Health Sciences Libraries : Key Activities and Accomplishments 

FY 19-20

Ginsburg Library Presentation Practice Studio opened

The Ginsburg Library opened its Presentation Practice Studio in August, 2019. The Studio is a space set up to allow students, faculty, and staff a convenient method of recording themselves for presentations. Designed for simplicity and ease-of-use, it is equipped with a camera, microphone, lights, podium, and a TV screen connected to a PC pre-configured for recording. Whether practicing public speaking or experimenting with prerecorded video to augment a presentation, the Presentation Practice Studio is an easy-to-use resource built to accommodate most recording needs.

Ginsburg Library 10 Year Review Report completed

Highlights of the report, including recommendations for new services & space renovation ideas, were shared with library administration and health sciences school deans located on the HSC campus on North Broad Street.

HSL Journal Club

Established After the move to a remote work environment in March, 2020, library staff meetings also migrated to a virtual environment. Rather than a focus on university updates, which were already covered weekly by the Dean of Libraries, HSL developed the HSL Journal Club. The Journal Club meets bi-weekly as a discussion group. Library staff volunteer to select an article related in some way to health sciences librarianship, and serve as discussion facilitators. Facilitators develop 3 questions to prompt discussion. Meetings began on Zoom in April, 2020, and are currently ongoing.

Research Data Services and Scholarly Communications 

Librarians continue to support researchers at the University through projects like creating workflows for data deposits in the TUScholarShare. TUScholarShare is designed to meet the repository needs of the Temple scholarly community. Supporting TUScholarShare allowed HSL Librarians to educate faculty on scholarly publishing; and to advocate for open access. Librarians also provided education around the value of ORCID IDs. ORCID IDs are unique identifiers that connect individuals engaged in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. The NIH and other funders use ORCID IDs to connect research publications to grants. 

Tempestries Exhibit

As part of Love Data Week 2020, Will Dean, Research & Data Services LIbrarian, arranged for the installation of Ginsburg Health Sciences Library's first art installation - the Templestries exhibit - a series of crocheted tapestries from the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. The fabric art pieces used climate data and colored yarn to depict changes in average temperatures in Philadelphia from the 19th to the 21st centuries. While we did not count visitors to the exhibit it received a lot of positive feedback from patrons. “Thumbs up! A truly beautiful way of displaying data.” “An extremely effective (and timely) piece of art.” “Beautiful that we’re bringing awareness to an issue impacting us all!” 

Drop in workshops moved online

Starting March 17th all workshops moved online to the Zoom platform in response to the pandemic. Librarians stepped up and turned in person training into online education. To increase support of the Temple Health Sciences Center patrons we scheduled new workshops and more workshops. We invited in presenters from other campuses and other departments. From March 17th to June 30th we had 20 workshops with 319 registrants from across Temple, the region and the world. Temple alumni in California attended as well as students from Portugal. Attendees enjoyed the opportunity to attend remotely and found the sessions engaging and well produced. “Great online transition - really I had no idea it was the first online presentation of this workshop since it ran so smoothly!” “Zoom was an effective method to present this information. It went very smoothly and the polls were effective. I think that this is a good method for presentation in the future and would allow for larger groups to sit in on the information.”

Innovation Space Services VR services

Dr. Maresky (Radiology) taught approx. 25 residents cardiovascular anatomy with the Sharecare VR program in the library’s Innovation Space. Dr. Maresky supports the use of VR in education, and has published a paper on the improvement in learning outcomes using VR during his previous appointment at the University of Toronto. Dr. John Daly, LKSOM Interim Dean & Dean Emeritus, brought the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Mitchell Morgan, and Executive Vice President & Provost, JoAnne Epps, to visit the Innovation Space as part of a tour of the MERB building in November, 2019. Dr. Duffy brought a class of 120 nursing students (in groups of 30 over the course of a few days) to teach students using the Empathy Training Software. In June, 2020, the Innovation Space staff presented at a virtual School of Pharmacy faculty meeting an overview of virtual reality applications on a variety of subjects, including, empathy training, molecular science, and cleanroom protocols. Per the request of the anatomy department, IS staff compiled a report of anatomy virtual reality programs and options, including the logistics and necessary equipment for a class of 200 simultaneous users. Per the request of Dr. Anne Russ (Director, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences), IS staff researched applications oriented around orthopedics, emergency response, mental health, and general medical evaluations Building Connections with staff at other Makerspaces Innovation Space staff created the first listserv dedicated to medical and health sciences makerspace services -- the medical makerspace listserv. This listserv currently has over 80 subscribers. 3D Printing The Innovation Space maintained a steady 3D print job completion rate from July 2019 until shut down in March 2020, with 46 jobs completed · Approximately half of our print jobs were medical/research related, while the other half were personal prints · 100% of the jobs were for students · Some examples of 3D print jobs completed include: § Lab equipment - aquaponics apparatuses § Lab equipment - plate holder

New staff Nick Perilli hired as the new HSL Innovation Librarian starting March, 2020; Patrick Lyons became Head, Innovation Librarian at the Health Sciences Libraries.

Ginsburg Library Quiet Zone Created

At the request of students, the Ginsburg Library created a “Quiet Zone” on the second floor to enhance the library’s learning environment. The Quiet Zone borders are identified by signage designed by the libraries’ graphic/web designer, and internal columns are painted the same blue green as the signs. Sound absorbing panels were installed in the study rooms adjacent to the space. The new Quiet Zone helps students concentrate in a distraction free space. 

Ginsburg Library facilities Improvements

Patron Services HSL Patron Services staff completed the removal of approximately 1,900 deselected monographs from public shelving which were ultimately withdrawn from the collection. HSL Patron Services staff completed the removal of approximately 170 broken/worn-out chairs from open spaces with tables, cubicles, and study rooms in anticipation of the arrival of over 160 new, replacement chairs.

Podiatry Library

Three library elective workshops, Introduction to 3D Printing, Best Practices in Poster Presentations and Intro to Data Viz with Tableau and Excel were offered in person at TUSPM. Podiatry Library staff offered an additional 5 online workshops on topics including citation management and how to write a case study. 106 participants attended the 8 workshops. The Podiatry Library offered two successful events; Bagels and Buttons and Seeds and Sprouts. Over 80 students attended the two events. TUSPM Development Office highlighted Bagels and Buttons in their alumni newsletter. Podiatry Library staff collaborated with the TUSPM Clinical Research Coordinator to teach an Introduction to Clinical Research class for Fundamentals of Podiatric Practice I. A deselection plan for monographs and timeline for the Podiatry Library was created. Podiatry Library staff completed many stages of the plan ahead of schedule prior to the building closure due to COVID-19. The next step is removal of monographs. Jacob Brintzenhoff hired as Medical Librarian at the Podiatry Library in February, 2020.

FY18-19

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 – July1st, 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: - 1) lead the scholarly communications steering team on the scholarly communication learning outcomes & rubric design project 2) Attend a training on OER 3)Expand knowledge about OA publishing and repositories, 4) create a page on Open Access topics for the TUH's EBP & Research Council's guide and 5). 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: 1) Poll librarians on their professional development needs and address at least one need as appropriate, 2) Teach an introductory course on REDCap incorporating active learning, 3) To design a project to help the PA students understand how to conduct a rapid review by June 30, 2019 4) 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, 5) 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.

FY 17-18

Innovation Services 

a. Innovation Space staff, led by Patrick Lyons, have designed, developed and promoted a suite of innovation services focusing on 3D design, 3D printing, user education and support for health sciences faculty, students and staff.

b. Created partnership with the president of GLITCH, the LKSOM student technology club. GLITCH presented a PC building event program (March, 2018) in the IS. GLITCH also holds regularly scheduled meetings there. Patrick Lyons serves as the faculty mentor for the club.

c. Held a grand opening event, a MakerFest, in October, 2017.

Education and Outreach Services 

a. REO staff created a Love Data Week education series held in March, 2018. Health sciences libraries staff collaborated with Tariem Burroughs from the Center for Bioethics, Urban Health, and Policy, and Dr. Mark Weiner, LKSOM Assistant Dean for Informatics to present workshops in the library. This was the second time Dr .Weiner had presented on RedCAP, a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. Mr. Burroughs presented on GIS for Health, based on education for medical students.

b. REO staff worked with the Anesthesiology residency director to design a research curriculum for Anesthesiology residents that includes interactive workshops on Evidence Based Healthcare, Searching Databases and Evaluation of Resources/Critical Appraisal. In collaboration with Jenny Pierce, the Anesthesiology residency director and head residents, Natalie Tagge reevaluated the Anesthesiology library education collaboration. In order to include resident input, she created an evaluation survey and distributed it to residents through the head residents. This evaluation data coupled with the input from the evaluation group will mean that the classes will be recorded, repeated and condensed to best meet the educational needs of the residents.

c. Outreach to Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine faculty resulted in an invitation to present at the TUSPM's Community Health seminar for all 3rd year Podiatry students. Greg Laynor gave a presentation on library resources for evidence-based medicine and community health statistics.

Diversity and Inclusion 

a. Natalie Tagge serves on the Diversity and Inclusion committee for the Libraries.

b. Representing the Temple Health LGBTQ Alliance Task Force, Jenny Pierce worked with Temple IDEAL to get a second SAFE Zone Training at the Health Sciences Center for task force members and other Health Science campus staff. IDEAL has completed two trainings at the Health Science Center for more than 25 people.

Partnerships and Community Engagement 

a. Barbara Kuchan has developed a working relationship with Felicia Boccuti, the Director for Information Technology at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine. They have established monthly meetings to exchange ideas, discuss mutual concerns and share information.

b. Jenny Pierce and Natalie Tagge serve on the LKSOM Well-Being Advisory Committee. This is a collaboration between faculty, the Student Affairs Office, a student group (Our Wellness Liaisons - the OWLS), and LKSOM student government. The group meets once a month to discuss initiatives geared toward promoting wellness in medical students. The wellness programs are intended to address burn-out, relationship issues, and stress reduction.

c. In early May 2018, librarians and LKSOM students worked together at Kenderton Elementary School to clean up and organize their school library. Prior to the event, the library was in a very serious state of disrepair. Fortunately, Stephane Roth, a former school librarian, was able to put her expertise to use assessing the collection and creating a project plan. While there is much more to do, students catalog over 300 books using LibraryThing.

Organizational Effectiveness and Environmental Review

a. Lauri Fennell coordinated an observational study of activities that occur at the information desk at the Ginsburg Library.

b. Natalie Tagge has taken on the role of project coordinator for the weeding of older monographs in the Ginsburg Library. The process started in FY2017/18 and is continuing into 2018/19.

c. Stephanie Roth and Natalie Tagge developed and deployed an education program for health sciences librarians to establish a team approach for providing systematic reviews that assigns librarians to different levels based on comfort/expertise in this specialty area.

d. A team of Ginsburg Library staff (Jenny Pierce, Natalie Tagge, Patrick Lyons) are working with Nancy Turner to coordinate a 10 year review of the Ginsburg Library environment -- focusing on spaces and technology needs.