The Role of Evidence-Based Practice in Collaborations between Academic Librarians and Education Faculty

Adams, Nancy; Gaffney, Maureen A.; Lynn, Valerie

doi:10.1353/pla.2016.0048

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“…Relying on the team's expertise in library sciences, medical humanities education, and health services and educational research, we conducted a scoping review and qualitative metasynthesis. The purpose of a scoping review is to examine the extent, range and nature of research activity; such reviews can be especially helpful in complex areas of inquiry that have not previously been mapped .…”

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Is research on professional identity formation biased? Early insights from a scoping review and metasynthesis

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OBJECTIVE Despite a recent surge in literature identifying professional identity formation (PIF) as a key process in physician development, the empiric study of PIF in medicine remains in its infancy. To gain insight about PIF, the authors examined the medical literature and that of two other helping professions.METHODS The authors conducted a scoping review and qualitative metasynthesis of PIF in medicine, nursing and counselling/psychology. For the scoping review, four databases were searched using a combination of keywords to identify empiric studies on PIF in trainees. After a two-step screening process, thematic analysis was used to conduct the metasynthesis on screened articles. RESULTSA total of 7451 titles and abstracts were screened; 92 studies were included in the scoping review. Saturation was reached in the qualitative metasynthesis after reviewing 29 articles.CONCLUSION The metasynthesis revealed three inter-related PIF themes across the helping professions: the importance of clinical experience, the role of trainees' expectations of what a helping professional is or should be, and the impact of broader professional culture and systems on PIF. Upon reflection, most striking was that only 10 of the 92 articles examined trainee's sociocultural data, such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age and socioeconomic status, in a robust way and included them in their analysis and interpretation. This raises the question of whether conceptions of PIF suffer from sociocultural bias, thereby disadvantaging trainees from diverse populations and preserving the status quo of an historically white, male medical culture.Professional identity formation (PIF) in medicine focuses attention on the career-long process of becoming a clinician. 1,2 PIF can be thought of as a double helix: the individual and the profession form parallel strands that become intertwined. Each strand must bend in order to accommodate the other; however, this burden of bending and changing to accommodate seems to fall more acutely on the individual strand, with the profession's strand remaining more fixed. PIF frequently involves experimentation, change and uncertainty, and ideally results in the successful reconciliation of conflicting ideals, values and roles. Although successful formation of a professional identity has been linked to career success 3 and creativity at work, 4 a mismatch between an individual's internal bearings and the roles and expectations of the profession can create anxiety, frustration and feelings of inadequacy, and can result in the individual leaving the profession. 5 The role of culture, race, socioeconomic status and gender might be expected to be critical components of the individual strand, and could prove to be important confounders in the study of this complex process.We set out to gain an understanding of the current state of the PIF literature in medicine by conducting a scoping review and metasynthesis of the literature across three of the helping professions (medicine, nursing and counselling/ p...

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Is research on professional identity formation biased? Early insights from a scoping review and metasynthesis

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“…Much of the literature surrounding CRCs focuses on the composition of these collections and the addition of technology, such as computer-based games or programs, 3D printers, or software (Shelley, Derden, and Gibson, 2018). Other literature focuses on collaborating with Education faculty for selection or deselection of materials, joint lessons, and user focused studies (Adams et al, 2016;Correll & Bornstein, 2018). Gelber and Uhl (2013) examined the fiscal management of CRCs, finding that their management was sometimes the sole responsibility of the library and other times it was shared with the Education department.…”

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Liaising in the 21st Century: The Shifting Role of the Education Librarian

Donaldson¹,

Bonella²,

Becksford³

et al. 2022

Educ. Lib.

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This paper will examine the findings of a survey on the job roles and responsibilities of Education librarians (academic librarians with liaison responsibilities for the field of Education). Existing literature on Education librarianship has focused on particular facets of the job role, including the unique instructional needs of Education students and specific instruction and outreach initiatives. However, the literature lacks a comprehensive picture of the full spectrum of contemporary Education librarianship. This article provides a snapshot of the diverse educational backgrounds and varied responsibilities of Education librarians related to instruction and instructional design, reference, embedded librarianship, outreach, collaboration, and collection development.

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“…With this, the literacy skillset is seen as an independent asset that instrumentally has a one-way effect on people's social practices and cognitive functioning (Street, 2003). The generic or autonomous model is reflected in many definitions and models of IL promoted by the academic library community, including SCONUL's seven pillars of information literacy model (SCONUL Working Group on Information Literacy, 2011), which is often used as a theoretical framework of studies (e.g., Cope & Sanabria, 2014;Sandercock, 2016), and versions of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher education (Association of College andResearch Libraries, 2000, 2016), also used for numerous studies (Gross & Latham, 2012;Seiler et al, 2012;Adams et al, 2016). Alternatively, IL can be regarded "as a range of contextualized information practices" (Lupton & Bruce, 2010, p. 12).…”

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Information literacy on the political agenda: An analysis of Estonian national strategic documents

Merimaa¹,

Lepik

2020

cejc

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There is a controversy: while information literacy (IL) has been recognized to have a central role in operating efficiently in the information society, previous studies have noted that in the European political agenda, the actual wording of IL is rarely used. This study pays a close visit to 15 Estonian information policy–related national strategic documents from 1998 to 2014 to understand the emerging role of IL in these documents. Qualitative text analysis and critical discourse analysis are employed to analyse both explicit representations and implicit conceptualizations of IL, linked to social determinants, ideologies, and effects from the dominating discourse. Considering the differ-ent “faces” of IL (Bruce, 1997), one can see that while the dominant approach to IL is technologically oriented, few other concepts of IL can be detected. Discursively, the information society is defined through economic and technological fields, on the wave of technological determinism and neoliberal-ism, with some social equality.

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The Role of Evidence-Based Practice in Collaborations between Academic Librarians and Education Faculty

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

Is research on professional identity formation biased? Early insights from a scoping review and metasynthesis

Is research on professional identity formation biased? Early insights from a scoping review and metasynthesis

Liaising in the 21st Century: The Shifting Role of the Education Librarian

Information literacy on the political agenda: An analysis of Estonian national strategic documents

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