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Occupational Health Hazards Of Library Professionals In India, Jiban K. Pal

Journal Articles

The paper revisits a wide variety of health hazards in the library workplace. Through an exhaustive review, it explores the underlying causes of occupational risk & injuries to library workers; aiming to raise the awareness of healthy working practices and statutory requirements. It reflects the viewpoints surrounding the health and safety in libraries to illustrate possible health hazards of library workers in an Indian context. The paper informs about a variety of burdens that persist in the library workplace. It also outlines the major causes of occupational risk in terms of physical, chemical, biological, technological, emotional, and psychosocial hazards. It …

Rrh Library Newsletter, December 2019, Libraries At Rochester Regional Health

Rochester Regional Health authored publications and proceedings

Newsletter sections include: Lettuce and E. coli

Collaborative Information Literacy Practices To Connect Theory To Practice In Rehabilitation Counseling Students, Donna Witek, Rebecca Spirito Dalgin

Collaborative Librarianship

The authors offer this case study of collaborating to scaffold information literacy learning into a semester-long research assignment within an undergraduate rehabilitation services course. The goal of the partnership was to teach students to research a rehabilitation theory/intervention in the professional literature and connect the evidence to rehabilitation services available locally for individuals with disabilities. Specific collaborative practices are identified as essential to the success of this pedagogical project, specifically the giving of time, the scaffolding of learning, and the continual return to reflection in the teaching and learning process, which are all enabled by the sharing of expertise …

Bibliometric Support Service For Researchers In Academic Libraries: An Example From National Medical Library At United Arab Emirates University, Khalid Pasha

Presentations

No abstract provided.

Promoting Library Resources And Services Through Student Champions, An Example From The National Medical Library At The United Arab Emirates University, Linda Östlundh, Reem Al Sheryani, Khalid Pasha

Posters

No abstract provided.

Rrh Library Newsletter, November 2019, Libraries At Rochester Regional Health

Rochester Regional Health authored publications and proceedings

Newsletter sections include: Health Literacy Tools for Health Professionals

Health Literacy Environment Version 2 Peer Review And Pilot Test Responses, Kelsey Grabeel, R. Eric Heidel, Sandy Oelschlegel, Rima Rudd

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Digital Addiction: A Conceptual Overview, Amarjit Kumar Singh, Pawan Kumar Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

Digital addiction referred to an impulse control disorder that involves the obsessive use of digital devices, digital technologies, and digital platforms, i.e. internet, video game, online platforms, mobile devices, digital gadgets, and social network platform. It is an emerging domain of Cyberpsychology (Singh, Amarjit Kumar and Pawan Kumar Singh; 2019), which explore a problematic usage of digital media, device, and platforms by being obsessive and excessive. This article analyses, reviewed the current research, and established a conceptual overview on the digital addiction. The research literature on digital addiction has proliferated. However, we tried to categories the digital addiction, according …

Student Learning: An Assessment Of Information Literacy Learning In Nursing Research One-Shots, Stephanie Wiegand

University Libraries Publications

Background

The objective of this research is to assess student learning in a library one-shot for Nursing students who are beginning to navigate the scholarly research system and to identify and procure primary and secondary research studies to support a clinical change.

Methods

NURS 380 is the research and evidence-based practice course for second-year nursing students taken in concert with clinical experiences. Three sections of this course (36 students each) were given the same lecture, hands-on practice, and facilitated research time with the same librarian during a three-hour session of the course. At the end of each session, the librarian …

Elevating Librarian-Mediated Search Services: When 2nd Best Isn't Good Enough, Danielle Westmark, Cynthia M. Schmidt, Teresa L. Hartman

Posters and Presentations: Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library

Objective: To optimize librarian-mediated search services, librarians must consider all aspects of their search service that affect service utilization and efficacy. The library literature provides little information concerning the format in which libraries are providing literature search results and even less on the effect of format on search service utilization.  At our academic health science library, the number of search requests received rose dramatically after we began providing results in RefShare format. RefShare is the collaboration tool available in ProQuest’s RefWorks®.  We wanted to know how other libraries were providing results and whether they had seen format affect search service …

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 …