Library Bulletin: March 2003

March 2003

LIBRARY SURVEY (LibQUAL +)

The library is preparing to launch a campus- wide survey which will ‘measure library service quality and identify best practices through the Association of Research Libraries LibQUAL+ program.’

The survey will be conducted via LotusNotes mail. We encourage you to participate in this venture so that we may more effectively serve your needs as we cater to the present and plan for the future.

The survey is entirely online and participation is voluntary. The survey will be launched on
March 31 and will run for three weeks. Your participation will take about 10 minutes of your time.
Mohamed Hussain

REFERENCE CHAT ROOM

Would you like to”chat” with a librarian? The library is currently piloting a test of a chat program called ‘Liveperson’. Between the hours of nine and five on weekdays, when there is no staff present at the Reference Desk, a librarian will be available to answer your questions via the chat room. A workstation is located in the vicinity of the Reference Desk for this purpose. All it requires is that the user click on a button to initiate the chat. A librarian will respond and the queries and answers are keyed into the text box. The entire transaction is displayed on the screen and the user may even request a transcript emailed to them.

Presently this pilot service is only available in the library. Eventually, we expect to expand the service to the library web page where it will be available to both local and remote users during specific times.

Come on in and help us test the service. Share your thoughts about it with us.
Mary Doherty

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

We are constantly trying new ways to promote the resources of the library. This is especially so with the electronic journals. On the tagged shelves which hold the hard copy of the currently received journals, users will now find a red dot near to the name of the journal. This red dot indicates the availability of the journal electronically via the Serials List on the library’s web page. Also, journals which are no longer received in hard copy, but are still available electronically will be so indicated by a book dummy bearing the red dot. The dummy will be shelved next to the last bound volume of the journal.

In the case of books, shelf signs will indicate that the book is available online either directly or via StatRef. This idea was the brainchild of Juannetta LeGree, Head of Access Services.
Mohamed Hussain/Juannetta LeGree

SERVICE ADJUSTMENT

Articles requested through Inter-Library Loan service must now be picked up at the Access Services Desk. At his time, books which were requested will continue to be distributed from the Inter-Library Loan office.

This is in keeping with the goal of creating a single service delivery point for materials whether they are books or serials checked out from our collection or if they are materials procured from other libraries.

You will also notice a different ILL request form which now gives you the option, when possible, to have your article delivered to your desktop in .pdf format . Mohamed Hussain

THE LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER

The printed catalog of slide and video resources available in the LRC will cease to exist. This is a part of the library’s goal to bring current information to the user’s desktop. A more efficient way of determining what the LRC has in its collection of videocassettes and other media formats is described below:

*Click on the CATALOG on the library’s web page.
* Select ANY WORD OR WORDS
* In the text box type the following:
diabetes and video?

This will retrieve all records which have the words ‘diabetes’ and ‘videotapes or videocasettes’. The list which reflects the most current information will provide you with information on all videos dealing with diabetes.
Similarly a search for ‘anatomy and slide?’ will provide a list material in slide format dealing with anatomy.
The question mark is the truncation symbol that ensures retrieval of records containing either videotape or videocassette

A REMINDER

Classes for PubMed will be offered the 4th Tuesday of every month at 2 pm in the Library. Classes for CINAHL and PsycINFO can also be arranged.
Contact Mary Doherty at extension 7453 for more information.

…And another

The photocopy service has been revised in terms of cost. All requests are $5.00 per article. This will cover the first 20 pages. All pages thereafter will cost and additional $.20 per page. This services will satisfy the needs of those users who would prefer not to do their own pulling and photocopying of materials held by this library. Forms regarding this revised service may be obtained from the Access Services Desk.

Users are encouraged to check the Serials List on the web page for electronic access to titles. In some cases users may print out articles from their computers at home or in the office.
Mohamed Hussain/ Juannetta LeGree

New Resources List

Compiled by Violet Evans

Gifts

Gifts of the Arlene and Abraham Shulman Otological Society:
•   Contemporary perspectives in hearing assessment / [by] Frank E. Musiek
•   [An] Introduction to the physiology of hearing / [by] James O. Pickles.
•   Microarrays for the neurosciences: an essential guide / [edited by] Daniel H. Geschwind, et. al.
•   Molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases / [edited by] Marie-Francoise Chesselet.
•   [The] Oxford handbook of memory / [edited by] Endel Tulving, et. al.
•   [The] Pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders / [edited by] Mark P. Mattson.
•   Psychiatric genetics: methods and review / edited by Marion Leboyer and Frank Bellivier.

Gifts of Dr. Alan Hertz:
•   Dying: facing the facts / [edited by] Hannelore Wass, et. al
•   [The] Rape victim: a project of the Committee on Women of the American Psychiatric Association / [by] Elaine Hilberman.
•   Transcendence of loss over the life span / [by] Patricia Weenolsen.

Monographs
•   Addiction recovery tools: a practical handbook / [edited by] Robert Holman, et. al Coombs.
•   AIDS doctors: voices from the epidemic / [by] Ronald Bayer…
•   Asian Americans: vulnerable populations, model interventions, and clarifying agendas / [edited by] Lin Zhan.
•   [The] Brain’s eye: neurobiological and clinical aspects of oculomotor research / [edited by] J. Hyona, et.al.
•   Carcinogenesis bioassays and protecting public health: commemorating the lifework of Cesare Maltoni and colleagues / [edited by] Myron A. Mehlman, et.al
•   Cellular and molecular physiology of sodium-calcium exchange: proceedings of the fourth international conference / [edited by] Jonathan Lytton, et. Al.
•   [The] Cerebellum: recent developments in cerebellar research / [edited by] Stephen M. Highstein, et. al.
•   Clinical applications of nursing diagnosis: adult, child, women’s psychiatric, gerontic and home health considerations / [edited by] Helen C. Cox, et. al.
•   Clinical immunology: principles and practice / [edited by] Robert R. Rich.
•   [The] Coming plague: newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance / [by] Laurie Garrett.
•   CT and MR imaging of the whole body / [edited by] John R. Haaga, et. al
•   Essence of anesthesia practice / [edited by] Michael F. Roizen, et. al
•   Essentials of internet use in nursing / [edited by] Kristen S. Montgomery, et. al
•   Exercise physiology: energy, nutrition, and human performance / [by] William D. McArdle…
•   Foundations of psychiatric mental health nursing: a clinical approach / [by] Elizabeth M. Varcarolis…
•   From epigenesist to epigenetics: the genome in context / [edited by] Linda Van Speybroeck, et. al.
•   Fundamental neuroscience / [edited by] Duane E. Haines
•   Handbook of ataxia disorders / [edited by] Thomas Klockgether.
•   [The] HarperCollins illustrated medical dictionary / [edited by] Ida G. Dox, et. al
•   Health and physical assessment / [by] Violet Barkauskas…
•   Health promotion at the community level: new advances / [edited by] Neil Bracht.
•   Health promotion throughout the lifespan / [edited by] Carole Lium Edelman, et. al.
•   ‘In silico’ simulation of biological processes / [edited by] Gregory Bock, et. al
•   [The] Internet for cell and molecular biologists: current applications and future potential / [edited by] Andrea Cabibbo, et. al
•   Interventional cardiovascular medicine: principles and practice / [edited by] Richard S. Stack, et. al.
•   Key topics in evidence-based medicine / [edited by] Dermot P.B. McGovern, et. al.
•   Life at the cell and below-cell level: the hidden history of a fundamental revolution in biology / [by] Gilbert N. Ling.
•   [The] Lymphatic Continnuum: lymphatic biology and disease / [edited by] Stanley G. Rockson.
•   Medical microbiology / [edited by] Patrick R. Murray, et. al.
•   Medical phrase index: a comprehensive reference to the terminology of medicine / [edited by] Jean A. Lorenzini, et. al.
•   [The] Mental Health Desk Reference / [edited by] Elizabeth Reynolds Welfel, et. al
•   Microarrays, immune responses, and vaccines / [edited by] Luc Aujame, et. al
•   Microgravity transport processes in fluid, thermal, biological, and materials sciences / [edited by] S. S. Sadhal.
•   Pediatric Anesthesia / [edited by] George A. Gregory.
•   Photoreceptors and calcium / [edited by] Wolfgang Baehr, et. al.
•   Scientific aspects of women’s gymnastics / [edited by] W. A. Sands, et. al.
•   Sleep-related breathing disorders: experimental models and therapeutic potential / [edited by] David W. Carley, et. al.
•   Theory and practice of histological techniques / [edited by] John D. Bancroft, et. al
•   Therapeutic modalities for physical therapists / [by] William E. Prentice.
•   [The] V book: a doctor’s guide to complete vulvovaginal health / [by] Elizabeth Gunther…
•   [A] Woman’s guide to coping with disability.

Serials
New Titles
•   Evidence-based Mental Health
•   Evidence-based Nursing

Title Changes
From: Cell growth and differentiation
To: Molecular cancer research
From: Journal of women’s health & gender –based medicine
To: Journal of women’s health