Health Sciences and Medical Librarianship Commons^™

Ai’S Role In Searching For Evidence: Friend And Foe, Barbara (Basia) Delawska-Elliott, Brandon Wilkinson

Publications 2026-present

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Evaluation Of The Library Session In A Health System Rn Research Fellowship Program, Frances Chu, Basia Delawska-Elliott, Carrie Grinstead, Dana Kopp, Heather Martin

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

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Stronger When Supported By Data: Clinical Impact Of A Librarian Mediated Literature Review Service​, Heather Martin, Carrie Grinstead, Danielle Linden

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

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Not-Not? Yes! : A Visualization Tool For An Advanced Search Technique, M Davies, Basia Delawska-Elliott

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

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Learning From Each Other: Results From The First Year Of A Peer-Reviewed Literature Searching Project, Heather Martin, Danielle Linden, Carrie Grinstead

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

Program Objectives:

Amidst shrinking staffing levels and expanding business, a health system library department developed a peer-learning program in order to build literature search capacity and self-efficacy amongst librarians and library support staff.

Description:

Library staff are partnered and rotate monthly; pairs include those in same and different job roles and experience levels. Staff are encouraged to choose real patron clinical questions that would serve as optimal learning opportunities, reinforcing best practices in search strategy and/or database functionality or ones that are particularly challenging. Partners independently perform the other’s search then meet virtually to compare results, strategies, and debrief …

Building Nurses’ Literature Search Knowledge Using Electronic Database, Carrie Grinstead, Basia Delawska-Elliott, Frances Chu, Danielle Linden

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

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Bridges To Success: Librarian Support Of A Collaborative Multi-Institutional Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Fellowship, Sola Whitehead, Basia Delawska-Elliott

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

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Hear Me Now: When Storytelling Meets A Health System Library, Heather J. Martin, Amanda Schwartz

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

Background: A chance encounter at work led to an innovative and rewarding partnership between a large health system library and a storytelling program whose mission is to give patients, loved ones, and caregivers a sacred space to share their stories and make healthcare more humane.

Description: Providence System Library Services leadership collaborated with palliative care communication managers to support the mission and growth of a health system storytelling program. The program includes professionally produced podcasts, multimedia video and audio stories from patients/families/employees, and other online content. Library involvement was multifaceted including fact checking and literature searching to support the podcast; …

Learning From Each Other: Peer-Reviewed Literature Searching, Heather Martin, Danielle Linden, Carrie Grinstead

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

Background: Amidst shrinking staff and increased demand for services, a peer-learning program was developed to build literature search capacity and self-efficacy amongst staff at a large health system. A secondary objective of this program was to provide team-building opportunities for colleagues who may not work together directly. Participants included ten professional librarians and two library specialists working as part of a centralized department spread across seven western states with most staff working remotely or alone on site with few opportunities to meet in person. This project was first presented as a lightning talk at MLA ’22 and due to positive …

Addressing Maternal Health Disparities With Hospital Library Services: Information-Seeking Behavior Of Maternal Health Care Providers In Resolving Clinical Questions Related To Diverse Populations, Seema Bhakta

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

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Learning From Each Other: Peer-Reviewed Literature Searching, Heather Martin, Danielle Linden, Carrie Grinstead

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

Background: Amidst shrinking staffing levels and expanding business, a health system library department developed a peer-learning program in order to build literature search capacity and self-efficacy amongst librarians and library support staff.

Description: Library staff are partnered and rotate monthly; pairs include those in same and different job roles and experience levels. Staff are encouraged to choose real patron clinical questions that would serve as optimal learning opportunities, reinforcing best practices in search strategy and/or database functionality or ones that are particularly challenging. Partners independently perform the other’s search then meet virtually to compare results, strategies, and debrief on lessons …

Data Disaggregation: The Case Of Asian And Pacific Islander Data And The Role Of Health Sciences Librarians, Seema Bhakta

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

Health disparities within Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities are often masked due to aggregated data. Lack of adequate data limits required health care services for these communities. While moving forward toward health equity, it is critical that disparities for API communities are acknowledged and addressed. This article focuses on the issues of aggregated data for API communities followed by suggestions on how health sciences librarians can support and promote better practices for data disaggregation.

2021 Digital Commons Annual Report, Amanda Schwartz

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

System Library Services annual report for 2021 Providence Digital Commons submissions, usage, and interactions.

Finding Our Stride: A Health System Repository 4 Years In / Providence Patents: Using An Institutional Repository To Promote Technology Transfer, Heather J. Martin, Amanda Schwartz

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

In 2018 Providence launched its Digital Commons Institutional Repository (IR) becoming one of only a small group of large health systems providing such a service. In nearing the end of Year 4 there has been sustained growth and continued engagement of this initiative. Expanding on the initial ask from senior leadership to simply track and compile Providence scholarly activity, subsequent years saw significant development in scope and scale of the IR. New projects included the creation of special collections, including: COVID-19 Research; Environmental Stewardship; Genomics; Diversity & Inclusion; and a Patents collection. The library partnered with nursing and graduate medical …

Hospital Librarianship: What’S The New Normal?, Seema Bhakta

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

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