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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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; …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Squaring The Circle Through Outreach: Building Student Engagement From Scratch, Kay Strahan, Hilary Jasmin

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

OBJECTIVE The Library works with campus and community partners in order to make a positive impact on students, campus, and community. This poster describes a year of student events and engagement, the challenges and insights from those events, and the collective impact they have had on meeting student needs, increasing library visibility on campus, and enhancing communications between students and the library.

METHODS Needs assessment survey was conducted in Fall 2018 to measure what students would most like from the Library. Adjacently, the Library executed a number of events at varying times of year to engage the students such as …

Shaping Librarianship In Graduate Medical Education, Carrie Cullen, Laura Murray

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

TITLE: Shaping Librarianship in Graduate Medical Education

OBJECTIVE: To reshape the role of faculty librarian in graduate medical education by establishing relationships and demonstrating the value of health sciences librarians as partners in research and medical education.

METHODS: The librarian previously assigned as a liaison to graduate medical education at a public research institution left the position nearly one year before a successor was hired, and little was known about their activities in this role. This poster illustrates the efforts of two newly hired librarians to define and develop the role of an academic research and education librarian embedded in …

Fighting Size: The Negotiation For Study Space In The Face Of Aging Collections, Anya Mckinney

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

OBJECTIVE Meeting departmental goals and student expectations are a challenge with evolving budgets and changing perspectives on the purpose of library space. Repurposing library space to meet student needs while maintaining appropriate collections is a challenge and an opportunity for librarians and patrons alike. At South College, institutional growth and student demand for study space, both physical space and time, highlighted a need for change within the physical confines of the library department.

METHODS The libraries at the main South College campus and three other campuses underwent extensive remodeling to provide additional study space for students. The institution and Head …

Shaping Wikipedia Editing As A Teaching And Learning Tool To Promote Deep Learning And Information Literacy, Nadine Dexter, David Lebowitz Md, Amin Azzam Md

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Research has shown that at least 94% of medical students use Wikipedia as an information resource (Usaid, 2012), despite medical school faculty telling them not to. In fact, medical schools do not train students to improve Wikipedia or use it critically (Azzam, 2017). The Wikiproject Medicine course was created at the invitation and in partnership with Dr. Amin Azzam at the University of California San Francisco, who started the original program in 2013. This class is offered to 4th year medical students and gives students an opportunity to edit already existing health related articles in Wikipedia to improve their quality …

Let's Play Kahoot! Teaching Epocrates To High School Students Through Online Game-Based Learning, Terri Johnson, Thesla Brene-Anderson

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Poster Title: Let’s Play KAHOOT! Teaching Epocrates Through Online Game-Based Learning to High School Students.

Background: The Florida State University College of Medicine hosts a one-week residential summer program on campus for high school students. The Science Students Together Reaching Instructional Diversity & Excellence (SSTRIDE) Summer Institute motivates students to excel academically, introduces students to a variety of clinical settings, provides standardized test preparation for ACT and SAT, provides mentoring, exposes students to college life, gives students a perspective on the life of a medical student, expose students to certain aspects of the medical school curriculum through interaction with faculty …

Collaboration Picnic: Developing And Maintaining A Growing Network Of Research Partners Across The United States For Successful Research Production, Jenessa Mcelfresh, Rachel Keiko Stark

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: The objective of this study was to highlight and document the ways that collaboration, specifically across great geographic and institutional differences, can be an asset when engaging in research in health sciences librarianship.

Methods: Impact and success were measured through formal outcomes (publications/presentations) and informal observations, primarily focusing on the collaboration experiences of two health sciences librarians in non-health sciences academic libraries. The history of collaboration spans from 2015-present day and includes demonstrated outcomes on the local, regional, and national level.

Results: The results of this study of collaboration demonstrate that long-term research collaborations across geographic and institutional boundaries …

Elevating Library Practice Through Process Improvement Teams: The Electronic Resources Task Force, James Michael Lindsay, Rebecca Harrington, David Petersen, Martha Earl

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective Organizations in fields from manufacturing to health care use process improvement teams, an important aspect of LEAN practice, to improve their work. The library faced challenges with interfaces for electronic resources, including a dated electronic journals interface, out-of-control LibGuides, and lack of control over our web presence. The library formed the Electronic Resources Task Force to foster a collaborative approach to solving these problems. This poster will show techniques used and what we accomplished. Methods The library experienced many changes in the last year including changes in leadership and staff. With our new director’s emphasis on improving electronic access, …

Shaping A Future For Library & Cme Through Partnerships, Shannon Glover, Jennifer Reagan

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

The purpose of this poster is to highlight the value of the partnership between library services and continuing medical education (CME) teams at Northeast Georgia Health System. Successful partnership examples include: 1) case conferences, such as Mortality & Morbidity (M&M) and tumor board, 2) library participation in the CME committee meetings, and 3) literature searches to support CME presentations. As a result, the partnership shows effectiveness by focusing on accountability and team work to accomplish educational goals and objectives set for the system.

Prioritizing Resources For Third-Year Medical Students, Marcelle Savoy, Kimberly Kertis

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Prioritizing Resources for Third Year Medical Students To assess the effectiveness of using library surveys as a means of prioritizing resources for collection development. In the third year of medical undergraduate education, students are undergoing their core clinical rotations. During this period, exams in the core areas must be passed and therefore, access to relevant library resources is vital for successful completion. As part of their curriculum, students were able to accumulate additional points toward their final average by completing a survey, which assessed how library resources and availability, or lack thereof, affected their performance during this critical year. Since …

Leisurely Reshaping A Consumer Health Book Collection, Kelsey Grabeel, Martha Earl, Jennifer Luhrs

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: To discover whether adding leisure books, according to a carefully designed collection development policy, to a consumer health collection (CHC) in a hospital would lead to an increase in usage of the CHC collection, an increased number of monthly subscriptions for membership in the Health Information Center (HIC), and change in the subject of materials circulated.

Methods: The collection development policy, specifically for the Leisure Reading Collection (LRC), included bestselling titles within 3 years, award winning fiction, and classics. Librarians also set criteria with clear parameters related to gifts, donations, and collection maintenance. Twenty-four books were selected for the …

Elevating Patient Education Through State-Wide Instruction Of Nurses And Patient Educators On Consumer Health Resources, Lindsay Blake, Alice Jaggers

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Background: Patient Education is consistently cited by the Joint Commission as needing work at many institutions. However, with a limited number of patient educators and high nurse to patient ratios it is hard to find the time to adequately teach patients all they may need to know. The goal of this project was to create a course and online guide for nurses and patient educators. The course was approved for continuing education credit for nurses, dieticians, and health education specialists. The guide would serve as a central location for accessing consumer health websites and information for both educators and patients. …

Three Year Trend In Interlibrary Loan Requests, David Goolabsingh

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: Background: In response to the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) ILL service increase from $9 to $12, and in preparation for an upcoming retreat discussion in April 2018, the Consortium of Southern Biomedical Libraries (CONBLS) polled its 21 member libraries for ILL fills and borrows to and from other CONBLS libraries for calendar years 2016 and 2017.

Methods: To analyze three years of data, 2018 ILL statistics was requested from CONBLS libraries and permission was obtained to use it and the previously collected 2016 and 2017 ILL CONBLS statistics for this poster. Data was combined in Excel and analyzed …

Shaping The Future Of Education For The Medical Library Association, Gail Kouame, Heather Holmes, Elizabeth Laera

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: Inform health sciences information professionals about the newly developed structure for educational programming for the Medical Library Association (MLA) based on MLA’s Professional Competencies.

Methods: MLA appointed the Education Steering Committee and six Education Curriculum Committees to develop education content based on the Association’s revised Professional Competencies. The Competencies provide the framework that define the skills to be gained as a result of educational offerings. The Education Curriculum Committees are charged with: 1. Designing and planning curriculum and educational offerings and resources; 2. Providing direction, expertise, and knowledge to creators and instructors of educational offerings with respect to content …

Squaring An Open Circle: Trends And Opportunities In Open Access Publishing, Promotion, And Impact, G. Randall Watts, Hilary Jasmin, Jess Newman

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

This poster will examine the trends surrounding scholarly communications amongst faculty authors at UTHSC to determine prevalence of Open Access (OA) publishing in order to formulate a strategy for the library to reallocate services and funds to meet the changing needs of the Library’s users. Using bibliographic analysis and citation analysis for the prior 10 years (2009-2018), we hope to discover the following: the trend with respect to OA publishing amongst UTHSC faculty including the difference between Gold OA and Green OA; the specific journals in which UTHSC faculty choose to publish; and, the impact of OA publishing versus traditional …

Shaping An Institutional Workplace Wellness Program To Fit An Academic Health Science Center Library, Sarah Adcock, Chameka C. Robinson

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: In 2018, The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) established the Office of Wellbeing as an umbrella structure to enhance the physical health, emotional wellbeing, and professional fulfillment of faculty, staff, and students. The UMMC Office of Wellbeing sponsors workshops, lectures, and classes on a variety of wellness topics. Wellness events are held primarily in the clinical areas of the large academic medical center campus during the noon hour. Attending these events can be challenging for library faculty and staff that are juggling busy work schedules, responsibilities, and duties. The aim is to improve accessibility and participation in wellness …

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 …