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MLA 2017 Debrief 
 

The Librarian’s Role in Reproducibility of Research Symposium 
Held Saturday, May 27th from 1-5pm 
 

This symposium aimed to educate attendees about the important roles for librarians and 

information professionals at their home institutions to raise awareness about and support 

research reproducibility. Attendees learned more about reproducibility from keynote speaker 

Shona Kirtley, Senior Research Information Specialist for the EQUATOR Network at the Centre 

for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, as well as a panel of librarians and information 

professionals who are involved in enhancing reproducibility.  At the conclusion of the event, 

attendees better understood the basics of reproducibility, were empowered to create 

strategies for how they might find partners, and get involved in reproducibility of research at 

their individual institutions. 

More information – including speaker slides, handouts, and additional resources - can be found 

on the symposium website: http://mlasymposium.libguides.com/2017  

#meddatalibs Special Content Session 
Held Sunday, May 28th from 3-4:25pm 
 

The Research Section (RS) and the Medical Informatics Section (MIS) co-hosted a book group 

discussion on the new MLA publication: The Medical Library Association Guide to Data 

Management for Librarians, edited by Lisa M. Federer. Michelle Bass, RS chair-elect, teamed up 

with MIS chair-elect, Patricia Gogniat, to moderate this session. They facilitated an engaging 

conversation of the book and its contents. Overall,  it was a successful showing for the first 

book group discussion held at an MLA conference! Additionally, those interested in following 

discussions about medical data librarianship online, should follow and make use of the Twitter 

hashtag #meddatalibs! 

Research Section Business Meeting 
Held Sunday, May 29th from 7-8:55am  

For meeting notes, please see the MLA Research Section’s webpage on mlanet.org. 

 

http://mlasymposium.libguides.com/2017
http://www.mlanet.org/p/cm/ld/fid=503


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Research Section Member Activities @ MLA 2017 

The information for these papers and posters was gathered as part of a pre-conference survey 

of MLA 2017 Research Section activities sent out by Chair, Michelle B. Bass. This is not a 

complete listing of Research Section member contributions to MLA 2017. 
 

Contributed papers: 

Presenter(s) Presentation title Session 

Akers, Katherine 
Amos, Kathleen 

The Value of Case Studies in Evidence-Based 
Librarianship: An Examination of the Journal of 
the Medical Library Association 
 

Daring to Dream: Facilitating 
Scientific Communication 

Akers, Katherine 
Increasing Clinical Scholarship: Promoting the 
Publication of Medical Case Reports 
 

Daring to Dream: Facilitating 
Scientific Communication 

Henderson, 
Margaret 

Providing Support for an Interdisciplinary 
Research Group with a Multidisciplinary 
Informationist Team: Is It Effective? 
 

Librarians as Innovative 
Collaborators: Doing What it 

Takes to Form New 
Partnerships 

Vardell, Emily 
Health Insurance Information Needs: How 
Librarians Can Help 

Dreaming of a Healthier 
Community: Librarians 

Doing Research 
 

Yatcilla, Jane 
HAMMERing out the Details: What Can an 
Online Bibliometrics Engine Tell Us About 
Research in Animal-Assisted Therapy? 

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Foster, Erin D. 
Enhancing Accessibility of Rare Disease 
Literature for Researchers and Patients 

Technology Dreamin': New 
Applications for Current and 

Emerging Technologies 
 

Henderson, 
Margaret 

Adding to the Evidence: A Survey of Faculty 
Research Data Management Practices and 
Needs 
 

Data Librarians: Daring to 
Move Beyond Traditional 

Roles 

Ascher, Marie T. 
Martinez, Ophelia 
Moy, Fred 

Dare Your Students to Debate: An Innovative 
and Collaborative Approach to Teaching 
Evidence-Based Medicine 
 

Daring to Design: Librarian 
Roles in Curriculum 

Foster, Erin D. Hosting a Science Hack Day...and You Can Too! Lightning Talks Session 3 

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Poster sessions: 

Presenter(s) Poster title Session 

Galati, Marianne 
Varman, Beatriz 
Brown, Rebecca 

The Publisher and Editor Regretfully Retract This 
Publication 
 

Session 1 

Hoogland, Margaret 
Clinical Apps: Gateway to Accessing Health 
Information 
 

Session 1 

Rosenzweig, Merle 
The Anatomage Table: An Innovative Approach to 
Anatomy Education 

Session 1 

Johnson, Emily 
Rural Information Connection: An iPad Mini Lending 
Program to Rural Student Physicians 
 

Session 1 

Brigham, Tara 
Coloring Your "Art" Out: Outcomes of Offering 
Coloring Materials in Targeted Hospital Staff Areas 
 

Session 1 



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Sakmar, Kristen 
Bullers, Krystal 
Hanson, Ardis 
Howard, Allison 
Orriola, John 
Polo, Randall 

Dare You Look the Predator in the Eye? How Librarians 
Are Addressing the Nightmare of Questionable 
Publication Practices 
 

Session 1 

Fitterling, Lori 
MEDLIB Q-Bank Anyone? Creating a Question Bank of 
Medical Informatics Information Literacy Test 
Questions for Librarians 

Session 3 

Powell, 
Kimberly 

Searching by Grant Number: Analysis of Web of 
Sciences and PubMed Search Results 
 

Session 3 

Spencer, Angela J. 
Eldredge, Jonathan D. 

Roles for Librarians in Systematic Reviews Over Time 
 

Session 3 

Fitterling, Lori 
Voices in the Choir: Librarians Helping to Move 
Osteopathic Research Forward 
 

Session 4 

Rosenzweig, Merle 
San Francisco Plague of 1900-1904: Economics, 
Politics, and Racism 
 

Session 4 

Grabowsky, Adelia 

Using Reflection and Peer Discussion to Increase 
Engagement of Master’s in Nursing Students during 
Library Orientation 
 

Session 4 

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