Dana Abbey and Wlad Labeikovsky have had a chapter proposal accepted for a book to be published by ALA on the topic of spatial literacy in public health. The title of the chapter they are drafting is "Mapping and Evaluation of Local Public Health Resources, Access, and Populations using Free Software and Census Information”.
Christi Piper and Sam Wilairat received the MCMLA Best Research Paper Award for their paper "Why Doesn't Anyone Want to Apply to our Jobs? A Qualitative Study on MLIS Graduate Student's Perceptions of and Interest in Health Sciences Librarianship".
Ellie Svoboda received the MCMLA/Midwest 2021 Joint Conference Viewer's Choice Award for Best Lightning Talk. Ellie’s Lighting Talk was titled "To Zoom or Not to Zoom?"
Jacob Gallay started a new position at the Strauss Health Sciences Library on November 1st as an Access Services Specialist.
The National Jewish Health library welcomes two new employees: Carole Durst, who joined in November as the Senior Library Technician and Ruby Nugent, who will be starting in December as the Biomedical Research Librarian. Nitzan Watman has left to be the Public Services Librarian at the Denver Botanic Gardens.
Publications
Singh, A., Heet, H., Guggenheim, D. S., Lim, M., Garg, B., Bao, M., Smith, S. L., Garrison, D., Raynor, E. M., Lee, J. W., Wrigley, J., & Riska, K. M. (2021). A Systematic Review on the Association Between Vestibular Dysfunction and Balance Performance in Children With Hearing Loss. Ear and hearing, 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001131. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000001131
Chadalawada, S., Rassi, A., Jr, Samara, O., Monzon, A., Gudapati, D., Vargas Barahona, L., Hyson, P., Sillau, S., Mestroni, L., Taylor, M., da Consolação Vieira Moreira, M., DeSanto, K., Agudelo Higuita, N. I., Franco-Paredes, C., & Henao-Martínez, A. F. (2021). Mortality risk in chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. ESC heart failure, 10.1002/ehf2.13648. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.13648
Gilens, J. F., Hoss, M., Lyon, C., & DeSanto, K. (2021). Does Light Therapy Decrease Depression in Older Adults?. American family physician, 104(4), 417–418.