Manitoba Association of Health Information Providers

Article: Web 2.0 authorship: issues of referencing and citation for academic integrity
Date: March 13, 2009
Location: 210 Medical Services Building (Health Sciences Centre)Time: 12:30 pm
Leader: Andrea Szwajcer, Clinical Librarian, Carolyn Sifton-Helene Fuld Library, St. Boniface General Hospital

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Gray K et al. Web 2.0 authorship: issues of referencing and citation for academic integrity. Internet and Higher Learning, 2008; 11: 112-118.

Abstract: Web 2.0 authoring forms such as wikis and blogs, social bookmarking, and audio and video podcasting pose a challenge to academic authorship traditions. This paper reviews the provisions made in major academic referencing and citation style guides for acknowledging content and ideas that may be published using these new web authoring forms. It offers an overview of features of web 2.0 authoring forms and explores concepts of authoring that can help academics to understand the challenges of working with these forms. It provides examples of referencing and citation in scholarly and scientific communication, and concludes that the conceptual basis of referencing and citation as expressed in current systems and standards needs reform in order to bring academic integrity to the use of these new forms of authorship.

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Article: Harris, Roma; Wathen, Nadine. If My Mother Was Alive I’d Probably Have Called Her.” Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2007. 47(1): 67-79.
Date: February 15, 2008 
Leader: Analyn Cohen-Baker, Librarian, Seven Oaks General Hospital Library, University of Manitoba

Abstract: Women living in a rural Canadian county were interviewed about how they locate health information. The experiences they described raise interesting questions about the efficacy of government sponsored e-health initiatives, particularly when such programs are intended to compensate individuals who live in remote communities for lack of access to health care services. Most of the women in the study undertake considerable health-related information gate-keeping for themselves and on behalf of family members and others in their personal networks. They seek and assess information from a wide variety of sources, some of which they locate via the Internet, and they balance what they learn against their experiences with the formal health system. The women’s accounts focused repeatedly on the quality of their relationship with those to whom they turn for assistance, although the actual roles of helpers, whether physicians, friends, librarians, or staff in health food stores, often appeared to be incidental. Instead, helpers’ perceived effectiveness seemed to depend largely on how well they express care when information is exchanged. Several women also reported that they had diagnosed and even treated themselves, sometimes on the basis of information gathered from the Internet. These and other findings are discussed with respect to public policy concerning consumer health information and the potential role of public libraries in the provision of health information programming in rural communities.

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Article: Kennedy, M.G.,  Kiken, L., Shipman, J.P.  Addressing underutilization of consumer health information resource centers: a formative study.  Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2008. 96 (1): 42-49.
Date: February 15, 2008 
Leader: Analyn Cohen-Baker, Seven Oaks General Hospital Library, University of Manitoba

Abstract: PROBLEM: Four consumer health information centers in Richmond, Virginia, provide one-on-one assistance in accessing health information. Because they may not be fully utilized at present, an exploratory marketing study of factors affecting usage of the centers was conducted. METHOD: Observers counted center passers-by and tracked their paths. Also, brief intercept interviews were conducted with people who had just used a center, people nearby who could have used one but did not, and people on the street. Finally, in-depth individual interviews were conducted with key informants. RESULTS: There was a high degree of satisfaction with the centers among users. Nonusers universally endorsed the center concept. However, most passers-by did not even glance at the centers, and intercept interviewees suggested better signage and promoting the resource centers through various media channels. Key informants added suggestions about interpersonal strategies (e.g., physician referrals) for center usage promotion but cautioned that a large increase in traffic could not be accommodated without increasing staff size or shifting from a model of individualized service. CONCLUSIONS: Triangulating findings from multiple data collection methods can provide useful guidance for efforts to promote center utilization. At minimum, steps should be taken to make the largest centers more noticeable. Because center utilization is not only associated with consumer satisfaction with hospitals, but may also foster health literacy, both hospital-based and community-based usage promotion strategies may be warranted. All such promotional strategies should be audience-tested before they are adopted.

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Article:  Albert, K. Integrating knowledge-based resources into the electronic health record: history, current status, and role of librarians. Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 2007. 26(3): 1-19.
Date: November 30, 2007
Leader: Laurie Blanchard, Outreach Librarian, Riverview Health Centre and Long Term Care, University of Manitoba

Abstract: Satisfying clinical information needs remains a major challenge in medicine, underscored by recent studies showing high medical error rates and suboptimal physician adherence to evidence-based practice guidelines. Advanced clinical decision support systems can improve practitioner performance and patient outcomes. Similarly, integrating online information resources into electronic health records (EHRs) shows great potential for positively impacting health care quality. This paper explores the evolution and current status of knowledge-based resource linkages within EHRs, including the benefits and drawbacks, as well as the important role librarians can play in this process.

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Article: Kamel Boulos, M.N.; Wheeler, S. The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education. 
Health Information & Libraries Journal, 2007. 24(1): 2-23.
Date: September 21, 2007 
Leader: Christine Shaw-Daigle, Librarian, St. Boniface General Hospital Library, University of Manitoba

Abstract: Web 2.0 sociable technologies and social software are presented as enablers in health and health care, for organizations, clinicians, patients and laypersons. They include social networking services, collaborative filtering, social bookmarking, folksonomies, social search engines, file sharing and tagging, mashups, instant messaging, and online multi-player games. The more popular Web 2.0 applications in education, namely wikis, blogs and podcasts, are but the tip of the social software iceberg. Web 2.0 technologies represent a quite revolutionary way of managing and repurposing/remixing online information and knowledge repositories, including clinical and research information, in comparison with the traditional Web 1.0 model. The paper also offers a glimpse of future software, touching on Web 3.0 (the Semantic Web) and how it could be combined with Web 2.0 to produce the ultimate architecture of participation. Although the tools presented in this review look very promising and potentially fit for purpose in many health care applications and scenarios, careful thinking, testing and evaluation research are still needed in order to establish ‘best practice models’ for leveraging these emerging technologies to boost our teaching and learning productivity, foster stronger ‘communities of practice’, and support continuing medical education/professional development (CME/CPD) and patient education.

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Article: Gardner, Susan; Eng, Susanna. What Students Want: Generation Y and the Changing Function of the Academic Library. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2005. 5(3): 405-420.
Date: March 16,2007 
Leader: Angela Osterriecher, Librarian, J.W. Crane Library, University of Manitoba

Abstract:  This article presents the results of a 2003 undergraduate library user survey as a case study of Generation Y. Most of the undergraduate respondents were representative of Generation Y students, being less than or equal to 21 years of age and also having the ethnic diversity characteristic of that generation such as 42 percent of the enrolled students are of Asian, African Americans, Hispanic, and Native American origin. Therefore, the survey results will be used as a case study of Generation Y and analyzed within the context of four proposed characteristics often attributed to Generation Y to test whether the data support these traits. There are four attributes discussed within the context of student library use and satisfaction such as they have great expectations and they expect customization. The focus of this survey was to determine in what ways the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Library at the University of Southern California has been successful in its quest to be an innovative, user-oriented library and computing center. Leavey is the undergraduate and teaching library on a campus of 30,000 students and one of over a dozen different libraries and collections. At the lime of its inception 10 years ago, Leavey was considered thoroughly modern because it was one of the first libraries to merge technology, computing, and library services in an Information Commons.; This article presents the results of a 2003 undergraduate library user survey as a case study of Generation Y. Most of the undergraduate respondents were representative of Generation Y students, being less than or equal to 21 years of age and also having the ethnic diversity characteristic of that generation such as 42 percent of the enrolled students are of Asian, African Americans, Hispanic, and Native American origin. Therefore, the survey results will be used as a case study of Generation Y and analyzed within the context of four proposed characteristics often attributed to Generation Y to test whether the data support these traits. There are four attributes discussed within the context of student library use and satisfaction such as they have great expectations and they expect customization. The focus of this survey was to determine in what ways the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Library at the University of Southern California has been successful in its quest to be an innovative, user-oriented library and computing center. Leavey is the undergraduate and teaching library on a campus of 30,000 students and one of over a dozen different libraries and collections. At the lime of its inception 10 years ago, Leavey was considered thoroughly modern because it was one of the first libraries to merge technology, computing, and library services in an Information Commons.

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Article: Sweeney, Richard T. Reinventing Library Buildings and Services for the Millennial Generation. Library Administration & Management, 2005. 19(4): 165-175.
Date: March 16, 2007 
Leader: Angela Osterreicher, Librarian, J.W. Crane Library, University of Manitoba

Abstract: The article examines first, the main characteristics of the Millennials that distinguish them from previous generations at the same age, and, second, how can librarians and other library decision makers redesign and reinvent libraries and library services that effectively meet Millennials’ needs and expectations. Millennials are the newest adult generation, approximately half of whom are already eighteen years old and can legally vote. The huge demographic and generational shift, specifically the entry of the Millennials into and the concomitant retirements of Baby Boomers from the workforce, are the most important fundamental trends that will change libraries over the next ten years, through 2015. Millennials have such vastly different needs and expectations than Boomers that libraries are being forced to rethink and redesign library services, technologies, and buildings. Changing user expectations are more important than other trends that affect libraries, such as technology, organizational constraints, librarian expectations, library board expectations, building limitations, and traditional library services. Innovative technologies are extremely important and indeed enable most of the new products, services, and improvements that are introduced in libraries.; The article examines first, the main characteristics of the Millennials that distinguish them from previous generations at the same age, and, second, how can librarians and other library decision makers redesign and reinvent libraries and library services that effectively meet Millennials’ needs and expectations. Millennials are the newest adult generation, approximately half of whom are already eighteen years old and can legally vote. The huge demographic and generational shift, specifically the entry of the Millennials into and the concomitant retirements of Baby Boomers from the workforce, are the most important fundamental trends that will change libraries over the next ten years, through 2015. Millennials have such vastly different needs and expectations than Boomers that libraries are being forced to rethink and redesign library services, technologies, and buildings. Changing user expectations are more important than other trends that affect libraries, such as technology, organizational constraints, librarian expectations, library board expectations, building limitations, and traditional library services. Innovative technologies are extremely important and indeed enable most of the new products, services, and improvements that are introduced in libraries.

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Article: Weiler,Angela. Information-Seeking Behavior in Generation Y Students: Motivation, Critical Thinking, and Learning Theory.  Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2005. 31 (1): 46-53.
Date: March 16, 2007 
Leader:  Angela Osterreicher, Librarian, J.W. Crane Library, University of Manitoba

Abstract: Research in information-seeking behavior, motivation, critical thinking, and learning theory was explored and compared in a search for possible motivating factors behind students’ dependence on television and the Internet for their information needs. The research indicates that only a very small percentage of the general population prefer to learn by reading.

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Article: Fox, Susannah. Online Health Search 2006: Most internet users start at a search engine when looking for health information online. Very few check the source and date of the information they find. . October 29, 2006. Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project.  2006 
Date:  January 12, 2007  
Leader:  Mark Rabnett, Pharmacy Librarian, University of Manitoba Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library

Abtract: Eighty percent of American internet users, or some 113 million adults, have searched for information on at least one of seventeen health topics. Most internet users start at a general search engine when researching health and medical advice online. Just 15% of health seekers say they “always” check the source and date of the health information they find online, while another 10% say they do so “most of the time.” Fully three-quarters of health seekers say they check the source and date “only sometimes,” “hardly ever,” or “never,” which translates to about 85 million Americans gathering health advice online without consistently examining the quality indicators of the information they find. Most health seekers are pleased about what they find online, but some are frustrated or confused.

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