Hospital Librarians Meet the Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Teolis, Marilyn G.; Poletti, Edward J.; Creazzo, Jeannine; Steele, Faith N; Castelli, David; Mokonyama, John

doi:10.1080/02763869.2021.1987805

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“…Additionally, the findings related to the use of library resources during the pandemic provide new information that health sciences librarians can use to understand how the use of resources was affected during COVID-19 and to plan for future extreme circumstances. At the moment, library literature describes how libraries addressed the challenges of continuing to provide services to their patrons providing patient care [21][22][23], the role of academic librarians in supporting the information needs of medical staff and researchers, and collaborations with physicians to provide critical and timely resources and intelligence reports [24,25]. While this literature adds to what is known about how libraries responded to this emerging crisis, our study provides information about how providers of patient and population care used library resources during the pandemic and what they perceived as vital to their work.…”

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The impact of libraries and informationists on patient and population care: a mixed-methods study

Shannon,

Freeman,

MacEachern

et al. 2024

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Objective: While several studies have examined the effectiveness of librarian interactions with clinicians and impact of librarians on patient care, no studies have explored a library’s effects on population care. The goal of this study was to investigate the library’s impact on both patient and population care. Methods: Using a sequential exploratory mixed-methods design, we first interviewed a small set of clinicians and researchers active in patient and population care. Based on the themes that we discovered through coding the interviews, we created a survey that was sent to faculty in the health sciences and the health system. Results: We collected data from a representative sample of our population. We discovered that all respondents value the library and informationists, using our services most for teaching, publishing, presenting, and professional development. Conclusion: We now have data to support our value to our population and to show where we can do more work to improve the use of our services. Our study shows the value of doing a mixed-methods sequential exploration in which themes that are important to our user community were identified prior to launching a large-scale survey.

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The impact of libraries and informationists on patient and population care: a mixed-methods study

Shannon,

Freeman,

MacEachern

et al. 2024

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“…Still fairly near the times of pandemic, some studies and reports on how hospital libraries met the early stages of the pandemic have been published (e.g. Harnegie, 2021;Teolis et al, 2021;Weeks et al, 2020), but to date, how hospital libraries re-structured their services during the pandemic years and the lessons learned for future disturbances have not been studied systematically. This paper seeks to contribute to this knowledge by drawing on resilience theory and employing the concept information resilience as a theoretical lens, to pose the main research question: how can hospital libraries contribute to information resilience within the hospital organisation during a pandemic?…”

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Mitigating the infodemic of the pandemic: hospital librarians’ enactment and development of information resilience in healthcare organisations

Ahlryd,

Hanell

2024

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PurposeThe challenges to healthcare caused by the COVID-19 pandemic forced hospital librarians to develop their abilities to cope with change and crises, both on a social level and an organisational level. The aim of this study is to contribute to knowledge about how hospital librarians developed library services during the pandemic and how these changes contributed to building information resilience in the healthcare organisation. This paper also seeks to explore how resilience theory, and specifically the concept information resilience, can be used within library and information science (in LIS) to investigate resilience in the library sector.Design/methodology/approachNine semi-structured interviews with librarians were conducted at four different hospital libraries in four different regions in Sweden between March and May 2022. The empirical material was analysed through an interaction between the tzheoretical perspective and the empirical material through a thematic analysis. In each theme, specific resilience resources are identified and analysed as components of the information resilience developed by hospital librarians.FindingsThe results show that hospital librarians contribute to several different information resilience resources, which support information resilience in the healthcare organisation. Three aspects characterize the qualities of resilience resources: access, flexibility, and collaboration. The findings suggest that the framework for analysing information resilience used in this study is well suited for studying the resilience of libraries from both organisational and informational aspects.Originality/valueThe analysis of information resilience on an organisational level presents a novel way to study resilience in the library sector.

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“…In some studies, they presented their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic (Ahlfeld, 2020;Koos et al, 2021;Gabriel and Yusuf, 2020). Library issues in the COVID-19 pandemic were studied in all types including university libraries (Zareef and Ahmad, 2021;Tsekea and Chigwada, 2021;Tolppanen, 2021;Shoaib et al, 2021;Fasae et al, 2021;Meng et al, 2021), public libraries (Xin, 2021;Wahler et al, 2021;Vrana and Kova cevi c, 2021;Sabolovi c-Krajina, 2021), hospital libraries (Teolis et al, 2021) and medical ones (Ansuategi et al, 2020;Charney et al, 2021;Haugh, 2021;Kazempour et al, 2021;Sullo and Brody, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…, 2021), public libraries (Xin, 2021; Wahler et al. , 2021; Vrana and Kovačević, 2021; Sabolović-Krajina, 2021), hospital libraries (Teolis et al. , 2021) and medical ones (Ansuategi et al.…”

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Libraries respond to the COVID-19 pandemic: drawing a science map of published articles

Nadi-Ravandi

Batooli

2022

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PurposeThe lockdown of libraries has led to changes in the delivery of services. Reviewing many studies in this regard appears to be of great importance. Thus, this study aims to analyze the articles related to libraries and COVID-19 using the co-occurrence analysis.Design/methodology/approachThe current study is applied in terms of purpose and scientometrics in terms of type, which has been conducted using a retrospective bibliometric analysis method and drawing a science map. The relevant keywords were searched in the Scopus and 225 articles were reviewed in terms of author, year of publication, journal, organization and subject. Then, the VOSviewer software was used to analyze and illustrate the keywords and draw the scientific map of the articles.FindingsThe results showed that 225 articles by 496 authors from 66 countries and 379 organizations were published in the subject area of libraries and COVID-19. These articles have received 620 citations. The co-occurrence analysis of words showed that these scientific productions are classified into four clusters: “The role of libraries and librarians”, “The use of media, social network and communication technologies in order provide library services”, “Online Library Services” and “Infodemic and misinformation in the COVID-19 Pandemic”.Originality/valueIt is the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic that a scientific map has been drawn up of studies that have examined the role of libraries in this pandemic. The results of the present study may help libraries to access what they need to consider in any crisis.

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Hospital Librarians Meet the Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

The impact of libraries and informationists on patient and population care: a mixed-methods study

The impact of libraries and informationists on patient and population care: a mixed-methods study

Mitigating the infodemic of the pandemic: hospital librarians’ enactment and development of information resilience in healthcare organisations

Libraries respond to the COVID-19 pandemic: drawing a science map of published articles

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