JM2010 Contributed Paper: Assessment of a Library Outreach Project to Promote Seniors Use of Health Resources on the Internet
Posted on | January 29, 2010 | No Comments
Posted by Debra Schneider, Librarian, Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale, AZ
Presenter: Terry Henner, Library Director, Savitt Medical Library, University of Nevada School of Medicine. Read an abstract of this paper online.
Credit Terry Henner’s mom for complaining. She’d missed out on the latest family pictures and had to hear about her grandson’s trip from a relative. The reason behind her exclusion? Like many other seniors, Terry’s mom was still on the wrong side of the digital divide. It was her lack of comfort with using (or owning) a computer that caused her to miss out on emails that would have filled her in on family news. And those complaints got Terry thinking about what his mom and other seniors were missing without access to the world of information available via the internet.
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JM2010 Contributed Paper: Informatics at the Core of a New Biomedical Campus:Creating a Library to Support the Millennials by Merging Three Institution’s Ideologies to Create a User-Centered Resource
Posted on | January 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
Posted by April R. Frost, MLIS
Jacqueline D. Doyle, Lindsey Greene, and Kathleen Carlson presented this paper on the process of combining three college libraries’ resources into one library at the New Biomedical Campus in Phoenix. The goal of this endeavor is to provide seamless access to all three institutional resources by 2013.
There are many issues to consider and resolve. Overall, each of the three separate entities has their own: catalog, license agreements, print collection, access point, and administration to be combined. Each college has its own policies and procedures already in place. A planning team has been created to discuss and
manage these issues.
The group, which includes Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University, University of Arizona, as well as a partnership with TGen, (whose offices are located on the biomedical campus), have already created a consortium of planning, teaching and collecting. Presently, each college provides a link from their catalog to the other libraries, until a union catalog can be created, or another solution is achieved.
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Tags: Arizona > ASU > biomedical campus > collaboration > college libraries > contributed paper > JM2010 > NAU > Phoenix > UA
JM2010 Contributed Poster: Library Partners with IT – Bring EBM into EMR
Posted on | January 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
Posted by Debbie Quan, Student, UCLA Graduate School of Library and Information Science
In library school, I’ve never heard of evidence-based medicine or even know what an EMR really is. It’s amazing how much I’ve learned coming to these conferences. I think for library school students who are seriously considering going into health science libraries, they should try to attend at least one MLA conference during their time in school. It’s a great opportunity to network with other veteran librarians in the field and maybe even find your next internship because often the directors from various health science libraries attend these conferences.
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JM2010 Poster: JING: An Alternative Way of Providing Library References Service to Hybrid and Online Students
Posted on | January 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
Posted by Debby Quan, Student, UCLA Graduate School of Library and Information Science
I’ve heard about JING recently prior to coming to this conference. JING is an open source software that captures voice to onscreen actions. For example, the software records your voice and the cursor movement onscreen as you click on links or databases to perform a search. Some users learn more effectively via visual aids. I’ve used another screen casting software, Articulate, a similar tool that is fee-based. I’m curious as to how JING compares with Articulate. JING might not have as many functionalities, but it might be the perfect tool for libraries on a small budget.
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JM2010 Contributed Paper: HPV and HPV Vaccine Information Resources and Education Outreach
Posted on | January 29, 2010 | 2 Comments
Posted by Debra Schneider, MLS, Librarian, Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale AZ
Presenters: Annabelle Nunez, Assistant Librarian, Arizona Health Sciences Library and Martha Moore-Monroy, Clinical Lecturer, Arizona Health Sciences Center Initiative for Women’s Health, University of Arizona. Read the abstract for this paper presentation online.
When the HPV vaccine was released, it was publicized as an “important” opportunity to reduce the risk of young people contracting cervical cancer. However, the drug companies releasing the vaccine advertised it without providing sufficient consumer education about the vaccine. The result was a lot of confusion and a lack of knowledge about the vaccine. Was it safe? Did it really prevent cancer? Were there adverse effects? At what age should a parent be considering having his/her child vaccinated?
These questions and others stimulated the idea to create a partnership to provide HPV education and information in a systematic, comprehensive manner, so that families could make informed decisions about the vaccine.
Presenters Annabelle Nunez and Martha Moore-Monroy discussed the resulting partnership to provide a series of information forums on cervical cancer, human papilloma virus (HPV) and the HPV vaccine. Partners included Arizona Health Sciences Library, the Southwest Institute for Research on Women, the UA National Center of Excellence on Women’s Health , the Pima County Cervical Cancer Prevention Partnership, the Women’s Studies Advisory Council (which includes about 200 women from the Tucson Community), several other university departments, and local community organizations.
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JM2010 Contributed Paper: No Urban Amish Here (2nd review)
Posted on | January 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
Posted by Carol Ann Attwood, MLIS, Patient Health & Education Library, Mayo Clinic Arizona
Presenters discussed ways that they reached out to the user group of first through fourth year medical students to determine 1) if current orientation to library systems satisfied their needs, and 2) if not, what changes could be suggested. Information and participation was reached using free lunchtime meals and a chance to return to share additional comments in open forums through the years.
JM2010 Contributed Paper: No Urban Amish Here: Social Networking at UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
Posted on | January 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
Posted by Evonda Copeland, Supervisor of Library Services, Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale, AZ
Like me, you might be wondering what “urban Amish” means, and whether or not you are one. To be clear – urban Amish is an endearing term referring to people who do not use tech gadgets and mobile devices (no Facebook page, no iPod, etc.). That definition excludes me, and I would bet that it also excludes most of you (the blog readers that you are). Now, on to the presentation.
Paul and Amy provided an overview of how one biomedical library used social networking tools to promote library resources and educate their users. The Louise M. Darling Library launched a library blog, which provides links to the library’s programs and allows dissemination & storage of instructional materials prior to attending library instructional classes. By posting library instructional materials to the blog, they were able to expand their outreach and promote their library’s instructional classes to a broader audience. And additional goal of posting instructional materials to their blog was to “go green”. Following the initial blog launch, the library added a news section and an RSS feed section that brings in postings directly from the institution’s BioMed blog. They also launched a Facebook page that, initially, contained little content and was not well promoted. Following an overhaul of the FB page – including the addition of library services information and photos – they enjoy regular activity from a large group of Facebook fans. Most recently, a Twitter page was created & now has 41 followers and appears on 5 Twitter lists. Promotion of the library’s blog, Facebook and Twitter pages can include listing URLs in library staff email signatures, on business cards, and on library postcards made available at library service desks.
For anyone managing multiple Web 2.0 tools for your library, you might want to consider re-posting your announcements and news items across all of your library’s social networking pages. This ensures that your users have an opportunity to see library news from their favorite Web 2.0 tool, rather than steering users to one site over another.
Posted 1/29/10
JM2010 Plenary Session
Posted on | January 29, 2010 | No Comments
Posted by Carol Ann Attwood, MLIS; Patient Health & Education Library, Mayo Clinic Arizona
Speakers: Keith Frey, MD, Mayo Clinic Arizona and Nadine Ellero
The speakers, one from Arizona and one from Virginia, shared their stories of integration activities with an electronic medical record implementation cycle within their organizations. Dr. Frey, who leads the Cerner group for the Mayo Clinic in Arizona practice, spoke of how his organization worked together with another practice in Florida in their goal to fully integrate their electronic health care records. Dr. Frey emphasized the importance of the sharing of common protocols, best outcomes and a focus on quality to achieve goals, the importance of standardized definitions and computational biology while focusing not primarily on integration as an end point, but rather as a means to secure strategic goals to foster quality and safety.
Ms. Ellero, from the University of Virginia, focused on the need to have a controlled language vocabulary, and a means to secure data in a meaningful way. She noted that the role of a medical librarian in the implementation of an electronic medical record was to identify content resources, assisting with licensing and linkage issues and assisting with training. Medical librarians, she noted, need to “embrace discomfort”, be flexible, make contacts (both formal and informal), keep abreast of the latest information on EMR’s by reading white paper and position papers on the subject as well as focusing on revitalizing yourself and your position within the organization to using the opportunity to share the medical librarian’s position within the organization.
Posted 1/28/10
JM2010 Invited Speaker Nadine Ellero
Posted on | January 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
Posted by Marcus Banks, MLIS, Manager of Education and Research Services; UC San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Management
CLOSER CONNECTIONS: HOW ONE MEDICAL LIBRARIAN BECAME INVOLVED IN EMR ACTIVITIES
By: Nadine Ellero, Intellectual Access Librarian, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia.
Following Dr. Frey’s closing after the important role health sciences librarians have played–and will play–in developing EMRs and point of care resources, Ms. Ellero described her professional journey in this arena. Beginning 15 years ago, she utilized her deep interest in controlled vocabularies as a contributor to early efforts at the University of Virginia to develop precursors to a more full-blown EMR. Ellero noted that her library director, Linda Watson, helped facilitate this connection; and she pointed out that all directors are in the important position of being able to broker connections between disparate parts of the institution.
JM2010 Invited Speaker Dr. Keith Frey
Posted on | January 29, 2010 | No Comments
Posted by Marcus Banks, MLIS, Manager of Education and Research Services; UC San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Management
THE EMR: OUR JOURNEY TO FULL MEDICAL PRACTICE AUTOMATION
By: Dr. Keith Frey, Mayo Clinic Arizona
To begin the afternoon plenary session, Dr. Frey discussed how the Mayo Clinic has made–and continues to make–strides towards computerized physician order entry and a robust electronic medical record (EMR). Mayo has a patient-based orientation and a long history of providing information resources for the benefit of multiple care providers; in 1907, Dr. Henry Plummer of Mayo developed the “Plummer Chart” as a paper-based unified medical record.
JM2010 Contributed Paper: Stretching Those Resource Dollars: Lessons Learned on Building and Managing a Hospital Library Consortium for Cooperative E-Licensing
Posted on | January 28, 2010 | 1 Comment
Posted by Evonda Copeland, Supervisor of Library Services, Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale, AZ
With “Stretching Those Resource Dollars: Lessons Learned on Building and Managing a Hospital Library Consortium for Cooperative E-Licensing” Julie Kwan, Rick Burke and James Wiser shared first year results from the e-licensing collaborative between the National Network of Libraries of Medicine-Pacific Southwest Region (NN/LM-PSR) and the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC). Since 2008, this partnership has resulted in 8 vendor offers to 25 participating libraries, yielding a 73% discount from participating vendor list prices. Nature Publishing Group and Springer have been especially helpful in offering discounted e-licensing agreements to SCELC members and affiliates.
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JM2010 Contributed Paper: Simplify Access to Hospital Library Resources with Technology
Posted on | January 28, 2010 | No Comments
Posted by Marcus Banks, MLIS, Manager of Education and Research Services; UC San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Management
In “Simplify Access to Hospital Library Resources with Technology,” Judy Kraemer offered several useful suggestions for hospital librarians who wish to improve access to library resources via an ILS and their web site. The ultimate result of her efforts was a successful merger of an OPAC, link resolver, and federated search engine via the hospital Intranet.
Kraemer stressed the importance of securing upper level management approval for work on such an extensive project; the need to be flexible as reporting structures change; the urgency of developing systems that can expand across networks over time, and stay within budgets. Many people in the room could relate to her practical and motivating presentation.
Posted 1/28/10
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