Midwest Chapter @ MLA ’12

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Clare Leibfarth

Are YOU going to MLA ’12 in Seattle? I will not be there…but that is not going to keep me from participating! I registered for the e-Conference which is “the next best thing to being there.” Online content will be “close to live” with streaming video of the big events available within 24 hours. With my e-registration, I am able to use the online scheduler, so I searched to see what our chapter members will be doing during the meeting. The Midwest Chapter/MLA will be well-represented at this year’s annual MLA meeting. I’m looking forward to watching our chapter members’ presentations on video (synchronized with their PowerPoint slides even) and looking at their posters online.

Here is a list of chapter members who will be presenting sessions and/or posters at this year’s meeting:

SESSION PRESENTERS:

Amy Blevins
Cracker Jack Instruction: Creating, Implementing and Managing a No-Budget Online Continuing Education Course
5/22/2012 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Room : 619/620

Pamela S. Bradigan
Librarians Leading Knowledge Management
5/21/2012 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Room : 602/603

Katherine V. Chew
Determining Your Lineup Card: Implementing a Demand-Driven Acquisition Program within a Large Academic Institution
5/22/2012 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Room : 612

Nadia Lalla
Windup and the Pitch: Delivering Instruction Using Videos
5/22/2012 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Room : 619/620

Beth Layton
You Can Observe a Lot Just By Watching: Building a Comprehensive Copyright Program
5/21/2012 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Room : 615/616

Theory and Practice à la Yogi Berra: The Interprofessional Education of Medical and Pharmacy Students in Evidence-Based Medicine
5/21/2012 10:30 AM – 12:00 AM Room : 612

The Research Ironman: Collaboration, Outreach, and Evidence-Based Mental Health
5/21/2012 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Room : 619/620

Margaret Moutseous
Using Librarians in Experiential Learning in Evidence-Based Practice Education
5/21/2012 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Room : 611

Carol A. Powell
Librarians Teaching Critical Appraisal: Assessment of Evidence-Based Medicine Competency of Fourth-Year Medical Students Using an Adapted Fresno Test-Based Exercise
5/20/2012 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Room : 613/614

Gurpreet Rana
Strengthening Research Capacity and Addressing Global Health Challenges: A Librarian’s Perspective
5/22/2012 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Room : 602/603

Melissa Rethlefsen
Cracker Jack Instruction: Creating, Implementing and Managing a No-Budget Online Continuing Education Course
5/22/2012 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Room : 619/620

Stephanie J. Schulte
Librarians Teaching Critical Appraisal: Assessment of Evidence-Based Medicine Competency of Fourth-Year Medical Students Using an Adapted Fresno Test-Based Exercise
5/20/2012 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Room : 613/614

Carol Shannon
Windup and the Pitch: Delivering Instruction Using Videos
5/22/2012 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Room : 619/620

Nicole R. Theis-Mahon
Determining Your Lineup Card: Implementing a Demand-Driven Acquisition Program within a Large Academic Institution
5/22/2012 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Room : 612

Kelly Thormodson
Improving Our Reference Desk Management and Training or “I Wish I Had an Answer to that because I’m Tired of Answering that Question” (Yogi Berra)
5/21/2012 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Room : 615/616

Debra A. Werner
Supporting the Medical Support Staff: Outreach to Administrative Assistants and Secretaries
5/22/2012 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Room : 604

POSTER PRESENTERS:

Amy Blevins
Poster Session 2: 159. Stepping up to the Plate: Experiences as First-Time Instructors of a Library Research in Context Class

Amy E. Donahue
Poster Session 2: 63. Emergency Preparedness and Librarians: A Match Made in…Hospitals!

Carol Gordon
Poster Session 1: 80. Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN): Connecting with Faculty, Residents, and Medical Students

Barbara A. Gushrowski
Poster Session 2: 108. Iterative Design in Online Instruction: Using Module Grades and Student Feedback to Guide Content and Delivery Modifications

Rhona Kelley
Poster Session 1: 80. Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN): Connecting with Faculty, Residents, and Medical Students

Erin Kerby
Poster Session 1: 137. Planning a Strategic Lineup for the Delivery of Effective Reference Services

Fran E. Kovach
Poster Session 1: 80. Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN): Connecting with Faculty, Residents, and Medical Students

Nadia J. Lalla
Poster Session 1: 137. Planning a Strategic Lineup for the Delivery of Effective Reference Services

Deborah Lauseng
Poster Session 1: 137. Planning a Strategic Lineup for the Delivery of Effective Reference Services

Beth Layton
Poster Session 1: 110. It’s a Matter of Inches: Using Statistics to Improve a Copyright Image Guide

Connie Poole
Poster Session 1: 80. Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN): Connecting with Faculty, Residents, and Medical Students

Gurpreet K. Rana
Poster Session 1: 134. Partnerships in Diversity: A Multi-Pronged Collaboration with the School of Public Health

Melissa Rethlefsen
Poster Session 2: 144. Playing the Field: Using CampusGuides Statistics and Google Analytics to Assess a Intranet Site Redesign

Poster Session 2: 171. The Core Public Health Journal Project: A Game Change in the 3rd Inning

Merle Rosenzweig
Poster Session 1: 59. Depositing Intellectual Property into an Institutional Depository

Poster Session 1: 65. Distributing Relevant Information to a Remotely Located Clinical Department of a Medical Center

Poster Session 3: 97. Healthy Communities: A Snapshot of Outreach

Anna E. Schnitzer
Poster Session 1: 59. Depositing Intellectual Property into an Institutional Depository

Poster Session 3: 97. Healthy Communities: A Snapshot of Outreach

Carol Shannon
Poster Session 2: 96. Hitting a Moving Target: Resource Access in a Mobile World

Poster Session 2: 156. Show Us Your Heart! A Statewide Library Initiative to Increase Organ Donation Registration

James Shedlock
Poster Session 1: 131. One Design to Rule Them All: Harnessing Competing Brand Guidelines to Create a Unified Vision for a Library Website

Vedana Vaidhyanathan
Poster Session 1: 152. Revitalizing Education at the Library: Increasing Number of Attendees and Responding to Feedback

All I can say is this: Midwest Chapter rocks!

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Reporting from Indianapolis

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Clare Leibfarth

Eleven members of your Midwest Chapter/MLA Executive Board met for a very productive meeting last Friday, March 30 in Indianapolis. Here is my personal take from the proceedings! Be sure to watch for stories in the upcoming mid-May issue of our official chapter newsletter MIDLINE about these items of interest and MORE!

It is worth noting first that chapter finances are in good shape. The chapter has retained the services of a professional accountant, Michelle Dixon, C.P.A. Chapter Treasurer Amy Donahue has been working hard all winter with Michelle to review and re-structure the files and spreadsheets used to keep track of chapter finances and to audit the books for 2010 and 2011.  The books for the 2010 Annual Conference in Madison are “closed” and the conference showed a nice profit, half of which was shared with our co-sponsor, WSHLA. The books for the 2011 Annual Conference in Indianapolis are nearly squared away as well. The chapter will still be using the Acteva services in the short term for online membership payment and conference registration. In the meantime, the Finance Committee is investigating alternatives.

The Professional Practice Committee has been hard at work on the details of the chapter’s new Research Presentation and Poster Awards. These monetary awards recognizing presentation of exemplary research by our members will be given for the first time at the 2012 Annual Conference. Watch upcoming MIDLINE issues for award announcements!

One thread that ran through almost all of the discussion at the board meeting was communication. We considered some concrete measures that the chapter’s Representative at Large Stephanie Schulte and the chapter’s State Liaisons Committee members could pursue to better serve as conduits of information in both directions between the chapter and our sister state health sciences library associations in the Midwest. We talked about how to better use different chapter communications vehicles for keeping our members up-to-date. The chapter website will be getting an extensive informal review and some additions were suggested.

As part of a continuing improvement project, Archivist Mary Hitchcock has been busy working on a draft “policies and procedures” document which was reviewed by the board. The document provides guidance for officers and others working on chapter business on what to keep (and send to the archives) and what not to keep. Work will continue on a better way to archive photographs, particularly digital photos taken at conferences. Anyone interested in helping yours truly with collecting all those photos into a single Flickr account? Seriously, let me know if you want to help! I’ve been procrastinating on this for YEARS.

The board spent a big chunk of meeting time reviewing the answers to the open-ended questions from last year’s Membership Survey. The Membership Committee under the leadership of Membership Secretary Katherine Chew mined your comments, categorizing the comments and suggestions. The board particularly focused at this meeting on continuing education, the annual conferences, and other professional practice issues. The Chair Natalie Reed and the Professional Practice Committee will be working on ideas particularly in the area of continuing education.

And here is one last “heads up” for you! We still indeed are planning to bring revised chapter bylaws up for a vote by the assembled membership at the next Annual Business Meeting in October in Minnesota. Our bylaws need to be brought into “compliance” with the MLA Model Bylaws and need some other various tweaking.

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Spring Executive Board Meeting Invitation

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Clare Leibfarth

All Midwest Chapter/MLA members are welcome to attend meetings of the Executive Board. Here are the details!

This is the place!

We will be returning to Indianapolis in my next door neighbor Hoosier State for our spring meeting on Friday, March 30 at the Crowne Plaza Indianapolis Airport. Business will be conducted in Ballroom A beginning at 9:00 a.m. and will be finished by 4:00 p.m.

Visualize the Executive Board hard at work in this meeting room!

If you would like to attend the Executive Board meeting, please R.S.V.P. to President Janna Lawrence janna-lawrence@uiowa.edu by Friday, March 23rd!

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Paper Presentations – Kathy Schilling’s “Knocking it out of the park for cancer symptom support”

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Amy Donahue

The abstract:

Knocking it Out of the Park for Cancer Symptom Support:  Lessons Learned in the Development and Evaluation of a Cancer Patient Self-Management System
Texas, 3:00pm-3:50pm
Presenter: Katherine Schilling, Ed.D.  Associate Professor of Library and Information Science,
Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana
Authors

  • Katherine Schilling, Ed.D.  Associate Professor of Library and Information Science,
  • Indiana University
  • Christine M. Newlon, Indiana University School of Informatics
  • Kimberly Wagler-Ziner, Assistant Scientist, Center for Research and Scholarship, IU School of Nursing and Behavioral Research Recruitment Core Coordinator, Indiana University Simon Cancer Center
  • Robert Skipworth Comer, Indiana University School of Informatics
  • Anna M. McDaniel, PhD., Indiana University School of Informatics and Indiana University School of Nursing

Background: The patient symptom monitoring and management system (SMMS) is a secure web portal through which cancer patients’ symptoms are recorded and tracked.  It incorporates ongoing assessment of patients’ symptoms, tailored information delivery, and automated symptom messaging to oncology nurses.  This presentation describes issues and challenges in developing and evaluating the SMMS.  Portal design, usability, security, and pilot testing with patients and healthcare providers will be discussed, and results of evaluation activities will be described.
Methods: The patient-driven SMMS was developed at a major oncology center, then piloted with newly-diagnosed colon cancer patients (n = 12).  Each week, over a period of eight weeks, patients recorded their cancer-related symptoms such as fatigue, nausea, numbness, pain, diarrhea, loss of appetite, and others (N = 103).  Symptom severity was ranked on a 0 (not a problem) to 10 (interfered heavily with my lifestyle) scale (M = 4).  Based on each week’s symptoms and related health management questions, the SMMS generated an evidence-based information Toolkit tailored to each patient’s symptoms and concerns.
Results and Discussion: Development and evaluation activities are discussed, including web mining to identify patterns in testers’ symptoms and information behaviors.  Individual-level and system-level data collected through portal activity logs included login time, time on-page, reported symptoms, and information resources used in support of symptom self-management.  Data analysis has helped troubleshoot design and system interaction problems.  Research findings are also used to improve the SMMS’s functionality, promoting more effective cancer symptom self-management support for patients.

My notes (Apologies for their quality! Contribute your additional thoughts and related resources in the comments!):

  • What it is: a web-based interactive system development and assessment.
  • Cancer is no longer an acute disease. People are living with cancer for longer periods of time. Survivorship begins with diagnosis!
  • Cancer survivors have significant needs.  The cancer symptom management system created to meet these needs. It is multidisciplinary.
  • It is designed as a database to log symptoms and manage information.
    • (Research shows that increased knowledge helps with coping.)
    • Unique and complicated needs in a very difficult time.
  • Provider and patient sign up together.  Providers get dings when symptoms reach a threshold, but they can also sign in to track/trend their patients’ symptoms.
  • There is also a piece for caregivers (family, etc.), and this is the piece an insurance company bought.
  • Various usability features modified as it was seen how the site was used.
  • Caregivers are linked to the patient, particularly important where there is geographical distance.
  • Evaluation of pilot – who what when where why and how
  • Looked at case trends, toolkit (which provides supplementary info) usage.  Reading skills, health literacy are important.
  • 1 patient was more engaged. They tried to figure out why, but it was difficult with the lack of information in the system.  The next test will be modified to capture more behavior.
  • Project has raised new questions:
    • How do symptoms drive useage patterns?
    • How is the information toolkit used in decision making?
  • Continue to engage with users to “target rather than tailor.”
  • Challenges:
    • Consents
    • Recruitment, needed people with Internet
    • Multisite
    • HIPAA failures
    • System crash, had to be monitored.
    • Michigan and Indiana are arguing about who owns what, who does what, publication rights.
  • Advantages:
    • Web portal
    • Established content
  • Developed various best practices around methodology, testing, developing structure, developing team, usability, funding.
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Paper Presentations: Stephanie Schulte’s “Teaming Up with Nursing to Put Evidence into Action at an Academic Medical Center”

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Amy Donahue

First, the abstract:

Teaming Up with Nursing to Put Evidence into Action at an Academic Medical Center
Michigan, 11:00am-11:50am
Presenter: Stephanie J. Schulte, Assistant Professor, Education & Reference Services Coordinator, OSU Health Sciences Library, Columbus, Ohio
Authors:

  • Stephanie J. Schulte, Assistant Professor, Education & Reference Services Coordinator, OSU Health Sciences Library
  • Susan Bejciy-Spring, Director, Nursing Evidence Based Practice and Standards, The Ohio State University Health System
  • Jill Niese, Manager, Nursing Evidence Based Practice and Standards, The Ohio State University Health System

Evidence in Action (EIA) Rounds is a clinical nursing initiative at The Ohio State University Health System that provides unit-based interactive forums to assist nurses in exploring best practices in the management of a selected patient. Facilitators of EIA Rounds include two health system nurse leaders in evidence based practice (EBP) and a nursing liaison librarian. Facilitators team up with unit nurses caring for the patient to define evidence-based practice, use an evidence-based approach to answer clinical questions, and explore the best available evidence related to a specific patient. Using nursing sensitive indicators and the Iowa Model of Evidence Based Practice as a guide, the facilitators review details of the case and note clinical questions from the care team, search appropriate internal and external resources for evidence, and return to discuss their findings. The evidence, or lack thereof, is placed in the context of the selected patient. Gaps in policies and procedures and evidence from the research literature are all discussed in a non-punitive manner. If gaps are identified, the EBP nurse leader facilitators have the authority and means to revise policies or create new policies if needed. This presentation will explore the librarian’s role in this unique collaboration aimed at putting best practices into action. It will also discuss the outcomes and challenges encountered in the process.

What follows are my notes from Stephanie’s awesome talk on her experience working with staff nurses in “Evidence in Action Rounds.” (Disclaimer: I took these on my 1st gen iPod Touch.  I’ve tried to clean them up somewhat.  If the presentations get posted at some point, we’ll be sure to link to them!  And if you attended the session and want to add anything, please feel free to do so in the comments!)

At Stephanie’s institution:

  • Culture of EBP
  • various nursing practices and positions and programs to support.
  • Clinical practice guidelines committe (Stephanie is on).
  • Lots of educational initiatives.

Stephanie provides nursing CME support.

“Evidence in Action” (EIA) nursing rounds:

  • A way to integrate internal & external best practices
  • These are non-punitive, which needs to be made very clear because there is some fear.
  • How it works: nurse leader identifies a unit to work with through staff nurse contacts.
    • Day 1: nurse leader and librarian meet with unit manager, who identifies a patient. Together they create clinical questions while looking at chart, using indicators. EBP nurse leader and librarian “divide and conquer” to search the literature.
    • Day 2: return with results, review indicators etc, with the unit nurses. Go over answers to the clinical questions and the resources used.  Usually there are still lots of gaps at the end – these can be addressed through policy changes etc.

EIA tools:

  • Nurse sensitive indicators
  • Iowa model of EBP: forming a question, forming a team (top half of model)
  • Johns Hopkins nursing EBP scale

How she got involved:

  • Result of construction, she had to get out of the space which provided an excuse to get out on the floors.
  • Contacted the director of EBP.

Example: “The power of 1″: one patient can influence the care of many.  Nephrostomy tube example led to policy change and a poster with the nurses involved.  The poster is being presented at national nursing conference!

Challenges:

  • Scheduling!! Turnaround time for searches is FAST.
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Some Sunday Photos

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Clare Leibfarth

Keynote Speaker Margo Coletti spoke on "Knowledge Management: The Bridge Between Information and Best Practice"

Purple was the color of the day!

The Professional Practice Committee shared information about advocacy and AHIP in the Exhibit area.

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Welcome Reception

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Clare Leibfarth

Meeting and Greeting

This evening a good time was had by all. The evening began with the Meet & Greet for mentors and mentees. Lots of great conversation. Then the action moved to the Exhibits area for the Welcome Reception with the vendors. There were sweet treats galore and door prize drawings. All good.

Indulge your sweet tooth!

Librarians love door prizes!

For more fun conference photos, check out Flickr photos tagged midwestmla11. And watch for more photos!

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Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Beth Whipple

“All my jokes are Indianapolis.  All my attitudes are Indianapolis.  My adenoids are Indianapolis.  If I ever severed myself from Indianapolis, I would be out of business.  What people like about me is Indianapolis.” —Kurt Vonnegut, 1986
from http://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/

Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library

One of my places that I want to visit in Indianapolis but have not yet is the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, opened last year. It is open daily (except Wednesday) 12pm-5pm and located at the “corner” of Senate, Indiana, and Vermont streets. From the hotel, walk towards downtown a block to Senate (the street where the capitol building is), then turn left (north) and go four blocks. It will be on your left.

340 N. Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46204

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And we’re under way!

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Clare Leibfarth

The Friendly Registration Staff

Welcome to Indianapolis! Conference 2011 is up and running! The CEs are in progress! We are looking forward this evening to the Welcome and Exhibitor’s Reception. The program says that I will be able to indulge my sweet tooth. Sounds like an excellent idea!

Welcome to the 2011 Midwest Chapter Conference

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Colts and construction

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Beth Whipple

Ah, irony. After Chris Bishop’s invitation last year in Wisonsin to this year’s conference and his truly rabid support of the Colts (I’ve seen the picture of him yelling at one of the games), I do find it ironic that the Packers won last season, Peyton’s out for the season (most likely), and the teams currently have palindromic 2011-2012 season records. All that aside, I do still have faith in our home team, which leads me to the

1st part of this blog entry: Colts

Go Colts!

This Sunday the Colts have a home game at 1pm against the Kansas City Chiefs. Rumor has it that tickets may be a little easier to come by this season, so this may be an opportunity to go to an NFL game if you’ve always wanted to and never had the chance. Of course, I assume that everyone will either giving their paper presentations or listening and learning from them, so I doubt any of us will be impacted by this. :)

However, this does bring me to point #2: Construction

Picture from http://www.urbanindy.com

As much as I love the Cultural Trail in Indianapolis, it is not completed yet. The Super Bowl this upcoming February 6, 2012 is going be held here in Indianapolis, which means even more construction is under way to make the city its shiniest and prettiest for early next year. Bonus construction, coupled with a lot of one-way streets in downtown Indianapolis, makes driving extra fun (or headache-inducing). Also not surprisingly with construction, where to cross the street, which lane is open, etc. may change daily (or hourly). Drivers in Indianapolis, being in the Midwest, are generally still polite (read: not enough honking, in my opinion), so just keep that mind, and bring good walking shoes!

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