What we talk about when we talk about medical librarianship: an analysis of Medical Library Association annual meeting abstracts, 2001-2019
What we talk about when we talk about medical librarianship: an analysis of Medical Library Association annual meeting abstracts, 2001-2019
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10.5195/jmla.2020.836
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2020-07-01
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2
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Myers, Bethany
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作者：
Myers, Bethany
目的：本研究旨在获得初步了解什么是谈论和谁的声音听到在医学图书馆协会（MLA）annual meetings.Methods：会议摘要从MLA网站下载，并转换为逗号分隔值（CSV）格式。Python中的描述性分析确定了演示文稿的数量、消除歧义的作者、作者协作、机构隶属类型和地理隶属关系。主题是使用Mallet的潜在Dirichlet分配算法进行主题建模生成的。结果：从2001年到2019年，MLA年会上有5，781个演讲。作者消歧产生了大约5，680个独特的作者。1093条记录在作者字段中包含医院相关关键字，4,517条记录包含学术相关关键字。有438份报告至少有一名国际作者。主题模型在MLA摘要语料库中确定了16个主题：事件、电子资源、出版物、循证实践、馆藏、学术指导、图书馆员角色和关系、技术系统、特殊馆藏、一般指导、文献检索、调查、研究支持、社区外展、患者教育和图书馆服务。学术图书馆员比医院图书馆员更频繁地出现，尽管应该做更多的研究来确定这种差异是否与医院图书馆员在MLA中的代表性不成比例。地理联系集中在美国，似乎与人口密度有关。世纪早期的健康科学图书馆员在MLA年会上花更多的时间谈论社区，关系和可见的服务，而较少的时间谈论图书馆馆藏和运营。需要进一步研究，以促进代表性不足的成员的参与。
Objective: This study seeks to gain initial insight into what is talked about and whose voices are heard at Medical Library Association (MLA) annual meetings.Methods: Meeting abstracts were downloaded from the MLA website and converted to comma-separated values (CSV) format. Descriptive analysis in Python identified the number of presentations, disambiguated authors, author collaboration, institutional affiliation type, and geographic affiliation. Topics were generated using Mallet's Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm for topic modeling.Results: There were 5,781 presentations at MLA annual meetings from 2001-2019. Author disambiguation resulted in approximately 5,680 unique authors. One thousand ninety-three records included a hospital-related keyword in the author field, and 4,517 records included an academic-related keyword. There were 438 presentations with at least 1 international author. The topic model identified 16 topics in the MLA abstract corpus: events, electronic resources, publications, evidence-based practice, collections, academic instruction, librarian roles and relationships, technical systems, special collections, general instruction, literature searching, surveys, research support, community outreach, patient education, and library services.Conclusions: Academic librarians presented more frequently than hospital librarians, though more research should be done to determine if this discrepancy was disproportionate to hospital librarians' representation in MLA. Geographic affiliation was concentrated in the United States and appeared to be related to population density. Health sciences librarians in the early twenty-first century are spending more time at MLA annual meetings talking about communities, relationships, and visible services, and less time talking about library collections and operations. Further research will be needed to boost the participation of underrepresented members.