Health Sciences and Medical Librarianship Commons^™

Nursing And Allied Health Research Section Allied Health Librarians Survey, Michelle B. Bass, Jenn Monnin

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

In the fall of 2022, the co-authors were fortunate to be paired with one another in the MLA mentor/mentee program, Colleague Connection. Michelle, the mentor, had recently started a position as a hospital librarian and was reconnecting with her past experiences as a nursing liaison while also quickly embracing allied health liaison responsibilities. Jenn is a liaison to the allied health fields at her institution. Upon discovering this overlap, and their shared membership in NAHRS, they thought it would be informative to learn more about the liaison work of the caucus as a whole. Michelle thought it would be a …

Effects Of Library Workshop Attendance And Library Website Visit Frequency On Health Professions Students’ Libguides Awareness, John Carey, Ajatshatru Pathak, Sarah C. Johnson

Publications and Research

This research article examines data from an in-person 2017 survey on LibGuides usage, perceptions, and awareness of health professions students seeking bachelor and graduate level degrees. Almost 45% (n=20, N=45) of participants who visited the library’s website at least once per week indicated awareness of library-created LibGuides. Nearly 90% (n=8, N=9) of health professions students who had not visited the library’s website were unaware of the guides. The statistical analysis shows significant associations between various variables (academic level, library workshop attendance, research guide type usage, research guide page usage) and library guide awareness. The data did not reveal any significant …

New! How To Search Embase Video, Joanne Romano

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

Conducting a Literature Search in Embase video is now available. This video provides an introduction to the Embase database and explains the steps to perform a literature search using keywords and Emtree terms.

For additional video tutorials, check the library's Youtube channel.

Tmc Library Annual Report, Katie Prentice

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

The Annual Report is the best publication to keep track of The TMC Library's accomplishments during the last fiscal year. Check the library staff's accomplishments and meet the departments that support our community of students, faculty, residents, staff, and researchers in the TMC.

Scholarly Publishing Support, Joanne Romano

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

A Read & Publish license allows libraries to provide their affiliated author's open-access publishing options at no additional cost, or at a discount rate. Under this type of publisher license, once an author’s manuscript is accepted, the Article Processing Charges (APC) are either discounted or eliminated at the point of payment. The pricing model and approval process varies widely among publishers.

The library’s Scholarly Publishing LibGuide has information on how to use this service

Library Committee Report, 2023-02-07, Elizabeth Mamo

Rochester Regional Health authored publications and proceedings

The Library Committee is a requirement of the RGH Medical/Dental Staff and is facilitated by Dr. Scott Schabel. After RGH and Unity merged, the Libraries formed one department and expanded access and services to all RRH sites. The Library committee, composed of staff from across the health system, provide feedback and share library news with their teams. The committee meets 2x/year via Zoom.

This report highlights library activity from 2022.

Understanding How Regulatory And Ethical Principles Mitigate The Spread And Propagation Of Harmful Health Information: A Successful Fulbright Scholar Award Narrative, Bethany S. Mcgowan

Libraries Faculty and Staff Creative Materials

I used a Fulbright Scholar Award to work with librarians, information studies scholars, and policymakers in Finland to investigate what policies or policy tools were available to help balance the need between propagating accurate information, curbing dis/misinformation, and ensuring human rights of access to information. This policy assessment helped me understand how regulatory and ethical principles can mitigate the spread and propagation of harmful health information.

One Button Recording Studio, Katie Prentice

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

The TMC Library One Button Studio is available to practice or create high quality conference/class presentation recordings.

Nih Data Management And Sharing, Alice Sherwood

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

NIH has issued the Data Management and Sharing (DMS) policy (effective January 25, 2023) to promote the sharing of scientific data. Sharing scientific data accelerates biomedical research discovery, in part, by enabling the validation of research results.

Do you need to find more information on data management and sharing policies?
Visit the library's NIH Data Management and Sharing LibGuide.

Psychotherapy Library: New Ebook Collection, Joanne Romano

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

The Psychotherapy Library is a robust list of curated psychotherapy titles. This collection covers a multitude of topics including cognitive behavior therapy, psychoanalysis, mentalizing, and more—all within a single search and navigation interface that integrates journals and books.

Browse over 20 ebooks from the Psychotherapy Library at Psychiatry Online. Many titles include vignette videos that illustrate key clinical problems, techniques, and more!

Are Open Access Journals Cited More Often?, Joanne Romano

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

Open Access content is freely accessible to all, with no access fees charged to the user. This means that scholars and researchers whose institutions lack a subscription, or researchers who lack institutional affiliation, can access the book or article online without paying a fee.

Personalizing A Librarian: Support For A Problem-Based Learning Medical Campus, Mercedes Byrd, Charles J. Greenberg

Libraries Scholarship

Background

The Rowan-Virtua University School of Osteopathic Medicine opened a second campus in Sewell, New Jersey, to serve a planned increase of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) students and integrate them with clinical care at the new campus. In order to better serve the students and faculty, the new librarian researched how to best engage a cohort of 72 new PBL medical students, as well as 1^st and 2^nd year PBL students on the main campus as well.

Objectives

The main objective of ensuring the students, faculty, and staff on campus viewed the library as an integrated resource with their …

Rrh Library Newsletter, Winter 2023, Libraries At Rochester Regional Health

Rochester Regional Health authored publications and proceedings

Newsletter sections include: RRH Archives Join the RRH Libraries; Access ObGyn and Access Emergency Medicine E-Book collections now available; Lexicomp; Have You tried EndNote?; Recently Released Guidelines

Progenitor Cell Isolation From Mouse Epididymal Adipose Tissue And Sequencing Library Construction, Qianglin Liu, Chaoyang Li, Yuxia Li, Leshan Wang, Xujia Zhang, Buhao Deng, Peidong Gao, Mohammad Shiri, Fozi Alkaifi, Junxing Zhao, Jacqueline M. Stephens, Constantine A. Simintiras, Joseph Francis, Jiangwen Sun, Xing Fu

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Here, we present a protocol to isolate progenitor cells from mouse epididymal visceral adipose tissue and construct bulk RNA and assay for transposase-accessible chromatin with sequencing (ATAC-seq) libraries. We describe steps for adipose tissue collection, cell isolation, and cell staining and sorting. We then detail procedures for both ATAC-seq and RNA sequencing library construction. This protocol can also be applied to other tissues and cell types directly or with minor modifications.

For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Liu et al. (2023).¹

*¹ Liu, Q., Li, C., Deng, B., Gao, P., …

New Medline Ovid Video, Joanne Romano

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

A new video on Conducting a Literature Search in Medline Ovid - part 1, is now available. The video explains how to successfully conduct a literature search in the Medline database using the Ovid search interface.

This new video is available on the Library YouTube Channel.

Schedule A Class Or An Orientation, Beatriz Varman

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

It is the beginning of the semester and the perfect time to schedule a class or a library orientation for your students. Let us know what you need: a library orientation or a class on how to search medical or nursing databases.

Digitalcommons@Tmc Offers "Virtual" Library Exhibits, Alice Sherwood

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

2022 was a busy year for this online repository, with an additional 350+ works added, which include dissertations and theses and 2 additional peer-reviewed e-journals. Also, there are a number of exhibits available since November, with most materials from these exhibits contributed by The McGovern Historical Center.

Two latest additions to the exhibits are Houston’s Fight against Tuberculosis and Christmas Seals (1911-1980s) and Windows into McGovern Historical Center. Check it out!

Racial And Ethnic Categories: Impact On Medical Subject Headings, Jamia Williams, Aidy Weeks

Library Faculty Presentations

This presentation was part of the OMB Public Listening Sessions on Federal Race and Ethnicity Standards Revision. The presentation addressed the use of racial and ethnic categories and their impact on medical subject headings managed by the National Library of Medicine.

The presentation was on behalf of the Medical Library Association (MLA) comprising more than 400 institutions and 2,500 professional health sciences and medical librarians and a joint collaboration between the Latinx Caucus and the Social Justice and Health Disparities Caucus. Both Weeks and Williams shared information regarding how these medical subject headings impact indexing and searching of biomedical …

Interlibrary Loan And Document Delivery In North American Health Sciences Libraries During The Early Months Of The Covid-19 Pandemic, Jennifer K. Lloyd, Kristine M. Alpi, Margaret A. Hoogland, Priscilla L. Stephenson, Elizabeth Meyer

Library Faculty Publications

Objective: The study purpose was to understand how early months of the COVID-19 pandemic altered interlibrary loan (ILL) and document delivery (DD) in North American health science libraries (HSLs), specifically the decision-making and workflow adjustments associated with accessing their own collections and obtaining content not available via ILL.

Methods: Researchers distributed an online 26-question survey through 24 health science library email lists from January 6-February 7, 2021. Respondents reported their library’s ILL and DD activities from March-August 2020, including ILL/DD usage and policies, collection access, decision-making, and workflow adjustments. In addition to calculating frequencies, cross-tabulation and statistical tests were performed …

Academic Commons Annual Report (2021-2022), Elizabeth D'Angel

Annual Reports & Administrative Documents

Contents

• Introduction & By the Numbers
• Updates at the Jefferson Libraries & Library Statistics
• Instructional Design & Educational Technologies By the Numbers
• Professional Writing and Communications
• Textile & Costume Collection
• AV, Graphics, Video Production, and Photography
• Staff Highlights