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Wallace, Rick L., and Nakia J. Woodward. "Conjuring Up the Next Generation of Medical Librarians." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8758.
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Wallace, Rick L., and Nakia J. Woodward. "Training Your Librarians to Shoot for the Stars." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8763.
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Wallace, Rick L., and Nakia J. Carter. "Gangplank or Bridge: Providing New Librarians Pathways to Success." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8752.
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Objective: To describe the process of mentoring a new medical librarian from the perspective of both the mentor and the mentee.
Methods: This program is a descriptive qualitative analysis detailing techniques used in the mentoring process. Techniques used by the mentor in the mentoring process were creating a library journal club and library grand rounds for mentee; creating opportunities for leadership in professional groups for mentee and opportunities for presentation at professional conferences for mentee, providing opportunities for skill development for mentee by exposure to the Famly Physicians Inquiry Network (FPIN) librarian process and clinical library responsibilities, and providing a highly personalistic and humanistic approach to developing the mentee by having an open door policy and engaging in frequent refl ection with the mentee.
Results: Mentoring is a rewarding experience for both mentor and mentee. In this case study, the mentee’s career was enhanced by being published, leading professional library groups, developing expert searching skills, and greatly accelerating access to new knowledge within the fi rst year of the mentee’s professional career.
Conclusion: The mentoring process is a necessity for the development of next generation librarians. Successful mentoring involves a high level of commitment by both the mentor and the mentee, therefore perhaps institutionalized mentoring programs do not often succeed because they lack this depth.
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Wallace, Rick L., and Nakia J. Woodward. "Gangplank or Bridge: Providing New Librarians Pathways to Success." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8762.
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Woodward, Nakia J., Rick L. Wallace, Kelly Loyd, Elizabeth A. Wallace, and Rachel R. Walden. "Librarians as Connectors: Applying Information Skills to Facilitate Research Partnerships." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8708.
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Stephenson, Priscilla L., Brenda F. Green, Rick L. Wallace, Martha F. Earl, Jan T. Orick, and Mary V. Taylor. "Community Partnerships for Health Information Training: Medical Librarians Working with Health-Care Professionals and Cnsumers in Tennessee." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2004. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8696.
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Objectives: The study examines how Loansome Doc services are implemented and used by libraries in the Southeast Region and describe end users' experiences with and attitudes toward Loansome Doc.
Methods: 251 active DOCLINE libraries and 867 Loansome Doc users were surveyed.
Results: Roughly one half of the libraries offered Loansome Doc services. Of those that did not, most indicated no plans to offer it in the future. The majority had a small number of end users and experienced minimal increases in interlibrary loan activity. Problems were relatively rare. Satisfaction with Loansome Doc was high among all types of libraries. End users were usually physicians or other health care professionals who requested articles for research and patient care. Most learned about Loansome Doc through PubMed or Internet Grateful Med. End users appeared to be largely self-taught or received informal instruction in Loansome Doc. Loansome Doc filled document requests in a timely manner, and end users reported being satisfied with the service.
Conclusions: Greater promotion of what Loansome Doc is and how it can benefit libraries can increase the number of participating libraries. While satisfaction of Loansome Doc end users is high, satisfaction could be increased with more help on the PubMed screen, more library training, and faster delivery methods.
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Ali, Irena Malgorzata, and n/a. "The impact of information provided by medical libraries on clinical decision making : A study of two hospitals." University of Canberra. Information, Language & Culture Studies, 1996. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060530.115422.
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A quantitative survey was conducted in two Canberra hospitals that aimed
at ascertaining the impact of information provided by medical libraries on
clinical decision making. Specifically, this research study investigated
clinical, cognitive and quality value of information provided by the medical
librarians to the management of patients and doctors' ability to handle
clinical cases differently as a result of such information. Furthermore, the
relative value of information received from the library was assessed by
comparing it to the value of information received from other sources in
dealing with clinical problems.
The research involved medical specialists and registrars affiliated with these
hospitals. Doctors were asked to select any clinical situation which they
frequently or currently encounter and for which further information would
be useful to them. Once their information requests were identified, they
were then asked to present such requests to the hospital library. In order to
avoid any special treatment, participants were urged not to identify
themselves to the library staff as partaking in the study. It was important
that participants did not search for the information themselves. The doctors
were asked to evaluate the material provided by the library in relation to
clinical care and, thereafter, complete a short questionnaire. This research
took place between October 1994 and March 1995. The questionnaires were
sent to 288 doctors. This represented the total population of specialists and
registrars affiliated with both hospitals at the time of the study. Analysis of
the results is based on a 34% useable response rate.
Medical specialists were by far the higher number of respondents (70%) as
compared with registrars (30%). Eighty-one per cent of the doctors said that
the information provided by the library refreshed their memory and 82% said
that it would contribute to better quality of medical care. Eighty-six per cent
indicated that some of this information was new to them and 99% said that
the information provided was up to date. Ninety-four per cent said that the
information provided by the library was of clinical value to them.
As the result of the information provided by the library 75% of respondents
would either definitely or probably handle some aspects of the clinical
situation differently than they would have done it otherwise. The level of
importance of the change for the optimal care of patients was assessed with
54% regarding it as important, 42% as moderately important.
Specifically, as the result of the information provided, the doctors were
able to change the following:
diagnosis 10%,
choice of lab tests 20%,
choice of other diagnostic investigations 24%,
choice of drugs 27%,
choice of other management 58%,
reduce length of hospitalisation 10%,
post-operative care of patients 25%,
advice given to patients 47%. On the basis of the received information the doctors were able to avoid
the following:
hospitalisation of patients 11%,
risk of hospital acquired infection 8%,
surgical intervention 19%,
tests or other investigation 23%,
additional out-patient visits 12%.
Discussions with colleagues were reported to be most valued sources of
information for the purpose of clinical decisions (59%), followed by diagnostic
imaging (49%), librarian (45%), lab tests (42%) and patients' medical records
(30%). The librarian's role as contributing to the process of clinical decisions was
rated highly with 88% ranking it as either important or moderately important.
The results of significance p test statistic performed at 0.05 significance level
suggested that, for this study, there was a significant relationship between the
frequency of library use and doctors' ability to change the choice of laboratory
tests, diagnostic investigations, and the choice of prescribed drugs.
The results of this research study demonstrate that medical librarians can
positively contribute to clinical management of patients by providing timely and
accurate information. Further research is recommended in order to determine
the impact of the whole range of library services on health care outcomes.
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Wallace, Rick L. "Implications of Web-based LOANSOME DOC for Librarians and End-Users: Preliminary Research Findings." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1999. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8804.
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Paden, Shelley L., Andrea L. Batson, and Rick L. Wallace. "Web-based Loansome Doc, librarians, and End Users: Results from a Survey of the Southeast Region." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2001. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8697.
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Objectives: The study examines how Loansome Doc services are implemented and used by libraries in the Southeast Region and describe end users' experiences with and attitudes toward Loansome Doc.
Methods: 251 active DOCLINE libraries and 867 Loansome Doc users were surveyed.
Results: Roughly one half of the libraries offered Loansome Doc services. Of those that did not, most indicated no plans to offer it in the future. The majority had a small number of end users and experienced minimal increases in interlibrary loan activity. Problems were relatively rare. Satisfaction with Loansome Doc was high among all types of libraries. End users were usually physicians or other health care professionals who requested articles for research and patient care. Most learned about Loansome Doc through PubMed or Internet Grateful Med. End users appeared to be largely self-taught or received informal instruction in Loansome Doc. Loansome Doc filled document requests in a timely manner, and end users reported being satisfied with the service.
Conclusions: Greater promotion of what Loansome Doc is and how it can benefit libraries can increase the number of participating libraries. While satisfaction of Loansome Doc end users is high, satisfaction could be increased with more help on the PubMed screen, more library training, and faster delivery methods.
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Paden, Shelley L., Andrea L. Batson, and Rick L. Wallace. "LonesomeDoc and Hospital Libraries in the Southeast." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2002. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8698.
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Crestana, Maria Fazanelli. "Discurso de bibliotecárias a respeito de suas profissões na área médica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2002. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/6/6131/tde-27062003-121133/.
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Dentre os diversos campos profissionais contemporâneos, que mais têm sido afetados pelos avanços tecnológicos, globalização e transformações sociais, destacam-se os que têm ênfase na criação, processamento e disseminação da informação. A biblioteca, que vê a informação transformar-se em fenômeno social, além do valor mercadológico assumido ultimamente, é compelida a adequar o seu papel e serviços; sendo exigidas dos bibliotecários, atitudes, competências e capacitação no exercício da profissão. Considerando a escolha da profissão bibliotecária na área médica, cenário que representa o contexto deste trabalho, o objetivo é identificar através dos discursos, motivações e opiniões sobre o exercício da profissão nesta área. Das entrevistas gravadas e transcritas, com doze bibliotecárias de uma faculdade de medicina e pela metodologia do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo, são analisadas as respostas que revelam as opiniões dos sujeitos de pesquisa. Os discursos apontam vários caminhos na adoção e exercício da profissão, sendo referidas a satisfação e dedicação da parte destas bibliotecárias. São identificadas as necessidades de especialização e atualização, e a preocupação com a imagem da profissão e a manutenção dos cargos, pelos profissionais bibliotecários. São abordados os desafios, dificuldades e facilidades específicas da área, a literatura médica, os usuários e o ambiente de trabalho. A especialização e o desenvolvimento profissional possibilitam a ampliação das atribuições e papéis dos bibliotecários em equipes multiprofissionais na área médica.Among the several contemporary professional fields, which have been mostly affected by the technological improvements, globalization and social transformation one may highlight those wich emphasise creation, processing and dissemination of information. The library that witnesses the information being transformed into social phenomenon, besides its recently invested market value, is compelled to adjust its role and services; being required from librarians, attitudes, skills, qualifications in the professional practice. Considering the choice of being a librarian in the medical field, scenario which represents the context of this work, the goal is to identify through the speeches, motivations and opinions about the professional practice in this field. Trought taped and transcribed interviews, with twelve librarians in a medicine school, and considering the methodology of Collective Subject Speech, the answers which show the opinions about the subjects which are part of the research, are analysed. The speeches point out a lot of ways to adopt the profession as well as dealing with it, while being concerned to the satisfaction and commitment on the part of those librarians. The updating and specialization needs are identified, and the concern with the image required by the profession as well as the keeping of jobs by the librarians. The challenges, the difficulties and specifc facilities of this field, the medical literature, the users and the work environment, are taken on consideration. The specialization and professional development make it possible to broaden the roles and atributions of the librarians in multiprofessional groups in the medical field.
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Morrison, Heather, and Andrew Waller. "Open access for the medical librarian." Canadian Health Libraries Association, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/952.
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In this article open access is defined, and the resources and issues of greatest relevance to the medical librarian are discussed. The economics of open access publishing is examined from the point of view of the university library. Open access resources, both journals and articles in repositories, are already significant and growing rapidly. There are close to 2300 fully open-access peer review journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (320 health sciences titles are included). DOAJ is adding titles at a rate of 1.5 per day. An OAIster search of resources in repositories includes more than 7.6 million items (a rough estimate of the number of articles in repositories, although not all items are full text), and this number will exceed one billion items before the end of 2007. Medical research funders, including the US National Institutes of Health, the Wellcome Trust, the UK Medical Research Council, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, either have implemented or are considering open access policies. This will drive greater growth in open access resources, particularly in the area of medicine. There are implications and leadership opportunities for librarians in the open access environment.
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Wallace, Rick L. "Clinical Medical Librarian Effectiveness in an ETSU Medical Residency Program." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2004. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8797.
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Walden, Rachel R. "For Medical Literature Expertise, Ask a Librarian." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8835.
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Finamor, Márcio da Silva. "O agir comunicativo e crítico do bibliotecário nas organizações de Saúde." Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2017. http://ridi.ibict.br/handle/123456789/952.
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Essa pesquisa mostra o agir do bibliotecário na equipe multiprofissional em saúde - suas perspectivas de ação e inserção nesse novo ambiente. Tomando como referência o modelo bem-sucedido do sistema de saúde canadense, em que bibliotecários agem na equipe de forma rotineira: prática inexistente no Brasil. Busca conferir as atividades e competências desenvolvidas por bibliotecários médicos a fim de configurar uma nova proposta de trabalho. Constitui uma abordagem qualitativa pela amostragem por conveniência, selecionando especialistas como: profissionais da informação, médicos e profissionais de saúde convidados a discutir as perspectivas de agir e desafios. Concomitantemente, utilizamos a abordagem da teoria dos sistemas do sociólogo Niklas Luhmann, uma vez que as organizações de saúde são consideradas complexas, o que nos permitiu entender as contradições e dificuldade das relações e trazer para esse ambiente ambíguo pressupostos da teoria discursiva, do agir comunicativo e humanístico com base no filósofo Jürgen Habermas como uma forma especial de conceber ações comunicativas e discursivas dentro deste ambiente restrito. Conclui-se que as perspectivas de agir são promissoras e emergentes, mas que requerem uma reconfiguração na formação do bibliotecário e a aquisição de novas competências como a profissionalização normativa e competência comunicativa, assim como, a criação de eixos sobre informação em saúde e ciências da saúde em sua formação.
This research shows the role of the librarian in the multiprofessional health team - its perspectives of action and insertion in this new environment. Considereing as reference the successful model of Canadian health system, in which librarians act in the team as routine: a practice that does not exist in Brazil. It seeks to check the activities and skills developed by medical librarians in order to set up a new job proposal. This study has a qualitative approach by sampling for convenience, selecting specialists such as: information professionals, physicians and health professionals invited to discuss perspectives for action and challenges. Concomitantly, we use the Niklas Luhmann`s systems theory approach, since health organizations are considered complex, which allowed us to understand the contradictions and difficulties of relationships and to bring to this ambiguous environment presuppositions of discursive theory, communicative action and humanistic on the basis of the philosopher Jürgen Habermas as a special way of conceiving communicative and discursive actions within this restricted environment. It is concluded that the perspective of action are promising and emerging, but it requires a reconfiguration in the formation of the librarian and the acquisition of new competences such as normative professionalization and communicative competence, as well as the creation of axes of information in health and science of the health in their training.
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Leroy, Gondy, and Hsinchun Chen. "Meeting Medical Terminology Needs - the ontology-enhanced medical concept mapper." IEEE, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105242.
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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of ArizonaThis paper describes the development and testing of the Medical Concept Mapper, a tool designed to facilitate access to online medical information sources by providing users with appropriate medical search terms for their personal queries. Our system is valuable for patients whose knowledge of medical vocabularies is inadequate to find the desired information, and for medical experts who search for information outside their field of expertise. The Medical Concept Mapper maps synonyms and semantically related concepts to a user's query. The system is unique because it integrates our natural language processing tool, i.e., the Arizona (AZ) Noun Phraser, with human-created ontologies, the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) and WordNet, and our computer generated Concept Space, into one system. Our unique contribution results from combining the UMLS Semantic Net with Concept Space in our deep semantic parsing (DSP) algorithm. This algorithm establishes a medical query context based on the UMLS Semantic Net, which allows Concept Space terms to be filtered so as to isolate related terms relevant to the query. We performed two user studies in which Medical Concept Mapper terms were compared against human experts' terms. We conclude that the AZ Noun Phraser is well suited to extract medical phrases from user queries, that WordNet is not well suited to provide strictly medical synonyms, that the UMLS Metathesaurus is well suited to provide medical synonyms, and that Concept Space is well suited to provide related medical terms, especially when these terms are limited by our DSP algorithm.
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Weyant, Emily, Nakia J. Woodward, and Elisabeth Walden. "Medical Librarian Citation Manager Use and Instruction across the United States." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8826.
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Objectives: This study is an examination of the state of citation manager use and instruction by medical librarians across the United States and US territories. It focuses on librarian preference for citation managers and related instruction. The purpose of this study is to reveal barriers to and preferences for citation managers and citation manager instruction in hospital and academic libraries.
Methods: A literature review performed prior to undertaking this project revealed minimal current literature on citation manager instruction in health sciences and medical libraries. Citation managers evolve quickly, negatively impacting the relevancy of older literature. In effort to capture current reflections on citation manager use and instruction in health science and medical libraries, a qualitative survey was devised and disseminated via medical library listservs in late summer 2017. Questions included in this survey as well as the survey platform and data collection procedures were approved by East Tennessee State University’s Institutional Review Board. Questions discussed librarian citation manager use preferences, instruction styles, barriers to instruction, and perception of value. RedCap was utilized for survey dissemination and analysis. Survey recipients received two weeks to respond to survey questions after which data was compiled and analyzed by researchers to reveal trends.
Results: This survey garnered 238 responses, 61% from academic librarians, 27% from hospital librarians, and 12% from other librarians. Respondents identified Zotero as the most utilized free citation manager and EndNote as the most utilized paid citation manager. Lack of patron interest was the most significant barrier identified by hospital librarians while lack of citation manager awareness was the greatest barrier for academics. Although 97% of respondents either agreed or strongly agreed that citation manager use instruction falls within library instructional domains, 82% of librarians surveyed report that they did not receive citation manager instruction while pursuing their library degrees.
Conclusions: As librarians assume responsibility for citation manager instruction and use, time must be dedicated to training of librarians to utilize citation managers and effectively teach them to others. Whether this training should occur in school or on the job is debatable and subject to circumstance. Additional recommendations include increased promotion of citation manager availability, purpose, and instruction opportunities in institutions where this is feasible. Limitations of this study include a small sample size with a bias towards respondents familiar with citation managers working in institutions with citation manager subscriptions.
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Balasubramanian, Sidharth. "Low-voltage and low-power libraries for Medical SoCs." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1259776639.
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Tolle, Kristin M., and Hsinchun Chen. "Comparing noun phrasing techniques for use with medical digital library tools." EBSCO, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105749.
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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, Univeristy of ArizonaIn an effort to assist medical researchers and professionals in accessing information necessary for their work, the A1 Lab at the University of Arizona is investigating the use of a natural language processing (NLP) technique called noun phrasing. The goal of this research is to determine whether noun phrasing could be a viable technique to include in medical information retrieval applications. Four noun phrase generation tools were evaluated as to their ability to isolate noun phrases from medical journal abstracts. Tests were conducted using the National Cancer Institute's CANCERLIT database. The NLP tools evaluated were Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Chopper, The University of Arizona's Automatic Indexer, Lingsoft's NPtool, and The University of Arizona's AZ Noun Phraser. In addition, the National Library of Medicine's SPECIALIST Lexicon was incorporated into two versions of the AZ Noun Phraser to be evaluated against the other tools as well as a nonaugmented version of the AZ Noun Phraser. Using the metrics relative subject recall and precision, our results show that, with the exception of Chopper, the phrasing tools were fairly comparable in recall and precision. It was also shown that augmenting the AZ Noun Phraser by including the SPECIALIST Lexicon from the National Library of Medicine resulted in improved recall and precision.
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Houston, Andrea L., Hsinchun Chen, Bruce R. Schatz, Susan M. Hubbard, Robin R. Sewell, and Tobun Dorbin Ng. "Exploring the use of concept spaces to improve medical information retrieval." Elsevier, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106253.
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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of ArizonaThis research investigated the application of techniques successfully used in previous information retrieval research, to the more challenging area of medical informatics. It was performed on a biomedical document collection testbed, CANCERLIT, provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) , which contains information on all types of cancer therapy. The quality or usefulness of terms suggested by three different thesauri, one based on MeSH terms, one based solely on terms from the document collection, and one based on the Unified Medical Language System UMLS Metathesaurus, was explored with the ultimate goal of improving CANCERLIT information search and retrieval. Researchers affiliated with the University of Arizona Cancer Center evaluated lists of related terms suggested by different thesauri for 12 different directed searches in the CANCERLIT testbed. The preliminary results indicated that among the thesauri, there were no statistically significant differences in either term recall or precision. Surprisingly, there was almost no overlap of relevant terms suggested by the different thesauri for a given search. This suggests that recall could be significantly improved by using a combined thesaurus approach.
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Rathinasabapathy, G. "Web Portal for Resource Sharing Among Medical Libraries in India." Medical Library Association of India & University of Madras, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105738.
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Human health care is heavily depending on the timely access to medical informtion. Since the serials/journals cover research and development news in the form of scientific articles, news items, new result of research, etc., meant for scientific community, the are proven prestigous communication vehicle amongst the scientists in the world. But, a number of surveys revealed that most relevant and frequently required medical journals are not available in most of the medical libraries in India. At present, there is no any union catalogue of medical periodicals available in India. Under the circumstances, this paper provides a conceptual plan of designing a web portal for sharing periodical holding details among medical libraries in India.
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Eldredge, Jonathan D., Joanne Gard Marshall, Alison Brettle, Heather Holmes, Lotta Haglund, and Rick Wallace. "Health Libraries." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8688.
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Book Summary The book takes an open and encompassing approach to exploring evidence based library and information practice (EBLIP) and the ways it can improve the practice of librarianship. Bringing together recent theory, research, and case studies, it provides librarians with a new reference point for how they can use and create evidence within their practice, in order to better meet the needs of their communities.
Being Evidence Based in Library and Information Practice is divided into two parts; in the first part the editors explore the background to EBLIP and put forward a new model for its application in the workplace which encompasses five elements: Articulate, Assemble, Assess, Agree, Adapt. In the second part, contributors from academic, public, health, school, and special libraries from around the world provide an overview of EBLIP developments and offer examples of successful implementation.
Essential reading for library and information professionals from all types of institutions who want to make more informed decisions and better meet the needs of their users, this book will also be of interest to students of library and information studies and researchers.
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Odhiambo, Francis O. "The information behaviour of Kenyan medical scientists." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2000. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7274.
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The subjects of this research are Kenyan medical scientists. The study aims to investigate the Kenyan medical scientists' information behaviour in the context of their research information acquisition. It also aims to show how research can function in conditions of relative information deprivation. The theoretical framework of the study has been designed to include both quantitative and qualitative methods. Wilson's model of information behaviour is used to develop the conceptual framework of this study. Triangulation is used in data collection and is achieved by the use of interviews, documentary analysis and observation. Both quantitative and qualitative techniques have been used for the analysis of data It is found that the medical scientists work under conditions of relative information deprivation. Libraries are inadequate and have deteriorating collections, while informal personal contacts are difficult to establish and maintain. Personal collections are thin and disparate while travel to conferences is also severely constrained. In spite of this, excellent research is continuing using the limited resources available. An attempt is made to show how research functions.
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Chen, Hsinchun, Ann M. Lally, Bin Zhu, and Michael Chau. "HelpfulMed: Intelligent Searching for Medical Information over the Internet." Wiley Periodicals, Inc, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105202.
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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of ArizonaMedical professionals and researchers need information from reputable sources to accomplish their work. Unfortunately, the Web has a large number of documents that are irrelevant to their work, even those documents that purport to be â medically-related.â This paper describes an architecture designed to integrate advanced searching and indexing algorithms, an automatic thesaurus, or â concept space,â and Kohonen-based Self-Organizing Map (SOM) technologies to provide searchers with finegrained results. Initial results indicate that these systems provide complementary retrieval functionalities. HelpfulMed not only allows users to search Web pages and other online databases, but also allows them to build searches through the use of an automatic thesaurus and browse a graphical display of medical-related topics. Evaluation results for each of the different components are included. Our spidering algorithm outperformed both breadth-first search and PageRank spiders on a test collection of 100,000 Web pages. The automatically generated thesaurus performed as well as both MeSH and UMLSâ systems which require human mediation for currency. Lastly, a variant of the Kohonen SOM was comparable to MeSH terms in perceived cluster precision and significantly better at perceived cluster recall.
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Canlas, Joel. "Creating software libraries to improve medical device testing of the Pacing System Analyzer (PSA) at St. Jude Medical." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2011. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/599.
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Software testing, specifically in the medical device field, has become increasingly complex over the last decade. Technological enhancements to simulate clinical scenarios and advancements in communicating to medical devices have created the need for better testing strategies and methodologies. Typical medical device companies have depended on manual testing processes to fulfill Food and Drug Administration (FDA) submission requirements specifically Class III devices which are life supporting, life sustaining devices. At St. Jude Medical, software testing of Class III devices such as implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), pacemakers, and pacing analyzers are given top priority to ensure the highest quality in each product. High emphasis is made on improving software testing for ease of use and for catching more software errors in each device. A significant stride in testing has automated the process and has provided software verification teams with the tools they need to successfully test and deliver high quality products. By creating software libraries which interact with communication to the other interfaces needed to test medical devices, test engineers can focus on fully testing device requirements and will not be concerned with how each test will interact with the device or any other testing tools. The main focus will be a specific St. Jude Medical device known as the Pacing System Analyzer (PSA). The PSA device will be used to demonstrate how verification engineers are able to benefit from software libraries and allow the testing process and test development to be fully automated. New technologies and standards will be created to simulate clinical scenarios and to communicate to new devices. The goal is to use software engineering principles to create standard test libraries which sustain these changes while still allowing testers to focus on finding issues for each device.
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Wallace, Rick L., and Nakia J. Woodward. "Consumer Health Information: Promoting Partners in Collaboration Between Medical & Public Libraries." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8772.
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Ingraham, Leonoor Swets. "Impact of the Medical Library Assistance Act of 1965 on Health Sciences Libraries in the Pacific Northwest: an Interorganizational Approach." PDXScholar, 1996. http://books.google.com/books?id=x9LgAAAAMAAJ.
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Wallace, Rick L., and Nakia J. Woodward. "Linking Libraries: An Analysis of a Consumer Health Partnership between Academic and Public Libraries." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8726.
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Houston, Andrea L., Hsinchun Chen, Susan M. Hubbard, Bruce R. Schatz, Tobun Dorbin Ng, Robin R. Sewell, and Kristin M. Tolle. "Medical Data Mining on the Internet: Research on a Cancer Information System." Kluwer, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106388.
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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of ArizonaThis paper discusses several data mining algorithms and techniques that we have developed at the University of Arizona Artificial Intelligence Lab.We have implemented these algorithms and techniques into several prototypes, one of which focuses on medical information developed in cooperation with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.We propose an architecture for medical knowledge information systems that will permit data mining across several medical information sources and discuss a suite of data mining tools that we are developing to assist NCI in improving public access to and use of their existing vast cancer information collections.
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Wallace, Rick L., and Nakia J. Woodward. "A Sketch of the Future of Libraries." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8718.
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Woodward, Nakia J., Nakia J. Woodward, and Katherine Wolf. "A Look at the Future of Libraries." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8720.
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Objectives: An important issue in the field of librarianship is what we will look like in the future. Prognosticators’ predictions range from doomsday to utopia. This poster seeks to identify what the perceptions of the future of libraries are from the published literature. The future of medical libraries in particular will be examined.
Methods: This research will analyze the literature published in the field of library science. The literature will then be qualitatively analyzed to determine themes about the perceptions of the future of libraries and librarians. NVIVO qualitative analysis software will be utilized to analyze the data for themes and trends. Three coders will independently code the data.
Results and Conclusions: A review of the literature paints a cautiously optimistic picture of the future of medical libraries and librarians. The general perception appears to be an ever increasing involvement in the community outside the walls of the medical library. With expanding collaborative technologies, medical librarians have both the challenges and opportunities to evolve to fill a great need in medical knowledge management and point-of care resources.
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Woodward, Nakia J., Rick L. Wallace, and Katherine Wolf. "A Look at the Future of Libraries." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8720.
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Objectives: An important issue in the field of librarianship is what we will look like in the future. Prognosticators’ predictions range from doomsday to utopia. This poster seeks to identify what the perceptions of the future of libraries are from the published literature. The future of medical libraries in particular will be examined.
Methods: This research will analyze the literature published in the field of library science. The literature will then be qualitatively analyzed to determine themes about the perceptions of the future of libraries and librarians. NVIVO qualitative analysis software will be utilized to analyze the data for themes and trends. Three coders will independently code the data.
Results and Conclusions: A review of the literature paints a cautiously optimistic picture of the future of medical libraries and librarians. The general perception appears to be an ever increasing involvement in the community outside the walls of the medical library. With expanding collaborative technologies, medical librarians have both the challenges and opportunities to evolve to fill a great need in medical knowledge management and point-of care resources.
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Wallace, Richard L., Rachel R. Walden, and Nakia J. Woodward. "Focus Groups in Libraries: Acting on Feedback." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8815.
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Burroughs, Catherine M., and Fred B. Wood. "Measuring the Difference: Guide to Planning and Evaluating Health Information Outreach." National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105649.
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This 130-page guide is a primer (including tools and resources) for planning and evaluating health information programs. It was developed by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region and the National Library of Medicine.
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Burns, Allison M. "A Study of the Information Seeking Behaviors of Integrative Medicine Professionals." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/418.
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As the practice of integrative medicine becomes more common, it is important for library science professionals to understand the research needs of integrative medicine professionals in order to best provide resources and services to this population. This paper surveys integrative medicine professionals affiliated with the four North Carolina academic programs and centers for integrative medicine. The results of this study indicate that this population may need more targeted library services due to the difficulty in finding information in this field.
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Lussky, Joan. "The Index Catalogue and Historical Shifts in Medical Knowledge, & Word Usage Patterns." dLIST, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106349.
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Faithful aggregated accounts of the advancement of science are invaluable for those setting scientific policy as well as scholars of the history of science. As science develops the scholarly communityiÌ s determination of the accepted knowledge undergoes shifts. Within medicine these shifts include our understanding of what can cause disease and what defines specific disease entities. Shifts in accepted medical knowledge are captured in the medical literature. The Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon GeneraliÌ s Office, United States Army, published from 1880 -1961, is an extremely large index to medical literature. The newly digitized form of this index, referred to as the IndexCat, allows us a way to generate faithful accounts of the development of medical science during the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. My data looks at shifts within the IndexCat surrounding three disease entities: syphilis, Huntington's chorea, and beriberi, and their interactions with two disease causation theories: germ and hereditary, from 1880-1930. Temporal changes in the prominent subject heading words and title words within the literature of these diseases and disease theories corroborate qualitative accounts of this same literature, which reports the complex and sometimes oblique process of knowledge accretion. Although preliminary, my results indicate that the IndexCat is a valuable tool for studying the development of medical knowledge.
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Wallace, Rick L. "Building a Clinical Librarian Program: Challenges in Urban and Rural Settings." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2003. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8800.
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Chow, Hsiao-Hui, Kristin M. Tolle, Denise J. Roe, Victor Elsberry, and Hsinchun Chen. "Application of Neural Networks to Population Pharmacokinetic Data Analysis." American Chemical Society and American Pharmaceutical Association, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105273.
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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of ArizonaThis research examined the applicability of using a neural network approach to analyze population pharmacokinetic data. Such data were collected retrospectively from pediatric patients who had received tobramycin for the treatment of bacterial infection. The information collected included patient-related demographic variables (age, weight, gender, and other underlying illness), the individualâ s dosing regimens (dose and dosing interval), time of blood drawn, and the resulting tobramycin concentration. Neural networks were trained with this information to capture the relationships between the plasma tobramycin levels and the following factors: patient-related demographic factors, dosing regimens, and time of blood drawn. The data were also analyzed using a standard population pharmacokinetic modeling program, NONMEM. The observed vs predicted concentration relationships obtained from the neural network approach were similar to those from NONMEM. The residuals of the predictions from neural network analyses showed a positive correlation with that from NONMEM. Average absolute errors were 33.9 and 37.3% for neural networks and 39.9% for NONMEM. Average prediction errors were found to be 2.59 and -5.01% for neural networks and 17.7% for NONMEM. We concluded that neural networks were capable of capturing the relationships between plasma drug levels and patient-related prognostic factors from routinely collected sparse withinpatient pharmacokinetic data. Neural networks can therefore be considered to have potential to become a useful analytical tool for population pharmacokinetic data analysis.
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Esson, Rachel Margaret. "How good is survey design in medical libraries? a systematic review of user surveys : submitted to the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Library and Information Studies /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1282.
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Leroy, Gondy, Hsinchun Chen, Jesse D. Martinez, Shauna Eggers, Ryan R. Falsey, Kerri L. Kislin, Zan Huang, et al. "Genescene: Biomedical Text And Data Mining." Wiley Periodicals, Inc, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105791.
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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of ArizonaTo access the content of digital texts efficiently, it is necessary to provide more sophisticated access than keyword based searching. Genescene provides biomedical researchers with research findings and background relations automatically extracted from text and experimental data. These provide a more detailed overview of the information available. The extracted relations were evaluated by qualified researchers and are precise. A qualitative ongoing evaluation of the current online interface indicates that this method to search the literature is more useful and efficient than keyword based searching.
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Woodward, Nakia J., and Nakia J. Woodward. "An Analysis of a Consumer Health Partnership Between Academic and Public Libraries." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8721.
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Objectives: The purpose of this presentation is to analyze a statewide consumer health training program that involved a partnership between academic and public libraries. The project was conducted from 2004–2010. Over 250 participants from public libraries received MLA’s Consumer Health Information Specialization Level 1 certificate as a result of the project.
Methods: Participants from the public libraries were interviewed either individually or in small groups. Thoughts on the classes, their experience with consumer health information, and MedlinePlus as a product were elicited from the participants. Their observations were recorded. The findings were analyzed, and dominant themes were identified.
Results: The motivation behind this effort was reports that the first place people with a new diagnosis go for information is the public library. Anecdotal evidence shows that the participants enjoyed the classes and felt empowered by the training. Many expressed interest in continuing training.
Conclusions: Public libraries are valuable partners for medical librarians. We wanted to look for evidence to see if there was any value in this project in order to know whether to repeat it in the future or whether to promote it as a model to other geographical areas
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Woodward, Nakia J., and Rick L. Wallace. "An Analysis of a Consumer Health Partnership Between Academic and Public Libraries." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8721.
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Objectives: The purpose of this presentation is to analyze a statewide consumer health training program that involved a partnership between academic and public libraries. The project was conducted from 2004–2010. Over 250 participants from public libraries received MLA’s Consumer Health Information Specialization Level 1 certificate as a result of the project.
Methods: Participants from the public libraries were interviewed either individually or in small groups. Thoughts on the classes, their experience with consumer health information, and MedlinePlus as a product were elicited from the participants. Their observations were recorded. The findings were analyzed, and dominant themes were identified.
Results: The motivation behind this effort was reports that the first place people with a new diagnosis go for information is the public library. Anecdotal evidence shows that the participants enjoyed the classes and felt empowered by the training. Many expressed interest in continuing training.
Conclusions: Public libraries are valuable partners for medical librarians. We wanted to look for evidence to see if there was any value in this project in order to know whether to repeat it in the future or whether to promote it as a model to other geographical areas
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Weyant, Emily C., Nakia J. Woodward, Rachel R. Walden, and Rick L. Wallace. "Reflections on a Decade of Promoting Consumer Health Resources at Remote Area Medical Clinics." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8675.
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Librarians at the East Tennessee State University (ETSU) Quillen College of Medicine Library have provided consumer health outreach services to rural and underserved populations at Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinics since 2009. These outreach services heavily depend upon and promote consumer health websites and National Library of Medicine (NLM) resources in order to reach the largest number of people at the lowest possible cost. This article will provide a brief overview of RAM clinics in Wise, VA, and Gray, TN, served by ETSU librarians for years. Additionally, this article will discuss the evolution of ETSU QCoM librarian outreach initiatives relating to these clinics over the past decade. This article includes a list of online consumer health resources used to support these initiatives as well as a list of most commonly addressed consumer health topics.
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Wallace, Rick L., and Nakia J. Woodward. "Promoting a Culture of Continuing Investigation: an Analysis of a Medical Library Journal Club’s Critically Appraised Topic Database." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8713.
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Madeira, do Ó. João. "Applications of glycopolymer libraries as protein aggregation modulators and drug delivery systems." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38014/.
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The biopharmaceutical market has been on the rise for the past two decades and is expected to continue to excel, currently presenting a growing rate of more than double than conventional pharma. Traditionally this growth has been hindered by multiple formulation issues such as poor bioavailability and poor stability. Consequently, the drive to optimise the stability of protein drug candidates via formulation impels the need for development of novel excipients. Novel glycopolymer excipients were reported to confer improved protein stability in selected cases. Nonetheless,their structure-function relationship and wider applicability remain largely unknown. Here we report the synthesis of glycopolymers with different molecular architectures based on mannose, galactose, arabinose, N-acetyl glucosamine, lactose and trehalose, and nvestigate their utility as excipients for the solution formulation of a monoclonal antibody (mAb). In this thesis work the physical stability of selected antibodies was measured as the unfolding transition temperature (Tm) and aggregation onset temperature (Tagg), as a function of glycopolymer properties, such as the nature of sugar repeating unit, macromolecular architecture and concentration. Results show that, in contrast to the stabilising effect of the corresponding mono- and di-saccharide constituents, both linear and 4-arm star glycopolymers generally destabilised the antibody, decreasing both Tm and Tagg. Accelerated stability studies of a concentrated mAb solution followed the same trend, where an increasing glycopolymer:mAb molar ratio generally decreased the percentage monomer(i.e. increased soluble aggregates). Importantly, trehalose-based glycopolymers further generated visible aggregates that could not be predicted from Tm or Tagg data. The data demonstrate a complex interplay of sugar chemistry and solution concentration of synthetic glycopolymers on their modulation of protein conformational stability and aggregation propensity. The mechanisms involved in protein:glycopolymer interaction, both in solution and dry state were further investigated, thus unravelling the behaviour reported in terms of protein stabilisation. Finally, the glycopolymers were studied as drug delivery systems, acting as solubility enhancers for hydrophobic species in aqueous solutions, through the use of extrinsic fluorescent dyes.
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Wallace, Richard. "ETSU Medical Residents' Clinical Information Behaviors, Skills, Training, and Resource Use." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2076.
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Information is a powerful tool for enabling physicians to provide quality healthcare for their patients. Information use in the clinic is a skill that must be learned. If medical residency programs fail to impart this skill, then patients will suffer.
The residents of the ETSU Quillen College of Medicine were surveyed as to their use of clinical information. Of the 217 residents of the 2005-2006 class who were surveyed, 105 returned the survey for a return rate of 48%. The clinical faculty was also surveyed in order to measure the responses of the residents against that of their instructors.
ETSU residents frequently had a new information need in the clinic. The majority of the time they did not seek an answer, but when they did they were often successful in finding an answer. Therapy information was the most frequently sought after type of information. Most residents used the Quillen College of Medicine Library, but not at a desirable rate. Residents stated that information obtained from the library was helpful in caring for their patients. The most frequent source of information used by residents was electronic resources and the greatest barrier to the use of information was time. The majority of residents were PDA users, with Palm devices being the primary platform. The residents rated their PDA skills and evidence-based medicine skills as above average. Few were LoansomeDoc users. The majority of residents received information training from clinical faculty and from librarians and rated it highly. Residents indicated a desire for more training and the majority indicated that they would like a clinical medical librarian for their program. They rated the library service of the Quillen College of Medicine and the area teaching hospitals highly. Residents used Google and the Web frequently. PubMed was rated as a valuable resource. Online journals and the UpToDate database were important electronic resources for the residents.
ETSU residents have many excellent resources and training opportunities in place. However, for ETSU residents to go out into community practice as true "Infomasters" an upgrading of their information training should be undertaken.
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Ghosh, Maitrayee, and Jay Bhatt. "The challenging and critical role of information professionals in combating AIDS in India." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105105.
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The nature of work for librarians/information professionals is undergoing a profound transformation, due to the arrival of deadly diseases like AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) and the change in information needs of the local community. This change necessitates much more professional expertise, updated knowledge, critical thinking and involvement in developing effective AIDS literacy programs. Information professionals serving in different libraries or potential information dissemination centers can provide dedicated services to society by helping to access AIDS information not only in urban settings but also in rural environments. This paper outlines strategies for effective collaboration in the context of AIDS literacy promotion efforts. It identifies a number of obstacles in the process of empowering the community and suitable measures essential for success.
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Wallace, Rick L., and Nakia J. Woodward. "Collaborating with Public Libraries to Provide Consumer Health Information Services to 17 Rural Tennessee Counties." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8781.
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Pibulsilp, Thanawadee. "An investigation of cultural influence on academic library usage and experience of international medical students from Asian countries a case study of students at the Christchurch School of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch : submitted to the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Library and Information Studies /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1273.
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Carter, Nakia, and Rick Wallace. "Collaborating with Public Libraries, Public Health Departments, and Rural Hospitals to Provide Consumer Health Information Services." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8682.
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East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine Library (ETSUQCOML) developed a training program to enable public libraries, public health workers, and rural hospital staff to be consumer health information providers. Four NN/LM-developed classes were taught to public libraries. Regional public library directors were invaluable in obtaining the concurrence of their boards for release time for class attendance. Classes were also developed for the public health workforce and rural hospital staff. Five-hundred thirty-three students attended the classes. Fifty-two public library workers will receive the MLA's Consumer Health Information Specialist certification. Thirty-one public libraries have joined NN/LM. All ordered MedlinePlus marketing materials for their libraries from InformationRx.org.