Transitioning from health to academic librarianship
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A presentation delivered at the Health Libraries Inc 2016 Conference in Melbourne, providing an early career librarian's perspective on the bridge between health librarianship and academic (research) librarianship
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Transitioning from health to academic librarianship
- 1. TRANSITIONING FROM HEALTH TO ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP Steven Chang Senior Research Advisor (Library) La Trobe University @StevenPChang #HLI2016Health Libraries Inc 2016 Conference
- 2. Hospital librarian • Systematic reviews / expert searching • Medical terminology • Evidence-based practice • Clinical librarianship • Critical appraisal • Current awareness services • Ward rounds • Patient care • Accreditation support • Health quality standards • Embedded librarianship • Clinical decision-making support • Consortia purchases @StevenPChang #HLI2016 Academic health librarian (research) • Systematic reviews / expert searching • Research impact / bibliometrics • Institutional repositories • Copyright • Research output management • Open access • Data visualisation • Researcher profiles / ORCiD • Altmetrics • Research data management • Strategic publishing • Digitisation • Data science / analysis Health Libraries Inc 2016 Conference
- 3. Non-traditional professional development @StevenPChang #HLI2016Health Libraries Inc 2016 Conference
- 4. Food for thought Email s.chang@latrobe.edu.au Twitter @StevenPChang LinkedIn https://au.linkedin.com/in/stevenchang1 Health Libraries Inc 2016 Conference@StevenPChang #HLI2016 • Identity crisis? What really defines a health librarian? • Where does the field of health librarianship start and end? • Should we aim to be specialists or generalists? • How can health librarians and academic librarians collaborate more closely?
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- In this lightning talk, I’d like to offer a new graduate perspective on my experiences so far being part of, and transitioning between, health librarianship and academic librarianship This will of course be quite a narrative, subjective view – I’ll be quite biased towards an early career point of view and a research-centric point of view – in a way it will complement the more teaching & learning oriented perspective from my colleagues at Deakin
- This is a bit of a death by PowerPoint slide…so I’ll give you a moment to scan over them and notice some of the difference in emphasis These lists are not mutually exclusive – matter of emphasis and my own subjective experiences. For example, you might argue medical terminology is important for academic health librarians. Similarly, some hospital libraries are engaging in repository projects – which is a topic to be covered by Susie Moreton later this afternoon A few things to note: One of several key areas of expertise shared by both hospital librarians and academic health librarians is expert searching and systematic review searching This is central to both roles. However, I’d argue it’s more all-encompassing for hospital librarians and forms a key part of most services and projects, including many items on this list. By contrast, expert searching is extremely important for academic health librarians, but competes intensely with a range of other complex skillsets which are quite distinct from the world of expert searching Specialist or generalist? Hospital librarians are often great all-rounders, but in a specialist field. Clinical librarians are specialists in a specialist field. Similar tensions in academic librarianship – liaison librarian types of roles are generalists, but most other roles in academic libraries are highly niche and narrowly focused.
- Non-trad PD has played a huge role in shaping my experiences and developing the skillsets needed to traverse across both fields. In my hospital librarian role, this helped me quickly get up to speed in two major areas: a) principles and practice of being a librarian in general, and b) developing subject-specific health librarian skills Adapting to a new research librarian role in an academic library has meant getting to grips with a complex environment, and non-traditional PD has particularly helped with skilling up in areas of rapid change like research data management and research metrics None of this is to discount the role of more traditional professional development, which has also been very important. There is still a lot of value in: Attending and speaking at conferences Reading library science journals Committee involvement in both ALIA and non-ALIA groups Shoutout to both ALIA Health Libraries Australia and Health Libraries Inc for workshops and events which have been really enriching
- Pretty much done, but I thought I’d leave you with a few questions to ponder For example, there was a clash today between this conference and the CRIG Research Support seminar – both are highly relevant to someone in a hybrid role like mine that is both generalist but also specialist subject-wise Speaking to the identity crisis – an academic librarian friend of mine at another institution says she feels discouraged from identifying as a health librarian, even though she prefers to see herself as a subject specialist at an academic library Any discussion about professional development and skillsets should use HLA’s research on Australian health librarian competencies as a starting point – these are indispensible resources, as are the specialised health and academic PD schemes that came out of them. Academic librarians are quite keen to collaborate with health librarians for building skills – there is an utmost respect for the specialist skills of hospital librarians, particularly expert searching - opportunity Lastly, I think the experience of travelling between library sectors is a really interesting one, and I’d encourage people to consider giving it a try. And I mean that in both directions. There is so much more cross-pollination that could be done between the two. Experiencing both environments makes you appreciate the differences and see things from different viewpoints. By arriving and adapting to academic library life, I’ve come to appreciate new things such as being part of a much larger team. But I’ve also come to appreciate the unique aspects of hospital libraries, such as the flexibility and agility of smaller teams, and the sheer depth of specialist expertise in areas like systematic reviews.