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Welcome Issue
No. 313.............................................August 2007

Welcome from the Associate Dean DUMCL General Information
Business Services @ the LSD PIN Workstations Available
DUMCL Online: It’s A Great Deal From Our Shelves to Your Computer
Staff News Add Us to Your Blackboard Page
New Public Scanner Installed Book Drop Locations and Schedules
Library Educational Offerings To Subscribe

Welcome to the Duke Medicine Community

Pat Thibodeau, Associate Dean for Library Services & Archives

Each year we are excited to welcome new residents, students, faculty, and staff to the Duke community, as well as reintroduce ourselves to those who have been at Duke for a while.

Duke Medical Center Library & Archives offer a tremendous number of resources and services to Duke Medicine ranging from:

I hope both old and new members of the Duke Medicine community take time to visit our facility and become acquainted with some of our new resources:
Our Website (http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/) will be an important gateway to our resources and services even if you do not come to the physical Library. Be sure to “visit” our:

Remember that we are here to support your learning, teaching, patient care, and research activities. Do not hesitate to ask our expert professional librarians and staff members for help in finding the information you need.

We also want to hear how we can strengthen and enhance the services and resources we offer. So please share your suggestions and comments with us, through our suggestion box in the Library, via mclref@mc.duke.edu, or just send an email to me at thibo001@mc.duke.edu.

I hope you explore both the virtual and physical aspects of the Medical Center Library & Archives and that you have a very successful year at Duke Medicine.

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DUMCL General Information

Hours of Operation

Circulation Services 660-1100

Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan 660-1100

Print Material Locations

Self-service Photocopiers/Printer Workstations

Options for Remote Access (from non-Duke locations)

Full-text Electronic Journals

Public Services 660-1100

Tutorials, Training, Consultations, Classes 660-1100

Database Access

Computer/Equipment Resources

Special Collections

  • History of Medicine
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  • Reference
    • Engel (leisure reading)
  • Med Student Book Exchange
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  • Reserves

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    Business Services @ the LSD

    Elizabeth Berney, Access Services

    Fax Services
    Staff at the Library Service Desk (LSD) can now assist in sending your personal faxes - locally, nationally, and internationally.

    Charges:
    Receiving faxes at the Library - $1 per page
    Sending faxes from the Library
      Local & 800 numbers - $1 per page
      Long distance - $2 first page; $1.50 each additional page
      International - $6 first page; $3.50 each additional page
      (Cover sheets are not counted as paid pages)

    Color Copy Service
    Another new service at the LSD is color copying. Whether it is a journal article with color photos or PowerPoint slides, we can replicate it for the nominal charge of $1 per page.

    Notary Services
    Several people on our staff are commissioned to notarize documents. The service is free, but you will need to inquire at the Library Service Desk or call 660-1100 to see if a notary is available. Scheduling an appointment ahead of time is preferable. (Please note that our staff will not notarize car title changes.)

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    PIN Workstations Available

    Mezzanine Level

    Second Stack Level - Room 411

    pinworkstations

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    DUMCL Online: It's a Great Deal!
    http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/

    DUMCL Online

    Questions or comments about our Website?

    Contact Beverly Murphy, Webmaster

    murph005@mc.duke.edu; 919-660-1127

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    From Our Shelves to Your Computer

    Russell Koonts, Director, Medical Center Archives

    Google. YouTube. MySpace. Amazon. Technology has made it possible to get virtually anything you want, any time of the day or night, from the comfort of your home or office. Need to shop for that last minute Christmas gift? Go to the Internet. Need to find an illustration for an upcoming lecture? Go to the Internet. Presently, over 233 countries are connected to the Internet, and it is estimated that nearly 1.1 billion people worldwide use the Internet, according to Internet World Stats (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm). At this point, you may be saying to yourself, “That’s interesting, but what does it have to do with the Library & Archives?”

    With help in the form of a 2005 grant from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, Inc., the Medical Center Library & Archives (MCL&A) digitized over 500 images from its collections that documented the growth and development of the Medical Center during its first three decades. Although this project was initiated to help celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Medical Center, it provided an opportunity to create the infrastructure and skills necessary to make other types of resources available via the Internet. The 75th Anniversary image collection can be viewed at http://archives.mc.duke.edu/foundations/index.htm.

    In October 2005, MCL&A began using DSpace (http://dspace.org), an open source digital repository application developed by MIT, to make our digitized content available to researchers. This application enables items to be indexed and searched by commercial search engines such as Google. By implementing DSpace, we are able to provide access to more than just digitized photographs. For example, we have added the transcript of an oral history interview with Dr. H. Keith H. Brodie. In September 2006, as part of an agreement with the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS), the Medical Center Library & Archives added articles from the UHMS journal to the repository and “officially” launched DSpace@DukeMed (http://dspace.mclibrary.duke.edu).

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    In August 2007, MCL&A will launch MeDSpace (http://medspace.mc.duke.edu/vital/), which is being developed to collect, preserve, and provide access to a wide variety of digital resources developed at Duke Medicine. Built with open source software from the Fedora Project (http://fedora.info) and Visionary Technology in Library Solutions (http://vtls.com), MeDSpace has the functionality to restrict item access to selected individuals or groups, or for specified time periods. This will allow MeDSpace to host internal digital projects, as well as provide a place for Medical Center faculty and researchers to post copies of their articles. Presently there are no such articles in MeDSpace, but this is a service which the Archives will be promoting in the coming months. Eventually, MeDSpace will serve as the repository for electronic archives (data sets, speeches, etc).

    For more information about MeDSpace and other digital initiatives at the Medical Center Library & Archives, please contact Russell Koonts at russell.koonts@duke.edu or (919) 383-2653.

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    Staff News

    Michael Davidson, Assistant to the Associate Dean for Library Services, is now an MSII Clerkship Coordinator in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke. Michael had worked at the Library since 1999.

    Beverly Murphy, Assistant Director, Marketing and Publications, presented “Join the Healthcare Team: Become A Medical Librarian” during the Health Careers Awareness Course for Educators and Students at the Nash Health Care System, Rocky Mount, NC, on June 19, 2007.

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    Our Staff Welcomes You to Duke!

    Library Staff

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    Add Us to Your Blackboard or BlueDocs Page

    Megan von Isenburg, Associate Director, Public Services

    Faculty and Instructors...

    Adding links to Library resources and content can help your students access scholarly resources for their writing, research, and other projects. You can also add a link to the Library’s Ask a Librarian page, to make it easy for students to get research help by Instant Messenger (IM), email, phone, or personal appointment.

    blackboard For help selecting or linking to resources, or for more ideas to incorporate the Library into your virtual or physical course, please contact Connie Schardt (schar005@mc.duke.edu or 660-1124) or Megan von Isenburg (megan.vonisenburg@duke.edu or 660-1131).

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    New Public Scanner Installed

    Marcos Rodriguez, Information Technology Services

    The Medical Center Library has installed a new flatbed scanner for public use in the MLEC lobby on the Lower Level of the Library. In addition to traditional one page scanning, it can accommodate landscape orientation and includes trays for scanning slides and photographs. The scanning station computer includes CD-RW, floppy, and Zip Disk drives, as well as two USB ports to accommodate flash drives. The computer has also been upgraded and now has Adobe Acrobat Professional and HP scanning software.

    Additional computer resources are available in the Multimedia Studio, also located in the MLEC lobby (Room 104J). The Studio provides a place for users to work on Duke University Medical Center-related projects and consists of a workstation with multimedia creation and editing tools, a webcam, software for image editing and OCR document creation, and a high-resolution scanner. A complete list of Multimedia Studio resources is available at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/services/multimediastudio?tab=ware.

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    Book Drop Locations and Schedules

    The Medical Center Library’s main book drop slot is located near the main lobby entrance. A 24-hour book drop is located near one of the entrance doors of the Library on the walkway between Duke Hospital North and the South Clinics. Materials deposited in the 24-hour book drop are picked up three or more times each day.

    * 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.

    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.

    The Medical Center Library staff welcomes your suggestions and comments. Please feel free to drop them in the Suggestion Box located on the Entrance Level across from the Library Service Desk.

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    Library Educational Offerings
    The Medical Center Library offers a variety of educational opportunities.
    A roster of training sessions is listed below.

    Individual and Group Sessions
    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: PubMed - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html

    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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    To receive notification by email when the electronic version of the Medical Center Library News is available, please send your name, department, box number, and email address to the Medical Center Library, Box 3702, DUMC. You may also send email to mclnews@mc.duke.edu or complete the Mailing List Form at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/about/news/mailform.html.

    Duke University Medical Center Library News is published bimonthly.

    Pat Thibodeau, Associate Dean....................Beverly Murphy, Editor

    Editorial Board:

    Marcos Rodriguez ............... Jessica Roseberry

    Megan von Isenburg ...............Julie Walker

    Anne Powers


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