Unboxing co-creation with students

Co-creation has received increasing interest as a way of develop products and services in collaboration with customers and clients. Recently, co-creation has been introduced in higher education; however, there is no general agreement about what this entails, and while the concept of co-creation has been used in a number of differing contexts, descriptions tend to focus on potentials only and not the tensions inherent in this kind of collaboration. In this paper we describe a conceptual model for co-creation with students and explore the potentials as well as the tensions inherent in co-creation with students at academic libraries. Through a case study at The Royal Danish Library, Aarhus University Library we develop a conceptual model for co-creation with students that identifies the key aspects of co-creation with students and indicates its key potentials and tensions

Infant Ustekinumab Clearance, Risk of Infection, and Development After Exposure During Pregnancy

Background:Evidence on ustekinumab safety in pregnancy is gradually expanding, but its clearance in the postnatal period is unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate ustekinumab concentrations in umbilical cord blood and rates of clearance after birth, as well as how these correlate with maternal drug concentrations, risk of infection, and developmental milestones during the first year of life. Methods: Pregnant women with inflammatory bowel disease were prospectively recruited from 19 hospitals in Denmark and the Netherlands between 2018 and 2022. Infant infections leading to hospitalization/antibiotics and developmental milestones were assessed. Serum ustekinumab concentrations were measured at delivery and specific time points. Nonlinear regression analysis was applied to estimate clearance. Results:In 78 live-born infants from 76 pregnancies, we observed a low risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes and normal developmental milestones. At birth, the median infant-mother ustekinumab ratio was 2.18 (95% confidence interval, 1.69–2.81). Mean time to infant clearance was 6.7 months (95% confidence interval, 6.1–7.3 months). One in 4 infants at 6 months had an extremely low median concentration of 0.015 μg/mL (range 0.005–0.12 μg/mL). No variation in median ustekinumab concentration was noted between infants with (2.8 [range 0.4–6.9] μg/mL) and without (3.1 [range 0.7–11.0] μg/mL) infections during the first year of life (P = .41). Conclusions: No adverse signals after intrauterine exposure to ustekinumab were observed with respect to pregnancy outcome, infections, or developmental milestones during the first year of life. Infant ustekinumab concentration was not associated with risk of infections. With the ustekinumab clearance profile, live attenuated vaccination from 6 months of age seems of low risk.</p

Co-creating libraries?

KEYNOTE SPEECH. Co-creation is receiving increasing interest as a way to involve users in the design and development of&nbsp;goods&nbsp; and services in many areas of life, including libraries. The concept of co-creation challenges&nbsp;established roles&nbsp; and relationships between “producers” and “consumers” of services by suggesting that&nbsp;neither the&nbsp; producers nor the consumers are able to create appropriate services alone, rather services&nbsp;should be co- created, i.e. created together. Thus, while co-creation as a term is new, the basic idea is not. It&nbsp;draws on&nbsp; normative ideals with an impressive intellectual heritage, such as democratic citizenship and civil&nbsp;society.&nbsp; In his talk, Christian will sum up on what we know about co-creation and discuss its relevance for the library&nbsp;landscape. The discussion centers around the question: Who should be drawing the map of the library&nbsp;landscape?&nbsp