Susan Kroll, MLS, Director
The Ohio State University Center for Knowledge Management (CKM) and John A. Prior Health Sciences Library is becoming one of the nation’s most comprehensive repositories for global
biomedical knowledge and intellectual capital. The library provides cost-effective access to biomedical knowledge, identifies and makes available knowledge and key research findings, expedites packaging of information content as reusable and sharable resources, facilitates understanding and helps incorporate information resources into work processes. The CKM offers: up-to-date information and tools to support instructional technology; graphic, photographic and print production; interactive multimedia; e-learning management; and an ability to meet the Web needs of customers.
Ongoing Research Programs
- Pamela Bradigan, MLS, principal investigator, and Fern Cheek, AMLS, co-investigator, are studying academic medical center library support provided to biomedical researchers
conducting clinical trials.
- Lynda Hartel, MLS, principal investigator, and Fern Cheek, AMLS, co-investigator, lead an e-book project to gauge the use of electronic/online book resources as opposed to print
resources by the health-sciences community at Ohio State.
- Eric Schnell, MLS, is studying the role and importance of service-oriented/syndication-oriented architecture within library system design. He also is researching the role of alternative forms of scholarship within the library profession and issues related to tenure and promotion.
- Judith Wiener, MA, MLS, is researching two homeopathic physicians (Federal Vanderburg and James Buchanan) for the ”Dictionary of Early American Philosophers.”
Research Achievements of 2007
- The Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Innovation Award 2007 for outstanding efforts with PRO went to Meg Buzzi, Cheryl Brilmyer, Chris Fish, Phoebe Kim, Victoria Cannon, Joshua Logsdon, Timothy Cain, PhD, and John Wilkins, all of the John A. Prior Health Sciences Library and Center for Knowledge Management at Ohio State.
- The 2007 Medical Library Association Research Award was presented to Fern Cheek, AMLS, and Lynda Hartel, MLS, for their study on the use of electronic books in an academic health-sciences center.