Piloting a long-term evaluation of library data workshops

LaPolla, Fred; Contaxis, Nicole; Surkis, Alisa

doi:10.5195/jmla.2021.1047

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“…We speculate that as the pandemic continued, people grew weary of spending more time in virtual meetings. LaPolla, Contaxis, and Surkis also noticed a decline in attendance for their data sciences training series and posited that many professionals were experiencing "Zoom fatigue" that limited their interest in pursuing professional development opportunities [24].…”

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“…LaPolla, Contaxis, and Surkis studied longer-term impacts of the data workshops they offered at NYU [9] and Deardorff interviewed 14 researchers at the University of California, San Francisco before and three months after they completed introductory programming workshops [25]. Despite the low survey response rate, LaPolla, Contaxis, and Surkis's pilot confirmed that respondents benefitted from their workshops by building data collection and analysis skills.…”

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“…It is also hard to know when the best times are to offer workshops. As a result, libraries have tried either to create new offerings, revamp current offerings, or solicit input for improvements to increase attendance of faculty, staff, and students [5][6][7][8][9].…”

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Health sciences library workshops in the COVID era: librarian perceptions and decision making

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Maloney

Lyons

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Objective: We sought to determine how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted academic health sciences library workshops. We hypothesized that health sciences libraries moved workshops online during the height of the pandemic and that they continued to offer workshops virtually after restrictions were eased. Additionally, we believed that attendance increased. Methods: In March 2022, we invited 161 Association of American Health Sciences Libraries members in the US and Canada to participate in a Qualtrics survey about live workshops. Live workshops were defined as synchronous; voluntary; offered to anyone regardless of school affiliation; and not credit-bearing. Three time periods were compared, and a chi square test of association was conducted to evaluate the relationship between time period and workshop format. Results: Seventy-two of 81 respondents offered live workshops. A chi square test of association indicated a significant association between time period and primary delivery method, chi-square (4, N=206) = 136.55, p< .005. Before March 2020, 77% of respondents taught in person. During the height of the pandemic, 91% taught online and 60% noted higher attendance compared to pre-pandemic numbers. During the second half of 2021, 65% of workshops were taught online and 43% of respondents felt that attendance was higher than it was pre-pandemic. Overall workshop satisfaction was unchanged (54%) or improved (44%). Conclusion: Most health sciences librarians began offering online workshops following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than half of respondents were still teaching online in the second half of 2021. Some respondents reported increased attendance with similar levels of satisfaction.

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Health sciences library workshops in the COVID era: librarian perceptions and decision making

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“…In October 2020, two of the three members of the pilot team presented "The Charts Are Off: Approaches to Ethical Decision Making in Data Visualization" to the MLA Pacific Northwest Chapter [22]. This presentation focused on ethical frameworks and ethical issues connected to statistical analysis and visualization, including issues like visualizing uncertainty in data.…”

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Engaging health sciences librarians on data ethics: case study on a pilot curriculum

Contaxis

LaPolla

Milliken

2023

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Background: Ethical decision-making regarding data collection, visualization and communication is of growing importance to librarians, with special relevance to those in medical and data fields. Data ethics training opportunities for librarians, however, are uncommon. To fill this gap, librarians at an academic medical center developed a pilot data ethics curriculum for librarians across the U.S. and Canada. Case Presentation: Three medical librarians developed a pilot curriculum to address perceived gaps in librarian training for data ethics. One of the team members had additional academic training in ethics, which helped to provide an intellectual foundation for this project. The three-module class provided students with an overview of ethical frameworks, skills to apply those frameworks to data issues, and an exploration of data ethics challenges in libraries. Participants from library schools and professional organizations were invited to apply. Twenty-four participants attended the Zoom-based class and shared feedback through surveys taken after each session and in a focus group after the course’s conclusion. Discussion: Responses to the focus group and surveys indicated a high level of student engagement and interest in data ethics. Students also expressed a desire for more time and ways to apply what was learned to their own work. The need for more time was for both networking and extended discussion of class topics. Several students suggested creating concrete outputs of their thoughts (e.g., a reflective paper or final project). Finally, student responses expressed a strong interest in mapping ethical frameworks directly to challenges and issues librarians face.

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“…Grand Rounds Research Reproducibility (#UtahGRRR) [ 32 ] was a weekly seminar series designed to mimic traditional medical campus grand rounds series, but with an emphasis on interdisciplinarity and local experts. We envisioned #UtahGRRR to be a space where faculty, staff, students, and members of the public could share their work on reproducibility-themed topics and bring about new partnerships and cross-disciplinary collaborations.…”

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Rigor and reproducibility instruction in academic medical libraries

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Bakker²,

Exner³

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Background: Concerns over scientific reproducibility have grown in recent years, leading the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to require researchers to address these issues in research grant applications. Starting in 2020, training grants were required to provide a plan for educating trainees in rigor and reproducibility. Academic medical centers have responded with different solutions to fill this educational need. As experienced instructors with expertise in topics relating to reproducibility, librarians can play a prominent role in providing trainings, classes, and events to educate investigators and trainees, and bolstering reproducibility in their communities. Case Presentations: This special report summarizes efforts at five institutions to provide education in reproducibility to biomedical and life sciences researchers. Our goal is to expand awareness of the range of approaches in providing reproducibility services in libraries. Conclusions: Reproducibility education by medical librarians can take many forms. These specific programs in reproducibility education build upon libraries’ existing collaborations, with funder mandates providing a major impetus. Collaborator needs shaped the exact type of educational or other reproducibility support and combined with each library’s strengths to yield a diversity of offerings based on capacity and interest. As demand for and complexity of reproducibility education increases due to new institutional and funder mandates, reproducibility education will merit special attention.

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Piloting a long-term evaluation of library data workshops

Cited by 3 publications

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Health sciences library workshops in the COVID era: librarian perceptions and decision making

Health sciences library workshops in the COVID era: librarian perceptions and decision making

Engaging health sciences librarians on data ethics: case study on a pilot curriculum

Rigor and reproducibility instruction in academic medical libraries

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