Clinical Librarianship Discussion Group – Ascension 2026

Materials to be discussed (provide professional journal title, book chapter, online resource, etc.):

• Albert, D., & Gelder, R. N. V. (2025). Don’t Close Medical Libraries: That’s Where You Find Librarian Partners to Advance Medicine and Science. Ophthalmology, 132(10), 1073–1075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ophtha.2025.07.005
• Askin, N., & Mueller, M. H. (2025). Algorithmic indexing in MEDLINE frequently overlooks important concepts and may compromise literature search results. Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA, 113(3), 195–203. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.2081
• Biszaha, A. (2025). Exploring clinician expectations and preferences of library subject guides. Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/02763869.2025.2573359
• Bridges, K. (2025). Unspoken Burdens: Moral Distress in the Medical Library Profession. Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 25(1–2), 74–83. https://doi.org/10.1080/15323269.2025.2510886
• Dadashi, A., Zarea Gavgani, V., Hajebrahimi, S., & Mahami-Oskouei, M. (2025). Comparing the performance of librarians and medical specialists in retrieving clinical evidence: An observational study. Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 44(2), 169–186. https://doi.org/10.1080/02763869.2025.2471886
• Klug, B. (2025). Lighten the Cognitive Load: : Simplifying Library Resource Design to Enhance User Experience in Medical Libraries. Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 25(0), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/15323269.2025.2577076
• Lee, M. M., Lin, X., Lee, E. S., Smith, H. E., & Tudor Car, L. (2025). Effectiveness of educational interventions for improving healthcare professionals’ information literacy: A systematic review. Health Information and Libraries Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/hir.12562
• Patterson, B., Diekema, A. R., Hopkins, E. B. S., Wilson, D., & Schvaneveldt, N. (2025). “Is this professionally correct?”: Understanding the criteria nurses use to evaluate information. Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA, 113(4), 298–309. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.2163
• Shannon, C., Freeman, J. L., MacEachern, M., Rana, G. K., Smith, C., Smith, J. E., & Song, J. (2024). The impact of libraries and informationists on patient and population care: A mixed-methods study. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 112(1), 5–12. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2024.1520
• Throgmorton, K. F., Festa, N., Doering, M., Carpenter, C. R., & Gill, T. M. (2024). Enhancing the quality and reproducibility of research: How to work effectively with medical and data librarians. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 72(3), 965–970. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.18741
• Wilson, P. (2025). Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree: A case study on automatic indexing precision errors in PubMed. Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA, 113(4), 318–326. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.2110

MLA CE Credits: 6