Scholarly Snippets Sessions: A Collaborative Research Series Among Six College of Osteopathic Medicine Libraries

Friday, May 6, 2022

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM CT

Location: 353

Presenter and Author(s)

Joanne M. Muellenbach, AHIP

Director
California Health Sciences University
Clovis, California

Slides

Author(s)

Molly Montgomery

Director of Library Services
Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine
Meridian, Idaho
Abbey Griffith, MLS

Medical Library/Library Manager
D'Angelo Library
Kansas City, Missouri
Meghan Di Rito, MLIS

Education and Outreach Librarian
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Georgia Campus
Suwanee, Georgia
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Lisa A. Ennis, MA, MS, MPH

Library Director / Professor of Information Sciences
Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine
Dothan, Alabama
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Kyle D. Robinson, MLIS

Electronic and Technical Services Librarian
California Health Science University
Coarsegold, California
Katie Hoskins, AHIP

Research and Instruction Librarian
California Health Sciences University
CLOVIS, California
Kelli Hines, AHIP

Scholarly Communications Librarian
Western University of Health Sciences, Harriet K. & Philip Pumerantz Library
Pomona, California

Background: In spring 2020, leaders at the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) expressed the critical need for AACOM to enhance its research footprint. In response, six College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM) libraries worked together to create the Scholarly Snippets webinar series as a means of improving the research skills of our faculty, staff, and students. Collaborating with librarians from other COMs allows us to offer a broader range of research-focused topics than would be possible on our own and increases the value and visibility of COM libraries overall.

Description: The six collaborating COM libraries created the Scholarly Snippets research series to meet the needs of developing researchers and promoted it to their faculty, staff, and students. The series consists of 30-minute live Zoom webinars scheduled to be convenient for multiple time zones, and the webinars are recorded and archived for future viewing on the Scholarly Snippets LibGuide, as well as on our respective library guides. The initial Spring 2021 series consisted of eight webinar topics: Cochrane Library, copyright, finding reusable images, LibKey Nomad, open access, predatory journals, PubMed, and systematic reviews. In Fall 2021, we delivered nine more webinar topics, and another 13 webinar topics will be offered between January and June 2022.

Conclusion: The Scholarly Snippets collaboration has been a great success. It has opened new possibilities for librarians from a variety of COM institutions to collaborate and teach new scholarly topics. The webinars have also helped us become more familiar with our partnering libraries’ institutions and their key initiatives. Inviting the AACOM COOL members and extending the webinar invitation to all AACOM faculty, staff, and students expanded our participant pool and resulted in excellent public relations. In the future, we hope to adapt session topics for course-integrated instruction and offer research “snippets” at committee and departmental meetings. We also hope to conduct pre/post assessments to identify the impact that this research webinar series had on faculty, staff, and student participants.