Volume 3, Number 5 March 1991
- Resources and Systems Staff Work for You
- Serials Cancellation Project
- What's New in the Teaching Learning Center (TLC)?
- Current Contents Now on Disk
- Micromedex Available at Harborview
- HSLIC Welcomes Louise Saul
- Composite Index for CRC Handbooks
- New Books by Health Sciences Faculty
- Current Bibliographies in Medicine
- New Serial Titles Added, February 1991
- Recent Gifts
Resources and Systems Staff Work for You
by Debbie Ketchell, Associate Director for Resource Management and Systems DevelopmentUnder the lead of Debbie Ketchell, Associate Director for Resource Management and Systems Development, four library sections work both in public and behind the scenes to make materials and services available to users. The four sections are the State Resource Service, Teaching Learning Center, Collection & Technical Services, and Information Systems.
State Resource Service (SRS)
The SRS provides consultation, training, referral and coordination to health professionals and health libraries state-wide for electronic information retrieval and access to library services. Debbie Ketchell serves as the SRS Coordinator, and Susan Meyers is the program assistant.
Collection & Technical Services (C&TS)
Identifying, acquiring, organizing, producing access products, and maintaining books and journals on the shelves are all part of the job of C&TS. Lorraine Raymond (collection development & catalog), Colleen Weum (selection & acquisitions), and Connie Worley (serials) manage C&TS with the support of Julie Anderson, Hilary Carkeek, amy Harmala, Richard Kleaveland, Linda Oetter-Ayres, and Kathleen von der Hofen.
Collection development and selection activities determine what materials are acquired. We use an "approval plan" with a major medical book vendor to rapidly identify new titles meeting predetermined criteria, supplemented by user purchase requests and publishers' mailings. A Serials Review Committee reviews selection and "de-selection" of serial titles. We also accept gifts to fill in gaps in our collections.
The library orders about 2,600 books and new journal titles each year. New materials are cataloged using a national database to capture a "bibliographic description," which is then moved into the Online Catalog for you to retrieve electronically. The HSLIC card catalog was closed January 1991.
The library currently receives about 4,100 journal subscriptions. Serials staff checks in new issues, claims missing issues, maintains records in the Online Catalog and the HSLIC Serials Holdings List, and binds loose issues. Installation of a computerized check-in system is underway and is expected to speed up claims for missing issues. Although there is no good time to pull issues for binding, we have pared down the process to approximately four weeks.
Returning materials to their designated location is also part of C&TS. We have made several changes in the last year which make finding materials easier, such as reducing the number of places to look, doing away with exceptions to exact title order, and moving the serials sorting area into the stacks.
Information Systems
Microcomputers and workstations are now key library tools in both public and staff areas. The Information Systems staff, consisting of Debbie Ketchell and Cindy Jenkins, insure that those systems function smoothly.
Systems also plays a significant role in developing programs for library users. For example, we were part of the team that made Medline searchable under UW Reference Library, and are currently assisting in the development of WILLOW, an X-Windows interface to Medline. We also work closely under the IAIMS initiative to make products like the Unified Medical Language System (an NLM experimental product) available to you.
Serials Cancellation Project
by Janet Schnall, Chair, Serials Review CommitteeBetty G. Bengston, Director of University Libraries, recently sent a letter to all faculty describing the increasing cost of library materials, especially serials, as one of the most critical problems facing the UW Libraries today. The increase in serial prices coupled with the decline of the dollar has caused many academic research libraries to undertake cancellation projects in the past few years. The Director has asked staff to make contingency plans for serials cancellation, especially in light of the uncertainty of the Governor's proposed 1991-93 budget.
The Health Sciences Library has a Serials Review Committee (SRC) which has been actively reviewing serials for HSLIC during the past year. The SRC will evaluate HSLIC's journal titles according to the degree that they support the teaching, clinical, and research programs in the health sciences. After drawing up a list of potential titles for cancellation, library liaisons will consult with Collection Development Advisers (faculty representatives from each department or school in the Health Sciences Center) to obtain their input. A final list of serial titles proposed for cancellation will be available in May.
Please contact your HSLIC library liaison or Janet Schnall, at 543-3395 or schnall@u.washington.edu with any questions about serials cancellations at HSLIC.
What's New in the Teaching Learning Center (TLC)?
The TLC supports curriculum-based education and instructional development. Leilani St. Anna (coordinator), Margaret Sandelin and Verlene Brown are the staff. The TLC collection includes core textbooks, slides, videos, models, laserdiscs, Macintosh and DOS-compatible software, and other media. Faculty and staff are encouraged to work with the TLC staff to identify, preview and purchase relevant curriculum materials for this collection.
The course reserve service is an important part of the TLC. Faculty and staff are encouraged to place both library and personal or departmental materials on reserve.
The TLC will receive a "facelift" in March to provide more flexible user space, add necessary wiring and allow implementation of an automated reserve system by Fall 1991.
New Software
NeuroNames: Neuroanatomical Nomenclature is a comprehensive computerized hierarchical nomenclature for structures found in the human and nonhuman primate brain. Developed by UW's Primate Information Center of the Regional Primate Research Center, NeuroNames is loaded on both TLC public access Macintoshes. An instruction manual is available. Questions and comments on this software can be addressed to Richard Martin at the Primate Center.
HSLIC has joined the Health Sciences Consortium (HSC), a nonprofit association of health sciences institutions which publishes and distributes quality instructional programs at the lowest possible cost. HSC offers audiovisual materials and software covering a wide variety of health-related subjects, including medicine, nursing, dentistry, allied health, and patient education.
The HSC membership provides both free previews of all HSC materials and a substantial discount on purchase price. All UW departments can obtain these benefits by working through the library coordinator. Call Leilani St. Anna, Acting TLC Coordinator, at 685-3125 for information.
Current Contents Now on Disk
by Jim Gormican, Intern, University of British ColumbiaNew to the U-Search Center is Current Contents on Diskette, the computerized version of Current Contents. The library subscribes to both CC:Life Sciences and CC:Clinical Medicine, covering 1,200 and 870 selected journals respectively. The files are updated weekly, with the current 1-2 months of each subscription kept on the computer, and an additional month is available on request.
The database can be browsed either by starting from the first contents page of the database or by browsing a particular discipline or journal title. Nine separate fields, such as authors, language, and journal title, can be searched directly. The database also permits keyword searching of terms extracted both from the article title and from recurring words or phrases appearing in the paper's list of cited references.
You can create and save custom search profiles to be run against subsequent issues. References can be downloaded to a disk or printed out at the computer.
Micromedex Available at Harborview
by Ellen Howard, K.K. Sherwood LibrarianFaculty, staff and students at Harborview know that they can come to the K.K. Sherwood Library and quickly search the current journal literature using uwreflib. However, few users other than clinical pharmacists seem to be aware of Micromedex on compact disk.
While Micromedex is designed as a source of information about standard medications, including dosage and drug interactions, it also includes much information that should be of interest to clinicians. Many entries consist of critical reviews of the subject, which are periodically revised along with updating of the bibliographic references.
New files are continuously available. One of the recent additions is "Reprorisk," containing information on acute and chronic exposure to over 600 industrial chemicals and agents.
If you are unable to come to the library we will be happy to do a specific information search for Harborview users; call Ellen Howard at 223-3360. Micromedex is also available in the U-Search Center at HSLIC. Call the Reference Desk at 543-3394 for further information.
HSLIC Welcomes Louise Saul
Louise Saul is the newest member of the HSLIC Information Services staff. Louise comes to UW from the University of New Mexico Medical Center Library in Albuquerque, where she was Reference/Online Specialist and Interlibrary Loan Coordinator. She received her M.L.S. degree from Texas Woman's University Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and a B.A. from the University of North Texas.
Composite Index for CRC Handbooks
by Janet Schnall, Information Services LibrarianThe Composite Index for CRC Handbooks, 3rd edition, is a 3-volume index to scientific information from all the CRC Handbooks in the biomedical sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, physics and mathematics. The Health Sciences Library owns many of the CRC Handbooks, such as the CRC Handbook of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, and CRC Handbook of Nutrition in the Aged. The Composite Index helps locate information quickly by subject, compounds, and names of organisms. Each entry identifies the specific CRC Handbook, volume, and page containing the information sought.
The Composite Index is available both as a printed tool in the Ready Reference section (call number QD65 C74 1991) and on a CD-ROM disk which allows the flexibility of searching electronically. Annual supplements to both the print and the CD versions will be available.
If the necessary CRC Handbook is unavailable in the UW Libraries, CRC offers a 24-hour FAX delivery service that provides copies of the needed pages at a cost of $5 for the first 2 pages and $1.50 for each additional page. Please inquire at the Reference Desk about this service.
New Books by Health Sciences Faculty
Albert R. Jonsen, The New Medicine and the Old Ethics. Cambridge, Ma., Harvard University Press, 1990. W50 J81n 1990.
Dr. Jonsen, Chairman and Professor, Medical History and Ethics, looks at the shaping of ethical questions "through the long tradition of medicine in Western culture, a tradition that blends myth and history, science and philosophy. It seeks in that tradition an understanding of why we ask certain ethical questions of the new medicine."
Finch, Clement A., Fulfilling the Dream: A History of the University of Washington School of Medicine 1946 to 1988. W19 F492f 1990.
"Opening its doors in 1946, the UW School of Medicine was the first medical school to be established on the West Coast since 1910. Now more than four decades later, the founders of the School of Medicine have retired from active service and others have taken their places. But before the memory of the early days fades, it seems appropriate to record firsthand the events and elements that explained the unusual success of the endeavor." (Introduction) Dr. Clement is Professor Emeritus of Medicine, UW.
Current Bibliographies in Medicine
by Janet Schnall, Information Services LibrarianCurrent Bibliographies in Medicine, prepared by the National Library of Medicine, is available in HSLIC's Reference Serials section. Citations for the bibliographies were selected from a number of different electronic databases to provide an overview of current research on "hot" topics in biomedicine.
Included are citations to journal articles, reports, monographs, dissertations, audiovisuals, meeting abstracts, conference proceedings, and book chapters. Recent topics include:
- Clinical Use of Botulinum Toxin (90-10)
- Alzheimer's Disease and the Family (90-9)
- Fish Oils (90-8)
- Cocaine, Pregnancy and the Newborn (90-7)
- Treatment of Early-Stage Breast Cancer (90-6)
- Laboratory Animal Welfare (90-5)
New Serial Titles Added, February 1991
A I D S/H I V treatment directory, v.4(1990/1991)--.
Reference Serials Stacks
Attention and performance, 2nd(1968), 8th(1990).
Book Stacks; see Online Catalog for call numbers.
Biotechnology, v.10(1988)--.
Book Stacks; see Online Catalog for call numbers.
C D summary, Latest 3 years.
Reference Serials Stacks
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), v.2(1991)--.
Harper's biochemistry, 21st(1988)--.
Book Stacks: W1 HA593D
Health care 500,1991--.
Reference Book Stacks: W22 AA1 H435; earlier in Book Stacks.
Journal of internal medicine. Supplement, n.731(1989)--.
Pharmacy law annual,1987--.
Book Stacks: QV 22 AA1 P367
Progress in cardiology (Philadelphia, PA: 1988), v.3(1990)--.
Recent Gifts
Acknowledgment and appreciation is extended to the following individuals who have recently donated materials to the Library:
Dr. George Aagaard; Dr. Laura Mae Baldwin; Dr. Gerard Bashein; Dr. Peter Byers; Dr. Jan Carline; Dr. John P. Culver; Dr. George C. Denniston; Dr. James Detter; Dr. Dean M. Forgaard; Dr. John P. Geyman, Dr. H. Hunter Hansfield; Dr. Edith Heinemann; Dr. Richard J. Johnson; Dr. Cho-Chou Kuo; Dr. N. Karle Mottet; National Library of Medicine; Dr. Maxine Patrick; Mrs. Rosle Roth; Dr. Cyrus Rubin; Dr. Fritz Schoenknecht; Dr. Jack Snyder; Dr. Wade Volwiler; Dr. San-Pin Wang; Dr. E. Ted Young.
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