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Southeastern/Atlantic Region Featured Projects 2006
Southeastern/Atlantic Region Projects featured for Medical Librarians Month, October 2006
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A COOPERATIVE PURCHASING PROJECT
TABAMLN is a 30 year old library consortium whose main objectives are free reciprocal interlibrary loan and professional education. TABAMLN has about 30 hospital libraries which cover the central portion of Florida. TABAMLN is currently attempting to become a small purchasing consortium. One previous purchasing contract was started in 2001 with ProQuest for 2 electronic database products, ProQuest Medical Library and ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source. The present purchasing project is with Stat!Ref. Currently 4 libraries have agreed to share specific full-text books and divide the costs equally. More libraries may join this group soon.
Deanna Stevens (Deanna_stevens@fhchs.edu ) of the Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences in Orlando is TABAMLN’s chairperson.Principles for this project: Karen Roth (Karen.roth@baycare.org)
Morton Plant Mease
Clearwater, FL
Narges Ahmadi (narges_ahmadi@leememorial.org)
Lee Memorial
Ft. Myers, FL
Patti Reynolds (patti-reynolds@smh.com)
Sarasota Memorial
Sarasota, FL
Center for Disability Resources Library
The Center for Disability Resources (CDR) Library is the largest collection of its kind in the Southeastern United States. The library is a collaborative effort between BabyNet, the Center for Disability Resources, the SC Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, and the University of South Carolina (USC) School of Medicine Library. It is located within the USC School of Medicine Library in Columbia, SC.
Designed to support the information needs of families, faculty, students, staff, and other professionals working with individuals with disabilities, the Center for Disability Resources Library consists of over 5,200 books, videos, brochures, and audiotapes covering a variety of disability-related topics. The library's website (http://uscm.med.sc.edu/CDR/index.htm) provides access to an online catalog of library materials and directs users to high quality disability information web sites. The Library Coordinator is available for mediated search requests involving all areas of medicine, particularly those related to developmental disabilities.
Recently the library expanded its services to include those states in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine’s Southeastern/Atlantic Region, including Alabama, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Website: http://uscm.med.sc.edu/CDR/index.htm
For more information, please contact the Library Coordinator.
Contact Information: Steve Wilson, Library Coordinator
Phone: (803) 733- 1501
Fax: (803) 733-1509
E-mail: wilsons@gw.med.sc.edu
Center for Disability Resources Library
School of Medicine Library
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Hurricane Disaster Relief: A Call for Medical Journals and Serials
As President of IKNOSYS, Network member Merle Colglazier, developed PubZilla to support cost-effective transactions for the serials back volume/issue trade. The concept for PubZilla evolved from the project JournalShare, a medical journal donation program that Colglazier led during the 1990s to assist medical libraries in need. Guided by the needs of librarians and others, the usefulness of printed serials, the need to improve trading methods, the benefits of auction software technology, and a commitment to high quality service, PubZilla was conceived to offer an efficient, dynamic marketplace for the serials back volume/issue trade. For example, PubZilla enables members to both sell (charge fees) and give away serial back issues/volumes. This capability reminds one how Docline® enables interlibrary loans with or without fees, and raises an interesting possibility to augment interlibrary loan resources.
In 2005, PubZilla offered unlimited free use of its online auction site for donating medical journals and serials in other subjects to help restore the libraries affected by the 2005 hurricane season and other recent natural disasters. Libraries or anyone with excess, useful periodicals in biomedicine, the health sciences and other subjects were offered the ability to list their ‘charity’ items at PubZilla for the purpose of donating them for library disaster relief. In August 2006, PubZilla expanded and improved upon the library disaster relief project by introducing unlimited free use of its online auction site to everyone in the serial back issue/volume trade for any need at all.
Key project staff:
Project Director: Merle Colglazier, MSLS, AHIP
Bon Secours Richmond Health System
St Mary's Hospital / Health Sciences Library
5801 Bremo Road
Richmond, VA 23226-1900
Website: http://www.pubzilla.com/
Last reviewed: 17 September 2007
Last updated: 11 September 2006
First published: 28 August 2006
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