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Analyzing Point Of Care Tools Through Faculty, Resident, And Stakeholder Buy-In: A Cautionary Tale, J. Michael Lindsay, David Petersen, Abagail Pujol, Martha Earl

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Purpose: Costs for Preston Medical Library’s primary point-of-care (POC) clinical tool have increased to half of the acquisitions budget, while user affiliation data have not been provided to facilitate cost sharing. In response, user preferences for POC tools were analyzed to determine a viable, less expensive alternative to the current subscription.

Setting/Participants/Resources: Faculty and residents at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine (GSM), and other clinical staff at the University of Tennessee Medical Center (UTMC), a 685-bed teaching hospital.

Methodology: At the direction of school leadership, a working group of library staff, resident physicians, and medical faculty members …

Considerations For Small Libraries In Adopting Virtual Reality Technology For Medical Education, Rachel Walden, Emily Weyant, Matthew Carroll

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: Describe considerations for small libraries considering the adoption of virtual reality technology as a resource for health sciences education.

Methods: A small academic medical library obtained grant funding to implement a virtual reality pilot project to support anatomy coursework.

Results: Observations were made related to the technology selection and purchasing process, space and safety requirements for implementing VR, student patterns of use, supplementary VR programs of interest to medical students (including gaming and meditation programs for stress relief), and staffing/scheduling/maintenance of the system.

Conclusions: Virtual reality technology is compelling for medical education; implementation resulted in increasing the library’s engagement …

What Medical Students Want: A Ten Year Library Survey At A New Medical School, Luda Dolinsky, Francisco Fajardo, Rebecca Roth

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: To assess and evaluate the past and current performance of library services, resources, and space with the purpose of informing decisions in designing a library serving a new medical school.

Methods: The Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM) at Florida International University opened its doors to its first class in 2009. Shortly after, the medical library began seeking student feedback by administering a 15-question survey to each class. The inaugural Class of 2013 and other cohorts were queried at various points in their curriculum. Starting with the Class of 2017, the library began consistently administering its survey to students …

Library Engagement In Exploring Stories Of Polio Survivors In North Central Florida, Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Introduction/background: This project seeks to record stories of individuals who survived polio in the 1940s and 1950s in order to capture a unique moment in history, both in how polio impacted society- uniquely and similar to other disease outbreaks, and how individuals with polio negotiated their polio identity and told their story (or remembered through stories told by others).

For the former, infectious diseases can have a tremendous impact on culture, psychology, and the physical structure of society during the course of outbreaks and epidemics. Indeed the form of response often is similar from outbreak to outbreak, as people respond …

Rapid Response: Librarian Integration Into An Expedited Pandemic Medicine Elective, Gail Kouame, Jacob Gallay

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: Describe how two librarians contributed to a new graduate medical school elective course developed dynamically in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: Shortly after the COVID-19 outbreak, the Assistant Director for Research & Education Services attended a clerkship curriculum committee meeting for the medical college where a four-week Pandemic Medicine elective was proposed. Clerkship rotations were canceled due to the pandemic, so the elective would provide opportunities for graduate medical students to participate in service learning and contribute to pandemic response efforts. The leaders and faculty members who proposed the elective suggested five areas of focus: information services; …

Open For Business: Offering Physical Library Spaces In The Covid Era, Katie Sparks, Hannah Rogers

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: Our goal was to safely reopen physical library spaces at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library for use by various Emory University user groups including students, faculty, and staff during the COVID pandemic of 2020. Because our university brought a subset of students back to campus, we felt it was important to offer safe, socially distanced seating and workstations in the library.

Methods: In collaboration with Emory University’s environmental and safety health officers, we made determinations of the number of seats that could safely be offered. Seating was removed or cordoned off or otherwise signposted. We implemented a reservations …

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 …

Any Shape Or Form: An Online Module For Teaching Medical Students Citation Management In Residency Settings, Erica Heasley, Robyn Rosasco

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: To describe how the library’s online tutorial for medical students, “Introduction to Citation Management Tools,” was created and integrated into the College of Medicine’s Residency Preparation Boot Camp. Implemented in 2017, passing the tutorial is still a requirement for completing the boot camp.

Methods: In 2017, the Maguire Medical Library was asked by undergraduate and graduate medical education faculty to create a citation management tutorial for 4th-year medical students preparing to commence their respective residency programs. As part of the College of Medicine’s Residency Preparation Boot Camp, the tutorial needed to provide students with an overview of citation management …

A Librarian's Perspective On Manually Tagging Curriculum For Lcme Accreditation, Melodie Gardner

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: The objective of this paper is to discuss and share some of the successes and challenges of manually tagging all first- and second-year (M1/M2) curriculum course sessions over the course of five academic years (2014 - 2019).

Methods: As part of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) accreditation process, all US medical schools are required to maintain a curriculum database that tracks the number of course hours spent on a selected set of topics outlined in the LCME Functions and Structures of a Medical School; this is usually achieved by building a controlled vocabulary based on Standard 6 …

Shaping The Future Of Information Literacy Research By Health Sciences Librarians: A Bibliometric Study, Alexandria Quesenberry, Lin Wu

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objectives: Information literacy (IL) publications have been examined in many disciplines, but there is limited published literature to assess health sciences librarians’ productivity on IL research. This study aimed to examine the status and characteristics of IL research authored by health sciences librarians over the period of 2008 to 2018.

Methods: Bibliometrics, the statistical analysis of publications, was used to assess the indicators of productivity, collaboration, and visibility on IL research by health sciences librarians. Data was collected from Scopus and Web of Science. EndNote software was used to remove duplicates and Rayyan was used to systematically screen search results …

Thinking Outside The Box To Square The Circle: Realigning Library Services With Stakeholder Needs, David Petersen, Rebecca Harrington, Martha Earl

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objectives: In an age of electronic databases and Google, librarians must find ways to expand library services to meet the needs of patrons who no longer seek some traditional services. How do we identify needs in our organizations that are not being met, and market our abilities to fill those needs while maintaining our identity as librarians?

Methods: With the full support of the library director, whose priority was to update academic and clinical services, newly hired librarians took time to observe the initiatives and goals already established across their respective residency and nursing departments. Despite increased liaison activity, decreasing …

How To Stop Being A Librarian: Student-Centered Library Guide Design And Content Curation, Melodie Gardner

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: The objective of this paper is to discuss information seeking behavior of digital-native students verses librarians and how this affects the design, layout, and content of effective library guides. Topics covered will include effective content curation for guides, web-user’s behavior patterns, design consistency, and tips & tricks for integrating design and content best practices across a library guide system.

Methods: Springshare’s LibGuides is a platform that allows librarians to create and design topic-centered web pages called Library Guides which contain curated content; including library resources. While librarians generally follow webpage design best-practices in their library guides to increase their …

How One Library's Location Change Impacted Health Information Requests: Comparing Zip Codes And Health Disparities To Shape Library Services, David Petersen, Kelsey Grabeel, Cameron Watson

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective In 2014, the Preston Medical Library underwent a radical change, moving from an academic office building to the main floor of a regional medical center. While the library previously served the public, health information requests have substantially increased in volume due to the new location. Each health information request is logged with the subject nature and patron contact information. The objective is: to analyze this data to see if our reach has expanded to counties that previously have not used the service, to see which counties request the most health information, and to ascertain whether more requests are from …

Braving Our Blindspots: Using A Virtual Book Discussion Group To Continue Conversations On Implicit Bias In Libraries, Shannon Jones, Kelsa Bartley

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Diversifying librarianship has been a strategic priority for years yet statistically the profession remains largely white. A contributing factor to this homogeneity is likely implicit bias. An implicit bias occurs when an individual has attitudes toward a group of people or associate stereotypes with them without their conscious knowledge. Growing research indicates that implicit biases impact the decisions that we all make daily. In libraries, it impacts who gets hired, who gets supported, which programs get funded, and which services are offered. The authors planned and facilitated a virtual book discussion group using Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald’s book, Blindspot: …

"We Try To Find Something For Whatever Obstacle Might Be In Our Way”: Understanding The Health Information Practices Of South Carolina Lgbtq+ Communities, Vanessa Kitzie, Travis Wagner, Nick Vera, Valerie Lookingbill

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: LGBTQ+ people experience health disparities compared to heterosexual, cisgender peers. Individual and systemic barriers produce these disparities. One barrier is informational, as LGBTQ+ people experience challenges when learning about their health needs, navigating the healthcare system, and overcoming obstacles to care. This paper investigates the future of libraries and the health sciences by exploring how they can address these informational barriers.

Methods: This paper reports on ~30 ongoing interviews with LGBTQ+ community leaders from South Carolina (SC) using a semi-structured protocol. The protocol asked participants to discuss their community’s health questions and concerns, how the community addresses them, and …

E Pluribus Unum: Using Google Classroom To Bring Together A Statewide Student And Faculty Cohort, Darra Ballance

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

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Designing A Poster-To-Publication Campaign For Medical Residents, Carrie Cullen, Stephanie Tomlinson

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

TITLE: Designing a Poster-to-Publication Campaign for Medical Residents

OBJECTIVE: To describe the development of a campaign to improve medical residents’ knowledge of the research and publication process while providing support in transforming poster presentations into peer-reviewed publications.

METHODS: Medical residents at a public research university complete poster presentation projects as part of the standard residency curriculum, but few go on to expand upon and publish this research in academic journals. This paper describes the development of a campaign intended to support residents as they expand poster research projects into publishable articles. A needs assessment will be developed to identify gaps …

Health Sciences Libraries: Supporting Public Libraries Supporting All Of Us, Leah Cordova, Alexandria Quesenberry, Hilary Jasmin

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Title: Health Sciences Libraries: Supporting Public Libraries Supporting All of Us

Objective: Public libraries are known for being community-centered institutions providing equitable access to information and resources, playing an important role in improving individuals' access to health-related information. This project aimed to examine the perceived role and current practices of inner-city public librarians in delivering health-related information to members of their community.

Methods: An online survey was created using Qualtrics and distributed to branch libraries within a single library system serving diverse socioeconomic and demographic groups. The survey consisted of eighteen multiple choice and open-ended questions. Information was collected around …

Managing Across: A Magical Method For Providing Leadership And Skill Development, Heather Holmes

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: To provide an opportunity for faculty librarians to lead initiatives that will enhance the Research and Education Department’s knowledge and practice. Methods: Six faculty librarians at an academic health sciences library have been assigned an area of focus based upon their personal interests. The intent is for each of them to be able to work in an area that is of interest to them, but also for them to lead initiatives within the department to educate their peers. The areas are the ACRL Framework, LibGuides, Data and Assessment, Instructional Technology, NIH updates, and Teaching and Education. Each librarian is …

The Future Of Measuring Scholarly And Societal Impact In The Health Sciences: Exploring Dimensions In Non-Traditional Algorithms, Candace K. Vance, Tim Vance, Arthur Boston

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: To provide an overview of evaluating scientific scholarly impact among researchers in the health sciences. Librarians, as department liaisons, are a natural choice for guiding faculty, students, and tenure and promotion committees in understanding and responsibly applying altmetrics and bibliometrics, including the Relative Citation Ratio (RCR), to evaluate the impact of contemporary health sciences scholars. Background: Scholars in the health sciences, particularly clinician-researchers, who divide their time among patient care, education, as well as academic service, have less time for research than other scientists. Thus, citation patterns vary across the disciplines, possibly placing clinicians at a disadvantage when traditional …

Keeping Up With Trends In Your Library: Simple And Speedy Ways To Assess Users’ Needs, Shalu Gillum, Natasha Williams, Terri Gotschall

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: To find simple, fast, and easy ways to assess library users’ needs and to get real-time responses in order to shorten the interval between deploying surveys, gathering responses and implementation of solutions. In the past the library employed email surveys to assess user needs but the process was inefficient and ineffective due to low response rates and time spent creating online surveys. Methods: The library team began using paper “micro-assessments” to understand users’ needs. Short paper surveys of no more than five questions, were deployed at three different times throughout the academic year: (1) Medical students were handed surveys …

Using A Reflexive Process To Investigate Organizational Change: The Use Of The Research Spider Matrix, Ardis Hanson, Allison Howard, Randall Polo, Krystal Bullers, Stephanie Tomlinson, John Orriola, Kristen Sakmar

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

The primary objective was to assess the research competencies (knowledge, experience, and skills) of librarians at an academic health sciences library using the Research Spider matrix (Smith et al., 2002). This was motivated by the shift from a traditional reference model to a research-centric paradigm.

Building A Framework To Guide Residents Through Scholarly Activities, Lindsay Blake, Jennie Kirby, Jennifer White

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: The objective of this project was to build an online resource that will help guide residents through their Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) scholarly activity requirement by providing guidelines, advice, and resources on publishing, presenting, and research. Methods: The Clinical Services Librarian first met with the Graduate Medical Education (GME) office to determine the needs of the residencies and clarify current ACGME requirements. Meetings were then set with representatives from the largest residencies to discuss how the scholarly activity requirement was currently being met and to collect resources. After these meetings the librarian began building an online …

A New Way To Look At Old Bones: Launching Virtual Reality At A Health Sciences Library, Tariq Rahaman

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

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Cruising Toward Mapping Usa And Canadian Dental Education Competencies To The Acrl Framework, Irene Lubker, Christy Tyon, Nena Schvaneveldt, Martin Morris, Erica Brody, Natalie Clairoux, Sean Stone, Nicole Theis-Mahon, Maria Zych

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

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Leading The Way: Establishing A Versatile Ebsco E-Audiobooks Leadership Collection Tosupport Talent Development Initiatives And Employee Growth In A Large Healthcare System, Aidy Weeks

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

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Utilizing Second Life® Virtual World Gaming Technology For Staff Development, Marilyn G. Teolis, Priscilla Stephenson, Sandra L. Winkler, Fatima M. Barnes

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

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Marketing The Evolving Refworks In An Endnote Environment: Providing Users With Choices, Christine Andresen, Irene Lubker

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

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Resource Use Trends By Medical Students At An Academic Medical Center In The 3rd And 4th Clerkship Years, Lindsay Blake, Elena Wood, Shilpa Brown Md, Erin Latif, Thaddeus Y. Carson Md, David Kriegel Md, Pamela Fall Md, Ashley Saucier Md, Matthew Diamond Do, Sarah Egan

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

No abstract provided.