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MDMLG NewsVolume 26 number 4
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Beth Salzwedel, Editor A text-only version of this newsletter is available at http://sladen.hfhs.org/mdmlg/members/v26no4-text-only.htm Table of ContentsWomen's Health Web Sites Women's Health Web SitesWomen’s health web sites are proliferating at a great rate, but here are several which seem to merit your attention if you have not yet discovered them. The Women’s Health Project site is located at http://www.whealth.org/ . This presents information about a touring exhibition of women’s health information. The nearest location for us is in Chicago in 2002, but you can see some of the information online. Some interactive exhibits may help your patrons understand some aspects of women’s health issues. The site also includes a number of links of interest to women’s health. Government information resources about women’s issues are available at http://www.4woman.gov/owh/ . Very helpful features are the "daily news" (Reuters) and the press releases from HHS. Occasionally our patrons are looking for information on something they "heard on the news" yesterday, or last week. This is one place where you might find further information to help them. Other features you may find helpful include women’s health-related legislation in the Congress. And for your library marketing you may wish to consider federal health observances or women’s health related observances. Both of these are available here. Canadian Women’s Health Network http://www.cwhn.ca/indexeng.html has a good listing of "what’s hot" in women’s health topics. This link is to the English site, but of course you can also read it in French if you wish. Then you would be looking for "sujets brulants"! Centre for Research in Women’s Health in Toronto - http://www.crwh.org. This Centre has just added a new website http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca/ . This has links to current news e.g., a new study about the increased risk for breast cancer from second hand smoke and health information and issues. Of course the Michigan Electronic Library http://melweb.mlcnet.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=305&pathid=1104 has a number of well chosen links as well. I imagine that most of you are very familiar with this resource. Perhaps some of you would like to suggest other women’s health URL’s which you have found helpful. Please feel free to submit them for the newsletter. Maureen W. LeLacheur
Sinai-Grace Experience ArielWithin the Detroit Medical Center, an LSTA grant provided the monies to purchase five Epic 3000 scanners and Compaq Pentiums with HP LaserJet 6 printers for the five DMC's libraries at Children's, Hutzel, Harper, Detroit Receiving and Sinai Hospital. The four libraries downtown have been using the scanners with Ariel since July, 1999. When the Medical Library at Sinai Hospital relocated to Grace and became Sinai-Grace Hospital, our new scanner was moved to Grace. In September, we began sending articles via Ariel to the hospitals downtown. Within minutes of receiving the document requests from DOCLINE, articles are routed to the libraries and begin printing. We, at Sinai-Grace, are using Ariel and our Intraweb to connect to DMC hospital libraries by way of the Internet. We found that it’s immensely helpful on days when patient care requests0. make it imperative for the article to be obtained quickly. The Ariel process begins with the article being scanned at lending library and through a FTP file is transferred to requestor’s printers which prints out the article immediately. If there are problems in the transmission, the article is saved to the requestor’s screen, which enables them to retrieve the missing pages or see the article in its entirety. Ariel was developed by Research Libraries Group and between October 1990 and November 1991. Six RLG libraries, University of Pennsylvania, Colorado State, Dartmouth College, University of Michigan, University of California at Berkley and the University of California at Davis were beta test sites. Following testing, the production version of the software was released in the fall of 1991. Using Ariel for document delivery has had many major advantages. Pre-copying can be eliminated, transmission is faster than a fax machine, long distance phone calls are eliminated and it saves time because the staff is not mailing interdepartmental mail which can usually be delayed within the system for about two days. Ariel has improved our interlibrary loan turn-around time among DMC libraries to less than 24 hours.
Laura Lewis
Searching For The AnswerSearching for the answer. Six months at D’Arcy and the maze is beginning to make sense to me. D’Arcy, Masius, Benton & Bowles, the Michigan office handles advertising for GM Pontiac, Cadillac, Dow Automotive, Oakwood Hospital, GM Parts, Ryder, Kowalski. National accounts include Proctor & Gamble, Coke, Mars/MM plus an increasing number of dotcoms. For a healthcare librarian, having hung out in medical libraries for more than 20 years I now have new subject areas, new databases, new people with different titles and needs. I’ve maintained for years we librarians can transfer our skills, and, within an amazingly short amount of time we are productive members of our teams. Time to put my money where my mouth is. One of my recent reference requests gave me a run though my searching skills. Add to the situation that the previous day I was collection building for our creative department and I began to think about how we librarians are taught to search. I remember learning to construct a search strategy; I remember the reference process. I don’t remember exercises introduced to help stimulate the creative side of the brain used in searching. Did I miss that class? Am I the only one who believes the creative process is equally important to the search process? Thus a survey is born. Just curious! 1. What do you do when you've worked on a search (bibliographic or internet) and cannot locate the information you know is available.
Comments (my personal favorites): "…I don’t think that I ever really put it down. Your mind just keeps on working and working…". "Once found, the easier route usually seems to obvious". 2. Do you think your inability to construct a search to locate the information is a logical or a creative "block" or both?
*Comments under other included: Search engine’s capabilities Limited by lack of knowledge of subject, don’t know all the possible terms Note: Many respondents provided multiple answers, the number of responses will not add up to the number of respondents. Thank you all! This list serves as the checklist for the searching process in general. I think I’ll clip it and staple it to my search folder. Beth Salzwedel
Shared Project?As most of you know, the Institute of Medicine recently published a volume entitled "To Err is Human" about errors made in hospitals. I’ve been wondering what we librarians are doing to help our clinicians and others avoid those errors. Could we perhaps have a "suggestion" or "sharing tips" column where we might write brief notices of what we have been doing in our libraries or as librarians to help our institutions? I’m thinking about suggestions such as 1) bulletin boards with "adverse drug reactions" posters or 2) SDI lit searches on common errors or 3) patient ed centers to help patients avoid being the subjects of some mistakes or 4) focus groups facilitated by the library or whatever…. Is any of us doing anything on this topic? Are there some projects we could share with each other? Maureen W. LeLacheur
FirstSearch EnhancementsOCLC continues to make progress in its efforts to complete performance-related enhancements and final performance testing on the
new FirstSearch service. Response times are consistently meeting OCLC standards,
and they have accomplished a great deal in theirr efforts to bring all
AnnouncementsMDMLG General Business Meeting The next General Business Meeting is Thursday, April 13, 2000 at Garden City Hospital. Details about this and future meetings can be found at the Meetings page. Mark your calendars - May 11 is the GIS Satellite Program with Carol Vandenberg facilitating. It is a CDC program, which will be held from Noon - 2:30 pm at the VA Medical Center. Further information will be mailed to the membership shortly. Two sessions of the New Quickdoc Class are scheduled for May 24th and May 25th. The May 24th session is being held at Wayne State University and the May 25th session is being held in Grand Rapids. Check out the online registration form for further information. The Medical Library Association and the Canadian Health Libraries Association
are holding a Year 2000 Joint
Annual Meeting in
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada May 5-11, 2000.
SLA's 91st Annual Conference is being held in
Philadelphia, PA on June 10-15, 2000. The 2000 MHSLA Fall Educational Conference is set for October 19th-20th, 2000 in Traverse City, Michigan. Scheduled CE courses include such topics as digital libraries, ergonomics, and complementary and alternative medicine. Wiggins & Severence, who you may remember from last year's conference, will be this year's keynote speaker. The special event is a ride on a dinner train. Details will be forthcoming later this spring. Children's Hospital of Michigan at the Detroit Medical Center has an immediate opening for a Part Time Family Resource Librarian. Salary: $29,300 - $41,000. Requirements: Masters Degree in Library or Information Science. One to two years of library experience including seven to twelve months conducting data base searches. Prefer certification from the Medical Library Association. Applicants should fax their resumes to Sheila Raymo, DMC 313-966-7796 or call Sheila at 313-966-7817. There is a position open at the Henry Ford Hospital Sladen Library for a Senior Information Resource Specialist. Contact Gina Hug at 313-916-2550 or ghug1@sladen.hfhs.org . Meg Carpenter retired from her position at Children's Hospital. She will be working part-time at Shiffman Medical Library beginning next week. She is also available for filling in for vacations and other temporary staff openings. Sylvia Graham became a proud grandmother when her daughter Holly and son-in-law Drew had their first child on March 4th. Her name is Emma Isabel.
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