Contributed Content Sneak Peek: Accepted Immersion Sessions and Papers
The National Program Committee has accepted the following Immersion Sessions, Program Description Papers, and Research Papers to be presented at MLA '22. Immersion sessions will be held in-person only, while papers will be presented in-person with some offered online (announced in January). Contributed content is categorized into one of seven MLA Areas of Practice:
- Clinical Support
- Education
- Health Equity & Global Health
- Information Management
- Information Services
- Innovation & Research Practice
- Professionalism & Leadership
MLA is also excited to announce the Collection Development and Resource Sharing Symposium. Be sure to check back for the latest announcements.
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Immersion Sessions
Immersion Sessions are up to 75 minutes of "deep dives" into a single topic. The format may include interactive panel presentations, role-playing, gamification, discussions, working groups, and other activities engaging with the audience.
Areas of Practice |
Immersion Session Title |
| Education, Clinical Support | Establish, Maintain, and Protect: Teaching Healthcare Professionals how to Build Positive Online Identities |
| Education, Health Equity & Global Health | Let’s Get Critical: Understanding and Applying Critical Theory in Library Practice |
| Education, Information Services | Addressing Challenges in Information Literacy Instruction: A Case-Based Approach |
| Education | Reflect on Accessible Content and Universal Design: An Introductory Immersion Session |
| Health Equity & Global Health, Information Services | Using the One Health Approach to Link Global to Local Health |
| Information Management, Information Services | Curation, Coding, and Communication: Leveraging Librarian Skillsets for Research and Clinical Data-Focused Roles |
| Information Management | Mind the Gap: From RDM 101 to Data Deep Dives |
| Information Services, Innovation & Research Practice | AVSL Vetted Journal Workshop: Combat Predatory Publishing By Learning How To Develop Your Own Vetted Journal Program, Step-By-Step |
| Information Services, Innovation & Research Practice | Seeing The Forest Through The Trees: A Multi-Institution Panel Discussion Comparing Evidence Synthesis Services |
| Information Services | Transformative Agreements: Challenges, Opportunities, And Potential Impacts In Health Science Libraries |
| Innovation & Research Practice | Potential Pitfalls In Conducting A Research Study |
| Professionalism & Leadership, Clinical Support | Reflect, Renew, Reconnect To Envision A New Service Model For You, Your Customers, and Your Library |
| Professionalism & Leadership, Education | Developing Pathways To Health Sciences Librarianship |
| Professionalism & Leadership, Education | Hardback Life: Reading A Short Story To Develop Your Cultural Humility Skills |
| Professionalism & Leadership, Education | Reimagining The Practicum Experience: Post-Pandemic Round-Up |
| Professionalism & Leadership | Cultivating Member Engagement the Armadillo Way: A Practical Guide for Chapters and Caucuses |
| Professionalism & Leadership | Mentor-Mentee Relationships: Building Collaborative Partnerships For Career Success |
| Professionalism & Leadership | Reflect To Renew: Improving The Accessibility Of Your Library’s Public Spaces |
| Professionalism & Leadership | Servant Leadership In Libraries In The Time Of COVID-19 |
Program Description Papers
Program Description Papers are 10-15 minute presentations related to products, programs, technologies, administrative practices, and services conducted by librarians and information professionals.
Areas of Practice |
Program Description Paper Title |
| Clinical Support, Health Equity & Global Health | Contact Tracing as Information Service: A Librarian's Reflection |
| Clinical Support, Information Management | A Collaborative Effort to Build an Evidence-Based Practice Project Repository |
| Clinical Support | Exploring a New Clinical Librarian Position Through a Library Residency Program: Plans, Pivots, and Potential |
| Education, Health Equity & Global Health | Gearing Up for Citizen Science: Designing a MOOC with an Environmental and Community Health Focus |
| Education, Health Equity & Global Health | Know More & Feel Better! |
| Education, Health Equity & Global Health | Reflections on Building a Medical Humanities Collection |
| Education, Information Management | Providing EndNote Instruction Through Interactive Tutorials |
| Education, Information Services | Breaking Down Professional Siloes: Librarian Contributions to the Development of a School of Dentistry Grand Rounds Curriculum |
| Education, Information Services | Collaborating with Pharmacy Faculty and Fellows to Improve Student Experience with Drug Information |
| Education, Information Services | Supporting First-Generation Graduate Students in an Academic Health Sciences Library Setting |
| Education, Innovation & Research Practice | Devising a Practicum Experience Using the Medical Library Association Professional Competencies: A Program Review |
| Education, Innovation & Research Practice | Paging Dr. Grey: Implications for Embedding Grey Literature Instruction in Nursing Education |
| Education Innovation & Research Practice | Scholarly Snippet Sessions: A Collaborative Research Series Among Six College of Osteopathic Medicine Libraries |
| Education Innovation & Research Practice | We're Virtually There: Providing Health Sciences Education and Wellness Through Virtual Reality Experiences |
| Education, Professionalism & Leadership | Elevating the Voices and Experiences of LGBTQ+ Health Providers in Medical Education |
| Education, Professionalism & Leadership | Race Card Wall Project: Reflecting on the Role of Race in Medical Education |
| Education | Communicating COVID: A Series of Panel Discussions Focusing on the Strategies, Struggles, and Stories Around Communicating Reliable Information About COVID-19 |
| Education | Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Creation of Digital Flashcards to Enhance the Pre-Clinical Pharmacology Curriculum |
| Education | No, Bananas Don't Cure HIV, nor Will Garlic Cure COVID-19: Searching for, Assessing, and Consuming Health Information |
| Education | With Our Powers Combined, We are Captain Digital Accessibility! |
| Health Equity & Global Health, Education | Synergism at Its Best: An Online Evidence-Based Practice Course for Clinicians in the US |
| Information Management, Information Services | Accelerating Research Discovery in a Pandemic: Lessons from the NIH Preprint Pilot |
| Information Management, Information Services | Creating a Digital Repository of Departmental Research to Enhance and Measure Research Impact |
| Information Management, Information Services | Developing searchRxiv: An International Transdisciplinary Repository for Search Strategies |
| Information Management, Information Services | Hear From Me: When Storytelling Meets a Health System Library |
| Information Management, Information Services | Needs Assessment or Research Data Management Services at the Medical Campus |
| Information Management, Information Services | Updating the NAHRS Nursing Essential Resources List: Utilizing Expert Knowledge and Peer Review Processes to Create a Reproducible Resource and Workflow |
| Information Management, Innovation & Research Practice | Browser Friendly: Developing Data Catalog Metadata Using MeSH Terms |
| Information Management | From Digital Commons to Ama/Primo: A Systems Interoperability Project |
| Information Management | We're All in This Together...So Seamless Access is a Thing the Browser is Changing, What do I Need to Do or Know? |
| Information Services, Clinical Support | Librarian Collaboration in Guideline Development |
| Information Services, Clinical Support | Peer Reviewing Systematic Review Searches: An Academic Library Adapts the PRESS Checklist |
| Information Services, Education | A Library Guide for Anti-Racist Research |
| Information Services, Education | Animal Topiary: 3Rs Search Hedges to Improve Searching for Animal Use Alternatives |
| Information Services, Education | Journal, Article, and Author Metrics: A Just-in-Time Video for P&T Committee Members |
| Information Services, Information Management | A Comparison of Research Analytics Tools |
| Information Services, Information Management | Subject and Data Librarians Collaborating to Reach the School of Medicine About the 2023 NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing |
| Information Services, Innovation & Research Practice | Impact of PRISMA 2020 Reporting Guideline on Systematic Review Searches |
| Information Services, Innovation & Research Practice | Making Sense of Basic Science Culture |
| Information Services, Innovation & Research Practice | Synthesizing Services: Sharing and Comparing Systematic Review and Evidence Synthesis Services in Academic Libraries |
| Information Services, Professionalism & Leadership | Promoting Usage of Library E-Resources Among University Faculty: A User-Centric Approach to Information Literacy in a Developing Country Medical School |
| Information Services | Connecting with GME: Building on Previous Efforts, Structuring Outreach, and Increasing Engagement |
| Innovation & Research Practice, Education | Reproducibility is Not Rigor: Teaching Open Practices to Empower Researches |
| Innovation & Research, Information Services | Defining the Librarian's Role in a Continuing Evidence Monitoring Pilot Project |
| Innovation & Research, Information Services | Expanding Our Horizon: Library Research Training Series for Clinical Researchers |
| Innovation & Research Practice, Information Services | Reflecting on Librarians' Needs: Renewing a Systematic Review Service |
| Innovation & Research Practice, Information Services | Renewed and Refreshed: Reflections on a Systematic Review Guide and Protocol Development Experiencing Using DMPTool |
| Innovation & Research Practice | Implementation and Assessment of an End-to-End Open Science & Data Collaborations Project |
| Professionalism & Leadership, Education | A Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Leveraging Connections for Innovative Professional Development During Turbulent Times |
| Professionalism & Leadership | COVID Keepers: Maintaining Strategies for Motivation, Encouragement, and Teamwork Throughout a Pandemic |
| Professionalism & Leadership | Developing an Employee Code of Conduct for an Academic Medical Library |
| Professionalism & Leadership | Friend-Raising: Successful Fundraising Techniques for Academic Health Sciences Librarians |
| Professionalism & Leadership | Reflections of Our Vision Science Caucus Journey: The Road from SIG to Caucus |
| Professionalism & Leadership | Tracking Professional Growth: Developing a Digital Professional Portfolio Training |
| Professionalism & Leadership | Turning Feedback into Action |
Research Papers
Research Papers are 10-15 minute presentations on designing, conducting, and analyzing a research project.
Areas of Practice |
Research Paper Title |
| Clinical Support, Information Services | Effectiveness of Clinical Librarians Providing Information on Patient Care Rounds |
| Clinical Support, Professionalism & Leadership | Hardback Life: A Book Club Focused on Literature for Young People for Pediatric Hospital Staff |
| Clinical Support | Which Consumer Health Information Websites Appear Most Often in Google, and How Reliable are They? An Analysis Using Discern, Craap, And Honcode |
| Education, Clinical Support | Getting Schooled on Instruction: A Needs Assessment on Teaching Competencies for Librarians |
| Education, Information Services | Bibliotherapy for Stress Management: A Wellness Intervention for First-Year Medical Students |
| Education, Innovation & Research Practice | Building Question Formulation Skills Among Dental Hygiene Students |
| Education, Innovation & Research Practice | Do Your General Public Users Understand the COVID-19 Health Information You Have Provided? A Content Analytical Study |
| Education, Innovation & Research Practice | Publication Trends of LIS Faculty Teaching Health-Related Courses |
| Education, Innovation & Research Practices | Health Sciences Faculty Knowledge and Use of Online Textbooks: A Pilot Survey of Two Universities |
| Education, Innovation & Research Practices | Health Sciences Library Workshops in the COVID Era: Librarian Perceptions and Decision Making |
| Education, Professionalism & Leadership | Faculty Experiences With and Attitudes Toward Librarian Involvement in Online Interprofessional Education: A Qualitative Study |
| Education | Didactic Physician Assistant Students' Perceptions of Evidence-Based Medicine Resources: A Cross-Sectional Examination |
| Education | Experimenting with the Flip as an EndNote Instruction Method |
| Health Equity & Global Health | Developing a Stakeholder-Guided, Principles-Based Community Engagement Toolkit |
| Information Management, Information Services | Show Me the Data! Reflecting on the Data Sharing Practices Demonstrated in Published Research at a Medical University |
| Information Management, Information Services | The Continued Problem of Uniform Resource Locator Decay: An Updated Analysis of Health Care Management Journal Citations |
| Information Management, Innovation & Research Practice | Establishing Metrics to Evaluate Biomedical Journal Diversity |
| Information Management, Innovation & Research Practice | Exploring Library Use as We Return to "Normal" in "Fall of 2021: How Different is the New Normal and Why? |
| Information Management, Innovation & Research Practice | How are NIH Researchers at San Diego State University Sharing Their Data: Helping to Ensure Compliance |
| Information Management | Reflecting on Collection Development Implications from the Impact of COVID-19 on Interlibrary Loan in Health Sciences Libraries |
| Information Services, Health Equity & Global Health | Academic Health Sciences Libraries' Outreach and Engagement with Native American Communities: A Scoping Review |
| Information Services, Innovation & Research Practice | Adapting the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Countries' Geographic Search Filters (MEDLINE and Embase, Ovid): developing Low-and Middle-Income Countries' (LMIC) Filters |
| Information Services, Innovation & Research Practice | Assessing a Long-Standing Health Sciences Liaison Librarian Program |
| Information Services, Innovation & Research Practice | Developing and Validating a PubMed Infant Hedge: An MLA Pediatrics Librarians Caucus Initiative |
| Information Services, Innovation & Research Practice | Evaluating the Influence of Information Literacy Instruction on Health Information-Seeking Behavior in African American Communities: Preliminary Results of a Qualitative Evidence Synthesis |
| Information Services, Innovation & Research Practice | Incorporating a Practice Drug Information Question Into an Evidence-Based Medicine Skills Lab |
| Information Services, Innovation & Research Practice | Reflecting on the Development of Librarian Research Connections |
| Information Services, Innovation & Research Practice | Reporting of the Identification of Studies Trough Other Means in Evidence Synthesis: A Cross-Sectional Study |
| Information Services, Innovation & Research Practice | The Effect of librarian Collaboration on the Quality of Otolaryngology Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis |
| Information Services, Professionalism & Leadership | Information Specialists: Guardians of Scientific Output of Their Institute |
| Information Services | Assessment of Library Services at Top-Performing Pediatric Hospitals in the Southeast United States |
| Information Services | Characterizing Search Practices and Reporting in Recently Published Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses in Dentistry |
| Information Services | Common Misspellings and Their Impact on Health Sciences Literature Search Results |
| Information Services | Virtual Reference at Health Sciences Libraries in the Time of COVID-19 |
| Innovation & Research Practice, Clinical Support | Assessing the Information Needs of Health Care Providers Related to Vaccine Hesitancy |
| Innovation & Research Practice, Education | AHEC Libraries: Resources of the Past? |
| Innovation & Research Practice, Education | Librarians and Clinical Pastoral Educators Collaborating to Teach Evidence-Based Practice and Research Literacy |
| Innovation & Research Practice, Information Management | Reflecting on Article Keywords from Health Sciences Librarianship Journals: Creating a Taxonomy for Trend Analysis |
| Innovation & Research Practice, Information Services | A Systematic Investigation of Librarians' Contributed and Impact on Pharmacy Research, Education, and Clinical Care Through a Bibliometrics Approach |
| Innovation & Research Practice, Information Services | An Observational Study on the Key Research Databases to Which Academic Health Sciences Libraries in North America Subscribe and Provide Access to Their Served Communities |
| Innovation & Research Practice, Information Services | Semi-Automated Systematic Review Search Strategy Development Tools: A Guide for Expert Searches |
| Innovation & Research Practice | An Evaluation of the Openness of COVID-19-Related Randomized Control Trials |
| Innovation & Research Practice | Analysis of Public Preprint Server Comments on NIH Preprint Pilot Articles |
| Innovation & Research Practice | Beyond the Conference: Health Sciences Librarians' Motivations for Publishing |
| Innovation & Research Practice | Developing Best Practices for Searching During Public Health Emergencies |
| Innovation & Research Practice | Semi-Automated Identification of Biomedical Literature: A Proof of Concept Study |
| Innovation & Research Practice | Systematic Reviews and Retractions: A Reflection on Quality |
| Professionalism & Leadership, Clinical Support | Analyzing Point of Care Tools Through Faculty, Resident, and Stakeholder Buy-In: A Cautionary Tale |
| Professionalism & Leadership, Clinical Support | Consolidating and Delivering Comprehensive Library Services Following a Healthcare System Merger or Acquisition: A Delphi Study |
| Professionalism & Leadership, Innovation & Research Practice | Analyzing Changes in Work-From-Home Policies for Academic Medical and Health Sciences Librarians |
| Professionalism & Leadership, Innovation & Research Practice | Impact of COVID-19 on Parents/Guardians in the Library Profession |
| Professionalism & Leadership | A Qualitative Study on MLIS Graduate Students' Perceptions of and Interest in Health Sciences Librarianship: Final Results |
| Professionalism & Leadership | A Scoping Review on Librarian and Information Professionals' Contributions to Health Literacy to Inform Future Practice |
| Professionalism & Leadership | Except for My Commute, Everything is the Same: The Shared Lived Experience of Libraries During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| Professionalism & Leadership | Exploring Perceptions on DEI Workplace Training Through a Self-Assessment Survey |
| Professionalism & Leadership | The Impact of COVID-19 on Burnout in Health Information Professionals |
| Professionalism & Leadership | Workplace Burnout Among Academic Medical Librarians |