OCTOBER PROGRAM AT LONGMONT UNTIED HOSPITAL
SUBMITTED BY CAROL McMURRAY & GLENN PFLUM
There will be two speakers for the October 28th CCML meeting at Longmont United Hospital. One of our speakers will be Joan Napolilli, who is Vice President for Patient Care Services. She will speak briefly about Longmont United Hospital's plan to become a Planetree Hospital.
Our main speaker will be Michelle Bowman. The title of her program is "Integ-rating Complementary/Alternative Therapies Into Hospitals." Michelle Bowman, BSN, RN, C., is the Manager of the Complementary Therapy Department and the Senior Wellness Department at Longmont United Hospital. She is a member of the Leader-ship Council for the American Society on Aging (ASA). In 1994, she traveled to China with ASA to meet with the Chinese Commission on Aging in order to study aging in China and Chinese medicine. Michelle lectures nationally on the integration of complementary medicine into the Western medical model.
SPOTLIGHT ON LONG-TIME MEMBER MARGARET BANDY
SUBMITTED BY BARBARA L. WAGNER
Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado, now an Exempla Healthcare facility, has had the good fortune of having Margaret Bandy at the helm of its Medical Library for 20 years.
A dedicated staff (including Dorothy Sullivan, Library Assistant since 1965 and annual Bolder Boulder finisher) and developments over time have kept her job interesting. New technology, space planning, and the consumer health movement are three examples of those developments. The new libraries - very handsome - opened in December, 1996, in the new Russell Pavilion building. Disaster was narrowly averted when the architect said "all the information is on the computer, so you don't really need much space." Fortunately the physician on the committee responded: "Let me tell you how doctors really use a medical library!"
For Margaret and staff, planning and moving to the new facility was the high point of their many years together. Margaret recalls that moving from the 11th-floor tower (under the helipad) was quite an experience since the new library was barely born and almost ready to face the world, but not quite finished. Fortunately the major part of the move was done over Christmas so the users weren't too inconvenienced.
The William V. Gervasini Memorial Library for Patients, Families, and the Community gives visitors a serene, comfortable place to learn about health topics or to escape the clinical hospital atmosphere. It feels like a living room, yet functions as a modern information center-complete with videos, CD-ROM databases, and Internet access. The Medical Library design benefited from the Gervasini Library décor and ambiance, and includes seven computers for end-user access to the Internet and other resources.
Cooperative projects with Susan Brandes at Exempla Lutheran Medical Center Library are paving the way for a closer working relationship. One project is a joint license to Ovid Web Gateway and 60 full-text journals-a cost efficiency benefiting both libraries.
A Chicago native and graduate of Rosary College Library School, Margaret had an excellent, practical start in medical librarianship at Yale University and the University of Connecticut. She served both institutions as an outreach librarian when MEDLARS was in its pre-natal gestation.
Time out for fun at the Grand Forks (ND) Public Library gave way to Denver and St. Joe's, when husband Charles came to direct Denison Library in 1978. PS: Margaret reports his second career (started in 1991) is going well. She enjoys the free massages-what a perk-from her own private therapist, in-house! Their son John, who grew up laughing at the various library acronyms he heard, recently married and accepted a position with Meadow Gold Dairy in Denver.
Since 1979 Margaret has participated in the Colorado Council of Medical Librarians, serving as President in 1983. Margaret was also active in DAHSLC-the Denver Area Health Science Libraries Consortium. It served its metro-area participants with Medline training and other joint projects until its facilitated demise.
Her memories of early days with CCML include fun with the 1981 MCMLA meeting planing committee; teaching with other CCML members at DU (one member was asked by a library school student "do hospital librarians see a lot of blood?"); working on CCML incorporation in 1983; the first Colleague Connection in 1983; the infamous HLS meeting at the 1984 MLA in Denver; Journal Locator (AKA Union List) committees; and most of all, her great CCML colleagues. She values the friendships she's made, and is grateful for the networking with CCML members that has enriched her professional life.
BOOK REVIEW
SUBMITTED BY ROMA MARCUM
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.: Furthering Access to The World's Information for 30 Years. by, Dr. K. Wayne Smith.
An address, given on May 21, 1997, to The Newcomen Society of the United States, on the history of OCLC.
Mr. Robert H. Jeffrey introduces Dr. K. Wayne Smith, 3rd President and CEO of OCLC, as the "Whiz Kid". The "Whiz Kid" embarks us on a fascinating and evolutionary voyage. He navigates us through 30 years of OCLC history, two Harvard presidents, and a vision of cooperation, sharing, and "working together for the public good". Dr. Smith contends the 'Information Age' will bring more accessibility to global information and reduction in information costs. It is most informative and very interesting reading. (24 pp. New York: The Newcomen Society of the United States, 1997.)
DENISON REINSTATES INTERLIBRARY LOAN (ILL) CHARGES FOR ISABELLE T. ANDERSON COLLECTION MATERIALS
SUBMITTED BY CATHERINE REITER
In May 1993, Denison Memorial Library eliminated charges for Isabelle T. Anderson (ITA) collection materials requested via ILL by CCML member institutions. This policy was adopted "to encourage [CCML members'] use of the professional library science literature" (Council Quotes, May 1993; 16(3): 5).
Over the past five years, Denison Library's ILL transactions have increased substantially, while CCML members have rarely requested ITA materials via ILL, making it increasingly difficult for Denison staff to keep track of this exception to policy. For this reason, Denison Library will reinstate charges for supplying ITA materials via ILL, effective November 1, 1998.
In lieu of using ILL, CCML members are eligible to receive individual Denison Library reciprocal borrowing cards, at no charge, in order to check out ITA materials. To obtain a reciprocal borrower's card, members are required to present proof of CCML membership, complete a Denison Library borrowing privileges application form, and sign a statement agreeing to abide by Denison Library's borrowing policies.
For members who are located outside of the metro area, or who are unable to visit Denison Library to register for borrowing privileges and/or to check out ITA materials, the following two options are available:
Cooper Wood, a member of CCML's Education Committee and the Denison Library/ITA collection liaison, provides Denison Library application forms at CCML membership meetings. Cooper will return completed forms to Denison's circulation department, and cards can be delivered to members via the CCLS courier or U.S. mail. With advance warning, Cooper can check out ITA materials to CCML member registered borrowers, and deliver these items at regular membership meetings. Cooper can also return items borrowed by CCML members to Denison Library. To arrange for this service, please contact Cooper at 303-315-6440 or cooper.wood@uchsc.edu.
For individuals who are unable to attend regular CCML meetings, Carole Hirschfield, a CCML member and head of circulation at Denison Library, can send application forms, and check out and send materials to CCML member registered borrowers, via the CCLS courier or U.S. mail. Contact Carole at 303-315-5129 or carole.hirschfield@uchsc.edu.
Borrowers may renew items via telephone at 303-315-7469, or via the IMPULSE online catalog at http://library.uchsc.edu/. For questions regarding the ILL policy for ITA materials, please contact Catherine Reiter at 303-315-6444, or through email at: catherine.reiter@uchsc.edu.
CREATING CHANGE IN CHALLENGING TIMES:
MARKETING TOOLS FOR LIBRARIANS
SUBMITTED BY LINDA VAN WERT
The Colorado Library Marketing Council is jointly sponsoring a two-day marketing workshop at three Colorado locations.
The first is being offered as a pre-conference with the CLA conference (October 16th & December 10th) in Colorado Springs/Pueblo.
Then, the Plains and Peaks Library System will be co-sponsoring the workshop on November 19th in Estes Park and January 14th in Longmont.
The final series will be offered in the Grand Junction area in February and March, 1999. The registration fee is $50 and participants must commit to attend both sessions and complete a project between the sessions. To find out more, please contact Linda Van Wert at 303/861-6398 or vanwert.linda@tchden.org
DENISON LEADS THE STATE IN PROVIDING FREE DISSERTATIONS
SUBMITTED BY PAUL BLOMQUIST
Denison Memorial Library, at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC), is the first library of higher education in Colorado to provide free electronic access to campus dissertations. The UMI Dissertations Abstracts database, a central point of access to graduate literature, is now available for searching at no cost to UCHSC users through the Denison Library Web Page.
Utilizing UMI's Web-based service, UCHSC users can access campus dissertations from 1997 to the present. UMI's ProQuest Digital Dissertations Service allows campus Web users to search UCHSC titles and order free digital copies in Adobe Acrobat PDF format for immediate downloading.
Rick Forsman, Director of Denison Library, observes, "It is important for the library to widely disseminate knowledge to our users. This database provides access to the knowledge that is generated on this campus. This cooperation between UMI and the campus provides mutual advantages-UMI not only archives and makes available our dissertations to others, but now our campus has immediate free access to this information."
NEED HELP WEEDING YOUR COLLECTION?
GOOD HELP IS JUST A HOP AWAY
SUBMITTED BY LINDA VAN WERT
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Many of you know Butter Van Wert, Linda's book-eating rabbit. She is available for "de-acquisitions" but she can only handle books on the lowest shelves. She has very good taste in books, and to date has devoured 25% of the books on the "100 Best Books of the Century" list. The book she is currently enjoying in this picture is called Why literature is bad for you, by Peter Thorpe (1980). Really. |
UPCOMING EVENTS
SUBMITTED BY KATE ELDER
CONFERENCES AND EVENTS
Rocky Mountain Book Festival, sponsored by Colorado Center for the Book November 7-8, 1998 at the Denver Merchandise Mart, Denver.
"Click on Learning, Click on Kids" 1999 Colorado Educational Media Association (CEMA) Conference
February 18-20, 1999 at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs.
Preliminary information available at http://www.aclin.org/other/education/library/cema/99conf.html
CLASSES Plains and Peaks Regional Library Service SystemOctober 20-22 PowerPoint 6 PM - 9 PM October 21 Scanning and Graphics Techniques 9 AM - 4 PM October 23 Advanced HTML 9 AM - 4 PM October 27 Windows 95 9 AM - 4 PM October 29 Intermediate Excel 9 AM - 4 PM
All Internet training is held in the Plains & Peaks Computer Lab, 530 Communications Circle, Suite 205, Colorado Springs. Call the PPRLSS Office 719-473-3417 or 1-800-332-7181 to register, or for more information.
TriPath Electronic Resources and Training Materials (a project sponsored by the Three Rivers and Pathfinders Library Systems)
Includes an Introduction to the Internet course, along with others (geared to school librarians and administrators); available online at http://www.colosys.net/three/training.html
1999 CLA LEGISLATIVE WORKSHOP & LUNCHEON
SUBMITTED BY SUE COLDREN
What: 1999 Colorado Library Association Legislative Workshop & Luncheon
When: Wednesday February 18, 1999 from 8:00 am to 1:15 pm
Where: Denver Public Library (Main)
Schedule: The morning workshop will cover current legislative issues and suggested advocacy techniques. Continental breakfast included. Luncheon with our legislators starts at noon, followed by a debriefing after lunch.
Registration information will follow later in the year on listservs and in association newsletters.
Contacts:
Patti Bateman
Aurora Public Library
(303) 739-6594
pbateman@ci.aurora.co.us
Druet Cameron Klugh
Holme Roberts & Owen, LLC
(303) 866-0444
klughd@hro.com
MEMBERSHIP NEWS
SUBMITTED BY BARBARA L. WAGNER (& OTHERS)
New Members
Antoinettee (Toni) Freeman
Reference Librarian, Columbine Library,
Jefferson County Public Library;
home in Evergreen, Colorado.
Marcy Phelps, Student
Library and Information Services Program,
University of Denver;
home in Lakewood, Colorado.
Tone Mendoza, Supervisor of Library Services,
Health Sciences Library,
Saint Vincent Hospital and Health Center Billings, Montana.
Lisa Blankenship
University of Northern Colorado Libraries, Greeley.
Changes:
At the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care, Christine Butler replaced Deborah Rudnick who moved to Berkeley to study for her Ph.D.
Catherine Reiter has a new fax number: (303) 315-6255.
Cooper Wood has a new home address and telephone number: 1250 Humboldt St., #302, Denver, CO 80218, (303) 866-0868
E-Mail addresses not in printed Membership Directory (research by Martha Burroughs):
Cheryl Capitani
Ccapitani@pinnaclehealth.org
Deanna Malament
dmalamen@centura.org
Susan Tweedell
dcmh@wic.net
Doreen Ward
Education_Desk@tetonhospital.org
Alice Ylarraz
aylarraz@lhs.net.com
OTHER CORRECTIONS
In your CCML Directory, the correct URL for Karen Clark is:
http://www.csn.net/infosearch
Jenny Garcia's most current email is:
jenny.garcia@columbia.net
Margaret Bandy's new email address is:
bandym@exempla.org
ST. MARY CORWIN HOSPITAL LIBRARY UPDATE
SUBMITTED BY SANDY HUDOCK, FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF SO. COLORADO
Finney Memorial Library at St. Mary Corwin Hospital has entered into a partner-ship with the University of Southern Colorado Library to provide library services. Heather Jordan is the on-site library technician. She is available at St. Mary Corwin from 11:30-2:30 Mondays through Fridays, and at USC from 8:00-11:00 throughout the week. Requests can be made at the hospital by phone: (719)560-5598, by fax: (719)564-3018, and via internet forms located at: http://www.uscolo.edu/smc/index.html
Currently listed as an OCLC nonsupplier, we are in the process of cataloging the collection, and when that is accomplished, will become lenders and participants in the BCR/AMIGOS and LVIS cooperative lending consortiums. Finney Memorial continues as a Docline participant, and is in the process of updating its Serhold list to provide more accurate information to requesting libraries.
HEY LIBRARIAN, CAN YOU SPARE A COPY?
OR, SANDI TALKS ABOUT REPLACEMENT THERAPY
[EXCERPTED FROM EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE WITH SANDI PARKER'S PERMISSION]
Sandi had occasion recently to ask the NLM about a citation that was missing from the Medline database. The resulting correspondence may surprise you (or not, depending on how long you've been in the business). Thanks to Catherine Reiter for suggesting this item. - ed.
> Message one -- Sandi writes to the NLM:
-----Original Message-----
There was a huge article in the October 11, 1997 issue of Lancet that doesn't seem to have ever made it into Medline. It is entitled "Breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy; collaborative reanalysis of data from 51 epidemiological studies". It begins with page 1047.
We found it for our client by perusing table of contents in UNCOVER. Then we were able to locate the article in the OVID Core Biomedical Collection #1. But we could not find it in PubMed using the citation matcher or in Ovid searching on journal, volume, date, and page. Nor could we locate it in either resource using title words.
The full citation is Lancet, volume 350, October 11, 1997, page 1047-- (it is long!) You might want to check on it.
Sandi Parker
From: Parker Sandi
Sent: Friday, August 28, 1998 11:50 AM
To: 'custserv@nlm.nih.gov'
Subject: Missing citation
Head, Information Services
Denison Memorial Library
>> Message two -- the NLM responds:
Dear Sandi Parker:
Thank you for your interest in NLM products and services.
There may be several reasons why citations or journals are missing from MEDLINE. If the journal is owned by the NLM, but somehow it did not go through its normal indexing stream, NLM Index Section staff will handle the indexing and data entry as quickly as possible. The most common reason for a missing journal, however is non-receipt of an issue. If NLM does not yet own the issue in question due to a distribution or mail problem, a claim must be entered into the vendor system by our Serials Records staff. I checked the shelves and was unable to locate a copy of this issue in either the Reference Journal Collection or the NLM General Collection. Apparently this issue was never received, was claimed, but replacement issues have not yet been [received]. It has been our experience that some journals are harder to claim than others, and some issues may be out of print and require other actions to obtain copies. Regretfully, it is not possible to estimate when this indexing gap will be corrected. However, your report will be forwarded to the NLM's Serial Records staff for follow up.
[Name Omitted by CQ editor], Reference Librarian
National Library of Medicine
-----Original Message-----
Thank you for taking the time to respond and for the detailed explanation. However, if the National Library of Medicine can't get their hands on an issue of the Lancet from 1997, there is something very wrong in the world. (I am familiar with a network of librarians who might be a helpful resource in times such as these.) Good luck!
Sandi Parker
From: Parker Sandi
Sent: Monday, August 31, 1998 1:57 PM
To: 'ref@nlm.nih.gov'
Subject: RE: Call 26442: Missing citation
Head, Information Services
Denison Memorial Library
MUSINGS FROM MAXWELL
SUBMITTED BY DICK MAXWELL
(OF CCML AND PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION FAME)
There is absolutely no doubt that you should be exercising vigorously for around twenty or thirty minutes every day. Forget three times a week…that was last month's advice from the experts. Not the experts on TV, who offer you the equipment to flatten your chest and inflate your butt...or is it the other way around?...such as the amazing "Abdominizer," but the ones in the laboratories and on the campuses. They run the tests or do the surveys which tell you what to do and for how long. While the "greatest piece of exercise equipment ever sold" ($99.95 or three easy payments of $77.98 each) changes every four weeks or so, the scientific advice is guaranteed to be good for...well, for four weeks or so.
Exercise advice such as this may come from controlled population studies, or from surveys. These are the same techniques that are used to track all of our lifestyle foibles. They have in the past, for example, revealed the absolute truth about caffeine: either it's a friendly stimulant that will rip seconds off the time of your jog to the mailbox, or it is as benign as tapwater is supposed to be (except when tapwater is toxic or filled with back-stroking killer amoebas), or one sip will increase your cholesterol level to the point where the plaque on the walls instantly thickens, causing your arteries to resemble Tootsie Rolls left outdoors overnight as the temperature drops to thirteen below.
The researchers should be given credit for trying, though, and we all need to understand that if science didn't challenge its own sacred truths, constantly questioning the conventional wisdom, no one would ever get grant money or tenure.
So this month, the advice is to do something nearly every day.
What should we all be doing? Well, it can get a little confusing.
For a while, not too long ago, the conventional (daily newspaper-certified) wisdom was that you had to break a sweat to do yourself any good. Some people found ways of doing this, while others decided that it was preferable to die young but fresh and dry.
Then, just a few months ago, it was announced that 30 minutes a day…not even consecutive minutes…of any sort of activity, from marathon running to gardening, would whip most of us into shape. As usual, there was a "what we really meant to say" waiting to happen. Before too long, another study showed an impressive difference in benefits between vigorous exercise and the more casual variety. Basically, the harder you work at it, the longer you'll live. Haven't we heard that somewhere before?
What about those of us who adapted our exercise regimen to fit into the multiple-light activities per day recommendations? Are we completely out of luck? Certainly not. There are some adaptations that will make whatever you've been doing work just fine.
Take sex, for example. Some people were undoubtedly using it as a workout option. Combined with gardening, vacuuming, and walking the dog (not all at the same time…probably), it could make up an important portion of the well-balanced exercise diet. Unfortunately, another recent study of several thousand people-none of whom should ever be suspected of exaggerating about this particular topic-asked them about the frequency of their sexual activity. The results were discouraging. The average American does it once a week. Not nearly enough for any aerobic benefit under the new rules…unless it lasts 3 ½ hours each time.
Gardening? Well, it appears that it will only count if at least three tons of topsoil are moved around on at least an acre of rocky, wooded land. The only planting that would be of benefit would involve trees with at least a ten-inch trunk diameter…and no machinery, please.
"Light housework," so highly praised just a few months ago, would need to be made "heavy" to be useful. This might involve rearranging all the furniture in the house-dressers and antique anvils included-at least three times in a three-hour period. One session might be replaced with 432 trips from the recliner to the kitchen carrying low-fat snacks and diet drinks.
Walking still counts, of course, and can be good for people of all ages. The trick now is either to go very fast-the Olympic power-walk mode in which it appears that all of your joints have dislocated simultaneously-or to just keep on going. A couple of times around the block won't do it. The new guidelines: walk until you no longer recognize your surroundings and no one speaks your language. Your cellular phone should also be out of range. Your only option should be to turn around and try to retrace your steps. The return trip should take at least one light/dark cycle. Remember to wear good shoes.
Biking is an option but you'd need to cover multiples of the walking distance mentioned above, and then there's the seat. Generally speaking, as my brother once suggested, it wouldn't make a lot of difference if you removed the seat and just sat on the post. Before hopping on board, avid bicyclists might want to consider an actual list of potential problems outlined in an article from Clinics in Sports Medicine entitled "Clinical Syndromes Associated with Bicycle Seats." Prominently featured are "saddle sores," including skin ulceration, furuncles and folliculitis; and peripheral nerve problems such as pudendal neuropathy and impotence. If that's not enough, how about urethritis, prostatitis, hematuria, and that all-time favorite of male athletes: testicular torsion.
Gardening, anyone?
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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