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Reading is Healthy - Health Literacy Book Club Kits
Amy E. Weig-Pickering, Kristin R. Proctor, and Allison B. Cruise
Seed funding from HSLIC provided an opportunity for us to create ten Reading Is Healthy Book Club Kits and made them available for checkout to both public libraries and community organizations in New Mexico. Each kit includes eight copies of a book club selection along with discussion questions and health literacy materials.
The goals of this project are to encourage conversations around health and wellness topics, destigmatize the discussion of health topics, and increase health literacy in our communities. This project aligns with HSLIC’s strategic goal to empower our communities to engage with health information.
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Researching Ourselves: A Critical Role for Librarians
Melissa L. Rethlefsen
Keynote talk: Researching Ourselves: A Critical Role for Librarians
Conducting research is a critical aspect of our work as librarians, so that we can understand what works, what doesn't, and why. It can also help us demonstrate our value to others outside our profession by providing evidence of how what we do improves health, education, and research outcomes. Starting in research can be a challenge, but it starts with identifying questions that should be answered. Using the story of how I got involved in (and continue to do) research, we'll talk about the process of research and the benefits it can offer to one's career, library, and the profession.
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The Importance of Library Assessment in HR: A Case Study of Transitioning to a Hybrid Work Environment after the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sally Bowler-Hill
Purpose & Goals: The purpose of this study was to explore and understand employee perceptions of remote work as a potential option for normal operations, based on experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic. The goals were to obtain feedback from library faculty and staff about remote work and telecommuting in order to develop a guideline, and to measure satisfaction with the hybrid work environment several months after the guideline was implemented.
Design & Methodology: Two web-based surveys were sent to all library faculty and staff, one in April 2021 and the other in March 2022. The first survey included multiple-choice and free-text responses regarding how often employees wanted to work remotely; what tasks they believed could be done productively from home; what equipment they needed at home; and what challenges they believed the library faced with employees working remotely. This feedback was used to develop a remote work and telecommuting guideline that was implemented in July 2021. The second survey assessed employees’ experience with telecommuting or remote work since the guideline was implemented, including questions about schedules, satisfaction, equity, what worked better than expected, and continuing challenges. Both surveys were declared minimal risk by our institutional IRB.
Findings: The second survey showed satisfaction with the hybrid work environment, including a high degree of satisfaction with how telecommuting schedules were implemented and allocated within library units. The average amount of time employees spent working from home closely mirrored how much time they responded that they wanted to spend in the first survey. Significant challenges to implementing a hybrid work environment identified in the first survey had been resolved, while other challenges had arisen or continued in the months since the guideline was implemented and the library had resumed normal operations.
Practical Implications & Value: Librarians responsible for assessment within their libraries should look for assessment and research opportunities related to the administrative operations of their organizations. When integrated at the beginning of a major operational change, these studies can provide valuable data that help inform needed adjustments after the change has been implemented and, longitudinally, as operations are continually evaluated. While libraries’ administrative operations can vary greatly, sharing these studies can provide useful insight to other organizations looking to implement similar changes.
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The Native Health Database - A Tool to Support NLM's Associate Fellows
Jonathan M. Pringle and Allison B. Cruise
An introduction to the Native Health Database presented to the 2022-2023 National Library of Medicine Associate Fellows. Discusses the NHD’s history, the NNLM-funded transition to Mukurtu, and how content is created, contributed and shared through the NHD.
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Using Evidence to Develop an Interprofessional Roundtable Simulation on Health Literacy
Lisa M. Acuff
Lisa M. Acuff, MPH, MS, Education and Research Librarian, Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center presented, "Using Evidence to Develop an Interprofessional Roundtable Simulation on Health Literacy." Librarians bring unique knowledge, skills, and perspectives to interprofessional education. This presentation will introduce a health sciences librarian's process and tools for creating an evidence-based interprofessional simulation on health literacy. The session will offer a systematic approach to instructional planning and design integrating evidence, competencies, objectives, activities, and assessment.
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Building Consensus Around the Future Remote Work: One Library’s Study
Sally Bowler-Hill
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to explore and understand employee perceptions of remote work as a potential option after the library returns to “normal” operations. This survey was used to develop the library’s telecommuting and remote work guideline.
METHODS: An 8-question, web-based survey was sent to all library faculty and staff, asking their opinions about working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was declared minimal risk by our institutional IRB. The questions included multiple choice and free-text responses about how often employees wanted to work remotely; what tasks they believed could be done productively from home; what equipment they needed at home; and what challenges they believed the library faced with employees working remotely. Summary results from the survey were presented to all faculty and staff for additional discussion.
RESULTS: 85% of staff and faculty responded. All wanted to continue to work remotely part time after the pandemic. 65% preferred working from home 2-3 days per week. Meetings, consultations, answering reference questions, and taking required training were among the tasks respondents felt could be done remotely on an ongoing basis. The challenges identified included staffing the building and the demand for in-person services. The data were used to, in concert with university policies, to develop a departmental guideline.
CONCLUSIONS: Overall, survey responses were very consistent, indicating a broad consensus among faculty and staff about continued remote work. Future work will include periodic reviews of the developed guidelines.
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Data Sharing Workshop
Lori D. Sloane
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the key elements of planning clinical research data management
- Outline steps needed to develop a data collection plan
- Locate standards, validated instruments, and coding schemes for research
- Describe and implement the different components of a data management plan
- Introduction to OpenRefine data tool
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Integrating Library-Related Competencies into Residency Curricula
Deborah J. Rhue and Jonathan Eldredge
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Question Formulation Skills Building among Dental Hygiene Students: Randomized Controlled Trial
Jonathan Eldredge and Christine N. Nathe
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RDAP "Ask Me Anything" Townhall webinar "What is different about Clinical Data?
Nina Exner, Christy E. Navarro, and Lori D. Sloane
This webinar was presented to the RDAP community on January 29, 2020 @ 1 pm EST. The goal of the webinar was to raise awareness of the special requirements of clinical data for data management.
Managing data has a number of common principles that get applied to each subject domain. As a result, it’s easy to start consideration of data with a disciplinary subject and data structure. But in the health sciences and medicine there is a key issue that has to be asked first: Is it clinical research data? Before delving into metadata standards, FAIR principles, or sharing, a health sciences data librarian often starts with the clinical/nonclinical distinction.
But what’s so special about clinical data? What do we even mean when we talk about clinical data? This session will introduce basic concepts in clinical data management, processes that are commonly used by researchers looking to do clinical data research. We will explore how a health sciences library can provide patron support on local infrastructure for accessing and using clinical data for research. We will also provide resources for further exploration by librarians and patrons.
Attendees will come away with:
(1) a better understanding of basic terminology and data workflows in clinical research data management;
(2) a sense of typical workflows that happen with the clinical research data lifecycle;
(3) an introduction to systems in clinical data collection and analysis, particularly REDCAP; and,
(4) at least one answer to the question of “What’s different about clinical?” When it comes to data.
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A Historical Look at New Mexico’s Public Health
Laura J. Hall
The poster A Historical Look at New Mexico’s Public Health, presented by Laura J. Hall, MFA, at the New Mexico Public Health Association Annual Meeting, April 5-6, 2017, examined the evolution of public health in New Mexico from statehood in 1912 to the mid-20th century. The poster highlighted key public health milestones, such as the establishment of the New Mexico Public Health Association in 1917, efforts to improve sanitation and healthcare access, and significant reductions in communicable diseases and mortality rates. It emphasized how public health initiatives contributed to longer, healthier lives for New Mexicans.
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Curated Exhibit Price of War: Advances in Military Medicine
Laura J. Hall
The Price of War: Advances in Military Medicine exhibit, curated by Laura J. Hall, MFA, explored the significant medical innovations arising from wartime, with a special focus on New Mexico's contributions. The exhibit highlighted the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos National Labs and the Trinity Site, the post-war work of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, and the pioneering efforts of Dr. Randy Lovelace in space medicine. On display from April 1, 2017, to March 17, 2020, it documented key medical advancements, from field surgical installations in World War II to modern prosthetics and regenerative medicine, showing how war has driven medical progress.
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Global Health Outreach: Organizing a Book Drive for Malawi
Karen R. McElfresh, Laura J. Hall, and Patricia Repar
This presentation describes the organization of a book drive for the Malawi College of Health Sciences in Blantyre, Malawi. The College’s library serves about 700 students, as well as healthcare professionals from a neighboring hospital. However, the library lacks sufficient resources, with most of their books being outdated or in poor condition, diminishing health care quality in Malawi.
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Planning and Completing a Book Drive for Malawi
Karen R. McElfresh, Laura J. Hall, and Patricia Repar
In the Spring of 2017, our library conducted a book drive for the Malawi College of Health Sciences in Blantyre, Malawi. The College’s library serves about 700 students, as well as health care professionals from a neighboring hospital. However, the library lacks sufficient resources, with most of their books being outdated or in poor condition, which diminishes health care quality in Malawi.
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Considerations in Caring for People with Physical Disabilities: A Course Elective
Ingrid C. Hendrix, Sarah K. Morley, and Jennifer Benson
Context: People with disabilities represent a significant portion of the population. A 2007 Institute of Medicine report, The Future of Disability in America' noted that barriers to equal health care for people with disabilities include physical barriers, and knowledge and attitudes related to caring and interacting with people with disabilities. People with disabilities (PWD), as with many other groups disadvantaged by social inequities, often receive suboptimal care from health care providers. The root cause of this inequity in care can be traced to a lack of training for health care providers in dealing with PWD. The AAMC has recommended medical schools evaluate their curriculum and address gaps in providing education addressing health care disparities. Objectives: To address this identified knowledge gap at our institution, the authors developed and taught a 7.5 hour elective for second and third year medical students in Spring 2014 and repeated in Fall 2014. The overarching goal was to raise awareness about experiences encountered by people with physical disabilities in the healthcare setting. Objectives covered over five sessions included an examination of attitudes about disability, community resources for meeting the needs of PWD, communication, advocacy and access, and interdisciplinary team collaboration. Using an interactive format (small and large group activities, discussion, case-based scenarios, and interaction with people with disabilities) provided learners with a rich experience. Key message: Training learners to interact with patients with physical disabilities should be a vital educational objective of all medical schools integrated throughout the curriculum. This significant population has unique needs requiring a more holistic approach to their care. Incorporating real-world examples and personal discussions with PWDs, may increase awareness of issues confronting those with a disability thus enabling health care providers to be more comfortable interacting with this patient population. Conclusion: Feedback from learners indicated overall satisfaction with the interactive format and the content of this elective. Learners described the importance of hearing directly from people with disabilities. In addition, being made aware of community resources and physical access in the clinical setting led to greater understanding of patient challenges. Successful introduction of this content recommends incorporating a more integrative approach to this very important and neglected topic.'
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Implementing a Demand-Driven Acquisitions Pilot
Karen R. McElfresh
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this poster is to describe the implementation of a Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) plan at an academic health sciences library. The poster will also describe how the librarys new Integrated Library System (ILS) supports DDA plans by providing an automated workflow to manage pools of available and purchased titles. METHODS: DDA plans allow libraries to vastly increase the number of titles available in their collection and typically result in overall cost-savings because titles are not purchased unless they are accessed by users. The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center piloted a DDA plan in 2015-16 as a way to provide e-books on narrow topics that typically would not be of interest to a wide number of users. Librarians reviewed various DDA programs with different providers and chose one that works seamlessly with the library's ILS, OCLC's WorldShare Management Services. The success of the pilot will be determined by looking at the number of titles loaned and/or purchased, total expenditures, and cost per use. Additionally, the vendor allows the library to create survey questions users must answer before accessing a title, and data from these questions will also be examined. RESULTS: Titles in the DDA plan received much more use than we anticipated. Within 3 months, there were nearly 200 short-term loans and 8 titles were auto-purchased. The majority of the use of titles in the plan came from students and residents, followed by faculty and staff. CONCLUSION: Overall, the DDA pilot was very successful and we plan to continue to use this acquisitions model in the future.'
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A Comparison of Four Journal Reading Apps
Karen R. McElfresh
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this poster is to compare four journal reading apps currently available for tablets and smartphones. The four apps are BrowZine, Docphin, DocNews, and Read by QxMD. These apps allow users to read journal articles on their mobile device and have features to help keep users current on publications in a particular journal or specialty area. METHODS: The four apps were compared on the following points: ease of use, cost, number and scope of journals available for reading in the app, platforms and devices supported, and sharing features. Any bonus features unique to a particular app were also evaluated. Information was gathered using each apps website and help documentation, as well as by directly contacting each company for supplemental information. In addition, journal articles and blog posts about the apps were reviewed. RESULTS: All four apps are free to download and offer the same basic features. Each app can be connected to a library's journal subscriptions so that users can access full text articles, either through the proxy server (Docphin, DocNews, Read) or through an institutional subscription to the app (BrowZine, Docphin for Libraries). BrowZine differs from the other three apps in that it has a broader focus and can include non-health sciences journals. Docphin, DocNews, and Read are focused on health care practitioners, especially physicians, and primarily provide access to titles within the health sciences. All four apps allow users to select journals or specialties they want to follow and will alert the user when new articles are published. Each app also offers the user options to share articles, either by email, social media, or by creating a shared collection with the app. Additional features available in some but not all of the apps include PDF annotation, CME credits, and the ability to export articles to citation managers or programs like Evernote and DropBox. CONCLUSIONS: Each of the four apps is easy to setup and use and can serve as an excellent tool for students and health care practitioners with mobile devices. Furthermore, the apps offer users an additional route to access journals, which can increase the use of a library's journal subscriptions.'
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Can I Use That? Copyright and Licensing for Health Sciences Educators
Jacob L. Nash
Have you ever found educational material online that you would love to incorporate into your educational activities, but werent sure whether you could? Or, have you ever shared your own educational materials, only to see it turn up on someone else's website without your permission? This session will address copyright as it applies to educators, both for creating your own materials as well as reusing others' in your curriculum. We will attempt to demystify the various aspects of copyright so educators walk away with knowledge they can apply to the classroom today. We will discuss different licensing options available to everyone, from standardized copyright statements to the various Creative Commons licenses, and participants will be able to determine which method best suits their needs. Contrary to common belief, copyright isn't terribly difficult to understand. Managing copyright and respecting the rights of others who have shared their work is relatively easy if you know what to look for, and the information provided in this presentation will give participants the tools to understand and make effective decisions when sharing their work.'
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Deconstructing Data Governance
Steve Stockdale
Few institutional governance topics have garnered more attention and verbiage in the past two years as that of data (or information) governance. Thanks partly to the promotion of terms such as big data and eScience, more organizations — including academic institutions — are embracing the mantra that data are their second-most valuable asset (after people, of course). This suggests that beyond protection and security, data should be managed not as mere commodity but as a strategic asset. Data governance, then, is really about managing the behaviors of people, not bits. How can you derive an ROI — a Return On Information — that provides true strategic value to your institution? This presentation will stake out the broad landscape of considerations that encompass data governance, then focus on its key elements. Participants will take away a basic framework and approach for defining their own data governance initiatives.
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Evolving Issues in Scholarly Communication
Jacob L. Nash and Karen R. McElfresh
As information and communications technologies advance the way that research is conducted and disseminated, how have persistent issues in the process of scholarly communications evolved?
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Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center 50th Anniversary Timeline
Laura J. Hall
The Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center 50th Anniversary Timelineposter, designed by Laura J. Hall, MFA, commemorated the 50th anniversary of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. The poster showcased key milestones in the history of the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center (HSLIC), tracing its origins from the Bernalillo County Medical Society’s library to its role as a critical resource for the UNM Health Sciences Center and the state of New Mexico. Displayed during the UNM School of Medicine’s 50th-anniversary celebrations, the timeline illustrated the library’s growth and impact on education, research, and healthcare. A special thanks to Libbye Morris for her descriptive contributions.
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