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1 Librarians’ contributions to a One Health course across three universities Kristine AlpiMellanye Lackey kmalpi@ncsu.edumjlackey@unc.edu

2 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”

3 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

4 “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 http://guides.library.duke.edu/one_health

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6 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

7 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

8 “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]

9 QUESTIONS? Kris Alpi kmalpi@ncsu.edu kmalpi@ncsu.edu Mellanye Lackey mjlackey@unc.edu www.flickr.com/photos/rogercalger/1555385455/


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