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Objective: The goal of this study was to compare the reporting rigour of the literature searching component of systematic reviews with, and without, the help of a librarian. Methods: Systematic reviews published from 2002 to 2011 in the 20 highest Impact Factor paediatrics journals were collected from MEDLINE. Corresponding authors were contacted via an email survey to determine if a librarian was involved, the role played, and functions performed. The reviews were scored using a 15 item checklist by two reviewers independently. The overall reporting for each role category was expressed as the mean value of the total score. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Pairwise comparisons were used for multiple comparisons. The comparison of frequency of reported methodological elements between different role categories was accomplished using Pearson Chi-square analysis, and expressed as the risk ratio (RR) with 95% confidential interval (CI). Results: 186 reviews met the inclusion criteria. 44% of the authors indicated the involvement of a librarian in conducting the systematic review. In the presence of a librarian as the co-author/team member, the mean score was 8.40, (95% CI 7.69-9.11) compared to 6.61, (95% CI 6.26-6.95, p

This paper is based on a presentation I gave at the Access Conference in Toronto, Ontario on September 10th, 2015. Both the presentation and this paper are explorations in three parts. The first part is a short history lesson on the use of paper cards by scholars and librarians, which led to the introduction of the “Scholar’s Box.” The second part asks the question: Can we consider Zotero as the Scholar’s Box of the digital age when it cannot capture important metadata such as linked open data? It is recognized that this is not just a shortcoming of Zotero: research is surprisingly still very difficult to share between scholars, libraries, and writing tools. This is due to an inability to capture the “invisible text” when we copy and paste citations from one application to another. The third part establishes that the digital card is now the dominant design pattern of web and mobile, and notes that these systems are largely restricted to proprietary platforms, which restricts the movement of cards between systems. This paper then suggests how we might transform the historical Scholar’s Box, by using HTML5 index cards from Cardstack.io as a means to bring new forms of sharing on the web, and, in doing so, reconnect the scholar to the library. Cet article est base sur un expose que j’ai donne a Access Conference a Toronto le 10 septembre 2015. L’expose et cet article sont des explorations en trois parties. La premiere partie est une lecon d’histoire courte sur l’usage des cartes en papier par les specialistes et les bibliothecaires, qui a mene a l’introduction du “Scholar’s Box”. La seconde partie pose la question: Est-ce que nous pouvons considerer Zotero comme le “Scholar’s Box” de l’âge numerique, meme s’il ne peut pas capturer des metadonnees importantes telles que les donnees liees ouvertes? On reconnait que ce n’est pas seulement une lacune de Zotero: etonnement, la recherche est toujours tres difficile a partager entre specialistes, bibliotheques, et outils d’aide a la redaction. Ceci est du a l’incapacite de capturer le “texte invisible” quand on copie et colle des citations d’une application a une autre. La troisieme partie etablit que la carte numerique est maintenant le motif dominant sur le Web et sur le mobile, et constate que ces systemes sont largement limites aux plateformes proprietaires, ce qui limite le mouvement des cartes entre les systemes. Cet article suggere comment on pourrait transformer le “Scholar’s Box” historique en utilisant les cartes d’index HTML5 de Cardstack.io comme moyen d’apporter de nouveaux moyens de partager sur le Web, et ce faisant, reconnecter le specialiste a la bibliotheque.

Introduction/Main Objectives: Leadership is important in enabling a person and a nation to improve and advance. Background Problems: Leadership is not something that everyone seeks, especially in youth. The youth leadership crisis can be seen from the lack of students who want to become chairpersons in university extracurricular activities. Novelty: This research makes a three-fold contribution. First, this study presents an analysis of the ‘Evolving Leadership Practices Assessment’ quizzes (Olson and Singer, 2004) distributed by the Chairperson and Vice-chairperson of the Library Science Student Association (IMASIP) the Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia. Second, this study assesses the IMASIP FIB-UI Daily Management Board. This study also interviewed five informants with 12 closed-ended questions. Research Methods: This paper assesses youth leadership by using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, with a case study approach. Finding/Results: Our result shows and supports the assumption that age and years of leadership will affect the scores obtained at IMASIP, which further research must examine. This research also suggests that the Daily Management Board's performance can be maintained by connection, contribution, and collaboration. Conclusion: The results identify efforts to build and improve leadership among students, including developing and increasing seminars and training in leadership to prepare students who have a role as the successors of the nation’s leadership.

Recent literature suggests that a growing number of comics are being published on health-related topics, including aspects of mental health and social care (Williams 2012; Czerwiec et al 2015) and that comics are increasingly being used in higher education settings as information resources. This article offers insights from comics creators and disseminators and explores the wider context of comics production and distribution (with a focus on 'Graphic Medicine' or health-related comics) as part of a larger examination of the interface between these documents and potential academic audiences. Original data was gathered through semi-structured interviews with 15 participants actively involved in comics creation and production. Elements of domain analysis (Hjørland 2002) were used to obtain insights into attitudes to the creation, dissemination and use of mental health-related comics. Though potentially useful comics material is being produced in the mental health domain, significant challenges remain for producers in enabling their work to be accessed within higher education settings. This paper suggests that comics producers need to make a concerted effort to reach academia, and academia - including information professionals - need to embrace new types of material to enhance teaching.