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Hospital Librarians: Training the Next Generation of Doctors
Get PDFHospital librarians address a wide array of information needs. They help nurses figure out how to take care of patients, help physicians with difficult cases, help families get reliable health information, and sometimes the information they provide even helps save a life. They also play an important role in training the next generation of doctors. At one hospital in Oregon, Providence St. Joseph Health System Library Services has integrated traditional library instruction directly into the curriculum of the Internal Medicine Residency Program.
Providence St. Joseph Health (PSJH) System Library Services has a staff of 16 librarians and library paraprofessionals dedicated to meeting the information needs of a diverse group of patrons: the employees and medical staff of the PSJH healthcare system. The library staff supports patient care, scientific research, business, and continuing education needs of employees and medical staff, but is also a key part of training the future healthcare workforce as well. The library provides resources and services to support employees who are obtaining academic degrees to advance their career in healthcare, as well as education support and training for the School of Health Professions of the affiliated University of Providence, and the many graduate medical education programs located in hospitals across the health system. As the librarians located at medical schools play a key role in the education of our future doctors, so too do hospital librarians as they work with new doctors during their time in medical residency
Pierce Library’s Night Against Procrastination
Get PDFThere is a reason we are probably all familiar with the term “all-nighter,” whether we work in academia or elsewhere. The tendency to procrastinate is so common; most of us are likely to have had the experience of writing a paper late into the night before it is due or making a last-ditch attempt to learn concepts the night before a final exam. There are many strategies for dealing with, preventing, or avoiding procrastination, but a group of students and tutors at the European University Viadrina (EUV) in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany, came up with a novel twist on the traditional all-nighter, turning it into a strategy instead of a last resort (Datig & Herkner, 2014).
Suggested by these students, the “Long Night Against Procrastination” originated through a Writing Center-Library collaboration at EUV, and many libraries in the U.S. and abroad have adopted the model (Landgraf, 2014). The general philosophy is that students pull the all-nighter before the last minute, getting on top of assignments and out in front of exams. The events are filled with organized study breaks, activities, food, and other incentives to participate, and they present an opportunity to build goodwill between students and library staff.
Eastern Oregon University’s Writing Center planned and held EOU’s first Night Against Procrastination, or NAP, in collaboration with the Learning Center (tutor services) in Winter 2016. The event ran from 5:00 p.m. on a Friday until 2:00 a.m. on Saturday, and it featured games and activities organized by tutors every 45 minutes, pizza at 6:00 p.m., and pancakes at midnight. When the second NAP event was held in the Learning Center the following year, librarians asked to participate, and two reference librarians from Pierce Library offered research assistance alongside tutors
Wild Wild Archive: Analog Videotape of the Rajneesh Movement at the Oregon Historical Society
Get PDFIn 1989, local Portland television station KGW donated 512 U-matic videotapes to the Oregon Historical Society (OHS). Shot between 1983 and 1985, the collection consists of more than 300 hours of footage related to the Rajneesh movement in Oregon—when followers of the spiritual teacher Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh set up an intentional community three hours southeast from Portland. The donation included minimal documentation and no finding aid. The tapes were the end result of several years’ worth of work by local camera operators and reporters at the news station. Ranging in location from downtown Portland to Berlin discos to the building of the town of Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, the tapes are a thorough documentation of a specific moment in history. For Oregon, it was an engaging story—one which the stations recognized as newsworthy almost immediately, though no one at the time could imagine how it would end.
By the time the tapes were donated in 1989, the story of the Rajneesh movement was a recent memory. Rajneeshpuram no longer existed, the ranch had been sold, and many of its followers had moved on. KGW, in looking to maximize the physical space at its station as well as ensure that the tapes wouldn’t be erased for re-use, reached out to OHS to provide long-term access. The tapes were accessioned and moved to an environmentally-controlled storage facility for long-term care
Continuously Adapting: The Bonneville Power Administration Library
Get PDFDuring my 2009 interview for a librarian position at the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the panel members laughingly admitted that the BPA Library needed “a facelift.” I could see what they meant—the space, crowded with stacks, did not contain a seating area and lacked a “modern technology” feel. Instead, the team had focused its energy on something very important: preserving BPA’s history.
A bit of background about BPA and its library: the U.S. Government built Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams in the 1930s and 1940s as part of the New Deal. Power from these massive projects strengthened the Northwest economy and brought electricity to rural areas that were not served by existing utilities. Congress created BPA in 1937 to sell and deliver power from dams in the Pacific Northwest Columbia River power system. BPA needed a way to centralize all the technical information required to operate one of the nation’s largest high voltage transmission systems and in 1939, the BPA Library was created.
The Library still focuses on supporting the technical reference and research needs of the BPA workforce, but with so much history behind us, our scope has expanded to include 500,000 BPA photographs, 8,000 BPA-published documents, and about ten films. Now, apart from the BPA workforce, we also assist researchers, scholars, and members of the public who are curious about the role BPA played in the development of the Pacific Northwest
Volume 24 Issue 1 Introduction
Get PDFWhen I entered graduate school at the University of Washington (UW) in 2000, I knew I wanted to be a public librarian. However, with an undergraduate minor in art and a pervasive interest in museums, I remained secretly fascinated by special libraries. I mean, how cool would it be to work at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library & Archives (http://library.rockhall.com/home) or the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (http://www.oscars.org/library)?
According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook, “(s)pecial librarians work in settings other than school or public libraries … Law firms, hospitals, businesses, museums, government agencies, and many other groups have their own libraries that use special librarians” (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018, para. 10). According to the American Library Association, there are approximately 6,966 special libraries or information centers (“special libraries include Corporate, Medical, Law, Religious, etc.”) in the United States (American Library Association, 2015, para. 5)
The Difference in Efficiency and Pulmonary Function While Performing Cycle Ergometry on Land and in Water
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to quantify the difference in net efficiency and pulmonary function while performing cycle ergometry on land in water. Thirty healthy adults (mean ± SD, age, 20 ± 2 y; stature, 165 ± 10 cm; mass, 70 ± 5 kg) participated in one day of testing consisting of both land and water conditions. Heart rate, O2 consumption, CO2 production, rated perceived exertion, and minute ventilation were measured for both conditions at rest, pedaling at no resistance, 50, and 100 W for two minutes. A repeated measures two-way ANOVA with post hoc tests was used to analyzed the data. The magnitude of physiological functions (rated perceived exertion, minute ventilation, energy expenditure, & heart rate) increased at higher resistance levels (50 and 100W) in water as compared to land. Efficiency decreased at 50 and 100W in water. Energy expenditure and minute ventilation both increase while cycling in water, resulting in a decrease of efficiency by 4.61%. This is due to the drag forces associated with fluid dynamics. This study and its results add to the understanding of water exercise and are beneficial to the rehabilitation and the general well-being and health of the population
Weekend Warrior vs. Regularly Active: A Comparison of Physical Activity Frequency in Decreasing Mortality
Get PDFBackground: Physical activity has long been known to be an integral part of a healthy lifestyle. It has been shown to reduce risk of early mortality and play a vital role in increasing health span. Although physical activity is one of the most consistent and effective lifestyle choices that can positively impact health, physical inactivity has become the fourth leading risk factor for mortality worldwide. Reasons for inactivity vary, but among the more common barriers, lack of time is one of the most prevalent and modifiable reason for not meeting physical activity guidelines. To manage time commitments, some individuals choose to compress their physical activity into 1 or 2 sessions per week. Those who practice this condensed form of physical activity pattern have been termed “weekend warriors.” Since weekend warriors do not meet the WHO recommended frequency, this raises the question, can being a weekend warrior decrease mortality as effectively as the regularly active?
Methods: A comprehensive search of medical literature was completed using MEDLINE-Ovid, Web of Science, and CINAHL with key words weekend warrior,exercise and mortality. Relevant studies that met inclusion criteria were assessed for quality with the GRADE Working Group guidelines.
Results: Two articles met the inclusion criteria, both of which were prospective cohort studies. The two studies examined similar primary outcomes, one study expanding on the research of the other. The results were fairly consistent between the two studies. One study found that when adjusted for health risk factors, weekend warriors had a 59% decrease in mortality vs. 42% decrease in those regularly active. The other study found despite obesity and major health risk factors, decrease in mortality of weekend warriors was only slightly inferior to those who were regularly active, 30% vs. 35%, respectively.
Conclusion: The two studies provide evidence that physical activity, regardless of it being less than recommended guidelines, or when it meets recommended guidelines in shorter bouts of frequency, can decrease mortality and offer considerable health benefit— even in the obese and those with major risk factors. However, due to the very low quality of both studies, further research is required to validate the results and to determine whether being a true long term weekend warrior is a beneficial physical activity regimen that can offer long term health outcomes.
Keywords: weekend warrior, exercise, mortalit
An Introduction to Technical Theatre
Get PDFAn Introduction to Technical Theatre draws on the author’s experience in both the theatre and the classroom over the last 30 years. Intended as a resource for both secondary and post-secondary theatre courses, this text provides a comprehensive overview of technical theatre, including terminology and general practices.
Introduction to Technical Theatre’s accessible format is ideal for students at all levels, including those studying technical theatre as an elective part of their education. The text’s modular format is also intended to assist teachers approach the subject at their own pace and structure, a necessity for those who may regularly rearrange their syllabi around productions and space scheduling.https://commons.pacificu.edu/pup/1002/thumbnail.jp
Early Detection of Visual Dysfunction in 5th and 6th Grade Readers Based on Head Movements and Head Position During Reading Activities
No full textPurpose An investigation into the relationship between head movements while reading and visual dysfunction in children. This study was designed as an attempt to validate commonly held optometric beliefs that visual symptoms can manifest as head tilts, head movements, or heads positioned close to reading material. Methods Head movements were tracked with a webcam while 5th and 6th grade students, ages 10 and 11, were reading for fifteen minutes. Head movement behaviors were then compared to their vision screening results and a teacher observation checklist filled out by their classroom teachers. Results A total of 24 subjects participated in the study to completion. Although, subjectively head movement differences were noted between subjects, objectively no statistically significant correlations were found between head movements, vision data, or the teacher observation checklist. Discussion The lack of literature in the area of head movements while reading and a child’s visual system may be in part due to the difficulty of analyzing such behaviors objectively and habitually at the same time, or alternatively because no such correlation is present in the overwhelming majority of students