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While data on Indigenous women and girls who have experienced violence, gone missing, or have been murdered is extremely underreported we do know that the rates at which these crimes occur constitutes a crisis. To help bring more awareness to MMIW the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center has created and compiled many resources that we’d like to share. 

How can you help/get involved?

Join in raising awareness across social media:

Hashtags to use during the 2022 National Week of Action:

#MMIWActionNow

#NoMoreStolenSisters

#MMIW

May 5 is wear red day. Wear red and hold the #MMIWActionNow poster. Find the poster at niwrc.org/mmiwnatlweek22. 

Run for justice. Join in solidarity. Register for the Running for Justice 5k, 10 & Half Marathon: https://bit.ly/3OxaO6r 

Stay updated on legislation affecting MMIW. Sign up for NIWRC’s newsletter to receive monthly legislative updates at niwrc.org/newsletter and view NIWRC’s MMIW State Legislative Tracker at niwrc.org/mmiw-state-tracker.

Share the StrongHearts Native Helpline (1-844-7NATIVE, or 762-8483). StrongHearts is a safe, confidential, and free helpline for American Indians and Alaska Natives impacted by domestic violence and dating violence. Trained Native advocates offer emotional support, crisis intervention, assistance with safety planning, and a connection to local Native resources. Visit strongheartshelpline.org.

Resources:

The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center Library
Want to learn more about the crisis of Missing and Murdered Women and how to take action? Download Restoration Magazine’s Special Edition on MMIW: https://bit.ly/3B7tMdq

Jonathan Pringle, MAS, DAS, CRA

HSLIC Scholarly Communications and Digital Librarian

Thanks to funding through the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Region 4 and its Y1 Professional Development Award, I was awarded $1109 to support formal training in records management through the Institute of Certified Records Managers (ICRM). Between February and April, I attended a three-day (4 hours per day) series of focused workshops and sat for three comprehensive exams. Funding also supported the purchase of several textbooks in records management, which were critical study tools for the tests.

What is Records Management?

Records management is a specialized business discipline concerned with the systematic analysis and control of recorded information. It is closely connected to the field of archives, with the most notable distinction being that records managers work with active and semi-active records, while archivists work exclusively with non-active records. Think of how recorded information moves through an organization, business, or government: individuals create records every day; these records document transactions that are often critical to a specific unit or department. They may have legal requirements for retention or their retention is important for the continuance of business operations. Records managers assist organizations with active and semi-active records, both physical and electronic, from the moment of creation through to their non-active status. Once this status is reached (frequently referred to as having met a retention period), records managers either prepare non-active records for destruction or transfer them to an archives for permanent preservation.

FEA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

What is a Certified Records Analyst/Manager?

The ICRM certifies candidates once they successfully pass a rigorous six-part examination, each focusing on specific core areas within the records management profession:

1. Management Principles and the Records and Information Management (RIM) Program
2. Records and Information Creation and Use
3. Record Storage, Retrieval, Conversion, and Facilities
4. Records Identification, Retention, Protection and Disposition
5. Technology
6. Sample Business Cases (2 written proposals to hypothetical case studies)

Upon acceptance to sit for the CRM, candidates have five years to complete all of the exams connected to these core areas. The highlighted sections are those that I completed (and successfully passed!) after having taken the associated exams. Each exam is 100 multiple-choice questions; candidates have 85 minutes to complete each proctored exam. The ICRM has recently introduced the Certified Records Analyst (CRA) designation to those candidates who successfully complete the above-highlighted parts; this is an interim designation that certifies candidates to serve in a records management role, but under the supervision of a CRM. Having successfully passed these exams, I am now a Certified Records Analyst.

FACTS: ICRM has 1309 total CRMs and CRAs in the United States; New Mexico has 6 (now 7!) active CRMs and CRAs who work in myriad organizations state-wide.

How Does this Support our Institution?

As a professional archivist (since 2008), I am now trained to support the entire lifecycle of records – from creation to permanent preservation – and can better advocate for the responsible flow of information at our institution.

The HSLIC Justice, Equity, and Inclusion Committee is happy to announce the release our 2021 Annual Report. During our founding year, the JEI Committee worked to develop a charge that reflected the values of inclusivity and anti-racism, create transparent documentation processes, and propose a budget to ensure our guest speakers were being compensated for their diligent work. In the report you'll find information about events held throughout the fiscal year, staff training initiatives and guest speakers, improvements to our spaces both physical and virtual, and a snapshot of JEI resources that were added to library collections. The report concludes with plans for the future of the committee and the coming fiscal year. You can view the entire report by clicking this link and browse all committee documents by visiting the UNM Digital Repository JEI page. Have questions or comments about the JEI Committee work? Feel free to reach out to the chair, Kelleen Maluski.   

Congratulations to Ingrid Hendrix, Kelleen Maluski, and Jonathan Pringle, winners of HSLIC’s 2022 Annual Employee Recognition Awards!

Ingrid Hendrix – Outstanding Performance

“Ingrid began overseeing RECIS at an extremely difficult time as the pandemic was just beginning and the department was short staffed. She worked to get us through those first uncertain months and in the past year has committed herself even more to us going above and beyond while still maintaining a need for work/life balance. In addition to this Ingrid has tirelessly worked to make sure that all members of HSLIC are included in the execution of projects and our daily work, she is always concerned with making sure her employees are supported and taken care of, and she is working to usher in new programming and ideas to help expand on the already robust services that we offer.”

Kelleen Maluski – Outstanding Performance

“This past year introduced HSLIC to the newly-formed Justice, Equity, and Inclusion (JEI) Committee. Kelleen assumed leadership of this group and worked collaboratively to develop goals, organizational structure, and (significantly) a budget. She assembled a diverse and engaged team of people from across UNM to help position HSLIC as a unit that not only talks about diversity, but actively promotes inclusion through its events and trainings.”

“Kelleen assumed the position of Student Engagement Librarian when there was no precedent at HSLIC for that role. She brought extensive experience from previous positions and, not too many years later, she is recognized and appreciated as students' "go-to" person for support in their learning activities. She demonstrates compassion for the challenges students have and has incorporated coping with those challenges in the education programs she offers.”

Jonathan Pringle – Outstanding Project

“Jonathan has shown excellence in his work on the Native Health Database (NHD). While this project has been several years in the making, 2021 saw it come to fruition as Jonathan officially secured the funding from the NNLM, hired a project assistant, and began metadata and record migration to the new Mukurtu platform.”

“Jonathan is truly dedicated to making the NHD a database that incorporates cultural humility and works to disrupt the colonization of education and health sciences spaces. His work will make the NHD a truly collaborative space for years to come and helps to correct injustices that have been done in the past.”

            Climate issues are overwhelming and global news too depressing for a Friday. But, it’s Earth Day - and an opportunity to reflect on positive actions we as individuals can take that contribute to a healthy planet.  A drop in the bucket you say? That’s a good metaphor for a major challenge New Mexicans face, now and in the future -adequate access to clean water. It doesn’t take much effort to:

Refill a reusable water bottle, perhaps at one of the HSLIC water stations. It takes about 1.4 gallons to manufacture a single use water bottle. People using their own bottles and filling up at the water stations have already saved the equivalent of more than 200,000 bottles of water.

Think twice before buying another T-shirt. It takes 700 gallons of water for the half pound of cotton needed to make that shirt.

Turn off the faucet while brushing your teeth. It’s estimated that a family can save up to 10 gallons of water per day by turning off the tap.

Clean up after your pet.  Approximately 22% of E. coli in the Rio Grande comes from dogs. Don’t walk your dog by the river? Even so, more than 80,000 Albuquerque dogs collectively drop 10 tons of poop per day. Some of that ends up in the river.

Turn off lights and equipment when not in use. It takes water to generate energy and to cool electrical components.

Appropriately dispose of medicine. HSC folks know not to flush medications down the drain or toilet, but do your family and friends know that six area police substations provide a secure way to dispose of pills?

Be mindful and grateful when you turn on the spigot. In New Mexico, there are many homes without running water. El agua es vida.

The HSC has more than 11,000 FTE faculty and staff members and more than 2,000 students. If each of us adopted one more strategy to preserve access to clean water in the future, that’s more than 13,000 “drops in the bucket”!

Photo by NASA on Unsplash

HSLIC now has a subscription to Board Vitals!

Board Vitals is a medical licensing and board exam resource.  It includes practice questions for the following Dental Hygiene, PANCE, Rad Tech, Pharmacy, USMLE, NCLEX, Critical Care Nursing, Certified Nurse Midwife, Psych Mental Health, Pediatric Primary Care, Adult Gerontology Primary Care, Adult Gerontology Acute Care, and Family Nurse Practitioner.

The  existing USMLE Step 3 and PA accounts have been combined with HSLIC’s account, so access will not be disrupted.  Students will be able to access the resource as they normally have.  New students and faculty can register using their @salud or @unm email addresses.

Login or Register Here

For more information and user guides, please see:

• How To Register
• User Guide
• Overview Video
• How To Use the App

If any faculty would like to convert their accounts to admin accounts or if you would like to learn more about Board Vitals, please contact Robyn Gleasner.   Admin accounts will give faculty the capability to create assignments for your students.  

Please share with any faculty or students who might be interested.

You are invited to join us on Thursday, April 21st from 10 to 11 AM, for a virtual seminar by John G. Williams, M.D.

Topic: EHR Optimization: Clinical Decision Alert Refinement

Description: Clinical decision alerts are intended to improve patient safety and guide providers in the ordering of medications and tests. However, these alerts can often accumulate and lose significance resulting in alert fatigue, which itself can lead to medical errors. In this presentation, we will review a project focused on reducing unnecessary clinical decision alerts in an academic medical center.

Learning objectives: 

• Distinguish between effective and ineffective clinical decision alerts
• Recognize the risks of alert fatigue
• Identify various approaches to refine clinical decision alerts

Please email Davelucero@salud.unm.edu to request Zoom info.

The votes have been tallied! Our three new skeleton models are named Bona Lisa, Special Agent Dana Skelly, and Dr. Ziebonis. Thank you to everyone who submitted wonderfully creative skeleton names and to everyone who took the time to vote. We look forward to students studying in the library with Bona Lisa, Special Agent Dana Skelly, and Dr. Ziebonis for years to come.

In addition to National Library Week, we are celebrating Public Health Week along with the American Public Health Association. This year’s theme is: Public Health is Where You Are! Here at HSLIC, we thought we’d share our special interests and involvement in public health.

Lisa Acuff, Research & Education Librarian: During my doctoral studies in public health, I conducted research with the T1D Exchange on uncertainty in type 1 diabetes self-management. The project involved literature searching, data collection and analysis, and sharing through publication. My public health work centered on community health education, and I enjoyed exploring the lived experiences of health information and chronic illness.

Jon Eldredge, Evidence Based Practice Librarian: Nina Wallerstein and I co-teach the required MPH Determinants and Equity in Public Health course. I also teach a segment of the MPH Alternative Culminating Experience seminar, serve on or chair MPH theses committees, and conduct original research on public health in my roles as a professor in the UNM College of Population Health.

Alexis Ellsworth-Kopkowski, Education and Research Librarian: I completed my Bachelor’s in Public Health and my internship focused on evaluating a Native American Cancer Prevention program. My first job out of college was working as a research assistant on a sexual violence prevention grant at the Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and I currently am collaborating on projects that investigate Adverse Childhood Experiences, cancer prevention, and improving the social determinants of health for American Indian/Alaskan Native populations.

Robyn Gleasner, Resource Management Librarian:  My role at HSLIC is to develop collections that support the research being done by our students, faculty, and clinicians.  If you have a resource you would like to recommend in support of public or population health, please Request a Library Purchase for consideration.

Laura Hall, Division Head for Resources, Archives and Discovery: In my role at HSLIC, I work with our general collection as well as HSLIC's unique and local collections. Many of our local collections document the state’s progress in public health, and can be accessed: https://hsc.unm.edu/hslic/resources/special-collections.html 

Gale Hannigan, Research Services Librarian: As an undergrad, I worked part-time inputting data for occupational health studies of lead and petroleum workers; I was also a student worker at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health Library. After pursuing an MPH, I followed the development of public health informatics and taught this topic at Texas A&M’s School of Rural Public Health.

Kelleen Maluski, Student Success and Engagement Librarian: I am extremely interested in the need to build equity into our public health spaces and to make sure that we are looking to the experts who have been doing this work as opposed to perpetuating health equity tourism. I work to incorporate these considerations into all of my teaching and have been lucky enough to be able to assist with a couple of rapid scoping reviews on topics related to this field of study.

Two undergraduate Population Health students, Samantha Pellman and Jessica Maxwell, are completing their capstone projects at HSLIC.  Their project is to review the standards of practice for peer information specialist programs and to come up with a program proposal.

Jonathan Pringle, Scholarly Communications & Digital Librarian: As the manager of the library’s Native Health Database, I realize that public health is collaboration within a network of individuals and provides access to health information that responds to the needs of populations – almost always rooted in culture.

Melissa Rethlefsen, Executive Director: My first professional position was at the Minnesota Department of Health’s RN Barr Library, where I conducted searches that contributed to health policy, programming, and research in all aspects of public health. I’m currently the Past Chair of the Public Health/Health Administration Caucus of the Medical Library Association.

Nydia Villezcas, Project Assistant: I am enrolled in the COPH MPH Program for Epidemiology and intend to pursue a PhD in that field.  At HSLIC, I’m part of a scoping review team focused on the role of academic health sciences libraries in engagement and outreach to Native American communities.

During the months of March and April, read all about our fabulous and hard-working student employees and what they’re working on at the library and beyond. This week meet Nydia, who is working on a scoping review project for the Research, Education, and Clinical Information Services (RECIS) department. 

Nydia Villezcas is a project assistant in the RECIS department. She is enrolled in the Public Health master’s program for Epidemiology and says her proudest academic accomplishment is being asked to present at the 2022 Midwest Stream Forum for Agricultural Worker Health in Austin, Texas last month. Nydia presented abstract posters on a couple of projects that she was working on as a Research Assistant in association with the COPH Assessment, Planning, and Evaluation team. After graduating from UNM she plans to pursue a PhD in Epidemiology and would also like to conduct research for the Department of Health, specifically on food insecurity and obesity.

Nydia has only been working at the library for a few months, but says she has learned a lot. Her favorite task is learning how to use new databases and navigating through new research materials. She is part of a scoping review team at the library focused on understanding the role of academic health sciences libraries in engagement and outreach to Native American communities. She's contributed to the scoping review by parsing through various websites and abstracts to research the topic, and by translating and researching terms in Spanish for a full analysis.  

In her spare time Nydia is an avid hiker and backpacker, teaches yoga, and volunteers with Big Brothers, Big Sisters. She enjoys how comforting a bowl of soup is and makes a delicious green chile stew. She has two rescue pups: Benjamin and Jake. Benjamin is a 3-year-old Poodle/Westie mix who love to hike Wheeler Peak and lounge in a hammock (Nydia says he’s an old soul). Jake is a 2-year-old Aussie/Catahoula Leopard mix and is big and energetic. He loves to hike, run in the snow, and is always ready for a snack.

April 3-9, 2022, is National Library Week. This is a time to celebrate libraries and the work that we do.  All of you probably know what a library is and hopefully know what the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center is. Yes, the library is a building containing books and materials to support users at the Health Sciences Center. It’s also a place to either sit quietly and study or meet with others to collaborate on projects.  The library is committed to fostering a place of belonging for our diverse communities and cultivating an environment that inspires open minds, curiosity, and continuous learning.  

But the library is more than the walls surrounding its physical structure, the library is the people who cultivate the inspiration. The people who work in the library make it what it is.  But what really is library work?    What do library workers really do? 

The roles of library workers are as varied as any profession and range from public services to collections to teaching to administration and even more varied within those units.  So what is library work at HSLIC? 

Library work is:

This list is a sampling of library work at HSLIC and is by no means exhaustive.  There are many more job duties and projects at the library that contribute to its success and to the vision and mission of the Health Sciences Center.  At HSLIC we are all library workers - no matter what our official job title is or what unit we work in or even our specific job duties, we work together to support you, to support our community at the HSC. This is library work.  This is our work. 

If you have pictures or stories that you would like to share of HSLIC or library work in action, please post on Twitter and tag us in it @unmhslic #thisislibrarywork.