中美医学图书馆比较研究

通过对比研究中国、美国医学图书馆及图书馆员的基本情况、需求及服务等,指出我国医学图书馆、图书馆建筑、图书馆协会及图书馆馆员存在的优势及不足,强调我国医学图书馆的管理应更科学化,信息服务工作应更主动、深入,医学图书馆协会应搞得更活,井注意引导我国医学图书馆的工作与国际接轨。     

Medical library services in Switzerland: catching up with EBM

The feature is a part of the series about medical library services in various countries. It gives an overview of medical library services to support research, education and clinical practice in Switzerland. Data were collected by means of an online survey and set in the wider context of the Swiss healthcare system. Key findings are that library services, including support by academic librarians, are provided to health care staff in hospitals – both university and others, while there is no information service infrastructure to serve the large number of GPs and specialists who mostly run their own practice. The authors recommend that – if the health authorities take EBM seriously – information services should be introduced for these small practices. J.M.     

The COVID‐19 (Coronavirus) pandemic: reflections on the roles of librarians and information professionals

This Regular Feature explores the role of health science librarians in the coronavirus pandemic. COVID‐19 has spread rapidly all over the world. All major cities around the globe are in lockdown. In Pakistan, the first case was diagnosed on 26 February 2020, and currently, there are more than 2039 diagnosed cases and 26 deaths as on 31 March 2020. Across the country, there are further 12 000 suspected cases. This will undoubtedly increase if precautionary measures are not taken. Pakistani universities, colleges and schools were in lockdown. The role of university librarians in this emergency included raising awareness through public health education, providing support to medical staff, researchers and providing ongoing traditional services to regular library patrons in Pakistan. The Regular Feature also provides links to useful resources. JM.     

Extending library services by using a new technology

The University of Kentucky Medical Library Extension Service is an experimental program attempting to stimulate medical library use among medical professionals by offering medical information to all health practitioners. The purpose of the program, sponsored by the Ohio Valley Regional Medical Program, is to encourage the establishment of medical libraries in community hospitals and to develop cooperative relationships among those institutions capable of providing medical library services.The University of Kentucky program, through cooperation with other sections of the OVRMP, is endeavoring to make the medical library the center for a variety of clinically oriented information services.Through a WATS line, this Extension Service offers medical library services, drug information, and bibliographic support to OVRMP.It is anticipated that a substantial number of health professionals will become accustomed to medical library services and that health services provided to the citizens of the region will thereby be improved.     

Serving Community Faculty Through a Dedicated Liaison

Community-based medical schools rely heavily on volunteer faculty to provide medical education. Volunteer faculty consist of health care professionals, primarily physicians, who commit to educating medical students and residents. While these volunteer faculty are typically unpaid, many medical schools provide some benefits to them for volunteering their time. One such benefit, although rarely noted in library or medical education literature, is access to academic medical library resources and services. This article highlights a library services liaison model dedicated to the support of volunteer faculty at a community-based medical school.     

Doing Without: Serving Allied Health Programs at Universities Without Medical Schools

This article compares libraries in the United States that serve allied health programs at universities without medical schools. Although these university libraries all serve a similar array of health sciences programs, the organization of their library services differ dramatically. There is also little similarity in their collections, particularly in their choice of indexing and abstracting databases. Yet librarians serving as liaisons to allied health programs at universities without medical schools face comparable challenges in meeting the needs of their users. All reported concerns about gaps in their collections and felt hard pressed to provide optimal library service.     

Cinemeducation: using film as an educational tool in mental health services

This feature looks at the benefits of using film as an educational tool for mental health. In particular, it presents two case studies outlining how two health library services successfully implemented film clubs for the purposes of teaching and learning for mental health. H.S.     

国外图书馆界应对突发公共卫生事件的反应机制及其启示--以新冠肺炎疫情应对为例

图书馆是保障公民基本文化权益的公共文化机构,在突发公共卫生事件中仍需开展应急管理并向社会公众提供应急服务。文章通过对日本图书馆界、美国医学图书馆、加拿大高校图书馆、澳大利亚图书情报协会、国际图书馆联合会协会和联盟应对突发公共卫生事件中的反应机制进行分析,认为我国图书馆界在应对突发公共卫生事件中,应当在政府主导下,积极推动医学图书馆、高校图书馆和图书馆学(协)会发挥自身的专业作用,构建总体性和专业性的图书馆应急管理和服务机制。     

基于转化医学的数据管理服务——以华盛顿大学健康科学图书馆为例

转化医学正以其独特的研究理念和思维方式改变传统医学研究,科学数据管理作为转化研究进程中的关键因素日益发挥重要作用。文章采用文献调研法、网络调查法以及案例分析法,在阐述转化医学内涵与研究意义以及与图书馆数据管理的关系、分析国内外图书馆开展针对临床转化医学研究的数据管理服务现状的基础上,选取华盛顿大学健康科学图书馆(UWHSL)推进多机构合作促进临床数据管理实践,从机构设置、服务模式、服务内容、服务保障等方面进行分析,总结国外实践对国内医学高校图书馆开展数据支持服务的启示。     

A health education outreach partnership between an academic medical library and public library: lessons learned before and during a pandemic

Background:Public libraries serve as community centers for accessing free, trustworthy health information. As such, they provide an ideal setting to teach the local community about health and health literacy, particularly during public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2018, an outreach partnership between an academic medical library and public library has developed, delivered, and continuously evaluated a health education program targeting public library users.Case Presentation:Health education activities were integrated into three existing public library programs: adult workshops, child and family programming, and circulating family activity kits. Prior to COVID-19, events were held at the public library, which then pivoted online during the pandemic. An interprofessional team approach combined the expertise of academic medical and public librarians, medical school faculty and staff, and medical students in developing the educational programs. Twelve in-person and five virtual programs were offered, and five circulating health education family kits were launched. Activities were assessed using program evaluation surveys of the adult and children''s programs and circulation statistics of the kits.Conclusions:This case report showcases the lessons learned from implementing a longitudinal outreach partnership between an academic medical library and public library before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The interprofessional team approach and flexibility in program design and delivery in both the in-person and virtual environments proved critical to the success of the partnership. This partnership could serve as a model for other libraries interested in pursuing interprofessional collaborations in educating local communities on healthy behavior and health information–seeking practices.     

Public Library Futures—Reality—Recognition—Reimagination

The author of this article recognizes that massive and rapid change is a continuing feature in big libraries, and many of the changes are new: A social worker is a full-time staff member who helps other staff to sort out and deliver the best possible services to vulnerable populations, health care specialists who help plan health programs and provide direction to staff referrals to needed medical services, and librarians specially trained to help early childhood users prepare to be good learners in school. Working on this change agenda, library staff have learned that the library’s future work is not bound up by the limits of its “stuff” (i.e., owned or rented materials) or buildings but rather to the many communities of Philadelphia people whose economic, social, and cultural needs needed to be met.     

The Regional Medical Library Grant Program of the National Library of Medicine

Recognizing the utility of a regional medical library system in improving the availability of existing and future medical library resources in the country, the Congress included provisions for the support of such a system in the Medical Library Assistance Act. Grants will be made to major medical libraries which have the potential to provide supportive services to other libraries within a geographic area encompassing a major fraction of the nation's health professional manpower. Approximately ten of these regional libraries will receive these grants. Support for the system and consequently the extension of the services of the system will of necessity by implemented in a stepwise fashion. The central function of a regional medical library is to provide back-stopping interlibrary loan service and also to provide access to MEDLARS services for the region. Additional services for the region will include traditional reference service, training, surveillance of regional needs, announcement services, support for programs of continuing education for the health professions, and certain central technical processing for the region.     

突发公共卫生事件下图书馆应急服务实践与思考——以北京市委党校图书馆为例

[目的/意义] 通过探讨突发公共卫生事件下图书馆应急服务的实践方案,为图书馆在处理应急事件时提供一个切实可行的参考方案,可提高图书馆馆员信息素养与应急处理能力,并进一步完善馆藏资源建设策略。[方法/过程] 以北京市委党校图书馆在突发公共卫生事件下资源服务实践为例,从现有图书馆应急服务的现状与不足,馆员团队远程协同合作模式,应急服务实践的策略制定、设计与实现等角度出发,全面分析突发公共卫生事件下图书馆应急服务的探索与实践过程,并提出若干问题与建议。[结果/结论] 北京市委党校图书馆从突发公共卫生事件下的用户需求出发,构建了多个基于当前地域下的多方位应急服务案例,有效地提高了图书馆面向社会提供更好服务的能力以及图书馆用户的信息素养,驱动图书馆资源建设的进一步发展。     

Information and informatics literacies of first-year medical students

Purpose

The study evaluated medical students'' familiarity with information literacy and informatics during the health sciences library orientation.

Methods

A survey was fielded at the start of the 2013 school year.

Results

Seventy-two of 77 students (94%) completed the survey. Over one-half (57%) expected to use library research materials and services. About half (43%) expected to use library physical space. Students preferred accessing biomedical research on laptops and learning via online-asynchronous modes.

Conclusions

The library identified areas for service development and outreach to medical students and academic departments.     

Chat reference service in medical libraries: part 2--Trends in medical school libraries

An increasing number of medical school libraries offer chat service to provide immediate, high quality information at the time and point of need to students, faculty, staff, and health care professionals. Part 2 of Chat Reference Service in Medical Libraries presents a snapshot of the current trends in chat reference service in medical school libraries. In late 2002, 25 (21%) medical school libraries provided chat reference. Trends in chat reference services in medical school libraries were compiled from an exploration of medical school library Web sites and informal correspondence from medical school library personnel. Many medical libraries are actively investigating and planning new chat reference services, while others have decided not to pursue chat reference at this time. Anecdotal comments from medical school library staff provide insights into chat reference service.     

Health Literacy's Influence on Consumer Libraries

Health literacy has been redefined in recent years to move beyond an individual’s own communication skills to include the skills of persons working within health care organizations, including librarians. Provision of consumer health services and resources, while a long-standing practice in hospital libraries, has also been redefined. As definitions of health literacy have evolved, so too have hospital librarian services as they embrace their role within health literacy. Many hospital medical and consumer health librarians have developed programs, services, and collaborations to further health literacy awareness, education, and initiatives for consumers, health care professionals, and their parent organizations.     

近百年北美图书馆应对重大突发公共卫生事件典型案例研究

[目的/意义] 应对重大突发公共卫生事件是北美图书馆应急服务的重要内容，对北美图书馆应急措施典型案例进行研究分析，可为图书馆未来应急服务机制建设提供借鉴。[方法/过程] 从不同历史时期的视角出发，遴选北美公共图书馆、高校图书馆、专业图书馆、图书馆协会应对1918年大流感、2003年SARS、2019年新冠肺炎三次流行性传染病的典型案例并进行归纳分析，评述北美图书馆应对重大突发公共卫生事件的应急服务特征。[结果/结论] 北美图书馆在历史上的重大突发公共卫生事件中提供了满足当时社会背景下需要的信息服务，承担了社区防疫的执行者、健康信息的传播者、弱势群体的保护者、科研"战疫"的坚强后盾等角色，在远程开馆、数字转型、跨界融合、全球防疫"一盘棋"等办馆理念、服务方式和应急机制上，为未来图书馆应急服务管理模式带来启示。     

基于Y一代的图书馆用户健康信息搜索行为研究

Y一代作为图书馆的21世纪读者服务群体,将是图书馆的主要服务对象,对其健康信息搜索行为特点及影响因素的研究有助于为读者更好地提供服务,提高图书馆的服务质量。     

Integrating diversity,equity, and inclusion principles into instruction: Case studies from the University of Florida's Health Science Center Libraries

Librarians at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries have begun to intentionally incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles into teaching during design, implementation, and evaluation. This article uses four case studies to provide an overview of the librarians' approaches to inclusive teaching (1) an annual workshop for Physical Therapy students on the intersection between DEI, health literacy, and patient education; (2) a librarian-taught one-credit course for public health students, which was revised to create a more inviting syllabus and integrate elements of universal design; (3) an annual project for first year medical students highlighting health disparities and community resources; and (4) piloting the application of critical librarianship principles in library standalone sessions on database searching and reference management. Suggestions are provided for other librarians who are interested in developing a culture of inclusive teaching in their own libraries.     

Medical and health informatics services during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic should be virtual,tailored, responsive and interactive: a case study in Belgium

This is part of a new series in this regular feature regarding trends in the provision of information by health science libraries. By sharing expertise and drawing together relevant trends the series intends to serve as a road map for both health science librarians and health informatics professionals. This article shows how a medical and biomedical research library changed practices, and reassessed user needs for the COVID‐19 emergency. Discusses changes to online education (and collaborative working) to provide user‐friendly services, researcher support tailored to need and re‐visioning library space. J.M.