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Hot off the Press: “Partner with Hospital Librarians to Improve Patient Care”

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A statement prepared by the Medical Library Association (MLA) Hospital Library Caucus and Board of Directors was recently released (approved 1/11/2022).

I want to add my voice and support to this statement and advocate the importance and value of hospital libraries, and the role that information professionals play as part of a larger team within the healthcare system.

I would encourage our blog readers to review the full statement and check out the list of endorsers which I hope to see increase over time.

For MSK staff, if you want to learn more about your library and how we support research and evidence-based care to patients, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Donna Gibson
Director, Library Services

Happy New Year From the MSK Library

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On behalf of the Library staff, I want to take a moment to wish our blog readers and library users all the best this holiday season. Tis the season to count our blessings and enjoy special moments with family and friends.

This year, the pandemic continued to impact the way we worked. We did hear our users’ voices and moved forward to return to our regular hours of operation on July 1, 2021, after our soft re-opening in October 2020. However, we still needed to practice social distancing and wear our masks while in this public space. 

We also continued to promote our Virtual Library Services in support of incoming client requests and encouraged our user community to use our chat feature on the library website as a way to obtain immediate help. 

We look forward in 2022 to uncovering both new opportunities and challenges. Based on client feedback we solicited this year via focus groups, individual 1:1 interviews, Yammer poll questions, and an enterprise-wide survey, comments and insights we collected will drive how we build on delivering the right resources, and the right services for our researchers, clinicians, nurses, students, administrative staff, and other healthcare providers. In this way we can support their pursuit of quality patient care, research excellence, and ongoing learning. We are focused on our efforts to explore and improve the ways in which we connect with our user community.

We wish you a very Happy New Year!

Cheers,
Donna Gibson
Director, Library Services

Just Released from Clarivate: Highly Cited Researchers Annual Report

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Clarivate has just released its 2021 list of Highly Cited Researchers™. Their methodology identifies approximately 6,600 researchers from around the world who demonstrate significant influence in their field(s) of interest through their highly cited papers. Curious on who made this global list of influential scientific researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK)? Read on to find out!

The Highly Cited Researchers’ names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science™ citation index.

This year, I am delighted to share that 49 researchers associated with MSK made this prestigious list.

Name Category Name Category
Omar Abdel-Wahab Molecular Biology & Genetics Dana Pe’er Cross-Field
Maria E. Arcila  Clinical Medicine Michael Postow Clinical Medicine
Michael F. Berger Clinical Medicine Natasha Rekhtman Cross-Field
Renier Brentjens  Cross-Field Victor E. Reuter  Cross-Field
Margaret K. Callahan   Cross-Field Gregory J. Riely Clinical Medicine
Justin R. Cross  Cross-Field Jonathan Rosenberg Cross-Field
Elis de Stanchina  Cross-Field Neal Rosen Cross-Field
Frederic Geissmann   Immunology Alexander Y. Rudensky  Immunology
Mithat Gonen  Cross-Field Charles M. Rudin Clinical Medicine
Matthew D. Hellmann  Clinical Medicine Michel Sadelain Cross-Field
Clifford Hudis  Clinical Medicine Gilles Salles Cross-Field
*David Hyman Clinical Medicine Charles L. Sawyers Cross-Field
Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue Molecular Biology & Genetics Howard I. Scher Clinical Medicine
*Robert R. Jenq Cross-Field Nikolaus Schultz Cross-Field
Luis A. Diaz, Jr. Cross-Field Nicholas Socci Cross-Field
David Klimstra Cross-Field David Solit Cross-Field
Mark Kris Clinical Medicine Martin Tallman Cross-Field
Marc Ladanyi Clinical Medicine Ying Taur Cross-Field
Ross Levine Molecular Biology & Genetics Craig B. Thompson Molecular Biology & Genetics
Joan Massague Molecular Biology & Genetics William Travis Clinical Medicine
Ingo K. Mellinghoff Cross-Field Marcel R. M. van den Brink  Immunology
Taha Merghoub Cross-Field Agnes Viale  Cross-Field
Vincent A. Miller Clinical Medicine Jedd D. Wolchok Clinical Medicine, Immunology
Quaid Morris Cross-Field    
Robert J. Motzer Clinical Medicine    
*Eric G. Pamer Immunology    

*Former Employee

On behalf of the Library staff, congratulation to these researchers and to all of our distinguished authors, who through their work contribute daily to the ever-growing body of published medical and scientific literature.

Donna Gibson
Director of Library Services