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Maha Kumaran University of Saskatchewan (U of S)

Saskatoon, SK Canada maha.kumaran@usask.ca

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maha_Kumaran

Contents

• Change as constant

• My path to librarianship

• How I got to be a health sciences librarian

• University Library

• Colleges I liaise with

• My role

• Lessons learned/Takeaways

My path to librarianship

1. Saskatoon Public Library and its branches 2. Angus McDonald Library, St. FX, Nova Scotia 3. Okanagan University College Library 4. British Columbia Institute of Technology 5. University of British Columba 6. University of Saskatchewan

1 6 3 2

4 5

How I got to be a health sciences librarian

Leslie and Irene Dubé Health Sciences Library – U of S

Saskatoon Public Library – Mayfair Branch

University Library • U-15

• Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)

• 7 branches

• Dean, 2 Associate Deans

• Department Heads • Librarians (faculty with research/publication requirements)

• Assistant, Associate and Librarian • Term librarian positions (No research/publication requirements)

• Staff (Also Student Learning Services)

• Student employees

• Standards for Promotion and Tenure

• Collective Agreement • USFA, ASPA, CUPE

College of Nursing – includes distance and distributed students/faculty

College of Pharmacy and Nutrition

My Roles…

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Collaborator

What I do? • Instruction or teaching

• Traveling

• Collections • My areas • Cluster • Library

• Committees • Member • Lead

• Researcher • Collaborative or solo • Conferences • grants

Teaching/Reference – Understanding the landscape • Specific towards assignments

• General

• Institution wide

• Lunch and Learn Series

• Co-taught a graduate level Integrative Literature Review course

• European Association for Health information and Libraries http://eahil.eu/

• National Library of Medicine https://learn.nlm.nih.gov/rest/training-packets/T0042010P.html

Nutrition 3rd Year The goal of this mini-assignment is for you to learn to use the nutrition resources at the library to hone your skills in conducting an effective literature search in the peer-reviewed literature. You will provide background information about your proposed research topic, define your topic to a research question (e.g. work towards refining your research paper topic) and formulate an effective search strategy using Medline or another appropriate database.

Mandatory Plagiarism Sessions for Nutrition 2nd and 3rd year How to do a literature review Keeping Current on your Topics

Library Research Series Sessions Predatory Publishing, Using RefWorks, EndNote, Searching Databases, etc.

Collections - Understanding the landscape • What is needed (content)

• Best formats

• Where to find it

• GOBI

• Doody’s

• Websites (http://www.nursesbooks.org/ https://www.canadianscholars.ca/ )

• List serves https://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/listservs-and-blogs; https://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/listservs-and-blogs

• Colleagues

Committee

• At my level some committee work is required

• Within and Outside of the University • VP and then President of Saskatchewan Health Libraries Association

• Initiator, co-founder and current Co-chair of ViMLoC

• Leading a Committee on Distance and Distributed Library Supports and Services

• Party of 6

• Member of Framework for UG Information Literacy Instruction • Party of 4

As a researcher…

• Myself

• Collaborating with other researchers

• Attending various conferences

• Library and Information Health Network North West (LIHNN) http://www.lihnn.nhs.uk/

• Coursera https://www.coursera.org/

• Social Sciences Research Lab http://ssrl.usask.ca/

Lessons Learned/Takeaways

• Change is constant

• Learning to be a life-long learner

• Be engaged

• Seek Support/Help

• Balance

• STAY RELEVANT

http://yoganonymous.com/monday-morning-mantra-cultivate-life-balance

The Future

http://www.yourtrainingedge.com/megatrends-in-moocs-5-lifelong-learning/

Credits

• Saskatoon Public Library http://tinyurl.com/hlssrbj

• Leslie and Irene Dube HSL http://m.library.usask.ca/branches/hsl.php

• SHIRP http://shirp.libguides.com/friendly.php?s=home

• U 15 http://u15.ca/our-members

• Canadian Association of Research Libraries http://www.carl-abrc.ca/

• University Library Standards for Promotion and Tenure http://library.usask.ca/info/libstandards2015.pdf

• College of Nursing https://www.usask.ca/nursing/

• Nutrition: http://grad.usask.ca/programs/nutrition.php

• Nursing Research Guide: http://libguides.usask.ca/nursing

• Nutrition Research Guide: http://libguides.usask.ca/nutrition

• Yoga Balance http://yoganonymous.com/monday-morning-mantra-cultivate-life-balance

References

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• Beard, J., & Dale, P. (2010). Library design, learning spaces and academic literacy. New library World, 111(11/12), 480-492.

• Edwards, C., & Walton, G. (2000). Change and conflict in the academic library. Library Management, 21(1). 35-41.

• Maceviciute, E. (2014). Research libraries in a modern environment. Journal of Documentation, 70(2), 282-302.

• Nutefall, J. E., & Chadwell, F. A. (2012). Preparing for the 21st century: Academic library realignment. New Library World, 113(3/4), 162-173.

• Walton, G., & Webb, P. (2016). Leading the innovating and creative library workforce: approaches and challenges. In D. Baker & W. Evans (Eds.), Innovation in Libraries and Information Services (Vol. 35, pp. 257 – 275): Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

• Wexelbaum, R. (2016). The library as safe space. In Samantha S. Hines & K. M. Crowe (Eds.), The Future of Library Space (Vol. 36, pp.37 – 78): Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

• Williamson, V. (2006). Surviving change and growing the profession together. Library Management, 27(8), 548-561.