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Who Bears The Burden? Racial Disparities In Confirmed Cases Of Covid-19 In The Greater Boston Area, Leija Helling
Who Bears The Burden? Racial Disparities In Confirmed Cases Of Covid-19 In The Greater Boston Area, Leija Helling
Massachusetts GIS Day
Documenting racial disparities in the spread of COVID-19 is crucial to bettering public health. In the Boston area, non-white and Black communities are significantly overrepresented in areas of high confirmed COVID-19 prevalence. Areas where high prevalence is clustered (“hot spots”) have disproportionate shares of non-white and Black residents, and the disparities are statistically significant. These results confirm marked COVID-19 racial disparities in Boston.
When Old Issues Call Forth A New People: A Constitutive Rhetorical Analysis Of Black Liberation Manifestos, Ian Summers
When Old Issues Call Forth A New People: A Constitutive Rhetorical Analysis Of Black Liberation Manifestos, Ian Summers
Annual Research Symposium of the College of Communication and Information
While much rhetorical research has been dedicated to social movements, not as much scholarship has examined the manifesto texts that form the rhetorical basis for said movements. This essay analyzes whether related rhetorical forms exist across multiple manifesto discourses, specifically elements of constitutive rhetoric, through the study of the UNIA and Black Panther Party’s manifestos. Although the scope of this particular inquiry is too narrow to provide a definitive conclusion, it appears constitutive elements recur enough across black liberation discourses to warrant further discussion on whether manifestos ought to be considered as a separate rhetorical genre.
Emergency Text Messaging Systems And Higher Education Campuses: Expanding Crisis Communication And Chaos Theory, Tanya Desselle Ickowitz, Michael J. Palenchar
Emergency Text Messaging Systems And Higher Education Campuses: Expanding Crisis Communication And Chaos Theory, Tanya Desselle Ickowitz, Michael J. Palenchar
Annual Research Symposium of the College of Communication and Information
Recent public safety threats affecting college and university campuses during episodes of natural disasters and mass violence have exposed numerous challenges and opportunities in risk and crisis communication. This study addresses how colleges and universities have incorporated emergency text messaging systems into their crisis communication plans; how these institutions have tested such emergency notification systems; and what, if any, prevalent gaps exist between audience expectations and actual practices. Using grounded theory, the data collected in this study through in-depth phone interviews (N=10) of university public relations practitioners, as well as a document analysis of media coverage of campus crises (N=36), …
Social Media As Precursor To Arab Revolt, Mark D Harmon, Brittany Rose Nauta
Social Media As Precursor To Arab Revolt, Mark D Harmon, Brittany Rose Nauta
Annual Research Symposium of the College of Communication and Information
This research examines the use of the Internet and social media as related to 2011 to 2012 Arab protests and civic unrest, testing the widespread belief that communication revolutions played a large role in the political revolutions sometimes known as the Arab Spring. The researchers take a two-pronged approach. They examine the pre-uprising communication firmament in Egypt, specifically seeking and finding correlation between Internet use and political dissatisfaction. This was done using a secondary analysis of the Egypt portion of the 2008 World Values Survey. Secondly, the researchers use secondary analysis of the Arab Barometer, first wave 2006-2007, seeking and …
Early V. Election-Day Voters: A Media Profile, Mark D Harmon
Early V. Election-Day Voters: A Media Profile, Mark D Harmon
Annual Research Symposium of the College of Communication and Information
Abstract
The researcher conducted a secondary analysis of three major surveys of voters: the 2008 National Annenberg Election Survey, and the 2007 and 2008 Cooperative Congressional Election Surveys. All three of these surveys had media components, making it possible to create a profile of significant media differences between Election Day voters and those who vote early.
Early voters, contrasted to those on Election Day, are super citizens—the kind of extremely likely voters campaigns seek out and contact. Early voters (at p < .0001 level of significance) were more likely to be contacted by campaigns by both mail and e-mail, and at a p < .05 level of significance were more likely to be contacted by campaigns face-to-face and by phone.
Early voters, compared to election-day voters, are more likely to mention News and Documentary among their top-four favorite types …
I Look To You: Religious Leaders As Social Support In The Management Of Uncertainty Within The African-American Community, Stephen Anthony Spates
I Look To You: Religious Leaders As Social Support In The Management Of Uncertainty Within The African-American Community, Stephen Anthony Spates
Annual Research Symposium of the College of Communication and Information
African-Americans continue to show stronger relationships between spirituality, worship, and daily life. When faced with uncertainty in life, these individuals may look to their religious leadership as a tool for social support and guidance in decision-making. This study uses Uncertainty Management Theory as a framework to look at the relationship between these individuals and their religious leaders. Credibility will also be measured to see if religious leadership can be perceived as credible when dealing with issues that are not based in faith and worship. The importance of this study is seen in understanding how African-Americans are able to cope with …
No, Kidding! Are We Branded From Birth ? Content Analysis Of Ads In Children's Magazines, Meenakshi Trichur Venkitasubramanian, Jinhee Lee
No, Kidding! Are We Branded From Birth ? Content Analysis Of Ads In Children's Magazines, Meenakshi Trichur Venkitasubramanian, Jinhee Lee
Annual Research Symposium of the College of Communication and Information
Children are the favorite among marketers and advertisers. Most of the advertisers make use of the convincing power children have to make adults purchase products. This is exploited by advertising the messages exclusively to cater to children’s taste and interest. This is a proposed exploratory study that looks at the message strategies used by the advertisers in ads present in children’s magazines. Most of the research conducted focuses on television commercials and this paper hopes to add to the research on ads in children’s magazine. This study uses the six-segment strategy wheel to analyze the ads in the children’s magazines. …
Human Information Behavior In Hospice Care Volunteerism In The Southeastern Appalachian Region, Sheri Edwards
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.
The Influences Of Perceived Environmental Responsibilities On Green Purchasing Intentions, Jinhee Lee, Ilwoo Ju
The Influences Of Perceived Environmental Responsibilities On Green Purchasing Intentions, Jinhee Lee, Ilwoo Ju
Annual Research Symposium of the College of Communication and Information
The current study examined the influences of perceived environmental responsibilities of the three types of important social agents (individuals, companies, and governments) on consumers’ green purchasing intentions. Drawing on the environmental consumerism and purchase decision making literature, consumers’ perceptions of the aforementioned social agents’ roles in environment protection were hypothesized to influence their purchase intentions for green products. In addition, the current study attempted to investigate the different prediction patterns of such factors for two different purchase intention measures (e.g., general purchase intention and “willingness to pay more” for green products) to capture the nuance between the different measurement scales, …
Communication Strategies In Direct-To-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertisements, Ilwoo Ju
Communication Strategies In Direct-To-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertisements, Ilwoo Ju
Annual Research Symposium of the College of Communication and Information
Little research has incorporated a theoretical framework for the analysis of message and creative strategies used in DTCA to date. The purpose of the current study is to extend the previous literature by providing a more complete list of DTCA message and/or creativity strategies based on Taylor’s message strategy wheel. The results show that DTCA has been used to promote drugs for such life-threatening conditions as asthma, acid reflux, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, and arthritis. The most common inducement was the offer of consumer support information. In general, magazine DTC ads from 2006 to 2010 were likely to take both informational …
Types Of Sources: Online Module For First Year Writing, Hannah Cabullo, Bekah Dreyer-Rowe
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
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
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
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 …
Agriculture, Food Security And Climate Change Panel, Andrew Walsh
Agriculture, Food Security And Climate Change Panel, Andrew Walsh
Africa-Western Collaborations Day 2020
8 graduate student/recent graduate presentations on varying topics of agriculture, food security and climate change. Moderated by Dr. Andrew Walsh. 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:
Daniel Amoak, "Coping Strategies of Agrarian Households"
Eunice Annan-Aggrey, "The Conundrum of Vanishing 'Gold' in the African Savannah"
Evans Batung, "Credit Access and Perceived Climate Change Resilience of Smallholder Farmers in semi-arid Northern Ghana"
Chengyu (Jennifer) Guo et al., "Production of Flavoured Fiti Probiotic Yoghurt for the London Community"
Daniel Kpienbaareh et al., "Estimating Yield …
Game Plan: Incorporating Games Into Libraries, Olivia Shelton
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
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
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 …