NEW HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS ADDED
ROWLAND PROFILE
RETURN BOOKS, PAY FINES TO GRADUATE
FRIENDS NEWS
UMC HOSTS ACCREDITATION TELECONFERENCE
LIBRARY ANNOUNCES NEW ACCOUNTING AND INVOICING SYSTEM
DATABASE SEARCH NOTE: CINAHL LIMIT FEATURES
GUIDELINES FOR SEARCHING THE ONLINE CATALOG
LIBRARY EXPANDS ELECTRONIC SOURCES
The library has acquired two new historical microfiche collections to aid in research covering the history of pharmacy in the United States, and health care practices in the 1970s.
Primary Sources for the History of Pharmacy in the United States contains 85 titles on 396 microfiche, covering the Colonial Period to 1940. This project was supported by the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy. It traces the history of pharmacy as a science and a profession in the United States. These titles cover the entire spectrum of pharmaceutical literature including laws, lectures, textbooks, drug and equipment catalogs, formula books, antiquarian and scholarly materials, and botanical and herbal materials.
This collection is an excellent resource for teaching and research in allied health science programs, nursing or medicine. A printed guide is available in the Microforms Room to assist in locating specific titles by author or title.
Health Care, 1970-1978 is an authoritative collection of 822 titles on 3044 microfiche, designed for the health care professional. This collection of selected studies and reports gives a comprehensive view of health care during that time, and also includes some important materials from the late 1960s. There are 480 additional titles on 1026 microfiche, Health Care, 1979 and Health Care, 1980 which constitute updates for those two years. Health Care puts previously difficult-to-acquire government documents, government-sponsored studies, and studies by private agencies into one comprehensive, accessible collection of full-text documents. Information can be obtained in health-related areas such as public health, hospital administration, nursing, allied health sciences, social work, medicine, and public planning.
Topics include genetics, OSHA, abortion, malpractice, national health insurance, research methods, drug dependency, and many other pertinent areas.
Titles were gathered from three major repositories of health care literature, covering the following areas:
The printed guide arranges titles into 16 broad health categories and then enumerates them within each category. Indexes are also included for main entry, title and subjects.
Both collections are housed in the Microform Room on the first floor of the library.
- C. Machado
Jane E. Borland has been appointed to the network services division of Rowland Medical Library and joins the faculty as assistant professor academic information services. She is project coordinator for Mississippi Health Sciences Information Network (MisHIN), the statewide electronic infrastructure for health sciences information.
A graduate of the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, with a BA in English, she has the MA in library science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Prior to her appointment at UMC, Borland was Southeast Clinical Campus librarian at the University of North Dakota in Fargo.
Active in professional organizations, she is a past president of the Valley Medical Network. She has been a member of the Medical Library Association since 1986 and is a senior member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, having received her recertification in March 1995. In 1992, she received the Medical Library Association Hospital Libraries Section award for technical innovation.
Candidates for degrees may not participate in commencement on May 25 if they have outstanding fines, fees or overdue library materials. Materials must be returned to the library no later than May 10. This date gives adequate time for the circulation department to clear each student's record with the registrar and student accounting. Materials must be returned and fines paid before a diploma will be released. Names of students with outstanding library obligations after May 10 will be submitted to the registrar's office.
Residents and interns are reminded to return overdue library materials and pay fines by June 14 in order to clear their records. Accumulated fees of $75 or more result in suspension of circulation privileges until paid. Fines continue to accrue until the item is returned and checked in. Fees for lost items include the price of the item plus a $20 processing fee and any fine, if applicable. Any unpaid fines or fees will be deducted from the resident's final pay check. Certificates will be withheld if records are not cleared prior to the June 14 deadline.
A general reminder to all students: Only students enrolled in classes for the summer are granted circulation privileges, and fines will continue to accrue for all unreturned items. If there are any questions, please contact the circulation department at 1230.
- S. Maisel
Dear Friends,
This is an exciting time for Friends. In this, our third year, Friends has emerged as a viable force in support of the library. The observance of National Library Week marks the "kick-off" of our yearly membership drive. The Friends year begins July l and ends June 30. This year Friends will again be sponsoring the Dean Billy S. Guyton History of Medicine Lecture. The speaker will be Dr. Philip Teigen, Deputy Chief, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine. His topic will be: "The History of Medicine by Computer." I can assure you this will be a fascinating and challenging lecture. Dr. Teigen's address will be presented on April 17 in the Oglevee nursing auditorium at 12 noon, with free box lunches provided. Thomas Carlyle said, "The true university is a collection of books." Just as a university is judged by its books, we may be judged by our use of those books. As members of Friends, our goal is to promote the aims and availability of the library. Just as our university is a collection of books, our library is a multifaceted-resource rather than just a building. No longer does one have to physically go to the library, one can now access the vast resources of the library via a computer at home or in the office. Every book, journal and video owned by Rowland Memorial Library is available through the online catalog. Journal articles and other health information sources can be accessed through one of 12 online databases. Carlyle's words are as true today as they were in the 1800s, i.e., "All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as magic preserved in the pages of books." Even in the computer age, the true university is still a collection of books!
During National Library Week ( April 14 - 20 ) Friends will be taking orders for the History of UMC and Medicine In Mississippi video presented by Dr. David Sansing. A tremendous amount of interest has been expressed for this very special historical account of our Medical Center presented at last year's History of Medicine Lecture. This will continue to be an exclusive offering of Friends.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the officers and members of Friends who have given generously of their time and efforts on behalf of our organization. This is truly an organization of friends. Come join us! Celebrate National Library Week with Friends, with refreshments, T-shirts, prizes, and fun for all. And remember,
BE A FRIEND!
Sincerely,
Robert E. Lewis, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology
President, Friends
"The Role of the Library in Accreditation," a satellite teleconference sponsored by the Medical Library Association was presented at Rowland Medical Library March 13. UMC was one of two downlink sites in Mississippi to offer the conference for librarians in the area who work in health sciences libraries. The second site was the VA Medical Center in Biloxi. Christiane Jones, chief of library services at the VA in Biloxi, served as one of the program presenters.
The purpose of the MLA teleconference is to give librarians insights into how to use the accreditation process as an opportunity to showcase the library and to participate as members of the accreditation self study team. It is particularly helpful to those who want to know more about the new information management standards of the JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation for Health Care Organizations) accreditation process. Its presentation coincided with the University Medical Center's JCAHO and LCME self studies, in progress.
"This program offered a unique opportunity for us to interact with key people from the major health sciences accreditation agencies as well as information professionals from hospitals and academic medical centers who have recently participated in these accreditation procedures," said RML's director, Ada M. Seltzer. "Through this interaction, library faculty involved in the Medical Center's self studies were able to acquire a greater understanding of the process and enhance their individual roles." Representatives from health sciences libraries in Mississippi and Louisiana participated in the teleconferences at the UMC and Biloxi downlink sites.
Installation of the new 4.1 version of the library's integrated system, Horizon, initiated a complete accounting and invoicing system. Individuals and libraries can now receive itemized and numbered invoices for services rendered by the library staff.
Numbered invoices have long been requested by the large libraries that use the interlibrary loan services. In the past, audit procedures required payment vouchers to list all loan transaction numbers identifying each item included in the remittance. The new Horizon system allows borrowing libraries to send payments using an invoice number only instead of having to send an itemized list of transactions. The system permits printing invoices "on- demand" so that they can be mailed with the requested loan materials.
The "on-demand" feature also makes it possible for the circulation department to print invoices of current outstanding library fines or fees when the record is requested. This is particularly helpful when a person is leaving the Medical Center and needs to clear an account. Lists of individuals who owe fines and fees and those with both checked out and overdue library materials can be compiled. This information is important to have at the end of each semester, quarter, and at graduation time. It is also needed when the library sends its quarterly notices of outstanding fees and fines.
All payments are recorded individually. The Horizon system maintains a record of the time, date, and amount of each transaction. Check numbers can be entered into the payment record, as well. Fee codes have been developed so that the library is able to identify specific types of services, such as current awareness, database searches, photocopy service, and interlibrary loan. The program also has a print receipt capability, however a special receipt printer is needed for that function.
Using the new system, the library can track almost any question concerning the payment of a fine or fee. The information is retained for several years, allowing for verification and troubleshooting of most patron questions.
- V. Segrest
There are several unique search features for the CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) database on RoMeO's online system to assist researchers to refine their literature search retrieval results. These include limiting to pregnancy, fetus, research articles and articles in peer reviewed journals. These features are provided through the limit search option (F4).
The pregnancy option is included in the Age Group category originally listed on the main limit screen. Users select these options by pressing the space bar to highlight them. Retrieved articles have the subject focus of pregnancy or pregnancy complications. This search option is an alternative technique to exploding the "pregnancy" or "pregnancy complications" subject terms. This feature retrieves articles about either the mother or the fetus.
To locate articles with a focus on the mother, searchers should also select the term female from the main limit screen and adult (or adolescence, if appropriate) from the age screen AFTER the search has been limited to pregnancy. When limiting to articles about the fetus, the term is selected from the Age Group screen. It is important to note that the subject focus for limiting to fetus is more narrow than pregnancy. All articles retrieved will be only about the fetus and its development.
CINAHL is the only RoMeO database which allows the searcher to limit retrieval to research articles. These articles report findings of studies using the scientific method and include data, methodologies and results. To limit a search to research, users select Publication Types listed on the main limit menu. The next screen provides an alphabetical list of publication types. Searchers must browse through several screens to find and then select the term "research."
Searchers accessing the CINAHL database on commercial systems have been able to limit their retrieval to peer reviewed journals since 1992. It is now provided on RoMeO. This option is engaged by first selecting the Journal Subsets screen. Users should select "Peer Reviewed Journals" to retrieve articles published in these journals. There is a list of peer reviewed journals included in the CINAHL database published in the Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) Database Search Guide located next to public terminal #1 in the library's reference area. A copy of the list is also available at the reference desk.
Users are reminded to mark SOURCE when selecting the fields for printing or downloading in order to capture the complete citation needed to locate articles in the library journal stacks. SOURCE has replaced JOURNAL on the list of fields for printing.
- R. Jesano
RoMeO's new integrated library system provides two types of indexes for searching: alphabetical and keyword. There are alphabetical and keyword indexes for title, author, and subject fields of the bibliographic record.
ALPHABETIC
The title alphabetic index retrieves the title of books or journals in direct word order, using all inclusive words such as 'and' or 'of' or 'the'. Author and subject alphabetic files retrieve names and subjects as they appear on the record of the cataloged item. When using the alphabetic indexes, part of a word may be entered as the last word in the search string, or the first initial for an author's name.
Examples:
| Title alphabetic | = | journal of hospital d |
| = | anatomy and phys | |
| Subject alphabetic | = | history of med |
| = | attitude to death | |
| Author alphabetic | = | guyton a |
| = | smith rob |
The system processes the string of words in the order listed, searching first for the initial word, then the second, and so on.
KEYWORD
A keyword search retrieves words anywhere within the title, author or subject field and some note areas as well. This is an efficient way to search corporate or conference names. The keyword indexes require entering complete words or using a truncation character (*). Words may be truncated at the end to retrieve variant word forms such as plurals, adjectives, etc. For example, when searching for the words cardiology, cardiologist or cardiographic, the appropriate keyword is: = ENTER: cardio*. The character may be used when searching variant spellings of words such as: gynecology or gynaecology = ENTER: = gyn*cology. This retrieves both spellings of that word. Another example would be: color or colour = ENTER: col*r. When designing a keyword search, articles like 'or', 'and', 'the', 'of', etc. should be omitted.
HINT
Keyword searching is the best way to retrieve journal titles. Users should enter two or three main words within the title of the journal. This retrieves multiple titles which are displayed in a list. The desired title can then be selected from the list.
If too many titles are retrieved, select the RESUME button to include the entire set, then click on the SORT button, and finally the TITLE button. This procedure alphabetizes the list and facilitates scrolling and identification of the title needed.
SERIES TITLES
The Series Title search index is useful in retrieving items quickly whenever the title of the series and the specific volume or number of the item in that series is known. After entering the title, press the OK button, then, select the title from the list. If there are more than 30 titles, click on the RESUME button at the top of the screen to include the total number of titles retrieved. Selecting the "LIMIT" button, displays a screen which provides options to narrow the search results. Scroll down and click on the Series tags with volume button. Be sure to press the CONTAINS button at the bottom left of the screen. In the limit text box, enter the volume number from the citation in hand, putting the truncation character (*) before and after the data. (Example: *629*). This should retrieve the specific item being searched: if it is in the collection. More search hints will be highlighted in SOURCE as the system is updated and new search options become available. Users may request assistance at the Reference Desk.
- C. Machado
Three new CD-ROM databases have been added to the RML Collection. This brings the number of electronic holdings to a total of 28 titles. Accessible at workstations in the reference area, two of the three sources described below provide full text information. Numerous record fields are available to serve as search access points in the databases, permitting rapid and efficient retrieval of documents through multiple search strategies. By enhancing identification and retrieval of relevant information, these databases offer time savings and immediate delivery of text at the point of service.
CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
Clinical Pharmacology is a comprehensive electronic reference and teaching guide to approximately 2000 of the most common and classic drugs in current use. Included are 632 comprehensive descriptions, 109 new drugs, 298 combination drugs, 434 less common drugs, 449 intravenous products, plus 1068 references.
Updated quarterly, the program offers effective interactions among its different features. Users can navigate through the system to generate information on groups of drugs based on their indications, contraindications, drug interactions, adverse reactions, product identifications, etc. Drug category overviews and other information, including chemical structures and color images of frequently-used dosage forms, can be retrieved. Users can develop patient record simulations as case studies.
Physicians, pharmacists, dentists, nurses, academic instructors, medical students, and people interested in health care can benefit by using this program.
INDEX TO SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL PROCEEDINGS
Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP) is an index to published literature from significant scientific and technological conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, and workshops. ISTP covers primary publications (first time to be published) only, in which the proceedings are published as complete papers. Abstracts are not indexed. The proceedings are international in scope and in all languages. Sources include books produced by the sponsoring societies, reports, journals, and preprints when they are the only publication from a conference. The proceedings index is updated quarterly and covers the last five years on a rolling basis. With each quarterly update, over 1100 conferences are added. For a citation of a paper published by a particular conference, or for conference information such as date, location, sponsors, and addresses, ISTP is a good place to begin searching. It is a menu driven index that is "user friendly." Some of the fields that can be searched are language, paper title, sponsor, source, category, and addresses, as well as subsets within the fields. To aid the user each field has an online dictionary of searchable terms. Results may be printed or saved to a floppy disc.
MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT, 1993-1994
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) is the leading publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Report provides statistical data and other current information on public health topics such as chronic diseases, immunization, injury prevention and control, occupational diseases, emerging infectious diseases, and environmental health.
The database provides full text documents published during 1993-1994 which can be accessed in several ways: by title, by date, or by searching for specific key words or phrases. The main menu offers four options: MMWR (Weekly), which provides access to individual issues; MMWR Recommendations and Reports, which displays policy statements concerning prevention and treatment; CDC Surveillance Summaries, which covers trends and patterns based on surveillance data; and Other Documents, which includes other important CDC publications.
- A. Haaland
- J. A. King
- G. Yang