This article was written by David Moody, and edited by Kimberley Barker.
Every day the Health Sciences Library serves a variety of patrons, including hospital clinicians, students from the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing, the research community, the public, and more. In order to meet the needs of this diverse patron base, all Library technology projects pass through three primary pillars of consideration:
- Institutional branding
- ADA compliance
- Testing/stakeholder review
To ensure the most efficient access for all users, the Health Sciences Library Information Technology team aligns in-house computing and technology with Health System Information Technology (HIT) Services and academic Information Technology Services (ITS), whenever possible. Some recently-completed Library initiatives that demonstrate this commitment include:
1. UVA hospital and UVA academic patrons may now log onto Library hospital computers with their respective hospital or academic credentials. This increases access to our resources without sacrificing security.
2. The new Library website was branded with a combination of UVA and Health System branding elements, utilizes universal NetBadge login credentials for security, and maintains basic compliance with the University’s Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance initiatives.
3. Library computers now distribute both Health System and Academic security alerts.
For more information or to give direct feedback on how the Health Sciences Library IT team can help your experience be the best one possible, please submit a request at: https://guides.hsl.virginia.edu/consultation-request
or contact me directly at:
David Moody, Library IT Director
dmoody@virginia.edu
434-982-3648
“Being able to provide timely support to improve research quality at UVA brings me incredible joy.”- Marieke Jones
This article was written by Marieke Jones, Ph.D., and edited by Kimberley Barker.
Since joining the Data Services department (Data @ HSL) in the Health Sciences Library in 2017, Dr. Marieke Jones has assisted patrons with a variety of data-related needs. In addition to teaching popular open enrollment workshops for R (a programming language for statistical computing), Marieke consults on a wide range of data questions in R, GraphPad Prism, Excel, and SPSS. While most of her consultations involve the data analysis portion of the research lifecycle (see below), Marieke finds that an increasing number of patrons seek her out for assistance in properly presenting data in their draft manuscripts. For example, patrons are now consulting her for information on writing their methods section, creating compelling tables, and responding to reviewer feedback about statistical results.
While conducting proper data analyses is a service widely-associated with Data Services, Data @ HSL staff can also assist in understanding the equally-important process of clearly and concisely communicating methods and results sections; over the past year, Marieke has assisted with the production of nine manuscripts. Marieke is a firm believer that research is a team sport, and she is proud to provide quantitative and statistical expertise both for the analyses and for the publications that are the face of the research.
If you are working on a manuscript and would like an additional pair of eyes on the methods or results sections, please reach out to request your own consultation!