MEDICAL LIBRARIES ASSEMBLE! Engaging hospital staff through graphic medicine Melanie Anderson Jessica Babineau Ashley Farrell Caleb Nault
DISCOVER the benefits of using graphic and narrative medicine as a tool for promoting empathy and compassion. EXPLORE strategies for building more meaningful collections for clients COLLABORATE on fun and innovative Objectives promotional strategies
UHN LIBRARY & INFORMATION SERVICES 6 library locations spread across the organization Physical collection comprised of medical, nursing, and health related textbooks Digital collection includes databases, e- journals and e-books
Graphic Medicine refers to the use of graphic novels, comics and visual storytelling in medical education and patient care.
Narrative Medicine "For two decades, literature has been used within medicine as a reflexive tool that attempts to bridge the gap between knowing about a disease and understanding the patient's experience of that disease" (Williams, 2012)
Benefits of health narratives IMPROVE ENCOURAGE BUILD INCREASE Health literacy. Self Empathy and Understanding of expression among compassion. the patient health professionals experience. and learners. (Glazer, 2015)
Environmental Scan
NARRATIVE MEDICINE AT OTHER HEALTH LIBRARIES CENTRE FOR HARVARD NATIONAL LIBRARY ADDICTION & MENTAL + OF MEDICINE (NLM) HEALTH (CAMH) UMASS 100-book collection of Almost 300-book collection of Graphic Medicine Initiative graphic novels Book Club Kits that include 6 primarily graphic novels copies of a comic, discussion Designed a comic to promote questions, and topic-relevant Focus is on lived experience and encourage use of the MedLinePlus info of marginalized people collection (SEASide Webinar, 2018) (NER Graphic Medicine Initative, 2019) (Rodak, 2019)
The Origin Story The idea was conceived by the UHN Outreach Committee Inspired by past OLA presentations on graphic medicine Originally envisioned as a graphic medicine only collection 'UHN Reads' contest to get the organization reading books nominated from the collection
Medical Libraries Assemble!
ALIGN WITH STRATEGIC PLANS UHN Education Library & Information Services
IDENTIFIED COLLABORATORS Is anyone else at the institution doing something similar?
WE ASKED: Are you currently using health narratives in education or practice? How? How do you see published health narratives fitting into education and practice? What should we be including in this collection? Would you like to continue being involved in further stages of the process and/or be kept updated?
WHAT DID WE LEARN? In 2019, UHN Patient Experience launched the Declaration of Patient Values.
MANY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
Graphic novels! Comics! Poetry! Fiction! Memoir!
COLLECTION CRITERIA Print Graphic novels published 2000-present Creative non-fiction published 1990-present English language Adult reading level Issues, conditions or populations from UHN or in the community area Patient, caregivers or health practitioner perspectives Underrepresented voices
COLLECTION TO-DO Buy the books! Decide where Pick relevant titles the special from our existing collection will collection live
LESSONS WHAT WE WANT IS NOT NECESSARILY WHAT EVERYONE ELSE WANTS Graphic medicine is super interesting! But it's only one piece of the kind of collection our users want and need. TALK, LISTEN, COLLABORATE
LESSONS "IF YOU WANT TO MOVE FAST, GO ALONE. IF YOU WANT TO GO FAR, GO TOGETHER." - African proverb BE PATIENT WITH THE PROCESS
LESSONS
LESSONS WE EXPECTED RESISTANCE BUT INSTEAD RECEIVED STRONG SUPPORT
MAKING IT VISABLE THE IMPORTANCE OF DISCOVERABILITY Create a space that feels accessible and safe to have book club Create a resource guide for web comics + journals that have personal health narrative spotlights Make it highly searchable in the Virtual Library
ACTIVITY THINK/PAIR/SHARE Question: If you were to create a similar collection, how would you promote it? Dream big! 1. Think about it on your own 2. Chat with folks at your table about your ideas 3. Share what your table came up with
BOOK CLUBS IN-HOUSE KITS Designed by us and hosted Pre-formulated kits that at different library sites can be loaned to other Discussion facilitated by departments library staff Specifically tailored discussion guides
AUTHOR READINGS EVENTS THAT HIGHLIGHT PARTICULAR BOOKS FROM THE COLLECTION
COMIC DESIGN WORKSHOPS Solicit relevant material written and/or illustrated by UHN staff to be included in the collection Partner with other departments to plan workshops where staff can learn how to create their own graphic or narrative medicine
INTERLIBRARY LOAN Create an agreement between GTA health libraries to share their health narratives collection
USER SUGGESTIONS Connect with other departments to solicit program or promotional ideas to best engage their members in using library services and specifically this collection
UHN READS
EVALUATION What's the best way to measure the success of this initiative?
Works Cited Glazer, S. (2015). Graphic medicine: comics turn a critical eye on health care. The Hasting Centre Report, 45(3):15-19. NER Graphic Novel Initiative. (2019). National Network of Libraries of Medicine. https://nnlm.gov/ner/graphic-medicine Rodak, T. (2019). Beyond “evidence”: narrative and graphic mental health literature in a clinical collection. Presented at the OLA SuperConference, Toronto, Canada. https://go.aws/3aPWqlI SEASide Webinar. (2018). Getting off the ground with graphic medicine. https://youtu.be/b9BWYRToMEg Williams, I. C. (2012). Graphic medicine: comics as medical narrative. Medical Humanities , 38(1), 21-27.
Melanie Anderson Jessica Babineau melanie.anderson@uhn.ca jessica.babineau@uhn.ca Ashley Farrell Caleb Nault ashley.farrell@uhn.ca caleb.nault@uhn.ca With many thanks to Linda Yang, Mellisha McKenzie, and Monica Dingle
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