Please Come In!: Transitioning from No Access to an Open Door in the Special Collections and Archives

After four years of being closed to patrons due to a combination of a mold outbreak, renovation, and transitioning to a new location, the Emporia State University Special Collections and Archives reopened in fall 2012. While the department was closed, staff members worked hard to care for the collections, reply to patron requests, and prepare to open our doors again; however, after all that work we were not prepared for the lack of patrons walking through the doors. This paper shares our successes and lessons learned, as well as offers ideas for implementing innovative outreach strategies that challenge a variety of audiences to reexamine how they perceive and/or utilize a certain resource or service

Awareness of trigger events among clinicians working with elders with dementia : a project based upon an independent investigation

This qualitative study was undertaken in order to determine what clinicians perceive to be trigger events that influence dementia onset and if these events are used in the therapeutic process. This study asked the following research questions: What is your experience as a clinician working with elders who have dementia? As a clinician, what is your understanding of trigger events? How do you incorporate the knowledge of triggers into your therapeutic process? Tell me about the types of events that you have found that trigger elderly onset of dementia: medical? Trauma? Etc? What specific techniques have you found helpful in working with elders with sudden onset of dementia? Participants were recruited by the snowball data collection technique by contacting a professional network of clinicians in person and by e-mail and telephone. Thirteen participants completed a face-to-face or telephone interview. The findings of the research showed that clinicians shared a basic knowledge of trigger events to dementia including emotional trigger events. However, clinicians reported a different understanding of the way in which these events trigger dementia than this researcher originally hypothesized. Clinicians do report using the knowledge of trigger events in therapy as a way to discern coping skills and identify areas to address

The Comparison of High and Low Fraction of Inspired Oxygen in the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection in Patients Receiving Anesthesia: An Evidence-Based Education Module

ABSTRACT Background: Evidence has shown that a high percentage of oxygen given during surgery has been linked to an increase in poor health outcomes. Yet, high dose oxygen is still given intraoperatively to lessen patient surgical site infection rates. During this educational session, an educational module and questionnaire will be provided to anesthesia providers pre- and post-teaching to assess and expand knowledge on oxygen and its relation to SSI. Objectives: A systematic review that assesses the best present randomized controlled trials (RCTs) regarding low dose fio2 (80%). Information and results from the systematic review will be presented to anesthesia providers in an education module. Data Sources: Investigators used CINAHL, MedLine, and Science Direct databases to answer the PICO (i.e., population, intervention, comparison, outcome) question: In current anesthesia providers (P), how does an educational session on the role of high vs. low fio2 in the prevention of surgical site infection (I) improve provider\u27s knowledge that both concentrations of oxygen can provide the same similar rates in SSI prevention while avoiding the poorer health outcomes associated with an elevated fio2, as compared to before the educational session (C) as evident by an increase in examination score in the post-evaluation survey (O)? Methodology: 6 RCTs and meta-analysis of RCTs were included in this systematic review and incorporated into anesthesia providers\u27 educational module. Inclusion criteria included: Male or female, age ≥ 18, English language, RCTs, published after 2012, and SSI defined by the CDC. The 6 RCTs had a combined sample size of 7641 patients. Four RCTs analyzed patients undergoing general anesthesia, and two RCTs analyzed patients going through cesarean section. All studies found that 80% fio2. The systematic review results were presented in an education module containing a pre-and post-test with a voiced-over PowerPoint to a group of anesthesia providers. Results: Statistical analysis using SPSS revealed a statistically significant knowledge increase from the pre- to post-test. Furthermore, there was an increased likelihood of recommending low dose fio2 for SSI prevention. Conclusions: Data shows the use of low dose fio2 (80%). CRNAs benefit from an educational module presenting the most current evidence-based information regarding intraoperative oxygen levels and its relation to SSI prevention. This knowledge increases also led to providers being more likely to recommend the use of low-dose fio2 intraoperatively for SSI prevention. Keywords: Surgical site infection, SSI, fio2, oxygen, intraoperative, infection, surgery, anesthesia

Archives in libraries: The impact of a parent-child relationship on corporate identity and user perception

Archives are educational, scholarly, and culturally significant resources that afford the user opportunities to engage in informal learning, develop information literacy and critical thinking skills, encounter one-of-a-kind materials, and interact with history. However, research has shown that in the United States (U.S.) there is a lack of awareness for these affordances compared to the information resources available in libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations. Both libraries and archives share a focus on organizing and providing access to information; however, they possess equal and distinct professional identities, organizations, values, and curricula. Despite these differences, the majority of academic archives in the U.S. are located within the physical and organizational structure of the library. This places archives in a parent-child relationship with libraries that introduces a dynamic of physical and organizational subservience that has the potential to introduce power dynamics, political negotiations, and complex corporate identities for users to navigate. Despite the large impact this parent-child structure may have on internal operations and user perception, this dynamic between libraries and archives has previously not been studied empirically. This original dissertation research used Cyert and March’s (1963) behavioral theory of the firm and Freeman’s (1984) stakeholder theory as a theoretical framework to explore the physical and virtual power structures and dynamics within libraries that have an archives unit. This study used a collective case study methodology that employed three complementary investigations to examine the perspectives of corporate identity messaging crafted by libraries and archives units, library administrators throughout the administrative chain between the head of the archives unit and the library dean, and archives users. This poster will provide an overview of the study’s key findings and implications for theory and practice in relation to some of the core concepts of archival science

Collaboration Made It Happen! The Kansas Archive-It Consortium

This case study explores the formation, current membership, and future goals of the Kansas Archive-It Consortium (KAIC), one of the larger consortia contracting with the Web archiving service Archive-It. KAIC, which is composed of the state historical society and five public universities, has its foundation in a statewide culture of collaboration, and participants have agreed on an informal governance structure with a strong commitment to broadening accessible web resources for researchers. After establishing consortial consistency during its first two years, members have shared documentation with partners and are beginning to do collaborative collecting. In the future, the consortium will seek additional members and work with Archive-It to develop a consortial search tool. This web archiving collaborative has helped member institutions overcome challenges by having group discussions, sharing documentation and guidelines, and jointly serving a primary user group, Kansas residents

Collaboration Made It Happen! The Kansas Archive-It Consortium

This case study explores the formation, current membership, and future goals of the Kansas Archive-It Consortium (KAIC), one of the larger consortia contracting with the Web archiving service Archive-It. KAIC, which is composed of the state historical society and five public universities, has its foundation in a statewide culture of collaboration, and participants have agreed on an informal governance structure with a strong commitment to broadening accessible web resources for researchers. After establishing consortial consistency during its first two years, members have shared documentation with partners and are beginning to do collaborative collecting. In the future, the consortium will seek additional members and work with Archive-It to develop a consortial search tool. This web archiving collaborative has helped member institutions overcome challenges by having group discussions, sharing documentation and guidelines, and jointly serving a primary user group, Kansas residents

Targeted Insertion of the mPing Transposable Element

Class II DNA Transposable Elements (TEs) are moved from one location to another in the genome by the action of transposase proteins that bind to repeat sequences at the ends of the elements. Although the location TE insertion is mostly random, the addition of DNA binding domains to the transposase proteins has allowed for targeted insertion of some elements. In this study, the Gal4 binding domain was added to the transposase proteins, ORF1 and TPase, which mobilize the mPing element from rice. The Gal4:TPase construct was capable of increasing the number of mPing insertions into the Gal2 and Gal4 promoter sequences in yeast. While this confirms that mPing insertion preference can be manipulated, the target specificity is relatively low. Thus, the CRISPR/Cas9 system was tested for its ability to generate targeted insertion of mPing. A dCas9:TPase fusion protein had a low transposition rate suggesting that the addition of this large protein disrupts TPase function. Unfortunately, the use of a MS2 binding domain to localize the TPase to the MS2 hairpin containing gRNA failed to produce targeted insertion. Thus, our results suggest that the addition of small DNA binding domain to the N-terminal of TPase is the best strategy for targeted insertion of mPing

Novel pathogenic COX20 variants causing dysarthria, ataxia, and sensory neuropathy.

COX20/FAM36A encodes a mitochondrial complex IV assembly factor important for COX2 activation. Only one homozygous COX20 missense mutation has been previously described in two separate consanguineous families. We report four subjects with features that include childhood hypotonia, areflexia, ataxia, dysarthria, dystonia, and sensory neuropathy. Exome sequencing in all four subjects identified the same novel COX20 variants. One variant affected the splice donor site of intron-one (c.41A>G), while the other variant (c.157+3G>C) affected the splice donor site of intron-two. cDNA and protein analysis indicated that no full-length cDNA or protein was generated. These subjects expand the phenotype associated with COX20 deficiency