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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …