In September 2023, Allina Health Library Services asked our customers about their experience with Library Services, as well as the impact of the library on their work. We contacted around 1000 customers who had used one of our services in the past 18 months and we were happy to receive 227 survey responses from a variety of different people. Overall, it was clear that the library is a well-loved service that provides a high level of expertise and access. Library Services received an overall rating of 4.72/5 stars! Additionally, a very high number of respondents agreed that we have an impact on patient care, research, and business processes.
While the overall results we very positive, the survey did indicate some issues around barriers to access including the need for further education, additional resources, and more communication around our services. We will be working on addressing this feedback while continuing to provide robust services and resources.
Do you like to get something for nothing? One of the best deals around is to create a free My NCBI account in PubMed and start taking advantage of all the things it can do for you immediately.
What is My NCBI?
In the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information own words “My NCBI” is a tool that retains user information and database preferences to provide customized services for many NCBI databases [most notably PubMed]. It allows you to save searches, select display formats, filtering options, and set up automatic searches that are sent by e-mail. If you publish government-sponsored research, you also can use it to manage your publication history and make sure you are in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy (My Bibliography).
Steps to create an account
Make sure your browser will accept cookies and allow pop-ups from NCBI web pages.
Go to Pubmed.gov and click Log in in the upper right corner
Since June 2021, NCBI requires that you use a username and password associated with a partner organization, such as a Google, Login.gov or an ORCiD account. You only need to connect your account once and then a cookie will remember you going forward on the same computer. NCBI has additional explanation here. The Library can help answer questions on this process too!
Once you have an account, you can save searches, collections of articles, preferred filters, and also create a My Bibliography of your own publications. These are all options under the Send to link.
Once you have saved or created preferences, you access all of these by clicking your username in the upper right corner to go to your dashboard. You will also now see the options to create an alert or RSS feed based on a search you have created – a great way to receive regular updates on a topic or a favorite journal!
Native American Heritage Month
The youngest Aboriginal (Cree-Saulteaux) graduate from the Facility of Medicine in Manitoba at the age of 24 Dr. Anderson DeCoteau, is the youngest president of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada (IPAC). Dr. Anderson DeCoteau works in predominantly administrative/ policy/ planning type roles. She strives to ground mainstream systems approaches to Indigenous health in Indigenous rights, and Indigenous understandings and teachings around health, being healthy, and healing which sometimes requires challenging definitions of science and evidence. She designed a research project that helped facilitate an elective and compensate the healers for the time spent teaching medical students a traditional aboriginal medical elective. She recognized the importance of Indigenous knowledge and traditional healing practices in improving patient care. Her leadership spawned the development of a series of tools to be incorporated into the curriculum of medical schools across Canada. All projects had a common goal: to provide medical students with an understanding of the expansive list of barriers that prevent Aboriginal people from enjoying a good quality of life.
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Survey Results
In Septem
ber 2023, Allina Health Library Services asked our customers about their experience with Library Services, as well as the impact of the library on their work. We contacted around 1000 customers who had used one of our services in the past 18 months and we were happy to receive 227 survey responses from a variety of different people. Overall, it was clear that the library is a well-loved service that provides a high level of expertise and access. Library Services received an overall rating of 4.72/5 stars! Additionally, a very high number of respondents agreed that we have an impact on patient care, research, and business processes.
While the overall results we very positive, the survey did indicate some issues around barriers to access including the need for further education, additional resources, and more communication around our services. We will be working on addressing this feedback while continuing to provide robust services and resources.
We encourage you to read our survey results online: 2023 Impact Survey
Tip of the Month
Do you like to get something for nothing? One of the best deals around is to create a free My NCBI account in PubMed and start taking advantage of all the things it can do for you immediately.
What is My NCBI?
In the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information own words “My NCBI” is a tool that retains user information and database preferences to provide customized services for many NCBI databases [most notably PubMed]. It allows you to save searches, select display formats, filtering options, and set up automatic searches that are sent by e-mail. If you publish government-sponsored research, you also can use it to manage your publication history and make sure you are in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy (My Bibliography).
Steps to create an account
Make sure your browser will accept cookies and allow pop-ups from NCBI web pages.
Go to Pubmed.gov and click Log in in the upper right corner
Once you have an account, you can save searches, collections of articles, preferred filters, and also create a My Bibliography of your own publications. These are all options under the Send to link.
Once you have saved or created preferences, you access all of these by clicking your username in the upper right corner to go to your dashboard. You will also now see the options to create an alert or RSS feed based on a search you have created – a great way to receive regular updates on a topic or a favorite journal!
Native American Heritage Month
The youngest Aboriginal (Cree-Saulteaux) graduate from the Facility of Medicine in Manitoba at the age of 24 Dr. Anderson DeCoteau, is the youngest president of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada (IPAC). Dr. Anderson DeCoteau works in predominantly administrative/ policy/ planning type roles. She strives to ground mainstream systems approaches to Indigenous health in Indigenous rights, and Indigenous understandings and teachings around health, being healthy, and healing which sometimes requires challenging definitions of science and evidence. She designed a research project that helped facilitate an elective and compensate the healers for the time spent teaching medical students a traditional aboriginal medical elective. She recognized the importance of Indigenous knowledge and traditional healing practices in improving patient care. Her leadership spawned the development of a series of tools to be incorporated into the curriculum of medical schools across Canada. All projects had a common goal: to provide medical students with an understanding of the expansive list of barriers that prevent Aboriginal people from enjoying a good quality of life.
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