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Making Nursing Knowledge Development Explicit
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This section includes discussion on Villanova University’s VuFind by Grinnell

College Libraries and Blacklight (in various applications) by Sanford Spatial Data
Infrastructure, University of Alberta Libraries, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and
Museum, and Cornell University Library. Open source discovery demonstrates that by
using agile software, resources can easily be made reusable and can thus benefit local
communities or even widely dispersed users.
Part III examines the design aspects of user interfaces and how those design features
improve discovery and delivery. In particular, the Bento Box design, faceted searching
(in the Catalyst interface), or even web-scale discovery are discussed as ways to optimize
access to content. Johns Hopkins University (JHU) consortium libraries is the case study
in chapter 13, and it tells of the sophisticated needs of their user groups today. The JHU
catalog uses Catalyst as its user interface because of its focused and faceted search
algorithms and other quality content organization features.
Quality metadata remains crucial to library environments of any type, and sophisti-
cated and agile discovery platforms are replacing rigid barriers of past integrated library
systems. Varnum’s book ends with Part IV (Chapters 15 through 19), highlighting key
strategies for achieving unified access to digital content via robust metadata. Chapter 19,
Know Thy Metadata: Metadata Challenges in Discovery Services, in particular, lists a
number of challenges (and best practices) when implementing and managing metadata.
Contributors agree that end-user needs are the crucial driving force to building
systems with functionality that end users have come to expect. Collaborating with
invested yet diverse constituents, establishing common metadata standards to promote
interoperability, and aggregating discovery portals lead the essential processes for resol-
ving numerous complex issues associated with managing metadata and content delivery.
Agile software and agile development are key terms and phrases used throughout the
text, indicating that this new information era that Varnum references is an era of
flexibility within the scope of information discovery and delivery, an era driven by
innovative collaboration and user needs and expectations. This need for agility corre-
sponds directly with the need for optimal functionality when building robust discovery
systems that users come to rely on. Varnum has even organized his book of case studies
with agility so readers can optimize the content that has been presented by choosing the
chapter(s) or section(s) most pertinent to their institution.

Mary F. Miles
Medical Librarian
Hillcrest Hospital
Mayfield Heights, Ohio, USA
Published with license by Taylor & Francis © Mary F. Miles
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15323269.2017.1259525

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick and Geraldine McCarthy, editors. (2014). Theories Guiding

Nursing Research and Practice: Making Nursing Knowledge Development Explicit.
New York, NY: Springer, 370 pages, $75.00, softcover, ISBN: 978-0-8261-6404-9.

The editors of this work are pioneers in nursing education at the undergraduate and
graduate levels. Both have been deans of nursing schools, editors of journals, writers of
many book chapters, and committed to endeavors in nursing research and nursing
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leadership development. The chapter contributors are a Who’s Who list of nursing
textbook authors.
Nursing research is more of an everyday occurrence within a hospital setting. Nurses
engage in research to improve their units’ clinical practices. Their research will enhance
patient safety and satisfaction. This process of improving clinical practice through research is
being built into career ladders for advancement. As nursing students and practitioners
investigate in the academic world, their research needs a theory to undergird the research.
Fitzpatrick and McCarthy have developed a work that provides an explanation of the theory
process, to guide research and professional practice, filling the void in nursing literature.
The work is broken into four parts. Part I introduces the reader to the discipline of
nursing and the existent nursing models and theories. Part II deals with several theories
that apply to research and cover a wide variety of topics from cultural competence, work
engagement, and interpersonal relations in nursing theory. Part III covers theories
applying to future research and practice. These theories range from Theory of
Empowerment and Theory of Meaning to Story Theory. Part IV deals with Theory
Underlying Nursing Intervention research and Future Directions.
My favorite section is the first part with its explanation of nursing as a discipline and
the discussion of grand nursing theories and middle range nursing theories. The
explanation of the grand and middle-aged nursing theories and their relationships
cleared up my confusion on this relationship. I finally understood what middle range
nursing theories were and where they are applied. My favorite impression is that nursing
theory is eminently practical. This table of contents reads like a potential shopping list of
nursing theories for many nursing research topics.
This work is essential to the resource library of nursing faculty as well as any health
science library. This work is recommended as it demarcates a new phase of nursing
theory—the process of how nursing theories are developed and used in research to
advance knowledge for practice.

Mary Pat Harnegie

Cleveland Clinic Floyd D. Loop Alumni Library
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2096-2357
Published with license by Taylor & Francis © Mary Pat Harnegie
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15323269.2017.1258900

M. Sandra Wood, editor. (2016). Consumer Health Information Services and

Programs: Best Practices. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 161 pages, $90.00,
hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-4422-6272-0.

Wood’s work offers excellent true life experiences of a wide variety of consumer health services and
programs. Although Michele Spatz’s The Medical Library Association Guide to Providing Consumer
and Patient Health Information gave an excellent how-to for establishing and nurturing consumer
health collections in a wide variety of settings, Wood’s contributors give us reports from the field.
And like Spatz, Wood has turned to an impressive group of contributors.
In Chapter 1, Cara Marcus relates the story of Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital’s Patient/
Family Resource Center. When the current BWFH P/FRC opened in 1999, it was one of the first
community hospitals in Massachusetts to have a patient library. Marcus relates the initiatives and
community partnerships her Center has experienced, and looks to the future. She includes an excellent

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