Librarians’ contributions to a One Health course across three universities Kristine AlpiMellanye Lackey

One Health Education Locally NC One Health Collaborative nconehealthcollaborative.weebly.com/ nconehealthcollaborative.weebly.com/ One Health Intellectual Exchange Group chaired by Cheryl Stroud, DVM, PhD, has representatives from 3 universities Supported by Triangle Global Health Consortium Weekly academic year seminars at NC Biotechnology Center in RTP. Topics such as: – “A global prospective on infectious animal diseases” – “Therapy pets in health care settings” – “Water sanitation and hygiene and One Health”

One Health Course & Students One Health thematic course offered each Spring semester as graduate course for students at 3 universities School2012 = 19 (1 NCSU/UNC )2013 = 15 6 TOTAL 4 UG 1 MS 1 DVM 7 TOTAL 5 UG 1 MS 1 post-DDS 11 TOTAL 9 MPH (2 already MD or DVM) 1 MSN 1 US 3 TOTAL* 3 MS * Not available during Fall reg 1 TOTAL 1 MS already DVM 5 TOTAL 3 MD, 2 MS

“Talk to our students about how to stay current.” Librarians’ involvement Taught “How to stay current in One Health” – Included rss feeds - newspapers, blogs, websites – Discussed information bias – Used Google Reader (RIP – July 1, 2013) Led bibliographic search sessions Created LibGuide for One Health

Challenges with collaboration Three different schools and their libraries: – Veterinary Medicine – Academic Affairs – Health Sciences Topics cut across areas from non-health libraries Journal & database subscription access differs for students on cross-institutional project teams – What can they legally share? – How do we let them know that? – How do we support students who meet off campus? One course LibGuide representing 3 universities Continuity in the face of change – librarian retirement

Benefits to librarian collaboration Work sharing among librarians for tasks and subject specialties Opportunity to consider access questions with interdisciplinary collaborators Testing the Triangle Research Library Network 2-day book and digital article delivery Invitation to contribute to compendium on One Health Case Studies

“Information Sources in One Health” Librarians invited February 2012 to contribute essay on the importance of library resources for One Health Content supplied March 13, 2012: – narrative demonstrating One Health interdisciplinarity – importance of current, reliable sources to practitioners – how to use sources to make evidence based decisions – how librarians can contribute to the One Health efforts – how to access sources: list of free and subscription databases with One Health info Will be open access, likely as a PDF on the NC OHC website and in partner university repositories Barrett MA, Sackey-Harris M, Stroud C, eds. Applications of the One Health approach to current health and sustainability challenges: an educational resource, vol 1, Durham, NC, Duke; UNC; NCSU [In prep for 2013]

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