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Evidence-Based

Librarianship:Building the Base as We Respond to the COVID-19

Pandemic / Infodemic

Sara Loree, Robyn Butcher & Stacy Brody

Librarian Reserve Corps

09/06/2021

agendaParticipants Poll and Poll Results

Introduction from Anne Brice, Convenor, IFLA Evidence for Global and Disaster Health SIG

Evidence-Based Librarianship presentation

Q & A

Participants Poll

speaker

Anne Brice

Convenor, Evidence for Global and

Disaster Health Special Interest Group

Head of Knowledge Management,

Public Health England, United Kingdom

“We live in a world where disease and disaster know no borders. An

interconnected world, where every nation's health and security is

dependent on that of other countries worldwide. Work to protect and

improve the public’s health, and to reduce inequalities, must be global

too.”

Duncan Selbie, Former CE, Public Health England

“When disaster occurs, there is often an appeal for money and money

is often needed, but what is always needed is knowledge.”

Professor Sir Muir Gray

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk

Reduction 2015-2030

In 2015 the United Nations adopted three landmark

agreements:

● Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

2015–2030

● The Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda

2030

● The Paris Agreement on Climate Change

“The Sendai Framework will “strengthen technical and

scientific capacity to capitalize on and consolidate

existing knowledge and to develop and apply

methodologies and models to assess disaster risks,

vulnerabilities and exposure to all hazards.”

(paragraph24 j)

Natural hazards

Natural hazards

Technological hazards

Natural hazards


Disease

Natural hazards


Disease

Environmental hazards

Natural hazards


Disease


Climatic hazards

Natural hazards


Disease


Climatic hazards

Humanitarian hazards

Natural hazards


Disease


Climatic hazards


Geopolitical and post conflict hazards

Natural hazards


Disease


Climatic hazards



Violence and terrorism hazards

Natural hazards


Disease


Climatic hazards




Externality, space weather and meteors

Natural hazards


Disease


Climatic hazards





Trade Dispute hazards

Natural hazards


Disease


Climatic hazards






Financial Shock hazards

Natural hazards


Disease


Climatic hazards







Cyber hazards

Natural hazards


Disease


Climatic hazards







Cyber hazards

Transport accident hazards

Natural hazards


Disease


Climatic hazards





Trade Dispute hazardsFinancial Shock hazards

Cyber hazardsTransport accident hazards

…. other hazards?

Summary

Advocacy: Global action to build the potential for librarians to play an enhanced, pivotal role in the production, organisation, assessment and deployment of information for global and disaster health, including disaster preparedness and risk reduction.

Training and Mentoring: Using face-to-face meetings & virtual learning interventions to help librarians gain the skills, capabilities, and confidence to respond to new and emerging roles in DRR and global health, and make sure that opportunities are targeted at areas of most need

Activity mapping and resource production. Producing high-quality resources and aligning with existing initiatives to promote evidence-based practice, provide better value, and reduce duplication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T3RUFRofbg

Community based, but globally connected.

Focus on principles and values aimed at inclusion and diversity –belief in the right to reliable healthcare information for all

Evidence-based and measuring value and impact– work in every sector and sphere

Ethical professional values based on IFLA Global Vision, and robust standards and processes

User focused, working with key partners including library and non-library stakeholders, organisations and networks to share knowledge and expertise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T3RUFRofbg

speaker

Sara Loree, MSLS, AHIP

St. Luke’s Health System (Idaho, USA)

Librarian Reserve Corps Co-Director

speaker

Robyn Butcher, MLIS

Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health

(CADTH)

speaker

Stacy Brody, MI

Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library,

George Washington University,

Washington, DC, USA

Librarian Reserve Corps Co-Director

agendaThe Librarian Reserve Corps

Current Evidence-Based Librarianship Projects

Database Validation Study

Best Practices for Searching

Q & A

librarian reserve corpsVolunteer network

• 140 volunteers

• 14 countries

Founded March 2020

• In response to GOARN-Research

Aims

• Originally, library services for GOARN-Research

• Now, building the evidence base for librarians and information professionals

Current Activities &

Projects

database working groups

✓ Launched summer 2020 and continues on a quarterly basis

✓ WHO request

✓ Reduce duplication of efforts, survey the landscape of new databases

✓ Raised key issues around searching, metadata, preprints, publisher

relations, and technology

✓ Inspired database validation study and best practices project

✓ Focus on special topics, guest presentations

search challenges

✓ Evolving information needs and sources

✓ Publication types

✓ Metadata: dates, DOIs, and trial IDs

The Currency and

Completeness of

Specialized Databases of

COVID-19 Publications

validation study• Robyn Butcher, MLIS: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health

(CADTH)

• Stacy Brody, MI: Librarian Reserve Corps; Himmelfarb Health Sciences, The

George Washington University

• Rachel J. Couban, MA, MISt: McMaster University, Department of Anesthesia

• Sara Loree, MSLS, AHIP: Librarian Reserve Corps; St. Luke’s Health System

• James Edward Malin: Science Reference Associate, NYU Division of Libraries

• Margaret Sampson, MLIS, PhD: Librarian Reserve Corps;

CHEO Research Institute, Ottawa Canada

COVID-19 Special Collections

• Epistemonikos COVID-19 L-OVE

• WHO COVID-19 Global Literature Database

• LitCovid

• CAMARADES COVID-19 SOLES

• Cochrane COVID-19 Study Register

• PubMed

objectives

• To evaluate the completeness of the specialized collections of

COVID-19 research

• To measure their currency: the time from when COVID-19

articles are published to when they are entered into the

specialized COVID-19 collections

methods for completeness

• Systematic reviews were selected from the Epistemonikos

COVID-19 collection

• We gathered the primary studies included in systematic

reviews that themselves had searched at least 4 sources

• We tested each of the COVID-19 collections to determine how

many of these 500 studies were present in each

• Protocol available on OSF: https://osf.io/bxkhp/

https://osf.io/bxkhp/

results for completeness

Completeness: inclusion rate of primary studies

in each COVID-19 collection

Collection Records in scope Records found

N %

Epistemonikos 440 410 93.2%

WHO 440 405 92.0%

LitCovid 440 399 90.7%

PubMed 440 385 87.5%

SOLES 440 367 83.4%

Cochrane COVID-19 study register 407 358 88.0%

* All results are still preliminary *

results for completeness (2)


Unique contribution relative to other collections studies

But

not

found

in

Found In

Epistemonikos WHO LitCovid PubMed SOLES Cochrane

Epistemonikos 0 22 21 21 23 18

WHO 27 0 26 23 5 22

LitCovid 32 32 0 4 28 12

PubMed 46 40 19 0 34 24

SOLES 60 43 63 55 0 51

Cochrane 42 41 24 24 37 0

methods for currency

• For Currency, we tracked 50 journals selected from Web of

Science and monitored their websites until a new relevant

article appeared

• Then, our team of volunteers checked daily for the article’s

appearance in each of these collections. If it had not appeared

in the collection by 2 weeks, we declared it “Not current” for

that article

• Protocol available on OSF: https://osf.io/bxkhp/

https://osf.io/bxkhp/

methods for currency (2)Article Eligibility Criteria

● Inclusion:

○ The article must deal with COVID-19 or a topic relevant to the COVID-

19 pandemic response, such as personal protective equipment

○ The article must present the results of a primary study in humans or

animals

○ The article must be either a pre-print in peer review or an article

accepted by the journal, whether in manuscript or published form. The

article may take the form of a research letter

○ The article must have a DOI

● Exclusion:

○ Protocols, editorials, commentaries, discussion papers, guidance

articles that do not present primary results will be excluded

results for currency

Current is defined at being present in the database

within 2 weeks of appearance at the journal web site

Collection and N of articles within scope

WHO

50

SOLES

50

Cochrane

?

LitCovid

50

Epistemonikos

48

PubMed

50

N (% ) current* 39 (78) 30 (60) 28 (56) 36 (72) 32 (64) 38 (76)

N present at:

1 day 5 1 0 5 5 7

7 days 33 12 18 28 24 35

14 day 39 30 28 36 32 38


conclusions

• All collections studied here contained more than 80% of the

publications of interest

• All databases contained 60% of target articles within 2 weeks of

their appearance. WHO and LitCovid are comparable to

PubMed with high currency

• These special collections can replace paywalled databases

often used in systematic reviews. All sources studied here are

open access while 4 of the 5 databases searched most often in

our sample of systematic reviews, are available only through

subscription

best practices: aim

Develop best practices guidance

document for searching during public

health emergencies

best practices: experts

12 experts:

• Librarians, searchers

• Evidence synthesists

• Information science

researchers

• Database creators

Bring in experts

Identify elements

Guiding questions

Plan, kickoff project

Review submissions

Discuss

Synthesize

Draft, disseminate

best practices: elements

• Core Resources

• Search Strategies

• Publication Types

• Transparency & Reproducibility

• Collaboration

• Conducting Research

Bring in experts

Identify elements

Guiding questions


Review submissions

Discuss

Synthesize

Draft, disseminate

best practices: methodsGuiding Questions

• Database working groups

• Search experience

• Literature searching

Project Plan

• Timeline

• Scope, objectives

• Participant list, project

materials

Bring in experts

Identify elements

Guiding questions


Review submissions

Discuss

Synthesize

Draft, disseminate

best practices: discuss

• Synthesize responses

• Facilitation questions

• Guided discussions

Bring in experts

Identify elements

Guiding questions


Review submissions

Discuss

Synthesize

Draft, disseminate

best practices: share

• Next steps

• June – August 2021

• Transcripts, responses,

literature inform statement

• External reviewers

• Presentations, preprint,

publication

Bring in experts

Identify elements

Guiding questions


Review submissions

Discuss

Synthesize

Draft, disseminate

Lessons Learned

evidence-based librarianship

• Patron needs

• Professional expertise and experience

• Communities of practice

• Evidence, standards

• Apply and adapt guidelines

future of LRC• Gaps in the evidence base?

• Unique value of an agile corps?

• What other groups are doing?

•

acknowledgements• LRC Founder: Elaine Hicks

• LRC Advisors: Shaila Mensinkai and Margaret Sampson

• Database Validation Study Volunteers: Robyn Butcher, Rachel J.

Couban, James Edward Malin, Margaret Sampson

• Best Practices for Search Volunteers: Jennifer Coffman, Mark

Mueller, Nicole Askin, Mary Beth McAteer

Thank You

LIBRARIAN RESERVE CORPS

librarianreservecorps.libguides.com

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