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Marilyn Pitzen, Learning Resource Center, Mayo Clinic Libraries

For as long as I can remember I have decorated cakes. I was a self-taught; learn from your mistakes decorator Somewhere along the road it was decided that I should try to make money doing this so I started charging for cake orders which could be anything from a simple birthday cake to the fancier wedding cakes. Throw in hundreds of sheet cakes and after ten years it became too much. I still like decorating but I wasted to go back to the days when it was just a fun hobby.

Being a frequent library user and actually using the library as a place for people to pic up their cakes, I told the librarian that I was not going to take orders anymore and that I would just bring all the pans into the library and let the people bake their own. She thought I was joking. She couldn’t believe I would donate fifty-some pans, but I packed them up and she hung them on the library walls. It was a win-win situation for both of us. I still had access to the pans but yet I didn’t have to store them and my small town library became more than just a place to check out a book.

This gave the community a chance to use their own creativity to make a cake without the cost of buying the pan or ordering the cake from someone else. Best of all they didn’t have to find a place to store it. That was in 1991. Over the years other have donated more pans to this collection. I continue to add about one a year. Most of the pans have instructions for baking an d decorating but some you just have to use your imagination or Google it! You don’t always have to pour batter in to make a cake. Try using it as a mold with rice krispies or gelatin.

Several years after I donated my pans to the library, the neighboring town’s library started asking for cake pan donations to add to their collection. So if you haven’t been to your local library lately, check it out. You never know what you may find to borrow.

Melissa L. Rethlefsen, MLS, AHIP and Marilyn Pitzen, Learning Resource Center, Mayo Clinic Libraries

In 2006, the Mayo Medical School introduced a new curriculum for its medical students. Due to this new curriculum, less face-to-face time with Learning Resource Center (library for the Mayo Medical School) staff was available. To maximize the four-hour time slot given, learning Resource Center staff devised Library Grand Rounds. The Library Grand Rounds was designed at first as a scavenger hunt competition. Students broke out into teams, received a packet of case studies, and were set free to solve several tasks that took them to multiple library locations on campus and required the use of the library website. Over time, the Library Grand Rounds evolved further due to more time constraints, a request from the medical school to remove the competitions aspect, and to include more library locations. In 2012, the learning Resource Center again revamped the Library Grand Rounds to become Library Rounds, using case studies that only required students to accomplish tasks within the Learning Resource Center walls, such as checking out a reserve book, using an anatomical model, checking out medical equipment, finding books and journals, requesting literature search help, talking to the librarian about EndNote, and other typical tasks. The medical students enjoy the team and problem-solving aspects of the Rounds, though they still may not understand all library offerings.

Ann M. Farrell, Melissa L. Rethlefsen, Wanda M. Elkharwily, Lois I. Peterson, Tona C. Keene, Becky J. Schneider, Shelby Jensen, Carolyn J. Wiebold, Mayo Clinic Libraries

In August 2011, the Mayo Clinic Library purchased seven iPads for the library staff to become familiar with tablet technology. The institution had begun to support iPads, and was developing apps specifically for iOS. It was felt that library staff should be prepared to answer questions related to tablet technology. In conjunction with the purchase of the iPads, staff developed resource guides for mobile devices. A separate resource guide on iPad troubleshooting was created. Lunch n’ learn sessions were developed to bring library users into the library to exchange best practices on apps, concerns (e.g., HIPAA), infection control, etc. The project team reviewed published best practices by libraries lending iPads, and made a site visit to the Eau Claire Public Library to learn from their lending program.

http://midwestmla.org/conference2012/downloads/farrell_poster.pdf

Tara Brigham and Ann Farrell, Mayo Clinic Libraries

A small community hospital and clinic joined our organization on May 1, 2012 becoming Mayo Clinic Health System in Waycross, GA (site). The library wanted to be involved with the new site’s incorporation early in the process. The librarian geographically closest to Waycross in Jacksonville, FL worked with colleagues in Rochester, MN to determine who and what was needed for a smooth transition. Two librarians traveled to the new site to give three presentations on the library’s resources, view what library resources were available, and establish a working relationship with comparable staff.

Tara Brigham, Mayo Clinic Libraries

The Nutritional Support Services department at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL offers an eight-month dietetics internship program. A librarian has always provided a short orientation of the library’s resources at the beginning of the internship program. The current librarian, new to the role, wanted to know if the orientation was effective. The librarian sought feedback from an intern on how to improve this orientation.

The intern provided details of what resources are heavily used (such as Micromedex, UpToDate),l the structure of the program, and the different projects they need to complete (three small and one large research project). A discussion of these insights with the dietetics faculty resulted in the creation of two separate library instruction sessions, one at the beginning of the program and another session before the start of the research projects. The librarian also created a LibGuide that specifically identified useful resources for the dietetic program and addressed the interns’ desire for a self-instructive guide to the library’s resources.

The library’s collaboration with faculty and students provides benefits for all parties involved. Students are provided a more relevant library instruction and thus should be able to search and find information more easily. Faculty have students that are better prepared and the librarian gains important knowledge of the resources and training needs of the students.

Megan Barkelar, MLIS, Consumer Health Librarian, Melinda Orebaugh, MLS, Director, Gundersen Lutheran Health System, La Crosse, WI

Librarians collaborated with the Information Systems department during Gundersen Lutheran’s migration from an in-house developed patient portal to Epic’s MyChart. As a result of this collaborative effort, patient resources, including MedlinePlus, Lab Tests Online and Krames On Demand were integrated into MyCare®, Gundersen Lutheran’s branded version of MyChart. Integration of these resources permits patients a seamless link to health information directly from their personal electronic health record.

http://midwestmla.org/conference2012/downloads/barkelar_poster.pdf

Eileen Severson, MLIS, Supervisor, Library & Health Information Services, Megan Barkelar, MLIS, Consumer Health Librarian, Gundersen Lutheran Health System, La Crosse, WI.

With hospital libraries closing and healthcare facing increased financial strains, our hospital and consumer health libraries were looking for ways to show the value of the work, resources, and service our libraries and librarians provide. We began to investigate using the R.E.A.D. scale (Reference, Effort, Assessment, Data) originally created by Bella Karr Gerlich at Carnegie Mellon University. It is a numbered scale used to rate the amount of effort, skill, knowledge, and customer service provided by library staff when a reference transaction occurs. The scale is intended to provide a qualitative value for reference transactions, not just a number or hash mark. As suggested by the author of the scale, we tested our staff’s interpretation of the scale, discussed differences, and created definitions for each rating. After this exercise and discussion, library staff decided we needed a scale of 1-5 rather than the 1-6 of the original R.E.A.D. scale. We started using an electronic form for tracking our R.E.A.D. scale statistics in February 2011. We used the resulting data to determine staffing of reference desks, to show our value to administrators during the annual business performance review, and to determine our future service priorities and needs.

http://midwestmla.org/conference2012/downloads/severson_poster.pdf

Stevo Roksandic, Library Director, Mount Carmel Health Sciences Library, Columbus, OH

This poster examines the process and results in which a medical library developed an extension of services and staff commitment to better meet the needs of the hospital staff and physicians by utilizing the interoffice mail delivery system between five operating sites and improve access of electronic resources and provide information on demand.

The health sciences library operated as a fully staffed library in each of the medical facilities. However, due to staffing cuts and shortages, the library employed new technologies and made create changes to deliver library resources virtually directly to hospital staff and physicians while the library is fully staffed at one location, Information Commons were developed within the hospital libraries with computer stations for users to access our website and utilize our “Ask-Us-Now” online chat service. Established innovative “Library-on-demand” services allowed customers to request delivery of bibliographic materials to their office which streamlined circulation, and receive personalized library support in person and/or virtually 24-7.

Hilary Lane, Coordinator, History of Medicine Library, Mayo Clinic Libraries, Betty Smith and Shirley Greising, Celebrate Dakota! Mayo Employee Resource Group

In conjunction with the exhibit, “Why Treaties Matter: Self Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations,” Mayo Clinic History of Medicine Library curated a small exhibit highlighting the Dakota and Ojibwe nations. The books and images used in this exhibit were from the library’s Browsing Collection, a special collection established by Dr. Henry S. Plummer, and the Dr. Edgar Van Nuys Allen Collection on Native American.

Buffalo Hunts, infant cradles, specimens of canoes and snow shoes are taken from George Catlin’s two-volume set titled, Illustrations of the Manners, Customs & Condition of the North American Indians published in 1876. Ojibwe methods of harvesting wild rice and the making of birch-bark art transparencies are from Frances Densmore’s book, Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians, published in 1928.

An image from Mary H. Eastman’s book, Dahcotah, or, Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling, published in 1849 shows the site of Fort Snelling. The St. Anthony Fall was located about nine miles above the fort. Three different Dakota bands occupied areas in this vicinity. Black Dog’s band lived a few miles above Fort Snelling on the banks of St. Peters River, Red Wing’s band lived at the head of Lake Pepin and the Wa-be-sha’s band were located some sixty or more miles below Lake Pepin on the west side of the river on a beautiful prairie known as Wa-be-sha’s prairie.

Martha E. Hardy, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Metropolitan State University Library

In conjunction with The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “The Yellow Wall-Paper”, a traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine Exhibition Program, Martha Hardy, librarian and Assistant Professor at Metropolitan State University, developed and taught a one–‐credit, special topics class in Gender Studies entitled “The Yellow Wall‐Paper”: Women and Madness. This course was offered in the fall semester of 2011.

In the class, we examined the short novel “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in order to explore how scientific and social constructions of mental illness and madness have been used to prescribe and influence the behavior and lives of women from the late nineteenth century to today. Students considered portrayals of madness in relation to gender, drawing from literary fiction, the fine arts, medicine, social sciences, and psychology. Through reading “The Yellow Wall-Paper”, along with related texts, students identified and analyzed intersections of gender with other social categories such as race, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, ability and disability, and age.

http://midwestmla.org/conference2012/downloads/hardy_poster.pdf

Xiaomei Gu, Clinical Education Librarian, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences & Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa

Pharmacy Practice Laboratory (PPL) Course Series are required courses for PharmD students to practice the use of scientific and clinical knowledge in providing pharmaceutical care. The course meets three times per week for a lecture followed by a discussion session and a laboratory session. This poster describes the author’s first-year experience of teaching PubMed in this unique format. During Spring 2012, the author’s role in PPL was focuses on PubMed. To prepare for PPL, the author attended planning meetings, evaluated students’ previous knowledge of PubMed, and investigated the teaching facilities. During the 2^nd week of PPL, the author delivered two 50-minute lectures in a traditional classroom and led a 50-minute hands-on discussion session in a computer laboratory. She also developed and graded PubMed online quizzes. During the following few weeks, the author collaborated with pharmacy faculty in developing and grading assignments and activities on finding drug information. In the final week, the author did a 20-minute wrap-up session on PubMed to summarize the common mistakes and revisit important concepts and features. The author found her first-time experience as an instructor for PPL successful and rewarding. The unique format and structure of the PPL course allowed her to connect with students through in-depth instruction, assignments and activities evaluation, and semester-end summary. She was also able to build strong collaborative relationships with faculty.

Kaye Crampton, MALS, Consumer Health Librarian, Gundersen Lutheran Health System, La Crosse, WI

The John & Nettie Mooney Library – Onalaska has been serving the health education needs of patients and families at the Gundersen Lutheran Clinic in Onalaska, Wisconsin since 2007.

Beginning in 2009, the Health Resource Library began a library/retail collaboration project with the Avery R. Gundersen Center for Women at the clinic. The Center for Women offers healthcare in the following areas: urinary and bladder issues, sexuality, pregnancy and childbirth, breastfeeding and menopause – anything to do with women’s health. In 2009, the library and the Center for Women decided to begin a collaboration: the library would also house a retail “Boutique” that would offer products for women to support the care they received in the Center for Women. While the Boutique is administered through the Center for Women, this project involved cross-training librarians to work in both the library and the retail settings. The library works closely with the providers in the Center for Women to offer books and videos in the library that are also sold in the boutique, so that patients may “test drive” a book, relaxation CD or exercise DVD before actually purchasing it. Patients have been very appreciative of this option. The Boutique also offers a variety of other items: skin care from Dermatology, pedometers from Nutrition therapy, and provider-recommended breastfeeding items, to name only a few. The library has benefitted by use from customers who might not otherwise have passed through the area. This unique partnership is the way of the future, as typically unrelated hospital departments work together to benefit patients and generate revenue.

http://midwestmla.org/conference2012/downloads/crampton_poster.pdf

Beth Miller, Karen Larsen, Shelby Jensen, Dana Gerberi, Scott Bermeersch, Mayo Clinic Libraries

This poster describes an updated and enhanced table of contents service developed by the Mayo Clinic Libraries. The library staff strived to develop a service which would easily link library users to the contents pages of online and print journals in the Mayo Clinic Libraries. In addition, the library staff wanted to provide a tool which would assist library users in identifying and discovering new and related journals, as well as link users to publishers’ web sites for publishing instructions, RSS feeds and other journal information. Project goals were to create a service which would be patron-driven, patron-friendly, easy for library staff to develop and maintain, and available to all Mayo Clinic employees and students at all Mayo sites.

http://midwestmla.org/conference2012/downloads/miller_poster.pdf 

Merle Rosenzweig, Irina Zeylikovich, Anna Ercoli Schnitzer, University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library

The Dance of Death is a late-medieval allegory on the universality of death. It indicates that no matter one’s station in life, the Dance of Death unites all. The images consist of a personification of Death leading a row of dancing figures from all walks of life to the grave. With the devastation that the Great Plagues brought to Europe, the church took an active role in addressing mortality and began to emphasize the inevitableness of death. In the Rare Book Room of Taubman health Sciences Library, one finds an early artistic example from the frescoed cemetery of the Church of the Holy Innocents in Paris (1424). Our poster is a unique representative selection from a collection donated by Dr. Aldred Scott Warthin (1866-1931), a University of Michigan pathologist who was greatly interested in all aspects of the Dance of Death and who wrote the book, The Physician of the Dance of Death: A Historical Study of the Evolution of the Dance of Death Myths in Art. These images depict examples from the Warthin Collection ranging from renderings by Hans Holbein the Younger to Dance of Death art from World War

Rienne Johnson, MLIS, Kevin A. Caslow, MLIS, Beth Layton, MLS, MBA, AHIP, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Health Sciences faculty have unique, specific, image needs and often have difficulty locating clinical images which are permissible for reposting in the course management system. The library first recognized this issue when auditing faculty lectures for copyright compliance. A directory of permissible sites was created to provide faculty a directory of images that are permissible for reuse in education.

http://midwestmla.org/conference2012/downloads/johnson_poster.pdf

Nancy Moltaji, Mayo Clinic Libraries

Poster scope includes the history, storage, and labeling or indexing of Buddhist and some medical manuscripts in Tibet. Tibetans revere such manuscripts and keep several in their homes, whether they are literate or not. The texts are believed to provide sanctity and protection simply by their existence. They are considered to be a ‘divine presence’ and there are rules for placing, using, and giving these texts as gifts.

Photos and video of a manuscript library in Gyantse, Tibet, a sample of the primary manuscript format in the tradition of Indian palm left texts, and the woodblock printing technique to copy manuscripts will be displayed. This method was used in Asia several centuries before being used in Europe and is strongly associated with Buddhism. The technique contributed greatly to the transmission of various Buddhist sutras. Poster will include a brief summary of current projects by libraries and organizations to conserve and digitize these historical manuscripts.

Barbara A. Gushrowski, MLS, AHIP, Indiana University School of Dentistry Library

Students in the first and second years of the DDS program at IU School of Dentistry participate in weekly small group learning sessions wherein they develop learning issues derived from discussions in group. The students are then expected to search the medical and dental literature to resolve these learning issues and report their findings to their group at the next session. Faculty facilitators have noted that students often use less than optimal information resources when doing this research. Additionally, students have expressed concern that they have difficulty finding authoritative sources and are frustrated with the amount of time they spend on fruitless searching. To address these concerns, the Access & Instructional Services Librarian developed an assignment which first year students have completed three times over the course of the Fall 2011 semester. The purpose of the assignment is to determine which information resources students are using for learning issue research, how much time students are spending on the research, and how satisfied students are with their results. Additionally, this assignment provided an opportunity for students to think about their research needs, to judge the quality of information found, and to recognize the amount of time needed to adequately explore relevant topics with the expectation that students would use the highly recommended resources for future research. The success the students found in the assignments should carry over to the Triple Jump Exam in the Spring semester.

http://midwestmla.org/conference2012/downloads/gushrowski_poster.pdf

Elizabeth Moreton, MLS, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 

Evidence-based practice is a growing part of the nursing profession, and information literacy skills are crucial to finding the best evidence. While the emphasis on teaching evidence-based practice skills in nursing education has increased, the teaching of information literacy skills has not received the same attention. This poster will describe a research study that sought to mediate the gap between students’ information literacy needs and available library services. In the study, the investigator created a performance benchmark for the information literacy skills of students in an evidence-based Nursing Research course. A short survey consisting of multiple choice and open-ended questions was developed from the ACRL Information Literacy Standards and the principles of evidence-based nursing. The survey was administered to students in one section of a junior year Nursing Research course. A rubric was also developed and normed, which served as a guide for assigning student responses to one of four performance levels. Gaps in information literacy skills became apparent, and results and recommendations based on those results were reported to the Nursing faculty. Those recommendations discussed methods of incorporating information literacy skills into the existing instruction and coursework in the class, allowing nursing faculty to encourage information literacy without needing additional library resistance. Additionally, assignments that emphasized both skills in evidence-based practice and information literacy were suggested for incorporation into the School of Nursing curriculum.

Ryan Rafferty, Assistant Professor, Regional Assistant Librarian, Library of the Health Sciences – Urbana University of Illinois Chicago.

The purpose of this study is to determine if library instructional sessions had an impact on the resources first-year medical students used for their assigned coursework during the 2011-2012 academic year. Citation analysis and survey results were used to assess the impact of the library’s instructional sessions and course guide.

http://midwestmla.org/conference2012/downloads/rafferty_poster.pdf

Mike McGraw, MLS, AHIP, Reference and User Services Librarian, Cleveland Health Sciences Library, Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland Health Sciences Library had traditionally done the great majority of its instruction and outreach with groups of graduate students, as most of the students served by our primary constituent schools are in the process of working on a post-Bachelor’s-level degree. Though that emphasis remains true in our work, in the past several years I have begun teaching more and more undergraduate students. I will explain in my poster: 1. how and why this came about (networking, word-of-mouth referrals, etc.); 2. how I have adapted my content and messaging to these new groups (shorter and more varied messages to adapt to at least allegedly shorter attention spans apparently influenced by today’s media and educational environments; content adapted to specific curricula that our institution’s undergraduates are enrolled); 3. and what this might mean for our future work here and how the reader might apply it at comparable institutions.

Mindwell Egeland, Director, Patients’ Library, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics; Jennifer DeBerg; Clinical Education Librarian, Hardin Library of the Health Sciences, University of Iowa; Sharon Tucker, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BD, director of Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics

The purpose of this poster is to share details about collaboration between a hospital librarian, a nursing librarian, and a nursing administrator to impact quality of care at a large public teaching hospital in Iowa. The process for improving quality of care started with a campaign to promote staff awareness of patient satisfaction and noise and evolved into the HUSH initiative to improve noise levels on patient units. The project has involved increasing nursing staff awareness of evidence-based strategies to lower noise levels on selected hospital units.

Because our intent was primarily to inform those who are likely to have the most impact in initiating and sustaining practice change, we pursued collaboration with a key hospital nursing administrator to help us learn more about the information needs of nurses and the ways to best disseminate information to nursing leaders/staff. This resulted in opportunities for recommending evidence-based strategies for noise reduction, such as ear plugs, eye masks, sound conditions, stop lights, decibel meters, iPad and iPhone apps, scripting, staff rounding, and headphones. In conjunction with the hospital patient satisfaction coordinator, we shared scores received from Press Ganey surveys documenting noise conditions reported by patients. Collaborating with the nursing administrator also resulted in a focus for conducting a literature search, related to two theses: 1. Hospital noise impact on patient perceptions/satisfaction. 2. Noise reduction strategies work. Our understanding of how to format a research summary for the intended group was enhanced. The partnership has enabled us to address the objective of publicizing findings through staff intranet and blog post, in addition to attendance at established nurse meeting times.

We are currently evaluating the impact of these efforts on patient and practice outcomes. We intend to use these evaluation data to continue seeking opportunities to address the problem, with the guidance of nursing administration and other identified groups.

http://midwestmla.org/conference2012/downloads/egeland_poster.pdf

Mary Wittenbreer, MLIS, MALS, Head Librarian, Regions Hospital, Medical Library, St. Paul MN. 

A successful and growing organization means an increase in the number of library users and use of library resources. It also means huge increases in yearly subscription prices. In 2011, an organization that once consisted of one hospital and twenty-five clinics had grown to include four hospitals and over fifty clinics. Prior to this, two of the hospitals had library services contracted based on per item use. The third had contracted library services through another hospital. Beginning in 2012 all the hospitals and clinics would have access to the library’s intranet site which is the access point to all library resources and services. It was now necessary to negotiate new pricing models with the vendors. The medical library’s budget is entirely funded by the main hospital which had been profitable over the past several years. Because of the success, the library had not been forced to make any cuts even though subscription prices continued to steadily increase. During negotiations it was discovered that even though journals have been available electronically for many years there was very little consistency in pricing models. This poster will explain what changes were made to our journal and database subscriptions without having to cut too many titles, how we were able to add a few titles, and negotiated new contracts for library services. The downside was that we lost user seats and access to some electronic content. The organization continues to grow but a better understanding is in place to support this growth.

Ruti Volk, MSI, AHIP, University of Michigan Health System, Patient Education Librarian 

At the University of Michigan health system patient-education materials are formatted differently by different units, departments and centers. Many do not follow the recommended guidelines for written patient-education and do not use appropriate fonts, layout, and language. Frequently images are used without permission and many handouts lack important elements such as a logo, a disclaimer, and date of publication/revision.

The librarian led a team effort to create an institution-wide tool that guides clinicians in creating effective patient-education print materials. The team developed templates that follow guidelines published by national organizations such as the CDC, CMS, and others. The templates specify font face and size, line-spacing and layout requirements. A short Do’s and Don’ts list summarizes the core principles of plain language. The templates remind clinicians to test their handouts for readability and include a logo, a disclaimer, and a date of publication or last revision.

The team created templates for short handouts, booklets, pre-procedure instructions and post-procedure instructions. They can be downloaded from the intranet. The organization’s Public Relations Marketing and Communication department helps to reinforce use of the templates, because the health system’s public website, UofMhealth.org does not link to materials that are not formatted according to the template.

Staff time to convert materials into the template is the biggest obstacle to implementation. The Patient Education Center staff teaches classes on writing effective patient education and using the template. Staff also help clinicians to convert existing materials.

Donna Hirst, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences; Paul M. Heidger, Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa

The John Martin Rare Book Room (RBR) houses over 5,000 rare books relating to the biomedical and health sciences. The most notable works in the collection were a bequest to the University Libraries from Dr. John Martin (1904-1996), an anatomist and neurosurgeon, who collected the books over many decades. The RBR offers numerous services promoting learning, including publishing a monthly newsletter, offering a monthly lecture series during the school year, and creating regular exhibits from the resources of the collection. The Curator of the RBR, Donna Hirst, MPH, MLS, gives all first-year medical students an anatomy lecture focusing on the social and historical ambivalence toward the body and human dissection, together with the legal and social history of dissection. The Sparks Essay Contest, coordinated through the RBR, is offered annually to all medical students. Significant monetary prizes recognize the best essays that examine a timely issue in medicine incorporating historical, ethical, and cultural perspectives. Tours and open houses of the room are offered to groups upon request, often featuring specific aspects of the collection. Among courses utilizing the RBR have been graduate courses in Anatomy and Cell Biology, and a course in Classics on Galen and Human Dissection. The John Martin Rare Book Room serves the University as a vital resource in anatomical instruction and historical research.

Alison Aldrich, Clinical Informationist, the Ohio State University Health Sciences Library

Mendeley is a free, web-based citation management tool that allows users to group and share references, connecting with others who have similar research interests. As compared to similar tools like MyNCBI, RefWorks, and Zotero, Mendeley is easy to use, has a highly functional mobile application, and offers considerable flexibility for collaborative work. After several months of rounding with internal medicine residents on an inpatient general medicine service, an embedded clinical librarian decided to try Mendeley as a way to organize and share article citations, related to frequently asked clinical questions and priority areas within Ohio State’s internal medicine residency curriculum. This poster will describe several possibilities for implementing Mendeley as a person organization, communication, and outreach tool.