HSL Librarians at MLA Meeting in Toronto

At the Medical Library Association meeting recently held in Toronto,

  • Rebecca Graves coauthored a poster, “Librarians Plan a Virtual Annual Meeting:  You’ll Never Guess What Happened”
  • Diane Johnson was a paper/poster  judge for the research section
  • Taira Meadowcroft was one of the official bloggers.
  • Barb Jones presented a poster with Darell Schmick, "Politics: Dirty Word or Fascinating Opportunity to Leverage Your Skills and Abilities?"

Dykas Co-authors Article on Metadata Quality

Felicity Dykas co-authored an article with SISLT faculty member Heather Moulaison Sandy that was published this month in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.  It can be accessed at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2015.1116480

Citation:
Heather Moulaison Sandy & Felicity Dykas (2016): High-Quality Metadata and Repository Staffing: Perceptions of United States–Based OpenDOAR Participants, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/01639374.2015.1116480

 

Updates from Health Sciences Library

Barb Jones and Rebecca Graves taught the class “Applying Information Expertise to the Challenge of Diagnostic Error Reduction” at the QuintEssential meeting in Denver, CO on October 20, 2014.  The meeting was a joint meeting between five Medical Library Association chapters.

Barb Jones presented a poster at the QuintEssential meeting in Denver, CO.  Title of the poster is “Evidence Transfer in Diagnosis: Exploring Evidence Intervention to Enhance Value and Reliability.”   The poster was given the “Most Innovative Work” award.

Anderson Publishes in Zoonoses & Public Health

O’Connor AM, Anderson KM, Goodell CK, Sargeant JM. Conducting systematic reviews of intervention questions I: Writing the review protocol, formulating the question and searching the literature. Zoonoses and Public Health 2014;61 Suppl 1:28-38 doi: 10.1111/zph.12125. PMID: 24905994.

This article is part of ZPH’s Special Issue on Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis in Animal Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zph.2014.61.issue-S1/issuetoc

Barb Jones Co-authors Chapters and Serves as Content Editor

Barb Jones has two co-authored chapters in the newly released text, Patient Safety:  Perspectives on Evidence, Information and Knowledge Transfer.   “Potential for Harm Due to Failures in the EI&K Process was co-authored with Catherine Craven and Lorri Zipperer.  Analyzing Breakdowns in the EIK Pathway was co-authored with Mark Graber, MD and Elaine Alligood  http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&isbn=9781409438588&lang=cy-gb

Barb Jones was the content editor for the newly released volume, Knowledge Management in Healthcare edited by Lorri Zipperer. http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=641&pageSubject=295&calcTitle=1&title_id=11424&edition_id=11778