In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent stay at home orders, libraries in health services across Australia moved to virtual service models with limited or unstaffed physical libraries. This article considers the impact of the pandemic on physical library space in clinical environments. To investigate, seven interviews were conducted with library leaders from the Australian health care sector at the end of the momentous year of 2020 – as the country caught its breath following the initial waves of the virus.
{"title":"Health library spaces and the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from the Australian healthcare sector","authors":"Alice Anderson, T. Ivacic-Ramljak","doi":"10.55999/johila.v2i2.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55999/johila.v2i2.66","url":null,"abstract":"In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent stay at home orders, libraries in health services across Australia moved to virtual service models with limited or unstaffed physical libraries. This article considers the impact of the pandemic on physical library space in clinical environments. To investigate, seven interviews were conducted with library leaders from the Australian health care sector at the end of the momentous year of 2020 – as the country caught its breath following the initial waves of the virus.","PeriodicalId":256406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia","volume":"307 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123628108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dementia can be a lonely, stigmatising and isolating illness. People living with dementia and their carers want to remain connected with their local communities and feel safe, welcome and valued. A growing community awareness of dementia has borne the concept of dementia friendliness and dementia friendly communities.Core features of dementia friendly communities are supportive, inclusive, welcoming and safe environments. Public libraries are widely valued as safe, accessible and welcoming community assets and in this sense are well placed to be part of dementia friendly communities. This study has sought to understand how publiclibraries contribute to Australian dementia friendly communities. A mixed methods approach with a sequential exploratory design was employed to answer two distinct questions: firstly, how are individual needs of patrons living with dementia and their carers being met; and second, is there alignment between dementia friendly public libraries and the ALIA Framework for Australian Public Libraries. From a review of international and Australian literature, features of dementia friendly public libraries were codified along two facets—services and enabling environments. This study found that dementia friendly public libraries offered a suite of services and enabling environments that benefit people living with dementia and their carers. Collectively, they enable social capital and contribute to personal development and wellbeing, informed and connected citizens, and ultimately stronger more inclusive communities—achieving five of the six ALIA outcome measures. Public libraries located in dementia friendly communities provided similar benefits, although some inconsistencies were evident with a shift to age-friendliness. Dementia friendliness is a reflective movement and public libraries in dementia friendly communities must continue to respond to the needs of that community. There was an absence of strategic planning by the public libraries assessed to provide for such need, and thus targeted, collaborative planning could be considered to enhance dementia friendliness and inclusivity.
{"title":"An exploration of public libraries as dementia friendly places","authors":"Katie Bagnall","doi":"10.55999/johila.v2i2.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55999/johila.v2i2.68","url":null,"abstract":"Dementia can be a lonely, stigmatising and isolating illness. People living with dementia and their carers want to remain connected with their local communities and feel safe, welcome and valued. A growing community awareness of dementia has borne the concept of dementia friendliness and dementia friendly communities.Core features of dementia friendly communities are supportive, inclusive, welcoming and safe environments. Public libraries are widely valued as safe, accessible and welcoming community assets and in this sense are well placed to be part of dementia friendly communities. This study has sought to understand how publiclibraries contribute to Australian dementia friendly communities. A mixed methods approach with a sequential exploratory design was employed to answer two distinct questions: firstly, how are individual needs of patrons living with dementia and their carers being met; and second, is there alignment between dementia friendly public libraries and the ALIA Framework for Australian Public Libraries. From a review of international and Australian literature, features of dementia friendly public libraries were codified along two facets—services and enabling environments. This study found that dementia friendly public libraries offered a suite of services and enabling environments that benefit people living with dementia and their carers. Collectively, they enable social capital and contribute to personal development and wellbeing, informed and connected citizens, and ultimately stronger more inclusive communities—achieving five of the six ALIA outcome measures. Public libraries located in dementia friendly communities provided similar benefits, although some inconsistencies were evident with a shift to age-friendliness. Dementia friendliness is a reflective movement and public libraries in dementia friendly communities must continue to respond to the needs of that community. There was an absence of strategic planning by the public libraries assessed to provide for such need, and thus targeted, collaborative planning could be considered to enhance dementia friendliness and inclusivity.","PeriodicalId":256406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130983056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Editor’s note: Health Libraries Australia receives sponsorship from vendors for various activities it undertakes, including JoHILA. Sponsorship helps to offset the sundry costs associated with hosting and maintaining the journal. In this and future issues opportunity will be made available for the sponsor to share with the readership information that may be of interest or relevance. As with conference presentations and the like this content is provided independently by the sponsor and Health Libraries Australia is not endorsing any particular company or product. Also, please note for this article comments from me are featured. These comments were made in response to a generic question about the balance between print and digital tools in health libraries, and were offered independent of my JoHILA role. They do not represent an endorsement of particular companies or products.
{"title":"Libraries in the digital age","authors":"Wolters Kluwer","doi":"10.55999/johila.v2i2.75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55999/johila.v2i2.75","url":null,"abstract":"Editor’s note: Health Libraries Australia receives sponsorship from vendors for various activities it undertakes, including JoHILA. Sponsorship helps to offset the sundry costs associated with hosting and maintaining the journal. In this and future issues opportunity will be made available for the sponsor to share with the readership information that may be of interest or relevance. As with conference presentations and the like this content is provided independently by the sponsor and Health Libraries Australia is not endorsing any particular company or product. Also, please note for this article comments from me are featured. These comments were made in response to a generic question about the balance between print and digital tools in health libraries, and were offered independent of my JoHILA role. They do not represent an endorsement of particular companies or products.","PeriodicalId":256406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127816347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reflections on the contribution of the library to the career of Assoc Prof Charles Naylor, recently retired Chief Forensic Pathologist for Queensland Health.
反思图书馆对最近退休的昆士兰卫生首席法医病理学家查尔斯·内勒副教授职业生涯的贡献。
{"title":"A scholar and a gentleman; or, CSI Brisbane","authors":"T. Murphy, C. Naylor","doi":"10.55999/johila.v2i2.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55999/johila.v2i2.71","url":null,"abstract":"Reflections on the contribution of the library to the career of Assoc Prof Charles Naylor, recently retired Chief Forensic Pathologist for Queensland Health.","PeriodicalId":256406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121280605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
When the Queen’s Birthday 2021 Honours included an Order of Australia medal to Kathleen Gray, it cheered many in the Australian health libraries’ community. The OAM was bestowed for “service to medicine through digital health education”, but we too have benefited. Kathleen is a qualified librarian and ‘one of us’, having joined ALIA in 1980, and worked in Australian health libraries between 1980 and 1986. She was part of the HLA Executive for ten years, through to 2021.
{"title":"Tribute to Kathleen Gray OAM","authors":"Cecily Gilbert","doi":"10.55999/johila.v2i2.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55999/johila.v2i2.65","url":null,"abstract":"When the Queen’s Birthday 2021 Honours included an Order of Australia medal to Kathleen Gray, it cheered many in the Australian health libraries’ community. The OAM was bestowed for “service to medicine through digital health education”, but we too have benefited. Kathleen is a qualified librarian and ‘one of us’, having joined ALIA in 1980, and worked in Australian health libraries between 1980 and 1986. She was part of the HLA Executive for ten years, through to 2021.","PeriodicalId":256406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia","volume":"18 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113938342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
One of State Library of Queensland’s health responses to COVID-19 was to form a staff Health & Wellbeing Team. The development of the Team was informed by data from two staff surveys circulated during the COVID-19 pandemic which indicated that some staff were feeling disconnected and disengaged from the workplace. The team was formed with the aim of devising ideas and initiatives to look after staff wellbeing at a time when feelings of vulnerability were high and the effects of up to six months working from home were starting to take their toll.
{"title":"Attitude of gratitude: focusing on staff health and wellbeing during Covid-19","authors":"Anne Reddacliff","doi":"10.55999/johila.v2i1.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55999/johila.v2i1.53","url":null,"abstract":"One of State Library of Queensland’s health responses to COVID-19 was to form a staff Health & Wellbeing Team. The development of the Team was informed by data from two staff surveys circulated during the COVID-19 pandemic which indicated that some staff were feeling disconnected and disengaged from the workplace. The team was formed with the aim of devising ideas and initiatives to look after staff wellbeing at a time when feelings of vulnerability were high and the effects of up to six months working from home were starting to take their toll.","PeriodicalId":256406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115756389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dr Mary Anne Kennan, Danny Kingsley, Dr Joanna Richardson
This brief report discusses the early findings focussing on hospital and health service librarian responses, from a survey designed to shed light on the respondents’ self perception of their competency in specific areas of scholarly communication.
{"title":"Scholarly communication knowledge and skills in hospital and health services libraries: report of a survey","authors":"Dr Mary Anne Kennan, Danny Kingsley, Dr Joanna Richardson","doi":"10.55999/johila.v2i1.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55999/johila.v2i1.48","url":null,"abstract":"This brief report discusses the early findings focussing on hospital and health service librarian responses, from a survey designed to shed light on the respondents’ self perception of their competency in specific areas of scholarly communication.","PeriodicalId":256406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115180414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This research collaboration in Northern Queensland comprises a Law Librarian, Health Librarian and a Public Health researcher with an interest in mental health law. This collaboration developed from librarian support of teaching and research in a Public Health postgraduate subject at JCU at Nguma-bada Campus (Cairns). Students were required to develop systematic review protocols for topics in a subject with substance misuse, mental health, regulation and policy content. Published research in this area is typically found in legal as well as health and social care databases. Hence our collaboration described here.
{"title":"A Collaboration between Information Specialists and a Public Health Researcher to Investigate Search Strategies in Systematic Reviews in Interdisciplinary Topics: A Progress Report","authors":"Bronwen Forster, Janet Catterall, Alan Clough","doi":"10.55999/johila.v2i1.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55999/johila.v2i1.49","url":null,"abstract":"This research collaboration in Northern Queensland comprises a Law Librarian, Health Librarian and a Public Health researcher with an interest in mental health law. This collaboration developed from librarian support of teaching and research in a Public Health postgraduate subject at JCU at Nguma-bada Campus (Cairns). Students were required to develop systematic review protocols for topics in a subject with substance misuse, mental health, regulation and policy content. Published research in this area is typically found in legal as well as health and social care databases. Hence our collaboration described here.","PeriodicalId":256406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia","volume":"95 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120874276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In late 2019, the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists library began supplying library services to the College of Intensive Care Medicine. It did this by “piggybacking” the new service on the back of its existing library service. This model is presented as a way of providing library services to smaller institutions that would not normally be in a position to manage their own library service.
{"title":"Piggybacking access: providing library access to the College of Intensive Care Medicine","authors":"J. Prentice","doi":"10.55999/johila.v2i1.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55999/johila.v2i1.54","url":null,"abstract":"In late 2019, the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists library began supplying library services to the College of Intensive Care Medicine. It did this by “piggybacking” the new service on the back of its existing library service. This model is presented as a way of providing library services to smaller institutions that would not normally be in a position to manage their own library service.","PeriodicalId":256406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia","volume":"11 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132390091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Clinical placements provide student health professionals with critical and diverse learning opportunities. Engaging in clinical work and learning from role models and peers in the workplace are primary ways allied health students develop professional skills, behaviour and identities as a health professional. Whilst on placement students also have opportunities to become part of the workplace practice community. This study arose not as the result of a need to solve a problem, but from my curiosity and desire to continuously improve clinical placement learning experiences for allied health students. In my study, I explored the influences supporting allied health students undertaking clinical placements in a Queensland regional health service tothink, feel and act like health professionals.
{"title":"Supporting allied health students on clinical placements to begin to think, feel and act as a health professional – a health librarian’s contribution","authors":"L. Furness","doi":"10.55999/johila.v2i1.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55999/johila.v2i1.55","url":null,"abstract":"Clinical placements provide student health professionals with critical and diverse learning opportunities. Engaging in clinical work and learning from role models and peers in the workplace are primary ways allied health students develop professional skills, behaviour and identities as a health professional. Whilst on placement students also have opportunities to become part of the workplace practice community. This study arose not as the result of a need to solve a problem, but from my curiosity and desire to continuously improve clinical placement learning experiences for allied health students. In my study, I explored the influences supporting allied health students undertaking clinical placements in a Queensland regional health service tothink, feel and act like health professionals.","PeriodicalId":256406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123601785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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