Brief Summary of Potential SARS-CoV-2 Prophylactic and Treatment Drugs in the Emergency Department

As of March 30th, 2020 there were 161,807 total cases and 2,953 total deaths of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States, with the number of cases expected to rise. Other than supportive care, there are no SARS-CoV-2 specific treatments available for patients discharged from the emergency department (ED) or those admitted to the hospital. In addition, there are no vaccines available to protect our at-risk healthcare workers. The National Institutes of Health is conducting a Phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate for a potential vaccine and the recipients have started to receive the investigational vaccine.2 We present a brief overview of the potential prophylactic and treatment agents under investigation, some which could be initiated in the ED if proven effective

Learning Outcomes for Library Student Workers

Our Dean of Libraries, Patty Iannuzzi has indicated that employment in the library can and should offer value to the student worker beyond convenience and flexible hours. In her words, The libraries are well positioned to add value to our students\u27 work experience in ways that can contribute to their academic success. As one of the largest employers of student workers on campus, we owe this to our students. As an organization, we want to clearly send a message that we care about them as students -- not just our employees. In Spring 2011, the Libraries partnered with Campus Life to survey student workers concerning their perceived learning as a result of working in Campus Life and in the Libraries

Expertise for the visually-oriented from the visually-oriented: ARLIS/NA contributions to the library profession

ARLIS/NA stands for “The Art Libraries Society of North America.” How many of you have heard of ARLIS before? The name of the society is a bit misleading since the Society is composed of individuals not libraries. ARLIS has members whose responsibilities are in art, architecture, and design, and who work in museums, public libraries, academic libraries and visual resources collections. The Society holds an annual conference, has an active publications program, maintains a complex web site, and addresses the continuing education needs of its members. My focus today will be on the publications program, since that is readily accessible to ALA members, with many of the publications online on the ARLIS/NA web site. I will attempt to show the contributions these publications make to librarians outside of the arts, and to the library profession in general. Specially, I will address the areas of instruction, cataloging, collection development, librarian education, and copyright

Informal assessment for library middle managers

Library middle managers juggle a variety of responsibilities. They are responsible for supervisory tasks such as coaching and team building. They are responsible for the service their unit provides or the output of their unit. They report up the organization and are responsible for planning for efficiency and quality. They manage those who report to them as well, motivating and mobilizing. Underlying all of these responsibilities is the need for sound decision making, based on data and a steady supply of information. The growing literature on classroom and library assessment simultaneously offers useful ideas for gathering data, and provides a bewildering array of advice and approaches regarding assessment. The terms used to describe assessment and its parts are neither intuitive nor mutually exclusive. The methods range from the simple to the statistically obscure. Stated rationales for assessment exist at a variety of levels, such as evaluating the library’s impact on the education of students and measuring service quality with specialized tools or instruments. This paper reviews types of assessment, and suggests a simplified approach that can help the middle manager gather the information needed for decision making in a thoughtful way—but without extensive infrastructure, specialized training, or the need to learn statistical-operations math! The question of whether the data thus gathered can be relied upon for decision making is addressed, and examples of assessment in action are provided. Ways the data can prove useful to the middle manager are suggested

UNLV Architecture Studies Library: Space planning – Thoughts after five years of occupation

Each building is unique and generates its own problems and pluses. Here are some problems and pluses with our building, seen from the perspective of a five-year occupation (opened Fall 1997)

Indicators for the evolution of the academic architecture library

The future is not really something one can predict, which does not, of course, keep us from speculating. In fact, the rapid advance of technology in the last ten years has made talking about the future something of a sport and resulted in future becoming code for changes in technology. The future as determined by technology is not the major thrust of this article, although changes in technology are a given to just about anyone\u27s future. Instead, the future is more broadly considered by looking at what is happening around us and speculating on the implications. This article attempts to use our past and present as a springboard for discussions of the future of the architecturelibrary, drawing from long-standing approaches as well as developments in both the library field and in the discipline of architecture

Internet resources: Expanding the reference power of the architectural library

Architects have varied and eclectic needs for information. Some types of information are needed repeatedly. Some types are needed only occasionally. A university branch library or a firm library attempts to handle the ongoing needs with in-house resources. As for the occasional need, space and financial considerations have necessitated a reliance on larger libraries, a situation which works with varying degrees of success. So it has been until now. Now the Internet is starting to change the ground rules. I say STARTING, for several reasons. First, many libraries and firms do not yet have access to the Internet. Second, awareness of what is on the net is uneven, primarily because while the information on the Internet is growing dramatically, intellectual access to it is not. And third, the usefulness of net resources in toto has not been fully established. In fact, while there is a wealth of useful information on the net, there are also tremendous gaps in what can be found. I would like to address the second area, that is, awareness of what is on the net that could be of use to us, grouped by type of information. This will be a whirlwind tour, with many sources mentioned and few described in detail. My objective here is to give you a flavor of the net\u27s diversity, some specific net sites of interest, and a handle on where to start. The included list of Internet addresses will hopefully allow you to explore at your own speed, and to the depth you require

The Visual learner and information literacy: Generating instruction strategies for design students

In this presentation I will address three questions: 1. Who is the visual learner, and are our students – i.e. students in design disciplines – visual learners 2. Does the ACRL Information Literacy Program recognize alternate approaches to information 3. What strategies can we use to reach design student

Integrating student information competencies into library services

Many in the library field would argue that we have begun to perceive ourselves differently – especially in academic libraries. ALA’s Association of College and Research Libraries has been instrumental in creating or promoting a sea-change and much has gone into projecting an image of the librarian as an integral part of the educational enterprise. The message is that librarians are/ are becoming teachers

Time and the academic librarian

For academic librarians to balance time requirements for research, service and job duties they need a keen sense of where their time is allocated. Although the literature gives some idea of average time allocated, a more detailed view is obtained through examination of one librarian’s seven-year accumulation of daily time logs. The log as a method for achieving balance and the goal of balance itself are explored