Ramune K. Kubilius

Promoting and teaching the history of medicine in a medical school curriculum.

Since 2004, the Galter Health Sciences Library staff has participated in years I and II of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicines medical doctor (MD) curriculum by offering a history of medicine seminar as part of the “Patient, Physician and Society” (PPS) course. The seminars goals are to introduce students to the librarys rare books and its special collections; to learn the social, cultural, and ethical aspects of medicine; and to improve communication skills. Because the MD curriculum is based on lifelong learning principles, students are encouraged to explore their interests in history by selecting a disease, health condition, or medical specialty and tracing it back in time; presenting their observations of what they learned to the seminar; and engaging in discussion about rare books and their content as a means of learning about the history of their profession.

Where Are We? Providing Information for the Clinical Enterprise (17th Health Sciences Lively Lunch)

If the past is prologue to the future, where are we today? Though they are diverse, most academic health sciences libraries have historically described and continue to outline their missions as being directed to serving the education, research, and clinical information needs of their user populations. Over the years, Charleston Conference Health Sciences Lively Lunches have covered many themes, and in 2012, the focus was on the point of care information tools landscape. The 2017 17th Health Sciences Lively Lunch focused on issues and challenges of providing clinicians and clinical affiliates with access not only to point of care tools, but in general, to varied types of online information resources, often in a changing or volatile marketplace. If the past is prologue to the future, where are we today? Though they are diverse, most academic health sciences libraries have historically described and continue to outline their missions as being directed to serving the education, research, and clinical information needs of their user populations. Over the years, Charleston Conference Health Sciences Lively Lunches have covered many themes, and in 2012, the focus was on the point of care information tools landscape. The 2017 Lively Lunch focused on issues and challenges of providing clinicians and clinical affiliates with access not only to point of care tools, but in general, to varied types of online information resources, often in a changing or volatile marketplace. About four dozen attendees gathered for the 17th Health Sciences Lively Lunch. After a welcome by Wendy Bahnsen (Executive Director, Library Services of Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc.), the lunch host, Ramune Kubilius (Northwestern University) shared a brief overview of trends and developments that occurred since the 2016 lunch. There were several publisher anniversaries, mergers and acquisitions, expansions of products. Announcements about discipline‐ specific science preprint archives were noticeable this past year. Moderator Jean Gudenas (Medical University of South Carolina) introduced the no‐ holds‐ barred session panelists who work at the health sciences libraries of three different institutions: Laura Schimming from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Jonathan Shank from Northwestern University, and Neal Nixon and Vida Vaughn from University of Louisville. Each addressed demands, challenges, and best practices of issues that include but were not limited to users’ information needs as well as academic and hospital administrators’ expectations; expanding clinical affiliate networks; budgets—projected, desired, and actual; publishers’ and consortia partners’ licensing models, guidelines, and restrictions. Ample time was left for Lively Lunch attendees to join the discussion with questions as well as shared insights and experience. Laura Schimming described how the Levy Library has addressed the clinical information needs of its expanding network in the past four years. In 2013, a merger created a Mount Sinai Health System, with five new hospitals and four hospital libraries reporting to the academic library, each having separate e‐ journal collections. Levy Library responded by offering two tiers of library access with continued prioritized provision to the original academic health‐ affiliated audience, with the addition of a second tier, a small collection geared to serve nursing and allied health staff at the hospitals. Two years later, in

Capturing and Analyzing Publication, Citation, and Usage Data for Contextual Collection Development

ABSTRACT Librarians from the Galter Health Sciences Library at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine undertook a citation analysis study in early 2017 to supplement traditional electronic journal usage data in the hopes of more effectively demonstrating journals’ value. The authors developed a methodology for gathering comprehensive publication and citation data for authors affiliated with the Feinberg School of Medicine, using Web of Science as the primary data source. Using this data, various metrics were employed to measure and evaluate journals in institutional and field-specific contexts, including co-citation networks, and increases or decreases of references over time per title. These metrics were compared against more traditional tools like Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources usage reports, cost-per-use analysis, and interlibrary loan statistics, to identify correlations and discrepancies. This use case demonstrates the potential value of incorporating publication and citation metrics into library collection development and evaluation practices.

DigitalHub: A Repository Focused on the Future

ABSTRACT The DigitalHub scholarly repository was developed and launched at the Galter Health Sciences Library for the Feinberg School of Medicine and the greater Northwestern Medicine community. The repository was designed to allow scholars the ability to create, share, and preserve a range of citable digital outputs. This article traces the evolution of DigitalHub’s development and engagement activities, highlighting project challenges, innovations, success stories, and the team-based approach that was employed to successfully achieve project goals.

Lasting Legacy: How One Faculty Member's Research Lives On (A)

Publication analyses can show us how historical works continue to have influence today: informing research, providing context, and guiding discovery. One such example is the work of Dr. Benjamin Boshes, a prominent psychiatrist and former chair of the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry at Northwestern University from 1951 to 1969, and the Department of Neurology from 1969 – 1975. Dr. Boshes received all of his degrees from Northwestern (BS 1929; MD 1931; MS 1934; PhD 1938). He contributed to the war effort with his work on the effects of flight on the brain and served in World War II as a consultant to the Selective Service, and then a Lieutenant Colonel in the Mediterranean Theater of Operation where he was the chief of neurology and psychiatry for the Fifth Army.

Collaborating Within the Library: Bringing History and Impact to the Forefront

In library literature, one can often encounter examples of collaborations, particularly with partners outside of the library. Collaboration is a common element of organizational life and can prove to be useful as new services evolve or there is a desire to promote existing resources or services. Groups of library colleagues can come together in various ways on short term projects with results that can include articles and postings in various institutional news formats and websites, physical displays, presentations, and events. Projects at the Galter Library have brought together librarians from different library departments, service cores, and working groups, and provided them with opportunities to collaborate, utilizing their interests, skills, and expertise. The resulting projects accomplished through such collaborations involved various visualizations, displays, and presentations highlighting the impact of publications and library services over time.

DigitalHub Grows with Each New Submission

For many researchers, creating and managing a cohesive online presence is a time-consuming task. DigitalHub, Northwestern Medicine’s openly available online repository of scholarly outputs, strives to make it easier and faster for you to upload and share your various outputs online. Uploading your items to DigitalHub helps to increase your digital footprint and get your research into the most influential spaces.

Trends in Health Sciences and Biomedical Sciences Information and Services Provision

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I Hear the Train A Comin' - Live

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