Contact Us | Donate | Advertise Follow us on TwitterFollow us on facebookFollow us on LinkedIn

tfzfnvxz.jpg

For the most complete display of articles, please login.

Editor - Christine Willis, AHIP
Copy & Production Editor - Charlene M. Dundek
Full Editorial team - Access here
MLAConnect is updated continually. Most articles are restricted to MLA members and/or to members of specific MLA sections. For the most complete display of articles, please login.
Submit to MLAConnect.
Refer to the MLA Style Manual when writing articles.
Products, services, and events published in MLAConnect do not constitute MLA’s endorsement or approval. Opinions expressed in MLAConnect are the authors’ and do not necessarily express those of the association.

No Calendar Items Exist.

MLAConnect < Article detail

Value Studies Working Group

The Value Studies Working Group is currently working to update the value studies listed on the MLA guide Evidence You Can Use To Communicate Library Value. Working group members will be performing literature searches in various resources to identify current, relevant studies showing library value/impact on health sciences domains. Example domains include clinical decisions and quality of patient care, teaching, systematic reviews, grant proposals, cost of services, etc. The group will also select and annotate new value studies to populate the MLA guide. The Value Studies Working Group is led by Mark MacEachern, Terry Ann Jankowski, AHIP, FMLA, and Susan Lessick, AHIP, FMLA, and consists of members of the Research Training Institute (RTI) community: Janene Batten (RTI '18), Brian Conn, Jennifer Deberg (RTI '21), Helen-Ann Epstein (RTI '18), Mary Pat Harnegie (RTI '19), Ellen Justice (RTI '19), Liz Kellermeyer (RTI '18), Valerie Lookingbill (RTI '21), Andrea Lynch (RTI '19), Laura Menard (RTI '19), Tanisha Mills (RTI '19), Maggie Shawcross (RTI '20), Julia Stumpff (RTI '20), Jennifer Westrick (RTI '19) and Doug Varner (RTI ' 21).

This MLA guide provides convenient access to research studies and data that demonstrate the value of health sciences librarians. Many librarians and groups have used the studies in the guide over time to demonstrate/advocate/educate/promote the value, impact, and benefits of health sciences libraries and librarians to stakeholders, other health care professionals, and the public. While this unique research guide/tool is not comprehensive, it is an invaluable selection of some of the very "best" value studies that exist anywhere to communicate professional value.

Project work will take about one year to do thorough literature reviews, select and annotate studies, and update the MLA value studies guide. Project updates will be posted in MLAConnect/RTI News and on Twitter @RTIatMLA. If you know of recent value studies that you would like to appear in the MLA guide or be reviewed by the Value Studies Working Group, please email Susan Lessick.

If no content displays, it may be because the access to this article is member-only. Please login below, and then use the back page control to get back from the home page to the page displaying the article.