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The Medical Center Library & Archives have been trying out some new technologies that hopefully will enhance our services, as well as our internal operations. Below are brief descriptions of some of these technologies. We welcome suggestions for other technological developments we should be exploring.
Blog - We now have a blog at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/blog/ that brings you event announcements, lists of new book titles, as well as news about Library services and policies. You can get to it easily from our main Web page (http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/) by clicking on “More Library News...”
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Feed- You can sign up to have our blog content delivered to an RSS feed reader by clicking on the 
icon from our Website at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/. If you’re not sure what an RSS feed is, then visit our blog entry at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/blog/2007/01/whats-rss.html to learn more.
Wiki - We have set up a new communication and working tool using Wiki technology. This allows us to share internal information, post important documents, discuss issues, and track projects.
Internet Messenger (IM) - This is certainly not a new technology, but a new service for us. As we announced in the last newsletter issue (http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/about/news/ln02-07.html#imessenger), we are still piloting the service. You may IM us at dukemclref from your AOL, Google Talk, or Yahoo Instant Messenger account. Away from your computer? Access your account through Meebo (http://www.meebo.com) from any computer’s Web browser.
Podcasts - Again, this is not a new technology, but we trying to find ways to use podcasts to bring information and services to you. Oral histories and recordings of presentations are logical applications, but we are wondering if orientations to the Library, tutorials, or other information would be useful on your iPod or MP3 player. Let us know what you might be interested in.
del.icio.us - Our librarians have put together a list of high quality medical references, including links to Duke resources, on this social bookmarking site at http://del.icio.us/dukemedicalcenterlibrary/. You can add our list to your favorite bookmarks in del.icio.us or select specific resources from it for your del.icio.us bookmarks.
D-Space - This technology is allowing us to build a repository to capture digital documents, images, and other files. Our version, “Duke MedSpace,” is being used by Archives for capturing Duke records and images. We have also been working with Rubicon Foundation to makie materials on hyperbaric medicine available.
Aware Image Server - Archives is also heading up this project. Not only does this software allow us to capture and search for images, but it also has the capability to zoom in on high-resolution images for more detailed viewing. Our current explorations range from capturing historical images to cytology slides.
Second Life - Although we have not purchased an island or built a library yet, several of us have begun to explore this digital world (http://secondlife.com/whatis/) by creating avatars (digital personalities or beings). We are also talking to colleagues who are providing health information services in Second Life. If you have ideas for applications, please let us know.
Do you have other ideas of what we should be exploring? Please send them to me at patricia.thibodeau@duke.edu.
On February 9, 2007, two African-American “trailblazers” met with an audience of approximately seventy campus and community members at the Medical Center Library to describe their experiences as Duke pioneers. Both women spoke of how they pushed the boundaries of Duke Medicine’s cultural landscape by realizing the importance of a struggle bigger than their own.
Dr. Evelyn B. Wicker, an early African-American nursing administrator who became the Nursing Director of Duke Hospital South, shared with listeners what it was like to be the only person of her skin color as she began her administrative career in the Outpatient Clinic in the 1970’s. “How many of you in this audience have either been the first or the only one, whether the only female, male, black, white, nurse, physician?” she asked. “Think about what that felt like. Always on stage but sometimes invisible. Isolated, no one to talk to, walking on eggshells, straddling the fence because you don’t know what’s on either side.”
As she rose through the ranks, Dr. Wicker influenced Duke in a positive way and hired many qualified African-American nurses in management positions, supporting and challenging them along the way. In the question and answer period following the talks, an audience member told the group that she herself had been one of the African-American nurses appointed by Dr. Wicker. “I would really like to thank you,” the audience member told Dr. Wicker, “because you were my mentor in giving me my first management position.” She went on to say that she always remembered Dr. Wicker encouraging her to “give back.”
The second panelist, Donna A. Harris, was the first African American to graduate from the Duke University School of Nursing, in 1971. Growing up in a small North Carolina town, she was one of five African-American young people to integrate her local high school. After the trauma of this racially-charged experience, Mrs. Harris learned that she was accepted to the Duke School of Nursing as the first African-American student.
Although she had another institution in mind, she chose to attend Duke for financial reasons. “I was wanting to get back to a circle of peers of my own race, but that did not happen,” she said. But Mrs. Harris did get a lot of support from the people in her hometown, who knew she could do well. She was determined not to let them down and to succeed on the college level at this prestigious institution. She told the audience, “Remember that it’s not all about us. It’s about opening the doors for others who will continue with the struggle and go further than we did.”
For more information about this annual event, sponsored by the Medical Center Library & Archives, or for recordings or transcripts, please contact Jessica Roseberry at (919) 383-2653 or jessica.roseberry@duke.edu.
Sometimes it’s just not possible to get all the information you need online. And it may be difficult to find time to come to the Library and search the stacks for books. But there is an alternative. You can have the Library staff retrieve the books you need from the stacks and place them on the hold shelf under your name. That way all you will need to do is come to the Library Service Desk and pick them up. The retrieval service is available for all items within our circulating book and audiovisual collections. Journal retrieval is not available at this time. Placing a request is easy!
More E-Journal Backfiles: Thanks! to Main Campus
Using special funds from the Strategic Initiative Plan, the Duke Libraries System (Perkins/Bostock and branches) has been able to purchase backfiles to more than 3,000 journals from major publishers including Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley. Access has been added to our e-journal (http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/find/ejournals/) pages, and the journals will be linked through Get It@Duke when you search databases. Additional volumes of Nature have also been purchased and will be available later this year. This purchase will add the years 1869-1949 to the already loaded volumes from 1950 forward.
Here are just a few of the many titles now completely available online from volume 1 forward:
American Heart Journal 1925--
American Journal of Medicine 1946--
American Journal of Surgery 1926--
Archives of Gynecology & Obstetrics 1870--
Brain Research 1966--
Cancer 1948--
Cell 1974--
Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology 1929--
Journal of Comparative Neurology 1891--
Journal of Pediatrics 1932--
Lancet 1823--
Urology 1973--
Many thanks to the main campus library system for purchasing journal backfiles that benefit the entire campus!
With much fanfare and excitement, we announce the replacement of our old copiers with new, fast, swanky machines that will Collate! Staple! and Duplex! No more blurry copies and no more dark lines...
Next time you contemplate checking out that 1-day journal just to copy a single article, think again. You may find that you will get better quality copying from one of our new machines than from the clunker in your building.
Our new copiers are in the same locations on each floor of the building and use the same currency.
The copy card vending machine is located on the Entrance Level at the bottom of the Mezzanine stairs.
| At the end of June, 2007, access to the CINAHL database (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) for Duke users will switch from the Ovid search platform to EBSCOhost. |
In late 2003, EBSCO Publishing, a provider of online databases and full-text journal content, acquired CINAHL Information Systems, producer of the CINAHL database. Earlier this year, EBSCO announced that it would not be renewing agreements for distribution of CINAHL through other search systems, such as Ovid, and that CINAHL would be accessible exclusively through its own search platform, EBSCOhost.
EBSCO has built upon the original CINAHL database to develop CINAHL with Full Text, a database incorporating easy access to more than 600,000 full-text journal articles. CINAHL with Full Text provides indexing back to 1982 for more than 2,800 journals in the following disciplines: nursing; biomedicine; alternative/complementary medicine; consumer health; physical therapy; occupational therapy; physician assistant; health education; and other allied health disciplines. Transitioning to CINAHL with Full Text will provide additional content for Duke users since it comes bundled with the full text of more than 300 journal titles, many of which we do not subscribe to. “In process” citations to new journal articles awaiting subject indexing are also included, to keep content as up-to-date as possible. Another powerful feature is searchable cited references for more than 1,000 journals, so that researchers may follow a line of inquiry by means of articles that have cited an earlier paper. EBSCOhost offers several search modes to accommodate novice users as well as more sophisticated searchers.
From now until the end of June, 2007, Duke users will have access to both the Ovid and EBSCOhost versions of CINAHL. Links to CINAHL via EBSCOhost have been added to the Medical Center Library’s CINAHL login page at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/databases/nursing and to the main “Databases” page at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/databases. CINAHL users should plan to make the transition to EBSCOhost as soon as possible, to allow plenty of time for becoming familiar with the new search interface. Since the cutoff date for Ovid access is fast approaching, the Library is offering training sessions in the use of EBSCO’s version of CINAHL. The sessions are listed on the Library’s “Tutorials & Training” Web page at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training. Users may also stop by or call the Library Service Desk at (919) 660-1100 for assistance with CINAHL via EBSCOhost.
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Beverly Murphy, Webmaster and Assistant Director, Marketing and Publications, has been elected to the 2007/08 Nominating Committee of the Medical Library Association, which is responsible for preparing the slate of candidates to run for MLA President, Board of Directors, and Nominating Committee. Beverly has also been appointed as Chair of MLA’s Professional Recruitment and Retention Committee.
Brandi D. Tuttle, Information and Education Services Librarian, is featured on experience.com, a recruitment service for recent college graduates, as a “rising star” for healthcare and medical librarianship. Read Brandi’s profile and interview at http://www.experience.com/alumnus/channel?channel_id=rising_stars&page_id=home.
Our new blog (http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/blog/) features news, updates, tips, new book alerts, and an option for your comments! Bookmark our blog or sign up to send our news feed straight to your RSS aggregator. We’d love to hear from you!
Search
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/search.htmlThe Search page has been revised and expanded. You can now enter terms in the search box to query a variety of resources, including the entire Website, DUMCL Subject Guides, DUMCL Historical Images in Medicine Database, the Online Catalog, PubMed MEDLINE, Ovid MEDLINE (Duke IP only), Duke Search - People, Places, Things, and Google. You can access the search function from the header at the top of any page on our Website.
New DUMC Articles
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/pubsupport/dukeauthorsThis is a list of the most recent articles by Duke authors added to the PubMed (MEDLINE) database. It is updated every Sunday. “New DUMC Articles” can be accessed under Publication Support from the main Web page.
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April 15-21, 2007 |
Do you use the bibliographic citation management software EndNote? If so, you may be interested to know that Endnote Web is now integrated with ISI Web of Knowledge (i.e., Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports). EndNote Web provides you with online storage for your references and the ability to instantly format bibliographies in your word processor. Next time you find yourself away from your computer, don't worry, you can import citations (from a variety of sources such as PubMed in addition to Web of Knowledge products) into EndNote Web from anywhere. Keep all your citations online or download them to your personal computer later! Some new Endnote Web upgrades include the following:
Book Drop Locations and Schedules
To avoid overdue fines, please pay particular attention to the pickup schedules, or return all journals, books, and interlibrary loan items directly to the Library. Audiovisuals should be returned to the Library Service Desk to avoid damaging them.Duke South Clinics
Personal Rapid Transit Lobby. Pickup: Monday through Friday at 9:30 a.m.
PRT Lobby, Lower Level near the walkway to Parking Garage II. Pickup: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday ONLY at 9:30 a.m.
Sands Building, on the Jones Building side near the rear exit door. Pickup: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday ONLY at 9:30 a.m.
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Library Educational Offerings |
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To arrange for a session, please contact the librarian listed under your topic of interest.
MEDLINE: PubMed
Megan von Isenburg
919-660-1131
MEDLINE: Ovid
Anne Powers
919-660-1128
Library Orientation (drop-in session)
First Tuesday of every month
12:15-12:45 pm
Megan von Isenburg
919-660-1131
Evidence-Based Medicine
Connie Schardt
919-660-1124
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to
Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
Anne Powers
919-660-1128
EndNote: Saving and Importing Citations
Ginger Carden
919-660-1184
Reference Manager: Saving and Importing Citations
Ginger Carden
919-660-1184
Grants Information on the Web
Community of Science and Other Resources
Anne Powers
919-660-1128
Clinical Tools
Connie Schardt
919-660-1124
Introduction to Sources for Health Statistics
Hattie Vines
919-660-1125
Self-Instruction
For self-paced learning, online tutorials for many of the Library’s resources can be found on the Tutorials and Training page of the Library’s Website at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training.Featured Tutorial: EBSCOhost CINAHL - http://www.hscl.ufl.edu/help/CINAHL/index.htm
Customized Training
If you would like to schedule a customized training session for for yourself or your department on specific resources or topics, please contact Connie Schardt, Associate Director of Public Services - Education Services, at 660-1124 to make arrangements. Sessions can be scheduled in the Medical Library Education Center (Room 104; Lower Level of the Library) or at a location within your department.
For more information about these offerings, connect to the Library's Website at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training |
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Megan von Isenburg ...............Julie Walker
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