Research Project Grant Application

2011 AWARD

• Principal Investigator: Jennifer Lyon, MS, MLIS, AHIP, Clinical Research Librarian, University of Florida Health Sciences Center Libraries, Gainesville, FL
• Collaborators: Linda Butson, MLn, MPH, AHIP, Consumer Health and Community Outreach Librarian; Michele Tennant, PhD, MLIS, Assistant Director; University of Florida Health Sciences Center Libraries, Gainesville, FL; Kathleen Moeller, MLS, FMLA, AHIP, Director; Kathryn Summey, MLIS, Public Services Librarian; Gretchen Kuntz, MSW, MSLIS, Clinical Librarian; University of Florida – Jacksonville, Borland Library, Jacksonville, FL
• Project: Information Services at the Clinical Point-of-Care: Understanding the Experience, Identifying the Challenges
• Brief Description: This project utilizes multimodel qualitative research methodologies to explore the lived experience of clinical librarians serving at point-of-care. Better understanding of the challenges and barriers such professionals face will facilitate the development of more effective professional education for librarians entering the clinical environment.
• Presentations/Publications: Lyon J, Butson L, Tennant M, Moeller K, Summey K, Kuntz G. Exploring the Experience of Providing Information Services at the Clinical Point-of-Care. Paper, SC/MLA, October 2011, Augusta, GA. 2nd place for the Research Papers Award

2007 AWARD

• Principal Investigator: Rozalynd P. Anderson, MLIS, Assistant Director for Education & Outreach, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Library
• Collaborator: Steven P. Wilson, MA, MLIS, Coordinator, Center for Disability Resources Library
• Project: Quantifying the Effectiveness of Interactive Tutorials
• Brief Description: The goal of this study was to determine whether a passive or an interactive tutorial design improves understanding of key concepts, as measured by pre- and post-test data. The authors also collected data regarding the participants' preference for taking an interactive versus a passive tutorial. The interactive tutorial group improved statistically significantly from pre-test to post-test for all three learning questions. While the passive tutorial group improved from pre-test to post-test on all three questions, the improvement was statistically significant for just two of the three questions. The majority of the participants preferred interactive tutorials (78%) to passive tutorials (22%).
• Presentations/Publications: Anderson RP, Wilson SP. Quantifying the effectiveness of interactive tutorials in medical library instruction. Med Ref Serv Q 2009 Spring;28(1):10-21. Anderson RP, Wilson SP. Quantifying the Effectiveness of Interactive Tutorials, SC/MLA, October 2008, Birmingham, AL. 1st place for the Research Papers Award

2005 AWARD

• “What Employers Are Looking for in Reference Librarians : An Analysis of Job Announcements in MLA News from January 2000 to December 2004,” submitted by Lin Wu , MLS, Reference Librarian, UTHSC Health Sciences Library, Memphis, TN and Ping Li, MLIS, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.

  This research project seeks to determine the qualifications and characteristics expected of reference librarians at health sciences libraries. Earlier studies that examined MLA News job advertisements demonstrated many of the changes in medical librarianship from 1961 to 1995 but not in subsequent years, a period of expanded electronic services in all types of health sciences libraries. Findings from the study will document the changing roles of reference librarians, as well as providing information and career guidance for those seeking employment in health sciences libraries and information for employers looking at possible reorganization of public service areas.

2004 AWARD

• Principal investigator: Sandy Oelschlegel, MLS, Director, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville , TN.
• Collaborators: Martha Earl, MSLS, AHIP, Reference Coordinator and Jenny Cole, Library Assistant, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, TN.
• Project: Data Analysis of Consumer and Patient Health Questions using Geographic Location and NLM Medical Subject Headings
• Method: The Preston Medical Library has provided a Consumer & Patient Health Information Service to the Knoxville area and beyond since 1993. An average of 60 questions are answered monthly on a variety of topics. In 2003 a database was designed and populated that included fields for the subjects of the questions. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) were used to populate these fields.
• Goal of research: Analysis of the database will determine whether outreach programs conducted by Preston Medical Library have an impact on the subsequent number of consumer health questions received from that geographic area, and will determine whether questions are most often related to the major disease states of East Tennessee.

2002 AWARD

• Principal investigator: John Orriola, Education/Reference Librarian, Shimberg Health Sciences Library, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
• Collaborator: Ellen E. Stanley, Shimberg Health Sciences Library, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
• Project: Strategic competency-based incremental literature searching instruction for the medical student.
• Method: Investigators will conduct surveys and interviews of medical faculty/medical librarians within the Southern Chapter area addressing the objectives of information instruction throughout the medical curriculum.
• Goal of research: To develop standards for information/library instruction within the medical curriculum.
• Presentations/Publications: Orriola J, Thompson J. Communicating Differences and Similarities Among Teaching Librarians in Undergraduate Medical Education: Results Gathered From the Medical Literature Searching Skills Inventory. Poster. SC/MLA, October 2004, Biloxi , MS.

1999 AWARD

• Principal investigator: Shelley L. Paden, Librarian, Preston Medical Library University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN
• Collaborators: Andrea L. Batson, Science/Engineering Librarian, University Library Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN and Richard L. Wallace, M.S.L.S., AHIP, Outreach Librarian, Quillen College of Medicine, Library East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
• Project: The Impact of Loansome Doc on Medical Libraries and its End Users.
• Presentations/Publications:
  • Paden SL, Batson AL, Wallace RL. Web-based Loansome Doc, librarians, and end users: results from a survey of the Southeast Region. Bull Med Libr Assoc 2001 Jul;89(3):263-71
  • Paden SL, Batson AL, Wallace RL. Implications of Web-based Loansome Doc for librarians and end-users: preliminary research findings. SC/MLA, October, 1999 at Greenville, South Carolina at the Contributed paper II session.