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This PowerPoint 2007 template produces a 36x48 This PowerPoint template requires basic PowerPoint inch professional poster. You can use it to create Lauren Sweet (version 2007 or newer) skills. Below is a list of your research poster and save valuable time placing commonly asked questions specific to this template. titles, subtitles, text, and graphics. School of Science and Learning Technologies, University of Missouri If you are using an older version of PowerPoint some template features may not work properly. We provide a series of online tutorials that will guide you through the poster design process and answer your poster production questions. Definition Discussion The Future Template FAQs

• An informationist: The MLA and others have determined that informationists can provide Questions remain about the validity of the role of the informationist and To view our template tutorials, go online to Verifying the quality of your graphics value to physicians and patients in a health care setting. The advantages the logistics of the . Below are some possible future directions PosterPresentations.com and click on HELP DESK. • Has a Masters in Science and another advanced Go to the VIEW menu and click on ZOOM to set your of having an informationist include: and questions for the informationist role: degree, typically in the sciences preferred magnification. This template is at 100% When you are ready to print your poster, go online • Works as part of a clinical care team • Easier access to for physicians • Standardizing expected credentials and training the size of the final poster. All text and graphics will to PosterPresentations.com. be printed at 100% their size. To see what your • Accompanies physicians on patient rounds • Reduced time to submit queries • Establishing a licensed informationist program poster will look like when printed, set the zoom to Need Assistance? Call us at 1.866.649.3004 • Synthesizes and evaluates information • Improved communication between librarians and clinical care teams • Funding – will hospitals and other health care institutions deem the 100% and evaluate the quality of all your graphics • Anticipates client needs • Improved patient care position important enough to provide consistent funding? before you submit your poster for printing.

• Participates in patient outreach • Increased awareness of library resources • Malpractice accountability – how and to what extent should Object Placeholders informationists be held accountable? • “[…] merges the knowledge and expertise of a health care Modifying the layout professional with the skills of a • Matching library needs to roles This template has four different Using the placeholders .” (Polger, 2010) Informationists can potentially fill a void in a health care setting’s column layouts. Right-click To add text, click inside a placeholder on the poster information needs, but questions about the position remain. Some of the • Offering additional electives outside of library schools to provide for • The term was proposed by Drs. Frank Davidoff and Valerie Florance in their some of the advanced training required to be an informationist your mouse on the background and type or paste your text. To move a placeholder, problems surrounding the position include: and click on LAYOUT to see the click it once (to select it). Place your cursor on its 2000 article, “The Informationist: A New Health Profession?” to replace the • Do informationists perform the same duties as general medical • Partnering library schools with other schools to offer dual master’s layout options. The columns in frame, and your cursor will change to this symbol concept of “clinical librarianship.” librarians? Where is the added value? Is the setting the only difference? degree programs, particularly in the areas of computer science and the provided layouts are fixed and cannot be moved Click once and drag it to a new location where you • The Association (MLA) held an Informationist Conference health/medicine but advanced users can modify any layout by going can resize it. at the of Medicine in 2002 to discuss the validity of the • Could pharmacists be trained to evaluate information like a librarian • Evolving and adapting positions – will general medical librarians to VIEW and then SLIDE MASTER. informationist concept. Attendees of the conference agreed that the role of the and act in the same capacity as informationists? Section Header placeholder informationist role fills a “critical need,” but competencies need to be evolve to become more like informationists, or will the roles remain • Who should pay for informationists’ advanced ? distinct? Click and drag this preformatted section header identified and defined more clearly. Importing text and graphics from external sources • How can we determine how useful this role is without funding its placeholder to the poster area to add another References TEXT: Paste or type your text into a pre-existing section header. Use section headers to separate Variety of Terms development? placeholder or drag in a new placeholder from the topics or concepts within your presentation. • What types of training should be required for informationists? Cooper, I. D. (2011). Is the informationist a new role? A logic model analysis. Journal of the left side of the template. Move it anywhere as The variety of terms in library literature used to describe librarian roles in needed. • Should all informationists have the same training? Medical Library Association, 99(3), 189-192. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.99.3.004 medical can be overwhelming. Some of these terms are synonymous, Davidoff, F., Florance, V. (2000). The informationist: A new health profession? Annals of Internal while others mean very different things. PHOTOS: Drag in a picture placeholder, size it first, Text placeholder Medicine, 132(12), 996-998. click in it and insert a photo from the menu. Move this preformatted text placeholder to the Where Can They Be Found? Medical Health Knowledge Guessferd, M. (2006). The clinical librarian/informationist: Past, present, future. Journal of poster to add a new body of text. manager informatician information Hospital Librarianship, 6(2), 65-73. doi: 10.1300/J186v06n02_07 TABLES: You can copy and paste a table from an manager Informationists are can be found at the following institutions: external document onto this poster template. To NIH Library informationist program. (2012, September 6). Retrieved from adjust the way the text fits within the cells of a Clinical http://nihlibrary.nih.gov/AboutUs/Announcements/Pages/InformationistsProgram.aspx table that has been pasted, right-click on the table, Knowledge knowledge • The National Institutes of Health (NIH) engineer Medical worker established its Informationist Program in Sathe, N. A., Jerome, R., Giuse, N. B. (2007). Librarian-perceived barriers to the implementation click FORMAT SHAPE then click on TEXT BOX and Picture placeholder change the INTERNAL MARGIN values to 0.25. Move this graphic placeholder onto your poster, size Librarian 2001. of the informationist/information specialist in context role. Journal of the Medical Library • As of September 2012, the Program has 16 it first, and then click it to add a picture to the Information Terms informationists serving 108 different groups Association, 95(3), 270-274. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.95.3.270 poster. specialist in Evidence context (MLA) at the NIH and the Department of Health Modifying the color scheme educator and Human Services. Contact Information To change the color scheme of this template go to

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