Network News
May/June 2003
- Contents:
- New From the NN/LM SCR
Office
- Access Libraries for Year
03
- Call for Participation -
Internet Connectivity Project
- Call for Participation -
Library Improvement Project
- Ariel Project for DOCLINE
Libraries - Call for Participation
- What's New with NLM
Databases?
- Genetics Home
Reference
- Technology
Notes
- Inside Funding
- Join LINKOUT-L
- NLM Launches Asian American
Health Site
- Technology Awareness
Grant: PDAs and Medical Decision Making
- The National Institutes of
Health: NIDA
- DOCLINE
Update
- NTCC PubMed Classes in
Houston
- In Every Issue:
- Regional Training and
Exhibit Calendar
- Employment
Opportunities
- NLM
Technical Bulletin
News From the
NN/LM SCR Office
--Renée Bougard, Associate Director
Year 03 of the
2001-2006 NN/LM SCR contract began May 1, 2003. Our
outreach plan for this year can be found at: http://nnlm.gov/scr/outrch/outrch_narr.htm.
Please note that the plan was revised on June 2, 2003 when
we received approval from NLM to use Year 02 unexpended
funds for additional funding opportunities and activities.
As always, the Coordinators and myself are available to
discuss these opportunities. Also, please feel free to
contact me with suggestions for new programming. We are
very interested in what the needs of the Region are, and
welcome your input.
I am pleased to announce that Barbara Cosart, MLIS, will
be returning to the NN/LM SCR on Monday, July 21, 2003 in
the position of Special Populations Outreach Coordinator.
Some of you may remember that Barbara served as our
Outreach Coordinator from 1999-2000, and Consumer Health
Coordinator from 2000 until her departure in early 2001.
Barbara rejoins us in a partial telecommuting capacity. She
will telecommute from Austin, TX for three weeks and work
in the NN/LM SCR office every fourth week. Her contact
information will be the same as those of us who are in the
office; however, her email address is: barbarac@library.tmc.edu.
Barbara is looking forward to working with all of you
again, and we are looking forward to Barbara's return.
We are interviewing for the Consumer Health Coordinator
position and hope to name someone in this capacity
soon.
Network members interested in listening to the recorded
sessions and presentations from the Medical Library
Association's annual conference, in San Diego, CA, May 2-7,
2003, may borrow the CD the NN/LM SCR office. The request
form is located at: http://nnlm.gov/scr/edn/mla2003.htm.
This year, we purchased the program in the CD format
instead of the audiocassette format. All of the recorded
MLA sessions are available on the single CD, so there is no
need to request a specific session.
As part of the 2001-2006 NN/LM contract, each RML will
participate in a Site Visit and Review by an NLM appointed
team. We were aware, as well as agreeable to this process,
when we submitted the proposal to serve the South Central
Region as the Regional Medical Library. The purpose of this
Site Visit and Review, as stated in the 2001-2006 RML
Request for Proposals, is to assist in "monitoring and
evaluating the Region's programs in order to assess their
effectiveness in meeting the NN/LM goals and to identify
and resolve problems which impede the effective delivery of
health information services." Network members will be
provided an opportunity, via the NN/LM SCR website to
submit feedback to NLM, in preparation of our review. We
will announce the availability of the feedback site on our
listserv later this summer.
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Access Libraries
for Year 03
--Michelle Malizia, Outreach
Coordinator
The NN/LM SCR is very
pleased to announce that the Access Library (AL)
Subcontracts for Year 03 were awarded to:
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
Medical Library
New Orleans, LA
Ethel Ullo Madden, Director
Southeast Louisiana AHEC
Learning Resource Center
Covington, LA
Helen Caruso, Librarian
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Research Medical Library
Houston, TX
Kathy Hoffman, Executive Director
Congratulations to the new ALs! The NN/LM SCR office and
the Region look forward to working with you. Full contact
information can be found at:
http://nnlm.gov/scr/outrch/acclist.htm.
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Call for
Participation - Internet Connectivity Project
--Greg Bodin, Technology Coordinator
Network members
throughout the NN/LM SCR continue to deal with the
challenge of limited or no Internet access in their
facilities or a limited number of workstations for
accessing the Internet. Primary Access Libraries (PALs) are
unable to provide consumer-level education materials to
patients and family members because they do not have access
to the wealth of Internet-based materials currently
available. Physicians, nurses, and other health care
professionals are unable to remain informed of current
medical knowledge and technologies because they have little
or no access to medical literature resources such as
PubMed. Because of these connectivity issues, many Network
members are unable to access the majority of NLM products
and services that are available exclusively via the
Internet.
The NLM has responded by making funds available through
the NN/LM SCR office to assist Network members in upgrading
existing Internet connections or implementing Internet
services in unconnected institutions and improving access
by providing workstations for performing research. This
enables institutional access to the NLM's products and
services for staff, physicians, and patients.
The NN/LM SCR office will be implementing approximately
eight Internet Connectivity Project awards during Year 03.
The project provides a PC, printer, fax machine, funding
for Internet services, and training on using the Internet,
PubMed, MEDLINEplus, and Loansome Doc. Potential sites must
meet specific requirements. Participating institutions sign
an agreement with the NN/LM SCR office and submit brief
reports.
An application for the Internet Connectivity Project is
available at http://nnlm.gov/scr/outrch/icpapp_may03.pdf.
Applications must be received by July 11, 2003.
If awardees do not currently have Internet access, an
Internet Service Provider (ISP) subsidy will be given to
enable them to utilize Internet-based resources. If
services such as Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) or cable
broadband Internet access are available in the area, a
broadband Internet access subsidy will be provided. The
NN/LM SCR will not pay for phone line charges, basic cable
services, long distance, or 800 number charges. If
broadband services are not available, a dial-up Internet
access subsidy will be provided.
Network members that are interested in accessing NLM
products for medical education and research and/or patient
education, and have no access or inadequate access to the
Internet, may be considered for an Internet Connectivity
Project award. Please contact me for additional
information.
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Call for
Participation - Library Improvement Project
--Greg Bodin, Technology Coordinator
Are you looking for a
way to improve and expand your library's services to health
professionals and/or consumers? Under the Library
Improvement Project, the NN/LM SCR provides a PC, printer,
fax machine, funding for Internet and document delivery
services, surplus books, and training using the Internet,
PubMed, MEDLINEplus, and Loansome Doc. Potential sites must
meet specific requirements. Participating institutions sign
an agreement with the NN/LM SCR office and submit brief
reports.
An application for the 2003-2004 Library Improvement
Project is available at
http://nnlm.gov/scr/outrch/lipapp_may03.pdf. Applications
must be received by July 11, 2003.
The following services are to be implemented, if not
already in place, at the site:
- Reference services
- Access to photocopy services
- DOCLINE/Loansome Doc
- Medical literature searching through NLM's
PubMed
If awardees do not currently have Internet access, an
Internet Service Provider (ISP) subsidy will be given to
enable them to utilize Internet-based resources. If
services such as Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) or cable
broadband Internet access are available in the area, a
broadband Internet access subsidy will be provided. The
NN/LM SCR will not pay for phone line charges, basic cable
services, long distance, or 800 number charges. If
broadband services are not available, a dial-up Internet
access subsidy will be provided.
The NN/LM SCR office will be implementing approximately
five Library Improvement Project awards during Year 03
(2003-2004). Please contact me for additional
information.
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Ariel
Project for DOCLINE Libraries - Call for Participation
--Re Mishra, Education-Communications
Coordinator
The NN/LM SCR is now
accepting applications for the Ariel Project for DOCLINE
Libraries. We will fund up to ten full DOCLINE libraries in
the Region with the full Ariel software, an Ariel
compatible scanner, and a computer. For more information
about Ariel, see: http://www.infotrieve.com/ariel/index.html.
For complete information about the qualifications and
requirements for the Ariel Project see:
http://nnlm.gov/scr/netwk/arielcall-may03.htm.
Interested libraries will need to submit an application
(found at: http://nnlm.gov/scr/netwk/ariel_app03.doc or
http://nnlm.gov/scr/netwk/ariel_app03.pdf) and letters of
support from the appropriate institutional personnel to the
NN/LM SCR office by July 11, 2003.
Please contact me with any questions.
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What's New with NLM Databases?
--Re Mishra, Education-Communications
Coordinator
Tox Town Adds City Scenes
Tox Town (http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/)
now includes a City Scene called Tox City. Many concerns,
like Drinking Water, are repeated from the Town Scene, but
there are new locations to explore including Airplanes and
Air Travel, Brownfields, Construction, Electromagnetic
Fields, and a Hospital with an interior view.
New NLM Database: Household Products
Database
The NLM recently
released the Household Products Database (http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/).
This database links over 4,000 consumer brand name items to
information on their health effects and allows scientists
and consumers to research products based on chemical
ingredients. Categories of products include household
cleaners, automotive products, personal care items,
pesticides, yard and home maintenance supplies, and
materials used for hobbies and crafts.
The database is designed to help answer the following
typical questions:
- What are the chemical ingredients and their
percentage in specific brands?
- Which products contain specific chemical
ingredients?
- Who manufactures a specific brand?
- How do I contact this manufacturer?
- What are the acute and chronic effects, if any, of
chemical ingredients in a specific brand?
- What other information is available about chemicals
in the toxicology-related databases of the National
Library of Medicine?
Information in the database is garnered from
a variety of publicly available sources including
brand-specific labels and Material Safety Data Sheets
provided by manufacturers and manufacturers'
websites.
Full Text Subsets Available for PubMed
Searching
PubMed users can limit
searches to a new subset of PubMed. This subset, 'free full
text [sb]', retrieves citations that have a link to full
text when no payment or subscription is required.
Another new subset, 'full text [sb]', retrieves
citations when there is a link to full text, free or
not.
PubMed Central in Entrez
PubMed Central (PMC),
NLM's digital archive of life sciences journal articles, is
now accessible as an Entrez database. This means you can
search the full text of articles in PMC in much the same
way as you now search PubMed, with History, Limits,
Preview/Index, and Clipboard features.
For more information see: Sequeira E. PubMed CentralTM
in Entrez. NLM Tech Bull. 2003 May-Jun;(332):e3.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj03/mj03_pmc.html.
Fred L. Soper Papers Added to Profiles
in Science
The Fred L. Soper
Papers are the most recent collections to be added to the
NLM Profiles in Science website (http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/).
Fred L. Soper (1893-1977) was an American epidemiologist
and public health administrator who won a Lasker Award in
1946 for organizing successful campaigns to eradicate
yellow fever and malaria between 1927 and 1945. He also
made key contributions to the control of typhus fever
during World War II, and served as director of the Pan
American Sanitary Bureau, (executive agency of the Pan
American Health Organization) from 1947 to 1959. Throughout
his career, he set new standards for disease control
worldwide.
For more information, see the press release at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/press_releases/soperprofiles.html.
NLM Defines Standard for Electronic
Archiving and Publishing
NLM has created a
standard model for electronically archiving and exchanging
journal articles. On June 10, 2003, NLM released two
Document Type Definitions (DTDs) (http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/) that
will simplify electronic journal publishing and increase
the accuracy with which these documents are preserved and
shared.
For more information, see the press release at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/press_releases/dtd_ncbi03pr.html.
New PubMed Manual Available
The May 2003 PubMed
manual used by the National Training Center and
Clearinghouse (NTCC) is now available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/web_based.html.
List of Serials Indexed for Online Users
2003 Available
The List of Serials
Indexed for Online Users 2003 can be downloaded in Adobe
Acrobat PDF format from: ftp://nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov/online/journals/lsiweb.pdf
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Genetics Home
Reference
--Michelle Malizia, Outreach
Coordinator
Genetic advances are
all over the news. Until now, it was difficult to find
easy-to-understand information on genetic disorders, gene
therapy and the human genome project. In May 2003, NLM
debuted a new consumer website, Genetics Home Reference
(GHR) (http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/).
Currently, GHR offers summaries on 74 genetic conditions
and 58 genes. Users can perform a search on a particular
condition or a specific gene. Users can also browse by
condition, gene name, category or location. Each condition
links to information on the genes related to that condition
and vice versa. Clicking on a specific gene will link back
to conditions associated with that gene.
There is also a section on understanding genetics where
users can learn the basics about genes and how they work,
genetic disorders, conditions, therapy, counseling and the
human genome project. In addition, there are a host of
resources on genetics from patient support resources to
genetic databases geared toward researchers.
Some genetic conditions listed in the GHR include
Alzheimer disease, breast cancer, porphyria, and sickle
cell anemia. Topics were selected based on conditions
listed in MEDLINEplus that have a genetic component. Only
those conditions caused by mutations in single genes are
included. Additional information is being developed and new
content will be released on a regular basis.
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Technology Notes
--Greg Bodin, Technology
Coordinator
Weblogs/Blogs
Are you interested in
publishing on the web but unfamiliar with html? Do you want
to quickly communicate information to a group of people
with little effort? Are you part of a group who need to
collaborate but who are dispersed geographically? If so,
then a weblog may be a great tool for you.
A weblog (also known by its shortened form:
blog) is simply an online web diary where a user can add
content on a regular basis. For individuals, a blog is an
opportunity to publish text, graphics, and multimedia files
to the web without knowledge of HTML or access to a web
server. Updates can happen as often as desired.
For groups, a blog can serve as a
communication/collaboration medium for discussion of a
topic of interest. For example, a blog dedicated to the
discussion of electronic journals can be created with
postings on ejournal news items, links to new websites,
etc. While blogs are typically managed and published by
individuals, most blogging sites are able to provide access
to multiple users who can all contribute content to the
site.
Most blogging sites provide free blogging services.
Typically, free blogs will have advertising posted on the
blog web page. Users can also purchase premium blog
services which provide the same web server space without
the advertising.
Webliography
Blog Resources from Google
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/
Blogger
http://www.blogger.com/
Blogeasy
http://www.blogeasy.com/
Library Weblogs
http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html
The Shifted Librarian
http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/2002/09/20.html
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Inside
Funding
--Michelle Malizia, Outreach
Coordinator
Awardee Receives Honor
The Regional Academic
Health Center Library-University of Texas Health Science
Center, Harlingen, TX, was awarded the Texas Library
Association's Project of the Year for their MEDLINEplus
peer tutor-training project. As part of the project, four
high school students at Med High, Harlingen, TX, served as
peer tutors to train other students and faculty to use
MEDLINEplus, MEDLINEplus en Español and PubMed.
The students reached almost 650 students at Med High, 65
faculty and 400 family members. Software from the Med High
Library computers showed an increase in the use of NLM
resources. The MEDLINEplus peer tutor-training program was
part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley project funded through
NLM. Congratulations to Debra Warner, AHIP, Lucy Hansen and
Cynthia Olney, Ph.D. on their award.
Foundation Grants - Show Me the
Money!
Often foundations are
overlooked as a source for project funding because people
are unsure how to even begin to find a private funder. If
you do your research, however, foundations can an excellent
grant source. See Funding and Proposal Writing Resources at
http://nnlm.gov/scr/outrch/fundopp.htm
for a list of funding sources.
There are three types of foundations: independent (or
private), corporate and community. Independent foundations
are non-governmental, non-profit organizations usually
supported by a single source, such as a family or
endowment. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation and Pew Charitable Trusts are
examples of independent foundations. Corporate foundations
are organizations that typically fund projects that are
related to company interests. Many big companies have
corporate foundations that provide cash or product
donations. Corporations such as Verizon, Handspring and
Dell Computers fit into this category. Community
foundations derive their funds from many different donors.
Community foundations support programs that directly
benefit their community.
For more information on independent and corporate
foundations:
Web Sites of Private Foundations. The Foundation
Center.
http://fdncenter.org/funders/grantmaker/gws_priv/priv1.html
Corporate Grantmaker Search. The Foundation Center.
http://fdncenter.org/funders/grantmaker/gws_corp/corp1.html
Some examples of community foundations in the SCR:
Arkansas
Louisiana
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
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Join LINKOUT-L
--Re Mishra, Education-Communications
Coordinator
An electronic
discussion list has been initiated for participants in the
LinkOut program. Subscribers to this list will:
- receive announcements from "library-linkout"
- have the ability to problem-solve with current
users
- tap into the expertise of the LinkOut
Coordinators
To subscribe to LINKOUT-L:
- Type the command "subscribe LINKOUT-L [your name]" in
the body of the message, replacing [your name] with your
first name and last name.
- Leave the subject line blank.
- Send the message to: listserv@uic.edu.
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NLM Launches
Asian American Health Site
Just as
special populations have special health needs, they have
special health information needs. NLM has created a website
called Asian American Health (http://asianamericanhealth.nlm.nih.gov)
aimed at the health needs of Asian Americans, one of the
fastest growing minority populations (currently 11 million)
in the U.S.
Asian Americans are exceedingly diverse, coming from
nearly 50 countries and ethnic groups, each with distinct
cultures, traditions, and histories. They speak many
languages and dialects.
Although Asian Americans in the U.S. suffer from many of
the same health problems as the population at large,
certain diseases predominate. For example, there is a
particularly high rate of liver cancer among Asian
Americans, and lung cancer is their leading cause of cancer
death. Vietnamese women's cervical cancer rate is five
times higher than Caucasian women.
Asian American Health is the second website that the NLM
has created for special populations. The first,
ArcticHealth, was launched in 2001.
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Technology Awareness Grant: Personal
Digital Assistants and Medical Decision Making
--Janis Teal, MLS, MAT, Deputy Director,
Library Services, University of New Mexico Health Sciences
Library and Informatics Center, Albuquerque, NM
On Saturday, March 15,
2003, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library
and Informatics Center (UNM HSLIC) held the PDAs and
Medical Decision Making workshop as part of the 27th
Annual Conference on Advances in Primary Care. The
workshop, funded through the Technology Awareness award
from NN/LM SCR, attracted 42 health practitioners.
The program speakers included Mari Stoddard, MLIS, Head
of Education Services, University of Arizona Health
Sciences Library, Tucson, AZ, a nationally known expert on
personal digital assistants and their application to
medicine. Charity Karcher, MLIS, Pharmacy Librarian, UNM
HSLIC, presented a session on PDA software. The program
also featured a panel presentation on implications of new
technology on health care. Panelists were Ron Margolis, BS,
MBA, Chief Information Officer, University of New Mexico
Hospitals, and Diane Shartsis Wax, MPA, MBA, Visiting
Faculty, UNM HSLIC, and formerly Director of Legislative
Activities, National Institutes of Health. Panel moderator
was Holly Buchanan, EdD, Director UNM HSLIC and Professor,
School of Medicine.
Two PDAs were given away by a drawing at the end of the
afternoon. Winners were Gillian Buddington, physician
assistant at the Gallup Urgent Care Center, and Raymond
Galley, also a physician assistant at Las Clinicas del
Norte in Rio Arriba County. Gillian won a Palm 515, and Ray
won a Compaq/Ipaq (Pocket PC).
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The National
Institutes of Health: NIDA
--Re Mishra, Education-Communications
Coordinator
The National Institute
on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (http://www.drugabuse.gov/),
located in Rockville and Baltimore, MD, was established as
the Federal focal point for research, treatment, prevention
and training services, and data collection on the nature
and extent of drug abuse in 1974 and joined NIH in 1992.
Nora D. Volkow, M.D., became Director in May 2003.
The mission of the NIDA is "to lead the Nation in
bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and
addiction." NIDA supports a comprehensive research that
focuses on the biological, social, behavioral and
neuroscientific bases of drug abuse as well as its causes,
prevention, and treatment. In fact, over 85 percent of the
world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse and
addiction is supported by NIDA.
NIDA's homepage prominently links to some useful
resources. The Quick Links dropdown box of "Common Drugs of
Abuse" allows you to get a list of resources available from
the NIDA website. The "Information For" bar lists resources
from NIDA and companion partners for Students &Young
Adults, Parents & Teachers, and Researchers &
Health Professionals.
NIDA's companion partners include:
HIV.drugabuse.gov
http://hiv.drugabuse.gov/
Information on the links between HIV/AIDS and drug use.
Marijuana-Info.org
http://www.marijuana-info.org/
Information about marijuana.
ClubDrugs.org
http://www.clubdrugs.org/
Information about Ecstasy, methamphetamine, GHB, and
others.
Anabolic Steroid Abuse
http://www.steroidabuse.org/
Information on anabolic steroids.
Smoking.drugabuse.gov
http://smoking.drugabuse.gov/
Information on nicotine addiction.
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DOCLINE Update
--Re Mishra, Education-Communications
Coordinator
DOCLINE Statistics
NLM has released the
following DOCLINE quarterly statistical reports for
January-March 2003:
1-1A, 1-11A, 1-1AT - Summary DOCLINE Borrower
Statistics
1-1B - Summary DOCLINE Lender Statistics
1-2A, 1-22A - Detailed DOCLINE Borrower Statistics
1-2B - Detailed DOCLINE Lender Statistics
2-14 - Resource Library Quarterly Report - Fill Rate
5-1A - Loansome Doc Detailed Lender Statistics
5-1B - Loansome Doc Throughput Report
Please note that reports 1-11A, 1-1AT and 1-22A are only
distributed to libraries that have entered requests in
DOCLINE for other libraries. Report 2-14 is only
distributed to resource libraries.
The July-September 2002 DOCLINE quarterly statistical
reports are no longer available. Further schedule
information may be found in the DOCLINE - Quarterly Reports
(Statistics) FAQ,
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/doc_quarterly_reports.html.
Instructions for downloading and printing reports may be
found at HELP/Online Manual/Requests - Reports or at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/faqdocline.html#reports.
EFTS Advisory Committee
The NN/LM SCR has, in
addition to myself, two librarians on the EFTS Advisory
Committee: Heather K. Moberly, Veterinary Medicine
Librarian, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK and
Susan Dorsey, Head of Access Services, Tulane University
Health Sciences Center, Rudolph Matas Medical Library, New
Orleans, LA.
The purpose of this advisory group is to promote EFTS
usage, evaluate EFTS operation and provide recommendations
on policy, procedures and fees. The EFTS Advisory Committee
is composed of representatives from each of the eight
regions in the NN/LM and from various hospital, medical
school and special libraries.
SERHOLD to OCLC Batch Update
NLM has successfully
completed the SERHOLD to OCLC Batch Update pilot project
that tested the exporting of serial holdings data from
DOCLINE and importing it into OCLC. The pilot project was
conducted from November 2001 to April 2003 with eight
libraries who participate in both DOCLINE and OCLC. NLM
plans to perform the first production data export over the
weekend of July 4, 2003.
- What is SERHOLD to OCLC Batch Update?
It is several programs that were written by both NLM
and OCLC to take holdings from SERHOLD and load them
into OCLC. It enables libraries to enter holdings into
SERHOLD and not have to rekey the same information into
OCLC. The holdings of all libraries that indicate, via
the DOCUSER Codes screen, Batch Update Authorization
field, that "NLM is authorized to send a copy of my
library's holdings to OCLC" will be batched in a file
and sent to OCLC once per quarter, generally the first
weekend of the month in January, April, July, and
October. All holdings are extracted for the first
update. If a library does not change their
authorization, only changed holdings and deleted
holdings are extracted the second time; holdings that
have not been changed or deleted will not be provided
to OCLC a second time.
- If my library participates in both OCLC and SERHOLD,
how can I ensure that my holdings will be extracted and
given to OCLC?
Within DOCUSER, click on the Codes Tab. If there is
no value in the OCLC Symbol 1 field, input your OCLC
Symbol. If you have values in OCLC Symbol 2 and/or OCLC
Symbol 3, remove them. Holdings will only map to one
OCLC Symbol. The Batch Update Authorization field has a
dropdown list of four values. The default is "No
Authorization Given." Change field to equal "NLM is
authorized to send a copy of my library's holdings to
OCLC."
- When will this function be released to the network?
We plan to extract the first holdings data for
Network libraries (who authorize us to do so) on the
weekend of July 4, 2003. OCLC plans to load the
holdings into their system within one month of receipt.
NLM will continue to extract holdings data at the
beginning of each quarter.
- I participate in both DOCLINE and OCLC, but I don't
want my holdings to go from SERHOLD to OCLC. What do I
have to do to prevent this?
Nothing. The default value for Batch Update
Authorization is "No Authorization Given." You only
have to make a change if you want us to send your
library's holdings to OCLC.
- My library is part of a larger institution that uses
one OCLC code (example: MWF) with multiple holding
library codes for each "branch" (example: MWFA and MWFB).
Can I still participate in SERHOLD to OCLC Batch Update?
Unfortunately, no. OCLC replaces the pre-existing
set of local data records (LDRs) attached to a specific
bibliographic record with the holdings records sent for
batch updating. If your medical library, science
library, and main library all had holdings on the same
title, the holdings for your library would be updated
and the holdings for the other two libraries would be
removed. In your library's case, it would be better to
update in both systems or wait for the OCLC to SERHOLD
Batch Update program which is being tested with pilot
libraries and will be available in a future DOCLINE
release. In this way, all holdings for your library
(MWFA) will be sent from OCLC to SERHOLD, and we will
update SERHOLD with this information. Any titles that
are not in LOCATORplus will be rejected.
- How can I report that my holdings were attached to
the wrong record in OCLC?
NLM and OCLC have worked for many months in order to
get the correct OCLC number in NLM's catalog,
LOCATORplus, and also the NLM Unique ID into the
corresponding OCLC record. Despite all of our work,
there are bound to be a few mismatches or discrepancies
where OCLC and NLM's cataloging practices disagree. NLM
is working on procedures for identifying records where
cataloging practices disagree and reporting incorrect
matches. We will send further instructions concerning
this within the next couple of months.
- When will OCLC to SERHOLD Batch Update be available?
We currently have three pilot libraries. OCLC has
provided us with data for these pilot libraries that we
are reviewing in a test environment. For two of the
pilot libraries, we will load data into production
later this year. After a successful pilot library load,
we will release this program to the Network. We will
notify users via DOCLINE-L prior to the release.
- What does the SERHOLD to OCLC Batch Update cost?
If your library is an OCLC participant, there is no
charge. If your library does not yet have an OCLC
symbol, your library will have to be "profiled" by your
OCLC regional service provider (RSP). OCLC does not
charge profiling fees; however, the RSP can charge a
profiling fee and may also charge a membership fee.
Please see http://www.oclc.org/contacts/regional/
for more information about RSPs.
DOCLINE Presentation at MLA
The NLM presentation
given during the DOCLINE Update session at MLA 2003 is now
available to view from the DOCLINE system page (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/docline/).
The presentation highlights the accomplishments of the past
year and outlines the plans for the coming year. The
primary focus of the next year is the DOCLINE Interface
Redesign. The presentation includes screen shots of the
planned redesign for the interface to searching and editing
of institution records (DOCUSER).
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NTCC PubMed
Classes in Houston
The National Training
Center and Clearinghouse (NTCC) is offering two sessions of
their PubMed class at Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas
Medical Center Library in October. The classes are free and
open to anyone.
PubMed
October 27, 2003 and October 28, 2003
- 7.5 MLA continuing education credits
This one-day class is designed to teach students how to
use PubMed®. It also includes an overview of the Medical
Subject Headings (MeSH®) and its importance as a tool to
both searchers and indexers. PubMed provides access to over
12 million MEDLINE® citations back to the mid-1960's.
To register go to: http://nnlm.gov/mar/online/request.html
or call 800-338-7657 option 2. If the classes do not have a
minimum of 12 registrants, they will be cancelled.
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National Network of Libraries of
Medicine, South Central Region
Supported by NLM Contract N01-LM-1-3515
NN/LM SCR Regional Advisory Committee
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Kathryn
Hoffman
Network News Editor
Ruicha Mishra
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Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library
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Houston, TX 77030-2809
Phone: 800-338-7657 or 713-799-7880
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