Library Services Annual Report

We hope that your 2024 is off to a great start. We’ve been very busy at the library answering your questions, finding articles, conducting literature searches, and negotiating with our vendors to provide the best, most cost-effective resources. We also have started our 2024 strategic planning and have goals to increase awareness about our resources while improving access. As we look to the future, we also reflect on all the work that we did over the last year.  Our 2023 Library Services Annual Report is a good summary of that work and we are happy to share it with you. Have a great February!

Track Your Favorite Journals in BrowZine Bookshelf 

The Allina Health Library is excited to spread the word on the new feature in BrowZine, the Library’s ejournal portal, called My Bookshelf.  

My Bookshelf is the area within BrowZine where you can organize your favorite journals so the current issue is one click away.  To access, you simply need to create an account for yourself, with your email and password of your choosing.  The sign-up page can be accessed by clicking on “My Bookshelf” at the top of the Browzine screen and following the link to create an account.  You will need to select Allina Health as the institution.  You can accept to receive email alerts when new articles are available. 

For a quick 2-minute tour through this new feature in Browzine, view the new video:  

For questions on this and any library resources, email us at library@allina.com. 

Black History Month

This month we would like to highlight Joel Bervell, a Ghanaian-American medical student, social media star, medical educator, and host of "The Dose" podcast with the Commonwealth Fund. In the social media sphere Joel is known as the "Medical Mythbuster", He is committed to fighting health disparities in medicine through education and regularly posts about racial disparities, the hidden history of medicine, and biases in healthcare. Joel is currently participating in the White House Office of Public Engagement’s Healthcare Leaders in Social Media Roundtable, on the Council for Responsible Social Media, served as the American Medical Association’s Medical Student Digital Fellow. Please check out this short video biography of him from Scientific American.