Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Your Old Hospital Library Print Collections

 

[Click on the poster for a larger view.] 

WHSLA member Kellee Selden and Ascension Librarian, Lucinda Bennett presented a poster and lightning talk at MLA-24 on the topic of Recycling Old Hospital Library Print Collections.

Watch for an upcoming WHSLA Wisdom Chat on the topic later this fall.  In the meantime, check out the poster above to get some ideas and inspiration for recycling your old print collections.  [Click on the poster for a larger view.]  All that paper doesn't have to go to a landfill!

Fostering change, empowering faculty: comments on the NURSLITT study and the five-year rule.

If you've worked with Nurses or nursing students on searching the literature, you may have encountered some of the strict parameters -- esp. the 5-year rule or nurse-as-author -- where they won't accept anything older, even if that's when the bulk of the research was done, and the question is considered settled.  Even though databases like CINAHL allow us the functionality to use those limits, it may zero out useful results.    

The lead author, Eleanor Truex is an Ascension Medical Librarian working in the Chicago area.  

Fostering change, empowering faculty: comments on the NURSLITT study and the five-year rule.
By Eleanor Shanklin Truex, Jean Hillyer, Emily N Spinner

The five-year rule must die. Despite an extensive literature search, the
origins of the five-year rule remain unknown. In an era when the nursing
profession is so focused on evidence-based practice, any approach that
arbitrarily limits literature searches to articles published in the previous
five years lacks scientific basis. We explore some reasons for the
pervasiveness of the practice and suggest that librarians need to engage
with nursing faculty, who are well-positioned to be change agents in this
practice.

Keywords: 5-year Rule; Date Limits; Date Range; Literature Searches;

Nurses; Nursing Education; Nursing Faculty; Nursing Research; Search Limits

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2024.1768
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39119160

J Med Libr Assoc. 2024 Apr 01. 112(2): 140-141

 

Here is the previous article published on this project:

Exploring the Use of Common Strict Search Criteria in Nursing Literature Searches. Truex ES, Spinner E, Hillyer J, Ettien A, Wade S, Calhoun C, Wolf G, Hedreen R, Heimlich L, Nickum A, Vonderheid SC.    Nurse Educ. 2022 Dec 30. doi: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001353. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36728635.   Link to Article.

CDC Health Equity Video Series

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Visit the CDC OHE webpage for more information about the Health Equity Video Series and to learn more about how to communicate about health equity. 

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