Network News
May/June 2001
- Contents:
- National Network of Libraries
of Medicine, South Central Region Regional Medical
Library Contract Awarded
- Address Change for NN/LM
SCR
- NN/LM SCR Office
Flooded
- New Technology
Coordinator
- New Access
Libraries
- What's New in
PubMed/Gateway?
- DOCLINE Update
- NLM
Classification Online
National Network
of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region Regional
Medical Library Contract Awarded
--Renée Bougard, Associate Director
We are pleased to
announce that the Houston Academy of Medicine - Texas
Medical Center (HAM-TMC) Library has retained the Regional
Medical Library designation in the National Network of
Libraries of Medicine for the South Central Region (NN/LM
SCR). The five - year contract was awarded on May 1, 2001
and will end on April 30, 2006. The program consists of
five basic areas: network development and document
delivery, outreach to health professionals and special
populations, consumer health, technology, and education.
Evaluation of the NN/LM SCR programs and services, as well
as those developed and provided by subcontractors, will be
an integral component in this contract.
An additional outreach coordinator position has been
added to this contract, which will focus on outreach to
special populations to include, but not limited to,
Hispanics, African - Americans, Native American/American
Indians, the HIV/AIDS community. Outreach to special
populations will be a major focus of the contract. Many of
the publications produced by the NN/LM SCR and its outreach
subcontractors will be translated by a team of Spanish
translators and placed on the NN/LM SCR web site to meet
the growing need for Spanish language health information
resources. Outreach will also target specified health
professional groups each year, to include public health
professionals, specific allied health groups, nurses,
veterinarians, dentists, and alternative medicine
practitioners.
A number of awards and equipment opportunities will be
made available to Network members. These include access to
electronic consumer health information, access to
information for the public health community, technology
awareness conferences, library improvement projects, and
Internet connectivity projects.
The NN/LM SCR has a Regional Advisory Committee (RAC)
that serves in an advisory capacity to the staff in
identifying regional needs, populations, and existing
programs throughout the region, and in providing feedback
and evaluating programs and services. Kathryn Hoffman, MLS,
Director, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Research Medical
Library, Houston TX, will serve as the NN/LM SCR RAC Chair,
2001 - 2003.
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Address
Change for NN/LM SCR
On July 9, 2001 the
address for the HAM-TMC Library where the NN/LM SCR offices
are located changed to:
1133 John Freeman Blvd.
Houston, TX 77030-2809
The Texas Medical Center is switching two streets in the
medical center so that M. D. Anderson Cancer Center will be
on M. D. Anderson Boulevard, and the John Freeman building
of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
(UTHSC-H) will be on John Freeman Boulevard. All phone
numbers will remain unchanged.
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NN/LM SCR Office
Flooded
On June 8, 2001, the
city of Houston suffered a devastating flood caused by
Tropical Storm Allison. The Street Level of the HAM-TMC
Library, where the NN/LM SCR offices were located, was
destroyed. Unfortunately, almost everything was lost.
Services to the region were temporarily affected.
(picture of the entrance to the NN/LM SCR office)
(picture of Re Mishra's office)
We thank you for your many calls and e-mails expressing
concern. More information on the flood and its effect on
the NN/LM SCR office (as well as the HAM-TMC library) will
be included in the July - August issue of Network
News.
For additional pictures and more information on the
damage see: http:// nnlm.gov /scr/disaster.html .
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New Technology
Coordinator
Greg Bodin joined the
NN/LM SCR office as Technology Coordinator on Monday, May
21, 2001. Some of you may know Greg through his recent
position as the Systems Librarian at Ochsner Medical
Foundation Library in New Orleans, LA. He is a graduate of
Louisiana State University School of Library and
Information Science and has public service, as well as
administrative experience in public libraries.
Greg telecommutes from New Orleans but can be reached
through the RML office toll-free number, 800-338-7657. His
e-mail address is gbodin@library.tmc.edu.
Please join us in welcoming Greg to the NN/LM SCR
office.
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New Access Libraries
--Re Mishra, Education-Communications
Coordinator
We are pleased to
announce that the Access Libraries (ALs) for Year 01
contracts were awarded to:
Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation
Medical Library
Ethel Ullo Madden, Director
Southeast Louisiana AHEC
Learning Resource Center
Helen Caruso, Librarian
Research Medical Library
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
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 for the libraries can be found at: http://
nnlm.gov /scr/outrch/acclist.htm .
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What's New in
PubMed/Gateway?
Pubmed.gov
Now PubMed has a new
streamlined URL: http://pubmed.gov. The other URL
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query)
is still functioning so it is not necessary to change
bookmarks or links.
PubMed's Journal Browser
Unique ISSN numbers are
often assigned to both the print and online versions of a
journal. As a result, the Journal Browser now displays both
the print and electronic ISSNs in its search results. Print
ISSNs are in the column called pISSN, and the electronic
ISSN is under eISSN. Also, clicking on the MEDLINE
abbreviation in the search results now searches by journal
title abbreviation instead of ISSN.
For more information, see: Nahin AM. Changes to the
PubMed® Journal Browser. NLM Tech Bull. 2001
May-Jun;(320):e9.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj01/mj01_new_journal_browser.html
AIDSLINE Citations Added
Now the unique AIDS and
HIV-related citations that were only available from the
former AIDSLINE database are in MEDLINE and PubMed. AIDS
meeting abstracts are available from the Gateway.
For more information, see: Benton N. AIDS-related
Citations Added to PubMed® and the NLM Gateway. NLM Tech
Bull. 2001 May-Jun;(320):e6.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj01/mj01_aidsline.html
Single Citation Matcher
As suggested by many
librarians, NLM has added a title words box to the Single
Citation Matcher in PubMed.
For more information, see: Nahin AM. Title Word
Search Added to Single Citation Matcher. NLM Tech Bull.
2001 May-Jun;(320):e5.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj01/mj01_single_citation_matcher.html
MEDLINE UI
The 8-digit UI format
will cease to be assigned to MEDLINE citations at the end
of the 2001 production year. For the 2002 production year,
UIs will be 9 digits long. NLM has selected the PubMed
Unique Identifier (PMID) as the unique number for all
records in PubMed. Already, the majority of PubMed display
formats (i.e. summary format) only displays the PMID. Users
should being using the PMID for identifying citations.
For more information, see Knecht L. Future of the
MEDLINE Unique Identifier. NLM Tech Bull. 2001
May-Jun;(320):e2.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj01/mj01_medline_ui.html
Find Terms in Gateway
When a MeSH term with
multiple meanings is entered, a "Select a MeSH Term" screen
will display so the user can choose the correct term.
(picture of "Select a MeSH Term" screen)
NLM Gateway Collections Updates
A chart showing when
the NLM Gateway Collections were last updated is available
(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/revup/revup_pub.html#gw_update),
and a link was added on the Overview page.
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DOCLINE
Update
--Re Mishra, Education-Communications
Coordinator
New Version of DOCLINE
DOCLINE version 1.2 was
released Sunday May 6, 2001. The complete list of new
DOCLINE 1.2 features can be found at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/docline/docline_rel_info_v1_2.html.
The Online Manual has been updated and enhanced. Please be
sure to check here first if you have questions about the
new features.
NLM Changes Charges to International
Libraries
Beginning with the
July-September 2001 billing period, NLM will no longer
assess the $2.00 surcharge for international document
requests filled by an electronic delivery method (Ariel,
e-mail).
Starting Sunday July 1, 2001, document requests filled
by NLM for international requesters (including Canada and
Mexico) will be billed as follows:
Mail delivery - $11.00
Fax delivery - $14.00
Ariel delivery - $9.00
Email delivery - $9.00
Domestic ILL charges for document delivery from NLM have
not changed. The charge is $9.00 for all delivery methods,
with a $3.00 surcharge for fax.
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NLM
Classification Online
The NLM is pleased to
announce the online beta version of the National
Library of Medicine Classification, 5th edition,
revised 1999 (http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/class).
This public-access system consists of the NLM
Classification Schedules and Index on Web-mounted HTML
pages, formatted to resemble the current print version (5th
ed., rev., 1999), with hyperlinks:
- from the Index headings to the appropriate
classification numbers in the Schedules
- from any MeSH term in the Index to full descriptor
data in the MeSH Section's MeSH Browser (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html)
- from cross-references within the Index to the
referred term
- between and among numbers within the text of the
Schedules
- to the geographic Table G
- other appropriate documentation
More information is available from the NLM Web site at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/nlmclassbeta.html.
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Published bimonthly by the
National Network of Libraries of Medicine,
South Central Region
Supported by NLM Contract NO1-LM-6-3525
NN/LM SCR Regional Advisory Committee
Chair
Kathryn Hoffman
Network News Editor
Ruicha Mishra
Houston Academy of
Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library
1133 John Freeman Blvd
Houston, TX 77030-2809
Phone: 800-338-7657 or 713-799-7880
Fax: 713-790-7030
nnlmscr@library.tmc.edu
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