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Another Budget Reduction: Even Tougher Decisions The Library is facing another budget reduction of $100,000 for fiscal year 2008, but the impact is even deeper than that. Every year the Library faces cost increases of 6% to 10% on average for journals and databases. The average cost of core medical textbooks has increased to about $125 to $150 each, with a cost of $500 to $600 for multi-volume sets. Even with a flat budget, that means we are losing about $100,000 in purchasing power annually, forcing us to cut more and more to maintain a fixed budget. With an additional cut of $100,000, the Library has pared down its operating expenses to the bare minimum, and now we must make more difficult decisions about books, journals, and databases.
Books
The Library will be purchasing 50% fewer books than last year. The book budget is now at 21% of what
it was ($190,000) six years ago.
We are canceling two electronic books: ACP Medicine (ends in June) and Anesthesia Central (ends in August). We will be reviewing all e-books for possible cancellation over the next year.
MD Consult, which contains 50 textbooks, will also be reviewed for possible cancellation in the future.
Databases
The following databases will be canceled over the next year, as their renewals come up. We will evaluate
the content of each and identify ways to find similar content through other databases and search strategies.
If you are interested in the status and complexities of our journal collection, see the blog posting on May 14 at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/blog/2007/05/how-many-medical-journals-does-library.html.
A major journal review project is starting right away. Departments and divisions will be asked to prioritize the journal subscriptions for their specialties or disciplines. We will provide information, if available, on journal cost, usage, impact factor, and ranking. Faculty will be asked to rate the importance of each title and identify those that can be eliminated.
Due to consortium and university contracts, we cannot always cut the titles that we want to cancel. Contracts actually limit how many titles can be canceled, in order to keep the prices low. Since we cannot jeopardize our contracts with main campus or other partners, we may have to cut more titles outside of the publisher contracts. That will heavily impact journals from smaller publishers and society publications.
A list of all cancellations will be posted in early fall for further comment, but all decisions must be made by the end of September when we receive renewal invoices for our subscriptions. The data from the journal review will also be used in the future since it is highly likely that there will be at least a flat budget next year, even if there are no further cuts.
We ask for your patience and feedback as we work through these difficult decisions.
Dates of full-text coverage have been added to the E-Journal page (http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/find/ejournals) so you can quickly see what’s available to Duke users without having to go to the journal Website to check. There are so many providers now, all with different ways of showing content, that it’s much harder to figure out what we can access. The addition of dates to the E-Journal page addresses this problem. Coverage changes frequently, so if you find additional availability (or lack thereof!), please let us know so we can keep this information up-to-date.
Notes about previous and subsequent titles have also been added to the E-Journal page for all journals which have had title changes. This presents a special difficulty because most providers put all the content under the latest title, no matter how many times the title has changed over the years. Since citations show the title at the time of original publication, it’s impossible to find full text with links to all the earlier titles. Now there are pointers to them on the E-Journal page to help you locate these older issues.
Need help while you’re in the Library? We know that when you’re hard at work, you may not want to get up from the computer to come down to the Library Service Desk to ask for help. So we are now offering our Instant Messenger reference service straight from the desktops of our Library computers! Between 9 am and 5 pm, anyone on a public computer in the Medical Center Library can ask the on-call reference librarian a question using a small widget that appears on the right-hand side of the computer desktop. Just type your question into the box and click send, and a librarian will receive your question instantly!
If you’re having a hard time finding relevant articles, or perhaps you need help looking up a fact, just type in your question and we’ll respond almost immediately! Most times we can send an answer right back, but we are also available to come out and help you in person if necessary.
And of course, if you need help while working outside the Library, just visit our “Ask a Librarian” Web page at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/services/refform.html for details on how to get help through Instant Messenger, email, telephone, or in person. We’re here to help!
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Coming Soon: An RSS feed will be available from our Website to automatically send a list of all new book titles to your home or office. Once you see titles online that you want, you can request that they be held for pickup at the Library Service Desk. Currently, selected new book titles are featured on our Library blog at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/blog/labels/new%20books.html.
Two librarians from the Republic of Moldova in eastern Europe visited the Duke Medical Center Library in March as part of a two-week tour of North Carolina medical libraries. The visiting librarians, Liubovi Kamaeva, Library Director, and Silvia Ciubrei, Deputy Directory of the Scientific Medical Library of the State Medical and Pharmaceutical University of Moldova, were welcomed by Library staff with a greet-and-meet reception.
The North Carolina tour served to highlight the NC-Moldovan library partnership begun in the fall of 2006. To date, this partnership has involved free interlibrary lending between the participating libraries, coordination with EBSCO and Ovid to provide Moldovan access to Dynamed and MEDLINE, and donations of books and journals to the Moldovan library’s collections.
 Corrine Voils (left) General Internal Medicine pictured with Rick Peterson |
 Paula Malone (left) School of Medicine pictured with Pat Thibodeau |
 Anna Teeter (left) School of Medicine pictured with Rick Peterson |
Our job is to make it easier for you to find the information you need to make good decisions about the management of your patients. The Clinical Tools page was created after several years of experience working with residents, interns, and medical students. When we talked with these groups about electronic clinical resources, we often discovered that they weren’t easy to find on the Library’s Website. It occurred to us that putting the most commonly used resources on one page would make it easier to find them. The first Clinical Tools page was a big success, and the Library received a lot of positive feedback on its usefulness.
This year, in hopes of making the Clinical Tools page even better, we have modified its structure to allow us to highlight especially useful resources and increase the number of resources made available.
The new Clinical Tools page (http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/tools/clinical) design promotes specific resources, such as the evidence-based medicine databases, and reminds users of the Clinical Queries in PubMed. The center portion of the page has been customized, and it changes according to the category selected at the top. The two side panels remain the same for all the pages.
The new design allows us to add more resources while maintaining a simple one-page format. For example, a request from the residents in General Internal Medicine to add the MELD Model and APACHE II to the Decision Tools page was easily resolved.
This is your page and we want it to be useful and easy to use. We’d appreciate your comments on this new design!
EBM databases; PubMed Clinical Queries |
Calculators, differential diagnosis; BMJ statistics series |
Videos; medical image resources; podcasts |
Current issues of key journals |
Pages developed for specific groups |
Search PubMed via a PDA; software and support |
Ask a librarian for help via Instant Messenger |
Form to send us your comments and feedback |
| 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. |
Subject Search - Advanced Search mode is recommended in order to build a Search History and reuse search sets. Using CINAHL Headings generally gives best results.
Advanced Search: CINAHL Headings - For identifying and searching with official subject headings. Enter a single topic word or phrase and click Browse. Click on the most relevant underlined heading to find related terms in the “tree” structure. A “+” indicates more specific headings indented below a term.
After selecting terms and options, click on Search Database to find references.
Advanced Search: Keyword - Enter words or phrases in the Find boxes. Choose combining words “and” or “or” from the drop-down menus or type them into the boxes. Click on Search.
Refine Search - For limiting results. Common limits include Language (e.g., Eng.), Publication Yr., Journal Subset (e.g., Allied Health, Nursing), Age Groups. The Research limit retrieves reports of studies or systematic reviews. Note: Limiting to “Full Text” is NOT recommended, as this limits to EBSCO-provided full text only and will miss many others!
Search History/Alerts - Displays a record of search sets. Sets can be combined by typing the search ID#s in the Find box (e.g., s1 and s2) and then clicking on Search. You may also select sets to combine, use “and” or “or” from the drop-down menu, and click on Add to send them to the Find box.
Results - Displays search results in brief citation format. To see the abstract and indexing terms, click on title. To put references in a Folder for printing, emailing, saving, or exporting (such as to EndNote), click on Add or Add to folder.
Field Searching - To look for words or numerals in a specific field, such as author (AU), article title (TI), journal title (SO), volume number (VI), etc., use the drop-down Select a Field menu in Advanced Search: Keyword. To find the citation to a specific article, enter known information in two or more fields.
Full Text Journal ArticlesHELP - Call (919) 660-1100, send an email message to mclref@mc.duke.edu, IM us at dukemclref, or visit our Website at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu.
The special designation of Medical Library Association (MLA) Fellow was conferred on Patricia L. Thibodeau, Associate Dean for Library Services & Archives, at the MLA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia on May 21, 2007. MLA Fellows are elected by the Board of Directors for sustained and outstanding contributions to health sciences librarianship and for the advancement of the purposes of MLA. Pat has served two terms on the MLA Board of Directors, including a term as President of the Association. She currently chairs MLA’s Scholarly Publishing Task Force.
The National Network of Libraries of Medicine Southeastern/Atlantic Region congratulates our staff on their outstanding performance in filling interlibrary loans for the region. The network performance standard is a fill rate of 75% of all the requests received, but our Library has consistently exceeded these standards over the years, filling 85% or higher of the requests within four days or less. Kudos to the Access Services staff and others who make this service available to the region.
| Suzanne Jessup | 20 years |
| Suzanne Porter | 15 years |
| Connie Schardt | 10 years |
| Julie Walker | 40 years |
| Judy Woodburn | 40 years |
Medical Center Library staff presented the following initiatives during the poster sessions held at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association in Philadelphia, PA, May 20-21, 2007:
Lonelyss Charles and Patricia L. Thibodeau - Defining the Global Health Librarian Karen Grigg and Charlie S. Lackey - Staying Ahead of the Curve… A Continuous and Systematic Approach to Evaluating Electronic Resources
Charlie S. Lackey, Virginia Carden, Richard A. Peterson, Robert James, Marcos A. Rodriguez - What More Can We Learn from Statistics? Revolutionizing In-House Statistical Collection Through Automation
Jeffery Loo, Doctoral Student, and Lonelyss Charles, TRLN Doctoral Fellow, UNC School of Information & Library Science - Thinking Outside the “Stacks”: Finding New Opportunities to Evolve Medical Librarianship Beverly Murphy, Richard A. Peterson, Hattie Vines, Megan von Isenburg, Elizabeth Berney, Robert James, and Marcos Rodriguez - Revolution at the LSD
Carol Perryman, Robert James, Charlie S. Lackey, and Richard A. Peterson - Assessing the Future: Developing Information Technology Skills for New Staff Roles in Academic Medical Libraries Carol Perryman and Patricia L. Thibodeau - Evidence-based Practice: A Revolution in Library Project Management Anne Powers, Connie Schardt, Megan von Isenburg, Patricia L. Thibodeau, and Brandi Tuttle - Open Access Curriculum Study: Can We Improve the Way Medical Students Learn? Peggy Schaeffer, Barbara M. Wildemuth (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Patricia L. Thibodeau, and Robert James - The Informationist and Information Specialist Revolution: Career Pathways for Physicians?
Connie Schardt, Anne Powers, and Megan von Isenburg - Weaving Evidence-based Medicine into the School of Medicine Curriculum: The Library’s Role in Developing Evidence-based Clinicians
K.T.L. Vaughan and Carol G. Jenkins (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Virginia Carden and Patricia L. Thibodeau; and Stefanie E. Warlick (University of Maryland at Baltimore) - The Open Access Revolution: Patterns in Faculty Free Full-Text Publications Megan von Isenburg; Dan Kipni and Rebecca Pernell (Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA) - Changing with the Times? Library Associations and New Librarians
Virginia Carden, Russell S. Koonts, Richard A. Peterson, Charlie S. Lackey, Patricia L. Thibodeau, and Gene W. Hobbs (Rubicon Research Repository, The Rubicon Foundation) - Creating a Revolution in Hyperbaric Medicine.
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. Duke Hospital North
PRT Lobby, Lower Level near the walkway to Parking Garage II. Pickup: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday ONLY at 9:30 a.m. Sands Building
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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