Table of Contents Director’s Corner Director’s Corner Tech Talk Library Resources News Texas Library Coalition for United of the membership. There is a growing Action – February 2021 sense of urgency to reach agreement Outreach Committee News on a final contract. I am not certain if Docline® Anniversary The HSC libraries participate in a Elsevier or the Coalition will agree to coalition of over forty Texas libraries, of another access extension, but if not, Methods of Knowledge Synth. Pt. 2 which TTUHSC is a member. I serve on we are prepared. If we lost access to Amarilo News both the Steering Committee and the Elsevier content, it would only be for Negotiating Committee for the Texas this one product. HSC team members Odessa News Library Coalition for United Action. will be able to order anything through Weeding Books at TTUHSC A major goal for the Texas Coalition is interlibrary loan and receive it, usually to reduce spending for Elsevier journals, within 24 hours. ILLs are free. We have Lubbock Library but as important as this is, it isn’t the also created a website of open access Coalition’s only goal. We also want to resources which is a significant amount enhance copyright ownership of content of freely available content. (Check out by campus authors, broaden access the LibKey Nomad Extension). In to research, and make improvements addition, we have the strong support of for libraries in the stewardship of our those coalition members whose access Volume 1 Number 4 content. We will not accept a contract to the Elsevier journals will continue February - March 2021 that doesn’t represent progress toward through 2021. Published Bimonthly these goals. Your support is vital and very much Our license for Elsevier’s Science Direct appreciated. I continue to welcome your The TTUHSC Campus ended in December 2020. However, the feedback.• Library Hours: coalition continues to negotiate, and while Opened at fifty-percent Richard Nollan, PhD, MLS, AHIP we are doing so Elsevier has agreed to capacity Executive Director of Libraries maintain access through February for all Mon.-Th.: 7:30 AM to 9:00 PM [email protected] institutions whose contracts have ended, Fri.: 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM about half For weather closures or delays, see STAT!Alert. TTUHSC Tech Talk: New Mobile Apps Platform This newsletter is The library has debuted a new mobile more easily access resources such as accessible to visually-impaired apps platform in which individual tools ClinicalKey, Dynamed, Micromedex, patrons. Adobe Acrobat may be accessed. This set-up replaces and Sanford Guide Collection. Pro's read aloud function is the old TTU Mobile App launchpad and Mobile Apps access can be found recommended, however other allows users to access select databases on the library’s homepage in the screen reading devices and and mobile web applications. Users have section “Mobile Apps & Resources” applications can also be used. long benefited from using on-demand beneath the Resources tab. It can library resources, many of which serve also be accessed on the LibGuide as point-of-care reference tools for page entitled TTUHSC Mobile Apps. clinical management. The newintegrated The linked guide provides a list of the platform allows users to most popular tools available along with
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TTUHSC Library Connection | Feb. / Mar. 2021 1 instructions for how to set up each item. instructions for each app as not all the library staff using the homepage All faculty, staff, and students can resources are the same. Questions, widget: Chat Live.• install one or multiple apps using their comments, or feedback about the Daniel B. Stuart, PhD, MLS eRaidercredentials. It is recommended mobile apps guide are welcome. Please Librarian, Clinical Faculty Associate pay special attention to the installation contact [email protected]
Library Resources News JAMA Evidence is an evidence- • Exclusive content including from articles retrieved from medical based medicine database, created updates to RCE articles and databases such as PubMed, Embase, by the Journal of American Medical podcasts and other medical databases which are Association, which provides peer- subscribed to by the library. It even has a This database is available on the A-Z reviewed information for medical drag and drop feature, whereby you can Database Index, which is located on the professionals. It recommends medical drag PDFs onto its screen and they will library homepage. decisions consistent to the medical be added to your bibliography. professional (and its patients) values. RefWorks is a citation management To access this resource, and to learn bibliographic tool that allows users Some features found exclusively on how to use Refworks, please go to organize citations in individualized JAMA Evidence includes the following: to the Citations Tools page in the created folders, and assists in organizing Bibliographic section of the libary's • Full text to e-books such as User bibliographic citations in a variety of LibGuide page. Guides to the Medical Literature format styles. There are over 500 styles, and The Rational Clinical including favorites such as APA, AMA, If you would like assistance with either Examination etc. The resource is available to students, product please contact us at the “Chat faculty, and even alumni of TTUHSC. Live” widget or “Request Zoom • Education guideline slideshows This is a web-based tool that requires a session” with a librarian of your choice, to enhance classroom and user to create a unique user name and also in a widget on the upper right corner conference talks pass code to view their loaded citations. of the library LibGuides page. • Free access to reference articles Travis Real, MLIS, Research and from JAMA publications After creating an account, the user is Instruction Librarian/Odessa able to upload bibliographic citations [email protected]
Outreach Committee News The Library Outreach Committee’s promote health information literacy. we’d like to hear from you. You can current charge is to assess the The library Outreach Committee seeks begin the conversation by contacting need by non-TTUHSC community opportunities to collaborate with faculty, the committee chair.• organizations or groups for medical and students, or organizations that serve consumer health information and to offer community partners near Lubbock, 1. Institute of Medicine 2004. Health Literacy: A information services and instruction as Amarillo, or Odessa. If your community Prescription to End Confusion. Washington, DC: needed. The committee will establish partners need reliable sources of The National Academies Press. the library’s priorities and procedures for health information in order to “obtain, Barbara Ballew, MS Ed., MALS, MPH community outreach activities. Funded process, and understand basic health Chair, Library Outreach Committee library outreach projects have included information and services needed to [email protected] activities that make appropriatte health decisions,”1
Docline® Anniversary Docline® recently celebrated its 35th including the National Library of In FY 2019-2020, TTUHSC library users anniversary. The National Network of Medicine. TTUHSC interlibrary loan received over seven hundred articles by Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) created staff in Lubbock, Amarillo, and Odessa means of Docline®. Docline® to support resource sharing use Docline® to borrow journal articles The ability to request an article with among all types of biomedical libraries, that are not available from the TTUHSC the designation Urgent Patient Care
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2 TTUHSC Library Connection | Feb. / Mar. 20 21 Home is an important and unique feature (These requests have a $10 charge; South Central Region, provides for Docline® users. Lending libraries Routine requests are FREE). to health care providers at our must act upon Urgent Patient Care institution. To request articles, use the Interlibrary • requests immediately, often within an Loan request form found at the Library's hour of receipt. This type of request is Barbara Ballew, MS Ed, MALS, MPH Agreement Form page. intended to assist clinicians by supplying Senior Director, Research and information for making patient care Participation in Docline® is one of the Instruction Librarian decisions, so it takes priority over outreach services that the TTUHSC [email protected] routine interlibrary loan requests. library, a member library of the NNLM
Amarillo News The Harrington Library of the Health IBM SPSS Statistics to the study room Sciences in Amarillo added some computers. essential software to the computers in SPSS is a software package used for three of our first floor study rooms. complex statistical data analysis. We have added webcams and Zoom The three study rooms are available in order to offer students a private on a first-come, first-served basis. place where they can chat via video for • interviews, classes, or collaborating with Terri Wilson, BFA, MFA, MLS colleagues. We have also added Regional Library Director, [email protected]
Lockers and Study personal belongings securely in the Rooms in the Preston library. Lockers can be checked out for one day and are available on a Smith Library firstcome-\first-serve basis. Locks can be borroedfrom the circulation desk Lockers are now available on the second and only locks issued by the Library are floor of the Preston Smith Library in permitted. Lubbock for patrons who want to store Contact Lubbock Circulation at 806-743-2200 for more information.
Need a Quiet Place to Work or Study? The TTUHSC Libraries are working • All rooms must be reserved at diligently to keep our patrons safe during least 30 minutes in advance so • 7:30 am to 5:00 pm Friday the current pandemic. In an effort to that the rooms can be cleaned. provide a safe environment, group study • CLOSED Saturday and The TTUHSC Libraries in Amarillo, rooms are not available, but individual Sunday Odessa, and Lubbock are currently quiet study areas are. • open: Stephanie Shippey, MLS, AHIP • To reserve an individual study Associate Managing Director • 7:30 am to 9:00 pm Monday room in Lubbock, please link to - Thursday [email protected] our online form located here.
Resources and Methods of Knowledge Synthesis – Part II Established in 1993 in the United Reflections on Health Services. In Our mission is to promote evidence- Kingdom, the Cochrane Collaboration it, he calls for hard evidence on the informed health decision-making was named after Archie Cochrane, effectiveness of treatments. Now known by producing high-quality, relevant, MD author of the 1971 publication as simply Cochrane, it is stated on their accessible systematic reviews and other Effectiveness Efficiency: Random organization website that: synthesized research evidence.
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TTUHSC Library Connection | Feb. / Mar. 2021 3 Home Our work is internationally recognized economics, patient-reported outcomes, on the Cochrane Interactive Learning as the benchmark for high-quality individual patient data, prospective website. Conducting an Intervention information about the effectiveness of meta-analysis, and qualitative research.” Review is a module of “over 10 hours of health care. self-directed learning on conducting a The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic complete systematic review process Their first goal is: “To produce high- Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy for both new and experienced review quality, relevant, up-to-date systematic will ultimately include 11 chapters of authors.” reviews and other synthesized which the following chapters are research evidence to inform health complete and freely available for Students 4 Best Evidence is a decision making. There are now over downloading: “contents of a Cochrane “network for students interested in 7,500 Cochrane systematic reviews protocol for Diagnostic Test Accuracy evidence-based health care.” The which we publish in the Cochrane (Ch. 4), criteria for including studies website includes information resources Library. We also play a key role in (Ch. 6), searching for studies (Ch. 7), on bias, critical thinking, evidence- developing new methods in evidence assessing methodological quality (Ch. based practice, statistics, study design synthesis.” Among the evidence 9), analysing and presenting results (Ch. and research methods, and systematic products published by the Cochrane 10) and interpreting results (Ch. 11).” reviews as well as “reviews written by Library are the Cochrane Database of “The GRADE Handbook describes students of evidence-based resources; Systematic Reviews and the Cochrane the process of rating the quality of the including slideshows, lectures, websites, Central Register of Controlled Trials. best available evidence and developing online courses, and databases.” The health care recommendations following Cochrane organization is a highly Cochrane publishes standards the approach proposed by the Grading developed global network of experts that handbooks one of which is the of Recommendations, Assessment, is an internationally recognized resource Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Development and Evaluation (GRADE) of quality information. Make Cochrane. Reviews of Interventions and includes Working Group. This is the most org your go to resource for finding freely downloadable information on comprehensive resource on the GRADE evidence-based healthcare information planning a review, searching and approach and deals with both the use and learning tools about conducting selecting studies, data collection, risk of GRADE in systematic reviews and its synthesized research evidence!• of bias assessment, statistical analysis, application in the guideline development GRADE and interpreting results, as well process. The latest update of the All quotes, information about resources, as more specialised topics including handbook was in in October 2013.” and links were retrieved on 01/19/2021. non-randomized studies, adverse Peggy J. Edwards, AMLS effects, complex interventions, equity, Cochrane provides a multitude of learning resources and learning events Medical Librarian / Informationist [email protected]
Odessa News Once again, the Odessa Library COVID-19 Public Health Measures at is allowing its patrons to show us the Odessa Library All of the Odessa’s some love in the month of February Library’s staff have received their first – Come on by, and fill out a heart to dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine – put on the library’s front door.• Most will receive their second dose on February 1st. We are masking, social Erik Wilkinson, MLS distancing, and washing our hands to Regional Library Director prevent the spread of the disease. Come [email protected] study in the library and mask up with us! Did you know the Odessa Library offers recycling? Please feel free to bring over your cans and plastic bottles for disposal – We’ll take care of the rest!
4 TTUHSC Library Connection | Feb. / Mar. 20 21 Home Weeding Books at the TTUHSC Lubbock Library Lubbock has been withdrawing, or employees sorted weeded monographs/ Literacy Partner Fund. 23,637 books “weeding,” many books over the last books and packed eligible items into were recycled through their recycling couple of years. One of the questions boxes on pallets, which were shipped program. 2,058 books were donated we are often asked is, “What are you to the Better World Books warehouse. to the Internet Archive to be digitized. doing with all those books?” We have TTUHSC Lubbock is done weeding utilized a variety of methods, including Better World Books received 39,716 monographs/books and is now focusing donating, recycling, and garbage individual books from TTUHSC Lubbock on the journal collection. disposal. For many of our weeded in 1,760 boxes. Of those, 14,021 books Tara Allison, MLIS, AHIP monographs (non-journal items), we were accepted into their resale program Unit Assistant Director, Serials/ partnered with an organization called supporting Literacy Grants from The Cataloging Better World Books. TTUHSC Libraries Better World Books General [email protected]
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