Don’t Miss the Boat! Navigating the Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States

Slides created by Tina Baich, Brian Miller, Nora Dethloff and Ryan Litsey on behalf of ALA RUSA STARS Codes, Guidelines and Technical Standards Committee.The ALA RUSA STARS Codes, Guidelines, and Technical Standards Committee maintains and promotes the Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States and its Explanatory Supplement. As members of this group, we wish to encourage awareness and application of the Code in the interlibrary loan community. Recent postings on national listservs have demonstrated that resource sharing practitioners sometimes do not know or misunderstand what is in the Code and its Supplement. Our session will explore some myths and realities about the current documents and what they regulate. We will also include an update on our STARS committee’s ILL Code revision process and share an overview of the feedback we received in our recent national survey which solicited suggestions from the resource sharing community on what changes to the Code and Supplement are desired

Mapping men's anticipations and experiences in the reproductive realm: (in)fertility journeys.

This paper examines men's experiences of fertility/infertility against a backdrop of changing understandings of men's role in society and medical possibilities. It presents findings from two qualitative research projects on men's experiences of engagement with reproductive health services as they sought to become fathers and anticipate impending fatherhood. The findings from both projects provide insights into men's experiences of (in)fertility and their engagement with services set against cultural ideals of masculinity. Discussions of reproduction have historically focused most centrally upon women's bodies and maternal processes, leaving little space for consideration of men's experiences and perspectives. While women's experiences of infertility/fertility have been characterized in relation to productive or faulty biological processes, male infertility has been largely invisible and male fertility typically assumed. This context provides a difficult terrain for men in which to contemplate the potential of not being able to father a child. The findings discussed in this paper illuminate the ways in which men talk about and make sense of their reproductive journeys. In doing so, it challenges current understandings of masculinity and reproductive bodies and highlights the need to rethink how men are treated in reproductive spheres and how services to men are delivered

Increasing the use of skilled health personnel where traditional birth attendants were providers of childbirth care: a systematic review

Background: Improved access to skilled health personnel for childbirth is a priority strategy to improve maternal health. This study investigates interventions to achieve this where traditional birth attendants were providers of childbirth care and asks: what has been done and what has worked? Methods and Findings: We systematically reviewed published and unpublished literature, searching 26 databases and contacting experts to find relevant studies. We included references from all time periods and locations. 132 items from 41 countries met our inclusion criteria and are included in an inventory; six were intervention evaluations of high or moderate quality which we further analysed. Four studies report on interventions to deploy midwives closer to communities: two studies in Indonesia reported an increase in use of skilled health personnel; another Indonesian study showed increased uptake of caesarean sections as midwives per population increased; one study in Bangladesh reported decreased risk of maternal death. Two studies report on interventions to address financial barriers: one in Bangladesh reported an increase in use of skilled health personnel where financial barriers for users were addressed and incentives were given to skilled care providers; another in Peru reported that use of emergency obstetric care increased by subsidies for preventive and maternity care, but not by improved quality of care. Conclusions: The interventions had positive outcomes for relevant maternal health indicators. However, three of the studies evaluate the village midwife programme in Indonesia, which limits the generalizability of conclusions. Most studies report on a main intervention, despite other activities, such as community mobilization or partnerships with traditional birth attendants. Many authors note that multiple factors including distance, transport, family preferences/support also need to be addressed. Case studies of interventions in the inventory illustrate how different countries attempted to address these complexities. Few high quality studies that measure effectiveness of interventions exist

Unlocking the Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States

This is an electronic version of an article published in: Baich, Tina, Nora Dethloff, and Brian Miller. 2015. “Unlocking the Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States.” Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, & Electronic Reserve. 25, no 3-5: 75-88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1072303X.2016.1254702. (2016 Great Lakes Resource Sharing Conference proceedings issue). Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, & Electronic Reserve is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wild20/currentA newly revised Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States was approved in 2016, the 100th anniversary of its first appearance. This article outlines the 2-year, iterative revision process undertaken by the ALA RUSA STARS Codes, Guidelines, and Technical Standards Committee, including the results of two public surveys and significant changes to the Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States. The authors hope to provide a template for future revisions and share the process with the entire interlibrary loan community.No embarg

Shifting Course, Managing Change: Transitioning to a New Resource Acquisition Model

Do you need to shift course in your collection strategies? Come learn how one academic library is transitioning to a new resource acquisition model and managing change using the tools of communication and assessment

Paternal and Maternal Gatekeeping? Choreographing Care

Feminist scholarship has continued to map the multiple ways in which practices of caring and paid work sustain gender inequality. A recurrent focus has examined how caring and paid work “choices”are made and their corresponding gendered effects, particularly for women in the home, work place and beyond. In spite of shifts in education, employment and equality-focused legislation, the sharing of familial caring responsibilities for children has been particularly resistant to significant change.One attempt to explain this obduracy has been through the concept of “maternal gatekeeping” devel-oped in the 1990s. This concept typically describes and measures maternal behaviours that “block”paternal involvement and so apparently “protects” maternal privilege/power. However, as societal ideals — and some practices — of involved fatherhood shift, a more critical engagement with the concept of “gatekeeping” as a singularly maternal practise, is timely. Drawing upon findings from two comparative UK based qualitative longitudinal studies, this paper urges a more critical examination of practices of maternal and paternal gatekeeping as parental choreographing of caring practices and responsibilities unfold

Telling the difficult things: creating spaces for disclosure, rapport and ‘collusion’ in qualitative interviews

Qualitative interviews continue to offer an established way to collect rich data about everyday experiences of the social world. It is also recognised that data collected during face-to-face interviews are the product of a social interaction with co-constructive elements. Reflection on the research process and methodological transparency, have become mainstays of rigorous qualitative research practise, facilitating critical assessment of research findings. But in what ways can and do researchers co-construct interview accounts and what happens once data are collected? This paper focuses on what happens during the interview, for example the creation of spaces and endurance of silences, or supportive comments made in order to invite and allow disclosures, and what happens around the interview encounter. Do ‘permissions’ to voice difficult, challenging experiences amount to collusion or just good, effective interviewing technique? How/do research relationships - including experiences of power – shift within and around the interview and when does ‘rapport’ cease

Balancing caring and paid work in the UK: narrating ‘choices’ as first-time parents

Paid work is generally accepted as an important dimension of hegemonic masculinities and men's identities, which can become heightened when they become fathers. Changes in global economies together with educational shifts and other demographic patterns mean that paid work has become a significant feature of many women's lives too. Increasingly across Europe women who are mothers combine caring, domestic chores, and paid work. Using data from a qualitative longitudinal study on women's experiences of transition to first-time motherhood in the UK, this paper will explore how women narrate and reconcile their decisions either to return to paid work or not to, following the birth of their first child (Miller 2005). These findings are considered alongside a companion study on men's experiences of transition to first-time fatherhood (Miller 2011). The comparison shows that women articulate work and caring decisions in narratives which convey a sense of ‘guilt’, whilst the men are able to talk more freely – and acceptably – about ‘career progression’ and the importance of work to their identity and their new family. Even though recent research points to some changes in men's involvement in caring and women's increased activities in the work-place, particular aspects of these arrangements remain seemingly impervious to change