Resources

WEBSITES

• Medical Library Association

• MedLib-Ed

• North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries

• Network of the National Library of Medicine, Region 7

• AHIP

OTHER

• List of common tools and databases in health sciences librarianship

• Center for Information Mastery

POSTER RESOURCES

• Yale's Accessibility Academic Poster Resources

• Making Your Electronic Posters Accessible

• PA Scope of practice

• Can a Librarian’s Research Impact Patient Care?

• How to Take Advantage of Your Medical Librarian

• Schlosser, R. W., Koul, R., & Costello, J. (2007). Asking well-built questions for evidence-based practice in augmentative and alternative communication. Journal of communication disorders, 40(3), 225–238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2006.06.008

• DeMars, M. M., and Perruso, C. (2022). MeSH and text-word search strategies: precision, recall, and their implications for library instruction. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA 110(1), 23–33.

• Sperr, E.V. Jr. (2019). Mind the gap: identifying what is missed when searching only the broad scope with clinical queries. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA 107(3), 333-340.

• Introduction to Health Reference: Ethics and Best Practices

  • You will have to register for this course (using your NNLM account), but it is offered on demand so there is no waiting time. You will earn continuing education credits for these courses (through the MedLib-Ed portal); make sure to follow the instructions for claiming them at the end of each section.

• Whitver, S. M. (2020). Accessible library instruction in practice. portal: Libraries and the Academy 20(2), 381-398. http://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2020.0019

• Companion Document to the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

• Chapters 1-3 (Section 1) in Gleason, A. W. (2017). New Methods of Teaching and Learning in Libraries. Rowan & Littlefield (book will be mailed to you).

• Aligning the Three Pillars of Effective Instruction: Outcomes, Teaching, and Assessment for Health Sciences Librarians

  • MLA webinar. You will get CE credit for this course. To access the course, login to MedLib-Ed using your MLA credentials. Navigate to My Learning Activities to view the webinar, access handouts, etc. It should be listed there for you. 

• FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Advance Open and Equitable Research

• Conlogue, B. C., Gilman, N. V., & Holmes, L. M. (2022). Open access and predatory publishing: a survey of the publishing practices of academic pharmacists and nurses in the United States. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 110(3), 294–305. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2022.1377 

• Houghton, F., & Houghton, S. (2018).  “Blacklists” and “whitelists”: a salutary warning concerning the prevalence of racist language in discussions of predatory publishing. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 106(4). https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2018.490 

• Book Chapter: Not the Shark, but the Water: How Neutrality and Vocational Awe Intertwine to Uphold White Supremacy 

• Vyas, D. A., Eisenstein, L. G., & Jones, D. S. (2020). Hidden in plain sight—Reconsidering the use of race correction in clinical algorithms. New England Journal of Medicine, 383(9), 874–882. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMms2004740 

• Hoffman, K. M., Trawalter, S., Axt, J. R., & Oliver, M. N. (2016). Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(16), 4296–4301. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516047113 

• Mahajan S, Caraballo C, Lu Y, et al. (2021) Trends in differences in health status and health care access and affordability by race and ethnicity in the United States, 1999-2018. Journal of the American Medical Association,326(7):637–648. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2021.9907