2023 Grant Recipient
Alessia Zanin-Yost, Slippery Rock University
Proposal: “A Comparative Study of American and Italian Attitudes and Knowledge about
Phytomedicine”
2022 Grant Recipient
Alessia Zanin-Yost, Slippery Rock University
Proposal: “Cultural competence in health science programs: What is the role of the health science librarian?”
Presentations and/or Publications:
- Zanin-Yost, A. (2023). Moving DEI forward: Does cultural competence has a place in teaching and learning? Medical Library Association. Detroit, MI. Poster.
2019 Grant Recipient
John Cyrus & Rachel Koenig, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Proposal: “Assessing Librarian Impact on Faculty Research”
Presentations and/or Publications:
- Cyrus JW & Koenig RA. Understanding the Faculty Experience: Findings From Focus Groups about Librarian Research Consultations. Paper presented at MLA 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting, May 24-27, 2021; Online.
2018 Grant Recipient
Mary White, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Proposal: “#WritingPapers: Learning about the Information Work-Processes of Public Health Students”
Presentations and/or Publications:
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2017 Grant Recipient
Susan Keller & Layla Heimlich, Children’s National Medical Center & MedStar Washington Hopsital Center.
Proposal: “Putting Health Into Action: Exploring the Wellness Behaviors of Health Science Librarians”
Presentations and/or Publications:
- Keller S, Heimlich SL. (2020). The whys and wherefores of librarians’ health behaviors. Presentation at Children’s National’s Quality & Research Council, Washington, DC.
- Keller S, Heimlich SL. (2019). Exploring the Wellness Behavior of Librarians: Knowing and Doing: Description of our Research Process. Presentation at Empirical Librarian Conference, 2019 Annual Meeting, Richmond, VA.
- Keller S, King F, Heimlich SL. (2019). The whys and wherefores of librarians’ health behaviors. Lightning talk presented at Medical Library Association Mid-Atlantic Chapter (MAC-MLA) 2019 Annual Meeting, Durham, NC.
- 2019 MAC MLA Research Awards: 2nd place for contributed research award
- Keller S, Heimlich SL, King F, Barone J. (2019). Knowing and doing: quantitative and qualitative exploration of wellness behaviors among health sciences librarians. Poster presented at Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
- 2019 MLA Research Section Award: 1st place for contributed posters
- Heimlich SL, Keller S. (2019). Exploring the wellness behaviors of health science librarians. Poster presented at Bridging the Spectrum, 11th Annual Symposium, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.
- Heimlich SL, Keller S. (2018). Exploring the wellness behaviors of health science librarians. Lightning talk at Mid-Atlantic Chapter Medical Library Association (MAC MLA) Annual Meeting, Ocean City, MD.
2016 Grant Recipient
Carolyn Schubert & Christina Lam, James Madison University.
Proposal: “Longitudinal Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practice Competency Development in Nursing Students”
Presentations and/or Publications:
- Lam, C. K., Schubert, C. F., & Herron, E. K. (2020). Evidence-based practice competence in nursing students preparing to transition to practice. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 17(6), 418–426. https://doi.org/10.1111/wvn.12479
2014 Grant Recipients
Alexander Carroll, Nedelina Tchangalova, & Eileen Harrington, University of Maryland.
Proposal: “A Booster Shot for Health Science Librarianship: Using Canvas and PechaKucha to Flip the Library Classroom”
Presentations and/or Publications:
- Carroll, A.J., Tchangalova, N., & Harrington, E.G. (2016). Flipping one-shot library instruction: using Canvas and Pecha Kucha for peer teaching. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 104(2), 125–130. https://doi.org/10.3163/1536-5050.104.2.006
- Carroll, A.J., Tchangalova, N., & Harrington, E.G. (2015). “Using Canvas and PechaKucha to facilitate undergraduate peer teaching of evidence based practice.” 2015 MAC/MLA Annual Meeting, Asheville, NC, October 19, 2015.
- Carroll, A.J., Tchangalova, N., & Harrington, E.G. (2015). “Uncorking Learning: Flipping Library Instruction PechaKucha Style.” The Innovative Library Classroom 2015, Virginia Chapter of the Association of College & Research Libraries (VLACRL), Radford, VA, May 12, 2015.
- Carroll, A.J., Tchangalova, N., & Harrington, E.G. (2014). “A Booster Shot for Health Science Librarianship: Using Canvas and PechaKucha to Flip the Library Classroom.” 2014 MAC/MLA Annual Meeting, Alexandria, VA, October 20, 2014.
Alex Carroll, on the value of the MAC-RAC Grant:
The financial support provided by this grant was instrumental in our assessment of a flipped classroom model of information literacy instruction that my collaborators and I had developed. In order to assess the efficacy of this proposed method, we needed instructional time with students as well as access to student assignments so that we could meaningfully assess the impact of this instruction on student achievement of desired learning outcomes. The funds provided by the grant were used to recruit faculty participants who were willing to enroll their students in this study, and to compensate student participants for their time.
2012 Grant Recipient
Doug Varner, Georgetown University Medical Center.
Proposal: “Library Return-on-Investment: Model for Establishing the Value of a Health Sciences Library in Support of Research”
Presentations and/or Publications:
- Varner, D. (2015). “Library Return-on-Investment: Collaborating with Research Administration to Develop of Model for the Health Sciences Library in Support of Research.” MLA 2015 Librarians Without Limits.
- Varner, D. (2014). “Library Return-on-Investment: Model for Establishing the Value of a Health Sciences Library in Support of Research.” MAC-MLA 2014: Foundations to Frontiers.
Doug Varner, on the value of the MAC-RAC Grant:
“The MAC MLA Research and Assessment Grant allowed myself and my project collaborators to conduct a pilot study for our research project. The research project I worked on with my colleagues involved using a previously established model which calculated a return-on-investment figure correlating institutional investment in the library with extramural grant income. The findings from the pilot study showed that for every $1.00 the institution invested in the library the institution was able to secure $1.76 in grant income. Part of the analysis for the model involved evaluating references in grant submissions to determine availability of the articles in the library collections. The MAC MLA Research and Assessment Grant allowed us to hire student staff to evaluate the grant citations for the research pilot project.”