Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 218
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4422-7140-1 • Hardback • August 2017 • $102.00 • (£78.00)
978-1-4422-7142-5 • eBook • August 2017 • $96.50 • (£74.00)
Jean P. Shipman is Executive Director, Knowledge Management and Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library; Director of the MidContinental Region and National Training Office of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine; and Director for Information Transfer, Center for Medical Innovation. She is also Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, all at the University of Utah.
Barbara A. Ulmer has experience as the Managing Editor of a small publishing company and a background in financial and technologically innovative process analysis. She co-founded and served as Chief Financial Officer of a technology start-up company in the early days of e-book adoption and was deeply involved with advancing social innovations.
Foreword
Chris Wasden, PhD
Preface
Jean P. Shipman and Barbara A. Ulmer
1Deep History: Creativity, Innovation, and Libraries
Joseph Lucia
2Innovation Cycle and Information Applications
Jean P. Shipman, Tallie Casucci, and Spencer Walker
3Synapse: A Place Where Ideas Collide and Collaborations Congeal
Jean P. Shipman
4Making the Makerspace: The Nexus Collaborative Learning Lab
Jennifer Herron and Kellie Kaneshiro
5Supporting Institutional Strategic Directions and User Needs through Library Collaborative Spaces
Mary Joan (M.J.) Tooey
6Gary L. Crocker Innovation and Design Laboratory, University of Utah
Jean P. Shipman and Timothy Pickett
7Library Maker Programs: Bringing Together Space, Services, and Staffing
Elliot Felix and David Woodbury
8Interview with Roger Altizer, Ph.D. and José Zagal, Ph.D., March 2, 2016
Jean P. Shipman and Barbara A. Ulmer
9Information Needs of Medical Digital Therapeutics Personnel
Tallie Casucci
10Medical Innovation Competition Information Support
Erin Wimmer, Tallie Casucci, Jacob Reed, Nathaniel Rhodes, Benjamin Fogg, Thomas Ferrill, David Morrison, Alfred Mowdood, Darell Schmick, Mohammad Mirfakhrai, and Peter Jones
11Innovation Space Drives Need for Librarian Expertise
Jean P. Shipman and Tallie Casucci
12Applying Innovation to Patient Education and Behavior
Roger Altizer, PhD and José Zagal, PhD
13e-channel: A Platform for Disseminating Innovators’ Outputs
Christy Jarvis, Chad Johnson, and Jean P. Shipman
14Building Innovative Products via Successful Partnerships
Nancy Lombardo and Kathleen Digre, MD
15Educating Innovators: The Innovation Vault
Barbara A. Ulmer and Christy Jarvis
16Information and Innovation: What Does the Future Hold?
Jean P. Shipman and Barbara A. Ulmer
In today's complex health-care information environment, health-science librarians' roles are constantly evolving to connect with users in meaningful and creative ways. The library as place—a destination for learning, research, and discovery—can be enhanced through innovation. Each of these place-based key themes of the book explore the concept of innovation in health science libraries. In 16 chapters the contributors address everything from the history of innovation in libraries and innovative technologies to innovative library spaces and facilities. They provide practical case examples from health-science libraries where such mechanisms have been implemented. Readers will find chapters on topics including makerspaces, gaming, apps, and collaborative library work spaces. As budget factors are a major barrier to innovative project implementation in any library setting, this work offers helpful examples of partnerships that can alleviate financial burdens and generate revenue. Edited by Shipman, former president of the Medical Library Association, and Ulmer, chapters are written by professionals in libraries, medicine, education, engineering, and technology. Content is applicable to librarians, educators, instructional designers, and information technology professionals in academic health science and hospital settings.
Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through professionals/practitioners.
— Choice Reviews
This book is recommended for academic health sciences libraries and academic teaching hospital libraries with funding and staff to support innovation. University libraries supporting health sciences, technology, and information sciences programs may also find it valuable.
— Journal of the Medical Library Association
Those responsible for health sciences libraries should find inspiration -- and practical advice -- in Information and Innovation: A Natural Combination for Health Sciences Libraries. Expanding the ways in which librarians and libraries create, promote, and support health science innovation will increase the value of existing investments in organizing and providing access to data, information, and knowledge to fuel discovery.
— Betsy L. Humphreys, Medical Library Association 2007 Marcia C. Noyes Awardee
Information and Innovation: A Natural Combination for Health Sciences Libraries is an examination of the evolution of libraries, especially those in the health sciences, as natural incubators of innovation and discovery. The chapters outlining new librarian roles to promote innovation and entrepreneurism, and the practical examples of spatial transformations through detailed case studies, make this an extremely useful tool for universities as physical library spaces are transitioned. This is the first of its kind to walk academics through the process of providing the necessary tools for students and faculty from multiple disciplines to generate novel ideas and innovations.
— Barbara A. Epstein, Medical Library Association President, 2017-18 and Director, Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh
Innovators and entrepreneurs may not think to ‘go ask a librarian,’ but they should! Finding the right resources and expertise at the critical time accelerates innovation. Information and Innovation: A Natural Combination for Health Sciences Libraries offers many excellent scenarios of productive partnerships taken from experiences at the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, as well as other universities. This book illustrates how quality evidence supports efficient and effective ideation and product development and is a must read for anyone with a clever idea who wants to make a difference in this world.
— Glenn D. Prestwich, Chair, International Commercialization Coordination Council, Presidential Special Assistant for Faculty Entrepreneurship, and Founding Director, Entrepreneurial Faculty Scholars, The University of Utah