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Individuals with no medical background or training may turn to a variety of resources when in need of health-related information. One new potential source of information is large language models (LLMs). This article describes a preliminary assessment of the accuracy and reliability of several of these models when used to obtain consumer health information. The references provided by the LLM's for each query are also examined for reliability based on the source of information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights the history and development of the "Journal of Hospital Librarianship," (JHL) which was founded to serve hospital librarians and their unique professional needs.

The article focuses on the evolution and adjustments made to the Here For You Librarian mobile library service after facing the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) concerns. Topics include the shift from physical library spaces to a mobile service model, changes in hospital locations and schedules, and the challenges of balancing HIPAA compliance with the visibility and accessibility of library services.

PURPOSE Meeting scholarly activity requirements continues to be a challenge in many family medicine (FM) residency programs. Studies comprehensively describing FM resident scholarship have been limited. We sought to identify institutional factors associated with increased scholarly output and meeting requirements of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). OBJECTIVES Our goals were to: (1) describe scholarly activity experiences among FM residents compared with ACGME requirements; (2) classify experiences by Boyer’s domains of scholarship; and (3) associate experiences with residency program characteristics and scholarly activity infrastructure. METHODS This was a cross-sectional survey. The survey questions were part of an omnibus survey to FM residency program directors conducted by the Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance (CERA). All ACGME-accredited US FM residency program directors, identified by the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors, were sampled. RESULTS Of the 691 eligible program directors, 298 (43%) completed the survey. The respondents reported that 25% or more residents exceeded ACGME minimum output, 17% reported that 25% or more residents published their work, and 50% reported that 25% or more residents delivered conference presentations. Programs exceeding ACGME scholarship requirements exhibit robust infrastructure characterized by access to faculty mentorship, scholarly activity curricula, Institutional Review Board, medical librarian, and statistician. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest the need for codified ACGME requirements for scholarly activity infrastructure to ensure access to resources in FM residency programs. By fostering FM resident engagement in scholarly activity, programs help to create a culture of inquiry, and address discrepancies in funding and output among FM residency programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to examine the role of health sciences librarians in emerging evidence synthesis programs during the COVID-19 global health pandemic. This environmental scan aims to showcase a range of emergent and responsive library evidence services. The scope of contributions by health sciences librarians in evidence synthesis innovations is highlighted, along with examples illustrating how health sciences librarians helped mitigate the spread of inaccurate or incomplete COVID-19 information. New evidence services emerging in response to the COVID-19 infodemic included preparing evidence summaries, curating research on COVID-19, providing expert searching services to monitor the evolving research evidence, and helping individuals build critical appraisal skills to assess the increasing amounts of COVID-19 information. In addition, resources for locating published evidence syntheses on COVID-19 topics are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the evolving role of the clinical informationist, highlighting the career path from traditional library roles to becoming a specialized member of the healthcare team. It provides an overview of the skills, education, and training required for the role, as well as examples of successful informationist programs and activities. It also discusses the impact of the Informationist Conference and the development of core competencies for the role.

This article discusses the need for a comprehensive and efficient cost tool to measure the financial burden of food allergy on households. The current tool, the Food Allergy Economic Questionnaire (FA-EcoQ), has limitations such as its length and lack of questions on economic precarity. To address these limitations, the authors propose conducting a scoping review to evaluate and compare different questionnaires assessing the household financial costs of food allergy. The review will include studies that focus on the development, validation, reliability, or applicability of questionnaires specifically designed to measure the household cost of food allergy. The findings from this review will help inform the selection of a food allergy cost questionnaire and highlight gaps and limitations in existing cost measures. [Extracted from the article]

Background: The current paradigm of competency-based medical education and learner-centredness requires learners to take an active role in their training. However, deliberate and planned continual assessment and performance improvement is hindered by the fragmented nature of many medical training programs. Attempts to bridge this continuity gap between supervision and feedback through learner handover have been controversial. Learning plans are an alternate educational tool that helps trainees identify their learning needs and facilitate longitudinal assessment by providing supervisors with a roadmap of their goals. Informed by self-regulated learning theory, learning plans may be the answer to track trainees' progress along their learning trajectory. The purpose of this study is to summarise the literature regarding learning plan use specifically in undergraduate medical education and explore the student's role in all stages of learning plan development and implementation. Methods: Following Arksey and O'Malley's framework, a scoping review will be conducted to explore the use of learning plans in undergraduate medical education. Literature searches will be conducted using multiple databases by a librarian with expertise in scoping reviews. Through an iterative process, inclusion and exclusion criteria will be developed and a data extraction form refined. Data will be analysed using quantitative and qualitative content analyses. Discussion: By summarising the literature on learning plan use in undergraduate medical education, this study aims to better understand how to support self-regulated learning in undergraduate medical education. The results from this project will inform future scholarly work in competency-based medical education at the undergraduate level and have implications for improving feedback and supporting learners at all levels of competence. Scoping review registration: Open Science Framework osf.io/wvzbx. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: There is no standardized protocol for performing educational point‐of‐care ultrasonography (POCUS) that addresses patient‐centered ethical issues such as obtaining informed consent. This study sought to define principles for ethical application of educational POCUS and develop consensus‐based best practice guidance. Methods: A questionnaire was developed by a trained ethicist after literature review with the help of a medical librarian. A diverse panel including experts in medical education, law, and bioethics; medical trainees; and individuals with no medical background was convened. The panel voted on their level of agreement with ethical principles and degree of appropriateness of behaviors in three rounds of a modified Delphi process. A high level of agreement was defined as 80% or greater consensus. Results: Panelists voted on 38 total items: 15 related to the patient consent and selection process, eight related to practices while performing educational POCUS, and 15 scenarios involving POCUS application. A high level of agreement was achieved for 13 items related to patient consent and selection, eight items related to performance practices, and 10 scenarios of POCUS application. Conclusions: Based on expert consensus, ethical best practices include obtaining informed consent before performing educational POCUS, allowing patients to decline educational POCUS, informing patients the examination is not intended to be a part of their medical evaluation and is not billed, using appropriate draping techniques, maintaining a professional environment, and disclosing incidental findings in coordination with the primary team caring for the patient. These practices could be implemented at institutions to encourage ethical use of educational POCUS when training physicians, fellows, residents, and medical students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Systems librarianship, when merged with the position of informationist, evolves into the identity of the systems informationist in the hospital setting. The Health Sciences Library at Geisinger has successfully implemented a systems informationist role within an open systems framework. The duties of the systems informationist are framed here using: input for information-seeking behavior; throughput of clinical support for patient care; output by user experience in research and education; and feedback to elevate operational excellence. This case report contributes a focused approach to systems librarianship, providing examples for other hospital libraries that may be interested in developing their own Systems Services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Health sciences library public services underwent profound changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Circulation, reference services, instruction, interlibrary loan, and programming were all significantly affected. Libraries adapted by moving to virtual services, featuring online workshops, video consultations, and digital information sharing. Reference services moved to virtual consultations for a streamlined experience, and instruction transitioned to interactive video tutorials. Interlibrary loan services saw a decrease in print material lending but an increase in electronic subscriptions. Library programming shifted from in-person to virtual, focusing on wellness activities. This post-pandemic transformation underscores the importance of ongoing adaptation to meet changing user needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this mixed methods and multi-phased study, through a multi-round feedback and confirmation process, we established a meaningful approach to developing, revising, and finalizing a competency framework for InterProfessional Informationists (IPI). As an emerging profession, IPI has not yet been established as a formal educational program with a guiding framework. It is important both to the field of practice and to educational programming to develop a competency framework, specifically targeted to IPI, and has been informed/verified through current practice. Our process started with using the initial competency framework developed by Tang and Martin (2019) as the basis, and involved gathering comments from numerous stakeholders, including IPI students and working professionals from relevant communities ranging from health science librarians to library directors, informationists, and LIS scholars and educators. The finalized IPI framework features four levels, six competency areas, and 67 elements, with separate beginner and advanced levels for subject expertise and work practice/culture. By including a variety of voices, this comprehensive framework not only outlines relevant foundational knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs), but also accentuates timely cutting-edge skills and forward-looking elements required of InterProfessional Informationists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Medical Librarian's Bibliography 2023 lists all articles from GMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information. In addition, articles with significance for medical librarianship published in journals in the field of library science are recorded: Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, Bibliotheksdienst, B.I.T. Online, BuB: Forum Bibliothek und Information, Information – Wissenschaft und Praxis (IWP), Journal of EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries). The Medical Librarian's Bibliography 2023 also lists selected articles relevant to medical librarians from Diabetes-Journal, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, and Research Synthesis Methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent semi-structured interviews with 28 librarians and branch managers on the placement of social workers in public libraries revealed a need for library and information science (LIS) programs to better prepare students for their role as social service information providers and to provide models for working with and supervising social workers in the library. It is clear that libraries are experiencing increasing demands to respond to the social-service information needs that users bring to the library, and the importance of libraries to communities in times of uncertainty and crisis is clear. In response, some libraries are including social workers on staff, but this trend does not completely relieve librarians of the need to serve the public's social-service information needs. LIS students need to understand the professional boundaries of librarianship and social work and to develop the ability to feel confident in their interactions with users who have been traumatized, are in crisis, or are struggling with challenges such as the need for credible health information; home and food insecurity information; legal aid; access to the Internet for individuals and families from low-income situations; accessible adult education programs; and more. Interview participants offered a number of suggestions for how to incorporate social work concepts into LIS education and asked for several specific skills such as training in mental-health first aid, de-escalation techniques, and greater knowledge of social-service resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This study investigated the moderating effect of organizational knowledge management performance on the sharing and use of information encountered by serendipity within the organization. Design/methodology/approach: The authors surveyed 274 medical librarians from the top 100 medical schools. Findings: Individual information encountering predicted information encountering at work, which, in turn, predicted organizational sharing of encountered information. When the propensity to encounter information was high, then organizational knowledge management performance moderated the effect between organizational encountering and organizational sharing of information. Encountered information at work was only present when high organizational knowledge management performance was in place. Research limitations/implications: This finding helps information behavior researchers discover the transfer of behaviors from everyday life to organizational environments. Practical implications: It shows the need for greater support for information encounterers at work and the role of knowledge management, which may enhance their contribution to the organizational objectives. Originality/value: Information encountering involves finding information by chance. Studies on information encountering have not focused on work settings and if the individual propensity to encounter information translates to organizational settings. Also, the relationship between information encountering and organizational knowledge management has not been studied so far. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Medical librarians can increase their work visibility and highlight their unique role on evidence synthesis teams with searchRxiv, an open access repository that makes librarian's efforts easily citable and resolves longstanding challenges pertaining to reproducing full search strategies within literature review articles. This column will discuss how to navigate searchRxiv to find, reuse, and cite published search strategies, as well as the process of depositing search strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Health sciences librarianship is a specialization focusing on medical, clinical, and scientific data in support of healthcare functions, including clinical decision-making, medical research, and medical education. Being tied to a scientific field, health sciences librarianship handles rapidly changing information and information needs, which presents a challenge for the services offered by the profession, as well as an opportunity to discuss theoretical and professional ideas in research forums. In the Philippines, there are a number of avenues through which health sciences librarianship research can be produced and disseminated. Despite these avenues, there has been no in-depth review of the types and directions of health sciences librarianship research in the country. This study aims to establish the current research coverage of health sciences librarianship in the Philippines. This is done via a scoping review. The findings indicate that there has been an uptick in the number of health sciences librarianship research in the country in the past two decades, though many of these studies are unpublished theses. Descriptive studies via surveys remain the go-to methodology of choice, being practical, easy to execute, and extracting data relevant to practitioners of health sciences librarianship. Subject areas of interest are very practical, with health sciences education, library materials/collections, user studies, and the status of the profession as the top subjects of research. Despite this, new ground is broken regarding novel topics, and more diverse methodologies are being applied to research in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This historical account reviews the course and lasting impact of Madeline Earle Stanton (1898–1980) in neurosurgery. The writing of this project was sparked by the discovery of original scientific and bibliographical information about Stanton. It is a thorough review of literature on Stanton and reflects the scope and depth of these prior works. Beginning with Madeline Stanton's venture with Dr. Harvey Cushing at Harvard and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, this project follows the transformation of her role as Cushing's secretary to the secretary of the Medical Historical Library at Yale. Stanton played an integral role in the development of the Yale Medical Historical Library, becoming the librarian of the Historical Collections and remaining a historical consultant after retirement. Stanton served as an assistant and associate editor for the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Stanton's work created an access point to valuable medical literature for the furthering of medical education and development. Our article provides glimpses into the personality of Madeline Stanton and her marked impact on neurosurgery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The establishment of professional credentials within health sciences librarianship has become an important initiative; however, the examination of librarian attitudes about professionalism has not been examined. This study aims to determine attitudes toward professionalism in health sciences librarians and examine relationships among degrees of professionalism utilizing a cross-sectional online survey of health sciences librarians registered on several library professional organization listservs. Collected data included socio-demographic information, work settings, and work responsibilities. The Hall Professionalism Inventory was used to measure participants' professionalism. Several factors influence health sciences librarians' attitudes toward professionalism, including academic degrees, workplace settings, and primary work responsibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Supporting global health priorities through the development of robust health science librarianship partnerships is of significant importance. Increased demand for synthesizing evidence-based information, collating quality resources, and increasing research productivity to improve human health requires integration of library and information science skills and expertise. The Health Sciences Library (HSL) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), exists to be an indispensable partner in health information and knowledge, teaching and learning, and research. As global efforts at UNC expanded, the HSL sought to ensure that our global engagement strategy and integration were aligned with campus priorities and partner needs. The HSL created a global research partnership plan: identify resources that improve efficiency, increase access to information, build in-country capacity and expertise—all while strengthening collaborations across multiple countries. Creating a meaningful and sustainable engagement strategy was central to envisioning our path forward and can be used as a framework for consideration by librarians in similar settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The baby penalty is a phenomenon in which having children negatively affects women's (but not men's) academic careers. While the baby penalty has been studied considerably in the academe, scant research exists on how it affects career growth in academic librarianship. This article explores how the baby penalty manifests in academic librarianship and how its prevalence contradicts the profession's espoused values of equity and inclusion. Specifically, an examination of the role library organizations play in perpetuating systemic inequities is conducted through an analysis of their approach to conference childcare. Suggestions to conference organizers about how to make conferences more compatible with caregiving are offered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This piece introduces the Des Moines University Library’s Research and Scholarly Communication Peer Associate Program, focusing on the curriculum of a five-day summer institute developed for graduate medical and health sciences students and rooted in a critical information literacy framework. The authors outline the institute’s philosophy and approach and provide readers with key content areas, materials, activities, and homework prompts. Initial program assessment is discussed, and the authors share their thoughts on how the program might continue to evolve to meet the changing needs of students. The article concludes with reflections from two peer associates who participated in the program during the 2022–2023 academic year.

Objective: Many health sciences librarians enter the profession without specific health sciences training. Some LIS programs have health sciences courses or tracks, but health sciences training within an LIS program is only one path to entering health sciences librarianship. To develop a map of pathways into health sciences librarianship, an immersion session at the Medical Library Association conference in 2022 asked health sciences librarians to share how they entered the profession. Methods: The immersion session was structured in three parts: facilitator introductions, small group discussions, and a whole group summary discussion. Guided by questions from the facilitators, small groups discussed what pathways currently exist, how to promote existing pathways, what new pathways should be created, and how to develop and promote pathways that make the profession more equitable, diverse, and inclusive. Results: Through in-the-moment thematic analysis of the small group discussions, the following emerged as key pathways: library school education; internships and practica; the Library and Information Science (LIS) pipeline; on-thejob training; mentoring; self-teaching/hands-on learning; and continuing education. Themes of equity, diversity, and inclusion arose throughout the session, especially in the concluding whole group discussion. Conclusion: Small group discussions in a conference immersion session showed the value of community building in a profession that has multiple pathways for entrance, highlighting the importance of unearthing hidden knowledge about avenues for exploring and enhancing career pathways. The article seeks to address barriers to entry into the profession and adds to the literature on strengthening the field of health sciences librarianship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the people behind the Pennsylvannia Hospital Library's (PHL) collection. Topics discussed include brief history of the library, background of William Gunn Malin, who served as the first librarian of the collection, and main responsibilities of Mary McCann as director of the library.

An electronic table of contents (eToC) program was implemented by a medical librarian more than 11 years ago at a pediatric hospital (now a clinical and academic health system) with the goal of saving healthcare providers time and assisting them in staying current on the literature in their specific disciplines and/or general medicine. The eToC program still remains a highly popular service with more than 180 clinicians participating. This paper describes the implementation and maintenance of the program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This piece introduces the Des Moines University Library's Research and Scholarly Communication Peer Associate Program, focusing on the curriculum of a five-day summer institute developed for graduate medical and health sciences students and rooted in a critical information literacy framework. The authors outline the institute's philosophy and approach and provide readers with key content areas, materials, activities, and homework prompts. Initial program assessment is discussed, and the authors share their thoughts on how the program might continue to evolve to meet the changing needs of students. The article concludes with reflections from two peer associates who participated in the program during the 2022-2023 academic year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the COVID-19 pandemic prevails, research related to COVID-19 has spread beyond medicine, health science, and biology to almost all academic fields. Library and information science is one of the most active fields that publish COVID-19-related research papers. This study examined 696 research papers related to COVID-19 whose journal being categorized as "information science & library science" by Web of Science. The result of bibliometric analysis showed that the publications were active and on the rise. Most papers were published in English and produced in the United States. According to the keyword clustering map produced by semantic network analysis, two fields, bibliometrics and health communication, were publishing research papers related to COVID-19 most actively. Moreover, the most productive journal was a library and information science journal focusing on health informatics. Additionally, a tendency was found that researchers preferred to publish on journals with high impact factors. Compared with non-COVID-19-related research papers, there was a significant decrease of "time for acceptance" of COVID-19-related papers, and the proportion of open access was relatively high. Confronting the global crisis of COVID-19, the library and information science field also made efforts and challenges to resolve the slow peer-review, delayed publishing, and high paywalls, which have been recognized as a "chronic diseases" of the academic publishing ecosystem. It is expected that these endeavors can serve as a turning point to reconsider and innovate the traditional research-publishing lifecycle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This scoping review summarises five decades of research on gender bias in subjective performance evaluations of medical trainees. Method: A medical librarian searched PubMed, Ovid Embase, Scopus, Web of Science and Cochrane DBSR in June 2020. Two researchers independently reviewed each abstract to determine if it met inclusion criteria (original research article investigating gender bias in subjective medical trainee evaluations by staff). References from selected articles were also reviewed for inclusion. Data were extracted from the articles, and summary statistics were performed. Results: A total of 212 abstracts were reviewed, and 32 met criteria. Twenty (62.5%) evaluated residents, and 12 (37.5%) studied medical students. The majority of studies on residents were Internal Medicine (n = 8, 40.0%) and Surgery (n = 7, 35.0%). All studies were performed in North America and were either retrospective or observational. Nine (28.0%) were qualitative, and 24 (75.0%) were quantitative. The majority of studies were published in the last decade (n = 21, 65.6%). Twenty (62.5%) studies documented gender bias, of which 11 (55%) found that males received higher quantitative performance evaluations and 5 (25%) found that females received higher evaluation scores. The remaining 4 (20%) reported gender differences in qualitative evaluations. Conclusions: Most studies detected gender bias in subjective performance evaluations of medical trainees, with a majority favouring males. There is a paucity of studies on bias in medical education with a lack of standardised approach to investigating bias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a study which aimed to analyze the role of medical librarians' view on health informatics. Topics covered include the possible roles and areas of medical librarianship that support health informatics, the role of medical librarianship in research, and ways of improving the health informatics skills of librarians and library staff.

The present study conducts a bibliometric analysis of Journal of the Medical Library Association to assess the growth of publication in the journal for the study period i.e. 2013-2022. The paper measures and analyses the distribution of publications in the journal on different parameters like type of publications, the geographical distribution of publications, popular keywords and top-cited publications during the study period. Total 599 documents were retrieved and analysed and found that the year 2020 was the most productive year. Under the type of publications, article was the preferred category with 47.08%. Human and humans were popular keywords. United States is a predominant country (26.48%) and the University of Toronto (16.17%) is a predominant institution. The study is useful for researchers and faculty to understand the pattern of publication of the selected Journal and to conduct an evaluative literature search. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Journal publishing means sharing current information with interested parties without much delay. Scientific journals have played an important role in the transfer of current scientific information, the development and dissemination of science, and the development and strengthening of scientific communication among scientists from the earliest times. There are the reasons for preference of journals. These reasons are: (1) It takes a short time to prepare for publication due to the articles, (2) more than one article can be published in the same volume, (3) the researches of different authors are included, (4) that these articles can meet with their readers in a journal format, (5) printing in volume/issue more than once in the same year and (6) to be delivered to the readers as quickly as possible. The purpose of research is to give information about the journals that publish the researches prepared in the field of information and records management in Turkey. Accordingly, the only question that is tried to be explained in the study is “Which journals are there in Turkey that publishing activities in the field of information and records management?”. Under what name and from which year, how many volumes/issues these journals are published, whether they are regularly published or not, whether they are refereed or non-peer-reviewed, the purpose of publication, in which language(s) they are published, whether they have an (e-)ISSN number, and access status was tried to be determined. Qualitative research method and case study were used in the research, and document analysis technique was used for data analysis. The data of the study were obtained by internet research and library resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous investigations into trends in Library and Information Science literature have revealed changes in the topics librarians publish on over time, with older studies highlighting classification and indexing, and information retrieval and more recent studies highlighting keywords such as Internet, information technology, digital libraries, and again, information retrieval. No similar investigation has been conducted on current publication trends by health sciences librarians. This study analyzes the top themes on which health sciences librarians published from 2016 to 2020 by examining the frequency of keywords. Keywords and subject headings were analyzed from The Journal of the Medical Library Association, Medical References Services Quarterly, The Journal of Hospital Librarianship, and The Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries. A total of 8,806 keywords were downloaded for analysis and organized into 292 categories during taxonomy creation. The ten most frequent themes were: libraries, information, education, humans, demography, librarian, geographical locations, research, electronic resources, and technology. The study also found that data, psychiatry and psychology, informatics, and publishing were other key themes, indicating that health sciences librarians are publishing on a wide range of topics. Some keywords that appeared only once, such as telecommuting and flexible staffing, suggest emerging areas of research for librarians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Instructional medical librarians are uniquely positioned in a context governed by multiple instructional frameworks emerging from librarianship and the professions with which they liaise. Yet very little literature exists on medical librarians' use of curriculum mapping to align their instruction with these frameworks. This review illuminates the current state of curriculum mapping in medical librarianship. We searched five bibliographic databases for articles published between 2010 and August 2021 and centred on information literacy (IL) curriculum mapping within a health sciences university context. Studies were included based upon pre-determined inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data were extracted using an instrument developed primarily a priori, with some codes developed emergently in response to preliminary review of the data. We included 127 studies focused on curriculum mapping, of which only 24 included structures which might be considered "curriculum maps". Across all 127 studies included, The Association of College & Research Libraries' Information Literacy Competency Standards for Libraries for Higher Education was the most-used IL framework, though versions of evidence-based practice were used more often, with a great deal of diversity and incomplete reporting on how these frames informed instruction of discrete concepts and skills. Within the 24 articles containing figurative curriculum maps, the same diversity of concepts and incomplete reporting was present, with librarians mapping IL frameworks to classroom activities more often than learning outcomes or competencies. Development of curricular maps aligning discrete IL concepts and skills with different disciplinary contexts is needed to provide instructors with a modular structure they might implement in their own contexts. To further the identification of best practices, future research should examine existing curricular maps made by librarians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 18 Jahren wird die Generation Alpha ihr Studium beginnen, somit auch in die Universitätsbibliotheken strömen und diese mitgestalten können. Der Beitrag zeigt mögliche Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse, die die Studierenden von ihrem ersten Besuch in der Universitätsbibliothek 2040 mitnehmen können und wie Offenheit in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft das Bibliothekswesen beeinflusst. In 18 years, students from Generation Alpha will begin their studies, which will also bring them to university libraries, whose development will be influenced by them. This article explores potential experiences and benefits that students may gain from their first visit to a university library in 2040 and how the principles of openness in science and society impact librarianship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses research by Loren A. Hackett and Theresa M. Kline on sustaining library marketing activities in an academic medical center.Topics include the challenges of promoting library services in a hospital setting, the benefits of the marketing schedule in preventing institutional memory loss and ensuring consistency, and the results and recommendations based on the experiences of the Cleveland Clinic Floyd D. Loop Alumni Library.

Purpose: The Simple Knowledge Organization Sys tem (SKOS) is a widely used data model for sharing and linking knowledge organization sys tems on the web. It offers a cos t-effective way to migrate exis ting knowledge organization sys tems to the Semantic Web. To integrate ASFA into the Semantic Web, the ASFA dataset needs to be converted and deployed as an RDF graph based on SKOS. To achieve this, the records in ASFA's Iran MARC format mus t be reengineered. This s tudy aims to re-engineer the ASFA dataset using data mining in the CRISP framework and deploy it on the open-source platform Skosmos. Method: The s tudy used the developmental-applied type of research and employed the CRISP-D.M. methodology, unsupervised type, and hierarchical clus tering technique for data mining to s tart the project, we firs t needed to unders tand the business goal. This goal was to convert the ASFA dataset into the SKOS data model, creating an RDF graph. It was discovered that ASFA's heritage data comprises 1,880 records categorized into 18 fields, including education, literature, communication, economy, his tory, Sufism and mys ticism, sociology, geography, law, psychology, linguis tics, religion, political science, philosophy, technology, experimental science, librarianship and information, management, culture, and art. The data was prepared by identifying and correcting missing and outlier data and before s tarting the project, our team needed to fully comprehend the business's objective. The ultimate goal was to convert the ASFA dataset into the SKOS data model. This was done to better comprehend the business objective. Creating an RDF graph. The modeling s tage utilized the hierarchical clus tering technique macrocode in Excel to generate target feature values. The model was evaluated through a visual inspection technique and random sampling method. In the sixth s tep, Iran MARC data was converted to SKOS as an RDF graph using the SkosPlay tool, and the data was transferred to the Vocbench platform. ASFA Dataset was deployed on the Skosmos platform using the Turtle format. Findings: The main finding of this s tudy is the deployment and development of ASFA Dataset based on SKOS/RDF on the open source platform Skosmos at kosmos.nlai.ir. The total number of records increased to 11,880 records creating collection records for clus tering. One of the important findings during the data preparation s tage was the compilation of the mapping table between SKOS core elements and Iran MARC fields. Conclusion: By integrating s tages of methodologies used in the literature review within the CRISP framework, an innovative method was developed for converting thesauri into a lightweight ontology based on SKOS/RDF graph format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Writing groups in academic libraries and clinical health settings can support faculty in research and scholarship requirements. Faculty in these settings typically have scheduled, location-fixed obligations. Writing groups can provide focused time or other support for research, writing, and creative activities. These groups can foster collaboration within and beyond their units by presenting opportunities to find co-authors or draw on expertise and resources from specialists across their institution. Literature in librarianship and health sciences provides guidance for creating and operating writing groups. Two studies of best practice and research supports were synthesized to create an evaluation tool for group formation and assessment. This was then applied to published case studies in the two fields and to the authors' own writing group. That criteria was used to evaluate the group and identify areas of improvement, such as utilizing colleagues' expertise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to educational institutions worldwide, leading to the closure of traditional teaching methods. To address this, virtual education was introduced, impacting library usage. It highlights the need for educational libraries to adapt to virtual education.

This article deals with the work of the Covid-19 Observatory, a project of the Presidency of Fiocruz and a catalyst in the production and dissemination of information on the pandemic in Brazil. Its activities resulted in the constitution of a digital archive, associated with the idea of "project memory," whose characteristics derived from the health emergency scenario we are of interested in investigating. The general objective of this article is to reflect on the creation and operation of the Covid-19 Observatory with a focus on the challenges related to the management of documents and information from its actions. To this end, concepts from the fields of information science, archival science, social memory and history of sciences and health are used as theoretical inputs, in addition to information from interviews and documentary sources. The results indicate that the health emergency had an impact on various aspects of the production, management, processing, and preservation of the archive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Romanian cultural space, since the 18th century, there has been a constant interest in the knowledge and recording of the folkloric phenomenon that went through an upward trajectory in line with similar European directions. The folk creations, recorded by the folklore keepers, were sent to magazines for printing and distribution, archived and promoted by specialists, thus moving from the oral to the written path. Among Artur Gorovei's fundamental preoccupations was a great interest in the magical-mythical or religious aspects of folk medicine in deciphering the phenomena of medical magic. Artur Gorovei was a prestigious representative of Romanian folkloristics and ethnology, creating an extensive work in which the traditional culture was researched in all its compartments and integrated within related fields. His interest in traditions and customs and how they are approached reflect his advanced conceptions of traditional culture. His work of unparalleled scientific value would offer rich material to researchers by addressing Romanian folklore, becoming a point reference for further studies on the evolution of spirituality, traditions and customs of our people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose. The paper presents a chronological overview of the program activities that were carried out in the Podsused Library during seven years as part of the Podsused Cultural and Natural Heritage program, which has been involved in multiple collaborative relationships in the community in which the Library operates since its foundation. Approach/methodology/design. Using the qualitative method of content analysis, the first part of the paper provides an overview of the contemporary paradigms on the interpretation of cultural heritage and international documents on its role in modern society and importance for the local community that are applicable in the context of the development of the library program. The analysis includes scientific and professional literature in the field of librarianship, museology, and archival science. The second part provides a chronological overview of the projects within the Cultural and Natural Heritage of Podsused program that have been realized in the past seven years using the Library's documents and archives, public tender and report materials, as well as the published professional works on the program along with searching online sources. Results. The Cultural and Natural Heritage Program of Podsused was integrated in the local community from the very beginning. The local history significance of the projects is manifested not only in the choice of materials, but also in a wide network of collaborative relationships at the local level that contribute to a sense of common ownership. The involvement of the members and users of the library and the local community in collecting the materials and interpretation of cultural heritage have resulted in co-creation of the content of the program, and were carried out as part of the Library's activities. Originality. The practical contribution of the paper is the implementation of various local community involvement activities on the topic of heritage, which can be applied in other environments and contexts. It also shows the use of various participatory practices in the interpretation of local heritage with the purpose of its promotion, education of the local community on heritage topics, transfer of knowledge, strengthening awareness of the need to preserve cultural heritage, and encouraging personal creativity of users of all age groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]