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Research
Project Grant Application
2005
AWARD
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“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.
2003 (No Award Given)
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:
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