Books & Bytes, May 1991 Volume 3, Number 7

Volume 3, Number 7    May 1991

Books & Bytes is produced by the HSLIC Library Staff for Health Sciences Center personnel. Copyright University of Washington.

Table of Contents

Update on Serials Cancellation Project
Recent Gifts
Can You Provide Missing Issues?
Regional Medical Library Service: Partner to the Pacific Northwest
Last Cards Filed into HSLIC Catalog
Welcome to the Wider World of the Internet
Healthplan CD Arrives
New Serials Titles Added, March/April 1991
New Current Bibliographies in Medicine
Loansome Doc: Online Document Ordering Service
Guides for the Grant Writer
How Do We Rank?

Update on Serials Cancellation Project

by Janet Schnall, Chair of the Serials Review Committee

As part of the UW Libraries Serials Contingency Cancellation Project, HSLIC is presently reviewing approximately 175 serials as likely candidates for cancellation. Library liaisons have consulted with Collection Development Advisors (faculty representatives from each Health Sciences department) about the titles.

HSLIC's Serials Review Committee will review the titles, taking into consideration librarian liaison opinions, faculty input, and the degree to which the title supports the teaching, clinical, and research programs in the health sciences. A final list of titles proposed for cancellation will be available at the end of May.

For more information about serials cancellations, please contact your library liaison or Janet Schnall at 543-7474 or schnall@u.washington

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Recent Gifts

Acknowledgment and appreciation is extended to the following individuals and departments who have recently donated materials to the Library:

Mrs. Glena Blackman; Dr. Darlene M. Chan; Mr. Halvor N. Christensen; Mr. Carl N. Ekman, Jr.; Dr. Loren H. Engrav; Dr. Sherrilynne Fuller; Dr. Eli Gold; Dr. Rodger C. Haggitt; Mr. Blake Marcus Harrison; Mrs. Jane Jones; Dr. Nancy Niles; Dr. John Olerud; Ms. Mary Reid; Dr. Loren C. Winterscheid; Biological Structure; Department of Dermatology; Eastside Endometriosis; Department of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Nutrition; Division of Nephrology; Department of Ophthalmology; Department of Pathology.

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Can You Provide Missing Issues?

The following journal issues are needed to fill gaps in the HSLIC serials collection. If you have copies of any of these publications to donate, please call Colleen Weum, 543-3439.

AORN, v.48:n.1(1988).

Acta paedopsychiatrica, v.51:n1-4(1988).

Critical reviews in immunology, v.6:n.3(1986).

Current problems in cardiology, v.14:n.3(1990).

Genetics, v.121:n.3(1989).

JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), v.264:n.23(1990); v.265:n.7,9,10,12(1991).

Journal of perinatal and neonatal nursing, v.1(1987).

Journal of periodontology, v.60:n.2,6(1989).

Oncogene, v.2:n.1(1987, v.3:n.1(1988), v.4(1989).

Orthopaedic review, v.18:n.10(1989).

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Regional Medical Library Service: Partner to the Pacific Northwest

by Neil Rambo, Associate Director of PNRHSLS

The Pacific Northwest Regional Health Sciences Library Service (PNRHSLS) differs significantly from the other library programs that have been highlighted in recent issues of Books & Bytes. First, we are not state-supported; we are under contract to the National Library of Medicine (NLM), one of the National Institutes of Health, to provide services to the Pacific Northwest in accordance with the national Regional Medical Library (RML) program. This points to our other major difference: we serve health sciences librarians and health professionals throughout Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington rather than the University of Washington community.

PNRHSLS is one of eight Regional Medical Library services in the U.S. The RML mission is to ensure that health professionals have timely access to information critical for patient care, research, and education. Services are provided through a nationwide network of approximately 3,600 medical center, hospital, and other health libraries. For over twenty years, the Regional Medical Library program has improved access to health sciences information resources by coordinating regional document delivery programs, promoting resource sharing among libraries, and supporting the use of online services. More recently, the program has targeted outreach services to underserved areas and populations.

This month (May 1991) marks the beginning of a new five-year contract between the UW and NLM to "reach out" to the health sciences librarians and health professionals of the Pacific Northwest. The program is managed by Neil Rambo, Associate Director, and Sherrilynne Fuller, Director of PNRHSLS and HSLIC.

Eve Ruff, Outreach Services Coordinator, is the staff member most visible to health professionals. She provides onsite consulting and training in electronic access to health information resources. This service was pioneered by PNRHSLS as a demonstration project three years ago and has proven so effective that it is now incorporated as a core element of our program, as well as other RMLs nationally.

Linda Milgrom, Regional Development Coordinator, is the resident hospital library development consultant. She advises librarians on potential funding sources for special projects and provides support in proposal development. Linda is also the region's online specialist, providing technical support and training to online searchers of NLM's bibliographic and factual databases.

Nancy Press, Resource Sharing Coordinator, has primary responsibility for the traditional backbone of the RML program: coordinating document delivery and resource sharing among the region's health sciences libraries. Nancy will coordinate regional implementation of Loansome Doc, which gives GRATEFUL MED searchers a document ordering capability that electronically links them to the journal holdings of libraries nationwide. Nancy is also the editor of the PNRHSLS newsletter, the Supplement.

Arbee Bolton, Program Assistant, and Roberta Allen, Secretary, support this team of librarians and keep the office functioning.

The PNRHSLS program under the new contract will sponsor occasional symposia on topics such as applications of technology in the delivery of health sciences information. The next few years also include plans for studies of information needs of health professionals as well as evaluations of information use.

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Last Cards Filed into HSLIC Catalog

by Lorraine Raymond, Collection Development and Catalog Librarian

The HSLIC card catalog was officially closed in January 1991, with the last cards actually filed on Friday, April 12, 1991. The last card added to the Author/Title Catalog was for NATO/FEBS Advanced Research Workshop on Evolutionary Tinkering in Gene Expression (1988 : Nisos Spetsai, Greece), QH 450 N38 1988; the last Subject Catalog card filed was for Jankelson, Robert, Neuromuscular dental diagnosis and treatment, WU 140 J325n 1990, filed under STOMATOGNATHIC DISEASES - THERAPY. Items cataloged in 1991 or later will appear only in the Online Catalog.

The card catalog is still helpful under certain conditions: to browse in a subject category or for individually cataloged numbers of a series; to see all forms of a personal or corporate author's work brought together in one place; to look for all UW Medical Honors Theses. It is also an alternative to the Online Catalog for locating all HSLIC items cataloged before 1991.

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Welcome to the Wider World of the Internet

by Terry Ann Jankowski, Information Retrieval and Management Librarian

If you already use campus electronic mail to communicate with your colleagues around the world, you can also access other libraries' online catalogs and databanks of information via the Internet.

The Internet is a collection of telecommunications networks which link together many academic, research, governmental and commercial institutions, providing a worldwide avenue for communication and information sharing. It supports electronic mail and also provides a gateway to the online public access catalogs of many universities.

To reach these other universities, log onto the UW mainframe on which you have established an email account (except the IBM 3090) and "telnet" out to the address of the catalog you want to reach. For example, to browse the catalog of the University of California system from Milton, at the first Milton prompt (%) type in telnet melvyl.ucop.edu. Follow the directions on screen to look at the catalog. Some universities also offer databanks such as Genbank via the Internet.

The UW Libraries, in collaboration with UW Computing & Communications, is developing documentation which will soon be available at public workstations to assist you in accessing library catalogs via the Internet. The working group is also planning to offer training sessions. Currently you can ask for more help at the public service desks at any campus library.

For additional information:
Raeder AW, Andrews KL. Searching library catalogs on the Internet: a survey. Database Searcher 1990 Sep; 6(7):16-31. St. George A, Larsen R. Internet-Accessible library catalogs & databases. (Available at Libraries' public services desks.)

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Healthplan CD Arrives

HealthPLAN-CD is the newest addition to the U-Search Center. This bibliographic file covers health care delivery, including the administration and planning of health care facilities, health insurance, financial management, licensure and accreditation, personnel management, staff, planning, quality assurance, health maintenance organizations. It includes references from 1975 to the present from Hospital Literature Index as well as additional citations provided by the National Library of Medicine, American Hospital Association, and the National Health Planning Information Center. It is updated quarterly.

HealthPLAN CD resides on, the computer which also houses MEDLINE on CD. It is available to our UW clientele either by reservation or on a space available basis.

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New Serials Titles Added, March/April 1991

Annual summary of vital statistics, Washington State, 1989--.
Reference Serial Stacks.

Arteriosclerosis and thrombosis, v.11(1991)--.

Canadian Association of Radiologists journal, v.37(1986)--.

Cell proliferation, v.24(1991)--.

Cleft palate-craniofacial journal, v.28(1991)--.

Fetal diagnosis and therapy, v.5(1990)--.

Integrative physiological and behavioral science, v.26(1991)--.

Mechanisms of development, v.33(1990/1991)--.

N I H extramural programs, 1980,1988--.
Reference Book Stacks: WA 20 N277n; earlier in Book Stacks.

Windows on computing, Latest 2 years only.
Teaching/Learning Center.

Workshop on vitamin D.
Book Stacks: see Online Catalog for individual call numbers.

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New Current Bibliographies in Medicine

The following additions to the National Library of Medicine's Current Bibliographies in Medicine series can be found in the Reference Serials stacks:

Diagnosis and Management of Asymptomatic Primary Hyperparathyroidism (90-11)
Prison Health Care (90-12)
Bovine Somatotropin (90-13)
Patient Education for Self-Care: the Role of Nurses (90-15)

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Loansome Doc: Online Document Ordering Service

by Elaine Martin, Associate Director for Education, Clinical, and Research Services

The Health Sciences Library is now accepting participants for its Loansome Doc Document Delivery Service. Loansome Doc is a new service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) which allows you to electronically order photocopies of documents identified through GRATEFUL MED.

Loansome Doc is available to any GRATEFUL MED user with an IBM PC or compatible; the system will not be available to Macintosh users until 1992. To use Loansome Doc, first run a GRATEFUL MED search, locating and selecting citations from MEDLINE (including its backfiles) or HEALTH; then tag the specific citations on the GRATEFUL MED screen for which you would like photocopies. GRATEFUL MED forwards your order with the tagged citations to your primary library for copying.

You may select the UW Health Sciences Library as your primary library. Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery staff will read Loansome Doc requests once a day, and requests will normally be filled within one working day. Articles can be delivered via campus mail, US mail, telefacsimile, or held for pick-up. Requests for items unavailable at HSLIC will either be returned to you unfilled or referred to another library as you specify.

You will be charged on-line rates for GRATEFUL MED connect time in addition to HSLIC's processing charges:

If filled by HSLIC:

$4.00 (UW budget)
$7.00 (Cash/credit card)

If filled by another DOCLINE library:

$10.00 (UW Budget)
$12.00 (Cash/Credit)
Fax surcharge: $3.00

You must pre-register in order to participate in HSLIC's Loansome Doc Document Delivery Service. When your signed registration form is received, you will be sent the identification number needed to initiate your Loansome Doc requests.

For more information about the HSLIC Loansome Doc service or to receive a registration form, please contact Mary Rainwater, 543-3441, or mrain@u. washington.edu.

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Guides for the Grant Writer

by Diana Hall, Research Funding Service Librarian

Grantseekers who are writing proposals to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or are considering foundation funding will find the following new reference books of interest.

Ogden, Thomas E., Research Proposals: A Guide to Success. University of Southern California School of Medicine (Raven Press), 1991. W20.5 O34r 1991.

Aimed at the young investigator, this book focuses on the writing and review of proposals for NIH's individual research project grants, known as R01s. Chapters discuss NIH application sections such as budget, biographical sketch, abstract and specific aims, preliminary data, experimental design and methods, and consultants. A convenient overview of NIH research programs by institute is appended, the original source of which is NIH Extramural Programs (WA20 N277n May 1988). The "Beginning Grantsmanship" section covers competing renewals, site visits, and resubmission of applications, while the "Advanced Grantsmanship" section summarizes NIH grants for institutional projects such as construction, research centers, training, instrumentation, and program projects. It also touches on the National Science Foundation as a funding source.

For another opinion, grantwriters may want to compare the discussions and advice in Ogden's book with those in Writing a Successful Grant Application by Liane Reif-Lehrer (W20.5 R361w 1989).

The Foundation Directory, Part 2: (Foundation Center, 1990.
AS 911 A2 F653 1991/1992).

This is a new biennial guide to the next-largest foundations ranking after the 7,600 major US foundations covered by its parent volume. Providing basic identifying information for over 4,000 mid-sized foundations with grant programs between $25,000 and $100,000, the entries often list examples of recently awarded grants that illustrate the foundations' giving interests.

Other Information Sources

Two other Foundation Center publications are on order for the reference collection: a new edition of the National Guide to Funding in Health (HG 174 N37 1988) and The Foundation Grants Index Quarterly, which updates the lists of grants recently awarded by major foundations found in the annual Foundation Grants Index (HV91 F68 1989).

Other information resources on grants are described in Getting to the Bottom Line: A Guide for Grantseekers in the Health Sciences at UW (W20.5 R224g 1990), compiled by UW's Research Funding Service (RFS). The RFS, a partnership of HSLIC and the School of Medicine, can assist UW grantseekers in locating sources of government, private, and corporate funding and answering grants questions. Directed by Dr. Janet Rasey, Professor of Radiation Oncology, and staffed by Keith Gormezano, Program Assistant, and Diana Hall, Librarian, RFS is located in HSLIC room T-311 and open 1-5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Please call 685-8036 for an appointment.

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How Do We Rank?

The newly released Annual Statistics of Medical School Libraries in the United States & Canada, 1989-1990, 13th ed., published by the Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors, shows that the UW Health Sciences Library has the largest primary client base among 23 peer institutions, with responsibility for serving 12,623 individuals in 1989/90. We rank third among our peers in the total number of faculty, staff, and student clients in health sciences programs (5,455), exceeded only by the University of North Carolina and the University of Minnesota. Among all 144 health sciences libraries surveyed in the US and Canada, our rank is fifth in total clients, and seventh in health sciences clients.

We rank fifth among our peers in expenditures for the collection, the majority of which ($730,956) was used to support serial purchases. A major commitment was made in this biennium to support the purchase of non-print materials and computer software, an area which was not funded prior to 1988.

HSLIC, along with most of its peers, showed a significant decrease in the number of online searches run for users. This reflects a major change in users' information seeking behavior from librarian-mediated searches to the use of locally mounted systems such as UW Reference Library and CD-ROM databases. HSLIC's 920 database searches rank 19th among our peer group and 99th nationwide.

Other Key HSLIC Data:

Services (N=144)	1989-1990 Total	UW Peer Rank (N=23)	National Rank

Collection Use	621,907	2	10
Photocopies Made	4,195,530	2	3
Reference Requests	42,356	12	39

Collection	1989-90 Total	UW Peer Rank (N=23)	National Rank

Books	87,396	5	28
Serial Titles	13,389	2	6
Current Subscriptions	4,111	6	16
Exit Count	390,434	7	16
Net Square Feet	60,950	8	30

We are happy to provide statistical information about HSLIC for grant applications, accreditation visits, or other purposes. Call Carolyn Weaver, Associate Director for Administration, at 543-3401 or via email to cweaver@u.washington.edu for current library statistics.

* The University of Washington Peer Group for HSLIC includes health sciences libraries of: University of Arizona; University of California-Davis; University of California-Irvine; UCLA; University of California-San Diego; University of Cincinnati; Cornell Medical College; University of Florida; University of Illinois-Chicago; University of Iowa; University of Kentucky; University of Michigan; University of Minnesota- Minneapolis; University of Missouri-Columbia; University of North Carolina; University of New Mexico; Ohio State University; University of Pittsburgh; Texas A&M University; University of Utah; University of Virginia; and University of Wisconsin.

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