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HSLIC would like to wish everyone a safe and wonderful Memorial Day today honoring our fallen soldiers. Library services, including front desk help and book checkout, will be unavailable today. However, students are still able and welcome to enter the library using their UNM badges.

Originally known as Decoration Day, Memorial Day was first established to take place every May 30th to recognize soldiers lost in the American Civil War. It wasn't until after World War I that the day was expanded to commemorate American soldiers killed in all United States wars. More than a century after its first observance, Congress officially changed its name and made it a federal holiday. It is now celebrated on the fourth Monday of each May.

“I realized that the health professionals that were caring for me were clueless on how to act with someone with a disability. Able-bodied people don’t necessarily understand what people with disabilities are dealing with.” - Ingrid Hendrix, MILS

In a recent interview, Ingrid Hendrix talks about disability awareness and how UNM can improve campus accommodations and teaching opportunities for future medical workers. Read the full article here.

Alt text: Images: Illustration design with deco flowers and text in various color combinations by @thesoulshineco, text: All I can do is all I can do. & that is enough.

Collective grief as defined by the Grief Recovery Center of Houston: happens when a community, society, village, or nation all experience extreme change or loss. Collective grief can manifest in the wake of major events such as: war, natural disasters, or others that result in mass casualties or widespread tragedy. Grief is not a linear process.

The major events that we have endured as communities and societies may have individuals feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and/or unsure about their future. We may also have to process our grief at work and may be wondering why we feel less productive or why we need to take longer breaks in between large tasks to focus. Let’s all remember that it’s okay to not feel okay and if you have time to check in with yourself, please do. 

According to an article from the American Counseling Association, these are some steps we all can take after traumatic events: 

• Attend to self care and be sure to eat and get enough sleep. 

• Pay attention to your emotional health and recognize that a wide range of emotions are common.

• Try to recognize when you or others around you need extra support. 

• Avoid overexposure to media and “doom scrolling.” Take breaks from news and social media. 

• Maintain contact with family and friends. 

• Remind yourself of people and events that are meaningful and comforting. 

• Talk to others and ask for help if needed.

Additional Resources: 

New Mexico Crisis And Access Line

1-855-NMCRISIS (662-7474)

If you or a loved one is experiencing any kind of emotional crisis, mental health or substance use concern, you can find help 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by calling the New Mexico Crisis and Access Line or Peer-to-Peer Warmline.

SAMHSA Fact Sheet: Tips for Talking With and Helping Children and Youth Cope After a Disaster or Traumatic Event

The New Mexico Healthcare Worker and First Responder Support Line:1-855-507-5509

Peer-to-Peer Warmline: 1-855-4NM-7100 (466-7100).

Call 7:00am-11:30pm or text 6pm-11pm, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Prefer text? Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a Crisis Counselor 

Free 24/7 support at your fingertips. https://www.crisistextline.org

Last week, six members of HSLIC’s staff and faculty: Jonathan Eldredge, Laura Hall, Melissa Rethlefsen, Sally Bowler-Hill, Alexis Ellsworth-Kopkowski, and Allison Cruise, along with UNM graduate Project Assistant Nydia Villezcas, gave presentations at the Medical Library Association’s 2022 hybrid event, Reconnect, Renew, Reflect. The seven employees, along with colleagues outside of HSLIC, presented on a wide array of research topics on medical libraries, their informational systems, and the communities they serve: 

Bowler-Hill S. Continuing to build consensus around the future of remote work: One library’s study  

Based on experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic, this study attempts to understand employee perceptions of remote work as a potential option for normal operations. Two surveys were conducted, before and after developing telecommuting and remote work guidelines for the library. Results show that, while staff and faculty showed overall satisfaction with hybrid work, time and further adjustments may be needed towards improving a sense of connectedness.  

This presentation can be downloaded from HSLIC’s Digital Repository: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hslic-posters-presentations/86/  

Cruise A. Developing a Stakeholder-Guided, Principles-Based Community Engagement Toolkit 

This project explores how stakeholders of the National Libraries of Medicine and its network define successful community engagement by providing them with an engagement toolkit. This project sought to explore and think critically about the meaning of community and what it looks like. 

This presentation can be downloaded from HSLIC’s Digital Repository: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hslic-posters-presentations/90/

Cruise A, Villezcas AN, Ellsworth-Kopkowski A, Eldredge JD, Rethlefsen ML. Academic health sciences libraries’ outreach and engagement with Native American communities: a scoping review  

This review seeks to identify trends in how academic health sciences libraries have supported community engagement and outreach with Native American communities. This comes at a time when a lack of equity and access to health information and low health literacy affect the health conditions of the Native American population. 

This presentation can be downloaded from HSLIC’s Digital Repository: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hslic-posters-presentations/88/  

Eldredge JD, Nathe C. Building question formulation skills among dental hygiene students.

This randomized controlled trial involved a 5-minute introduction to question formulation that was accompanied by training on a rubric for all students. The control group students did not receive any additional training whereas the intervention group received a 25 minute training on question formulation that included peer instruction and a hands-on applied exercise. The initial post-test scores were not much different, but when four (4) control group students who studied with intervention group students were removed from the analysis, the intervention students performed far better on the post-test.

Hall LJ, Eldredge JD. Developing a faculty roles crosswalk for health sciences librarians  

Many academic and hospital Health Sciences Librarians in the United States have faculty status. Translating HSL faculty responsibilities into terms that their non-HSL faculty counterparts can easily understand represents an ongoing challenge for HSLs. The librarians at HSLIC used a job analysis methodology to develop a Crosswalk that translates HSL job roles for non-HSL faculty members into easily grasped faculty responsibilities.  

Haddaway NR, Rethlefsen ML, Ashby CA. Developing searchRxiv: An international transdisciplinary repository for search strategies.  

This presentation explains the collaboration with CABI to develop searchRxiv, a new platform for documenting and sharing search strategies. SearchRxiv (searchrxiv.org) allows users to create a DOI-stamped record of a search strategy or a search block as documentation and data have been scattered across dozens of resources from individual journals files to institutional repositories. 

This presentation can be downloaded from HSLIC’s Digital Repository: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hslic-posters-presentations/89/  

Rosenzweig MN, Eldredge JD. Potential Pitfalls in Conducting a Research Study. 

This session addresses potential pitfalls when embarking on a research study and how to avoid them. The presentation covers some of the common mistakes for each phase of the research process. Topics covered might include formulating a question, selecting a study design, design & methodology, analyzing results, interpreting your findings, and conducting a literature review. 

Ragon B, Whipple EC, Rethlefsen ML. Except for my commute, everything is the same: the shared lived experience of libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic.  

This study investigates the impact of COVID-19 on academic health sciences libraries over three crucial periods during the pandemic. Findings provide context for challenges libraries faced and the tactics they employed to ensure services and support for their staff. The study captures the experiences of libraries as they transitioned to remote service environments, evolved over the course of an uncertain academic year, and began to transition or plan to transition back to in person services in some capacity. The study finds that, while library workers were energized to transition to remote services, they later expressed exhaustion with budget reductions, reopening planning, and a lack of certainty.  

Sawyer A, Cruise A, Dolan L. Analysis of public preprint server comments on NIH preprint pilot articles  

Given the increased prevalence of preprints during the COVID-19 pandemic, this project seeks to analyze public comments left on a sample of preprint articles from the NIH Preprint Pilot to determine if they were substantive in nature. Analysis of article titles and qualitative coding of the comments was conducted. This analysis was designed to measure comments on a selected group of articles to provide evidence of the impact of public commenting on scientific rigor.  

The primary elections are happening on June 7, 2022 and it is important that you take some time to get out and vote. Some voters may be unclear as to where they can cast their ballot. Also, it can be overwhelming to try and figure out who the candidates are and which issues they may support. If you need some assistance, the League of Women Voters of NM has just published an Online Voter Guide for the upcoming primary races in our state. 

If you visit the Vote411 site voters can get accurate, unbiased information about:

• voter registration
• voting information
• what's on their ballot
• what candidates have to say 

Please check out the guide to learn more about where to vote, who the candidates are, and where they stand on the issues. 

HSLIC's very own Jon Eldredge, PhD, MLS, AHIP has been named a Fellow of the Medical Library Association. He will be officially conferred the title of Fellow after the Medical Library Association's 2022 annual meeting in May.

Medical Library Association (MLA) Fellows are members elected by the association's board for sustained and outstanding contributions to health sciences librarianship and to the advancement of the purposes of MLA. MLA Fellows must demonstrate notable leadership in MLA, outstanding achievement, and significant scholarship. This is one of the highest honors in health sciences librarianship.

Eldredge joined UNM faculty in 1986 as a lecturer, with an appointment in the School of Medicine, in what was then called the Medical Center Library. Through the years he has taken on multiple roles at HSLIC. He currently serves as HSLIC's Evidence-Based Practice Librarian. In this role, Eldredge integrates library, informatics, and evidence-based practice skills into the curricula of medical, physician assistant, public health, clinical research, and other health sciences graduate programs. He co-teaches a research methods course for Physician Assistant program, a determinants and equity in public health course in the Master of Public Health program, and a biomedical informatics course for the Master of Sciences in Clinical Research program. He is also the Associate Program Director for the Clinical Informatics Fellowship within the School of Medicine's Department of Internal Medicine. Last year, Eldredge was named to the National Library of Medicine's Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, and he has extensive experience as an editor and review for scholarly publications in health sciences librarianship. 

Congratulations, Jon, on this outstanding achievement!

You are invited to join us on Thursday, May 19th from 10 to 11 AM, for a virtual seminar by Chris Shaffer, MS, AHIP

Topic: Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge (MCBK) Technical Infrastructure

Description: Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge is an international community from academia, the sciences, and government working together to ensure that biomedical knowledge in computable form is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. Computable biomedical knowledge (CBK) is the result of an analytic and/or deliberative process about human health, or affecting human health, that is explicit, and therefore can be represented and reasoned upon using logic, formal standards, and mathematical approaches.

Learning objectives:

1. Describe the context of MCBK and the MCBK Manifesto
2. Recognize the technical infrastructure challenges for MCBK
3. List at least one of the opportunities to engage with the MCBK community

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

May is Mental Health Awareness Month!

“Mental health refers to our emotional and social well-being and impacts how we think, feel, and behave. It plays a role in connecting with others, making decisions, handling stress, and many other aspects of daily life. Everyone has mental health, and it deserves your attention just as much as your physical health does.” (Mental Health America Twitter - @MentalHealthAM)

Here are some tips to help boost your mental health!

1. Treat yourself with kindness and respect, avoiding self-criticism
2. Take care of your body by eating right, drinking plenty of water, exercising, getting enough sleep, and avoiding smoking, vaping, alcohol, and other drugs
3. Surround yourself with a positive support network of family and friends
4. Volunteer your time to help someone else
5. Reduce stress – try meditating, yoga, mindfulness, and/or prayer
6. Don’t overschedule and set realistic goals
7. Get help when you need it. Seeking help is a sign of strength, not a weakness (https://www.mhanational.org/finding-help)

Want more information? The UNM Health Sciences Center is having a Mental Health Awareness Fair!

Last week HSLIC employees were extremely thrilled to be invited to attend the ribbon cutting ceremony for the AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) Resource Center (AAPIRC). This ceremony had been long awaited and was an historic event for the UNM campus. What became clear through this beautiful day was that our UNM students were the ones who put the work in and made this valuable and needed Resource Center come to being.

Image of Randy Ko speaking at the AAPIRC Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

We know that the contributions of AAPI community members in New Mexico, Albuquerque, and UNM have made a huge impact to our daily lives. We also know that hate crimes against AAPI community members have risen across the country and the discrimination that they have endured has been constant throughout the history of our country. This in conjunction with the need for our AAPI students to find affinity with each other and celebrate the joys of life as well as being able to find support for the hardships they might endure means that this Center is an extremely beneficial addition to our campus.

While it was incredible to see the work and dedication that students put in to make this Center a reality, it was also difficult to hear of their obvious needs having gone unaddressed for too long. We praise the work of students like Randy Ko, UNM Board of Regents Student Regent, MD/PhD Candidate, and Albuquerque native to bring this vision to fruition. However, hearing how much these students have needed affirmation and support in balancing their intersecting identities while navigating their academic careers hits home even more how we have to work to deserve the legacy that they are leaving behind through the establishment of this Resource Center.

If you are looking for information on the AAPIRC be sure to check out their website and their Instagram account. They have many upcoming events, including celebrations for AAPI Heritage Month - including a discussion on May 6th at 2pm with Dr. Eguchi about their book "Asians Loving Asians." You can also register to attend to the first ever AAPI Graduation Ceremony.

We look forward to the amazing work that we know the AAPIRC will continue to engage with and we are excited to collaborate on and support their mission in any way that we can.

HSLIC now has Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headsets available for checkout. We have apps for studying anatomy and practicing relaxation and mindfulness, with more on the way soon! Take a look at our guide at goto.unm.edu/virtualreality for more information, and come by the front desk to check one out!