PNC member Heather Martin, together with California librarian 

Carrie Grinstead, will present a poster at this year's Library Assessment Conference titled: Making a Difference in Healthcare: Impact of Librarian-Mediated Literature Review Services. 

Hosted by The Association of Research Libraries and the University of Washington Libraries, The Library Assessment Conference brings together practitioners and researchers working in the broad fields of library assessment, user experience, and organizational performance measurement. If you are planning to attend, stop by their presentation to give some PNC support! 

Here is what they have to say about this project: 

"The Providence Library team receives many grateful responses to our literature searches, but we wanted more detailed, consistent information about our impacts to inform leadership and improve our services. Previous studies have documented the importance of library services in hospitals, and the impact librarians make on quality patient care. As a small team serving a large health system, we need to carefully evaluate the effects of our work, share successes, and gather information that will help us improve. We conducted a quality improvement project to understand whether a professional literature review service impacts patient care and saves clinicians’ time in a large integrated health system. 

We adapted, with permission, the survey instrument and methods of a recent quality improvement project authored by Siemensma, et al (2021) in the Journal of Hospital Librarianship, surveying our literature search requestors and collecting data over the course of 2023. Overall, we received very positive feedback from users and nearly everyone perceived our search quality to be high or very high. Results show that our literature search service saves clinicians’ time and the information provided impacts both patient care and policy." 

You can learn more about this project here: https://digitalcommons.providence.org/prov_rn_conf_annual/2024/podiums/17/