Get a Sneak Peek of MLA ’25 Contributed Content: Accepted Lightning Talks and Posters

Submitted by: Emily Brennan

Great news! We’ve officially accepted lightning talk presentations and posters for MLA ’25. This content brings fresh insights from your peers in health sciences librarianship and helps shape the future of the field. We can’t wait to hear more at MLA ’25!

More details will be made available in the MLA ’25 online planner soon! Check out a sneak peek of papers and immersion sessions.

Special thanks to the volunteer reviewers and the Contributed Content Working Group (CCWG) who helped make this all possible!

Round 2 Contributed Content Submission Stats

• 61 Lightning Talks selected out of 96
• 124 Posters selected out of 171

Below are the accepted lighting talks and posters for MLA ’25!

Lightning Talks

Artificial Intelligence

• Pushing Deeper Than the ‘Yada, Yada, Yada’ of AI: Equipping Medical Students to Use AI in Their Research and Talk About AI With Their Patients
• Bringing AI Into Family Medicine Clerkship: OpenEvidence as a Conversation Starter
• EndNote Buddy: One Library’s Custom GPT Automated Self-Service Customer Service Bot
• Scrutinizing AI Tools for Medical Literature Searches
• Launching an Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group: Building Knowledge in Rapidly Changing Waters
• Evaluation of Cochrane’s Evidence Pipeline for Populating CENTRAL: 99% Sensitivity in the Identification of Unique Reports of Randomized Trials

Career Development

• Establishing the Southern Chapter’s Early Career Librarians Initiative: Empowering the Next Generation of Library Leaders
• Deciding When to Uproot and Replant for Renewed Career Growth and Avoid Burnout
• Experiencing the Whole Systematic Review Process: Bridging Our Knowledge Gap
• Be Your Own Public Speaking Superhero: Finding Your Presentation Persona
• Outlining a Medical Library Internship Experience: Creating a Calendar for Prospective or Current MLIS Students
• Adding Poster Sessions to a Virtual MLA Chapter Annual Meeting Using Free Digital Archive Software

Clinical Support

• Communicating to GME Trainees: Using a Needs Assessment Survey Data to Inform Targeted Audiences of Library Services
• Training: Can One Size Fit All?

Collection Management

• Leveraging SUSHI Counter Data for Informed Decision-Making in a System of Medical Libraries
• Virtual Author Program at a Hospital Library
• Leveraging Relationships and Usage Data: Collaborative Decision-Making in Response to Unsustainable Publisher Costs

Consumer Health

• Libraries and Patient Portal Assistance: Bridging Gaps in Skills and Service
• Cultivating an Outreach Readiness Mindset
• Exploring Health Insurance Literacy Research: Personal vs. Organizational

Copyright/Intellectual Property

• PubMed: A Source of Open Images?
• Journal Selection Analysis: One Institution’s Publication Trends

Data Services and Management

• Sustaining Metadata Integrity in a Mature Data Discovery Platform
• Ensuring Digital Accessibility in an Institutional Data Catalog
• Increasing the Reach of Data: Teaching Researchers About Data Articles

Expert Searching

• Reviewing the Systematic Reviewers: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Systematic Review Producers in MLA
• Understanding the Landscape of “Letter” Publication Types in MEDLINE

Health Equity

• Conducting a Methodology Review on Health Disparities Research: Future Insights into Public Health
• From Research Guides to Curriculum Change: A Collaborative Approach to Advancing Health Equity Education

Instruction

• Automated Rubrics for EBM Assessment
• Making Thinking Visible: Using Thinking Routines to Promote Critical Thinking Skills in Health Science Students
• Measuring Library Instruction Success: Utilizing Project Outcome and Exit Ticket Data on LibWizard
• Health Literacy Workshops in Public High School Career Technical Education Classrooms
• Evaluating the Usefulness of Library Tools in Support of a Health Sciences Curriculum and the Helpfulness of Librarian Assistance: A Survey of Students’ Perceptions
• Supporting a Medical School Research Practicum Course – Five Years in Review
• Empowering Faculty Through Library Collaboration: A Micro-Credential Program for Research and Publishing
• Bridging the Gap Between Student Needs and Library Services for a Health Sciences Writing Course
• Providing and promoting open access (OA) and open educational resources (OER) never hurts! It only benefits!

Leadership and Management

• Strengthening Library Services with a Dedicated Advisory Committee: Establishment and Strategic Development
• Are You Being Served? A Systematic Review Service Conceptual Framework to Promote Collaboration and Interprofessionalism
• Data in Action: Creating a Dashboard Using Power BI to Demonstrate the Library’s Value to Stakeholders
• Experiences of People with ADHD in the United States Health Sciences Library Field
• A Sense-ational Solution: Implementing Sensory Spaces in Medical Libraries
• Creating Therapeutic Spaces in an Academic Library
• A Library’s Role in the Co-Creation of a DEI Book Club

Outreach

• Innovative Insights and Traditional Wisdom: Tools to Evaluate Generative AI and Social Media
• Anatomy of a Puzzle

Research

• Barriers to Publication Among Graduate Medical Education Residents: A Qualitative Case Study
• Exploration of Writing Support Services in Libraries at Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
• The Power of Precision: Examining Librarian Impact on Systematic Review Search Quality
• Ready, Check, Go! Integrating a Research Team Checkpoint Tracker into an Evidence Synthesis Services Communication Flow

Scholarly Communication

• A Snapshot of Library Publishing Activities in the Health Sciences
• Systematic Reviews
• Mapping Overlaps of Primary Studies in Umbrella and Meta-Reviews

Technology

• Adapting MLA’s “My Favorite Tool” for a Large Academic Library

Virtual Lightning Talks

• AI and Collections in Health Sciences Libraries: Bridging the Gap Between Publisher Tools and the Libraries
• Pink Pony Club: A Year of Implementing Fun Initiatives to Foster Well-being
• “Can ChatGPT Answer Patient’s Questions?”
• Exploring Data Preservation and Sharing Language in Common Evidence Synthesis Guidance Documents
• Using AI To Locate Academic and Government Conversations on Public Health Policy
• Centers, Institutes, and Hospitals, Oh My! Creating an Evidence Map at an Ivy Plus University with Diverse Affiliates

Posters

Artificial Intelligence

• Use of AI in Information Services Delivery in Medical Libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa
• A Multi-Model Evaluation: Harnessing Generative AI To Understand the State-of-the-Art of Literature Search Automation
• Analyzing Consumer Health Search Results from Four Generative AI Models
• Database Usage Patterns in Existing Systematic and Scoping Reviews
• PubMed vs AI: Comparison of Search Results
• Exploring Cancer Survivors’ Perspectives on AI Personalization and CAM: A Card-Based Co-Design Approach Using ISP
• From Barriers to Bridges: A Scoping Review of Inclusive AI for Equitable Pediatric Care
• Generative AI for Systematic Reviews: Developing Effective Prompt Engineering Strategies for ChatGPT 4.0 in Health Librarianship
• Asking the Ethical Questions: Critically Testing a Homegrown LLM at a University Medical Library
• Self-Curated Personalization of Medical Education in an Appalachian Medical School: Insights for Development of Artificial Intelligence Tools and Med
• Generative Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education: Introducing Generative AI in the Context of Evidence-Based Practice and Ethical Authors
• The Case of the Charming Clinician: Development of an Instructional Health Misinformation Escape Room
• NLP-Driven Sentiment Analysis of Student Space and Wellness Needs in an Academic Health Sciences Library
• Exploring the Impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medical Libraries
• Resources and Tools to Combat Fake Science in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
• Publishers’ AI Requirements: A Review of Journals’ Policies from One Institution’s Publications
• A Fork in the Road: Machine Learning Classifier or Methodological Search Filter to Identify Systematic Reviews?

Career Development

• Collaborative Learning in Action: Onboarding Liaison Librarians for Evidence Synthesis
• Pivoting with Purpose: From Statewide Gatherings to Virtual Spaces
• Developing a Coaching Plan to Help Employees Build a Bridge for Career Success
• Building Our Own Bridge: Paving the Way to New Promotion and Tenure Guidelines
• Professional Coaching: A Bridge to the Future
• Census of Public Health Librarianship Within the United States

Clinical Support

• Your Voice, Your Library: Take the Survey!
• 3-Step PubMed Expedite Article Request Form
• Hidden in Plain Sight: Creating Guides to Highlight Nursing CEU and Certification Resources
• Rural Medicine Resources: Meeting the Needs of Rural Medicine Practitioners
• Librarian Support for Hospital GME Programs: Evaluating a New Position
• Searching for the Best Medicine: A Hospital Library’s Approach to Addressing the Information Needs of Pharmacy Staff
• Providing a S.H.I.E.L.D When Disaster Strikes: Librarians and Healthcare Providers Collaborate to Create Deployable Containers That Include Essential

Collection Management

• Laying Foundations for Inventory and Deselection in an Academic Health Sciences Library’s Print Collection: Challenges, Approach, and Goals
• My Serials Checklist Manifesto: A Simple Tool to Deliver Consistent Results and Save Time
• Revitalizing the Print Collection at a Health Sciences Library: Bridging Space, Budget, and User Needs
• What’s in the Collection? A Collection Analysis of Underrepresentation in a Health Sciences Library
• Power in Numbers-Cost Savings Through a Multi-Campus License
• Board Exam Prep Resource Trends in Academic Health Sciences Libraries Serving Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine Programs
• Strategic Integration of Health System and Medical School Libraries: A Case Study
• Improving Accessibility of Anatomy Physical Study Aids
• Drawing a Crowd: Reaching Medical Students Through Graphic Medicine
• Collaborate to Transform: Revolutionizing Library Workflows and Services with Alma Implementation

Community Building and Belonging

• From DEI to JEDI: The DEI Committees of MLA’s Chapters
• AAMLA: 25 Years of Surviving, Thriving, and Inspiring
• Development and Validation of a Search Hedge for Transgender and Gender Diverse Populations in Ovid MEDLINE
• Delivering an Information Literacy Curriculum and Introduction to Librarianship to New York City High School Students
• Stories That Heal: Bridging Minds and Mental Health with the Care and Custody Exhibition

Consumer Health

• MyChart: Leveraging Libraries as Partners in Patient Portal Access
• A Reference-by-Mail Program to People Who Are Incarcerated: A Pilot Program
• Booked for Wellness: Mental Health Kits for Academic Libraries

Data Services and Management

• The Index: Its Past, Present, and Future
• A Generalist Institutional Data Repository Offering Both Open and Restricted Access to Support NIH Data Sharing Compliance
• Outcomes of a Multi-Year Data Internship Program for LIS Graduate Students
• Data Services Education for the Health Information Community
• Enhancing the Quality of Reference Services Through Insights of International Students at a Medical University Library
• From Discounts to Decisions: Researchers’ Open Access Submission Trends and Library’s Promotion Strategies
• Bridging Bioscience Buildings of Past and Present Through Information Science
• Analyzing Data Management and Sharing Plan Just-in-Time Edit Requests from the National Institutes of Health
• Transforming Research Data Management and Advancing Open Science at [Institution] Library with Dataverse
• Development of a Lightweight Dataset Catalog with Digital Commons
• “Turning Feedback into Future: UX Assessment at MUSC Library”

Evidence-Based Practice

• From Literature to Practice: Expanding the Librarians’ Roles in Evidence-Based Medicine
• Implementing Feedback in the Library Orientation Course: Librarians as Active Collaborators in the Medical Curriculum
• Advanced Library Research in Evidence-Based Medicine: A Credit-Bearing Undergraduate Library Course
• EBM Express: Teaching Traditional Skills in a 2025 Way
• Designing the Perfect Library Sessions for Physician Assistant Evidence Based Medicine Education
• Osteopathic Research: Literature Trends and Librarian Insights
• Observed Forms of Cognitive Bias Among Health Information Professionals
• Blogs as Data: Using XQuery for Content Evaluation
• Supporting Evidence-Informed Decision Making for Nursing QI Initiatives: A Partnership Between Nurse Scientists and a Clinical Informationist
• Information-Seeking Behavior of Healthcare Professionals: A Scoping Review Protocol

Expert Searching

• Enhancing Public Health Through Legislative Awareness
• Supporting Evidence-Based Policy Making Through Medical Literature Searches
• Validating Search Strategies for Healthy People 2030’s Leading Health Indicators: An Update on the PH/HA Caucus’s Structured Evidence Queries Project
• Biological and Medical Sciences Librarians Support Veterans Exposure Care to Environmental Hazards During Military Service
• What’s in a Name? Rebranding a Successful Systematic Review Service
• Conduct Systematic Reviews with Confidence: New ClinicalTrials.gov Tools and Guides

Health Equity

• Collaboration Between Medical Library and Student Counseling Center
• What Does the Body Know? Nursing Students’ Epistemic Beliefs About Embodied Health Misinformation

Instruction

• A Quantitative Analysis of Classes Exploring Factors That Make Participants More Likely to Claim CE Credit
• Information Literacy for Public Health: Supporting Undergraduate Success with Asynchronous Canvas Modules
• Information Literacy Competencies of Zambia Postgraduate Students: A Case of the School of Medicine, Public Health, Health and Nursing
• Instilling the Value of Health Sciences Libraries Early
• “A Health Sciences Library by Any Other Name…” Continuing Library Services in a Time of Academic Transformation
• Collaborating with a Pediatric Nurse Residency Program
• Bridging the Gap: Building a Partnership with the School of Dentistry Office of Student Affairs
• Bridging Campuses: Collaborative Support for Nursing at a Public Research University
• Bridging Borders: Enhancing Global Health Education Through a Scoping Review Pilot Program
• Active Learning Combined with a Focus on Privilege and Cultural Nuance Enhances Public Health Student Engagement
• Bridging the Gap Between Submissions: Impact of Librarian Feedback on First-Year Medical Student Research Assignments
• Medical Students Are Making Health-Related Content on Wikipedia Easier to Read
• Bridging History and Innovation: Introducing Advanced Technological Services at the Academic Medical Library
• Creative Use of Technology to Train Student Workers to Assist with Basic Chat Reference

International

• Establishing the Evidence Base: Informationist Engagement in the Sub-Saharan Africa University Gender-Based Violence Research and Prevention Network

Leadership and Management

• Redefining Study Spaces: Meeting Evolving User Needs in a Post-COVID Library
• Bridging University and Hospital Libraries: Data-Driven Strategies for Developing a New Medical School
• Uncovering the Narrative: How Our Library Led the Charge on a Historic Book Project
• Restoring History: Launching a Collaborative Adopt-a-Book Program
• All Hands-On Desk: Cross-Departmental Collaboration with a Single-Desk Service Model
• Connecting Librarians to Purpose Using Springshare’s NPS® Tool
• Speaking Up Without Burning Bridges: Mastering the Art of Communication When Working with Systematic Review Teams

Outreach

• Promoting Library Services at Network of Care Locations
• How Traveling Exhibitions Can Build Engagement: An Analysis of Host Institution Follow-Up Reports
• Bridging the Gap: Filling Statewide Public Health Information Needs as a Partner Library
• Community Harm Reduction: Library Outreach and Collaboration to End the Opioid Epidemic
• Building Bridges: The Role of Medical Librarians in Launching the CAGS Foundation
• Showcasing Scholarly Impact with Bibliometrics and Altmetrics
• Getting the Word Out: Promoting Open Access Agreements to Health Science Professionals Through Collaboration and Outreach Initiatives

Research

• Focal Points of Hyper Funding Researchers in Life Sciences
• Using the MISO Survey at an Academic Health Sciences Library
• Chiropractic Educational Partners’ Perceptions of Scientific Journals and Predatory Publishing: A Cross-Sectional Survey
• Are Citations in Policy Documents Useful for Measuring Research Impact?

Scholarly Communication

• Scholarly Communications Services from the NIH Library

Systematic Reviews

• Guiding Evidence Synthesis Teams: Review Project Management and Task Tracking
• Bridging the Path: A Roadmap of Free Resources for Systematic Review Training
• Systematic Review Service by the Numbers: A 10-Year Analysis
• Benchmarking Evidence Synthesis Outputs and Librarian Support Efforts at a Newly Research-Intensive University

On-Demand Posters

• Looking for the Helpers: A Content Analysis of Free Online Consumer Health Resources from Academic Non-Medical/Health Sciences Library Websites
• Health Information Outreach to Rural Counties
• Delivering a Telehealth for Seniors Workshop
• Automatic Indexing Errors in PubMed: Sometimes the Apple Does Fall Far from the Tree
• Using Asana to Bridge the Gap: A Case Study on Streamlining Library Services
• Exploring the Value of a Practicum for Library Students Pursuing a Career in Health Science Librarianship
• Subtle Shifts, Big Impact: Library Upgrades Inspired by Medical Student Feedback