Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 194
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Trim: 6 x 8¾
978-1-5381-2675-2 • Paperback • May 2020 • $65.00 • (£50.00)
978-1-5381-2676-9 • eBook • May 2020 • $61.50 • (£47.00)
Lindsay Alcock is the Head of Public Services at Memorial University of Newfoundland’s (MUN) Health Sciences Library. She earned her MLIS from the University of British Columbia in 1998. Her collaborations have resulted in the development of the journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, the grass-roots MUN Libraries Strategic Plan, the MUN Libraries Leadership Development program, and, with colleagues from the Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Libraries 2013, accredited workshops in leadership development. She lives near the ocean with her two boys and their dog in beautiful Newfoundland, Canada.
Kelly Thormodson is currently the Associate Dean and Director of the Harrell Health Sciences Library at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA. Kelly earned her MA in Library and Information Science from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA and her BA from North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND. She attended the Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians in 2013 and was a NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellow in 2014-2015.
Table of Contents
Intro/Preface
Lindsay Alcock and Kelly Thormodson
Chapter 1: Evolution and Expansion of Library Liaison Roles
Chapter 2: Incorporating Health Information Literacy into the Student Educational Enrichment Program (SEEP)
Chapter 3: Liaison Services to Medical Students
Chapter 4: Flexible Enhanced Learning and Foundations of Scholarship: A Reflective Case Study of a Medical Librarian’s Role in the Delivery of an Undergraduate Medical Education Research CourseContext
Chapter 5: Librarians as Facilitators in the Active Learning Curriculum
Chapter 6: Who’s Your Librarian? Student-librarian Pairing in a Graduate Systematic Review Course
Chapter 7: Liaison Faculty Collaborations – Faculty Engagement
Chapter 8: The Promise and Challenge of Interprofessional Engagement
Chapter 9: Curriculum Mapping: A Match Made for Liaison Librarian Skills
Chapter 10: Old Wine in New Bottles: Medical Special Collections in the 21st Century
Chapter 11: Boot Camps, Rounds and More: Liaison Roles in Clerkships and Residencies
"The Engaged Health Sciences Library Liaison" offers a variety of approaches and best practices to a targeted audience. This books demonstrates that health sciences library liaisons have the potential to impact decades of student years, health research, clinical practice, and focuses on it's subject matter, revealing facets of health sciences library liaisons and their work that readers will find invaluable and inspiring.
— Journal of the Medical Library Association
The Engaged Health Sciences Library Liaisonis cleanly edited and includes content relevant to all health sciences library liaisons. . . at the close of the book, I was left feeling encouraged and inspired to expand my own role as a liaison librarian. Overall, the book provides a wealth of creative ideas for engaging with diverse user groups in the health sciences and demonstrates the ever-enduring importance of the liaison librarian role. . . . The Engaged Health Sciences Library Liaison serves as a stimulus to take the liaison librarian role to the next level. I encourage anyone interested in expanding or redesigning their liaison services to add this book to their reading list.
— Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association
With a myriad of examples, recommendations, and best practices, this book sparks game plans for retooling existing liaison services, or implementing more outreach and engagement strategies to meet the evolving needs of our diverse clientele.
— Rebecca Harrington, Research Services Librarian, Preston Medical Library, The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
Both new and experienced librarians will find inspirational ideas in this book. Beyond providing ideas for novel services, this book encourages readers to think about new ways to balance departmental and functional liaisons and to be creative in designing services based on the unique skills and expertise of individual librarians.
— Amy E. Blevins, MALS, associate director for Public Services at the Ruth Lilly Medical Library at Indiana University School of Medicine, Co-Editor of Curriculum-Based Library Instruction: From Cultivating Faculty Relationships to Assessment
Medical and health sciences library liaisons are instrumental to the interdisciplinary collaborative skills necessary for healthcare professionals to meet the needs of growing and diverse patient populations. This collection highlights the roles of library liaisons, and serves as a treasure trove of new ideas to adopt and expand on in our medical and health science libraries.
— Martin Wood, MSLIS, AHIP, director, Charlotte Edwards Maguire Medical Library, Florida State University College of Medicine
Well-known health librarians Alcock and Thormodson have edited an excellent collection of eleven (11) state-of-the art case studies, program overviews and review articles about the critically important (and perenially changing) role(s) of the health sciences liaison librarian. The book will be helpful to graduate students in library schools taking courses in medical librarianship ....as well as liaison librarians looking to innovate their core services and deepen their knowledge and skills. The book positions teaching at the center of liaison activities as they pertain to users in across the pedagogical and research spectrum from student to researcher.... to faculty collaborator.
— Dean Giustini, biomedical librarian, University of British Columbia
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