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Human Information Behavior In Hospice Care Volunteerism In The Southeastern Appalachian Region, Sheri Edwards

Annual Research Symposium of the College of Communication and Information

No abstract provided.

Types Of Sources: Online Module For First Year Writing, Hannah Cabullo, Bekah Dreyer-Rowe

New England Library Instruction Group

We created this Types of Sources module as one of four library modules for all sections of First Year Writing this fall. It is an asynchronous, online module delivered through Canvas, our institution’s learning management system, and consists of some reading, two short videos, and three discussion-board-based activities. The first activity, at the very beginning of the lesson, is intended to get students to start thinking about the characteristics of different types of sources. In the activity, students pick a type of resource (e.g. podcasts, scholarly journal articles, social media, etc.) from a list, answer some questions about it, and …

Mapping Out Your Research: From Topic Selection To A Thesis Statement, Alicia G. Vaandering, Lindsay Lachapelle

New England Library Instruction Group

Co-taught by an instruction librarian and a Writing Center coordinator, this lesson supports history students in exploring a topic and preparing for subsequent research and writing. The first and primary piece of this lesson centers on a topic speed dating activity that encourages students to look beyond the most obvious elements and narratives of their topic and seek nuance and unique perspectives through guided discussion with a peer. This is followed by a class discussion on the role that divergent thinking plays in developing a research question and some time for students to draft their own potential research question. Finally, …

Evaluation Beyond The Binary: Information Literacy For Core 103, Susan Adkins, Bethany Dietrich, Jes Mattera

New England Library Instruction Group

Our team of teaching librarians co-created this lesson as part of Champlain College’s Core 103 course, Navigating Your Information Landscape. Core is Champlain’s version of general education. Core’s four-year curriculum is interdisciplinary education with a focus on critical thinking, collaborative skills, and learning by doing. We will deliver the lesson to all Champlain College first-year students next semester via an online Canvas module. Students will engage with the lesson asynchronously. Librarians will interact with the students throughout their participation in the module.

Our Canvas instructional module focuses specifically on evaluation with an emphasis on the impact of the positionality of …

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

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

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

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

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 …

Game Plan: Incorporating Games Into Libraries, Olivia Shelton

Scholars Week

This article discusses the importance of gaming in all libraries. It aims to show what different libraries around the world have done to incorporate games in their circulation. It examines the different needs based on the size of the library and the community each serves to better inform other libraries interested in starting a collection. The article reviews some of the issues that arise when starting a collection and how to address those concerns when starting a new project. It also reviews what steps are needed to add games into catalogs to circulate. The article concludes with reflections for future …

Scholarly Impact And Plumx, Michele Gibney, Veronica Wells

Pacific Libraries Workshops

Are you up for promotion and/or tenure and want to spice up your portfolio? The Library can help with that! We can add your research to Scholarly Commons and get you access to a PlumX Snapshot Dashboard including metrics on use, citations, mentions, save, and social media. These analytics make a powerful case for your academic profile during P&T. Come learn more on this demo of the Dashboard!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

Gender, Technology And Innovation In Health Care Panel, Melanie Katsivo

Africa-Western Collaborations Day 2020

8 graduate student/recent graduate presentations on gender, technology, and innovation in health care. Moderated by Dr. Melanie Katsivo. Reporting of panel done by current GHS students of the 2021 class. Abstracts can be found under "Africa-Western Collaborations Day 2020 Abstracts". Presenters as follows:

Florence Wullo Anfaara, "To Include or Not to Include: Men and the Liberian Women's Peace Hut Initiatives Towards Transformational Justice"

Uche Ikenyei, "Diversification of Research Methodological Approach During Model Enhancements in Health Information System Research"

Denise Kamyuka, "Female Social Entrepreneurship in Sport, in the African Context: Systemic Review"

Ebenezer Martin-Yeboah, "Through the Lens of Egocentric Design: Do …