Inspiring Curiosity, Innovation and Critical Thinking
Inspiring Curiosity, Innovation and Critical Thinking
The Health Sciences Library (HSL), through interdisciplinary collaboration within a culture that values innovation and creativity, leads efforts to support excellence in practice, research services, data collection and dissemination, and serves as an advanced education technology partner to the health sciences colleges.
The HSL houses the EdTech Incubator (ETI), located on the fourth floor. It empowers enhanced education for future generations of health sciences professionals and inspires forward-thinking research that impacts Ohio communities and beyond.
2025 Highlights
Session and attendee totals:
- Number of sessions: 449
- Number of attendees: 3,100
- Accumulated usage hours: 6,197
New equipment and software:
- Hand-held 3D scanner purchased with HSL Innovations Fund
- Read more in the hand-held 3D scanner news story.
Impact stories:
The ETI continues collaboration with leading Ohio State health sciences faculty and instructors to leverage our technologies for research, teaching and learning. From advanced ways to visualize patient scans using syGlass to creating an innovative way to bring anatomy instruction to life using virtual reality – the ETI is the partner for stimulating curiosity and bringing these explorations to life.
Read more:
- PhD Candidate Uses 3D Printing for Resident Training Dissertation Project
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration Utilizing VR for Human Anatomy Exploration
- Transforming Surgical Education with an Interactive Virtual Reality Resource Library
- Bridging Textbooks and Tomorrow: Kuczek’s Award-Winning Virtual Reality Anatomy Education
The HSL strives to support university-wide initiatives, including the AI competency requirements. In autumn 2025, the HSL offered two new AI-centric workshops: “Knowing What You Don’t Know: Using GenAI to Encourage Students’ Information Evaluation Behavior,” taught by Katie Blocksidge, associate professor and head of HSL research and education services, and “AI and Literature Reviews in the Health Sciences,” taught by Kerry Dhakal, associate professor and HSL research and education librarian.
AI is going to affect libraries in a myriad of ways. To help prepare ourselves for this new world of information, our faculty and staff were encouraged to create an AI-related goal connected to their work. Each faculty/staff can learn how AI can be applied to their role and job duties through hands-on exploration and professional development opportunities.
In 2025, featured lecture speakers included Dr. Kenneth Ludmerer and Dr. Mary McIlroy.
Attendees (virtual and in-person):
- 179 in-person
- 87 virtual
A highlight event in 2025 was the Local Nursing Legends lecture, during which we inducted our Class of 2025 Local Nursing Legends. This group of five nurses were nominated by members of the central Ohio nursing community as those who provided exemplary service to this population and whose actions and lives can be seen as legendary. The Local Nursing Legends program is overseen by the Friends of Nursing History Steering Community, which is led by the HSL’s Medical Heritage Center.
Inducted nurses:
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Stephanie Schulte
