinary research team and a small group of parents of DHH children. Trainings and focus group style discussions created a research agenda reflective of families’ priorities.

Methods: Processes are described related to the development and composition of a Family Advisory Council, training topics and methods, the process for generating and prioritizing topics, and evaluation procedures.

Lessons learned: …

The Follow-Up Gap: Racial Disproportionality And Social Determinants Of Health In New Jersey’S Hearing Detection And Intervention Program, Maryrose Mcinerney, Wendy Zeitlin

Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

Objectives. To assess how race/ethnicity and social determinants of health are related to loss to follow-up (LTF) from NJ’s Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) program.

Methods. All infants born in NJ between June 2015 and June 2017 referring for additional hearing healthcare after hospital discharge were considered for inclusion in this study. The sample consisted of 4,141 babies, 10.7% of which received no follow-up care. Step-wise multi-level logistic regression was used to determine how race/ethnicity, family-level, and community-level social determinants of health (SDOH) were predictive of LTF.

Results. In each model, the odds of being LTF were significantly higher …

First Report Of A Bat Guano Fire From A Cave In Southeast Asia, Sopark Jantarit, Martin Ellis, Pruet Kalasuwan, Neeranuch Phusunti, Pimonsri Mittraparp-Arthorn, Jiranan Pattano, Arnon Chukamnerd, Turdtun Tong-In, Natthawut Khrueaaunruean

International Journal of Speleology

Fires occurring in cave guano are a rare and unusual phenomenon and the occurrence of such events in Southeast Asia is particularly novel. In this study, we document the first recorded instance of a bat guano fire in a tropical cave at Tham Chao Ram in Sukhothai province, northern Thailand. A bacteriological analysis was made of the guano at the fire site and from a control site within the cave. We give a comprehensive review of global reports on bat guano fires in caves, conduct an initial investigation of the physical factors at the fire site and discuss the potential …

Lessons From Tiktok: Using Popular Social Media Platforms To Engage Gen Z, Debra Bernstein

Urban Library Journal

This study looks at how academic libraries in the New York City metropolitan area are using TikTok to engage with their communities, particularly students. It analyzes the most popular videos from five active library accounts, categorizing content types and measuring engagement through TikTok’s built-in metrics. Results indicate that humorous and lighthearted content consistently receives the highest engagement, while instructional or “how-to” videos tend to underperform. These findings suggest that while TikTok may not be the most effective platform for instructional outreach, it holds potential as a tool for visibility, community engagement, and humanizing the library’s presence. As students increasingly turn …