The Executive Board will be meeting at Newton-Wellesley Hospital on the following dates [meetings are open to all MAHSLIN members]:
December 12, 1996 (9:30 a.m.)
February 6, 1997 (9:30 a.m.)
April 3, 1997 (9:30 a.m.)
The minutes of each meeting are posted to MAHSLIN-L approximately a month after the meeting. If you are not a subscriber to MAHSLIN-L, contact Nancy Harger for a copy [tel: 508-687-1121 x275; email: mhl@ultranet.com].
Due to the transfer of ULS-VIII directory information into a new database, its publication will be delayed until April 1997. Please continue to refer to the UCMP directory information which precedes the ULS-VIII listings. Any directory information changes should be reported to the MAHSLIN Membership Co-Chairs, Cathy Guarcello and Marybeth Edwards, at the Stohlman Library, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, 736 Cambridge St., Boston, MA 02135 [Phone: 617-789-2177; Fax: 617-789-5081; E-mail: cguarcello@world.std].
Those of you who attended the MAHSLIN Annual Meeting in April may recall that an announcement was made about a new CD product which the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine would be sending to libraries (including hospital and medical libraries) throughout Massachusetts. The CD will contain 27,000 physician profiles which will include information about criminal convictions and malpractice judgments (if any) and positive facts about medical school graduation, board certification, articles published and affiliations with managed-care companies. The original, anticipated, mailing date of late June 1996 has now been revised to May 1997. Based on a sample report, the information looks like it will be extremely useful to the health care consumer who is trying to select a physician. Currently, you can get a print report on an individual physician by calling 1-800-DRS-0550. The final plan is to allow health care consumers multiple access points, either by phone, the CD product or the Internet. MAHSLIN will sponsor a training session once the CD has been mailed to libraries. For additional details, you can check an editorial in the Boston Globe (7/26/96) entitled "Examining Physicians".
Boston's Beth Israel is the first area hospital to open a full-service consumer health information library. Operating since February of 1996, the Beth Israel Learning Center has an extensive collection of health-related materials that includes: nearly 600 books (with a final capacity of 1500), videos, CD-ROMs, INFOTRAK, Internet access, and free MEDLINE searching via the hospital's own product, Paperchase. Over 2000 patrons visited the library during its first five months of operation. The library is located on the lobby level of Beth Israel's new Carl J. Shapiro Clinical Center at the corner of Longwood and Brookline Avenues. For more information, please contact the Learning Center's operations coordinator, Anne Fladger, at 617-667-1950, or via e-mail: afladger@bih.harvard.edu.
ALAWON [American Library Association Washington Office Newsline] is a free, irregular publication that alerts subscribers on government issues affecting libraries. Its archive is located at the web page http://www.ala.org/alawashington.html. To subscribe, send the message "subscribe ala-wo yourfirstname yourlastname" to listproc@ala.org.
A web page devoted to Copyright and Fair Use [http://fairuse.stanford.edu/], has been made available to the public by the Council on Library Resources, FindLaw, and the Stanford University Libraries. Included on the site are primary materials, current legislation, cases and issues, resources on the Internet, and an overview of copyright law.
A reminder to Massachusetts DOCLINE users: as of September 1, 1996, TYMNET access to DOCLINE was cancelled and replaced by the FTS2000 toll-free telephone number, 1-800-525-0216.
Don't close the book (so to speak) on print journals just yet. A report from the Elsevier Science TULIP project [http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/tulip], cited the "emotional" ties that users have with paper and the library. TULIP was a five-year project that made 43 materials science and engineering journals available on-line to users at nine universities. The report discusses the organizational, economic, and social aspects of making the transition to digital libraries.
The 15 Minute Series--Internet Training Materials [http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/15min/ or ftp://rs.internic.net/NIC-support/15min/ (ftp to rs.internic.net)] are a product of the InterNIC and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association. The training modules are mini-slide presentations on specific topics in a question-and-answer style and are formatted in both HTML and Microsoft PowerPoint.
Internet Grateful Med Version 2.2, released September 9, 1996, offers assisted searching in MEDLINE, HealthSTAR, AIDSLINE, and PREMEDLINE (see below), with links to HSTAT and the Online Images from the History of Medicine.
From Mark Gentry comes the news that NAHSL has a home page located on the NNLM_NER server at the UConn Health Center with the address http://nnlmner.uchc.edu/nahsl.
PC Lube and Tune [http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt] is a set of tutorials on PC computing produced by Howard Gilbert, a Senior Research Programmer for Computer Information Systems at Yale University. Topics range from the basics of PCs to Java programming, so there is something for everyone's level of expertise.
Basic citation information and abstracts will be placed on the new NLM database, PREMEDLINE, on a daily basis, before being placed on MEDLINE. The citations remain on PREMEDLINE until they are indexed with MeSH terms and other indexer-added data, then are moved to the MEDLINE database and deleted from PREMEDLINE.
How do we cite those pesky Web/Internet references? Some authoritative sites and sample citations are in the article, "Cyber Citations," by Michael A. Arnzen, in the September 1996 issue of Internet World [vol.7(9):72-4].
The U.S. Government Printing Office has produced a new gateway, called Pathway Services [http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces760.html], in order to link the user to many sources of government information from a single site.
Title: Temporary Collection Management Project Supervisor (1.0
FTE)
Dept.:
Resource Management, Countway Library
Duties and Responsibilities: The Countway Library of Medicine plans to improve management of several of its collections before renovation of the building begins in 1997. This individual will be responsible for the training and supervision of staff, and the development and implementation of procedures for bibliographic conservation, and remote storage transfer of library materials.
Required/preferred education, experience and
skills:
Required: MLS, knowledge and experience in cataloging or
bibliographic record maintenance, knowledge of an integrated library
system (especially HOLLIS), supervisory experience, flexibility.
Preferred: Project management experience, demonstrated ability to
motivate high productivity levels for self and staff.
Reports to:
Librarian for Collection Management Special Projects
Hours:
Monday-Friday, 35 hours per week
Duration: Temporary position, minimum
6 months
Grade: 56
Send cover letter and resume to Susan Thompson, Office for Human Resources, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St., Boston, MA 02115. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
The following MAHSLIN members have new e-mail addresses:
MAHSLIN welcomes three new members:
C.J. Blevins,
Librarian
Saints Memorial Medical Center
1 Hospital Drive, P.O.
Box 30
Lowell, MA 01853-0030
Tel: (508) 934-8308; Fax: (508)
934-8241; E-mail: GCOGAN@LIFE.JSC.NASA.GOV
Nasir A. Khan, M.D.,
Director
Bournewood Library
Bournewood Health Systems
300 South
Street
Brookline, MA 02167
Leonard L. Levin, Health Sciences
Librarian
Paul Woodard Health Sciences Library
New England Baptist
Hospital
125 Parker Hill Avenue
Boston, MA 02120-2847
Tel: (617)
738-5800 ext. 5155; Fax: (617) 738-8707
ACRL/NEC Workshop: "Copyright for Librarians
in the Digital Age"
Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic,
CT
October 17, 1996
Contact:
Sheila A. Lafferty
Tel: (203) 596-4083; Fax: (203) 596-4104; E-mail:
wbladm03@uconnvm.uconn.edu
Simmons GSLIS Alumni Association Fall
Program
"Customer Driven Services: Public to Private"
Assumption
College, Worcester, MA
October 24, 1996
Contact: Simmons College
Office of Alumnae/i Affairs
Tel: (617) 521-2321; E-mail:
jmiller@simmons.edu or jacaruso.b@adlittle.com
ACRL/New England
Chapter Fall Conference
"Library as Place: Designing for
Transition"
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
October 25,
1996
Contact: Christina Bellinger
Tel: (603) 862-0073; Fax: (603)
862-4271; E-mail: cb1@hopper.unh.edu
Connecticut Library Association
Workshop
"Selecting and Cataloging the Internet Resources"
Portland
Public Library, Portland, CT
November 14, 1996
Contact: Susan
Pfister
Tel: (203) 281-8918; Fax: (203) 281-8629
American Library
Association/Association for Library Collections & Technical Services,
Preservation and Reformatting Section
"New Directions in Library
Binding"
Commander Hotel, Cambridge, MA
November 14-16,
1996
Contact: LaTisha Reynolds
Tel: (800) 545-2433 ext. 5035
ACRL/New England Chapter
Preservation/Conservation Group
American Antiquarian Society,
Worcester, MA
December 5, 1996
Contact: Mary Patrick Bogan
Tel:
(617) 253-5692; E-mail: mpbogan@mit.edu
or
Jennifer Banks
Tel:
(617) 253-5664; E-mail: jsbanks@mit.edu
National Library
Week
April 13-19, 1997
Massachusetts Library
Association
Sturbridge, MA
April 28-29, 1997
MAHSLIN Annual Meeting
Sheraton Tara
Lexington Inn, Rts. 2A & 128, Lexington, MA
April 29,
1997
Contact: Celeste Kozlowski, Carr Health Sciences Library,
Somerville Hospital, Somerville, MA
Tel: (617) 666-4400x301; Fax: (617)
625-0628; E-mail: ceekozl@aol.com
40th Annual NAHSL Conference
[North Atlantic Health Science Libraries]
Radisson Hotel, Burlington,
VT
September 27-30, 1997
The editors encourage your input of news and comment to future issues of MAHSLIN Network News. If you would like these considered for publication, please contact:
Deadlines for submissions are December 20, 1996 for the January 1997 issue, March 20, 1997 for the April 1997 issue, and June 20 for the July 1997 issue.