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Librarians: An Essential Part Of The Public Health Workforce, Laura Zeigen

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

Public health campaigns suffer when the general public refuses to believe credible health information, such as around issues of vaccination or fluoridation. Public health marketing and media experts work to craft excellent messaging in ways that can be best heard by these audiences. However, the best messages will go unheard if individuals have already not developed critical thinking and information literacy skills over time. Librarians from all sectors (school libraries, public libraries, university libraries, and health sciences libraries) are key to helping people develop these information literacy skills. As such, impacts on library infrastructure and funding ultimately impact public health. …

Stand Up For Health! Equipping Public Librarians To Promote Healthy Communities, Carolyn Martin

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

Come learn how National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) collaborated with WebJunction and the Public Library Association (PLA) to design a comprehensive consumer health class to meet the unique needs of public library staff. The purpose of the class is to equip public library staff with the knowledge to increase their confidence in addressing their patron’s health information needs. The course also provides the CE necessary and covers the competencies required receive a Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) through the Medical Library Association. Three online sessions and a preconference “boot camp” session at the PLA 2018 conference were held …

Translating Our Brains: A Brief Overview Of Initial Learning In The Mla Research Training Institute, Laura Zeigen

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

The MLA Research Training Institute (per their page at http://www.mlanet.org/rti) "was developed to provide practicing health sciences librarians with an opportunity to immerse themselves in instruction and focused activities related to scholarly research, inquiry, and publishing." Come hear one of your colleagues' early experiences and lessons learned about conducting research as part of this institute.

The MLA Research Training Institute (per their page at http://www.mlanet.org/rti) "was developed to provide practicing health sciences librarians with an opportunity to immerse themselves in instruction and focused activities related to scholarly research, inquiry, and publishing." Come hear one of your colleagues' early experiences and …

Poster: “Draw” In Your Audience: Creating An Infographic Annual Report, Amanda L. Steinvall, Heather J. Martin

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

Presented by Amanda Steinvall

Objectives: Following the consolidation of 9 hospital libraries into a single unified department, library leadership identified the need to create an annual report that successfully described the work of this new integrated library service. The library aimed to reconstruct the traditional annual reports into more visual format that better depicted the impact of the library by displaying usage statistics and promoting services in a pleasing and unique way.

Methods: In year one, the library transitioned from a traditional written report or one-sheet, to an infographic poster created using Photoshop. The infographic described the current state of …

Poster: Challenges Of A Distributed Learning Library System, Kathryn Vela, Suzanne Fricke, Electra Enslow

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

Objectives: Health sciences librarians face increasing complexity when serving innovative health science programs with multiple campuses and distributed community-based and academic partners. This paper examines the challenges faced by these librarians as they work to coordinate services and meet user needs.

Methods: Librarians based on multiple campuses took a self-directed approach to better understand the needs of evolving distributed health science programs at their institution, using methods based on organizational information theory and team sensemaking. During six in-person and virtual meetings over three months, the librarians engaged in comparative discourse, examining the unique aspects of their library settings, collection practices …

Poster: Assessing E-Book Collections For Kplibraries, Tori Ward, Loree Hyde

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

Purpose: The purpose of our project is to assess and enhance kpLibraries’ national e-book collection and to provide the appropriate e-resources and materials for our patrons. The project supports kpLibraries' national Resource Management policy that requires maintenance of a “current, authoritative collection of books, multimedia, and electronic materials in the areas of health sciences, clinical, educational, professional development, patient care services and consumer health information...”. We aim to further develop all processes of collection development for our e-book collection and to characterize interlibrary library loan (ILL) and book request usage patterns.

Method: This project consists of four phases. In the …

Poster: Does The Availability Of Medical Marijuana Decrease Opiate Use? Surveying The Landscape, Patricia Devine

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

Marijuana for medical use is now legal in 29 states, but studying the medical effects of marijuana is challenging. Because marijuana is categorized as a DEA Schedule I drug, researchers have encountered difficulty in conducting Randomized Clinical Trials. But research is expanding in this important field. Librarians have a role in raising awareness among healthcare professionals and researchers. To better understand the landscape of medical marijuana and opiate use, and discover ways for librarians to act as advocates and share high quality information, a literature review will be conducted and results summarized.

Poster: Transforming A Literature Search Service: Adapting A Reference Management System, Peggy Cruse, Susan Groshong, Jackie Morton

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

This poster was previously exhibited at MLA 2018 Atlanta.

Objective: Librarians at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Research Institute, providing a robust mediated literature search service, lacked a collaborative platform for archiving and sharing search strategies and documentation. Available information request management systems traditionally track a library’s reference service workflow. Librarians modified Altarama’s RefTracker Express to improve our search quality, increase efficiency, leverage search expertise, and demonstrate alignment with institutional goals.

Methods: Librarians customized RefTracker system forms to capture client demographics, question refinement, resources consulted, and database strategies. In addition to traditional metric categories, librarians adapted records to show the relationship …

Identifying Environmental Barriers To Patient Health Literacy In A Comprehensive Mental Health Clinic, Michele Spatz

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

he National Institutes of Health has launched an ambitious longitudinal research project called the All of Us Research Program (https://allofus.nih.gov/). Part of the Precision Medicine Initiative, All of Us seeks to engage one million or more volunteers living in the U.S. to contribute their health data over many years to improve health outcomes, fuel the development of new treatments for disease, and catalyze a new era of evidence-based and more precise preventive care and medical treatment.
The program embraces equity to improve health by encouraging any adult, ages 18 and older to participate. The more diverse the individuals who participate, …

Scholarly Publishing And Doctor Of Nursing Practice Students: A Survey Of Publishing Outcomes At The University Of San Francisco, Claire Sharifi, Jo Loomis, Jenner Wells

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

The American Association of Colleges of Nurses’ essentials of doctoral education for advanced nursing practice state that a doctoral nursing practice (DNP) program should prepare graduates to “disseminate findings from evidence-based practice and research to improve healthcare outcomes” (2006). Likewise, learning outcomes and course requirements for the DNP program at the University of San Francisco (USF) require students to submit a manuscript to a peer reviewed scholarly journal prior to starting their final project. Even with these clearly stated learning outcomes, the publication rate for DNP students’ at USF was, until now, unknown and untracked.
In collaboration with faculty in …

Adapting An Institutional Repository For A Medical Library Environment, Daina Dickman

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

How does it work when a hospital library begins to create an Institutional Repository (IR) for their unique library environment. Come hear about the experiences of the Providence St. Joseph Health library department in launching their IR using BePress's Digital Commons and Expert Gallery products.

We will discuss the challenges in adapting an IR product for the medical library environment when the product has primarily been used by traditional academic institutions. How can you meaningfully display and categorize your items when they all get lumped in to "Medical and Health Sciences" by the IR's existing organizational structure? How can you …

The Nnlm And All Of Us Research Program Partnership: Transforming, Translating And Transcending Health Disparities Through Health Literacy, Michele Spatz

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

The National Institutes of Health has launched an ambitious longitudinal research project called the All of Us Research Program (https://allofus.nih.gov/). Part of the Precision Medicine Initiative, All of Us seeks to engage one million or more volunteers living in the U.S. to contribute their health data over many years to improve health outcomes, fuel the development of new, more precise medical treatments, catalyze a new era of evidence-based preventive care and close the health disparities gap.

Building A Medical Library From The Ground Up: Lessons Learned, Molly Montgomery

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

How to you go from zero to (librarian) hero by developing a medical library in less than six months? How far out of your comfort zone do you have to be in order to go from being mainly an instruction/reference librarian to making systems decisions, building up an ILS, and wrestling with interlibrary loan? Attend this session to learn the strategies, skills, and coping mechanisms used to build up a medical library for Idaho’s first medical school.

Establishing Research Data Management Service On A Health Sciences Campus, Nancy Shin, Kathryn Vela

Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting

Presented by Nancy Shin.

Objective: Given the increasing need for research data management support and education, the Spokane Academic Library at Washington State University (WSU) sought to determine the data management practices, perceptions and needs of researchers on the WSU Spokane health sciences campus.

Methods: A 23-question online survey was distributed to researchers and research support staff through the campus listserv that addressed data organization, documentation, storage & backup, security, preservation, and sharing, as well as challenges and desired support services.

Results: The results of the survey indicated that there was a clear need for more instruction with regard to …