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Considerations For Small Libraries In Adopting Virtual Reality Technology For Medical Education, Rachel Walden, Emily Weyant, Matthew Carroll
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 …
The Path Forward: Using Canvas Commons For Online Information Literacy Instruction In The Health Sciences, Candace Vance, Katherine Farmer, Jeffrey Henry, Dana Statton Thompson, Megan Wilson
The Path Forward: Using Canvas Commons For Online Information Literacy Instruction In The Health Sciences, Candace Vance, Katherine Farmer, Jeffrey Henry, Dana Statton Thompson, Megan Wilson
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
Question: How can we improve the delivery of information literacy instruction in the health sciences in a virtual environment? This paper examines the integration of Canvas Commons Modules to provide downloadable, open-access information literacy tutorials for students across various disciplines, including the health sciences.
Setting/Participants/Resources: The Murray State University Libraries and multiple disciplines, including Nursing and Communication Disorders.
Brief Description: As higher education offers more online courses, addressing virtual learners’ information literacy needs has become critical. The modules were originally created in Fall, 2019 as an additional mode of instruction and an online substitute for in-person information literacy instruction sessions …
Accounting For Work From Home In The Time Of Covid, Ardis Hanson, Allison Howard, Stephanie Tomlinson, Krystal Bullers
Accounting For Work From Home In The Time Of Covid, Ardis Hanson, Allison Howard, Stephanie Tomlinson, Krystal Bullers
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
Objective: As our university moved to a work from home model in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, our research unit needed to reconsider how we accounted for our daily work. Our objective was to consolidate and standardize our data collection to meet requirements for a variety of different time-, project-, or college/program-based reports. Methods: We started by reviewing all the data elements that we might be asked to provide for internal and external reporting. Using the categories in our university activity report as the foundation, we discussed the level of granularity required and assigned activities to each group. We established …
Journal Usage Level Changes At Morehouse School Of Medicine Library 2011-2020, Joe Swanson, Roland B. Welmaker, Monica Riley, Tara Douglas-Williams
Journal Usage Level Changes At Morehouse School Of Medicine Library 2011-2020, Joe Swanson, Roland B. Welmaker, Monica Riley, Tara Douglas-Williams
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
OBJECTIVE: To determine faculty and researcher journal usage levels and their implications on library’s journal collection and access models for the past five years and compare to previous usage and implications.
1. The librarians would like to investigate changes made in the journal collection as we moved to fewer print based resources through a comparison of usage levels prior to the changes to usage levels after the changes. We had sought to seek optimum pathways for supporting the school’s curricula, research agendas, and health care enterprise. Our ultimate question is ‘How have changes correlated and compared to previous usage and …
What Medical Students Want: A Ten Year Library Survey At A New Medical School, Luda Dolinsky, Francisco Fajardo, Rebecca Roth
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 …
Building Community Through Programming With Nlm Traveling Exhibits, Rachel Walden, Nakia Woodward, Kelly Loyd
Building Community Through Programming With Nlm Traveling Exhibits, Rachel Walden, Nakia Woodward, Kelly Loyd
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
Objective: To demonstrate how programming around NLM’s traveling exhibit program can be used to connect and engage with communities outside the medical library.
Methods: The Quillen College of Medicine library hosted NLM’s “From DNA to Beer” and “Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn” exhibits and developed programming engaging with the university’s arts community, numerous locally owned businesses, and the local agricultural extension office.
Results: Exhibit planning was conducted with community engagement as a chief goal. Events included tours and talks at local craft breweries, trivia night at a downtown brewery, a bread-making workshop from extension agents, a presentation from a visiting …
Reimagining A To Z Database Descriptions To Improve User Experiences: A Database Description Project, Lauren Fletcher, Sarah Adcock
Reimagining A To Z Database Descriptions To Improve User Experiences: A Database Description Project, Lauren Fletcher, Sarah Adcock
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
Objective: This poster examines how a Research and Instruction Librarian team at Rowland Medical Library updated and re-envisioned the library’s A to Z Database list. Methods: Two librarians worked to reimagine the format of the database descriptions provided on the A-Z Database page to include the relevant information users routinely requested. To this end, the librarians determined that each description should include alternative names, subjects, content categories, date range, icons, and vendor information. The reimagined descriptions removed extraneous vendor content that confused users and focused on information users could use to make quick determinations on which databases were best for …
Maximizing Compensation For Public Academic Medical Librarians: Retirement Plan Benefits In The Sea/Nnlm Compared To Other Nnlm Regions, David Petersen
Maximizing Compensation For Public Academic Medical Librarians: Retirement Plan Benefits In The Sea/Nnlm Compared To Other Nnlm Regions, David Petersen
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
Objective: Full-time public academic medical librarians are often provided with an employer-sponsored retirement plan, a vital benefit to ensure long-term financial stability, particularly as COVID-19 restricts salary raises. Most of these librarians are classified as either faculty or exempt staff. One retirement option is the Optional Retirement Plan (ORP), a defined contribution plan where the employer and often the employee contribute. This study will assess whether public academic institutions in the Southeastern Atlantic Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (SEA/NNLM) provide equivalent ORP benefits compared to peer institutions in other regions of the country.
Methods: States were …
Library Engagement In Exploring Stories Of Polio Survivors In North Central Florida, Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig
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 …
Confronting Inequity: Social Justice Dialogue In A Health Science Library, Gail Kouame, Darra Ballance, Jacob Gallay, Natalee Reese, Peter Shipman, Lachelle Smith, Shafer Tharrington
Confronting Inequity: Social Justice Dialogue In A Health Science Library, Gail Kouame, Darra Ballance, Jacob Gallay, Natalee Reese, Peter Shipman, Lachelle Smith, Shafer Tharrington
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
Objective: To demonstrate how a departmental social justice discussion group was successful in achieving its purpose in introducing and discussing health-related social justice narratives and perspectives with personal meaning to each department member.
Methods: In the aftermath George Floyd’s death, the Assistant Director of Research and Education Services at a health sciences library proposed devoting a portion of staff meetings to discuss issues in social justice and anti-racism. Each department member would generate a topic and organize readings or links to media in an internal LibGuide. Initially, there was a total of seven discussions, each lasting an average of twenty …
Creating A Focus On Rigor And Reproducibility In A Health Sciences Library, Jeremy Kupsco, Shenita Peterson, Kimberly Powell
Creating A Focus On Rigor And Reproducibility In A Health Sciences Library, Jeremy Kupsco, Shenita Peterson, Kimberly Powell
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
OBJECTIVE For the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library to determine if creating a focus on Open Science or Rigor and Reproducibility would be possible and accepted by researchers at Emory University.
METHODS A working group of three librarians was created to determine if there was a need for the library to create a focus/culture of Open Science or Rigor and Reproducibility on campus. The working group interviewed 4 faculty/admin members including: the Deputy Chief Compliance Officer, an Associate Professor of Pharmacology, who teaches a course on Rigorous Research Methods, the Director of the CTSA’s Medical Ethics Section, and the Director …
Converting A Small Online Catalog - Improving Service And Satisfaction, Marilyn Teolis, Priscilla Stephenson, Andrew Brown, Ada Echols
Converting A Small Online Catalog - Improving Service And Satisfaction, Marilyn Teolis, Priscilla Stephenson, Andrew Brown, Ada Echols
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
Converting the online catalog to a cloud-based system. The library’s software-based catalog experienced technical issues whenever the hospital’s Information Technology department performed updates, and remote access to the system was not available. The authors describe the process of successfully converting the online catalog to a cloud-based system with remote access. It was critical for the library staff to preserve data from the former system. The initial step was to download the statistics from the former system to preserve them for future use. While the library staff weeded both the collection and the online records, they checked to ensure the existing …
Rapid Response: Librarian Integration Into An Expedited Pandemic Medicine Elective, Gail Kouame, Jacob Gallay
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
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 …
Increasing Ebook Usage: The Importance Of Investing Time And Money Into Access Points, Carolyn Klatt, Kim Meeks
Increasing Ebook Usage: The Importance Of Investing Time And Money Into Access Points, Carolyn Klatt, Kim Meeks
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
OBJECTIVE In January 2020, the Library migrated to a new Library Management System (LMS), Ex Libris Alma and Primo, that combines the functionality of a discovery service and the features of a traditional catalog. The Library’s eBooks, which were previously only accessible via a discovery service, are now discoverable along with other library resources via one access point. The objective of this study is to measure eBook usage over the 2017-2020 period as one means of determining the effect of user access points on eBook usage.
METHODS Counter Book Report 2 (R4) eBook usage statistics from January to August for …
Librarians Helping To Combat Organizational Health Literacy Through An Updated Health Literacy Assessment Tool, Kelsey Grabeel, R. Eric Heidel, Sandy Oelschlegel, Rima Rudd
Librarians Helping To Combat Organizational Health Literacy Through An Updated Health Literacy Assessment Tool, Kelsey Grabeel, R. Eric Heidel, Sandy Oelschlegel, Rima Rudd
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
Objective: Health literacy continues to be a challenge libraries and organizations face. To help address organizational health literacy, the University of Tennessee Medical Center (UTMC) created a Task Force and utilized the Health Literacy Environment of Hospitals and Health Centers (HLEHHC) tool to assess UTMC’s health literacy attributes. When using this tool, it was discovered that some of the questions needed to be updated. This will discuss the process in which the UTMC Task Force and original author Rima Rudd revised and updated the HLEHHC to create the Health Literacy Environment, version 2 (HLE2).
Methods: This update was a two …
Plan, Pivot, Proceed: A Multiphase Library Refresh Project, Chameka Robinson, Sarah Adcock
Plan, Pivot, Proceed: A Multiphase Library Refresh Project, Chameka Robinson, Sarah Adcock
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
OBJECTIVE: In 2019, Rowland Medical Library began a multiphase project to refresh the first floor and improve the overall environment for patrons. A major renovation was previously completed on the second floor in 2011. Consequently, there was a lack of design cohesiveness between floors.
METHODS: The project team consisted of faculty from the Access Services and the Research/Instruction divisions. Initial discussions around redesigning computer workstations for functionality and privacy eventually morphed into a more involved library endeavor encompassing projects on both levels of the library. The team met with the campus Planning, Construction and Design Department, Paint Department, and furniture …
Collaborating Across Organizations For A Remote Area Medical Event: Providing Consumer Health Information And Assessing Health Literacy, David Petersen, Kelsey Grabeel, J. Michael Lindsey, Cameron Watson, Martha Earl
Collaborating Across Organizations For A Remote Area Medical Event: Providing Consumer Health Information And Assessing Health Literacy, David Petersen, Kelsey Grabeel, J. Michael Lindsey, Cameron Watson, Martha Earl
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
Objective: The University of Tennessee’s Preston Medical Library’s (PML) consumer health information service partnered with local librarians and Remote Area Medical (RAM) to increase consumer health information access as well as assess health literacy levels of RAM attendees.
Methods: Librarians contacted RAM and obtained permission to both participate in the Knoxville, TN event and conduct anonymous health literacy assessments using the Newest Vital Sign (NVS) tool. Approval was obtained from PML’s institutional IRB. An email gauging participation interest was sent to local librarians at various institutions. A Zoom meeting was then set up to discuss RAM and participant expectations. A …
Incorporating Cultural Humility In Online Library Instruction, Jarrod Irwin
Incorporating Cultural Humility In Online Library Instruction, Jarrod Irwin
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
Purpose This project aimed to incorporate cultural humility concepts into an existing online grant-writing course offered by NNLM SEA. Cultural humility involves ongoing openness to learning from the experiences of others, particularly members of marginalized groups. This practice is important for librarians’ educational offerings, which are a crossroads for people of many different backgrounds and identities.
Methodology NNLM SEA staff reviewed the course, focusing on content addressing collaborative work and relationships with partner organizations for grant-funded health outreach projects. The course now emphasizes including people from a health outreach project’s target audience in every step of the planning process. It …
Come Covid Or High Water: How Being An Online Mlis Student Prepared Me For Virtual Professional Participation During Covid-19, Christiana Keinath
Come Covid Or High Water: How Being An Online Mlis Student Prepared Me For Virtual Professional Participation During Covid-19, Christiana Keinath
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
Objective
Mirroring the start of my graduate program, which began with a hurricane evacuation, this year has required me to be flexible and persevere in the face of new circumstances. The technology and communication skills I have developed as an online MLIS student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) helped me adapt to remote professional participation as necessitated by COVID-19 and will help me navigate the future employment landscape. Here, I will share my experiences and my perspective on how to authentically connect with one another remotely.
Methods
I am currently living in Charleston, SC while taking classes …
Blend To Bend: Exploring Blended Learning Concepts In The Age Of Pandemic, Carrie Adams
Blend To Bend: Exploring Blended Learning Concepts In The Age Of Pandemic, Carrie Adams
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
Objective: This poster is designed to be a narrative review presenting information focused on blended learning as a possible option for health science library instruction modification during COVID-19. Concepts including definitions of blended learning, impacts, benefits, challenges, and considerations when transitioning will be explored.
Methods: A literature review was conducted using the following databases: ERIC, EBSCO Education Source, ProQuest Education Database, Web of Science; along with other resources including Google Scholar, LibTechEd, and Blended Online Learning & Distance Education (BOLDE). Search terms included “blended learning,” “hybrid learning,” “flipped classroom,” and “blended instruction.”
Results: Results were narrowed to articles focused on …
Bad Blood At The Tuskegee Crossroads: Informational Ethics, Whistleblowing, And The Media, Candace Vance, Tim Vance
Bad Blood At The Tuskegee Crossroads: Informational Ethics, Whistleblowing, And The Media, Candace Vance, Tim Vance
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
Question: How can we improve information literacy teaching methods in the health sciences? This paper describes one possible solution in the application of the ACRL Framework to whistleblowers, the media, and the Tuskegee Untreated Syphilis Study. The design of the instructional activity includes a lecture, workshop, assignment, and discussion essay.
Setting/Participants/Resources: Communication Disorders Information Literacy students in a three-credit-hour class, INF 310, in a four-year, public master’s level institution.
Brief Description: Based on experiences in this class, we examine how librarians in the health sciences can frame whistleblowing in the context of the Tuskegee Untreated Syphilis Study. We focus on …
Improving Access To Quality Health Information In Rural Communities Through Little Free Libraries, Jane Morgan-Daniel, Lauren Adkins, Sonya Chapa, Margaret Ansell, Susan Harnett
Improving Access To Quality Health Information In Rural Communities Through Little Free Libraries, Jane Morgan-Daniel, Lauren Adkins, Sonya Chapa, Margaret Ansell, Susan Harnett
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
Objective: Little Free Libraries (LFLs) are neighborhood book-exchange boxes. Okeechobee County Public Library in Florida partnered with the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries on a grant-funded project to add health education components to 30 new public library-sponsored LFLs built on rural county properties. The objective was to improve rural residents' health literacy and awareness of NIH's All of Us Research Program.
Methods: The libraries collaborated to select and purchase 424 consumer health books in English and Spanish. Online consumer health materials were selected and printed. Laptops and Wi-Fi hotspots were also purchased, as the public library will collaborate …
How Generating Pico And Clinical Questions From Pubmed Abstracts Challenges Instruction Of Pubmed Search Strategies To First-Year Dental Students, Peter Shipman
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
Objective To provide continuity in an evidence-based dental course the librarian led students to convert the course director’s PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) and Clinical Question examples derived from PubMed abstracts to viable PubMed search strategies.
Methods With student participation, a new course director diagrammed PICO elements from eight PubMed abstracts with different research methodologies to construct Clinical Questions. During the next class, the librarian led students to build a search strategies from six Clinical Question examples with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and keywords. Students viewed the accuracy and reliability of PubMed’s Automatic Term Mapping in Search Details, how to …
Systematic Reviews In Food Science, Nutrition, And Packaging Sciences: Bringing Together Medical And Agricultural Resources To Expand Services And Training, Jenessa Mcelfresh, Maggie Albro
Systematic Reviews In Food Science, Nutrition, And Packaging Sciences: Bringing Together Medical And Agricultural Resources To Expand Services And Training, Jenessa Mcelfresh, Maggie Albro
Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference
The objective of this paper session is to explore a case study of library service opportunities to support the unique systematic review needs of researchers in Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences. In this session, we describe the collaboration necessary to provide support and training to these individuals, ways to assess the quality of services, and methods used to ensure individuals receive the blended training needed to successfully undertake the systematic review process. The development and implementation of a systematic review training program for graduate students and faculty in this department illustrates the ways that cross-subject specialist collaboration can be used …