From the Badgerlink Bulletin: DATAID and TERM Parameters Error Message in Badgerlink Databases

 

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DATAID and TERM Parameters Error Message in Badgerlink

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Unfortunately many BadgerLink users have come across this error message when trying to access a resource: “Error: DATAID and TERM parameters are both missing or empty. One is required. Please contact Auto-Graphics technical support for assistance.”

Our authentication service provider, Auto-Graphics, is working on a solution, but in the meantime these steps should help restore access if you or your library users happen upon this error.

1. Clear the browser's cookies and cache:
   • In the browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, etc.) use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Delete to open the Clear Browsing Data dialog box. Alternatively, navigate to this through the browser Settings>Privacy menu. Select to delete the cookies and cache, then close all browser windows. This page from the University of Iowa provides a nice explanation for each browser.
2. Re-open the browser and go to the BadgerLink website at https:/badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov.
3. Click the Login link in the upper right menu.
4. Follow the prompts to log in using either your public library & library card, your school & school identifier, or Wisconsin and your zip code.
5. After a successful login, the site will reload to the Resources page. Scroll down to locate the resource you would like to use.

Bookmark these instructions and share with any staff that may not subscribe to Bulletin! Reach out if you have any questions. 

Reprinted from The Badgerlink Bulletin here.

Dial 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline; Replaces the National Suicide & Prevention Line

State of Wisconsin sent this bulletin at 07/15/2022 10:30 AM CDT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 15, 2022

Contact: GovPress@wisconsin.gov

Gov. Evers, DHS Announce Wisconsin is Ready to Transition to 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

Free and confidential behavioral healthcare and support available 24/7

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) today announced the state is ready for the July 16, 2022, transition to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. The new calling code of 988 will allow people of all ages who are experiencing a crisis—whether that is thoughts of suicide, a mental health concern or substance use issue, or any other kind of emotional distress—to get help for themselves or a loved one by connecting them with a trained crisis counselor. The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is a free and confidential service that is available 24/7, and anyone can access the Lifeline by calling 988 (multiple languages available), texting a message to 988 (English only), or using the chat feature at 988lifeline.org (English only).  “Talking about mental and behavioral health is an important part of reducing stigma and making sure folks know they can get the support they need when they need it. In our state, nobody carries their worries alone, and it’s important for Wisconsinites to know that help and hope are only a phone call away,” said Gov. Evers. “The nationwide transition to 988, an easy-to-remember 3-digit number, will provide greater access to counseling services across our state and country and will undoubtedly save lives.” Individuals who call 988 will reach the existing National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which is being renamed the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. While 988 will provide an easy-to-remember number, the 10-digit National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255) will also remain in effect even with the transition. Individuals in Wisconsin who contact 988 will be routed to the Wisconsin Lifeline, the only National Suicide Prevention Lifeline affiliated call center in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Lifeline is funded by DHS and operated by Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin. For more information, including a list of frequently asked questions, visit the DHS website here. If you or someone you know is in imminent danger, please call 911.  “A person experiencing a behavioral health crisis does not need to manage alone,” said DHS Secretary-designee Karen Timberlake. “Just call, text, or chat 988. The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is here and ready to help all Wisconsin residents handle stressful situations.” Congress designated the 988-calling code in 2020. Soon after, the Wisconsin Lifeline opened to accept Wisconsin contacts from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Concurrently, DHS convened a coalition to develop Wisconsin’s 988 implementation plan. This coalition includes representatives from county and municipal agencies focused on behavioral health, law enforcement, emergency services providers, behavioral health services providers, and people who have experienced behavioral health crisis situations. This group continues to meet regularly to provide guidance on integrating the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline into Wisconsin’s behavioral healthcare system.  The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is a network of more than 200 support centers around the country. Contacts not answered by in-state partners roll over to a national backup system. The Wisconsin Lifeline has helped ensure that as many contacts as possible are answered by Wisconsin-based counselors who have the best understanding of local communities, cultures, and resources.  In 2021, approximately 29,000 calls from Wisconsin were answered by the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.  The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is part of a larger transformation of Wisconsin’s system for behavioral health crisis care focused on ensuring everyone who needs help has someone to talk to and a place to go. In addition to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, DHS has invested in the creation of a statewide warmline. This warmline phone service is being developed and will offer care and peer support from individuals who have themselves experienced a behavioral health crisis. Additionally, there is a new focus on providing mobile behavioral health crisis response, a service that provides care when and where a person needs it in their community, whether at home, work, school, or another location. Finally, regional crisis stabilization facilities are also under development. Crisis stabilization facilities will offer an alternative to hospitalization for adults who need the safety and security of facility-based care, but not intensive inpatient services. Wisconsin already has two youth crisis stabilization facilities that offer similar services, and two more are under development. Gov. Evers and DHS are also working with partners to develop a proposal for an additional $10 million investment to support regional crisis response system grants to alleviate strains on the state’s crisis services system infrastructure.

An online version of this release is available here.

Work Challenges and Inspiration among WHSLA Members: Featuring Michele Matucheski

  

Back in March, I participated in a listening session with Erica Lake from the NNLM Region 6.

In preparation, I asked a few WHSLA Members for their candid answers to the following questions:

1. What challenges do you face with work?
2. What inspires you at work?
3. What CE would you like to see the NNLM work up for us, esp. on the hospital side.

With their permission, I am sharing the responses here on the WHSLA Blog in a series with the hope that WHSLA Members will get to know each other better, share some great ideas and best practices, and realize that we may be facing a lot of the same challenges in a post- (Are we there yet?) pandemic world.

Michele Matucheski, MLIS, AHIP, is currently a Medical Librarian for Ascension Wisconsin Health Care, based in Oshkosh, WI.  

1) What challenges do you face with work?

• Being visible in an essentially virtual environment.  I'm still trying to figure out how to do it well.  I have the Ascension WI Library Blog and write articles regularly, and send out a monthly newsletter targeted to physicians and providers, nurses, rehab and others.  I also send welcome emails to new physicians and providers.  And the eTOC service remains popular.  We no longer get to participate in orientations, so I am always looking for new ways to reach people about Library Services.  Networking certainly helps, but that is fluid and everchanging with near constant turnover, and trying to keep track of who's who.  In the past, I could make a lot of connections and foster partnerships in the cafeteria or the hallways, but the physical library and hospital is a ghost town these days, which makes working the matrix a bigger challenge. 
• Initiatives come from national Ascension with local people implementing, but who no longer research topics themselves.  We have made some in-roads by joining the national Ascension community for Infection Preventionists, where we have been welcomed and chime in when and where appropriate.  The pandemic has been an exciting time to be part of this group!
• Teaching - I used to do some EBP sessions with the Nurse Residents.  That was a lot of fun, but that program has been re-vamped and the Librarians are no longer part of it, so I'll need to find another outlet for that! 

• In the coming year, I will need to transfer 43 LibGuides into a new content management system (CMS).  We are switching to TDNet because SpringShare is not able to handle the complicated contracting process that large organizations like Ascension require. [Sigh!]
• That change also necessitates moving to a new linksolver / A-Z List, which means also going through the process to integrate the new linksolver into PubMed again -- all while keeping up with the regular daily research, work and renewals. 

• I'll also need to implement a Discovery Search Engine (TDNet) on top of transferring 43 LibGuides in the same year.  Any one of these projects would be a major undertaking in any given year. So it will be a major feat to tackle them all at once.  Fortunately, TDNet has promised to provide ample training and support for these projects, so I won't have to do it alone.  Lets hope they stand by that!   

•  Some of my biggest frustrations come from working with IT who wants to nix library databases, resources, and contracts for security reasons without really understanding how these resources are used, and how the DO NOT contain protected health information (PHI).  For example, a big ejournal contract was nearly cancelled because the vendor saves login info on European servers--never mind that most people never set up a personal account. 
• Finding alternatives to remote authentication / Authentication by IP.  National Ascension is moving towards regional hubs for VPNs that have their own IPs.  They can let people get on the network from almost anywhere in the system without regard to local IPs which will eventually disappear. This means that we'll need to find new ways to authenticate who can use licensed library resources.   Seamless Access is trying to stay on top of the issues and solutions.
•  Finding the right people in IT to help get things done.  I used to have a contact who kept track of IPs for Ascension Wisconsin. But he has since left the organization, and I have not been able to find anyone else willing to work with me. I find out about IP changes when one of our end users tells me they are having trouble accessing library resources.  More often than not, these days, it leads back to IP changes or new VPNs.  IPs used to be pretty stable and seldom changed.  Now the Network guys make changes much more frequently -- and they don't bother to tell us.  IT has gone through a lot of their own mergers, so there's been tremendous turnover in their area, making it very difficult to find people who can answer our questions completely.  

•  Reinventing Hospital Librarianship every few years.  The pandemic forced us to go entirely virtual.  We proved we can do it, but what do I do with the physical library now that there are so few walk-in visitors and the books are essentially historical now.  

 

2) What inspires you at work?

• Learning something new everyday.  My job allows me to stay curious!
• Our Literature Search Evaluations (filled out by patrons) tell us how our research was used.  This data can show the value of how Librarians contribute to the mission, vision, goals of excellent patient care and ultimately the bottom line of our organization.  It is inspiring to read the comments people leave in praise of our work.  If we didn't ask them to fill out the evals, we'd never know ...
• Mentoring Librarians new to hospital librarianship, sharing what I know, but also learning from them, too. We all have something to contribute!
• The national Ascension Library Dept. has come together under a VP of Operations who has a gift for streamlining and improving processes.  She can pull in resources and people that none of the Librarians would have been able to do on our own.  She makes things happen, and she's a great advocate for Library Services.  We've come a long way in the last few years with streamlining budgets and creating workflows for license renewals and contracts, among other things.  After being a near solo librarian for so many years, it is nice to have a larger group of health science librarians to solve problems or share articles for newsletters, or even to cover when we're on PTO.  
• Working with an EBP Team this spring looking at Clinical Ladders for nursing to develop recommendations for leadership to ultimately implement a statewide program that could be a model for national Ascension.  This has been a great experience where ALL team members leverage their expertise.  This team let me go beyond just searching and handing it off to them, never knowing how it turned out.  I was involved with the discussions and their evaluations of the articles. They were excited and invigorated by what they were reading, and looking forward to putting a program in place here.

3) What CE would you like to see the NNLM / MLA work up for us, especially on the hospital side.  MLA seems to be doing more CE for the academic librarians these days, and NNLM is doing more outreach to public libraries now.  So what would be most helpful for those of us still working in hospital libraries?

•  Alternatives to IP authentication, perhaps by Seamless Access who seems to have a handle on the best approaches and who offers the solutions?  Or libraries who have figured out a better solution.

• Preparing annual reports and 1-page infographics to advocate for Library Services

• Technology Updates (like the GMR used to do back in the day).  Tips and tricks or useful / cool apps. and tools is always fun.

If you would like to participate and share your answers to these 3 questions in a similar post for the WHSLA Blog, email Michele Matucheski with your answers and I'll make sure it gets posted.

Horrifying medical terms

During my time in a hospital library, I've encountered many unfamiliar medical terms that I subsequently felt compelled to look up. And then wished I hadn't.  Here is a list of horrifying medical terms you may also wish to look up and then live to regret knowing:

• Cavernous fistula
• Ovine scrapie
• Fetiform teratoma
• Fetus in fetu
• Gas gangrene
• Topsy-turvy heart
• Posthumous conception
• Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD)
• Penoscrotal edema
• Necrosectomy
• Uterine morcellation
• Nougat graft
• Auto-Caesarean section
• Happy heart syndrome (the opposite of takotsubo syndrome, which is also terrible)
• Teratoma (Yes, it's on here twice.  It had been so long since I encountered the term that I forgot what it was.  I was surprised all over again to see a full color photo of one that contained loops of small bowel, NINE ill-formed appendages, and various other things that shouldn't have been there.  Thanks for that, 1978 JAMA.)
• Osteomyelitis
• Running-induced intestinal damage (because I needed another reason not to take up jogging)
• Necklace calcification
• Cavernous hemangioma (honestly, avoid looking up any medical condition that involves the word "cavernous")

From NLM's Images from the History of Medicine Collection: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101445585 

Save the date: MIRL 22 (Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries) on Thursday, November 17, 2022 (virtual)

Save the date for the Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium, a free virtual event with a focus on Institutional Repository (IR) management, curation, and promotion in a health sciences environment. The second annual symposium will take place virtually on Thursday, November 17, 2022.

MIRL Symposium 2022 is a platform-neutral conference. Our goal is to gather together IR practitioners and those with an interest in IRs at hospitals, academic medical centers, and other health settings for discussions and sharing of case studies and best practices for digital archiving of institutional content. 

The conference will be a mix of presentation types. Potential topics range from the impacts of changing funding agency mandates, challenges and success in innovation, staffing, migration of repositories, and strategies for the continued promotion of open access health sciences content. 

Our keynote will feature Dr. Lisa Federer, Data Science and Open Science Librarian at the National Library of Medicine, presenting on “The NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy: Roles and Opportunities for Libraries and Institutional Repositories.”

A call for papers and presenters will be coming this summer. Registration will open in September 2022. 

Questions can be directed to Steven Moore, Librarian at Sladen Library, Henry Ford Health.

 MIRL 2022 planning group members:

• Lisa Buda (Rochester Regional Health)
• Anthony Dellureficio (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
• Brenda Fay (Advocate Aurora Health)
• Sara Hoover (Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, George Washington University)
• Ramune Kubilius (Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)
• Steven Moore (Sladen Library, Henry Ford Health)
• Lisa Palmer (Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School)

Health Statistics on the Web; NNLM Webinar - June 2022

Health Stats on the Web - NNLM Webinar

This is a topic I like to revisit every couple of years.  I don't always need to dig up health statistics, but when I do, I like to have a handle on where to go for what stats.  Some things stay relatively stable, but there are always new things to learn in this area.  

In June 2022, the NNLM released a new webinar on finding Health Stats on the Web. [Note that the video above is from March 2022.]

Health Statistics on the Web - NNLM Webinar - June 2022

In this 1 hour webinar you will learn the difference between data and statistics, key features and use of health statistics, steps to finding health statistics, and sources of health statistics at the local, state and national level. The importance and relevance of health statistics in various contexts will be discussed. You will have the opportunity to become familiar with the features and scope of several statistics resources through the use of examples.

Objectives:

• At the conclusion of the class, participants will be able to:
• Recognize the differences between data, data sets, and statistics.
• Understand the 4-step process used to locate relevant health statistics for a particular circumstance or issue.
• Identify online resources that provide data sets and statistics at the local, state and national level.

Class Resources:

Health Statistics on the Web by Topic

Health Statistics on the Web (PowerPoint Slides)

Health Statistics on the Web Resource List (Word)