For the February 23rd program of the Colorado Council of Medical Librarian, our program speaker will take us to the distant and exotic Himalayan Mountains for an exhilarating adventure. We will follow along as Laura Medina MD, a member of an expedition team, recounts the excitement and danger of climbing the highest mountain in the world-Mount Everest.
Dr. Medina is a recent surgery resident at Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital and now practices in Vail at Mountain Medical PC. In addition to recounting this exciting once in a lifetime climbing experience, she will also discuss medical care in the Himalayas.
Dr. Medina will present at 9:30 at Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital, 1835 Franklin Street in the Assembly Room, which is found in the main hospital across from the West Side of the cafeteria.
The Colorado Library Marketing Council course, Creating Change in Challenging Times: Marketing Tools for Librarians and Information Professionals, will be available online in the spring of 2000.
The course provides librarians and information professionals with the tools to create positive changes in one's professional setting. The first part of the course focuses in the internal tools required to "manage yourself," using the concept of internal locus of control. The second part of the course focuses on the marketing tools needed to create a successfu1 program in the work setting. A market research project will focus on getting information from customers and targeting products and services to the desired audience. Instructors are Claudine Paris of Success Principles, LLC, in Oregon, and Pat Wagner of Pattern Research in Denver.
Registration costs are only $55 for participants in the first offering of the online course. Registration is limited to 25 participants, with February 28, 2000 the last day to register. Registration and more information is available on the Marketing Council's web site: http://www.clmc.org
Jerry Carlson has been elected CCML President-Elect for 2000-2001. Jerry has been the Medical Librarian for Poudre Valley Hospital since March 1989. He has been a member of CCML for many years and has served as CCML treasurer and on the Library Cooperation, Bylaws, and Journal Locator Committees. He welcomes the opportunity to serve CCML in this new position.
Check the Library Continuing Education Calendar at http://cedb.aclin.org for other Colorado events as well as BCR courses.
March 2000
Colleague Connection: Web Technologies in Libraries (Dinner & Program)
March 1, 2000 5-8:30 p.m. at DU’s Driscoll Center
Contact Linda Van Wert at 303-861-6398
Rocky Mountain SLA Meeting
Susan DiMattia, SLA President
March 20, 2000 5-8:30 p.m. at US West - Downtown office
Contact Linda Van Wert at 303-861-6398
Computers in Libraries 2000
March 14-18, 2000 in Washington, DC
Contact Information Today at 609-654-6266
http://www.infotoday.com
April 2000
AIIP-Association of Independent Information Professionals Annual Conference
Capital Gains: Investing Now for Future Growth
April 6-9, 2000, Washington, DC
Contact AIIP at 414-766-0421 or http://www.aiip.org/aiipconf.html
31st Annual Colorado Interlibrary Loan Conference
April 27-28, 2000, Denver Public Library
Contact Franca Rosen at 303-275-2223 or frosen@jefferson.lib.co.us
May 2000
MLA/CHLA Annual Meeting
Demystifying the Dragon: Strategies for 2000 Plus
May 5-11, 2000 in Vancouver, British Columbia
Contact MLA at 312-419-9094 or http://www.mlanet.org
Kathy Artus, librarian at Rose Medical Center, was elected to the position of CCML Secretary at the December meeting.
Kathy Artus’ biography didn’t make the November-December issue of CQ but now that she’s been elected, your CQ editor thought that her biography was too entertaining not to appear in print! Kathy titles her biography:
“I grew up right here in Denver, so of course I couldn't wait to leave. I graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School and received my BA in Fine Arts from the University of Colorado in Boulder. I moved to San Francisco to live the idyllic life of the college-educated, middle-class hippie anarchist with my boyfriend whom I had met at an anti-war demonstration. Those were the days. After some 5 years of adventures that I can’t mention in this family publication I returned to Denver.
My first library job was at Denison where I scrubbed the toilets with a toothbrush. I quickly rose to the position of library attendant in circulation and then to peon in collection development! I finally quit and worked in Radiology at University Hospital for 2 years and then crawled back to Denison for my second incarnation there in circulation.
When the Emporia in the Rockies program came along I enrolled along with many of my comrades. By some stroke of luck, I actually received my MLS degree and no one has asked for it back yet. I spent a year working with Denver Public Library and then got a job at Swedish with the fabulous Lisa Traditi! I had it made, but alas, fate had a nasty surprise in store. Swedish was purged of all employees who actually knew something and/or cared about their jobs. Lisa was gone and I was left. I labored away for years, injuring nearly every body part, being squashed in the compact shelving, and learning to love the Medical Records Department.
Now, at last, I am moving along and will start at Rose Medical Center next week! I also work in the library at Temple Emanuel where we have to run the dating service along with our library duties. Yes, a whole book could be written about that!
If elected secretary, I will ask that the title to changed to Glorious Comrade Secretary and that I be allowed to wear a tiara during meetings. It would also be nice if my two cats could hold offices as well.”
CCML members expect to read the most entertaining meeting minutes in the history of the organization during the upcoming year!
The Colleague Connection is an annual collaborative program of the five local library organizations (CLA, CEMA, SLA, COALL, and CCML). This year's program is being sponsored by DU's Library and Information Services Program and will be held at DU's Driscoll Center. The six panelists promise a discussion that is lively, informative and practical.
The panel includes CCML’s Lynne Fox, Outreach Librarian at Denison Library; Jamie LaRue, Director, Arapahoe Library District; Kathy Reese, Library Manager, U.S. West Communications; Scott Robertson, Technical Specialist, Mediaone; Sam Sortore, Instructional Technology Specialist, Douglas County Schools; and Dan Maas, Director of Technology, South Central BOCES. Cocktails and networking time will last from 5 - 5:45 P.M., dinner is at 5:45 P.M, the panel and discussion will begin at 6:45. Driscoll Center is located at 2050 E. Evans Avenue, Denver. Street parking is limited. Check the map for building and parking lot locations: http://www.du.edu:80/maps/west.html
Contact Linda Van Wert, Medical Library, B180, The Children's Hospital, 1056 E. 19th Ave., Denver, CO 80218, VanWert.Linda@tchden.org, (303) 861-6398.
NLM’s new web-based DOCLINE system will incorporate DOCLINE borrowing and lending, DOCUSER, and SERHOLD. Once fully implemented, the new system will allow users to submit and receive interlibrary loan requests, search and update their DOCUSER records, search and update their journal holdings information in SERHOLD, access a list of their Loansome Doc users, change their passwords, and access online help. Beta version 3.0 of the new DOCLINE system is now available.
Did you know your library has been assigned a new LIBID?
In the past, each participating DOCLINE library was assigned two unique identifiers, a LIBID (Example: 80262A) and a SERHOLD code (Example: COU). In NLM’s new integrated, web-based system, each library will be assigned only one unique identifier. This new LIBID will serve both functions of the old LIBID and SERHOLD code.
The new LIBID consists of six alphabetic characters. For libraries in the United States, the new LIBID is made up of a library’s US MARC Geographical Code, followed by the letter “U”, followed by the library’s old SERHOLD code. For example, the new LIBID for Denison Memorial Library, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, is COUCOL [US MARC Geographical code (CO) + U [United States] + COL (old SERHOLD code)].
Update your library’s DOCUSER record now.
NLM’s new web-based version of DOCUSER, with update capability, is now available to all DOCLINE users. It is your responsibility to make sure that the information in your library’s DOCUSER profile is current. Remember, DOCLINE routing is based on the information in DOCUSER. If you have not already done so, review your library’s DOCUSER record now! Here are the steps necessary to access, review, and update your DOCUSER record:
Note: Routing tables are the only part of new DOCUSER that does not include active data.
You may go to your Routing Table screen to practice making changes, but DOCLINE routing will continue to be based on old routing tables, until new DOCLINE is fully implemented. To access your routing table in new DOCUSER, click on the Interlibrary Loan tab, then click on Routing Tables from the drop-down menu.
You can now make changes to your DOCUSER profile throughout the year, anytime your library’s information changes. It is more important that ever to keep your DOCUSER information correct and current. Your library’s DOCUSER record will serve as the authority record for library services other than interlibrary loan, including availability of public services to internal and external users and identifying consumer health collections. NLM plans to use the information in your Consumer Health Services page to create a library referral section in MEDLINEplus.
Get ready for new SERHOLD.
You are encouraged to access beta SERHOLD to view your library holdings to see how they are formatted and to practice adding, updating, and deleting your SERHOLD records. SERHOLD changes made in the beta version will NOT be retained. All holdings in the beta module will be replaced with holdings from the online SERHOLD system one to two weeks prior to full implementation of the new DOCLINE system in March 2000. Until the new, web-based DOCLINE system is fully implemented, actual SERHOLD updating must be done in the online SERHOLD database. CCML DOCLINE users may continue to send their journal holdings changes to Gene Stortz, CCML Journal Locator Committee, who will update holdings information in the online SERHOLD database.
Once the new, web-based DOCLINE system is fully implemented, DOCLINE users will be able to search the entire SERHOLD database and view and update all holdings information for which they have been assigned update rights. Users will also be able to print or download their library holdings, their library group holdings, and the holdings of libraries located in their state.
Subscribe to DOCLINE-L for the latest information.
NLM’s new DOCLINE listserv, DOCLINE-L, debuted on January 5, 2000. This listserv is designed to provide NLM with an easy way to communicate new information and broadcast messages to DOCLINE users, and to provide DOCLINE users a forum to communicate with each other and NLM regarding any issue related to DOCLINE, DOCUSER, and SERHOLD. The list is not moderated and is available only to DOCLINE users
The NN/LM recommends that all DOCLINE libraries subscribe to their regional listserv for important regional announcements and to DOCLINE-L to receive communications regarding the new DOCLINE system. If you are not subscribed to one of these lists, you may miss critical information. Many DOCLINE announcements will be posted on both regional listservs and DOCLINE-L, so if you are subscribed to both, you will receive some duplicate postings.
For instructions on subscribing to MCMLA-L, the Midcontinental Chapter of the Medical Li-brary Association’s listserv for Region 4 members, go to: http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/ mr/pubs/maillist.html
To subscribe to DOCLINE-L, follow these instructions:
For more information about the new, integrated, web-based DOCLINE system, go to http:// www.nlm.nih.gov/psd/cas/dochome.html
I am pleased to announce that Suzanne Kaller has agreed to be the CCML Representative to the Library Marketing Council. We appreciate that she is doing this for our organization.
There is an interesting discussion of the "DMCA", Digital Millennium Copyright Act," at http://www.cren.net/know/ techtalk/events/dmca.html It refers to library and higher education issues in several spots. You can choose either the transcript or streaming audio.
It is that time of year again for new Chairs to step forward to take over leadership of our standing committees. Present Chairs may want to think of encouraging present members to step forward. If there is a problem finding people, the new Willingness to Serve forms will be coming in with membership renewals. Our President-elect will get to appoint new chairs if we come up short. Don't forget that old and new chairs get a free lunch in March!
As most of us know from spending some time on each side of the desk, the reference interview can be a real test of communication tools. Questions of Health: Trigger Tapes on the Health Care Reference Interview, a video and accompanying booklet in the Isabelle T. Anderson Collection, is an attempt to improve the skills of public library staff through examples and discussion.
The tape is 18 minutes long, with four encounters shown demonstrating both a negative and a more positive example of how to handle each. There are stopping points after each segment, made clear even to librarians by the use of the message “Stop the tape here.” The booklet includes a transcript and suggested discussion questions (and hoped-for answers).
King County Library System in Washington produced the tape in 1986, and it is intended to be used in a reference staff training workshop. The suggested chronology recommends eight to ten minutes of discussion after each segment, for a total of an hour and twenty-four minutes.
While no Oscars were handed out for the production, writing, or acting (although one surly/understanding reference librarian impressively becomes a hypercaffeinated patron so fast it makes the viewer’s head spin), this should work well in its primary purpose of starting a discussion. The scenarios and the suggested questions are likely to remind people of similar things from their own experience, and allow the conversation to spin off into some useful areas.
Glenn Pflum has accepted the Library Director's job at Swedish Medical Center. His last day at Children's is Jan. 28, 1999. His first day at SMC will be Feb. 7th. He will keep us posted on a new email address. His new mailing address, fax, and phone are included in this month’s CQ “Membership News” column.
Congratulations to Margaret Bandy, Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital, on her recent election to the Medical Library Association's Nominating Committee. Margaret will assume office at the conclusion of the 2000 annual meeting in Vancouver.
An old lady comes to her doctor with a very embarrassing ailment.
"Dr. Johnson, I am so embarrassed to tell you my problem, but I really need help. I am constantly passing gas and I can't seem to stop it."
She goes on to say, "The good news is that they are silent, and they have no odor."
Dr. Johnson asks, "How frequent do you think this is?" Well," she says, "you wouldn't know it, but I have passed gas no less than twenty times just since I have been in your office."
Dr. Johnson prescribes the old lady some pills and says, "Take one of these three times a day for seven days, then come back and see me. Don't come back until the end of the seven days."
She agrees and one week later she returns, very upset. "I don't know what was in those pills, but things are MUCH worse now. I am still passing just as much gas as before! They are still silent, but now they smell terrible! What have you to say for your self Dr. Johnson?”
"Calm down! Says Dr. Johnson. "First things first! Now that we have cleared your sinuses, we can work on your hearing."
From: http://phc.mpr.org/activities/19990410_jokeshow/index.shtml
Two NLM classes will be offered in the Denver area later this year:
Keeping Up with NLM's PubMed and the Next Generation Gateway
June 14, 8:30 - 3:30, register by May 26
This class is for the NLM searcher who has been searching the PubMed system but would like a refresher or an update on the changes. Students should have some knowledge and experience with PubMed searching. MEDLINE, MeSH vocabulary and Boolean logic will not be covered in this class. There is no charge for this class.
Introduction to Web-based Searching for the Librarian and Information Specialist: Using PubMed and Internet Grateful Med to Search NLM's Databases
June 15 & 16, day 1 - 8:30 - 5:00, day 2 - 8:30 - 3:30, register by May 26
This 2-day class is designed for the searcher who is new to searching MEDLINE, including those who have never searched before, and those with little prior knowledge of the MEDLINE database or the MeSH vocabulary. Students learn both the PubMed and Internet Grateful Med search systems with emphasis on areas specific to NLM databases, including the MeSH vocabulary, database fields and creation, and Boolean logic. There is no charge for this class.
Further information is available at the National Online Training Center web site. Please go to the following page to register: http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/mar/online/ request.html
[NOTE: For complete information see printed Council Quotes.]
NEW MEMBER: Pat Mueller
Pat Mueller is CCML's newest member. She can be found at:
Health Sciences Librarian
Benefits Health Care
1101 26th Street South
Great Falls, Mt 59405
T (406)455-5594
F (406)455-4112
E-mail muelpatj@benefis.org
Web site http://benefis.org
Pat Mueller writes: Thank you for allowing me to join the Colorado Council of Medical Librarians. I feel at home already as I graduated in 1985 from the University of Denver's Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management: a wonderful matriculating experience and a great school.
Born and raised in Montana, I received my initial library experience in a high school library financing my five children through school(s). I decided I needed more education as well. I got into Health Sciences Librarianship by accident. The Extended Campus of Montana State University College of Nursing needed a librarian. From there a combined hospital/College of Nursing Library evolved. In 1996, the two Great Falls hospitals merged. I was appointed the Benefits Health Care Librarian. With only one health sciences library in town also serving a surrounding 14-county area, we have a need for a broader-based networking capability: CCML.
We will enjoy being involved in the CCML networking process: serving your information needs as well as ours with the same expedient, cost effective delivery we have competently supplied to others for the past fifteen years. I intend to attend as many meetings as possible; however attending every meeting might be a little unrealistic. We are 210 miles north of Billings, Montana
ON THE MOVE: Katherine Artus started working at Rose Medical Center in December. Her new work address is:
Rose Medical Center
4567 East Ninth Ave.
Denver, CO 80220
T (303)320-2160
F (303)320-2661
Those screams you sometimes think you hear coming from the north are not figments of your imagination. That’s the good news. The bad news is that what you’re hearing is probably the pitiful, fading sounds produced by the volunteers in yet another hypothermia-oriented experiment in Canada, which just might produce more of those per square foot of linoleum laboratory space than any other country. The fact that researchers seem to have little trouble finding humans willing, for example, to be dipped repeatedly in icy water, may tell us something about just how boring life in the land of the eternal chill can be.
While the examples of research reported here (there were plenty to choose from) were performed to study physiological reactions, psychologists would be missing a fine opportunity if they don’t take a look at these strangely eager volunteers, as well.
In an article published in Aviation Space & Environmental Medicine in January of 1998, G.G. Giesbrecht and G.K. Bristow describe how “Six subjects were each cooled three times in 8 degrees C water…and rewarmed by either shivering alone, exercise, or exercise commencing once a shivering afterdrop period was complete.” A scene from an early James Bond film is in there somewhere. It would be interesting to know what led the six subjects to wave their hands eagerly, shouting “Me! Me! I can’t wait to have you toss me into that pool with the large blocks of ice floating around in it!!”
What the researchers seem to have determined is that when you personally have gone through the ice fishing hole three times trying to recover the flask you dropped, you should wait patiently, monitoring your body temperature, until shivering has dropped it by about 0.3 degrees C, before you start to jog back home or disassemble the shack. Exercising too soon can take your temperature down into what can be termed the Zone of No Function.
It might be best to have these instructions written down in simple English and laminated, then tied around your neck.
R. L. Thompson and J. S. Hayward from the University of Victoria in British Columbia took a somewhat different approach and reported their results in the November 1997 Journal of Applied Physiology. They found “18 male subjects” (it would be interesting to know if a tight little group of 20 or 25 hypothermiaphile volunteers for all of these experiments) willing to subject themselves to “wet-cold hypothermia” caused by “hiking in rain, wind, and cold, without protective rainwear….” The plan was to simulate a five hour walk a 5 degrees C, “with continuous exposure to rain (7.4 cm/h) and wind (8.0 km/h) over the final 4 h.” Not too surprisingly, 11 of the volunteers “could not complete the protocol because of intolerance of wet-cold conditions during the last 2h…” so “data from 5 subjects who completed the protocol in rain and control conditions were used to describe the general pattern of response.” The mathematically astute will have noticed that 11 drop-outs plus 5 data-producers equals 16, which is two fewer than 18. Hmmm. This would seem to suggest a rule for potential volunteers to consider: Avoid labs so large that when they send you on a simulated walk you can actually get lost and disappear, shivering all the way.
For the ultimate in recent volunteer opportunities, it’s necessary to turn to Peter Tikuisis and his fellow researchers from the Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine, Human Protection (you may come to question that), and Performance, in Toronto. They found thirteen “healthy and fit” (and gullible?) men willing to have their thermoregulatory responses tested. The thirteen cycled, they rowed, they walked on treadmills, and they did 120 inclined sit-ups. THEN the fun began…at least for the researchers.
The guys were next placed “in a seated position in a 10 degrees centigrade air environment while wearing shorts, T-shirt, rain hat, and neoprene gloves and boots.” Quite a fashion statement. Thirty minutes later, when they were probably beginning to feel a bit of a chill, they were (you must have seen this coming) “showered continuously with cold water (approximately 920 ml/min at 10 degrees C) on their backs accompanied by a 6 km/h wind for up to 4 hours.” FOR UP TO FOUR HOURS??!? And it wouldn’t be right to just try to freeze them solid without also taking large quantities of their rapidly thickening, milkshake-like blood. So “blood samples were taken from the nondominant arm every 30 minutes during the exposure….” It’s hard to imagine that either arm was very dominant at that point.
Finally, it’s reported that “three subjects lasted the maximum duration of 4.5 hours for control and fatigue trials…” with “final rectal temperatures” of about a degree centigrade below normal. To stay that toasty, these three could only be aliens from some very cool planet. After everything that went before, the fact that there was any final act, even if it involved taking rectal temperatures with thermometers the size of Louisville Sluggers, would have to be considered almost an act of kindness. What’s left unsaid in the article summary is what happened to the ten victims who weren’t among those who “lasted the maximum duration….” Are they still in a large deep freeze somewhere in Toronto? If not, then how fast and how far did Peter Tikuisis have to run to get away from the subjects who weren’t Fudgesiclized once their hypothermia wore off?
Volunteers please raise your hands.
The ALA Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP), with the support of the American Association of Law Librarians (AALL), is pleased to announce a new copyright education course delivered via e-mail. The Online Copyright Tutorial, the first project of ALA's Copyright Education program, is free to all ALA and AALL members. Non-ALA members can also participate by mailing their e-mail address along with a $25 dollar check or purchase order payable to the American Library Association. ALA cannot accept credit cards. Please send mail to the Washington Office address:
American Library Association
Washington Office
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 403
Washington, DC 20004-1701
The Online Copyright Tutorial is designed for librarians (public, school, academic, etc.), educators, and researchers. Sub-scribers need only have an e-mail address to learn the "basics" of copyright at a friendly and instructive pace. Approximately three e-mail messages per week over a ten-week period (about 35 messages overall) will be sent. Messages will be sent beginning the week of February 14th through the week of May 5th, 2000. For more information, see ALAWON, vol. 9, no. 2, http://www. ala.org/washoff/alawon/alwn9002.html
All librarians are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity by subscribing to the Online Copyright Tutorial e-mail list. To subscribe:
Staff at the Washington Office will subscribe non-ALA members once we receive payment. All subscribers will receive confirmation that their name and e-mail addresses have been included in the tutorial list. The deadline for all subscribers is February 10, 2000.
For more information about ALA's Copyright Education Program, contact Carrie Russell, OITP copyright specialist, at 1.800.941.8478, or e-mail: copyright@ alawash.org.
| OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE CHAIRS 1999 / 2000 | |
| Elected Officers | |
| President | Glenn Pflum |
| President-Elect | Paul Blomquist |
| Secretary | Gene Stortz |
| Treasurer | Jeff Kuntzman |
| Past-President | Pat Nelson |
| Appointed Officers | |
| CQ Editor | Lynne Fox |
| CQ Associate Editor | Jeff Kuntzman |
| Mailing Coordinator | Sara Katsh |
| Membership Database Coordinator | Shelley Coleman |
| Parliamentarian | Jerry Carlson |
| Standing Committee Chairs | |
| Education | Marla Graber |
| Journal Locator | Catherine Reiter |
| Membership | Mary Kralicek |
| Internet | Lynne Fox |
| Nominating | Jenny Garcia |
| Ad Hoc Appointments | |
| Colleague Connection Representative | Lynne Fox |
| Colorado Library Marketing Council Rep. | Suzanne Kaller |
| MCMLA 2K Conf. Planning Committee Chair | Lisa Traditi |
| 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, Lynne Fox; Assistant Editor, Jeff Kuntzman; Contributors, CCML members. |
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