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January - February 1998 Volume 21 Number 1 Copyright, 1998 |
FEBRUARY PROGRAM
SUBMITTED BY PAT NELSON
CCML's February 25, 1998 meeting will feature Dr. Jeanne Abrams, Director of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society and faculty member, Penrose Library, University of Denver. Jeanne's presentation is titled "Chasing the Cure: Tuberculosis Treatment in the Early Years in Colorado".
The clean air and 300 days of sunshine caused a different rush to Colorado, even as early as 1860. Hundreds, and later thou-sands, of men and women flocked to Denver and Colorado Springs to "chase the cure", seeking a remedy for tuberculosis, the most deadly disease of the era. The leading cause of death in the 19th century, tuberculosis was treated with many modalities including the "invigorating air" of Colorado. By 1925, one report stated that as many as 60% of the Colorado population came here to seek treatment. Many stayed on as permanent residents of the state.
Dr. Abrams will speak about these early times, including the history of National Jewish Hospital, AMC Cancer Research Center, and Lutheran and Swedish Hospitals in their roles as TB sanatoria.
For reference: Abrams, Jeanne E. Blazing the tuberculosis trail: the religio-ethnic role of four sanatoria in early Denver. [Denver, Colo.] : Colorado Historical Society, 1991. UCHSC and NJC own this: WF 28 A161b 1991
BY-LAWS CHANGES TO BE DISCUSSED
SUBMITTED BY LINDA VAN WERT
The following changes to the CCML By-laws will be discussed at the CCML meeting on February 25th. Please review the items below and bring any concerns to the meeting for discussion. We will have a vote on the intended By-laws changes at our Annual Meeting on April 22nd. Please plan to attend!
Proposed By-laws changes:
Mary Lou DeMund, a member of CCML since 1972, died January 19, 1998, after a brief struggle with breast cancer. She was 58. Mary is survived by her daughter, Susan, son-in-law, Phil and granddaughter, Jordan, who reside in Denver.
Mary was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin on May 17, 1939, the youngest of three daughters. She attended Catholic school in Beaver Dam, and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she majored in English. After graduating, she taught English at Beaver Dam High School. In 1967, Mary moved to Denver, and accepted a temporary position at the Denver Medical Society Library. Mary was appointed Library Director in 1974.
An active member of CCML for nearly 26 years, Mary served as secretary in 1974/75, president-elect in 1975/76, and as a member of the nominating committee in 1979/80. She helped plan the MLA annual meeting held in Denver in 1984, and was co-coordinator of the MCMLA annual meeting held in Breckenridge in 1988.
Mary's favorite pastimes included gardening, home decorating, reading, and travel. She was also an avid Broncos fan. A wonderful mother, Mary created a loving home and raised her daughter Susan on her own. Her granddaughter, Jordan, was the "apple of her eye".
A memorial service honoring Mary was held on Friday, January 23, 1998, at Presbyterian/ St. Luke's Medical Center. The service was attended by family, friends, and co-workers, as well as many of the "customers" Mary served so well. Those who spoke at the service included: Kevin Gross, CEO of Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center; Jerry Appelbaum, MD; Wagner Schorr, MD; Blair Carlson, MD; Frederic Platt, MD; Richard Flanigan, MD; Giles Toll, MD; and Bill Pierson, managing editor of Colorado Medicine, and director of communications for the Colorado Medical Society. Music was provided by Charles Brantigan, MD, and The Denver Brass. A reception was held in the Denver Medical Library immediately following the service.
A memorial fund, benefiting Denver Medical Library, has been established to honor Mary's commitment and dedication to the library. CCML has made a $100 donation in her honor. Others who wish to honor Mary's memory may contribute to the Mary DeMund Memorial Fund, c/o Denver Medical Library, 1719 East 19th Avenue, Denver, CO 80218. Cards and condolences may be sent to Mary's daughter, Susan DeMund, at 530 Fillmore Street, Denver, CO, 80206.
Frederic Platt wrote and recited a poem in Mary's honor. It is reprinted below.
Mary DeMund
I've misplaced a friend,
I know she's hereabout
"We've got a computer
Oh Mary, it was you
We're here -
Fred Platt (1/23/98)
I think.
Somewhere,
Puttering
In this library's recesses,
Soon to burst out,
All her eyes staring,
Daring me to disagree
When she says
That can find things!
Isn't that wonderful?"
Who was wonderful.
We've stopped,
To speak to you once more
And wonder how
Someone so real
Could vanish
In the middle
Of our sentence.
THE CCML ARCHIVES
SUBMITTED BY LINDA VAN WERT
Since I have a background in archival studies (long unused), I volunteered to evaluate and organize the CCML Archives. Currently there are three cartons of archives which, once organized, will be housed at St. Joseph's Hospital Library with Margaret Bandy. Not all of the material we currently have needs to be kept. We also need to define a procedure in which future materials will be placed in the archives.
Archives are official, permanent records. Types of archival CCML records that should be kept permanently are: meeting minutes, Council Quotes, By-laws, Articles of Incorporation, and perhaps the membership directories.
Other information that should be kept relate to strategic planning or changes in the organization, or dealings with the larger organizations such as MLA or MCMLA. Items that would help in writing a history of CCML should be kept too. Financial records are only kept for seven years and are not permanent. There are other materials in the archives, which we probably do not need to keep. For example, only some official records from DAHSLIC need to stay.
We will discuss the archives at the February meeting in order to formalize our records-keeping policy. And, we will need to decide if the By-laws should include a statement about the archives.
In the meantime, there are some membership directories that we are lacking. If you can supply an unmarked copy of any of the following, please let me know: 1987, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996. We could also use membership lists from the following years, if there were lists back then: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, and 1976.
KATHY ARTUS WANTS TO GIVE IT ALL AWAY
SUBMITTED BY HER OWN-SELF
There is still money in the Professional Development Fund to help you with the cost of professional meetings or contin-uing education.
Please turn to the back of your CCML Directory for an application form. (Or, visit the CCML web site for a form to print out. http://www.ccmlnet.org/profdev.html) If you mail the application to Jenny Garcia at CNSMC, be sure to include "Medical Library" on the address or she will probably never see it. You may also fax it to her at (303) 560-5604. The Professional Issues Committee wants to give you money. Please take it. We'll just spend it on gambling if you don't.
OVID WEB AND FULL TEXT BIOMEDICAL COLLECTIONS
COME TO EXEMPLA
SUBMITTED BY SUSAN BRANDES & MARGARET BANDY
The medical libraries of Exempla Healthcare have successfully negotiated contracts with Ovid Technologies for Ovid Web bibliographic databases and 60 Full Text medical journals. For Lutheran Medical Center this means a gradual phasing out of Ovid data-bases via CD-ROM and for Saint Joseph Hospital a similar move from PaperChase online and Ovid CINAHL on CD-ROM. Searching is available to anyone on either campus with Internet access, proper IP validation, and ID with password.
With Ovid Web, both institutions can respond to the demand for remote access to MEDLINE and full text databases by Exempla physicians with Web access in their office or home. In addition to MEDLINE via the Web, both libraries offer Ovid Web access to CINAHL, HealthSTAR, BioethicsLine, AIDSLINE, and CancerLit. As part of our quality assurance effort with end-user searching, we will offer our users training and customer support for the Ovid gateway. The libraries will continue to provide access to PubMed and Internet Grateful Med, but due to time constraints will not offer customer support for these systems.
OTHER *ONLINE* NEWS:
Exempla Healthcare-Lutheran Medical Center has joined VHA SeCURE.net, a privately managed, secure information network (an extranet) that uses Internet technology to link VHA's health care organizations with VHA, each other, and key partners such as community, physicians suppliers, and insurers. We in the library, are pleased to have been asked to provide the training and customer support to Exempla Administration and other selected people in the organization.
In January 1998, Exempla Healthcare-Saint Joseph Hospital will inaugurate Web access to Health Reference Center-Academic for campus users. This replaces the CD-ROM version of Health Reference Center and also includes 40+ full-text nursing and allied health journals.
BORROWING PRIVILEGES AT DENISON LIBRARY
SUBMITTED BY CAROLE HIRSCHFIELD AND CATHERINE REITER
As a CCML member, you are eligible for a reciprocal borrowing card, at no charge, from the Health Sciences Library at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC). Reciprocal borrowing cards enable CCML members to check out materials from CCML's Isabelle T. Anderson (ITA) collection, which is maintained at Denison. Reciprocal cards may not be used to check out items from Denison Library's Learning Resources Center collection, or to replace interlibrary loan for your institution. To obtain a reciprocal borrowing card, you must present proof of CCML membership, complete an application form, and sign a statement agreeing to abide by Denison Library's borrowing policies (see below). You may stop by Denison's circulation desk to complete a form anytime during the following regular hours:
7:00 a.m. - midnight, Monday - Thursday;
7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m., Friday;
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m., Saturday; and
10:00 a.m. - midnight, Sunday
Please call for special holiday and summer hours. For more information, please contact Carole Hirschfield, Head of Circulation, at (303) 315-5129 or, email at carole.hirschfield@uchsc.edu.
· Unless requested by another patron, items may be renewed up to five times, in person or by calling (303) 315-7460.
· Overdue notices and bills are sent according to the following schedule: a first notice is sent when an item is 7 days overdue; a second notice is sent when an item is 14 days overdue; when an item is 28 days overdue, an invoice, including the cost of the item plus a $25 processing fee per item, is sent.
· If an item is not returned, and payment is not received within 30 days from the date of the invoice, the invoice will be forwarded to the state's collections agency, as required by Colorado law. The agency will assess an additional processing fee.
· All borrowers will be invoiced for items returned damaged, plus a $25 processing fee per item.
· All borrowers are responsible for notifying Denison Library in the event of a change of address. Failure to receive overdue notices and/or invoices does not absolve borrowers from returning items on time, or for reimbursing the library for lost and damaged items.
· All borrowers are responsible for Denison materials returned to other locations until the items are received at Denison Library.
IN THE NEWS WITH RICK AND ROZ
1998/99 MLA Election results are in…
Roz Dudden (National Jewish) was elected to the MLA Board of Directors and Rick Forsman (Denison) will be serving on the MLA Nominating Committee.
CONGRATULATIONS!!
NEW EMAIL ADDRESSES AT EXEMPLA HEALTHCARE - SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL:
Margaret Bandy bandym@exempla.org
Joyce Condon condonj@exempla.org
Dorothy Sullivan sullivand@exempla.org
EDNA EMPEY
SUBMITTED BY BARBARA L. WAGNER
Edna Empey joined CCML in 1962, after moving to Denver with her husband (a civil engineer at Martin Marietta). She hails from State College (where my sister and her family live) - a beautiful college town in the center of Pennsylvania.
During the `60s she served as a secretary for CCML. In Denver, Edna worked in the libraries at the Denver Medical Society, Swedish Hospital, Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, and the Veterans Administration Hospital. Her colleagues report she always did excellent work, especially with "challenging" interlibrary loans.
The contribution to CCML she considers the most meaningful was the three-year project she undertook when CCML hosted the national Medical Library Association conference in the late 1960's. Empey remembers Dr. Brad Rogers was director at Denison Library then. He decided CCML members would do all the preparations themselves, rather than hire a conference-planning company. It was a lot of work, but the members of CCML felt closer to each other during and after this major project.
An "early bird" for sure, Empey gets up around 4am weekdays to be sure she gets her granddaughter to high school on time. Her white poodle takes up some of her time, as well as playing with her one-year-old great-granddaughter. She enjoys watching baseball and football games, and I'm sure she's actively rooting for the home teams!
GETTING LINKED
SUBMITTED BY LYNNE FOX
The CCML Web Page Task Force has begun to request that other organizations add a link to our web site from their site. Lynne Fox has contacted the following organizations:
ACLIN
BCR
CEMA
CLA
MCMLA
MLA
NN/LM - MR
If you would like to have a link to CCML's web site from a directory of sites, please contact Lynne Fox at Lynne.Fox@uchsc.edu with your suggestions.
LOCAL EPA LIBRARY ON THE WEB
SUBMITTED BY KAREN WELLS
The US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8 Technical Library, now has a Library Home Page. We list our journal holdings, CD ROM products, online data-base access, pamphlet file titles, audio and videotape titles, new book acquisitions, include a telnet link to the Online Library System (OLS) that holds EPA library holdings, discuss library interloan and circulation policies and a bunch of other things - including environmentally related links - too numerous to mention here.
The address is
http://www.epa.gov/region08
Then click on the "library" link.
C.E. DATABASE AVAILABLE!
TAKEN FROM THE LIBNET LISTSERV
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 98 13:47:15 MST
THE CE DATABASE IS HERE!!!
The Colorado State Library and the Continuing Education subcomittee of CCLD are happy to announce that there is now a database available on ACLIN of continuing education opportunities for librarians in Colorado. You may access it by clicking on the Library Professional Services file on ACLIN or through the net at
http://www.CEDB.aclin.org/
The information may be accessed by subject, RLSS, date, job type, key word, etc. at the click of the mouse button. Some entries even provide for online registration! Check it out!!
Providers of library related CE in Colorado are encouraged to include their offerings on the database. If you would like the CE offerings of your organization included in the database, please contact Dan Petro at
petro_d@cde.state.co.us or 303-866-6909.
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COLORADO LIBRARY MARKETING COUNCIL UPDATE
Due to a vacancy in the position for CCML representative to the Colorado Library Mar-keting Council, it has been quite a while since CCML has received an update. The group last met in November, but another meeting is taking place on January 29th. Since last year, CLMC has developed a workshop entitled "Creating Change in Challenging Times" which was piloted this Fall for CEMA librarians. The Council decided to concentrate on marketing with media specialists because a member was at a meeting where media specialists recounted their earliest memories of librarians and most recalled bad experiences.
The workshop was subtitled Marketing Tools for the School Library Media Specialist and was presented on two dates, with a pre-test and post-test for self-evaluation. The first part of the workshop was a full-day on September 15th. Claudine Paris presented the morning session Managing Yourself: Choices and Conse-quences. Pat Wagner covered Marketing As If Your Profession Depended On It in the afternoon. The workshop concentrated on internal and external locus of control, market research, focus groups, and how to foster change based on the information gathered. The second follow-up workshop was presented in conjunction with the CEMA conference November 6th and included a panel discussion. Post-test surveys will be tallied before the January meeting in order to determine what participants have done or plan to do with the information they received. A follow-up assessment is planned for March.
The workshop is designed to be customized for a particular group. COALL had wanted
to have it at their legal institute in February, but withdrew their proposal. If CCML wanted to make the workshop available for members, it was recommended that we do it jointly with a larger group such as SLA. No fees have been set and the program was piloted to CEMA free-of-charge.
CLMC has been exploring the opportunity of a joint relationship with the Resource Sharing Council. The pros of such a relationship are financial; the cons focus on loss of autonomy and flexibility. At this time, the level of relationship is still undecided. The group meets bi-monthly and I will update you at the membership meeting in February following our January meeting.
DICK MAXWELL MUSES ON THE NOTION OF TEAMS
Talk is cheap, as you may have heard, and so is writing, if you go by what I'm getting paid for this work of art, but that's beside the point. The point this time is that in many areas of life for many years, there has been talk of working as a "team." Health care is no exception. The model in which all members of the team work together toward the same goal is an attractive one. Naturally it leads to a ridiculously large number of sports metaphors, but the word "team" wasn't always associated with sports the way it is today.
You may have found yourself on something that was called a team, but which operated in such a way that you felt it met this alternative definition (from an actual dictionary): "Two or more draft animals used to pull a vehicle or farm implement." Like that one? It may be time to take your attitude into the shop for an overhaul.
In addition to the metaphorical use of the team concept to motivate employees, people who study this sort of thing actually formalized it into what they fondly called "self-directed work teams," giving credit to the Japanese for making it work. The idea here is that you take a group of workers and announce to them that they are a team, give them a goal, remind them to share all the work, and then jump back out of the way while they sing "Whistle While You Work" and produce a powder blue four-door sedan in six minutes flat. Well why not? The only problem might be the ugly fighting over who gets to put the tires on or pack the wheel bearings with grease. This whole idea, you see, makes the previously unpleasant jobs fun.
In health care the team nursing idea has had its ups and downs, but the phrase "health care team" seems to have more staying power. The twin catches are that most teams need some sort of a leader (without one, the team often is transformed into what business schools refer to as an unruly mob) and that "leader" still seems to be the most desirable job, especially in the areas of cleanliness and pulled muscles. So there often is some resentment of the leader, causing the concept to begin to break down into snide comments and nasty looks.
Teams can work, of course, but could it possibly be more through pure chance than through any sort of scientific, Harvard Business School application of the idea?
What makes a good team work?
The 1962 New York Mets: 120 losses…a legendary example of ineptitude. Their leader was Casey Stengel, who endeared himself to the sports world by free-associating and averaging five changes of subject per sentence. Before joining the Mets, he had had amazing success with the New York Yankees, which he explained as follows: "Our ball club has been successful because we have…the spirit of 1776. We put it into the ball field and if you are not capable of becoming a great ballplayer since I have been in as a manager, in 10 years, you are notified that if you don't produce on the ball field, the salary that you receive, we will allow you to be traded to play and give your services to other clubs." There you go. On the other hand, the Mets were more of a challenge, and proved that mind-boggling, jaw-dropping failure sometimes can provide so much entertainment for people outside the team that it produces its own level of success.
More proof of that: what would it cost you to buy an Edsel today? Well, I don't know, but plenty, I'll bet. The Edsel (a Ford automobile-like product from the late fifties with a front end that looked like the following: o-0-o ) was developed by a team. They worked together, they had a dream, it seemed like a good idea at the time…and it was a spectacular, into-the-textbooks failure. Now the cars are collectors' items.
Then there was the New Coke. Chemists, nutritionists, culinary and flavor experts, marketers, advertising folks, and focus groups all teamed up to produce the beverage of the future…the one that would take Coca-Cola, already outselling everything except water, to even greater heights. Well, you remember that one.
At any rate, when your team is formed, keep an eye on the team leader for stress-related cracks. That sort of thing can produce suboptimal performance that reflects on all members of the group. How can you tell if your team leader is either losing contact with
reality or taking the whole thing just a bit too seriously?
Example #1: She stalks the halls wearing a baseball cap, blowing a whistle, consulting a clipboard, and whispering to an assistant, who then sends hand signals to the staff telling them which patients/procedures to take care of next.
Example #2: Spends an inordinate amount of time calling other units and trying to arrange "trades" of staff members. Offers two veteran RNs for one new graduate and a multi-skilled worker to be named later, claiming she has to get the payroll under the salary cap so she can bid for an all-star free-agent nurse practitioner from the coast.
Example #3: Announces at a staff meeting that all team members will be shaving their heads and getting matching keister tattoos in the interest of unity and team spirit.
But if carried to a logical conclusion, won't the struggle to become a team be worthwhile when we see the victory celebration as, for example, the OR team sprints through the halls, wrapped in flags, and waving a gigantic trophy to the cheers of patients and co-workers chanting and crying in celebration of yet another successful tonsillectomy?
PUBLICATION STATEMENT
Council Quotes is a bimonthly publication of the Colorado Council of Medical Librarians (CCML). CCML / P.O. Box 101058 / Denver, CO 80210-1058. Subscription is a benefit of membership. Editor, Mary Walsh; Assistant Editor, Jeff Kuntzman; Contributors, CCML members.
To:
"MeSH for Searchers" by Carolyn Ann Reid, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm @ Humphreys Lounge, Denison Library, UCHSC. Registration required.
"Future Technology," 8:30am - 12:30pm @ Le Baron Hotel, Colorado Springs. Contact: Reba Holmes @ (719) 473-3417 or 1-800-332-7181.
"Quality Filtering of Websites" by Lynne Fox, 1:00pm - 5:00pm @ Seminar Room, Denison Library, UCHSC. Registration form is in this issue of Council Quotes.
"Soaring to Excellence: It Takes a Vision," @ Pikes Peak Community College, Colorado Springs. For details contact: Reba Holmes, (719) 473-3417 or 1-800-332-7181.
"Am I a Crook? Copyright Issues on the Internet," Teleconference from 12:30pm - 2:00pm @ St. Joseph Hospital, Denver.
"Am I a Crook? Copyright Issues on the Internet," Teleconference from 12:30pm - 2:00pm @ Pikes Peak Community College, Downtown Studio, Colorado Springs. Contact: Reba Holmes @ (719) 473-3417 or 1-800-332-7181.
CCML Annual Meeting and "PubMed/ GratefulMed Seminar" @ Aurora Public Library. Details in next issue of Council Quotes.
SUBMITTED BY LINDA VAN WERT,
CMLC REPRESENATIVE
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