Model Mystery

While taking inventory and cleaning out Dorothy Carpenter Medical Archives materials at Piedmont on Friday, March 11, one of our discoveries was this:

 It took me, Lesa and Mark to unwrap it and find all the little parts:

We started wondering where it came from and why we would have it in the Archives section (provenance). Mark posed with "her," as we dubbed it, and thanks to smart technology, an email was sent to Molly and David. David asked if it was damaged and yes, it is while Molly said keep it and research it.

While driving back to Gray building, we had time to think about it and thanks to smart technology, we also had clues, i.e. photos, so others could help us solve the mystery - the fun part of this job, playing detective!

Anyway...
Cowabunga! Mystery solved, thanks to documentation from my predecessor!

It was donated by Sherry Foster from the Physicians Assistant Program and arrived to its new home at Piedmont on August 25, 1998. According to the PA Program, it is a 1950s anatomy mannequin. When a medical museum comes our way, "she" will live in her dream home. Meanwhile, "she" remains packed at Piedmont.

A tangent: I appreciate Joanna arranging the trash and recycle bins as well as the boxes collected. She also spent her day in the dust with us including sitting on the floor processing slides. Thank you to her, Lesa and Mark!

From Vision to Implementation: The Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians

Hosted by Z Smith Reynolds Library, March 10 & 11, 2011

Now international!  w attendees from China, S Africa, and Nigeria

Keynote: Mary Ellen Bates

Entrepreneurial skills make you a better employee, enhancing your skill sets even if you don’t become an entrepreneur

Thisisindexed.com

http://www.batesinfo.com/extras/assets/entrepreneurial.pdf

Concurrent session 1

The Library as Partner: Sustaining Relevance in a Collaborative, Student-Focused Technology Center. Heather Lambert and Christy Groves, Middle Tennessee State University
Created a new Digital Media Studio, Information Commons and study rooms

http://library.mtsu.edu/digitalmediastudio/
Did NOT partner w IT – political issues

Writing Ctr included

Faculty info tech center not as successful

Repurposed and trained existing personnel, the emerging tech libn is the only new person

Digital media studio mission statement provides accountability
Color printer is Academic use only
Tech coach appointments
Half open source, try out new and let students vote on it
Subscription to lynda.com for tutorials
Software of the month, will try anything

Stall wall news in the loo

Desktop Wallpaper their marketing space

60-second survey

“Find it all here”

Amazing race with hidden QR codes

Fun for all, even the security guard

Faculty are ‘special’... Sent paper mail, they don’t read email

Must speak about copyright every time they give a tour

Provide copyright-friendly resources, talk about licensing their product with creative commons

Feedback, qualitative and qualitative.

Seven types of feedback... Satisfaction, wish list, staff satisfaction

**They keep a NO log, anytime you have to tell someone no, jot it down with why

BRIEF focus group with student assistants, bribe w/ coffee coupons

Shift team where they balance each other out

Users don't like the open source as much as they thought they would

Need a night manager

Concurrent Session 2:
User-Driven Service Development: The GroupFinder Project

Joseph Ryan, Digital Projects Librarian, NCSU & Josh Boyer, Associate Head, Distance Learning & Research and Information Services, NCSU

This session described the development of GroupFinder, a first-of-its-kind system designed to help students coordinate group study at the library. Beginning its life as a Facebook application and ending up as a system available on library kiosks, touchscreens, the Web, and mobile devices, GroupFinder has changed substantially during development because of the project’s focus on end user needs. Flexibility and the willingness to abandon preconceived notions about student group study have been key to the success of GroupFinder, and the team described how user research can be used to create new services to benefit library patrons.

Driven by bad cell reception in the DH Hill Library
42in display w QR codes  - Cannot miss them

Nine group study rooms.

Online reserves 2hrs

Checkbox - post to group finder?

Amenities in the rooms listed

Started on facebook, real app. See Everyone or just your friends
Allow others to join me checkbox

2008 Feedback from students: Facebook is not really where they want to interact with an institution

2009 activity board - Cork board model doesn't mean anything to them ->Whiteboard model

LOTS of rounds of talking to students, bribe with free coffee

Stats are great

Kiosks helpful but not highly used

QR codes not really used like they expected

Not just room booking, but other places in the library

Locations that are heavily trafficked and visible

Open source on google code!!!

Reception

DAY TWO

Evolution of the Charleston Conference, now in 30th year
Partly for tenure
W Beth Bernhardt, co director of confirm committee
Www.katina.info/conference/archives

Both CC and Against the Grain are LLCs w part-timers and volunteers Relatively huge now, 157 presentations in 2010...rely heavily on dropbox.com to transfer files and collaborate

Creating an Open Access Journal

Unc-g

Rerun of the LAUNCH confirm presentation Journal of Learning Spaces OJS open source software NOt intending to make a profit

DOAJ startup guide

Twice a year..not published yet.

Free Pkp open journals systems .. Incredibly easy to use

Not even published yet, but they're already looking at a journal of learning spaces conference next year!!

The canadians are really good at this

Libraryh3lp

Just 2 employees Pam (who works fulltime at UNC) and Eric

Can staff chat svc from your phone!

Chat or SMS on the patron end

Started in 2003 as a night chat collaboration btwn duke, ncsu, and unc Not scalable

2006 meebo, intended for individual and didn't work for multiple libns

2007 Eric hacked pidgin4lib

Peer to peer

Needed web based architecture to grow

Now based at Amazon s3, cloudfront

NCknows paid for a lot of development – will likely migrate to this platform when contract is up

2008 cost depended on institution size

Generating profit by 2009

Rearchitecting constantly

300+ libraries, min 250/ yr (we are included on ZSR license, but will take our money if we insist)

Major upgrade this summer

Over a million chat sessions

Localization in other languages

25% conversion rate (testers who pay)

Academic libs 10-20k fte is 300$

Default trial is 90 days

Payment on honor system, does not stop working

Refchatter is same svc w training and support by third party

Paid users get pager and phone access 24/7 .

Lunch - Tim Spaulding from LibraryThing – an incredible story!

Slides are forthcoming

Sat with Nancy Stine, AHEC

Lightning rounds

Lynda personal embedded librarian

Living learning communities, dorms w classroom spaces

Library first responder student advocate

Tim Rogers, NCLIVE

Ebooks collaborative, matching etc,

Ingrid Ruffin

So what if i don't want to work in a library? Other avenues to pursue

Gals from Eli Lilly, outcomes based job objectives Entre and intrapreneur knowledge based services
The entrepreneur next door, quiz

Closing remarks

Plenary session, carol strohecker, center for design innovation Downtown Winston-Salem!!

Collaboration, interdisciplinary

Free software foundation

Physics of acrobatic circus performers

innovative tools and environments for learning

Past to Meet Present Part 3

It wasn't better than chocolate but what a treat on Valentine's Day, 2011 to choose and learn all about antique medical instruments!

Karen Richardson, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine's (WFIRM) public relations officer, and I sat in a second floor office at the Institute surrounded by boxes and totes filled with history while we discovered the most interesting instruments to display in the lobby of the Richard Dean Biomedical Sciences building at the downtown research park.

We decided that since the display cabinets aren't quite ready we would look at pictures (taken for appraisal) first and then start pulling items out of the 30+ boxes to display when the cabinets are ready. The cabinets and instruments are all from Dr. John Monroe, a retired ob/gyn physician, who accumulated his collection over 40 to 50 years.

Karen started writing down the number of each item and a brief description and as we progressed, we developed several themes for displaying. I began to write down unfamiliar terms to research upon returning to the Archives.

Besides bloodletting (or instruments used for bleeding, a common practice in antique medicine), we came up with the theme of general diagnostic -which is where two of our favorite pieces come in:
1.

And this is a tooth key, used to pull decaying teeth (not to actually count them). One person helping with the collection said: I think the tooth key is my favorite for pure brutality. Intrigued? In pain? Then read here.

2. Next up is:

a doctor's lady, a figurine for a female or husband to show the doctor where it hurts. According to Dr. Monroe, the Chinese husband left his wife at home and used something like the above to show the doctor what kind of problems his wife was having. He often arrived home with medicine or treatment instructions. Want to see an R-rated version? Need help? Check this out.

So next up in this interesting experience is physically removing the items from the boxes and placing them in the clean and lit cabinets. Stay tuned!

Past to meet Present Part 2

Well, it was like an early Christmas the week of November 1, 2010, thanks to Dr. John Monroe.

A trip to the Development and Alumni Affairs office to help John Gillon, senior director of charitable planning, sort through 30-some boxes of antique medical instruments yielded many interesting items. From bleeding bowls to apothecary scales to ob/gyn forceps to a baby scale to even some "scary" powders made for a couple of interesting mornings on the seventh floor of Piedmont Plaza I.

After three days of sorting and matching numbers to a paper list, John G. was ready to compile the listed pieces into a format for the appraiser who spent two days on Nov. 4 and 5 doing her thing. John G., Dr. Monroe and others involved were pleased with the final appraisal.

The collection is now waiting for the Wake Forest Institute Regenerative Medicine area to be finished before the cabinets can be moved and then more fun in choosing which pieces to display and where to store the rest of the collection.

Past to meet Present

In preparation for over 1,300 antique medical instruments, I met with representatives of Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) to see where the items will be displayed at the Richard H. Dean Research Building downtown. Dr. Tony Atala, WFIRM director, acquired the instruments from Dr. John Monroe, a retired ob/gyn, who has accumulated the massive collection over the last 50 to 60 years.

Karen Richardson, senior communications manager for WFIRM, picked me up in her two-seater car on a warm Thursday afternoon in October and took us to the building where Major General (ret) Dr. George Weightman, WFIRM chief operating officer, toured us around the second floor where new laboratory space, offices and a common area is being created. WFIRM currently occupies the fourth floor of the Dean Research Building, about 25,000 square feet of research space. The second floor will give the institute 10,000 more square feet of lab space. The physiology, chemistry and half of the biomaterials sections will move to the second floor. Also on the second floor is a huge commons area for scientists to collaborate, relax and hold conferences with multiple flat-screen TVs, two separate audio systems, a coffee bar, mailroom and small kitchen.

With the instruments will come five display cases that will be placed in the hallway area of the second floor, near the elevators. We discussed rotating pieces and a possible video of Dr. Monroe talking about the collection. Dr. Monroe will be invited to the grand opening of the new space in early Feburary 2011.

Next up is a trip to the Development and Alumni Affairs office to help John Gillon, senior director of charitable planning, sort through the pieces for appraisal.

MLA Day Three

Attended Sunrise Seminar sponsored by Wiley on Essential Evidence Plus, which replaces Daily POEMS (Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters) Presentation given by Mark Ebell, physician from Univ of Georgia, who has written over 900 of these
He compared DOE (disease oriented evidence) to POE (patient oriented evidence) and discussed the product in detail
website www.esentialevidence.com
talked about other guidelines sites, including British NICE guidelines; later this summer these products will be available for Iphone and blackberry

NLM UPDATE - This is given each year towards end of MLA meeting - Don Lindberg, head of NLM presented overview; 2011 NLM will be 175 years old;
CRISP has been replaced with REPORTER (this is a grants database).

New: two big efforts - Disaster Information Management Research and Toxicology and Environmental Health
In common are gross failure of communication

MeSH turns 50 this year - has gone from 4000 terms to 26,0000.

Deborah Zarin presented info on clinical trials.gov and spoke about FADAAA - her presentation is up on the web
Sheldon Kotzin - six travelling exhibits from NLM
Medline Plus being redesigned
MedlinePlus CONNECT button being built into EHR (this was presented at the all day workshop that I attended and can be linked to the ICD codes so that it automatically takes a patient and their practitioner to MedlinePlus from their diagnosis
NCBI Molecular biology training is being reinstated
Historical images are being added to FLICKR (this one is for Dianne!)



ENDNOTE X4 ----- OMG ---- ENDNOTE X4 OK so Rochelle is the only one that cares about EndNote. But seriously, if anyone remembers meeting Randy Wright when he came here to talk about Refman in his leisure suit, he actually gave an excellent presentation to about 200 people in a packed room about Endnote X4 and Researcher ID!!!! The newest version (coming out in late June) will magically take a PDF or a whole folder full of PDF's and convert them into an EndNote database.......... Whoa.......

At the POSTERS, there was also a librarian from Indiana who figured out a way through her I.T. dept to fix Internet Explorer so that you can direct import citations from PubMed to EndNote or RefMan (which everyone says cannot be done). Again, she had a crowd at her poster, and has published it in the latest issue of Med Ref Services Quarterly. (on my desk).


RANDOM STUFF:

BUZZ WORD: disambiguate (as in authors)

web site: http://pubget.com

That's all!

MLA Day Two

SUNDAY


attended Sunday Sunrise Seminar with ISI about their quantitative measurement products - analytical info
Keynote speaker Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind was entertaining and thought provoking
Evening cruise sponsored by Ebsco; had chance to talk to Brian Alpert, founder of Dynamed
Sunday exhibits were open as well as multiple programs and workshops - NEJM technology showcase featured new platform for ejournal with coverage back to 1990 (from 1993) plus availability of archives. Journal will still not make powerpoint slides available to institutions as part of subscription (only to individual subscribers)


MONDAY

Attended Sunrise Seminar with Cochrane, sponsored by Wiley,led by Carol Lefevre (British), Senior Information Specialist who gave excellent update. Presentation will be available to participants.
For information on their new editorial policy, go to www.editorial-unit.cochrane.org
For Cochrane podcasts, go to www.cochranejournalclub.com
For the newest information for Cochrane for Librarians, they have revised the original chapter on searching Cochrane and it can be found at http://www.cochrane-handbook.org.
There is also a Cochrane Library users group listserv at http://lists.cochrane.org/mailman/listinfo/

Carol Lefevre has recent articles on searching Cochrane in Evidence Based Library Info Practice and in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.

PLENARY SESSION; The Janet Doe Lecture, presented by Ana Cleveland, Regents Professor and Director of Health Informatics and Houston Programs, Dept of Library and Information Sciences, College of Information, University of North Texas, Denton, was excellent, inspirational, and sometimes depressing, too. She sees future "librarians" coming from disciplines other than library science degrees. She began the talk with a discussion of how we should not use the term "professional librarians" (there are NOT professional lawyers or professional doctors) but should live up to health educational standards and comform more to AMA than ALA.

She talked a lot about collaborative research initiatives and centers of specialization such as bioinformatics and biomedical sciences and referred to a recent paper in Academic Medicine. Her quote was "Health is essential and crucial in the lives of people; quality information is needed for quality health care; and health sciences librarianship/informatics has the resources to contribute to the well being of the people."

Her personal philosophy of the profession was that we need to develop partnerships, more joint appointments, academic units, health care integration, research/resources; critical thinking and managing change.

LUNCH AND LEARN SPRINGER SESSION:

(full presentation available on a flash drive or can get a copy from Springer)


I attended a session sponored by Springer about their latest products, including pieces of their web sites that are free to all, whether or not you buy their packages. These include www.springerimages.com (out of 2 million images, 50,000 + are free) www.authormapper.com is free and pulls metadata from Springer publications and from Biomedcentral; beta.Springerlink.com has a "look inside" the Ebook reader; and we also have the opportunity to offer any of our students or faculty something called "MY COPY" which is a print on demand service for any Ebooks that we subscribe to via Springer. For the price of $24.95 including shipping and handling, they can purchase a gray scale copy of any of these books (or download free pdfs of any individual chapters) and we can brand them with the library.

AFTERNOON: Translational Science sessions; Exhibits: Quertle - free search engine (www.quertle.info demo)

(I have code and program for videos and web sites for entire meeting and will try to look over topics that might be of interest to specific people when I get extra time - it will probably be JULY :) )

MLA Day One: Report from our Nation's Capitol by Rochelle Kramer

DAY ONE - Travel Day -
Friday, May 21 -

Toured NPR Library with Kee Malesky - She (and other NPR librarians) keep an internal Wiki to provide journalists and broadcasters with up-to-date info on topics of interest, arranged in a very logical and very useful web site. It is highly used and much appreciated by the NPR staff. To listen to Kee, you would think that Librarians run NPR! She was amazing. We also viewed the music library and its archives. They have hired three new librarians just for digital archiving and are in the process of converting all their transcripts (as well as all their reels and tapes and cds dating back to the beginning of NPR in 1971) eventually to digital media on servers.

My AHA moment was when we we standing around Kee Malesky's office and she had an incoming call from Scott Simon (on her caller id) that she ignored to continue talking to us!


DAY TWO
Saturday, May 22 -

Attended all day symposium on "E-patients: the technocultural revolution of health consumers". Have handouts and web links to sites and info from the day. Speakers included "Librarians in the trenches" - people who have developed electronic systems to interface with medical records such as My Health E Vet and CPRS electronic system as well as Vanderbilt's system (article to be published in July JMLA); then a very emotional session called "consumers in the trenches" that focused on two people "epatient Dave, who survived kidney cancer by doing research on his own disease and advocating for his own care and a famous medical rights advocate named Regina Holliday who is an artist who has painted murals and has also done the cover art for BMJ and other international journals after her husband died of cancer after a horrible experience with medical records and the medical system in DC.

The afternoon session included Q & A and vendor demos of different future integrated systems, including the connection between Medline Plus and some medical records systems where the ICD codes will be used to link to Medline Plus terms.

• avoiding pitfalls - better health literary skills needed - how to search; how to communicate with physician
• better training of health care professionals
• better health website design; testing on real users with mixed literacy skills
• Vanderbilt EMR - evidence provision within; My Health at Vanderbilt - 110,000 users; mostly female
Epatient Dave - www.participatoryMedicine.org Society for participatory medicine; Caringbridge.org

Regina Holliday - BMJ Sept 12, 2009 cover. 73 cents - mural on wall on Connecticut AVE

CIL2010 Postconference: Digital Library Learning Spaces

Alex Cohen, Library Planner, Aaron Cohen Associates
A multigenerational family business for library space planning. Now focusing on transition from print-based space to Learning Commons.

Way to create cultural significance in the physical environment of the library, using endcaps and other space considerations in re equipment and whatnot. In relation to what the library does/collects/serves.

National Library of Greece

Social Fabric - Multifunction space

Cafes don't matter as much as the social gathering space.

Library is a "Place" AND a "Set of Services"

Appreciative Inquiry - turn negatives into positives. What might be. Envisioning impact. what are the best parts of the library. Metaphor - develop a story.
Design - what should be; collaborative work

Basic Assumption that an organization is a problem to be solved, rather than a mystery to be embraced.

Planning:
- Seating
- Staff - the easy part, most architects can do in their sleep
- Collections

Needs Assessment, including a visual scan storyboarding of existing space; basic and expanded library services.

Core collections and deposit collections

RFID Reference Collection - know where a certain book is at any time, even if the students squirrel them away. Prototype for heavy-use ones.

1 Seat = 300 volumes space-wise

Often space planning can trigger a larger change in the institution. Should be proactive and not just reactive.

150# per cubic foot, even if you're not using top and bottom shelves. You will.

Do a linear foot count of collection, and allow 1 sq ft per linear foot (to allow for aisle, etc) = Net Assignable Square Footage. Xx 1.3 to equal gross square footage.

NOW
User seats=50%
Collection=35%
Staff=15%

Flexibility is crucial

Where is the med school gonna be in 2030?

Stanford uses these mobile smartboard carts that can go to whatever room.

The Living Edge - breathing space, personal space, a view PLUS electrical, network, etc.

~ 20 people per space, creates a more intimate environment, where people will self-police. More than that, and it's a horde.

Media wall - a lovely photo of a rat's brain at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology see examples http://vis.ucsd.edu/mediawiki/index.php/News

Quantitative side vs Qualitative side

No desk?!! Stanford has none in their undergrad space, staff walk around w/ tablets and phones. Students were texting the librarians at the desk anyhow!

Bubble diagram w/ service elements

Self Check-in
Self Check-out
Copier room
Media commons
Collaborative Seating
Reference/Learning Commons
Collaborative Learning Area
Media Commons
Periodicals
24 hr seating
Cafe
Scholars workstations (reserved carrels)

Use corners for collaborative learning spaces

NATURAL Lighting wherever possible

Stanford - books on the wall are for show, really - in the main reading room, some of the least-used books. Not for browsing as much as an aesthetic environment.

If you must have a service point/node - make it flexible, moveable, adaptable.

Look at the Apple Store Genius Bar - it's really a reference desk!

Most new Academic Libraries are now including a Faculty Resource Center - particularly for older faculty members who need special help with ppt, blackboard, teaching/training in small group or individual. And they can save face.

He learned a lot in Las Vegas - on comfort zones, focal points, perspective and blur, destinations.

Have handout on paper :(

CIL2010: Developing and Designing for Mobile

Jeff Wisniewski, Web Services Librarian, University of Pittsburgh

50% of all new internet connections are coming from phones, and in 2014 mobile web usage will surpass desktop web usage (source: Morgan Stanley research)

We're talking about the mobile web, NOT mobile apps. The difference is a single platform, all online, with a lower barrier to entry, and continuous updates. An app is installed, requires multiple platforms, and a programmer to develop it.

Mobile web doesn't require a programmer, because it's HTML and CSS. Can continuously evolve. Context is really important - usually an immediate need for information. So they don't care so much about lending policies. They're generally doing it in a distracted environment.

Mobile usability is an oxymoron (Jakob Nielsen). Minimize the need to input. Nobody really does heavy-duty typing on a mobile device. Think speed and latency - even the fastest connections are relatively slow compared to a laptop.

Remember "Don't Make Me Think!" - now it's "don't make me type"

What sort of content might be useful? Ask your users!

Now:

• directions
• hours
• ask a librarian, text a librarian
• contact info

Later

• catalog search and actions (like text it to yourself)
  
• article search and actions
  

Many, many sources already have mobile-optimized sites, including PubMed and Ebsco. Many vendors have an "accessible" version of the catalog that will be more mobile-friendly. Often you have to turn it on, though.

Design considerations:

• single column
• single line
• flatten hierarchy
• short titles

CSS Media type=handlheld? Lies!
most new mobile browsers ignore the handheld style statement, so you get the "full web" on their device.

There's a media query that works more reliably
click to call and/or text

CSS display: none
property to turn off headers, sidebars, etc. to strip out extraneous content
(and you don't have to maintain a separate page)

HTML accesskey
and number them appropriately
- then those links become actionable automatically

-webkit-border-radius:8px; to round corners

you can auto-resize images, but do you really NEED the image??

optimizing for mobile:

• Not the size of the page, but more imporatntly the number of calls to the server. Combine dependent files to render page faster
• Minify your javascript and css cssdrive- csscompressor or dean.edwards.name/packer
• register with Google small business center for LBS awareness
• validate your code

Most major CMSs have templates to render content for mobile

Usability testing is tough with a tiny screen, you may have to test on paper prototypes

Google analytics does mobile tracking
"Clicky" mobile hardware tracking
Standard analytics can filter by user agents.

resources

• mobile OK checker validator.w3.org/mobile
  
• Google webmaster: developing mobile sites
• Mobile speed test mobilespeedtest.com
  
• iPhone interface mockup tool iphonemockup.lkmc.ch
  
• mobile site generator www.hiddenpeanuts.com/msg
  

see good examples at NCSU, Oregon State

HTML5 is gonna help a LOT - developers can accss some functions even if their data connection is dropped.

presentation and links here later http://www.slideshare.net/jeffwisniewski