School nurses are proportionally older in age as compared to the overall U.S. nursing workforce. In anticipation of a school nurse workforce shortage in the next few years, we must focus our attention on developing and implementing orientation and transition programs for new school nurses, many of whom represent the millennial generation. Formative experiences are thought to create specific characteristics and difference between generations; yet, stereotypes are sometimes present in defining generations. The NASN School Nurse Editorial Advisory Board interviewed four millennial school nurses to highlight the need to embrace this new generation as they enter the specialty practice of school nursing.
This article describes undergraduate use of OhioLINK, Ohio's patron-initiated interlibrary loan system. Undergraduate requesting patterns from Ohio's various colleges and universities were examined as well as other data, such as undergraduate use of their local collections, institution size, and library size. Correlations were calculated in order to determine which of these factors were associated with high and low OhioLINK use by undergraduates; the results varied according to school type (college vs. university). Supplementing this overall study was a detailed survey of students and faculty at Wittenberg University who had made OhioLINK requests. The conclusions have implications for cooperative collection development plans.
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