Your Liaison Michele Tennant: Selected Publications

​Book Edited:

• Gibson G, Nguyen S. 2018. Madagascar from A to Z: Madagasikara, A ka hattramin’ny Z. Ed. M Tennant. Library Press of UF: Gainesville, FL

Book Chapters:

• Tennant MR, Ansell M, Morgan-Daniel J, Selfe TK, Wu J, Edwards ME. 2019. Evolution and Expansion of Library Liaison Roles, chapter in The Engaged Health Sciences Library Liaison, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD. 28 manuscript pages. In press
• Norton HF, Edwards ME, Pomputius A, Stoyan-Rosenzweig N, Tennant MR. 2019. Liaison Services to Medical Students, chapter in The Engaged Health Sciences Library Liaison, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD. 13 manuscript pages. In press

• Minson V, Tennant, MR, Norton H. 2016. “Librarians’ roles in translating research expertise through VIVO.” Invited chapter in Translating Expertise: Roles for Librarians in the Translational Research Enterprise. Ed. M Conti. Medical Library Association: Chicago, IL, 111-26
• Tennant MR, Edwards ME, Norton HF, Russell-Gonzalez S. 2016. “Information and scientific literacy support for undergraduates: aligning instruction with standards and frames to prepare students for research and lifelong learning.” Invited chapter in The New Information Literacy Instruction: Best Practices. Ed. P Ragains and MS Wood. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD, 137-52
• Edwards ME, Norton HF, Tennant MR, Stoyan-Rosenzweig N, Daley M. 2015. “Promotion, publicity, and beyond: using a marketing plan and innovative strategies to reach users in an academic health science center library.”  Invited chapter in Creative Library Marketing and Publicity: Best Practices. Ed. RJ Lackie and MS Wood. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD, 63-78
• Norton HF, Edwards ME, Tennant MR, Stoyan-Rosenzweig N. 2014. “Strategies for seeking external funding in a health science library.”  Invited chapter in Successful Fundraising: Best Practices. Ed. MS Wood. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD, 97-111
• Tennant MR. 2014. “Outreach in health science libraries.” Invited chapter in the textbook Health Sciences Librarianship. Ed. MS Wood. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD, 226-51

Refereed Journals:

• Harnett S, Ansell M, Stoyan-Rosenzweig N, Schaefer N, Pomputius A, Edwards ME, Tennant MR. 2018. “The (Un)Common Instructor: A New Role for Medical Librarians Beyond Information Literacy”, Med Ref Serv Q, 37(3):276-91
• Norton HF, Tennant, MR, Edwards ME, Pomputius. 2018. “Use of Annual Surveying to Identify Technology Trends and Improve Service Provision”, J Med Libr Assoc, 106(3):320-9
• Kuntz GM, Schaefer N, Norton HF, Tennant MR. 2018. “HIV/AIDS Outreach: Curriculum Development and Skills Training to Health and Information Professionals”, Med Ref Serv Q,  37(1):60-73
• Ansell M, Tennant MR, Piazza V, Cottler LB. 2017. “Piloting Consumer Health Information Services in Collaboration with a Community Research Engagement Program”, Med Ref Serv Q,  36(4):348-61
• Edwards ME, Norton HF, Schaefer N, Tennant MR. 2014. Facilitating collaboration and research in sex and gender differences and women’s health: year one experiences.  Med Ref Serv Q, 33(4): 408-27

• Lyon JA, Garcia-Milian R, Norton HF, Tennant MR.  2014. The use of research electronic data capture (REDCap) software to create a database of librarian-mediated literature searches. Med Ref Serv Q, 33(3):241-52
• Holmes KL, Lyon JA, Johnson JM, Sarli CC, Tennant MR. 2013. Library-based clinical and translational science support. J Med Librar Assoc, 101(4): 326-35
• Auten B, Norton HF, Tennant MR, Edwards ME, Stoyan-Rosenzweig N, Daley M. 2013. Using NLM exhibits and events to engage library users and reach the community. Med Ref Serv, 32(3): 266-89
• Garcia-Milian R, Norton HF, Auten B, Davis VI, Holmes KL, Johnson M, Tennant MR. 2013. Librarians as part of cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional team projects: experiences from the VIVO Collaboration. Sci & Tech Libs, 32(2):160-75
• Norton HF, Butson LC, Tennant MR, Botero CE. 2013. Space planning: a renovation saga involving library users. Med Ref Serv Q, 32(2):133-50
• Bushhousen E, Norton HF, Butson LC, Auten B, Jesano R, David D, Tennant MR. 2013. Smartphone use at a university health science center.  Med Ref Serv Q, 32(1):52-72
• Tennant MR, Edwards M, Miyamoto MM. 2012. Use of instructional design theory and an individualized hybrid strategy for assessment in library-based instruction. J Med Libr Assoc, 100(4):319-22
• Tennant MR, Auten B, Botero CE, Butson LC, Edwards ME, Garcia-Milian R, Lyon JA, Norton HF. 2012. Changing the face of reference: adapting biomedical and health information services for the classroom, clinic and beyond.  Med Ref Serv Q, 31(3):280-301
• Garcia-Milian R, Norton HF, Tennant MR.  2012. The presence of academic health sciences libraries on Facebook: the relationship between content and library popularity. Med Ref Serv Q, 31(2):171-87
• Tennant MR, Edwards M, Miyamoto MM. 2012. Redesigning a library-based genetics class research project through instructional theory and authentic experience. J Med Libr Assoc, 100(2):90-7
• Buhler AG, Ferree N, Cataldo TT, Tennant MR. 2010. External reporting lines of academic special libraries: a health sciences case study. Coll Res Libs, 71 (5):467-94
• Niu X, Hemminger BM, Lown C, Adams S, Brown C, Level A, McLure M, Powers A, Tennant MR, Cataldo T.  2010. National study of information seeking behavior of academic researchers in the United States. J Am Soc Inf Sci Technol, 61 (5):869-90
• Ferree N, Schaefer N, Butson LC, Tennant MR. 2009.  Liaison librarian tiers: levels of service. J Med Libr Assoc, 97(2):145-8
• Tennant MR, Miyamoto MM.  2008.  The role of the medical librarian in the basic biological sciences: a case study in virology and evolution.  J Med Libr Assoc, 96(4):290-8
• Botero C, Carrico S, Tennant MM.  2008.  Using comparative online journal usage studies to assess the big deal.  Libr Res & Tech Serv 52(2):61-8
• Tennant MR, Lyon JA.  2007.  Entrez Gene:  a gene-centered “Information Hub”. J Electron Res Med Libs, 4(3):53-78
• Cataldo TT, Tennant MR, Sherwill-Navarro P, Jesano R.  2006.  Subject specialization in a liaison librarian program.   J Med Libr Assoc, 94(4):447-9
• Tennant  MR,  Cataldo TT, Sherwill-Navarro P, Jesano R. 2006. Evaluation of a liaison librarian program: client and liaison perspectives. J Med Libr Assoc , 94(4):402-9, e201-4
• Lyon, JA, Tennant MR, Danielson B.  2006.  Introducing Protein Data Bank, Molecular Modeling Database, and Cn3D.  J Electron Res Med Lib., 3(3):1-20
• Lyon JA, Tennant MR, Messner K, Osterbur DL. 2006.  Carving a niche: establishing bioinformatics collaborations. J Med Libr Assoc, 94(3):330-5 (This invited paper was part of the JMLA focus issue on Bioinformatics Services in Medical Libraries).
• Tennant MR, Lyon JA.  2006.  Web-based genetics resources for clinicians, researchers, students, and patients:  Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM^TM) and GeneTests^TM.  J Electron Res Med Libs 3(2):1-21
• Tennant MR.  2005.  Bioinformatics librarian: meeting the information needs of genetics and bioinformatics researchers.  Ref Serv Rev, 33(1):12-9  (This invited and refereed paper was part of RSR’s “Special Issues on Emerging Roles of Health Sciences Librarians”.) 
• Freire NP, Tennant MR, Miyamoto MM.  2003. Microarray analyses of reptiles and amphibians: applications in ecology and evolution.  Zool Stud, 42(3):391-404
• Kuntz JJ, Tennant MR, Case AC, Meakin F.  2003.  Staff-driven strategic planning: learning from the past, embracing the future.  J Med Libr Assoc, 91(1):79-83
• Tennant MR, Cataldo TT.  2002.  Development and assessment of specialized liaison services: clinical vs. basic science in a veterinary medicine setting.  Med Ref Serv Q, 21(2):21-37
• Tennant MR, Miyamoto MM.  2002.  The role of medical libraries in undergraduate education: a case study in genetics.  J Med Libr Assoc, 90(2):180-93 (American Library Association “LIRT Top Twenty” paper)
• Liu RFG, Miyamoto MM, Freire NP, Ong P, Tennant MR, Young TS, Gugel KF. 2001. Molecular and morphological supertrees for Eutherian (Placental) mammals. Science, 291(5509):1786-9
• Tennant MR, Butson LC, Rezeau ME, Tucker P, Boyle M, Clayton G.  2001.  Customizing for clients: developing a library liaison program from need to plan.  Bull Med Libr Assoc, 89(1):8-20 (Featured in 2002 in a National Network of Libraries of Medicine online journal club with over 70 participants.)
• Crother BI, Buth DG, Tennant MR. 1999. The systematic value of creatine kinase expression in reptiles. Biochem System Ecol, 27(2):147-56
• Allard MW, Miyamoto MM, Jarecki L, Kraus F, Tennant MR.  1992. DNA systematics and evolution of the Artiodactyl family Bovidae.  Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 89(9): 3972-6
• Miyamoto MM, Koop BF, Slightom JL, Goodman M, Tennant MR.  1988. Molecular systematics of higher Primates: genealogical relations and classification.  Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 85(20):7627-31
• Miyamoto MM, Hayes MP, Tennant MR.  1986.  Biochemical and morphological variation in Floridian populations of the bark anole (Anolis distichus).  Copeia, 1986(1):76-86
• Hayes MP, Tennant MR.  1985.  Diet and feeding behavior of the California red-legged frog, Rana aurora draytonii (Ranidae).  Southwest Nat, 30(4):601-5
• Miyamoto MM, Tennant MR.  1984.  Phylogenetic relationships of the lower Central American rain frog, Eleutherodactylus melanostictus. Copeia, 1984(3):765-8

Refereed Proceedings:

• Pomputius A, Stoyan-Rosenzweig N, Selfe TK, Morgan-Daniel J, Ansell M, Tennant MR. 2019.  Assessing Need and Evaluating Programs for a Health Science Center Library’s Wellness Initiative. Proceedings of the 2018 Library Assessment Conference. In press

• Garcia-Milian R, Norton HF, Auten B, Buhler A, Davis V, Ferree N, Holmes KL, Johnson M, Russell Gonzalez S, Schaefer N, Tennant MR, Conlon M, VIVO Collaboration. 2011. Role of Librarians in the Development of Computer-Mediated Social Networks: Challenges and Lessons Learned From VIVO Implementation and Outreach. In Proceedings of the Contributed Papers Session, Biomedical and Life Sciences Division, Special Libraries Association, 102^nd Annual Conference.  Available at

http://units.sla.org/division/dbio/events/conf_current/contr_papers.html

• Holmes KL, Tennant MR, Russell Gonzalez S, Davis V, Devare MH, Hack GO, Conlon M, VIVO Collaboration.  2010.  VIVO:  a national resource discovery tool for the biomedical community. In Proceedings of the Contributed Paper Session, Biomedical and Life Sciences Division, Special Libraries Association, 101^st Annual Conference.  Available at http://units.sla.org/division/dbio/events/conf_current/papers/VIVO_SLA_Holmes.pdf
• Russell Gonzalez S, Davis V, Tennant MR, Holmes KL, Conlon M, VIVO Collaboration.  2010.  Letting the good times roll through alignment:  meeting institutional missions and goals with VIVO, a web-based research discovery tool. In Proceedings of the Contributed Paper Session, Special Libraries Association, 101^st Annual Conference. Available at http://www.sla.org/PDFs/Conf/SLA_VIVO_Contributed_Paper.pdf
• Davis V, Devare M, Gonzalez SR, Tennant M.  2009.  Implementation of a new research discovery tool by the university libraries at Cornell University and the University of Florida. In Proceedings of the Contributed Paper Session, Biomedical and Life Sciences Division, Special Libraries Association, 100^th Annual Conference.  Available at http://units.sla.org/division/dbio/events/conf_past/WashingtonDC/Davispaper.pdf
• Tennant MR. 2008. The Institutional Review Board and library research:  memoirs of a multi-site project. In Proceedings of the Contributed Paper Session, Biomedical and Life Sciences Division, Special Libraries Association, 99^th Annual Conference.  Available at http://units.sla.org/division/dbio/events/conf_past/Seattle08/tennant08.pdf
• Tennant MR, Buhler AG, Ferree N, Francis BW, Hsu PP, Jesano R, Layton B, Schaefer N,  Sherwill P, Cataldo TT, Hack G.  2004. Partnerships in instruction: teaching dogs old and new, local and distant.  In "Beyond Bibliographic Instruction: Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks:  Proceedings of the Contributed Paper Session, Biomedical and Life Sciences Division, Special Libraries Association, 95^th Annual Conference".  Available at http://www.sla.org/division/dbio/nashville/Tennant.htm
• Tennant MR, Francis BW. 1999. Course-integrated instruction in an academic health science library:  a comparison of basic science and clinical strategies.  p.45-63 in "Getting the Message Across: Innovation in Library Instruction and Training in Biomedical and Life Sciences Libraries:  Proceedings of the Contributed Paper Session, Biomedical and Life Sciences Division, Special Libraries Association, 90^th Annual Conference"
• Tennant MR. 1997. The Internet in the library/classroom:  genetics at the University of Florida.  p.57-75 in "From Reactive to Proactive:  Substantive Approaches to Incorporating the Internet into Biological, Medical, and Life Sciences Libraries:  Proceedings of the Contributed Paper Session, Biological Sciences Division, Special Libraries Association, 88^th Annual Conference"