Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton Recent documents in Hope I Barton en-us Sun, 31 May 2009 06:34:31 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/16 http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/16 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:02:00 PST R Van Rennes http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/14 http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/14 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:33:57 PST Hope I. Barton http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/12 http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/12 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:39:35 PDT In order to determine how libraries can best utilize their current resources and to plan for the future, it is important to know what services and resources users value and what their unmet needs are. In 1997, the University of Iowa Libraries began a three-phase assessment of the university community (undergraduate, graduate/professional students, and faculty/staff) to assess user satisfaction with current information services and resources and to help identify and prioritize service and resource needs. The second phase of the project, surveying professional and graduate students, was administered in winter 1999. This poster will share the methodology for developing this survey, an overview of the survey, and will also provide preliminary survey results. Hope I. Barton http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/11 http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/11 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:31:50 PDT Hardin Library has developed a Web-based library instruction program for a core undergraduate nursing class. In this program, library instruction is provided each semester for150-200 students who come to the libraryís electronic classroom in groups of 25. A Website has been developed to serve as the focal point for the sessions and to ensure that the librarian instructors cover the same material in each group. All materials covered in the sessions are included on the site, so that the students can follow along at their workstations while the librarian is simultaneously projecting the instructor station screen onto two large screens at the front of the classroom. The Website consists of a PowerPoint slide show containing information on library policies and services, links to our online catalog and Healthnet network (which includes MEDLINE, CINAHL, etc.), and the examples used in teaching online catalog and database searching. Hope I. Barton http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/10 http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/10 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:23:32 PDT Richard E. Eimas http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/9 http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/9 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:33:22 PDT Hope I. Barton http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/8 http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/8 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:23:37 PDT The library profession has a vested interest in the retention and information literacy of graduate and professional students. Recent research highlights the need for the overall study of graduate student use of the library and of those services and resources geared toward that population. A University of Iowa Libraries' user needs assessment survey of a random sample of graduate and professional students revealed that although graduate and professional students come to the library to do research or to use other library resources, fewer come to study or borrow books. Graduate and professional students recognize the need for more assistance in using the library and would like more opportunities for library instruction. They prefer human contact. Even though they are satisfied with the resources and quality of staff assistance, they would like to find more material on the shelves when they need them. In addition, many of them are unaware of the range of library services available to them. One of the key strategic goals of the University of Iowa is the maintenance and support of premier graduate and professional programs. Among 131 public research universities recently ranked in Hugh Davis Graham's and Nancy Diamond's 1997 book The Rise of the American Research Universities, the University of Iowa ranked among the top 20 based on the quantity and quality of research performance (1997). As one of only two public research universities in the state of Iowa, the University of Iowa has a special role in graduate and professional education. In the knowledge-intensive world of the future, graduate and professional education play a central role, and given the limited opportunities for such education within the state of Iowa, this part of the University of Iowa's mission will increase in importance over time. Carlette Washington-Hoagland http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/7 http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/7 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:57:46 PDT Health informatics is an outgrowth of medical informatics that focuses on the clinical aspects and applications of technology in the delivery of health care. It covers a variety of areas including physiological signaling and digital imaging processing, artificial intelligence, electronic medical records, health information systems, health on the Internet, and telehealth. The evolution of health informatics is driven by both changes in technology and changes in health care. While most developments take place within health care institutions, organizations, and agencies, the increased ubiquity of personal computing and networking and communications technologies over the last decade have opened this area to health consumers as well. Hope I. Barton http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/6 http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/6 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:41:16 PDT Linda Walton http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/5 http://works.bepress.com/hope_barton/5 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:26:40 PDT Hope I. Barton