(57) How Are We Doing? An Analysis of Drug Information and Library Sciences (DILS) Professional Scholarship

Objective : To understand how DILS Section members approach research and scholarship – in time spent, type and volume of outputs, and collaboration – in order to ensure section programming and resources remain relevant, and to help facilitate additional collaborations.

Methods: A 10-question survey was developed and sent out to DILS section members via AACP Connect (N=119) in February 2023. The survey consisted of questions related to expected vs actual scholarly time and outputs, current and future types of scholarship (Boyer’s Model of Scholarship), and current and future collaborations.

Results: Seventeen out of 119 DILS members on AACP Connect (14.3%) completed the survey, including 10 pharmacists and 7 librarians. In general, the amount of time DILS members spend on scholarship is close to what is expected by their institution (14.57% actual vs 15.36% expected). However, their output is higher than what is expected (8.80 vs 5.57 scholarly outputs in a 3-year period). When describing outputs from the past 3 years, the most common type of scholarship was integration, which includes interprofessional/interdisciplinary work and systematic reviews. Looking forward, respondents plan to do more scholarship of teaching and learning. When it comes to collaboration, almost everyone (94.1%) has collaborated with someone in recent scholarship and everyone (100%) plans to collaborate in future scholarship. The most common type of recent collaboration was with pharmacy learners, and the biggest difference between recent collaboration and future plans is with pharmacy academia.

Conclusions: Overall, DILS members are meeting or exceeding expectations when it comes to research and scholarship. Opportunities identified include future aspirations related to type of scholarship and nature of collaborations. Future directions will include section-wide efforts to meet these goals.