Developing our Talent
Developing our Talent
At the HSL, our people are behind everything that we do. We value collaborations and partnerships, inclusion and respect of diverse perspectives and expertise, equitable and ethical access to resources, innovative thinking and experimentation, and accountability and stewardship of our resources.
Learning while Sharing our Expertise
Organization-wide professional development workshops:
All HSL faculty and staff were encouraged to participate in two organization-wide professional development opportunities in 2025:
- CliftonStrengths (StrengthsFinder): In spring semester, our Ohio State University Libraries colleague, Beth Black, led two CliftonStrengths (StrengthsFinder) workshops. Each new HSL employee has the opportunity to take the CliftonStrengths assessment, and organization results are maintained in a strengths matrix as well as displayed at each employee’s office. Beth helped us review our strengths and facilitated activities intended to help us discover ways to work more effectively as an organization by recognizing each other’s strengths.
- Research workflows: In the autumn semester, Karla Gengler-Nowak, faculty at the Ohio State College of Optometry, presented an overview of research workflows to help HSL employees better understand how our daily work fits into the research process.
Librarian committee appointments:
HSL librarians are continually creating impact on a national, regional, state and university community level through committee appointments and thought leadership.
Positions of note in 2025 include:
- Anna Biszaha. Ohio Health Sciences Library Association. President-Elect, Chair, Programming Committee. July 2025 – present.
- Anna Biszaha. Association of College and Research Libraries, Health Sciences Interest Group. Convener. 2024-2025. Past Convener, July 2025 – present.
- Anna Biszaha. Medical Library Association. Immediate Past Chair of the MLA Dental Caucus. 2024-2025. Co-Lead of the Dental Caucus Programming Committee, 2025.
- Katie Blocksidge. Member, ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education Review and Revision Task Force
- Judith Wiener. Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, Assessment and Statistics Committee, Appointed Member, 2021-present.
- Judith Wiener. Medical Library Association, Health Sciences History Caucus Chair Elect, Elected Position, 2025-present.
- Judith Wiener. Medical Library Association, Collection Development Jury Committee, Appointed Position, 2025.
HSL Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations in 2025
Biszaha A., (2025). Exploring clinician expectations and preferences of library subject guides. Medical reference services quarterly, 44(4), 379–398. https://doi.org/10.1080/02763869.2025.2573359
Biszaha, A., & Badger, K. (2025, March 11). Centralizing data services from the bottom up. Ithaka S+R. https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/centralizing-data-services-from-the-bottom-up/
Brophy, L., Mathys, J., & Dhakal, K. (2025). Investigating evidence-based practice resources: A must for clinical nurse specialist job interviews. Clinical nurse specialist CNS, 39(2), 55–56. https://doi.org/10.1097/NUR.0000000000000889
Lipke, L., Hoogland, M. A., Kupsco, J., & Schulte, S. J. (2025). An exploration of the impact of educational background on basic science and life sciences librarians. Medical reference services quarterly, 44(3), 213–227. https://doi.org/10.1080/02763869.2025.2509084
Pionke, J. J., Shannon, C., Regan, M., Natal, G., Redman, J. D. G., Decaro, J., Biszaha, A., Stumpff, J. C., Feldman, J., & Westall, S. (2025). Accessibility audit of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association. Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA, 113(4), 374–377. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.2092
Wood, L. (2025). Book review of The icon & idealist, Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the rivalry that brought birth control to America. The Watermark, Newsletter of the Librarians, Archivists & Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences, 48(2), 23-25. https://lamphhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Watermark-Vol-48-No-2-Spring-2025.pdf
Wood, L. (2025). Finding aid project increases access to Medical Heritage Center collections. The Watermark, Newsletter of the Librarians, Archivists & Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences, 48(4), 14-16. https://lamphhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Watermark-Vol-48-No-4-Fall-2025.pdf
Baker, A. S. (2025, January). Art for Medicine: An Introduction to Medical Illustration [Zoom presentation]. The Ohio State University Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Department Grand Rounds, Columbus, Ohio.
Blocksidge, K., Folk, A., Hammons, J. and Primeau, H. (2025, September). An information literacy taxonomy: a new tool for developing IL learning outcomes [Conference Workshop]. European Conference on Information Literacy, Bamberg, Germany.
Blocksidge, K., and Primeau, H. (2025, September). More than meets the algorithm: first-year students and the AI effect on information [Conference Workshop]. European Conference on Information Literacy, Bamberg, Germany.
Blocksidge, K., and Primeau, H. (2025, September). Emotions as motivators: designing instruction to support the research behaviors of first-year students [Conference Workshop]. European Conference on Information Literacy, Bamberg, Germany.
Folk, A., Blocksidge, K., Hammons, J. and Primeau, H. (2025, September). When faculty are our students: exploring the integration of information literacy after a faculty development workshop [Conference Presentation]. European Conference on Information Literacy, Bamberg, Germany.
Henry, A. N. (2025, May). Speaking Their Language: Bridging the Gap Between Libraries and Users [Conference panel presentation]. 2025 Medical Library Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
Henry, A. N., & Losey, E. (2025, October). Renovating for resilience: Collaboration, change, and continuity at Ohio State’s Health Sciences Library [Conference presentation]. OhioNET Facilities Summit, Westerville, OH.
Pomputius, A., Keinath, C., Wiener, J., Gstalder, K., & Rau, R. A. (2025, June 5). Building member engagement in MLA Health Humanities Caucus through a quarterly speaker series [Lightning talk presentation]. Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona Summer Symposium, Online Conference.
Schulte, S. J., & Vermillion, K. (2025, October 6). An exploration of practicing medicine without a license for librarians [Conference presentation]. Midwest Chapter/Medical Library Association 2025 Annual Conference, Virtual. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17283098
Wiener, J. (2025, May 15–16). Developing rapport: Working with advancement professionals to support special collections [Conference presentation]. Society of Ohio Archivists Annual Conference, Toledo, OH.
Wiener, J., & Rodgers, K. (2025, April 19). “Snapshots” of the Ohio State University Health Sciences Library Medical Heritage Center [Conference presentation]. Columbus Medical Symposium, Columbus, OH.
Winters, S. & Ellsworth, T. (2025, Nov. 7). Code Blue... In a cart... In a headset [Conference presentation]. 2025 Nationwide Children's XR Symposium Columbus, OH, United States.
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