Strategic Actions, Goals and Accomplishments

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FY 18-19

Research Data Management Services at Health Sciences

During this past fiscal year, the health sciences libraries expanded its service offerings in research data management. It hired its first Research & Data Services Librarian, Will Dean, who has been instrumental in developing the program. Will has worked to create relationships with, and education for, the health science community at Temple University. In the 9 months since Will was hired, he has held 22 data consultations, created new tools for managing data, presented 17 educational sessions at 3 campuses, and organized the second Love Data series including, for the first time, workshops at the School of Podiatric Medicine. The Love Data Series covered workshops on RDM essentials, REDCap, Data Viz, and other topics. As part of developing the programming for Love Data Week(s) Will collaborated with presenters from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple Clinical Research Institute, the Center for Bioethics, Urban Health, and Policy, the Center for Statistical Analysis, and the Temple University Hospital System. An outgrowth of the program, and the relationships created and established as part of Love Data Week, was a more formal and deeper level of responsibility for REDCap. REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure, web-based application designed to facilitate electronic data capture for biomedical research studies. Originally managed by the LKSOM Assistant Dean for Informatics, with that individual’s departure from Temple, the Health Sciences Libraries are now the lead educators and administrators of the program.

Community Engagement at Kenderton Elementary

What began as a request for assistance in a simple project cataloging children’s literature last year has developed into a project that, in addition to helping a local school library, teaches medical students about the value of early reading and the impact of libraries. The Ginsburg Library’s continuing relationship with LKSOM and their service learning program for medical students, and Kenderton Elementary School leadership, has resulted in a more organized and usable library for children in this North Philadelphia community. Attached to this report are a set of medical student reflections on their work with Ginsburg staff getting the library organized.

Ginsburg Library 10 Year Review

Coinciding with the opening of the Medical Education & Research Building (MERB), in 2009, the Ginsburg Library is celebrating its 10th year in 2019. As part of this landmark birthday, the library staff engaged in assessment project that included faculty and student focus groups, library space heat mapping exercises, anonymous whiteboard feedback questions, a health sciences libraries leadership speaker panel program, and staff reflections. Once completed, findings will be collected and reported to the library leadership team and recommendations made regarding future directions to ensure an equally successful next 10 years.

Ginsburg Library Presentation Practice Studio

The Ginsburg Library is converting an existing study room into a Presentation Practice Studio. The presentation studio is intended as an easy-to-use recording studio, for practicing lectures, presenting conference papers, practicing student presentations, preparing for residency interviews, and more. Ginsburg staff are in the process of developing policies and documentation for using the space which is planned to open in August, 2019.

Ginsburg Library Monograph Weeding Project

The Ginsburg Library developed and implemented a plan to weed older monographs in the general collection that had never circulated. Several staff were involved in the project, which was led by Natalie Tagge. Working with main campus library staff in the Metadata & Digitization Services, as well as Acquisitions & Collection Development, reports that met the selection criteria were run and analyzed. HSL liaison librarians reviewed all monographs eligible for deselection based on the established criteria. Once the titles to be deselected were finalized, circulation staff removed approximately 2400 monographs and processed the books prior to recycling.

Library Hosts NLM Traveling Exhibit

In March 2019, the HSL hosted the National Library of Medicine’s traveling exhibit, Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care, which provides an overview of the history of the physician assistant (PA) profession and information on the work that PAs currently perform. Working with PA faculty, the library hosted an event that educated other health professional students on the early development of the PA profession and the type of work they engage in.

Ginsburg Library Innovation Space Recognized Locally through Philadelphia Inquirer article, Expands Its Services During the 2018-19 FY, the Innovation Space (IS) expanded its services through significant acquisitions in virtual reality (VR) software and 3D printing equipment. Two new virtual reality programs were licensed by the IS which can be used by faculty to teach health professional students skills. One is in understanding patient perspectives & experiences (patient empathy) and the other teaches life-saving CPR techniques.

The Embodied Labs' Empathy Training series, a set of virtual experiences based on real case studies of various medical conditions, is designed to increase awareness of what it is like to have macular degeneration and partial hearing loss, Alzheimer's, and a terminal cancer diagnosis leading to hospice care and end-of-life procedures. The patient empathy program has garnered interest from nursing school faculty who intend to integrate it into their curriculum, and an exploratory review from faculty in the School of Medicine.

The other acquisition is a CPR software developed by Dual Good Health, a virtual reality simulation that guides people through practicing CPR, AED, and first aid, while providing metrics and feedback on technique and proper procedures. Innovation Space staff, in conjunction with the Digital Scholarship Center, investigated, procured, and helped set up a Virtual Reality-enabled classroom in the Allied Health Professions’ building so that they could test and utilize the virtual reality CPR training software in their curriculum as part of a Center for Advancement of Teaching grant.

VR/AR statistics for the Innovation Space:

1,532 visitors come into the Innovation Space and used the VR for the 2018-2019 fiscal year (August 1st, 2018 – July 1st, 2019);

477 came in from August 1st to January 24th of this year, corresponding to an increase of around 30% for the Fall semester compared to the year prior.


3D printing statistics for the Innovation Space:

The Innovation Space completed 177 print jobs for the 2018-2019 fiscal year (August 1st, 2018 – July 1st, 2019). Roughly half of those jobs were medical-related (either education or patient care), while of the remaining percentage, 25% were personal, 20% were research-oriented (prototypes), and 5% were "other" types of jobs.

Innovation Space Publicity

On October 28, 2018, the Innovation Space was featured in a Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer article entitled Virtual Reality is more than a Game at Local Hospitals. Innovation Librarian Patrick Lyons and LKSOM second-year medical student, Benjamin Sussman, were interviewed for the piece. https://www.inquirer.com/philly/health/virtual-reality-mindfulness-cancer-temple-augmented-20181024.html

On November 1, 2018, an article appeared in the Temple Update, Temple Medical Students Use New Technology to Teach and Learn which also featured quotes from Benjamin Sussman and Patrick Lyons. https://templeupdate.com/temple-medical-students-use-new-technology-to-teach-and-learn/


Specific HSL liaison projects

  • Librarians worked to update their CPH libguides to match best practices.
  • Stephanie Roth worked with Sarah Jones to develop and present a workshop on writing a literature review at the Paley Library. The workshop was geared toward graduate students. 6 people attended.

Each librarian selected a competency from the Scholarly Communications competences (Scholarly Communication Competencies ), developed a goal, and completed the goal.

Goals included:

  • Lead the scholarly communications steering team on the scholarly communication learning outcomes & rubric design project
  • Attend a training on OER
  • Expand knowledge about OA publishing and repositories,
  • Create a page on Open Access topics for the TUH's EBP & Research Council's guide and
  • Investigate data curation profiles for Temple Researchers as a capstone.

Each librarian selected a competency from the Educational competencies (Educational Competencies), developed a goal. and completed that goal.

Goals included:

  • Poll librarians on their professional development needs and address at least one need as appropriate,
  • Teach an introductory course on REDCap incorporating active learning,
  • To design a project to help the PA students understand how to conduct a rapid review by June 30, 2019
  • Work with Education Librarian to create 2 group exercises for the next Nurse Residents class on how to search the literature for their EBP projects,
  • Articulates goals and learning outcomes for EBM workshop.


Podiatry Library

  • Working collaboratively, Podiatry Library and Innovation Space staff established and set up satellite IS services at the Podiatry Library, including an official launch with the Coffee, Cookies, and Technology event where we demoed the 3D printer and Hololens augmented reality system. Over 70 students and staff attended.
  • Incorporating information literacy instruction into the first year TUSPM curriculum. Greg developed an exemplary information literacy program that includes video, in person instruction and a grading rubric and taught this within the first year course, “Fundamentals of Podiatric Medicine” reaching nearly 100 students. Groups of students completed literature reviews. He did all this in collaboration with a busy faculty and staff member. Podiatry Library developed a study resource collection, acquiring review books and flashcards to help students complete 1st year basic sciences courses and prepare for the APMLE board exams. Greg Laynor collaborated with the TUSPM Student Boards Committee to further develop the library’s support for students preparing for the APMLE, and gave a presentation to all 2nd year Podiatry Students on “How the Library Can Make Studying for Boards Less Stressful.”
  • Offering special events for the first time at the Podiatry Library. Natalie partnered with Student Government and determined that stress relief events were of most interest and need at TUSPM. In the fall Coffee, Cupcakes and Crafts was held. Over 70 Podiatry students and staff attended the event. Coffee, Cookies and Technology was developed to provide stress relief and education about the library’s 3D printer and new technology.
  • Offering elective educational workshops for the first time at the Podiatry Library. Greg and Natalie have started offering popular workshops to the TUSPM community. The first offering was two sessions of Introduction to REDCap taught by Will Dean.
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