The Development of COVID Literature Dina McKelvy, MLS, AHIP Director, Library & Knowledge Services | Maine Medical Center Assistant Professor |Tufts University School of Medicine The presenter will describe the development of a COVID literature current awareness service, its evolution over time and lessons learned. A Library Communication Plan Dana Haugh; MLS Web Services Librarian | Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University The presenter will share the importance of having a communication plan and how it was used to communicate with users about COVID-19 closures and updates. Chat Reference, Activate! Kimberly MacKenzie, Research Data and Scholarly Communications Librarian Tess Grynoch, Research Data and Scholarly Communication Librarian Leah Honor, Education and Clinical Services Librarian Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School Due to COVID-19, the Lamar Soutter Library staff began working remotely on March 14 and reopened its doors with limited staffing on August 3, 2020. However, due to pandemic-related restrictions, the number of staff allowed in the library at any given time was limited to no more than half and most continue to work from home. To support the circulation staff returning to the library, as well as students and researchers continuing to work remotely, a Chat Reference program was started to coincide with the library reopening. The presenter will discuss how Chat Reference was organized and integrated into the library workflow, lessons learned, and the impact it has had on patron interactions and how reference questions are asked. Going Beyond: An Exploration of Instruction & Research Support for Students Who Can’t Come to You Ellen Lutz Health Sciences Librarian | University of Massachusetts Amherst In addition to traditional on-campus programs, the presenter’s liaison areas include programs that are all online, a hybrid of on-campus and online, and in-person at a separate location. Even before COVID-19, the presenter tried a variety of ways to connect with students in these programs, with varying degrees of success (and failure). The presenter will share both pre-pandemic and during-pandemic experiences including designated discussion forums in online courses, video chat office hours, virtual instruction, and holding in-person office hours at a separate location. She will report on which methods have worked and which methods have not. Empathy & COVID-19: Reducing Student Barriers through Online Training Modules for Library Workers Eugenia Opuda, MLA Assistant Professor; Health and Human Services Librarian | Dimond Library University of New Hampshire The presenter will discuss empathy and compassion fatigue and how they relate to libraries amid the COVID-19 pandemic. She will describe how the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Library developed empathy modules through community collaboration. She will review the next steps: getting UNH Library worker buy in, launching the modules, collecting data, and expanding the project through an IMLS grant. Providing access to inclusive images for medical education Alice Stokes Library Assistant Professor, Research and Education/Health Research Associate Program | Dana Medical Library, University of Vermont What role can health sciences library librarians play in supporting faculty in finding licensed and open-access images that accurately represent racial diversity for teaching? How well do our collections meet needs for diverse images? This talk will address some steps that librarians can take to support equitable imagery in medical education. Protocols for scoping reviews: insights into dissemination patterns Kate Nyhan, Alexandria Brackett, Alyssa Grimshaw, Holly Grossetta-Nardini Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University The presenter will describe a project to create a resource list useful for authors who wish to disseminate or register scoping review protocols and useful for librarians who are trying to identify in-progress projects or to assist research teams with outlets for their research. Sharing Research Date: Experience of a First Time Depositor Marianne D. Burke, PhD, MA, AHIP Associate Professor of Libraries, Emerita | University of Vermont Journals in health sciences, and health sciences librarianship, increasingly require, or strongly recommend, that authors deposit the data from their research in open repositories. The presenter will describe her experience as a librarian researcher and first-time data depositor as she encountered problems, found helpful tools, and interpreted guidelines to make the deposit. Assessment of Nursing Students Research Papers at Massasoit Community College Madge Bolt, MLIS Electronic Resources Librarian | Massasoit Libraries, Massasoit Community College The Massasoit Community College Library assembled a team in December 2019 to assess papers submitted by Spring 2019 Nursing Seminar students. The final project for NURS-303 Nursing Seminar is to write a research paper and give a short presentation. A total of 38 papers were analyzed by ten readers; eight library staff and two nurse educators. To assess the papers, the team used two Association of American Colleges & Universities VALUE rubrics. The team began with a norming session in December. Papers were read through the Spring semester, and data was compiled at the beginning of Summer 2020. The assessment project and data will be shared.
Posters
Art & Medicine: Enhancing Interprofessional Collaboration and Communication with Art Amy E. Moore
Clinical Support During COVID-19 Victoria Rossetti, Catherine Carr, Leah Honor, Becky B Baltich Nelson, Jessica Kilham
Conducting Focused Outreach with Patient Populations Margot Malachowski
Evidence-Based Practice Skills On-Demand: The Creation of a 2-Week Elective in response to COVID-19 Courtney Brombosz
The Kitchen Table: A Reference Desk for a Global Pandemic Courtney Brombosz, Dana Haugh, Alyssa Grimshaw
Maine Medical Center, Bramhall Campus: The Synergy of an Online Exhibit Sophia Mendoza
Rehabilitating Instruction: Challenges and Opportunities of an Online Library Session Michael Mannheim
Socially Distant Job Training: Starting a New Library Position during a Pandemic Kimberly MacKenzie, Becky B Baltich Nelson, Jessica Kilham
Summiting Together!: Developing an internal conference to reflect, revise, and reconstruct an existing service Alexandria Brackett, Vermetha Polite