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From: "Oliver Obst" <obsto@uni-muenster.de>
To: medibib-l
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 09:05:32 +0100
Subject: Medlib-Digest Teil 1 + 15.3.-3.4.
Liebe Medibibler!
Frisch aus dem Urlaub noch mit den wohlwollenden Echos der Schweizer
Gastfreundschaft und Bergwelt im Ohr geht's wieder ans Werk! Den
Digest, nicht nur aus Medlib-l, habe ich zwecks Lesbarkeit in zwei
Happen aufgeteilt. Ach so: Der 8th International Congress on Medical
Librarianship findet nun doch schon am July 2nd - 5th, 2000, also
eine Woche frueher als geplant statt (die American Bar Assoc. kam
mit 16.000 Delegate dazwischen). Konferenzort ist das Queen Elizabeth
II Conference Centre, London. Andere Organisationen sind herzlich
eingeladen, in diesem Rahmen paralell zu tagen.
Freundliche Gruesse,
Oliver Obst
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1 American Association for Clinical Chemistry web site
2 Pharmasave Healthnotes
3 Healthnet
4 Ocular Surgery News
5 FAO News
6 Medical Journals Online
7 NLM Implementation of USMARC
8 Public Health Nutrition Discussion and Information Group
9 Nutrition Resource Bull.
10 Public Health Nutrition Discussion and Information Group
11 how to get appropriate input from faculty when making collections
decisions
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:05:36 GMT
From: "Ian Winship, Univ Northumbria Info Services" <ian.winship@unn.ac.uk>
To: LIS-MEDICAL@MAILBASE.AC.UK, lis-scitech@MAILBASE.AC.UK
I've just come across reference to the American Association for Clinical
Chemistry web site at
http://www.aacc.org
which has details of activities, publications etc.
Its not on the BUBL tree or OMNI so it must be new.
Ian Winship
University of Northumbria
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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 13:44:23 +0100
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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 10:21:27 -0600
From: berit@cochran.com
Pharmasave Healthnotes
http://www.pharm.com/pharmasave
Visit this site for health and drug information. It features an online
version of Pharmasave Healthnotes (a bi-monthly newsletter with practical
information from pharmacists), FAQ's answered by pharmacists, links to
other consumer-oriented health sites, and a directory of Pharmasave
drugstore locations across Canada.
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HealthNet Connection
HealthNet Connection provides a library of information on
healthcare, managed care, healthcare policy and healthcare
resources. HealthNet Connection is solely sponsored by Blue
Cross & Blue Shield United Of Wisconsin for healthcare
policy makers, decision makers and the general public. URL:
http://www.healthnetconnect.net This site is contains
Netscape 2.0 extensions without an alternative set of
pages. Submitted By: Mark Adsit
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Ocular Surgery News International Edition
OCULAR SURGERY NEWS International Edition carries the
latest clinical news for ophthalmologists worldwide, plus
Web features such as discussion groups and an extensive
Internet directory. URL:
http://www.slackinc.com/eye/osni/osnihome.htm This site is
is friendly to all browsers. Submitted By: Brian Pomeroy
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has
made available several searchable databases containing extensive
agricultural data from many countries. Called the FAOSTAT Database, data
is provided for production, trade, commodity supply and demand balances,
population, land use, and fisheries. Users can select geographical areas,
commodities or products, variables relating to those commodities or
products, and an annual time series ranging from as early as 1961 to as
late as 1995, depending on the series. Results can be downloaded as text
tables, bar or line graphs with user definable axes, or CSV file format --
text with comma separated values for easy import into spreadsheet or other
statistical applications. It is important to carefully read the help files
that accompany each database in order to fully exploit the searching
system. The FAOSTAT Databases give the user access to an amazing amount of
country data. Note that these databases are forms based. Each is a work in
progress. http://apps.fao.org/lim500/agri_db.pl For more information on
FAO's World Agricultural Information Center (WAICENT), which provides these
databases as well as other information collections:
http://www.fao.org/waicent/waicent.htm
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 12:54:01 GMT
From: Pabst Science Publishers <pabst@WWW.HSP.DE>
Subject: Medical Journals Online
Croatian Medical Journal, Zeitung fuer Anaesthesie und
Intensivmedizin
Pabst Science Publishers announces the Internet publication of:
Transplantationsmedizin (Official organ of the German
Transplantation
Society, English abstracts)
Psychologische Beitraege (Quarterly on all fields of psychology,
English abstracts)
Croatian Medical Journal (Quarterly on Medicine in Croatia etc)
(English abstracts)
Coming soon: Zeitung fuer Anaesthesie und Intensivmedizin
(Abstracts in English and German)
Please check out our site http://www.hsp.de/pabst/
Suggestions and comments are welcome!
Susanne Schultz Tel/Fax: +49-211-465357
(Internet Assistant of PSP)
Email: schultz@hsp.de (Webadmin) or pabst@hsp.de (Publisher)
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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:18:00 EST
From: Marti_Scheel@OCCSHOST.NLM.NIH.GOV
Subject: <No subject given>
NLM Implementation
of
USMARC Bibliographic Format Integration
Phase 2
This message is a slightly revised version of an article
intended for the January - February 1996 issue of the NLM
Technical Bulletin. It is primarily of interest to users of NLM
bibliographic records as found in bibliographic utilities
such as OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) and RLIN (Research
Libraries Information Network) and other library services
agencies. Bibliographic records found in the NLM ELHILL files
(e.g. CATLINE and AVLINE) are not affected.
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Message forwarded by
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Subject: Food and Nutrition URLs and Nutrition Resource E-zine
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Nutrition Resources Bulletin (NRB) features information about new books,
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49.2 DISCUSSION: GETTING FACULTY INPUT
From: Elaine Deluney, Health Sciences Library
Memorial University of Newfoundland <eduffie@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Suggestion for BLAB survey: something which we are always
grappling with here is the question of how to get appropriate
input from faculty when making collections decisions, how to stay
in touch with what's happening with of faculty and their needs,
etc. when making collection development decisions and buying
materials. I'd be interested in finding out about the strategies
of others in health libraries.
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From: Linda Hulbert, St. Louis University Medical Center Library
<HULBERTLA@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU>
We get input from our faculty by two usual ways. We have an
approval plan and a list of interested faculty members - roughly
representing each department. They are named to be liaisons by
their chair. Some people are marvelously reliable about coming
in; some less so. But it is one avenue. We also have request
forms hanging around and are about to include an interactive form
on our Website for our domain folks. I give a response to each
request so I think people know we take their requests seriously.
We are about to get representatives on all of our curriculum
committees in hopes of getting some advanced information for new
programs. Hasn't happened yet, but so far all of the deans have
thought it's a fine idea. I'll keep you posted.
PS:
We have loaded our Resource Identification Manual (AKA collection
development manual) to our website. I have included electronic
resources. I hope everyone will take a look - I'd love to hear
how useful it is and whether we've covered the ground. I'll bring
you in through the University's page cuz I think it is very
pretty. http://www.slu.edu Click on libraries/ then on health
sciences I look forward to comments - both positive and negative.
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From: Constance Rinaldo, Dartmouth College
<Constance.Rinaldo@Dartmouth.EDU>
One thing we did to better include faculty in collection decisions
was to formalize a "Librarian Liaison Program" and roll it out
with fanfare. One of the charges for these librarians in their
departmental liaison role is to get to know the faculty and
curriculum and in this way understand the implications
for the collection. We are also working on assessments of the
serials and monograph collections that are subject based and
require consultation with faculty. I have copies of documents we
have written to articulate the goals of the liaison program if
anyone is interested.
It seems that there are always a few faculty members that have
strong interests in and knowledge about particular subject areas.
The important thing is to maintain a broad subject view by getting
to know the literature, talking to many users, and understanding
the curriculum so a narrow interest doesn't prevail because there
is one vocal faculty member.
We maintain ties with departments by attending departmental
meetings, being on mailing lists for newsletters and other
functions, attending seminars and PhD defenses, grand rounds
informational meetings, and lots of other things. Regular meetings
with faculty (even if they are infrequent) are also important.
These can be individual or group meetings. The more visible the
librarians, the more comfortable people seem to be in making
suggestions.
We also publish a newsletter (paper and electronic) and frequently
request help from faculty on collection issues in these formats.
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From: Judy Rieke, Univ. of North Dakota
<AUJZR%UNDJES2.BITNET@VM1.NoDak.EDU>
Our library recently revived a system of faculty/librarian
liaisons. We asked all dept. chairs to assign a liaison from
their dept to the library. Then our librarians divided up the
departments that they wanted to contact. Each has 5 or 6. The
librarians are responsible for informing them of new publications
plus other things happening, esp journal cuts or new electronic
products.
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From: Melissa Nasea, East Carolina Univ.
<melnas@hsl.hsl.ecu.edu>
I do collection development for journals. Other than Journal
Request Forms I do not have any special methods of getting input
from faculty.
When we do a journal cancellation project, we include only those
titles with comparatively low use in our database. I code each
title for the one or two departments or schools that I think would
be particularly interested in the title. I then send each
department (and the 11 subdepartments in the Department of
Internal Medicine) a list tailored to their department, a list for
their school, and the complete list. Each department (not faculty
member) is asked to rank the journals as to importance. (They can
rank the department list from 1 essential to 4 not relevant. They
can rank the school and complete lists only 1 or 2. This prevents
Anatomy from ranking Criminal Justice titles as 4 or vice versa.)