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Strategic Collaborations in Health Sciences Libraries
Best Practices for Success
Chandos Information Professional Series
Coordinators: Shipman Jean P., Tooey M. J.
Language: EnglishKeywords
Academic health sciences libraries; Academic Health Sciences Library; Active listening; Adolescents; Canada; Care redesign; Clinicians; Collaboration; Community of practice; Consumer health apps; Creative scholarly output; Cross-functional team; Digital health technologies; Digital literacy; EBP; Embedded; Entrepreneurship; Evaluating health apps; Evidence-based health care; Evidence-based practice; Health advocacy; Health app curation; Health disparities; Health equity; Health literacy; Health sciences librarians; Health sciences libraries; Health-care reform; Impact; Information professionals; Innovation; Interdisciplinary; Interprofessional collaborations; Interprofessional health-care teams; Librarians; Libraries; Library planning; Listening tour; Makerspace; Mobile health technologies; Multidisciplinary working; National Health Service; Open access; Outreach; Patient engagement; Patient portals; Publishing; Quality improvement; Safety net; Scholarly Communications; Space planning; Special collections; Strategic partnership; Strategic planning; Tri-Agency; United Kingdom; User input; Video-based curricula; Virtual reality; Visualization; Wellness and fitness
190 p. · 15x22.8 cm · Paperback
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Health sciences librarians need to optimize collaborating with others in their institutions and beyond. An understanding of what leads to successful collaborations is beneficial and empowering. By using case studies of varieties of collaborations, Strategic Collaborations in Health Sciences Libraries provides a framework and evidence about key factors to consider when thinking about building and sustaining successful collaborations. Readers of this book are encouraged to contact the chapter authors to obtain more details than those provided in the book. This connection between experts with collaboration experience and those seeking to understand successful collaborations is the key impact of this book.
1. CEBIS: Collaborating with clinicians to inform evidence based practice 2. Collaboration is Key: Advancing the Academic Health Sciences Library's Mission through Campus Partnerships with Library Spaces 3. Collaborating to connect the underserved with patient portals 4. Finding our way without a road MAP: Cultivating a UK-wide community of practice 5. Open collaboration: How separate library systems harmonized their support for open access scholarship 6. Bringing the evidence to the table: Librarians partner with performance improvement for high quality, safe, and cost-effective patient care 7. Successful collaborations at the local and national level build teenagers’ skills to advocate for improved health: Project SHARE 8. Strengthening strategic planning through diverse collaborations 9. e-channel: A platform for disseminating the scholarly output of innovators 10. It takes a village: Operating an app bar within a hospital
Postgraduate students, researchers and librarians in health science; researchers and librarians involved in library and information science
Mary Joan (M.J.) Tooey, MLS, AHIP, FMLA, is associate vice president, academic affairs and executive director of the Health Sciences and Human Services Library at the University of Maryland where she has worked in various library positions since 1986. She is also the director of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine’s Southeastern Atlantic Regional Medical Library and the National DOCLINE Coordinating Of?ce under a cooperative agreement with the National Library of Medicine at National Institutes of Health. She received her MLS from the University of Pittsburgh. Tooey served as president of the Medical Library Association (2005e06), is a disti
- Focusing on the positive aspect of collaboration in health sciences libraries, this book encourages others to form collaborations mutually beneficial to the library and the collaboration partner.
- Through case studies, readers are exposed to new ideas and ways to enhance existing collaborations.
- By contacting individual authors and learning more about their experiences, readers share ideas and connect with a network of librarians with collaboration expertise.