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Spring 2021
 Keeping readers up to date on the library resources, services, & staff news
of UW-Madison's Ebling Library (Health Sciences)
Transitions

As we enter into summer 2021, Ebling Library space remains limited to the School of Medicine and Public Health and UW Hospital faculty, staff, and students (though any patrons can make appointments with individual librarians for research and resource help). Barring unforeseen changes as the pandemic threat declines, Ebling Library plans to open its doors to a wider audience beginning August 9th. At that time we hope to open our library to all from 8am - 7pm Monday - Thursday and 8am - 5pm on Friday. As is the case now and will be this fall, our reference services are available from 9am - 4pm Monday - Friday. These services will remain virtual for now, but will be a mix of in-person or virtual this fall. Ebling Library is developing a new services component to our website that will make it easier for patrons to connect to our staff in a variety of formats including video/audio meetings, chat, and a request forms.  

Questions or comments about Ebling Library space and services can be directed to Christopher Hooper-Lane.
Ebling Library in the News

Ebling staff is proud to share this story from UW-Madison Libraries Magazine! "A Critical Partnership: How Libraries Played a Key Role in COVID-19 Research & Response," (pp. 6-11) by Natasha Veeser, which highlights Ebling Library's role in COVID-19 research. As Ebling Library's Director, Christopher Hooper-Lane, MA, AHIP, suggested, “Our librarians are involved all along that path (from bench to bedside), and the expertise we bring is essential during times like these when the immediate need for the best evidence is critical for our care of our community.” Perhaps you or your department needs assistance from our expert searchers! Find them here.
New Data Storage Finder

Allan Barclay, MLIS, Ebling Library's Information Architect, contributed to the development of the new campus Data Storage Finder. This resource was developed to provide discovery for centralized campus research storage services. Many of the storage services are also available for teaching, outreach, or administrative use cases.
Go Big Read Choice is Another Winner

The Go Big Read choice for 2021-2022 is Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom, a novel about the intersections of science, religion, love and faith.

Transcendent Kingdom follows the story of Gifty, a PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine who studies reward-seeking behavior in mice as it relates to depression and addiction. Gifty grapples with understanding and reconciling her work in the hard sciences with her religious upbringing while also dealing with her depressed mother, and the remaining trauma of losing her brother Nana to a heroin overdose. This story also addresses issues with immigration and reconciling different cultures, race, and family. All themes being considered in national discussions near and far.

If you are an instructor who would like to include Transcendent Kingdom in your coursework this fall or next spring, please ask for copies and suggest how you will be using the book here.

Corpus Callosum Wows Again

Daffodils and blue bells arrived, which heralded the Spring 2021 issue of Ebling Library’s online art journal, Corpus Callosum! Thank you to Managing Editor, Lia Vellardita, MA, for another impressive issue.

The Spring issue includes photos, poems, crafts, audio pieces, and paintings showing a wide range of robust artistic sensibilities contributed by UW-Madison’s health sciences students, faculty, and staff. It’s quite stunning. See for yourself.

Sidebar art:

Odin (2017) by Jill Iwanski, Department of Medicine,
Acrylic on canvas, 11″ x 14″

Lu (2020) by Nichole Rauch, Department of Surgery.
Acrylic painting, 9″ x 11″
Breaths of Fresh Air Gathering

A wonderful virtual event was held this May that included 17 artists published in Corpus Callosum. Artists spoke about their published work and offered insight on how they balance art making and work, their inspirations, what art-making means to them, and the importance of creating during the pandemic. The varied insights from colleagues that we characterize as health care professionals were illuminating and personal. There is something here for everyone. The event was hosted by Lia Vellardita, MA, and moderated by Christopher Hooper-Lane, MA, AHIP, Elizabeth Petty, MD, and Lisa Brazke, PhD. The event was recorded and will soon be available in SMPH's Video Library and the Corpus Callosum website.
EBLING LIBRARY BRIEFS
  • A new guide created by Paije Wilson, MA, has been added to our website: Publication Tracking. This guide is designed to help individuals and groups in the process of searching for and compiling publications from a specific author, group of authors, or institution.
  • Two of Ebling Library's most popular Research Guides, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Overview and General Resources and Investigating the Pandemic of 1918, are continually being reviewed and updated. Join your colleagues in learning the latest on DEI and health care and the similarities and differences between the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and our own COVID-19.
  • If you are in Ebling Library this summer, feel free to spend some time browsing through our Recreational Reading Collection and check out a book or two for your summer reading pleasure. Many books have been added to this collection.
  • Since we have not been placing the popular magazines on the magazine rack during this time of COVID-19, feel free to grab a popular magazine or two to take home. They are located on the table near the front entrance.
  • Ebling Library is a Resource Library within the Network of the National Library of Medicine. The regions of this network restructured as of May 1, 2021, and the Wisconsin libraries in this network are now part of Region 6, formerly known as the Greater Midwest Region (GMR). Resource Libraries like Ebling Library take the lead in regional resource sharing and provide services to smaller libraries within their states.
  • Ebling Library hosted book discussions during the Spring, and lively, thought-provoking conversations were had about books like Kim E. Nielsen's Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott and James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time. Consider facilitating a discussion on a book of your choosing! Look here for future discussions or to volunteer.
  • The Ebling Library had a hand in helping the UW SMPH GWIMS (Group on Women in Medicine and Science) host a gripping panel discussion on the film Picture A Scientist that drew over 100 registrants.
  • Doors were installed on the 3rd floor walkway between the Ebling Library and the Interactive Learning Center & Standardized Patient classroom. This will help secure the library and, more importantly, mitigate noise.
  • We are in the beginning stages of developing a new look for our services on Ebling Library's website to make it easier for our patrons to access our services and professional expertise from any location. Look for a beta version soon! 
  • If you have something to promote, especially as we move towards in person gatherings, Ebling Library has a new Announcement Board hanging just past the entrance. Plenty of space for your flyer!
EBLING STAFF NEWS
  • Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, MA, MS was awarded the 2021 Lisabeth M. Holloway Service Award by her peers at LAMPHHS (Librarians, Archivists, Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences). This award recognizes involvement with the administration of LAMPHHS (Micaela held all the offices), local arrangements coordination (3 conferences, including this year’s remote!), and publications and presentations for LAMPHHS. The Holloway also included consideration of her work at Ebling Library including mentoring of students, liaison work with the Department of Medical History and Bioethics, exhibition installation, reference and instruction, and the building of collections for example the capturing of journal advertisements during Ebling Library’s Transformation Project, now being coordinated with UW’s UWDC for database accessibility.  
  • And in the “when it rains, it pours” category, Micaela also received the 2021 Publication/Website Award from LAMPHHS for her research guide: Investigating the Pandemic of 1918 and its Relationship to Today's Coronavirus: A History of the Health Sciences Guide.
  • The 2020 Midwest Data Librarian Symposium -- an unconference for data and librarians -- was co-chaired by Cameron Cook and Trisha Adamus, MLIS, and co-hosted by the General Library System and Ebling Library. 
  • Christopher Hooper-Lane, MA, AHIP, and Lia Vellardita, MA, presented a session entitled, "Developing well rounded patrons through the arts: three library initiatives to integrate the humanities into our health community" at the Medical Library Association Annual Conference, Virtual Meeting, May 2021.
  • Heidi Marleau, MA, co-authored “Home and community-based caregiver interventions to improve health for children with medical complexity: a systematic review" that was presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Virtual Meeting, May 2021.
  • Shout out to Diane Mueller, who, nearly twice a week has trekked to the Middleton Storage Facility for journals to be picked up, scanned, and then shared with requestors from all over the country and for schlepping entire volumes back to Ebling Library for researchers poring over historical material. So many staff members doing unprecedented, thoughtful work during the COVID pandemic.
  • The summer research internships are off to a great start! Leslie Christensen, MA, who oversees the Shapiro Scholars, led an instruction session for the Summer Shapiro Scholars on May 19th entitled "PubMed and Beyond: Refining and Translating Your Search Strategy". The session was recorded and is available for on demand viewing in the Video Library section of the Medical Students Resources course. Ebling Library staff also created a web page for summer research interns to get assistance with their projects—just look for the box Summer Research.
  • After co-authoring several articles on the psychological aspects of elite athletes for the International Olympic Committee, Mary Hitchcock, MA, MS, is now working with the NCAA on research concerning the social, professional, and mental health aspects of transgender athletes.
  • Joe King, MA, tells us that materials from the Middleton Shelving Facility are now requestable via the library catalog -- pickup is still limited to Memorial and Steenbock Libraries as before (and delivery is still operating slowly) but that will change later this summer. We may be able to facilitate transfer of the items, which can be used at Ebling, especially if it's historical material. Ask us here.
RECENT STAFF PUBLICATIONS
  • Musuuza JS, Watson L, Parmasad V, Putman-Buehler N, Christensen L, Safdar N. Prevalence and outcomes of co-infection and superinfection with SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS One. 2021 May 6;16(5):e0251170.
  • Lee SL, Yadav P, Starekova J, Christensen L, Chandereng T, Chappell R, Reeder SB, Bassetti MF. Diagnostic performance of MRI for esophageal carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Radiology. 2021;299(3):583-594.
  • Hitchcock M, Christensen L. Searching for evidence. In: Murphy MP, Staffileno BA, Foreman MD, eds. Research for Advanced Practice Nurses: From Evidence to Practice. 4th Ed. Springer; 2021.
  • Arroyo NA, Gessert T, Hitchcock M, Tao M, Smith CD, Greenberg C, Fernandes-Taylor S, Francis DO. What promotes surgeon practice change? A scoping review of innovation adoption in surgical practice. Annals of Surgery. 2021;273(3):474-482.
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