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Books & Bytes

Volume 4, Number 2    October 1991

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

Table of Contents

  1. Consultation Service Provides Individual Research Assistance
  2. Bonaparte and Friends
  3. Document Delivery and Circulation Now Available at Combined Desk
  4. NLM Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation
  5. "Grant$ for Lunch"
  6. UW Cares Provides Late-Night Campus Escorts
  7. New Current Bibliographies in Medicine
  8. Serial Title Changes: September 1991
  9. Recent Gifts and Contributions to the Collections

Consultation Service Provides Individual Research Assistance

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

The Health Sciences Library's Consultation Service provides individualized assistance for UW faculty, staff, or students undertaking specific projects and publications. Consulting librarians have expertise in finding, organizing, and evaluating information. They will identify and assist you in using whatever sources are necessary for completion of a project, regardless of the format or location of the information. Consultation is available on the following topics:

There is no charge to students, residents or fellows for consultation. Faculty and staff may receive one free hour of consultation per topic or project. Following the first free hour, faculty and staff are charged $25 per hour plus direct costs (online connect time or materials as required.)

Individuals can also make arrangements for a specialized library class which meets their needs and schedule better than a consultation. A class fee of $25.00 per hour plus direct costs is charged for individuals or groups of less than five. If a group of five or more people request a specialized class, the fee is $50.00 per hour plus direct costs.

To request a consultation, call the Information Services Section at 543-3395. Attendance at a HSLIC Information Management Education (IME) class may be recommended prior to the consultation. Pick up HSLIC Fact Sheet #8 for a description of IME classes.

Contact Elaine Martin at 543-3408 or via email to mickey@u.washington.edu for more information about the Consultation Service.

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Bonaparte and Friends

Bonaparte, the Library's newly named skeleton, is one of several anatomical models available in the Teaching Learning Center. Other models include: human brain with arteries, cartilage of the larynx, spinal cord with spinal canal, spinal column (bones), and a box of bones. Models can be checked out for use in the TLC; or faculty members can arrange to check out a model for classroom use. For more information, contact Leilani St. Anna, TLC Coordinator, at 685-3125 or by email to lstanna@u.washington.edu.

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Document Delivery and Circulation Now Available at Combined Service Desk

In an ongoing effort to improve user access to library services, the Circulation and Document Delivery/Photocopy Desks were united in mid-September to create a single service point for both operations at the former Circulation Desk. This is the first step in a long-range plan to make most information and access services, including ready reference, available from a central location.

Circulation services (borrower registration, check-out and return of materials, holds, renewals, searches for missing items, study room reservations, serials holdings information, directions, etc.) are provided from the north end of the desk. All services formerly obtained at the Photocopy Office are now available from the opposite end of the desk: Pull and Copy services, staff-mediated copying, Copicard and computer disk sales, change for phones and copiers, online search printout distribution, and public fax services.

The elimination of the separate Photocopy Desk resulted in minor rearrangements of ancillary services as well. A new staff work area was created immediately adjacent to the front entrance; the information kiosk was moved; the Suggestion Box and pencil sharpener are now located on top of the Free Books Shelf; and the paging phone at the Circulation Desk is being relocated to the north wall in the U-Search Center.

Since the combined service location is being tried on an experimental basis, user feedback is needed. Please let us know your reactions through the Suggestion Box, or contact Elaine Martin at 543-3409 or Mickey@u.washington.edu.

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NLM Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation

by Janet Schnall, Information Services Librarian

As an author, do you need assistance in formatting lists of references for publication? As an editor, do you need help in revising references? A new publication, available in the Reference Collection, National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation, can help you in these areas.

This publication provides instructions for formatting citations to fourteen different types of published and unpublished material, ranging from journal articles and books to the newer electronic formats such as CD-ROM, online databases, and electronic bulletin boards. It also includes the National Library of Medicine's rules for the structure of citations for journals in Index Medicus and MEDLINE.

For each type of material covered, this publication shows what bibliographic elements (author, title, etc.) are required, what order or sequence these elements should follow, and what punctuation should be used within the elements and to separate them. Many examples taken from the biomedical literature are provided to show application of the recommendations, and sample diagrams are given to fully illustrate the formatted citations.

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"Grant$ for Lunch"

by Diana Hall, Research Funding Service Librarian

The second session of "Grant$ for Lunch," a discussion series for grantseekers in the health sciences sponsored by the Research Funding Service (RFS), will be offered Monday, October 28, from noon to 1:00 pm in Conference Rooms B and C of the Plaza Cafe, UW Medical Center. This informal discussion on "Common Elements of Successful Grants in Different Fields" will be led by Nicolette Roberge, a Program Coordinator in Physiological Nursing, whose grantwriting experience is broadly based. No registration is necessary. The final session of the Autumn Quarter series, still in the planning, will be held November 25. For further information call RFS at 685-8036.

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UW Cares Provides Late-Night Campus Escorts

All UW faculty, staff, and students can now use the UW Cares campus escort service for safe evening travel from South Campus to other locations on campus. The service is available Sunday through Thursday, 5:30 pm - 12:30 am. Call 685-WALK to meet a two-person escort at the T-Wing 4th floor or Hitchcock Hall overpasses. Escort service is available to upper campus, residence halls, fraternities and sororities, and the Montlake parking lots. There is no service on university holidays, the Sunday before a Monday holiday, during finals or quarter breaks.

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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:

Adverse Effects of Aspartame (90-14)
Blood Substitutes (90-16)
Hospital Technology Assessment (90-17)
Gastrointestinal Surgery for Severe Obesity (90-18)
Human-Pet Relationships (90-19)
Laboratory Animal Welfare (91-1)
Therapy-Related Second Cancers (91-2)
Nutrition and AIDS (91-3)
Medical Waste Disposal (91-4)

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New Serials Titles Added, September, 1991

Drug abuse and drug abuse research, 1991.

Hospital prices and rates, 1987.
Reference Book Stacks: W2 AW2H818.

Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia,v.5(1991)--.

Membership directory / American College of Physicians,1988--.
Reference Book Stacks: W22 AA1 Am512m; earlier in Book Stacks.

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archiv fur experimentelle pathologie und pharmakologie, v.110(1925)-v.253(1966).

Physician's drug handbook, 1991--.
Reference Book Stacks: QV 39 P578; earlier in Book Stacks.

Program / proceedings. Annual meeting of the American Society of Clincial Oncology, v.10(1991)--.

Receptor nomenclature supplement, 1991.

Review of medical physiology, 15th(1991)--.
Book Stacks: W1 RE253ER.

Scandinavian journal of plastic and reconstructive surgery and hand surgery. Supplementum, n.21(1990)--.

Washington state health report, 1990--.
Book Stacks: W1 WA685T.

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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:

Dr. Charles E. Alpers; Ms. Charlotte Bansmer; Dr. Lynn R. Brady; Dr. Peter H. Byers; Dr. Douglas M. Coldwell; Dr. Carolyn H. Enloe; Dr. Philip J. Fialkow; Dr. Hjordis M. Foy; Dr. Wilfred Fujimoto; Dr. Sherrilynne Fuller; Dr. John A. H. Lee; Dr. Gene W. Mason; Dr. Arno Motulsky; Professor Masami Muramatsu; Mr. Carlos Priestly; Dr. Marion H. Rose; Dr. Douglas C. Schaad; Ms. Marilyn Trudau; Community Health Care Systems - Nursing; Department of Gastroenterology; National Library of Medicine; Nursing Education Library, Harborview; Department of Pharmaceutics; Virginia Mason Hospital.

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