Informatics Fair To Be Held In October
Submitted By Paul Blomquist
The October 28th meeting of the Colorado Council of Medical Librarians will begin with a business meeting at 8:30 a.m. in the Denver Medical Library at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center. Following the business meeting, we'll proceed across Franklin Street to Exempla Saint Joseph for the main program at 10:00a.m. in conjunction with the 7th Annual Informatics Fair. Scott Reents, our program speaker, will present on "Consumers' Use of the Internet for Healthcare Information"---this program will be open to all participants of the Informatics Fair as well as CCML members.
In his presentation, Mr. Reents will draw from his research on the impact of the Internet on the healthcare industry. Mr. Reents is an analyst with New York based Cyber Dialogue. He is the author of The Healthcare Industry in Transition; the Online Mandate to Change, a white paper commissioned by Intel Corporation, and Cybercitizen Health, Cyber Dialogue's ongoing study of consumer use of online health services.
After Mr. Reents' presentation, CCML members can sit in on other presentations such as "Managed Care and the Information Age" at 1:00 p.m. or "Controlled Medical Terminology" at 2:15 p.m. Also, vendor exhibits—including MD Consult, Web MD and Ovid--will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Feel free to drop in on the exhibition area during the wine and cheese reception at 4:15p.m. All Informatics Fair activities, other than workshops, will be open to CCML members at no charge.
Journal Locator Available In December
Submitted By Catherine Reiter
The 23rd edition of the Journal Locator: Colorado – Wyoming, containing the journal holdings information of 54 Colorado and Wyoming libraries, will be available in December 1999. The charge for participating libraries whose holdings have been updated since July 1, 1998 is $85 per copy. The charge for all other libraries is $110 for the first copy and $85 for each additional copy.
Copies of the new Journal Locator will be distributed at the December CCML membership meeting, which will be held at Denison Memorial Library, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Those who are unable to attend the meeting will receive their copies via the CCLS courier or, if necessary, U.S. mail. A $5 shipping and handling charge will be assessed for each copy delivered by U.S. mail.
Only enough copies to fill pre-publication orders will be printed, so please remember to return your completed memorandum of understanding to the Journal Locator Committee, no later than October 22, 1999. If you have not received a memorandum of understanding and you would like to order one or more copies of the Journal Locator, contact Catherine Reiter, Chair - CCML Journal Locator Committee, at Catherine. Reiter@uchsc.edu or (303) 315-6444.
SERHOLD Holdings On Web
Submitted By Catherine Reiter
To obtain a copy of your library's individual SERHOLD holdings information via FTP, go to http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/nnlm/docdel/ftp.select.html Enter your three-letter SERHOLD code, select "Midcontinental Region 4", and click on "Next". To format the list for printing from your word processor, follow these instructions provided by the NN/LM - MR staff:
$$$$ For Professional Development
Is your employer short on funds for professional development? Don't forget that as a CCML member you can tap into the CCML Professional Development Fund!
The Professional Development Fund is designed to encourage CCML members to participate in professional development opportunities. Special funds are designated to provide financial support to members who wish to attend regional continuing education courses and professional meetings or programs.
You can find information and guidelines, and the application form at the CCML web site: http://www.ccmlnet.org/profdev.html
You can also contact Dorothy L. Struble, Reference Librarian at Denver Medical Library, (303) 839-6670, for application forms or information.
Need information that may have been shared in an MEDLIB-L message? Use the MEDLIB-L Archives. Search the Archives by subject, author, or date or browse past postings week by week. The URL is: http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/medlib-l.html
Streamlined AHIP Forms
Submitted By Eileen Stanley, MLA Credentialing Committee Member
The MLA Credentialing Committee has released via MLANET its revised AHIP Application Packet. The revised forms (available for downloading) and revised Instructions for Applicants are available from the Academy web page, http://www.mlanet.org/academy/index.html This new packet can be for used by applicants seeking Member, Senior Member or Distinguished Member status, or renewing at one of these levels.
The new AHIP forms have been designed to make completing and reviewing them easier and faster. The BIO form collects and verifies biographical data that may in the future be used in an automated AHIP renewal process. The LEDGER form lists all the categories and candidate activities that the applicant should document and submit for the intended AHIP membership level. This form will be used in the peer review process, and will make reviewing of the application a much simpler task.
By providing the AHIP forms on MLANET, applicants can be assured of having and using the most current forms while reducing the processing time. The forms are printable as PDF files or downloadable as RTF (rich text format) documents. The RTF files can be completed using any word processing application, and can be printed and submitted with the appropriate fees. Electronic submission of the forms will not be supported because of the required documentation, which must accompany the forms. Requests for assistance in retrieving the forms or information about the credentialing process may be submitted to the Professional Recognition Coordinator at MLA Headquarters.
The Academy Web pages include eligibility requirements, application instructions, and an updated POINT INDEX of activities, points, and required documentation. All pages have been updated for clarity and ease of navigation.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Eileen Stanley, ehs@yahoo.com or (412) 383-3060.
Other contacts within the MLA Midcontinental Chapter include:
STN Training
Submitted By Paul Blomquist
Mark your calendars for training in searching STN International Databases, now planned at the Denison Library on January 24-27, 2000. STN International Online Service offers access to over 200 databases covering a broad range of scientific fields, including chemistry, engineering, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, regulatory compliance, patents, and business. Hedy Mulhausen Ph.D., an experienced STN trainer, will conduct a number of workshops at Denison for a variety of users, including those with little or no online searching experience, and those who are already familiar with (STN) online searching.
Three of the classes tentatively scheduled at Denison are as follows: STN Basics I, Structure Searching with STN Express, and Patent Basics. STN Basics is geared for individuals new to command line searching who want to learn to search databases using keywords. In the Structured Searching Seminar, both new and experienced searchers will learn to build chemical structures using STN Express software, find matches of substances in the REGISTRY file, and find related substance references in the CAplus file. In the Patent Basics Seminar, searchers will learn to use patent numbers to find records of interest, locate members of a patent family, locate patents associated with a specific inventor or patent assignee, and conduct multi-file patent searches and sort results by invention.
Future announcements on the CCML listserv will provide information on scheduling, fees, and additional classes. For questions or suggestions for other STN classes, call Paul Blomquist at Denison Library, (303) 730-2424.
Long Time Member Profile: Roz Dudden
Submitted By Mary Kralicek
Roz Dudden came to Colorado from Connecticut to teach skiing in 1966. After being a ski instructor in Aspen for three years, she decided to pursue a library science degree at the University of Denver. She graduated in 1970 and became a hospital librarian in 1971. Roz was employed at Mercy Medical Center from 1971-86. She was hired into her current position at National Jewish Medical and Research Center in 1986.
She joined CCML in 1971. When she joined, the meetings were casual with 3 meetings and a summer party annually. In 1973 she was selected to be secretary of the group because she was the newest member. After an individual was secretary, the next year they held the Office of Vice-President, and became President for the third year. 1975 was the year Roz became President. While she was president, the group discussed the possibility of becoming a consortium. Other items decided that year were creation of officer guidelines, elections for officers, and having six meetings a year. The first CE courses were offered by CCML. Lucretia McClure taught Reference and Lois Ann Colaianni taught hospital Library Management. Both esteemed librarians now have MLA national awards named after them.
Before the Journal Locator was created, each library in the group would bring enough copies of their serials list for each other library in the group and then they would trade serials lists at the January meeting. In 1977 the Journal Locator was first published. Those on the first committee with Roz were David Austin, Eleanor Krakauer, and Sara Katsh. Phil Heer from the University of Denver Library School wrote the computer program for the Journal Locator. It was decided that the project should be run on a cost recovery basis. The Journal Locator would cost $50.00 if thirty libraries would commit to participating.
As the deadline approached, only 26 libraries had committed to participating in the list. Roz called Bob Braude at Denison to see if Denison would give CCML a grant. He couldn't do that, but he could and did commit to purchase eight extra copies at $25 each so that the project could start. There were a lot of Journal Locators at Denison that year! The computer program written by Phil Heer was used from 1977-1984. PHILSOM was used to produce the list from 1984-1992, and the list is being produced with SERHOLD presently. Roz was Journal Locator committee chair for 13 years from 1978 to 1992.
The first Interlibrary Loan Survey of CCML libraries was first completed in 1977. Using it as a model and with the help of a committee, Roz conducted the surveys in 1985, 1991, 1992, and 1997. Before the group used the CCLS courier system, there were drop boxes at the Denver Medical Library. Each library would pick up and drop off exchanged materials. Mile High Mail was started in 1980 to exchange interlibrary loan requests via e-mail.
The courier and Mile High Mail were projects of the Denver Area Health Sciences Libraries Consortium, where Roz was the first coordinator in 1979 and the last in 1989. Other DAHSLC programs were cooperative journal acquisitions, an administrator's tea, CE courses related to supervision, and the study of and participation in integrated library systems.
On a national level, Roz is active in the Medical Library Association. She was treasurer of the Hospital Library Section in 1977 and president in 1988. She chaired the committee that wrote the hospital library standards in 1984. She was local arrangements chair for the 1984 MLA Annual Meeting in Denver. Roz bought her first microcomputer in 1984, a Macintosh with 128K of memory. With the assistance of a committee, she was the first to create with word processing the onsite daily newspaper for the convention. In 1992, the team effort she lead resulted in a $219,000 NLM grant to add 5 libraries to what is now the Impulse library catalog, http://library.uchsc.edu In 1995, Roz received the Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award, a national MLA award named after Colorado's own Brad Rogers and given for innovation in library technology.
The 1990s brought the Internet and World Wide Web to Roz's attention and in 1995, she created Denver's first hospital website for National Jewish, http://NationalJewish.org In 1996, she built web sites for two sections of MLA and helped with the CCMLNET site. Roz is currently serving on the board of the Medical Library Association, and, as a board member, she is working with the MLANET Editorial Board.
Roz credits all the great people and friends in CCML over the years for keeping her interested and excited in the new things libraries and librarians have done in the last 28 years. She advocates attendance at local, regional, and national meetings to find out what is new and exciting. Meeting attendance also provides ideas to solve library problems and create better service for the library user, whether through technology or personal involvement. Being of service to those who serve the sick, an old fashioned way of looking at healthcare, has been very meaningful in her life.
MEMBERSHIP NEWS
Submitted By Mary Kralicek
[NOTE: For complete information see printed Council Quotes - home information has been deleted from the electronic version of Council Quotes.]
If you have a colleague who may be interested in joining our organization but isn't sure the benefits of membership is worth the cost, now is the time to encourage them to join for six months at cost of 15.00. They will receive the Council Quotes, membership directory and other benefits of membership. The membership will run from October 1999-March 2000.
Update Your Directory
Please delete Mary Gray from your membership directory. She has left St. Mary-Corwin Hospital. Shannon O'Grady is the library contact.
Shannon O'Grady
Library Assistant
Finney Memorial Library
St. Mary-Corwin Regional Medical Center
1008 Minnequa Avenue
Pueblo, CO 81004-
T-(719) 560-5598
F-(719) 564-3018
E-mail shannonogrady@centura.org
Under the name of the hospital please add:
Michelle Carr, Director of Patient Services
T-(719) 560-5416
e-mail michellecarr@centura.org
Michelle Carr supervises the library and other departments at St. .Mary-Corwin.
There will be three Colorado sites hosting the teleconference "Libraries, Copyright, and the Internet," on October 14, 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. Conference panelists are Laura N. Gasaway, Univ. of North Carolina; Carrie Russell, ALA copyright specialist, and Trisha L. Davis, ARL.
Arkansas Valley Regional Library Service System and Pueblo Community College will jointly host the live teleconference at the Pueblo Community College, Academic Building, Room 170. Space is limited so please reserve a seat by e-mail, kristi@uscolo.edu, or call Kristi at (719) 542-2156. There will be a $20 fee.
Auraria Library and Media Center and Metropolitan State College will cosponsor another viewing site. The teleconference will show in the Media Center on the Auraria campus (street address: 1100 Lawrence St., Denver). A parking map is available at: http://www.ahec.edu/parking/parking.htm Call Terry Leopold, (303) 556-3452 for information.
Front Range Community College and Red Rocks Community College will also jointly host a viewing site at the Front Range campus library in Westminster. Reserve a seat by e-mail, larry.rouch@rrcc.cccoes.edu, or call Larry at (303) 914-6742. You may also contact Warren Taylor at Front Range CC: (303) 404-5498. Refreshments will be served at this site and the event is free.
MUSINGS FROM MAXWELL
Submitted By Dick Maxwell
There is, as you may or may not know, an Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada. Do you need any more proof that somewhere, if you look hard enough, you can find an organization tailored to your professional, ethnic, cultural, and personal needs as a nurse? It's possible, of course, that it may consist of you and just one or two other similarly-oriented folks, but that means that you will almost certainly become an officer! That has to look good on an evaluation.
We've all heard of the American Nurses Association (the ANA), probably of the Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN), and possibly the National League for Nursing (NLN, not to be confused with the other National Leagues, featuring such groups as the Rockies, the Broncos, and the Avalanche…the pay levels are a little different). How about the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (featuring a massive acronym, AWHONN, which, when said out loud, sounds like an artillery shell from the battleship Utah whizzing by)? There are literally dozens of others, for nurses in nephrology, critical care, neuroscience, rehabilitation, oncology, orthopedics (or orthopaedics, depending on the snooty level of your organization), and so on.
Nurse attorneys have their own organization (the AANA, in case you're keeping track), but it seldom meets since most members are in intense therapy for chronic multiple personality disorder, which often seems to be caused by a brutally honest self-evaluation followed by the individual filing suit against herself for malpractice.
There is an American Assembly of Men in Nursing, which is a nice idea, but the unfortunate lack of men in the profession (not to mention what appears to be a problem with self-esteem) turns up in a description of the organization, which says not only that its goal is "to enhance nursing by increasing the visibility of men in the profession," but also that "membership includes both women and men." !! Please…is no locker room sacred???
Every state seems to have its own organization featuring absolutely no originality in the name, leading to the Colorado Nurses' Association, the New Jersey Nurses' Association, and so on. One reason for the conformity is undoubtedly the safety provided by the WHATEVER-N-A acronym. The worst thing that could happen would be to pick a name, register it, have the stationery printed, and then discover that the acronym was overlooked. What if a group had named itself the Association of Nurses with Ankle Lesions (ANAL), for example? Not good. Nurses United in Taking Steroids (NUTS)? Unfortunate.
What we don't have here in the US of A, is a really strong organization that includes most nurses and even does the negotiating for the entire group. There's a name for such an organization, but since the Reagan years it hasn't been a good idea to even say the word "union," so it won't be mentioned here. But in countries such as Canada, Great Britain, and Australia, where health care is, shockingly, a benefit for all the citizens, there are usually a limited number of (big) bosses to deal with, so the nurses may be a little more cohesive.
In Great Britain, the Royal College of Nursing is the heavy hitter, with more than 300,000 members. At the very least, it has a much cooler name than any of our groups, even though the acronym is bloody dull. Impressive as the name is, however, a little investigation shows that you can't take classes in this college, and none of the frighteningly inbred royal family is involved (probably a good thing).
Another thing that British nurses have going for them is a journal that is their advocate in a style that you can find here only in the supermarket tabloids. It's called Nursing Times, is published weekly, and it does not put up with any funny stuff. For example, in issues from February of 1997, when the Conservative Party was still hanging on to power by its fingernails, this was a sample of a few headlines: "Ignore us at your peril!" "An increase of 3.3% isn't much to write home about—especially if it's paid in installments" "Tory boy" (an interview with the head of the National Health Service) "Can't pay claims rubbished" (NHS says it can't afford the 3.3% raise). It's only a matter of time until we see the simple but elegant, "Bite ME!"
Canada features, in addition to the Aboriginals, a number of organizations which appear to mirror the ones down here. No offense to the Canadians, but why don't they drop the pretense of being different and just ask if we'll take in a few more states? We even have most of the hockey teams now. What's left?
In Australia, the big uni…one is the Australian Nursing Federation. What sets it apart is that it's part of a megagroup called the Australian Council of Trade Unions. Because of America's obsession with the word "professional," it is considered poor taste for any group of workers to be part of a "trade," so nurses here would probably never join such an organization. It's a pity, because in Australia the nurses get to go to ACTU meetings with pals like flight engineers and attendants, breweries and bottleyards employees, meat cutters, collieres (need to look that one up), finance sector employees, musicians (always a potentially bad influence), federal gas employees, wool classers (who knows?), and the folks from the National Union of Workers, which must include absolutely everyone else. This would have to be more stimulating than just hanging out with a homogeneous bunch of intravenous therapy nerds. Right, Mate?
Get Connected To Internet Nursing Sites
Submitted By Ruth Gilbert
Tired of plowing through endless search engine results to find the best nursing web sites? Let AORN do it for you! AORN Journal's excellent column "Online Connections" is now available online at the AORN web site. To view a list of recent columns go to http://www.aorn.org/journal/columns.htm
Recent "Online Connections" topics have included:
The Impact Of Recent Copyright Legislation On Interlibrary Loan
Submitted By Catherine Reiter
Signed into law by President Clinton on October 28, 1998, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) [1] modifies the Copyright Act of 1976 in several areas of importance to librarians, including preservation of materials and distance learning. The change that has been the most confusing, to library personnel involved with interlibrary loan, relates to the kind of copyright notice that must be included on library copies.
The Copyright Act of 1976 requires libraries to fulfill three requirements to be eligible for the library exemption [Section 108(b)]. These requirements are:
Since 1976, libraries have complied with the third requirement by stamping photocopies with the American Library Association (ALA) recommended statement, "Notice: This work may be protected by copyright". However, changes to the law made in the DCMA have caused legal experts and librarians to re-examine "notice of copyright". Section 108(b)(3) now reads:
The reproduction and distribution of the work contains a notice of copyright that appears on the copy that is reproduced, or includes a legend stating that the work may be protected by copyright if no such notice appears on the work. [underlined section added in the DCMA]
Some legal experts interpret the new language to mean that instead of using the ALA stamp, libraries must now copy the actual notice of copyright that appears on an item and attach it to the photocopy. The notice of copyright, defined in Section 401(b) includes the word "Copyright", the abbreviation "Copr", or the symbol "©"; the name of the copyright owner; and the year of first publication, for example, © Catherine Reiter, 1999.
Laura Gasaway, Professor of Law and Director of the Law Library at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and a nationally recognized expert on library copyright issues, argues that the ALA stamp may be used now only when a copyright owner fails to provide copyright notice [2]. According to Ms. Gasaway, when making photocopies of journal articles, libraries must copy the actual copyright notice wherever it appears in a journal issue and attach the copy to the photocopied article
As a result of Ms. Gasaway's interpretation, many libraries, including Denison Memorial Library, recently began copying the actual copyright notice, in lieu of using the ALA stamp. However, most are finding this process time-consuming since there is little consistency in where publishers place the copyright notice in their journal issues. In a few cases, there is no notice, but it takes time to search issues to determine this.
In response to questions from its members, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) asked Washington, D.C. attorney Arnold P. Lutzker to analyze the issue. He concluded that "if the copyright notice does not appear on an article in a journal issue …, stamping the article with a notice that the work may be protected under copyright is sufficient …" Mr. Lutzker's complete analysis of changes made by the DCMA is available at the ARL web site [3].
Based on Mr. Lutzker's analysis, which is endorsed by ARL, MLA, and others, Denison Memorial Library's new policy is as follows:
Regardless of the interpretation used to determine your interlibrary loan copyright compliance policy, it is important to provide users with some notification that an item may be protected by copyright. In the litigious world in which we work, with nervous publishers afraid of losing control of their intellectual property, it is more important than ever to follow the rules.
| 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. | OPEN |
| 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. |
Return to the CCML Main Page.
This page was last updated on 12 Oct 1999.
Direct questions about this page to Lynne Fox.
http://www.ccmlnet.org/CQSeptOct99.html