Librarians’ contributions to a One Health course across

three universities

Kristine Alpi Mellanye Lackeykmalpi@ncsu.edu mjlackey@unc.edu

One Health Education Locally • NC One Health Collaborative

nconehealthcollaborative.weebly.com/• One Health Intellectual Exchange Group chaired by Cheryl

Stroud, DVM, PhD, has representatives from 3 universities

• Supported by Triangle Global Health Consortium• Weekly academic year seminars at NC Biotechnology Center

in RTP. Topics such as: – “A global prospective on infectious animal diseases”– “Therapy pets in health care settings” – “Water sanitation and hygiene and One Health”

One Health Course & Students• One Health thematic course offered each

Spring semester as graduate course for students at 3 universities

School 2012 = 19 (1 NCSU/UNC ) 2013 = 15

6 TOTAL4 UG1 MS1 DVM

7 TOTAL5 UG1 MS1 post-DDS

11 TOTAL9 MPH (2 already MD or DVM)1 MSN1 US

3 TOTAL*3 MS* Not available during Fall reg

1 TOTAL1 MS already DVM

5 TOTAL3 MD, 2 MS

“Talk to our students about how to stay current.”

Librarians’ involvement •Taught “How to stay current in One Health”

– Included rss feeds - newspapers, blogs, websites– Discussed information bias– Used Google Reader (RIP – July 1, 2013)

•Led bibliographic search sessions•Created LibGuide for One Health

• http://guides.library.duke.edu/one_health

http://guides.library.duke.edu/one_health

Challenges with collaboration• Three different schools and their libraries:

– Veterinary Medicine– Academic Affairs– Health Sciences

• Topics cut across areas from non-health libraries• Journal & database subscription access differs for

students on cross-institutional project teams– What can they legally share? – How do we let them know that? – How do we support students who meet off campus?

• One course LibGuide representing 3 universities • Continuity in the face of change – librarian retirement

Benefits to librarian collaboration• Work sharing among librarians for tasks and

subject specialties• Opportunity to consider access questions with

interdisciplinary collaborators• Testing the Triangle Research Library Network

2-day book and digital article delivery• Invitation to contribute to compendium on

One Health Case Studies

“Information Sources in One Health”• Librarians invited February 2012 to contribute essay on

the importance of library resources for One Health• Content supplied March 13, 2012:

– narrative demonstrating One Health interdisciplinarity– importance of current, reliable sources to practitioners – how to use sources to make evidence based decisions– how librarians can contribute to the One Health efforts– how to access sources: list of free and subscription

databases with One Health info • Will be open access, likely as a PDF on the NC OHC

website and in partner university repositoriesBarrett MA, Sackey-Harris M, Stroud C, eds. Applications of the One Health approach to current health and sustainability challenges: an educational resource, vol 1, Durham, NC, Duke; UNC; NCSU [In prep for 2013]

QUESTIONS? Kris Alpi kmalpi@ncsu.edu

Mellanye Lackeymjlackey@unc.edu

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