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the Newsletter of the School of Medicine Library, 2002-2003 In Review Increase in Partnerships and Grants
Educational Partnerships Growth
Digital Library Expansion
Naming of Charles S. Bryan History of Medicine Room and Creation of New Endowment
I would like to thank the Library faculty and staff for their excellent work this past year. As evidenced by this report, they have continued to strengthen the Library's resources and services for our users.
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On July 1st Sarah Gable and Kasey Albert, traveled to
Bennettsville, South Carolina to visit Care South Carolina Inc., the family
medicine center formerly known as McLeod Family Medicine. Since October
2001, medical students have been rotating to Bennettsville to obtain rural health
care training. Care South Carolina Inc. has received students during their
rotations since June 2003. Upon arrival at the clinic, the librarians were graciously
welcomed by Marsharika Moody, the Education and Research Director of the
clinic. The purpose of their visit was to introduce Marsharika to the variety of
electronic resources available to the faculty and students at the facility. These
resources are provided by the USC School of Medicine Library. By training the
education directors of these remote, rural medical facilities, they become better
equipped to assist medical students and faculty in using the library's electronic
resources. Marsharika was shown how to search SCarlit, the library online
catalog, place a request in ILL Express, the interlibrary loan ordering system, and
navigate the electronic journals and database web pages. She also was shown
effective ways to search more complicated database systems like Ovid,
MDConsult, STAT!Ref, and PubMed. Sarah and Kasey thoroughly enjoyed the
opportunity to visit the clinic and reported that their outreach efforts were a
success. During previous years, training has also been provided to the education
directors of the clinics of Winnsboro and Kershaw. The librarians look forward to
revisiting these centers in the near future.
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Since no library has the resources to purchase or the
space to house everything its users might need, the Interlibrary Loan Department
plays a vital role in meeting those needs. With the growth in research and the
resultant growth in the number of publications librarians have turned to
automation to make it possible to supply the information requested. Not only
are more documents provided but also the time required to fill a request has
decreased remarkably. When transactions were handled manually by mail two
weeks for delivery was considered very reasonable. Now documents are
sometimes obtained electronically in a matter of several hours. Meanwhile the
number of staff assigned to this area has remained constant. In the fall of 2002,
the School of Medicine Library implemented the ILLiad system and brought up
ILL Express! on the Library's web site. Once registered, it is easy for faculty and
students to enter requests and then track the progress of the item, with the
capability of retrieving the document electronically from the web site.
Journal articles comprise the majority of items borrowed through Interlibrary
Loan (ILL) for USC School of Medicine Library users as well as the majority of items
sent to other institutions at their request. As you can see from the chart below
our borrowing and lending has increased over the last 3 years with the biggest
increase in coming in the last fiscal year. We attribute this partially to ILLiad,
because it allows better maintenance of the requests, and the provision of fast
and efficient service.
Recently, we received congratulations from Beth Wescott, Network Access
Coordinator with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Southeastern
Atlantic Region in Baltimore (our regional medical library). Our Interlibrary Loan
Department was the top-performing library in our region for filling DOCLINE
(interlibrary loan) requests in the January-March 2003 quarter. Of the 98 libraries
in the Southeastern Atlantic Region, we are the highest this quarter!
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On the afternoon of July 10th the School of Medicine
Library faculty and staff ventured out to Saluda Shoals Park for their annual
strategic planning retreat. The Staff Enrichment Committee was commissioned
to provide refreshments for the event. Lisa Antley-Hearn, Laura Howell, Roz
McConnaughy, and Ellen Reynolds proved that they know how to put the "Treat"
in "Retreat". They secretly planned a sweet surprise by kicking off the event with
a Ben and Jerry's ice cream party. While everyone blissfully devoured their
decadent desserts, Ruth Riley tested everyone's acumen with a list of trivia
questions. Many questions were related to the recently calculated annual
statistics: Q-How many reference questions did we answer this year? A- 7, 853.
Others were just for fun: Q- Who said "Don't worry about senility-when it hits you,
you won't know it?" A-Bill Cosby. Once the sugar buzz wore off, the staff
reviewed a lengthy list of goals and projects to be considered for the coming
year. Among them were the following:
Currently, the strategic plan draft awaits review by the Library Committee in
October.
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On May 15th friends, students, colleagues and family
members gathered at the Palmetto Club to honor Dr. Fred Roper on the
occasion of his retirement. Dr. Roper has served for 17 years as the Dean of the
College of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina.
He has worked to further the field of medical librarianship for a period of forty
years as a librarian, an educator, a scholar and a member of professional
organizations. Within those organizations he has consistently assumed leadership
positions, serving on the Board of Directors and then as President of the Medical
Library Association. He has received much national recognition and is a Fellow
of both the Medical Library Association and the Special Libraries Association. He
is a recipient of MLA's Marcia Noyes Award and SLA's John Cotton Dana Award.
He is co-author of Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health
Sciences and is currently updating the text in preparation for publication
of the fourth edition.
During the time Dr. Roper has served as Dean, the College of Library and
Information Science and the School of Medicine Library have had a close
working relationship. SOM Library faculty have served as adjunct faculty for the
College, and the College has provided a source for many excellent students
who work in the Library as graduate assistants or as interns. We wish him success
in all his future endeavors.
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A link to PrimateLit, a bibliographic database providing
access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates, was recently added to
the Library's "Databases" page. It covers the time span from 1940 to the present
and indexes all types of publications (books, articles, technical reports,
dissertations, abstracts, book chapters, etc) and many pertinent subject areas.
Included, is Current Primate References (CPR), a subset providing a broad
subject approach to recently indexed citations.
PrimateLit is a collaborative project of the Wisconsin and Washington Primate
Research Centers. Support is provided financially by the National Center for
Research Resources, NIH and technically by the University of
Wisconsin-Madison's Library Technology Group.
To use, just click on Databases
under Electronic Resources on the Library's frontpage.
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There are fourteen geographic Chapters affiliated with
the Medical Library Association (MLA), and two elected representatives from
each of the fourteen Chapters form a Council. This Council exists to represent
the interests of the individual Chapters at the national level as well as to
facilitate communication among Chapters and between individual Chapters
and the national organization. MLA's Chapter Council elects its own officers,
and for the past three years Sarah Gable has served as the Southern Chapter
Representative to Chapter Council. At the 2003 Annual Meeting of MLA, she
was elected Council Chair-Elect. She will serve one year in this capacity, and
will then assume the office of Chair for a period of three years. As Chair of the
Chapter council she will also serve in an advisory capacity on MLA's Board of
Directors.
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Two years ago, the Center for Disability Resources
(CDR) Library moved to its new home within the School of Medicine Library. As
awareness of the CDR Library has increased, so has the library usage statistics.
Below is a table of the usage statistics for the CDR Library over the past two
years. The CDR Library received 905 reference questions from July 2002 to June
2003. This is a 214% increase in reference questions compared to the previous
year. 906 library items were checked out during this time period. This is a 217%
increase in library items checked out compared to the previous year. 406
mailers were used to loan library materials to individuals across the state the
second year.
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Starting on October 15th, 2003, The School of Medicine
Library's E-journal access will switch to TDNet, the new USC E-journal system now
available for all USC Libraries. TDNet access is in the same location on the SOM
Library homepage, as "E-Journals" on the top left.
The TDNet journals management system allows library users to browse by
Campus. When SOM patrons enter TDNet from the SOM campus, or from
network accounts through our Proxy Server, the default location for searching
TDNet is University of South Carolina School of Medicine Library
(USCM).
To access titles available to the Main Campus, use the drop down box to select
University of South Carolina Columbia (USCC). It is recommended if
you are unable to locate an e-journal title you are seeking, that you should
check additionally on the USCC section. While a concerted effort has been
made to add all medical- and biomedical-related titles to the School of
Medicine section, new titles become available constantly.
Searching for e-journals
Searching TDNet by Subject
Creating your own personal profile on TDNet
Online access dates, Print holdings, Tables of
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At the request of Dr. Richard Bell, Professor and
Chairman, USC School of Medicine Department of Surgery, Sarah Gable, Roz
McConnaughy, and Ruth Riley participated in Surgery Grand Rounds in
September. Using a patient case scenario provided by Dr. Bell, they provided
the residents, medical students, and faculty in attendance with tips on searching
Ovid, PubMed, e-textbooks, and other resources for evidence-based resources.
If you are interested in learning about evidence-based medicine resources, you
will find an excellent listing of resources on the Library's website in the Electronic Resources
section.
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USC University Libraries Science, Technical & Medical Information Users Task Force
USC University Libraries OPAC Team USC University Libraries Managed Printing Task Force
SOM Curriculum Committee Independent Learning Subcommittee SOM Curriculum Committee SOM Continuing Medical Education Organization Steering Committee SOM Executive Committee SOM Computer & Communication Resources Advisory Committee
SOM Library Committee
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STAT!Ref now allows users to set their own display
options. By clicking the "Sign in to My STAT!Ref" link, users may set up a profile
enabling them to:
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