Dental Caucus 

Members: 118     Discussions: 1840     Files: 11 

The Dental Caucus provides activities and programs that promote, advance, and facilitate communication among persons with interests in dental medicine and oral biology and contributes to the management of dental collections. Anyone interested in the field is welcome to join us. 

Member Benefits

Dental Caucus members have access to the caucus forum, member directory, a list of dental libraries, and resources on dental collections. 

The first step to becoming a member of the Dental Caucus is to join the Medical Library Association.

Membership in the Dental Caucus is a good way to become more involved in MLA. Since we are a small caucus it is easy to get to know other members, and opportunities to participate in the work of the caucus come quite quickly. 

If you would like to know more about the caucus, or if you are already a member who would like to take a more active role, please contact one of current officers.

Public Resources

• Dental Competencies and Information Literacy Concepts Rubric
  This rubric is the result of aligning Canadian and American information-related dental competencies, then identifying the most relevant frames from the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for each aligned competency. The rubric also includes relevant EBD steps for each competency. Finally, sample learning objectives for each aligned competency, informed by the relevant frames, are included according to Bloom’s Taxonomy. Authors : Nena Schvaneveldt, Sean Stone, Erica R. Brody, Natalie Clairoux, Irene M. Lubker, Amanda M. Nevius, Lorraine Porcello and Jennifer S. Bissram.
  
  
• Dental Data
  This resource seeks to provide links to important data sets and sources to inform precision dental/oral health research. Authors : Christopher Childs and Sarah Meyer.
  
  
• Evidence-Based Dentistry Best Practices for Librarians
  This guide presents an introduction to EBD, examples of the librarian's role in teaching and supporting EBD, as well as a list of relevant resources. Authors : Amanda Nevius and Rena Lubker, with significant contributions by Elisa Cortez, Lorraine Porcello, Nicole Theis-Mahon, Susan Swogger, and Maria Zych.
  
  
• Resources Lists
  Every three or four years, Dental Caucus members recommend book titles for a core resource dental collection to support the information and research needs of the oral health care provider (student and practitioner). 
• Recommended Dental Books & Journals for Clinical Dentistry (Authors : Susan Arnold, Rachel Becker, Hal Bright, Natalie Clairoux, Bradrick McClam, Lorraine Porcello and Sean Stone).
• Recommended Library Resources for Dental Hygiene Programs (Susan Arnold, Sean Stone and Nicole Theis-Mahon).

Dental Caucus Leaders