Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2025
Publisher
Medical Library Association
Source Publication
Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA)
Source ISSN
1536-5050
Original Item ID
DOI: 10.5195/jmla.2025.1964
Abstract
Background: Librarians have relied on resource lists for developing nursing collections, but these lists are usually in static or subscription-based formats. An example of this is the 26th edition of the Essential Nursing Resources last published in 2012. The Nursing and Allied Health Resources and Services (NAHRS) Caucus Nursing Essential Resources List (NNERL) Task Force has been working on a new list since Fall 2020. The goal of the Task Force is to create a nursing resource list that represents current materials and formats, uses a selection process that is transparent and reproducible, and will be available to a broad audience.
Case Presentation: Working from the Essential Nursing Resources 26th edition, the NNERL Task Force updated the purpose statement then began reviewing the resources on the list. Two working groups were formed: 1) an evaluation rubric working group developed a tool to evaluate the resources and 2) a tagging work group developed guidelines for creating metadata and “tags.” Volunteers were recruited from the NAHRS Caucus to tag the resources. Lastly, the Task Force finalized the list of resources in the NNERL then cleaned and reconciled the data.
Conclusions: The final version of the NNERL will be published in Airtable, a cloud-based project management product, that will include metadata for every item on the list. The NNERL will be copyrighted to the NAHRS NNERL Task Force and made available through the Open Science Framework (OSF) under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Creative Commons License.
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Recommended Citation
Raszewski, Rebecca; Porcello, Lorraine; Fial, Alissa V.; Dennison, Carolyn C.; Stark, Rachel Keiko; Alcorn, Karen S.; and Wade, Sarah, "Using Expert Knowledge and Peer Review to Create a Reproducible Process for the NAHRS Nursing Essential Resources List (NNERL)" (2025). Library Faculty Research and Publications. 145.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/lib_fac/145
Comments
Published version. Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA), Vol. 113, No. 1 (January 2025): 78-84. DOI. © 2025 The Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.