AUGUST PROGRAM AT THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
SUBMITTED BY GLENN PFLUM
The program for the August 26th meeting of CCML will be held at 9:30 am in the Torrey's Peak/Mount Evans Conference Room at The Children's Hospital on the sixth floor of the Health Center (see directions on the enclosed map). Our speaker is the Director of the National Child Abuse and Neglect Clinical Resource Center, Donald Bross, JD, Ph.D. The Clinical Resource Center provides information and consultation services on problems associated with child abuse and neglect. It is just one of many programs provided by the Kempe Center which is affiliated with both The Children's Hospital and UCHSC. Dr. Bross will present a brief history of the Kempe Center, and describe the various programs in education, research and consulting that are currently being offered. Our speaker is also planning on leaving time at the end for questions and discussion on issues surrounding advocating for children and protecting them.
REVISED CCML MEETING SCHEDULE
SUBMITTED BY GLENN PFLUM
There has been a change in the meeting place for CCML in December. The meeting will be held at Denver Health Medical Center instead of Swedish as previously indicated. For the rest of the year the schedule looks like this:
| August 26, 1998 | The Children's Hospital |
| October 28, 1998 | Longmont United Hospital |
| December 9, 1998 | Denver Health Medical Center |
| February 24, 1998 | V.A. Medical Center - Denver |
| April 28, 1999 | Annual Meeting at Regis University |
Programs have been planned for all of the meeting dates. If you do hear of any great programs, or have ideas for future ones, contact me and I will keep the information for another year.
MEETING REFRESHMENTS REIMBURSEMENT
SUBMITTED BY PAT NELSON
In response to questions about meeting refreshment expenses, the Executive Committee has agreed to reimburse membership meeting host libraries up to $150 per meeting. Receipts should be submitted to treasurer Jerry Carlson as soon as possible after the meeting is held.
PROVIDING LOANSOME DOC SERVICE
SUBMITTED BY CATHERINE REITER
The introduction of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) free, web-based Pub-Med search system has generated a new surge of interest in Loansome Doc. The Loansome Doc document ordering feature, which has been available to Grateful Med searchers for a number of years, also allows PubMed users to electronically order the full text of references identified in the Medline and PreMedline databases.
Before individuals can order documents via Loansome Doc, they must establish an agreement with a library that uses DOCLINE. Once a library has agreed to be an individual's Loansome Doc provider, the user is given the library's Library Identification Number (LIBID). The LIBID number must be entered when ordering articles via Loansome Doc.
Loansome Doc requests are routed electronically to DOCLINE, based on the library's LIBID. The library receives Loansome Doc requests along with other DOCLINE requests. If the requested items are available at the receiving library, they may be supplied following normal policies and procedures. If the items are not owned, requests are routed to another DOCLINE library that can supply the item(s). Completed items are sent directly to the end user, while the referring library is billed for any charges by the supplying library.
Libraries that agree to provide Loansome Doc service may specify which individuals they are willing to serve. NLM does not require Loansome Doc providers to supply documents to unaffiliated individuals. Libraries may also stipulate service charges, completion times, and delivery methods for Loansome Doc service.
Several Colorado libraries provide Loansome Doc service to their library users. Denison Memorial Library at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center offers fee-based Loansome Doc services to anyone in the state. Denison's standard interlibrary loan/photocopy service charges and policies apply to requests made via Loansome Doc. To register for Loansome Doc service at Denison Library, individuals may contact Peggy Pruim, Lending Technician, at 303-315-5639 or margaret.pruim@uchsc.edu.
For more information about Loansome Doc, or to become a Loansome Doc service provider, call the NN/LM-Midcontinental Region office in Omaha at 1-800-338-7657.
MEMBERSHIP NEWS
SUBMITTED BY BARBARA L. WAGNER
Virtual is the word this year, for committee meetings, CCML news, and probably the Joint Directory.
To facilitate networking, Lynne Fox has loaded two sections on the CCML web site for member contact information http://www.ccmlnet.org/index.html
You'll find the E-Mail List and the CCML Directory listing those members who gave permission for their directory information to be included on the web site, at least in part (e.g. library information). Plans include adding a mem-bership form to the site.
Currently CCML has 123 members. Recruitment is underway, so look for a copy of the CCML flier in this mailing. Pass it on with a note to someone you know would benefit from membership. The best way to encourage colleagues to join is through personal contact. After sending the flier, do give the person a call to follow up and tell the benefits continued, next page… you've gained. For all we get, the $25 a year membership fee is a real bargain!
Under discussion are virtual directories, both CCML and Joint Directory. To accommodate any member who can't get to the web site, the CCML membership committee will print a copy. However, most everyone has Internet access now. And those few who don't, could most likely access the directory from a library and print it out.
More information will be forthcoming soon about the possibility of a virtual Internet-based Joint Directory. This will be on the agenda for the September 10 CCML Executive Committee meeting.
So if you have any comments or suggestions for the Membership Committee, contact me at (303)274-5309 or toll-free at 1(800)484-9641, pin8561, e-mail at blwagner@tap.com or by FAX at (303)274-6103.
CORRECTION TO NOTE:
Please note a correction for your 1998-99 CCML directory for Karen Clark, Scientific Information Resources.
The correct web address should be http://www.csn.net/infosearch
CONGRATS TO JENNY!
SUBMITTED BY MARTHA BURROUGHS
Congratulations to Jenny Garcia, Librarian at Denver Medical Library and North Suburban Medical Center, on being designated a Senior member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals.
UPCOMING EVENTS
SUBMITTED BY KATE ELDER
INTERNET TRAINING
Plains and Peaks Regional Library Service System
| August 19 | Beyond E-Mail | 9am - 4pm |
| August 21 | Advanced HTML | 9am - 4pm |
| August 26 | Scanning and Graphics Techniques | 9am - 4pm |
MARC CATALOGING
One and one-half day workshops on cataloging. First 1/2 day session is basic cataloging; full day session is on MARC format. Instructor is Gretchen Redfield. Cost is $20 for one day, $25 for both days.
Arkansas Valley and Plains and Peaks Regional Library Service System
September 17 and 18.
Held at Woodruff Memorial Library, 522 Colorado Ave., La Junta
Contact: Reba Holmes, rholmes@csn.net or at (800) 748-3933, (719) 542-2156
Plains and Peaks Regional Library Service System
September 24 and 25
Held at Monahan Library, Northeastern Junior College, Sterling, CO
Contact: Dee Faraguna, bhagen@csn.net or at (800) 332-7335, (970) 356-4357
October 1 and 2
Held at United States Olympic Center, 1750 East Boulder, Colorado Springs, CO
Contact: Reba Holmes, rholmes@csn.net or at (800) 748-3933, (719) 542-2156
CONFERENCES
"Collisions on the Info-Highway," September 25, 8 am - 6 pm
Held at US West Advanced Technologies, Boulder
US West Advanced Technologies and the Boulder Technology Incubator are sponsors of this first Regional Conference of the Association of Independent Information Professionals, hosted by the Colorado Information Professionals Network at the University of Colorado Research Park.
Contact: Barbara Wagner
"Who do we think we are?" Colorado Library Association Annual Conference
October 15, 1998 through October 19, 1998
Held at the Double Tree Hotel, Colorado Springs
The annual conference of the Colorado Library Association provides training, exhibits and networking for all types of libraries.
For additional information, visit the 98 CLA Conference Web Page at http://douglas.lib.co.us/cla98.
INTERNET (CURIOSITY) CORNER
SUBMITTED BY MARY WALSH
THE MUSEUM OF QUESTIONABLE MEDICAL DEVICES
http://www.mtn.org/quack
A SOCIAL HISTORY OF CONJOINED TWINS
http://zygote.swarthmore.edu/cleave4b.html
MUM: MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
http://www.mum.org/index.html
INVENTURE PLACE, THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME!
http://www.invent.org/
MUSINGS FROM MAXWELL
SUBMITTED BY DICK MAXWELL
Anyone who has made it through the eighth grade (the answer to the question you have inserted here is "Yes: in 1960…on the first try") has been exposed to some sort of description of "growth and development." Depending on how early it was presented, it may have resulted in anything from shock, disgust and terror, to an overwhelming sense of inadequacy, to an extremely obnoxious and superior attitude, combined with-of course-popularity. The last was always someone else, of course.
So there's not much new to talk about except facts we've all heard before, and facts are dangerous to work with since they can be checked and verified. As an alternative, here are some other uses of the word "growth" as they popped up in a general search of Internet sites. A general search of Internet sites, by the way, is the perfect method to use if you need kilotons of information about something, and have several decades to go through it, looking for something pertinent. Luckily, pertinence wasn't an issue for this particular search.
Economic growth: expansion of the Economy, which has something to do with all of our money combined, and is studied by Economists, who forecast Economic Trends, and have approximately the same record of forecasting success as the guy at the racetrack who, after studying the racing form for hours, invariably picks the horse who could go slower only by cantering backwards.
Population growth: the phenomenon by which reproduction outpaces death, leading to more and more people standing in the Express Line (ten items or less/fewer) when you simply want to purchase a pack of gum. It's often the result of allowing people of the opposite sex, with hormones but no clue about how babies are made (they have NOT encountered the information on growth & development), to spend unsupervised time together.
Job growth: this is one that chambers of commerce and city development (the other word, remember) offices love to talk about…as in "East Donuthole showed positive job growth for the entire fiscal year, thanks to the mayor's visionary leadership." This means that, while your particular job, paying approximately a living wage, went away overnight as part of a right-sizing, it was replaced by six new local positions featuring nice paper hats and French fries.
Exponential growth: your job which went away was replaced by 36 "service economy" positions in the restaurant industry. You might remember from a math course that this would be the number six, squared, or six to the second power. The exponent would be 2 in this case. Therefore, the growth can be called "exponential." You won't need to remember any of this, since the cash register you'll be working with has little pictures of the menu items on the buttons you push, not numbers or prices. The term might also apply to the weight increase you will notice after a few months of enjoying the free meal benefit at your new place of employment.
Regional growth: this is when most of the 25 pound weight increase just mentioned is concentrated in the hips.
Old growth: the part of the forest in which the trees are large and ancient, and therefore especially desirable for producing telephone poles, mailbox posts, and toothpicks…or the expansion of potential grouchy retirees as the Baby Boomers (the annoying result of a postwar spurt in population growth), are dragged kicking and screaming into their golden years.
Crop growth: this is probably the oldest form of growth that mankind is familiar with, beginning when our hunter-gatherer ancestors first realized that some of the brownish material they had been gathering, which had a pretty foul odor and which the animals depositing it didn't seem to want, was actually making plants grow faster in the areas where they tossed it on the ground for storage. After many centuries of unpleasantness, chemical fertilizer made its appearance, sometimes poisoning the environment, but at least allowing us to avoid having to handle the other stuff.
And speaking of agriculture, also turning up in the Internet search was a product called "PorciMetrix Swine Growth Modeling Software." You may have thought that pigs would be a relatively easy product to grow…after all, THEY ARE PIGS! Toss them some food ("slop," remember?), and give them some more when that's gone. No, no. That's how you grow Sumo wrestlers. It's not that simple if you want pigs who are enormous, but not fat. That's where the PorciMetrix software is so handy. With a few clicks of your mouse - the plastic one - you are able to calculate exactly how much carefully engineered slop to give each Wilbur or Petunia to produce the precisely proper proportion of prime pink pork. The result might be an opportunity to leave the service industry behind, using swine to bring about a period of personal, controlled, exponential and sustainable growth for your very own economy.
…and, by the way, you probably should have that growth on your neck that looks a lot like the late President Filmore checked.
That's all, folks.
1998-1999 CALENDAR
| 1998 | |
| July | 9 Exec. Committee meeting 27 Council Quotes deadline |
| August | 5 Mailing deadline 12 Mailing 26 CCML meeting |
| September | 10 Exec. Committee meeting 28 Council Quotes deadline |
| October | 7 Mailing deadline 14 Mailing 28 CCML meeting |
| November | 9 Council Quotes deadline 12 Exec. Committee meeting 18 Mailing deadline 25 Mailing |
| December | 9 CCML meeting |
| 1999 | |
| January | 14 Exec. Committee meeting 25 Council Quotes deadline |
| February | 3 Mailing deadline 10 Mailing 24 CCML meeting |
| March | 11 Exec. Committee meeting 22 Council Quotes deadline |
| April | 7 Mailing deadline 14 Mailing 28 CCML annual meeting |
| 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. |
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