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Library Manager/Medical Librarian III
South Pointe Medical Library/Cleveland Clinic Floyd D. Loop Alumni Library
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Mary Pat Harnegie, MLIS, AHIP, Library Manager- South Pointe Hospital and Medical Librarian II- Floyd D. Loop Alumni Library, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH. In my first career, I was a career insurance agent and agency manager for a Nationwide Insurance family-owned agency. In 2002, I graduated from Kent State University's School of Library and Information Science. I have been a substitute librarian in the Cleveland Public Library system from 2003-2014. Simultaneously, I started working at Cleveland Clinic Alumni Library in 2000 as a library technician and became a librarian in 2005.
I managed the book and e-book collection from 2005-2010 as collection development librarian. In 2010, I became the library manager of South Pointe Medical Librarian supervising one library assistant. I continued my reference and collection development work at the Main Campus. I have one foot in world of the academic research hospital and one foot in the smaller community hospital.
My background has been in library collection development and graduate medical education program development and teaching support. My research interests are in the areas of evidence-based practice in clinical practice and library outreach and assessment.
I managed the library collection from 2005-2010. I curated the library archival collection over the past ten years. In graduate medical education, I initiated and co-taught an evidence-based practice and evaluation workshop with a primary care clinician to third-year medical students. Internal medicine residency instituted PubMed training as a graduation requirement for residents at my suggestion. I manage the learning management systems for the hospital residency programs and provide program directors with monthly residency participation/performance reporting.
Attendance at 2012 Pitt workshop in Systematic Reviews, 2015 University of Colorado workshop on Evidence Based Medicine in Clinical Practice, and 2016 University of Illinois-Chicago workshop on Evidence Based Medicine has provided training in research design and methodologies. MLA-RTI training would provide me with an intense “hands-on” approach in the advancement and development of my prior training as well as help me build my assessment skills. (I had the opportunity to watch a 30 min. master class where a highly experienced nurse researcher evaluated possible nursing research projects and dissected the possible design process and possible obstacles of at least ten projects—in rapid fire order. It left an indelible mark on me about how much I still have to learn.) Finally, I attended the Critical Appraisal Institute for Librarians in 2020 focused on research methodology and appraisal.
Mu daily work incorporates a lot of work in systematic reviews, evidence based medicine, and research methodologies. I alos contribute dto local professional organizations. I have served as president of Ohio Health Libraries Association, served as co-chair of the 2018 Midwest MLA chapter conference planning committee and currently serve on the Midwest MLA chapter executive board. I contribute to scholarship as a column editor of the Journal of Hospital Librarianship. I am a peer reviewer for the Journal of Family Medicine. I have several publicationsin various industry journals.
