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If you had 25 hours in a day, what would you do with the extra hour?<\/h3>\nIf you had 25 hours in a day, what would you do with the extra hour?<\/h3>\nIf I had 25 hours in a day, I would use it to figure out any of Chopin\u2019s nocturnes on the piano,\u00a0 comb the beach for sea glass with my daughter, go bird watching, or (too obvious?) catch up on my reading list.<\/p>\n
I am the librarian for the Lifespan Health System in Rhode Island, and I\u2019ve worked here for twelve years. The library serves staff from all Lifespan affiliates, providing access to e Journals, eBooks, scholarly databases, interlibrary loans, library instruction and literature searches. My favorite part of my job is helping clinicians gather reliable research to improve their practice. This summer I\u2019ve been working a lot with policy committees, performing searches for updated evidence to support clinical policy. I\u2019ve also recently had an uptick in demand for library instruction for Lifespan\u2019s nursing and pharmacy residency programs.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m exploring different licensing and access options to build specialized collections of resources to support our affiliates\u2019 nurse residency programs.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t choose just one \u2013 it\u2019s both DOCLINE and PubMed for various reasons. The library has faced budget challenges the last several years, so if we\u00a0 didn\u2019t have such a solid resource-sharing connection through DOCLINE, we wouldn\u2019t be able to give our users what they need to do the great work that they do! It\u2019s also great to be able to reciprocate for other libraries who use the system. And I love PubMed for so many reasons, but I love it most because it\u2019s a free resource that anyone can use to gather reliable information, no matter what their budget. I have a lot of fun searching PubMed and seeing exactly how my search terms were interpreted in the search details section. I don\u2019t get that level of transparency in the library\u2019s paid databases.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m originally from land-locked Indiana, so I think the coolest part of Rhode Island is that no matter where you go in the state, you won\u2019t be more than 30 minutes from a beach. And RI has the best public library system. You can request materials from any public library in the state (even Block Island!) and have them delivered to your neighborhood library for pickup. Also, Allie\u2019s donut cake<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you had 25 hours in a day, what would you do with the extra hour? If I had 25 hours in a day, I would use it to figure out any of Chopin\u2019s nocturnes on the piano,\u00a0 comb the beach for sea glass with my daughter, go bird watching, or (too obvious?) catch up… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[119,532,332,566],"class_list":["post-17548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communities-of-interest","tag-hospital-librarians","tag-member-spotlight","tag-national-library-of-medicine","tag-rhode-island"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17561,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17548\/revisions\/17561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"