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This poster presents Outreach Connections, a wiki that
serves as a new collaborative space for librarians, researchers, and public
health professionals. Designed for those who work with health care providers
serving Native peoples and with Native health information consumers, this
wiki serves as a home on the web for descriptions and stories about health
information outreach and education activities. Outreach Connections
complements, and does not duplicate, existing collections of information for
Native peoples about how to manage personal health or treat health problems.
Outreach Connections is an outcome of the Native American Health Information
Services in the United States conference and was developed at the University
of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center, with the
support of a national steering committee drawn from the arenas of tribal
public health, health librarianship, and information technology. This work
has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National
Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and
Human Services under Contract No. NO1-LM-6-3504.
Contact Information:
Susan J. Barnes, NN/LM Outreach Evaluation Resource Center, University of
Washington Health Sciences Library Box 357155, Seattle, WA 98195; phone
206-221-7425; email
sjbarnes@u.washington.edu
The U.S. National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network is a network of research centers and community treatment providers across the US, collaborating to develop, validate, refine, and deliver new addiction treatment to patients in the real-world of community-level practice. To encourage the transfer of knowledge gained from CTN research into practice, the digital CTN Dissemination Library was created as a repository of resources created by and for the CTN. The virtual library, a project of the UW Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute Library, provides CTN members and the public with a single point of access to research findings and other materials that are approved for dissemination throughout the network and to the larger community of providers, researchers, and policy-makers. This poster describes the resources available in the Library, including details about each clinical trial carried out by the CTN, the participating research centers and community treatment providers in the network, and the findings from the studies themselves (posters, presentations, peer-reviewed journal articles, and more).
CTN Dissemination Library:
http://ctndisseminationlibrary.org
Contact Information: Nancy
Sutherland, nsutherland@adai.washington.edu; Meg Brunner,
meganw@u.washington.edu
UW Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute Library, http://lib.adai.washington.edu
Since its first meeting in 1992, the International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists (ICAHIS) has generated a large collection of informative papers, largely inaccessible even in this age of Internet access. Development of the Washington State University (WSU) Libraries’ institutional repository, the WSU Research Exchange, is a venue to provide accessibility and permanence. Working together, Vicki Croft, Head Librarian of Washington State University’s Animal Health Library, and Kay Vyhnanek, Scholarly Communication Librarian at WSU, began a project to create a Web-based collection of papers from all five ICAHIS meetings. This poster will include descriptions of the design and planning, the process and procedures for obtaining copyright permissions from the authors, the methods employed in capturing and/or creating digital images of the papers, the creation of the metadata representing the papers, and posting the papers to the Research Exchange.
https://research.wsulibs.wsu.edu:8443/dspace/handle/2376/1376
Contact Information: Vicki Croft, M.S.L.S., AHIP, Head, Animal Health Library, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6512, Phone: (509)335-5544, Fax: (509)335-5158, croft@wsu.edu
Objective:
Medical librarians are always seeking ways
to connect with colleagues in order to share the latest news and information
in the field, ask for collaborative help and opinions, and invite feedback
on projects and services. Group social networking media such as Twitter and
FriendFeed enable medical librarians to send and receive brief real time
messages and participate in conversations that can be viewed online or on
cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs)/handheld devices for
portability.
Methods:
Twitter, a social network messaging
service limited to 140 characters per message (tweet), allows for tweets
from an individual user to be published to all followers of a group Twitter
account even if the group members do not follow the user’s tweets. The
Medlibs group Twitter account was created after users of an informal group
Twitter account for the Medical Library Association conference in May 2008
wanted to continue the group. FriendFeed is an aggregator that allows the
site to pull in dozens of feeds from different social networking media,
including Twitter, and post conversational comments on them. The Medlibs
group FriendFeed account was created in August 2008 to invite additional
conversation and accommodate the inclusion of future social networking media
site for the group.
Results:
As Twitter has increased in numbers of
users and cultural popularity since the Medlibs group began, so has the
Medlibs group in both beneficial and challenging ways as it grew from less
than 50 members to hundreds. Both the Medlibs group Twitter account and
FriendFeed account were used as library information sharing resources during
the initial days of the novel H1N1 outbreak in April 2009. In late Summer
2009, a survey of participants will be administered to assess perceived
value of the Medlibs group and results will be included with the poster.
Contact Information: Nicole Dettmar, snydern@u.washington.edu
Objective:
To create a synergistic partnership between
medical librarians and physician assistants (PAs), focused on improving
patient care by addressing health literacy. To establish organizational
collaboration. To enhance information integrity of patient education. To
build a more sophisticated understanding of health literacy among PAs. To
underscore the value of librarian-PA partnerships in improving health
literacy.
Methods:
Contacts in the leadership of the American
Academy of Physician Assistants will be identified and established.
Collaborative opportunities focused on creation of a joint project
augmenting PA awareness and utilization of MedlinePlus as an exam room tool
for patient and clinician education will be explored. A continuing medical
education presentation for physician assistants at a state association
annual meeting will be created by a librarian/PA team. This presentation
will be a portable resource examining ways to enhance patient care.
Clinicians will learn to provide reliable patient education information in
the exam room using MedlinePlus.
Contact Information: Patricia J.
Devine, MLS, Administrative/Network Coordinator
National Network of
Libraries of Medicine/Pacific Northwest Region Health
Sciences Library
and Information Center, Box 357155 University of Washington, Seattle, WA
98195, Phone: (206)543-8275 Fax: (206)543-2469
With a national emphasis on health care reform, electronic medical records and other health care informatics systems are becoming more prevalent in all kinds of health care settings. Medical librarians with formal training in informatics have opportunities to be involved in system planning and implementation that can expand their role beyond the library. This poster will describe the graduate certificate program in medical informatics at OHSU, and how programs like these are beneficial for the professional development of medical librarians.
Contact Information: Kim Granath, kim.granath@umontana.edu
The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) has been working to implement Emergency Preparedness and Response plans for medical libraries as part of a national initiative among all NN/LM regions. In the Pacific Northwest, the NN/LM has partnered with representatives in each of our 5 states to create a region-specific plan including:
• A
series of 10 webcasts featuring each of the “10 Steps to Service Continuity”
• Direct mailing of postcards following each webcast, highlighting the
step that was just reviewed
• Sending pieces of emergency kits to
libraries on a month-by-month basis following the webcasts to promote
awareness of emergency preparedness
The goal is for hospital and other medical libraries to develop emergency preparedness plans, even if they are small-scale. Visit our poster to meet your state representative for emergency preparedness and to hear about how you can be prepared to continue to offer your important services in case of a disaster or incident. Templates of disaster plans and other resources will be on hand.
Contact Information: Gail Kouame, gmarie@u.washington.edu; Laurel Egan, laurel.egan@sjh-mt.org; Marcia Francis, franmarc@isu.edu; Dolores Judkins, judkinsd@ohsu.edu; Kathy Murray, afktm@uaa.alaska.edu; Bob Pringle, rpringle@wsu.edu
OBJECTIVE
To provide health care practitioners in more
than a dozen professions across Washington State with electronic access to
evidence-based information, in support of a statewide legislative initiative
aimed at improving health care quality and access for all citizens of the
state.
METHODS
This project is directed toward, and funded
by license fees from, health professionals in a broad range of disciplines.
Librarians conducted surveys and individual as well as group interviews with
health practitioners across professions to determine information seeking
patterns and familiarity with electronic healthcare information sources
prior to resource selection and site development. Established web sites and
librarians at other educational institutions were also consulted about
resources in their respective fields. Informational presentations at
regulatory meetings, as well as with representatives from various
professional groups, were used to begin providing information about the
project as well as to gather information for resource selection.
RESULTS
The HEAL-WA web portal was launched on
January 1, 2009 with open-access and licensed resources targeted toward more
than a dozen practitioner groups. Early usage statistics collected prior to
the launch of a statewide publicity campaign showed numerous page views from
around Washington State, as well as from other states across the US. Further
publicity and online as well as in-person training are planned, and will be
critical to increase awareness and promote use of the portal. As the portal
matures and becomes more widely known, survey data and more comprehensive
usage statistics will be gathered and used to determine how professionals
use the portal and how it might be improved.
CONCLUSIONS
A statewide web portal shows promise
to deliver high-quality evidence-based health information to diverse groups
of health professionals.
Contact Information: Valerie Lawrence, vjlawren@u.washington.edu
Local library surveys have shown that among graduate students, nursing students consistently score higher levels of satisfaction with library services. To learn more about their interactions with the library, small group interviews were held with master’s level nursing students. This poster reports the findings from these interviews, and identifies strategies used successfully with nursing students that can be applied to other programs.
The University is located in a large urban center and serves six health sciences schools which all support graduate level education. Seven students within the last three quarters of the master’s program in the School of Nursing took part in three semi-structured small group interviews. The students received small bookstore gift certificates as compensation for their participation. Background questions were asked about clinical experience and future career plans. Students were asked to think about past interactions with the library or its librarians. They were then asked to articulate their experiences with library and librarians. Transcripts of the recordings were analyzed to identify common themes and issues of concern to the students. These themes and issues will be used in assessments of library resources and services.
Students reported frequent usage of the library including access of electronic resources and use of group study rooms. They reported frequent positive interactions with librarians during in-curriculum classes and individual consultations. Areas that arose as opportunities for improving delivery of library and librarian services include improving study space environments and hours of access, streamlining flow of in-curriculum class content, increasing numbers and timing of faculty referral of students to librarians, and tailoring and improving branding and marketing of resources, services, and extra-curricular library classes including software instruction. An overarching theme seemed to be the students’ focus on efficient use of their time.
Master’s nursing students lead hectic lives in which they depend greatly on library resources and services. As users who express great satisfaction with the library and librarians, they are an excellent source of ideas for improvement. Lessons learned from these interviews may be applied to other programs.
Contact Information: Joanne Rich, jrich@u.washington.edu, Janet G. Schnall, schnall@u.washington.edu; Sarah Safranek, safranek@u.washington.edu; Steve Hiller#, hiller@u.washington.edu; Amy L. Harper, alharper@u.washington.edu; Leilani A. St. Anna, lstanna@u.washington.edu; Sherry A. Dodson, sdodson@u.washington.edu; Health Sciences Library, Box 357155, T334 Health Sciences Building, Seattle, WA, 206-543-5531; #University Libraries, University of Washington;, Box 352900, Seattle, WA, 206 543-5071
Objective:
Describe methods used to educate users on how to calculate
impact factors using Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Eigenfactor, h-index,
Web of Science (WoS), and Google Scholar.
Methods:
The University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries,
serving six health sciences schools, is receiving an increasing number of
questions from our faculty, staff, and students on how to calculate the
impact of a journal or their impact factor as a researcher author. We
created a web page describing different resources to use to calculate impact
factors [http://healthlinks.washington.edu/howto/impactfactors.html]. This
website first reports on the controversial aspects of using impact factors.
It describes using JCR or the Eigenfactor to calculate journal impact factor
and the h-index, WoS, or Google Scholar cited references for calculating
author impact. In addition to the website creation, we also offer a session,
What Is Your Impact?, as part of our library liaisons fall marketing
campaign. The presentation is tailored to the liaisons individual
department, can be mixed and matched with other topics, lasts from fifteen
minutes to one hour, and can be presented in their department, such as at a
regularly scheduled faculty meeting, or in the health sciences libraries in
one of our computer labs.
Contact Information: Janet G. Schnall,
schnall@u.washington.edu; Leilani A. St. Anna, lstanna@u.washington.edu
University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries Seattle, WA
Objective:
The goal of this project is to observe and survey Virginia Mason’s new residents to gain a better understanding of how they are utilizing the library during their first 4 months of residency. Gathering and analyzing this data will ultimately allow the library to tailor services specifically to this group of information seekers.
Methods:
With the goal of gathering information regarding new residents’ use of library services within the first 4 months of residency, a survey will be created to gauge what resources the first year residents have utilized and which ones they deem most relevant in the beginning stages of their time at Virginia Mason. Statistics will also be gathered from the library’s New Resident Orientation web page and all other requests for information from this group of library users will be documented and categorized. The results of the survey, the statistical information gathered from the web page and the documentation on the information requests will then be analyzed to develop a standardized new resident curriculum and education plan based around library services.
Contact Information: Mary Beth Simiele, medlib@vmmc.org
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