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Learn how librarians from three universities contribute to a One Health course, supporting students with research, collaboration, and information sources. Challenges and benefits of collaboration discussed. Librarian-authored content for an educational resource on One Health available soon.
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Librarians’ contributions to a One Health course across three universities Kristine Alpi Mellanye Lackey kmalpi@ncsu.edu mjlackey@unc.edu
One Health Education Locally • NC One Health Collaborative nconehealthcollaborative.weebly.com/ • One Health Intellectual Exchange Group chaired by Cheryl Stroud, DVM, PhD, has representatives from 3 universities • Supported by Triangle Global Health Consortium • Weekly academic year seminars at NC Biotechnology Center in RTP. Topics such as: • “A global prospective on infectious animal diseases” • “Therapy pets in health care settings” • “Water sanitation and hygiene and One Health”
One Health Course & Students • One Health thematic course offered each Spring semester as graduate course for students at 3 universities
“Talk to our students about how to stay current.” Librarians’ involvement • Taught “How to stay current in One Health” • Included rss feeds - newspapers, blogs, websites • Discussed information bias • Used Google Reader (RIP – July 1, 2013) • Led bibliographic search sessions • Created LibGuide for One Health • http://guides.library.duke.edu/one_health
Challenges with collaboration • Three different schools and their libraries: • Veterinary Medicine • Academic Affairs • Health Sciences • Topics cut across areas from non-health libraries • Journal & database subscription access differs for students on cross-institutional project teams • What can they legally share? • How do we let them know that? • How do we support students who meet off campus? • One course LibGuide representing 3 universities • Continuity in the face of change – librarian retirement
Benefits to librarian collaboration • Work sharing among librarians for tasks and subject specialties • Opportunity to consider access questions with interdisciplinary collaborators • Testing the Triangle Research Library Network 2-day book and digital article delivery • Invitation to contribute to compendium on One Health Case Studies
“Information Sources in One Health” • Librarians invited February 2012 to contribute essay on the importance of library resources for One Health • Content supplied March 13, 2012: • narrative demonstrating One Health interdisciplinarity • importance of current, reliable sources to practitioners • how to use sources to make evidence based decisions • how librarians can contribute to the One Health efforts • how to access sources: list of free and subscription databases with One Health info • Will be open access, likely as a PDF on the NC OHC website and in partner university repositories Barrett MA, Sackey-Harris M, Stroud C, eds. Applications of the One Health approach to current health and sustainability challenges: an educational resource, vol 1, Durham, NC, Duke; UNC; NCSU [In prep for 2013]
QUESTIONS? Kris Alpikmalpi@ncsu.edu Mellanye Lackey mjlackey@unc.edu www.flickr.com/photos/rogercalger/1555385455/