BIOFEEDBACK: Biomedical Library Newsletter

New Series Fall 1995 Issue #29

EXPANDED LIBRARY SERVICES, ONLINE RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES FOCUS OF NEW LIBRARY DIRECTOR

Tom Williams joined the Biomedical Library as Director, effective September 1, 1995. Most recently, Tom was Associate Director for Systems and Access Services at the Louis Calder Memorial Library, University of Miami School of Medicine. Tom brings strong background in all aspects of library services and has unique experience in implementing online systems for libraries. Tom will use this experience to improve and expand services at the USA Biomedical Library. One of his first goals is to install a sophisticated network that will provide 24-hour access to MEDLINE, CINAHL, and other bibliographic databases, as well as a myriad of electronic products and resources. Plans are well under way as are plans for the Biomedical Library's Homepage presence on the World Wide Web.

Another goal is to expand library services to the community. In addition to providing service to off campus USA sites such as Doctor's, Knollwood, etc., services will be offered to individuals and institutions, on a fee-basis, in the surrounding communities. Watch for more information on "SouthNet" as it develops.

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS NAMED

To better position itself for the challenges to come with online systems, expanded services and new programs, the Biomedical Library has gone through some reorganization.

Pat Rodgers has been named Assistant Director for Technical Services and Systems. In this capacity, Pat will be responsible for the day to day management of both departments and will oversee, along with the new Director, the implementation of new systems, hardware and software.

Geneva Bush has been named Assistant Director for Public Services and Education. All public services departments, Circulation, Document Delivery and Reference, have been combined into one division to be headed by Geneva. Additionally, she will be responsible for the coordination of all educational activities for the Biomedical Library.

Judy Burnham has been named Assistant Director for Regional Services. Judy will continue to coordinate library activities at the UMC location as well as all other USA affiliated hospital sites. Additionally, she will lead the library's outreach efforts by coordinating services to area unaffiliated hospitals, corporations, law firms and others who may have need of biomedical library services and resources.

BIOMEDICAL LIBRARY STATISTICS

The recent Institutional Self Study of the College of Medicine, prepared for the Liaison Committee on Medical Education reported some interesting facts about the Biomedical Library

a 1992-93 study of COM faculty publications indicated that 93.5% of the journals cited were owned by the Biomedical Library.
152,641 items were circulated during the 1994-95 academic year. 5,664 items were borrowed from other libraries, accounting for 3.5% of the total transactions.
the Biomedical Library ranks 73rd out of 141 medical schools in North America in square footage assigned, 102nd in seating available, and 82nd in workstations available. These rankings are well above the ranks for number of medical students and faculty served.

INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES OFFERED

The Information and Educational Services Unit of the Biomedical Library offers instructional sessions covering a variety of informational needs for departments, classes or individuals. Contact Geneva Bush, 460-7044 (gbush@jaguar1.usouthal.edu) to arrange a session. For specific class information click here.

During the month of December, the IESU will conduct discipline specific classes on Grateful Med, some aspect of the Internet, or other topics requested by departments. Biomedical Library faculty will come to Department meetings or special sessions and present the instructional sessions.

INTERNET RESOURCES OF NOTE

Here are some electronic journal sites to help keep you up-to-date on new journals to hit the Internet:

MedWeb from Emory -

WWW Virtual Library - (this link no longer works 1/3/01)

Sites listed below have either full-text articles or tables of contents:

Physicians GENRx is available via the Internet - (this link no longer works 1/3/01)

If you need assistance in accessing any of these sources, please contact the Biomedical Library at medlib@jaguar1.usouthal.edu

BIOMEDICAL LIBRARY FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS

Geneva Bush and Judy Burnham attended the Alabama Health Libraries Association Annual Meeting in Auburn. During this meeting, Judy completed her term as President of the Association and Jie Li was elected Member-at- Large for the 1996 year. Bonnie Seibert, Secretary, has received her A.A. degree from Phillips Junior College in Business Administration. Joyce Radcliff, student at the University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies, is completing an internship at the Biomedical Library.

CURRENT CONTENTS/CLINICAL MEDICINE

The Medical Center site has a current subscription to Current Contents to Clinical Medicine on CD-ROM. This database indexes the table-of-contents page for major clinical medicine journals, covering such disciplines as anesthesiology, emergency medicine, orthopedics, radiology, pediatrics and nephrology. A search can be conducted by author or subject.

TEXTBOOK ERROR

The Summer Issue of Biofeedback reported an error in a textbook published by W. B. Saunders. The correct title of the textbook is Maternal Fetal Medicine. The chapter title is "Maternal Hematologic Disorders" ( p. 925).

The text incorrectly lists the dosage of desmopressin acetate injection in milligrams and should be in micrograms. The correct dose is 0.3mcg/kg. The error has been noted in the copy owned by the Biomedical Library. If you own this publication, be sure and note this error in your text.

Another error has been noted in the Chiron Therapeutics' Cancer Therapy Protocols Book. Two reports from the USP Reporting Program noted errors involving therapy with cisplatin.

RETRACTION/ERRATA

The Biomedical has established a policy to identify articles that have been retracted either by the editor of a journal or by the author. These are articles that are based on fraudulent research, either deliberately falsified or based on unsubstantiated data. These articles will be stamped with the retraction information noted. Additionally, a list of the retracted articles will be kept on reserve at both locations so faculty can check their bibliographies before submitting for publication. 210 articles in the MEDLINE database have been identified as retracted articles.

UNCOVER TABLE OF CONTENTS SERVICE

The UnCover Company is now offering a table of contents service for individuals electronically. The company scans and stores the table of contents for thousands of journals, include medical titles. The charge for this service is $20.00 per year for up to 50 journal titles. The table of contents is sent directly to the individual's e-mail account.

To request this service, telnet to UnCover: database.carl.org. The service can be billed to a credit card. If you need more help in establishing this service, contact a Reference Librarian.

COM MICROCOMPUTER LAB NEWS

Dr. Steven Goodman has contributed the software program, Human Anatomy, to the COM Microcomputer Lab. This will assist with the curriculum needs of the COM I students. Another software program available is the Keyboard Histology Series.

BIOFEEDBACK, New Series, Issue #29, Fall 1995
The Biomedical Library Biofeedback, a publication of the University of South Alabama Biomedical Library, is published at irregular intervals. Editor: Judy Burnham. Contributors to this issue were Roberta Barclay, Judy Burnham, Sally Murray, Evelyn Reed and Tom Williams. (Jie Li contributed to the Web edition.) Comments should be addressed to Judy Burnham, Biomedical Library, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688-0002

To make comments, suggestions, or get more information, send email to medlib@jaguar1.usouthal .edu or call (334)-460-7044.

University of South Alabama Biomedical Library

Revised: October 30, 1995 (updated 1/3/01)