Personalised video instruction

The liaison librarian to a college with a substantial and growing online learning population began using asynchronous, personalised video instruction as an online replacement for the traditional face-to-face, one-on-one bibliographic instruction reference appointment. This project was informed by the framework of metaliteracy and the “See One, Do One, Teach One” instruction methodology utilised by the health sciences. While formal outcomes assessment has yet to be conducted, unsolicited comments from students are overwhelmingly positive, and preliminary data analysis of usage and engagement reveals several promising trends. 65% of all watched videos were watched for the entire duration of the video, and the liaison librarian found video creation to be less time-consuming than scheduling appointments. The liaison librarian to a university with a substantial and growing online learning population began using asynchronous, personalised video instruction as an online replacement for the traditional face-to-face, one-on-one bibliographic instruction reference appointment. This project was informed by the framework of metaliteracy and the ‘See One, Do One, Teach One’ instruction methodology utilised by the health sciences. While formal outcomes assessment has yet to be conducted, unsolicited comments from students are overwhelmingly positive, and preliminary data analysis of usage and engagement reveals several promising trends. Of all watched videos 65% were watched for the entire duration, and the liaison librarian found video creation to be less time-consuming than scheduling appointments. Providing personalised video instruction tailored to the individual student’s information literacy need is a novel approach that may benefit online learners and librarians alike

Creating an Interactive Guide to Support Health Disparities Competency

Authors share their educational resource developed for the health sciences, that guides users in awareness of health disparities, vulnerable populations, and social determinants of health, directing them to specific guidance and resources available through the library

An Analysis of the Relationship Between Romantic Love and Religiosity in Renaissance English Poems

The argument of this thesis revolves around the relationship between love-talk and God-talk in Renaissance sonnets. The main focus is to compare the sonnets written by Francis Petrarch in the 1300’s and his conventions to sonnets and poetry written in the 1500’s. To begin, Petrarch’s biography is noted as well as some of his sonnets and conventions. These conventions are applied to sonneteers approximately two centuries later, and how those sonneteers use the conventions and diction to create something new with Petrarch’s form. From Petrarch to Thomas Wyatt, the man who brought Petrarch’s work over from Italy to England in the 1500’s, the similarities and differences are compared between their two works of poetry. After Wyatt comes the Earl of Surrey who had access to Wyatt’s work and was able to create the Blank Verse. Comparisons are made between him, Wyatt, and Petrarch. Philip Sidney created the first sonnet sequence, and used God-talk and love-talk in his works. Wroth wrote from a female’s perspective and wrote the first sonnet sequence for a woman. Finally, John Donne represents the culmination of God-talk and love-talk and signifies the culmination of God-talk, love-talk, and Petrarch’s conventions

Literature as Therapist: The Effects of Bibliotherapy on Depression, Stress, and Anxiety

Society is well aware of the positive effects of literature and reading, but a lesser-known fact is that literature also has therapeutic effects on negative emotional states. This meta-analysis looks at bibliotherapy’s effects on negative emotional states such as depression, stress, and anxiety in different populations. Sixteen studies were gathered from databases such as PsychInfo and Academic Search Complete, and Cohen’s d effect size was computed for each study. In pre-post research designs, bibliotherapy was shown to be effective for reducing depression (d ranging from 0.63 to 1.11), stress and anxiety (d = 0.60), geriatric depression (d = 0.66), and affective disorders and schizophrenia (d = 0.11). Bibliotherapy was shown to be as effective as treatment-as-usual in experimental designs. These findings support the creation of in-house bibliotherapy groups for all ages in university and public libraries to help aid against depression.https://encompass.eku.edu/swps_undergraduategallery/1216/thumbnail.jp

Literature as therapist: The effects of bibliotherapy on depression, stress, and anxiety

Society is well aware of the positive effects of literature and reading, but a lesser-known fact is that literature also has therapeutic effects on negative emotional states. This meta-analysis looks at bibliotherapy’s effects on negative emotional states such as depression, stress, and anxiety in different populations. Sixteen studies were gathered from databases such as PsychInfo and Academic Search Complete, and Cohen’s d effect size was computed for each study. In pre-post research designs, Bibliotherapy was shown to be effective for reducing depression (d ranging from 0.63 to 1.11), stress and anxiety (d = 0.60), geriatric depression (d = 0.66), and affective disorders and schizophrenia (d = 0.11). Bibliotherapy was shown to be as effective as treatment-as-usual in experimental designs. These findings support the creation of in-house bibliotherapy groups for all ages in university and public libraries to help aid against depression

The glow-worm : the modern version by Johnny Mercer ; bigger than "Paper Doll" for The Mills Brothers

Gift of Dr. Mary Jane Esplen.Decca Record No. 28284 [note]Piano vocal ukulele [instrumentation]Glow, little glow-worm [first line]Glow, little glow-worm [first line of chorus]C [key]Medium jump [tempo]Popular song [form/genre]The Mills Brothers (photograph) [illustration]Publisher's advertisement on back cover [note

Major bleeding after percutaneous coronary intervention and risk of subsequent mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis

OBJECTIVES: To examine the relationship between periprocedural bleeding complications and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) and mortality outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and study differences in the prognostic impact of different bleeding definitions. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of PCI studies that evaluated periprocedural bleeding complications and their impact on MACEs and mortality outcomes. A systematic search of MEDLINE and EMBASE was conducted to identify relevant studies. Data from relevant studies were extracted and random effects meta-analysis was used to estimate the risk of adverse outcomes with periprocedural bleeding. Statistical heterogeneity was assessed by considering the I(2) statistic. RESULTS: 42 relevant studies were identified including 533 333 patients. Meta-analysis demonstrated that periprocedural major bleeding complications was independently associated with increased risk of mortality (OR 3.31 (2.86 to 3.82), I(2)=80%) and MACEs (OR 3.89 (3.26 to 4.64), I(2)=42%). A differential impact of major bleeding as defined by different bleeding definitions on mortality outcomes was observed, in which the REPLACE-2 (OR 6.69, 95% CI 2.26 to 19.81), STEEPLE (OR 6.59, 95% CI 3.89 to 11.16) and BARC (OR 5.40, 95% CI 1.74 to 16.74) had the worst prognostic impacts while HORIZONS-AMI (OR 1.51, 95% CI 1.11 to 2.05) had the least impact on mortality outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: Major bleeding after PCI is independently associated with a threefold increase in mortality and MACEs outcomes. Different contemporary bleeding definitions have differential impacts on mortality outcomes, with 1.5-6.7-fold increases in mortality observed depending on the definition of major bleeding used