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The article offers information on the tragic death of a physician by suicide during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City in 2020.

An interview with Elizabeth Heavey, the graduate program director and a professor of nursing at the State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport is presented. Heavey discusses her professional background, what she enjoys the most in being an editorial board (EB) member of "Nursing2024," and what makes her most proud considering her nursing career.

Editor's note : From its first issue in 1900 through to the present day, AJN has unparalleled archives detailing nurses' work and lives over more than a century. These articles not only chronicle nursing's growth as a profession within the context of the events of the day, but also reveal prevailing societal attitudes about women, health care, and human rights. Today's nursing school curricula rarely include nursing's history, but it's a history worth knowing. To this end, From the AJN Archives highlights articles selected to fit today's topics and times. In August 1961, the incidence of polio was rising in and around Syracuse, New York, and oral polio vaccine had just been made available. In this article from AJN 's May 1962 issue, Syracuse Department of Health director of nursing Alyce Rooney details the rapid planning that resulted in the administration of more than 400,000 polio vaccines over a period of just three days. In an incredible effort over less than two weeks, vaccine was obtained and repackaged, vaccination sites were secured, staff assignments were made, and the vaccines were given. After a high of 46 Syracuse-area polio cases in August, the number dropped to 18 in September and none in October. More than 50 years later, vaccine hesitancy has become a roadblock to today's vaccination campaigns. In this issue, research by Roberts and colleagues provides an understanding of vaccine hesitancy among nurses, which may inform the development of policies, campaigns, and interventions aimed at increasing nurse vaccination rates.— Betsy Todd, MPH, RN [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an interview with Professor, Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner. Topics include 10% of the sample experienced substance use problems before becoming social workers, decreasing to 8% during career; and the training programs in addictions that have developed and directed, what social workers need to learn to impact the opioid epidemic.

The authors discusses the World Health Organization (WHO) definition of health aging and frameworks for health and well-being after age 70.

Data science has had a tremendous impact in the private sector and is increasingly being applied in the public sector. The Data for Good Exchange (D4GX) is an annual conference centered on these novel problems and applications. This article describes the history of the conference and introduces a selection of the best papers from the 2017 conference that focus on human services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This conference presentation report introduces the zine collection at the Vassar College Library and describes the research and planning that went into advocating for and building the collection. The discussion addresses several key workflow factors that need to be considered when building a zine collection, including collection development, acquisitions, and cataloging. The report also shares local problems and solutions implemented at Vassar College. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using the theory of iconography, this article deconstructs the “Politics of Fear” caricature of Barack and Michelle Obama, featured on the cover ofThe New Yorkermagazine, to investigate White imagination about the couple's socio-cultural identities. Published before the 2008 Democratic nominating convention, the caricature set the couple within the Oval Office and depicted Barack in an Arab-style tunic bumping fists with an armed Angela Davis-esque Michelle dressed in fatigues. We examine defenses of the image as satire against anti-Obama caricatures. We also examine original and secondary survey data to uncover the determinants of support for the caricature. We argue that the caricature gave a unifying visual form to disparate trepidations about the Americanness and religious identity of the Obamas. Our article concludes by situating the controversy over the cover alongside longstanding suspicions by Whites that Barack Obama has deceived Americans about his religious identity and loyalty to American ideals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Twilight Sleep (TS) is an obstetric intervention during which a laboring woman enters a semiconscious state via injection. TS received enthusiastic support in Brooklyn, NY, inThe Brooklyn Eagle(TBE) newspaper between 1914 and 1918. The purpose of this article is to analyze the framing of TS inTBEas the most popular obstetric intervention among wealthy, White socialites in Brooklyn during the period. The coverage inTBEprompted a nearly universally positive perception of TS among the newspaper’s wider readership. After extensive historiographical research and rhetorical analysis of newspaper coverage of TS inTBE, we discovered a form of framing we call “high-society framing,” rooted in both wealth and notoriety. We discuss four possible effects of high-society framing: The first is the ability of high-society framing to attract or repel the public regarding a health care issue, and the second is the impact of high-society framing on public perception of medical interventions, procedures, or pharmaceuticals. A third possible effect of high-society framing is that it can alter notions of necessity, and a fourth is that high-society framing can elicit a tacit acceptance of medical interventions, procedures, and pharmaceuticals, thus obfuscating risk. Finally, we argue that high-society framing has implications for the discussion of health care in present-day mediated discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The author discusses child abuse and neglect as a major issue in public health. He agrees that collective efforts of federal agencies failed in solving, recognizing and preventing child abuse in the emotional, physical or sexual aspects. Als discussed are the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2008 data on child abuse and 2012 data on child maltreatment, the April 9, 1874 court testimony of Mary Ellen McCormick and child abuse classified as a medical problem in 1964.

The article provides information about Hastings Center, an independent, nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research institute, and the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Focus is given on the influence of Hastings Center on opinion leaders and professional practice including end-of-life care, psychiatry and immigrant health care. An overview of the department's Master of Arts Bioethics and Medical Humanities is provided.

An editorial is presented which addresses the authors' views about improving the efficiency and accuracy of geographic mobile data collection in relation to public health research in America. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 500 Cities Project involving health indicators for American cities is examined, along with geographic differences in health. Public health research-related mobile technologies and tobacco marketing in New York, New York are assessed.

An editorial is presented which addresses recommendations for a pilot expansion of Medicaid health insurance coverage for doulas in New York, and it mentions New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's launch of an initiative to reduce maternal mortality and racial disparities in health outcomes in 2018. Medicaid expansion for doula services in Oregon and Minnesota is examined, along with fees for out-of-pocket doula services and Medicaid reimbursement rates.

This article describes a project documenting and analyzing the electronic resource workflows for the library at Baruch College, CUNY (City University of New York). The presenter discusses her approach, how background research informed the documentation process, and explains the methodology and framework used to analyze the lifecycle of the electronic resources. Multiple interviews conducted with staff, faculty, and stakeholders involved in these workflows offered clarification of the steps involved and afforded the opportunity to delve into lengthier discussions about the process. This presentation highlights some outcomes of the project, focusing on “gaps” in the lifecycle, indications of where the workflow could be streamlined, and examples of beneficial conversations within library departments. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The expert speakers from the publishing, librarian, and vendor communities regrouped at the end of the Society for Scholarly Publishing–NASIG Joint Meeting to answer questions or elaborate on information they presented earlier during the meeting. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents "Gleanings from the Whirl" which provides present information on all aspects of international serials and electronic resource management such as networks and consortia library schools and continuing education library-orientated organizations. It cites the Award for Innovation in Publishing to Kudos given the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) to any new development, product or service of significant value to scholarly communication.

The author discusses the essence of hearing senses. He discusses perpetual baseline of noise including vehicles respond to traffic lights, brigades of cars, and rumble to signals in metered rhythms; the engrain of archeological layer of sounds; and horrific experience of earthquake that rocked Nepal.

In this narrative article Catherine (Katy) Papell recollects her 65-year relationship with social work with groups—from the social settlements of New York City, to her own social work education, to her group work practice in a psychiatric hospital, to her career as an academic and scholar, to her work in addictions after she retired from teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Last year saw the 20th anniversary edition of JECP, and in the introduction to the philosophy section of that landmark edition, we posed the question: apart from ethics, what is the role of philosophy 'at the bedside'? The purpose of this question was not to downplay the significance of ethics to clinical practice. Rather, we raised it as part of a broader argument to the effect that ethical questions - about what we should do in any given situation - are embedded within whole understandings of the situation, inseparable from our beliefs about what is the case (metaphysics), what it is that we feel we can claim to know (epistemology), as well as the meaning we ascribe to different aspects of the situation or to our perception of it. Philosophy concerns fundamental questions: it is a discipline requiring us to examine the underlying assumptions we bring with us to our thinking about practical problems. Traditional academic philosophers divide their discipline into distinct areas that typically include logic: questions about meaning, truth and validity; ontology: questions about the nature of reality, what exists; epistemology: concerning knowledge; and ethics: how we should live and practice, the nature of value. Any credible attempt to analyse clinical reasoning will require us to think carefully about these types of question and the relationships between them, as they influence our thinking about specific situations and problems. So, the answers to the question we posed, about the role of philosophy at the bedside, are numerous and diverse, and that diversity is illustrated in the contributions to this thematic edition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study assesses and compares the quality of sources found by undergraduate students when doing research using both Google and a library (federated) search tool. Thirty undergraduates were asked to find four sources (one book, two articles, and one additional source of their choosing) related to a selected research topic. Students used both Google and a federated search (resource discovery) tool to find material they believed to be relevant. Each source was evaluated for topic relevance, authority, appropriateness, and date, and assigned a total quality score. Results showed that the books found via Google were slightly higher quality than those uncovered via the federated search tool. The articles and additional sources students found via the federated search tool were slightly to moderately higher quality, respectively, than those discovered via Google. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article features The Hastings Center and The Greenwall Foundation, and their works in areas like health care, policy, research, science and technology.

Few studies have focused on injuries from the World Trade Center disaster on September 11, 2001. Severe injury has health consequences, including an increased mortality risk 10 years after injury and the risk of mental health problems, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The World Trade Center Health Registry identified 14,087 persons with none of a selected group of preexisting chronic conditions before 2002 who were present during and soon after the World Trade Center attacks, 1,980 of whom reported sustaining 1 or more types of injury (e.g., a broken bone or burn). Survey data obtained during 2003−2004 and 2006−2007 were used to assess the odds of reporting a diagnosis of chronic conditions (heart disease, respiratory disease, diabetes, cancer) up to 5–6 years after the attacks. Number of injury types and probable PTSD were significantly associated with having any chronic conditions diagnosed in 2002–2007. Persons with multiple injuries and PTSD had a 3-fold higher risk of heart disease than did those with no injury and no PTSD, and persons with multiple injuries and with no PTSD had a 2-fold higher risk of respiratory diseases. The present study shows that injured persons with or without comorbid PTSD have a higher risk of developing chronic diseases. Clinicians should be aware of the heightened risk of chronic heart and respiratory conditions among injured persons. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the highlights of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) annual conference held from June 6-9, 2013 in Buffalo, New York. Topics covered at the pre-conference workshops include a course on the Program for Cooperative Cataloging and Cooperative Online Serials practices. The focus of the vision sessions are mentioned to include the impact of mobile technology on the flow of information, and the legal, moral and intellectual challenges to Big Data programs.

Salisbury University and the University of Maryland, College Park, both undertook projects to evaluate the effectiveness of EBSCO Information Service’s EBSCONET® Usage Consolidation product and the usefulness of the extracted data for collection development decisions. The goals of implementation were to centralize the collection and analysis of e-resource usage data and to allow collection management librarians easy access to usage and cost per use data to aid in their decision making. The presenters discussed how staff at each institution populated Usage Consolidation and presented usage reports to collection managers; how collection managers responded to the data; and how they used the data to inform collection management decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The loss of co-workers due to retirement has a profound impact on the people who are left to carry on with the work of the unit. The process of recovery from the loss of experienced and long-serving support staff members is analogous to the stages of grief that a person experiences after the death of a loved one. This article describes how the Serials Services unit at the University of Victoria Libraries is coping with the consequences of the retirement of its two most experienced library assistants and discusses the steps taken in order to continue to provide quality service to users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting in the fall of 2012, the staff at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Library began to plan for a library-wide reorganization of staff and services. Every staff member would be affected by the reorganization process, including the library’s serials and e-resources team. In what could be a most chaotic time, the serials and e-resources team chose to use the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) draft version of core competencies for electronic resource librarians as a guide to help in selecting members for the e-resources team that would emerge following the reorganization. The presentation on which this article is based reviews the situation at UTA, the core competencies, and how the serials/e-resources team used the core competencies along with a self-assessment tool to help select the most qualified staff for the team. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a report of a concurrent session presented by Katherine Hill and Maria Collins of North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries at the 2013 North American Serials Interest Group conference. NCSU Libraries is a participant in the Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) project, which will provide an openly available knowledgebase for Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE). Results from a survey conducted by NCSU librarians are discussed, which focus on the e-resource management community and their expectations of the data provided in knowledgebases. The survey investigates problems and improvements in respect to data quality. Respondents also commented on their expectations of a community-managed project as well as the viability of a project like GOKb. Future directions and initiatives in the knowledgebase space were also summarized in the presentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The landscapes of libraries’ print collection have changed significantly over the past decades. On an institutional level, libraries need to evaluate available resources, local researchers’ needs, and find the right balance between print and electronic material in order to support parent institutions’ development and growth. On a national level, we have seen different schemes being developed in several countries to support libraries’ activities in a time of change. When more and more libraries are adopting electronic-only policies, what impact does losing print have? This article aims to share United Kingdom (UK) Research Reserve’s experience so far and how the UK Higher Education (HE) sector dealt with challenges and uncertainties through collaboration and partnership. It also explores further opportunities within and beyond the UK borders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Linked data have the potential to expose descriptive metadata about serials and serials relationships on the open Web and allow creative connections between library information about serials and the seemingly infinite elements of Web data. Linked data may also hold the potential to solve some classic serials dilemmas including latest versus successive entry and single versus multiple records for print and online. How do these possibilities mesh with the evolving current state of linked data projects in the commercial and library sector as well as with the Library of Congress’ Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME)? The three sections of this article will present different viewpoints about linked data and serials. An “early experimenter” and member of the group modeling BIBFRAME serials will discuss her experiences and thoughts on future directions. The head of the United States International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) Center will take an ISSN perspective, looking at ISSN’s potential in the linked data environment as well as discussing international work modeling serials according to Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (object-oriented) (FRBR-oo) and how ISSN fits into the development of BIBFRAME. Finally, a publisher from a company that has reorganized some of its infrastructure and processes to facilitate linked data will share the goals and provide examples of the benefits of that project. The two constant themes throughout the article are linked data and serials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This comprehensive preconference focused on transitioning serials catalogers experienced inAnglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd Edition(AACR2) to the new cataloging code,Resource Description and Access(RDA), using the most current Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) and Cooperative Online Serials (CONSER) RDA decisions and practices. The sessions were taught in six modules: Introduction to CONSER RDA cataloging; Getting started; Identifying manifestations; Identifying works and expressions; Related works, expressions, manifestations; and Working with copy and When to create a new record. Participants received hands-on exercises from actual machine-readable cataloging (MARC 21) records that reinforced each module’s objective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Megan Oakleaf is an Associate Professor of Library and Information Science in the iSchool at Syracuse University and provides consultancy services on academic library value, outcomes assessment, evidence-based decision making, information literacy instruction, and information services. She is the author of theValue of Academic Libraries Comprehensive Review and Report. Her research areas include outcomes assessment, evidence-based decision making, information literacy instruction, and academic library impact and value. In this presentation Megan discusses the evolution of library services and the corresponding changes in how a library’s value may be measured and assessed within the larger context of an organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The combined influence of rapidly changing technology and the economic downturn has forced librarians and publishers to reassess their respective roles in the delivery of information. Many are realizing that the costs of traditional collection management through journal subscriptions and particularly the “Big Deal” are not only burdensome but unsustainable. The result of these forces will likely be continuing diversification in access models, with institutions acquiring content through subscriptions, aggregators, patron-driven acquisition (PDA), document delivery, and repositories. Increased complexity in business models and the high cost of information will bring increasing need for careful evaluation and analysis of financial efficiencies. The obvious place for such analysis to occur is in the library. PDA offers inherent cost savings for libraries, as the library only pays for the content that is read. In this article, we will describe a trial of a PDA service for scholarly journal articles, using ReadCube Access technology, and executed in partnership between the University of Utah and Nature Publishing Group (NPG). The goals of the project are to provide instantaneous access to journal content for patrons, while providing the means for just-in-time delivery, at a reduced cost per usage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kathryn Johns-Masten of Penfield Library at the State University of New York-Oswego presented on her library's experience implementing a mobile website using the iWebKit framework. Penfield librarians identified user needs, learned from other libraries' sites, chose a framework compatible with desired devices that fit available resources, and evaluated their site through focus groups and analysis of usage statistics. Johns-Masten proposed best practices for libraries considering a mobile site and led a discussion of factors involved in choosing a framework and issues related to technical support of mobile websites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Efforts by individual librarians and advocacy groups over the last ten years have resulted in greater awareness about Open Access. In recent years, some academic libraries have begun to raise awareness among both graduate and undergraduate populations. Through an online survey distributed to scholarly communications and e-resources listservs, this article documents some of the ongoing efforts now underway, and gauges how widespread the support is for similar initiatives. Both the literature review and survey responses underscore the importance of e-resource management tools to librarians involved in Open Access initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes a multi-year project in which a small specialized academic library worked to restore and optimize its print serial holdings for preservation and access. After a review of the literature the article focuses on project work flow, preservation, bibliographic control, and the criteria for decision-making processes among the librarians to determine appropriate titles to keep or discard. Provided are data collected on titles, some statistics, and tentative future plans to augment access and digitize holdings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this analysis was to obtain local citation behavior data on undergraduates researching history, political science, and sociology papers. The study found that students cited books and journals even with the availability of web sources; however, usage varied by subject. References to specific websites' domains also varied across subject area. Most of the top journal titles that students referenced were online and locally owned. Students cited a broader range of journal titles than predicted by the Law of Scattering and cited titles across a wide array of subject areas. This data helped identify potential gaps in the library's collection and services. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics (IOTA) initiative was formed by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) in 2010 to continue a Mellon-funded project on OpenURL quality begun at Cornell University. IOTA's objective is to develop a scoring system for measuring the quality of OpenURL links generated by content providers at the citation level. OpenURLs have a history of failing to resolve correctly, but no method has been devised to benchmark them even a decade after the introduction of the underlying standard. The proposed system would generate scores based on specific evaluation metrics and thus rate providers' OpenURL quality. The system's analytical approach would also enable OpenURL providers to pinpoint linking problems and thus optimize OpenURL improvements. A public OpenURL analysis tool, which relies on link data contributed by OpenURL providers and libraries, is currently in use. Recently, IOTA approached the Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (KBART) initiative about a possible collaboration on a related project, which would investigate OpenURL linking not at the citation level, but the full-text level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on international series and electronic resource management, including information on vendor and publisher services and topics related to library schools and continuing education. The article presents abstracts from several journals including the July 2011 issue of "Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community," the June 2011 issue of "Serials Review." Topics include the awarding of the SAGE travel grant to librarian Patrick Carr to attend the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) International conference in England on September 14-16, 2011, a basic serials cataloging workshop at Pepperdine University on August 3, 2011, and the New York Public Library's (NYPL) online catalog changes implemented by software company Bibliocommons.

This article discusses problems in the management of library e-resources and attempts to identify potential solutions to the problems. By describing an e-resources enhancement project taken by Rutgers University Libraries, this article points to the importance of providing contextually rich metadata and reorganizing the accessibility of e-resources on a library's website. It introduces how this Rutgers project adopted the National Information Standards Organization Metasearch Initiative to support the identification of appropriate e-collections for metasearching. The outcomes of the project have facilitated a dynamic display of relevant e-resources to library users as an effective way of automatic access to library e-collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses the efforts of Northwell Health Laboratories to advance patient care and improve institutional economics. Topics mentioned include bedrock principles that pathologists have employed for maximizing patient care safety and quality, accreditation of a laboratory by the College of American Pathologists, and the role of pathologists in educating administrators, payers, and others.

An editorial is presented that discussed about the concerns towards increasing earlier detection of breast cancer (BC) among women with dense breasts. It mentions the first legislation requiring notification of women about their breast density after a mammogram was enacted in 2009 and also mentions that breast density and their practices for BC screening finding that nearly half of the clinicians surveyed were unaware of breast density notification laws.

The authors discuss the effectiveness of a strengths-focused HIV prevention program aimed at increasing condom use among high-risk heterosexual Black men in Brooklyn, New York-based barbershops.

This section offers news briefs related to grants for military healthcare as of August 2019. The New York State Health Foundation awarded funding to RAND Corp. to survey providers in the state to ensure high quality care for veterans. NYSHealth has sponsored a meeting of affinity groups to build network that will address challenges veterans and their families face when transitioning to civilian life. California Wellness Foundation has listed veterans to benefit from its education funding.

"Serials Spoken Here" has reports on a symposium on "The Transition to Open Access Scholarship" held at the University at Albany, New York, and the 2004 North Carolina Serials Conference, both held in April 2004. Serials Review 2005; 31:66-69. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]