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No. 297.............................................December 2004

Rethinking the Last 75 Years	Introducing Carol Perryman
Med Students Save on Textbooks	Gifts and Donations
Finding Journals at the Library	Staff News
Holiday Hours	NMLM Winners and Sponsors
Library Educational Offerings	To Subscribe

Rethinking the Last 75 Years

Pat Thibodeau, Associate Dean for Library Services

Next year the Medical Center Library will celebrate its 75th anniversary along with the rest of the Medical Center and Duke Hospital! Even our current facility, the Seeley G. Mudd building, will have its 30th birthday in the fall of 2005. As we look forward to the celebration of these anniversaries, we are also looking back at our history. Though the Library is unchanged in some respects, it is a far cry from the early collection of books and journals developed by Dean Davison for the School's opening in 1930.

What's the same?
The Library is still responsible for providing access to high quality and current information and assisting patrons in the use of resources.

• The Library budget still pays for books, journals, and databases, although more of our acquisitions may be in electronic format than in print. Our librarians continue to select the materials, negotiate the prices and licenses, and ensure that the collection is available online, as well as on the shelf.

• Library staff are available to help you find the information you need, guide you through literature searches, and assist you in using resources. The Library Service Desk (LSD) serves as a central point for seeking assistance with both simple and difficult management, clinical, and research questions.

• The Library facility is still a quiet place for study, research, contemplation, and those naps between clinical duties. It continues to be a gathering place for socializing, group study, and collaborative projects. Instead of rummaging through stacks, Library clientele now tend to tap into wireless connections or use the many workstations throughout the Library to find information.

What has changed?
While the core library functions remain, digital resources and new technologies have truly changed how our services are delivered and how you think about and use the Library.

• One of the best things about the "new Library" is that you no longer need to come to the building to tap into many of the resources and services. Remote access to resources is now possible across the campus and from off-campus locations.

• We are now bringing services and staff to the site of information needs! In addition to remote access to electronic resources, our staff members are bringing their services and expertise to departments and programs throughout the Medical Center.

• The development and organization of the virtual and digital library have become more important than the physical walls of the Library. Web pages have replaced card catalogs and handouts as starting points.

• Not only are journals available in the stacks, but e-journals provide fast access to the most recent literature. Desktop delivery of photocopies also helps bridge the gap between print and electronic formats.

• Powerful online tools such as databases, interfaces, the online catalog, metalib, and SFX, as well as specialized electronic resources like UpToDate, have changed how we search for materials and broadened the scope of relevant materials that can be identified and retrieved.

• The Library's food and beverages ban has been lifted! This decision was made because people use libraries in different ways and want comfortable and informal spaces, as well as big tables and carrels. Coffee shops are now in libraries, and we are reviewing two vendor proposals to bring one to our Library.

Will there be additional changes?
Absolutely! Technologies will continue to impact our services and resources. Storage of back volumes in Duke's Library Service Center will also provide us with an opportunity to rethink how we use our space. While our services and resources have evolved over the past 75 years, we must continue to question and consider the Library's ongoing role in order to prepare for the future. If you have ideas about what our Library will or should look like in the next five, ten, or fifteen years, please share them with me!

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Introducing Carol Perryman

Megan von Isenburg, Information and Education Services

Carol Perryman, a doctoral student at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, began her tenure as a Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) research fellow at the Medical Center Library in September. The TRLN Fellowship, a new program funded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, combines doctoral coursework with a research assignment within the TRLN libraries. Over the next two years, Carol will split her time between the Medical Center Library at Duke and the Health Sciences Library at UNC-Chapel Hill, while completing coursework for her degree.

Carol's initial research project will build on her passion for consumer health information. The project will consist of two case studies - one involving each library - and will focus upon the capacity for and the provision of health information to the general public. She will investigate what the stated goals of each library are in regards to serving the general public, as well as the capacity of each to serve the consumer and patient population

Carol is no stranger to consumer health information. She began her library career at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center Library and Resource Center in Peoria, Illinois, where she served on the Patient Education Committee for six years. After a move to Kansas City, she switched gears and went to work in the public library system, where she focused on how libraries can meet a community's needs through its collections and services.

In 2000, Carol was presented with an opportunity to combine her interests in health information and service to the community at the place where she began her library career, OSF Saint Francis. Carol returned to Illinois to help start a consumer health library at an off-site ambulatory care facility, where she managed the collection and provided personal research assistance to members of the community at large.

After two years, Carol left OSF Saint Francis to begin her graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While there she published a research paper titled "Information Behaviors in an Online Smoking Cessation Forum." In 2004, Carol graduated with her MSLIS degree and moved to Durham to begin her doctoral work and TRLN Fellowship.

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Medical Students Unite to Save on Textbook Expenses

Maurice Reece, Access Services

Last year Sheela Agarwal, second year student in the School of Medicine, decided to do something about cutting costs of expensive medical textbooks. She put together an innovative book sharing program with 35-40 of her classmates, where they all pitched in to buy books in bulk (at a cost of $75 to $85 each) to exchange among themselves. Sheela worked out a book rotation schedule for the students based on when they would each need the books. The central storage facility was under her bed and the pickup/dropoff area was her apartment. Since the experiment was so successful during the first year, planning began for this year's implementation.

In the second year of medical school, students participate in six 4-8 week clerkships that require three or four books each. With the new book sharing program in place, 92 students contributed about $66 each to buy the books needed for their six rotations. Without it, each student would have bought about 25 books (at a cost of almost $1,000), which they say they would have rarely used again.

Realizing that she could not store 200-300 books under her bed or remain the central distribution point for the increased number of participants, Sheela contacted the Medical Center Library in June, 2004 for assistance. As a result, a plan was established to house the "Medical Student Book Exchange Program" in the Library and to oversee its organization and distribution to the participating students. Beginning in August, books for the Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery, Obstetrics/Gynecology, and Psychiatry rotations were set up in the Reference Area of the Library and a computerized circulation system was put into operation. Staff and students agree that the book exhange program is a rousing success!

Sheela Agarwal, School of Medicine

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Gifts and Donations

The following individuals donated books/materials to the Medical Center Library from July, 2002 - June, 2004.

Mr. Eben Alexander, Jr. Dr. W. Banks Anderson, Jr. Dr. Kelvin A. Baggett Mr. David A. Barnes Ms. Mary H. Barnes Dr. Thomas J. Beno Dr. Dan G. Blazer Ms. Ruth M. Blum Ms. Maria Park Bobroff Dr. R. Randall Bollinger Dr. H. Keith H. Brodie Ms. Barbara Busse Dr. Ewald E. Busse Mrs. Elizabeth G. Caldwell Mr. Howard G. Clark, III Ms. Julia E. Clark Dr. Harvey J. Cohen Dr. William D. Currie Dr. George J. D'Angelo Dr. Diana L. Dell Ms. Mary C. Donlon Dr. Howard M. Dubose Dr. Ruth Duncan

Dr. E. H. Ellinwood, Jr. Dr. George A. Engstrom Dr. David Epstein Ms. Susan Epstein Mr. John A. Feagin Mr. Henry S. Friedman Dr. Joseph Gottfried Mr. John N. Hackney, Jr. Mr. Blaine Paxton Hall Dr. Edward C. Halperin Mrs. Jean Love Hambright Dr. Rufus R. Hambright Dr. Judith C. Hays Ms. Julia R. Hindel (estate of Dr. John Blade, Jr.) Mr. James Parker Jones Ms. Mary Trent Jones Dr. Jeffrey R. Kappa Dr. Samuel Katz Ms. Joanne Kurtzberg Dr. George D. Lappas Mr. Milton Lewis Mr. Josiah Charles Trent Lucas

Dr. O. Barry Mangum Ms. Anne W. McLendon Mr. William W. McLendon Dr. Michael R. McVaugh Mr. Chris P. Meyer Dr. J. Lloyd Michener Ms. Ellen G. Montero Dr. Enrique Montero Mr. Larry D. Moore Ms. Rebecca C. Moore Dr. Andrew T. Nadell Mr. Francis A. Neelon Ms. Virginia J. Neelon Dr. Barbara Newborg Dr. Mark F. Newman Dr. A. T. Pagter Dr. Taral Patel Dr. Claude A. Piantadosi Dr. Ivana Podvalova Ms. Melody Priestly Dr. Edward L. C. Pritchett Dr. Dale Purves Dr. Christian R. H. Raetz

Dr. Stanley J. Robboyo Dr. David C. Sabiston, Jr. Dr. J. Lee Sedwick Mr. Timothy D. Shafman Dr. Herbert O. Sieker Ms. Rebecca L. Sorrentino Dr. Robert A. Sorrentino Mr. Mark Stuart Dr. Karl J. Stumpf Ms. Debra L. Tucci Mr. Moshe M. Usadi Mr. Kevan E. VanLandingham Dr. Joseph E. Walker Dr. Lisle Wayne, II Dr. David F. Wentworth Dr. Robert W. Wheat Dr. Evelyn R. Wilbanks Dr. George D. Wilbanks Ms. Mary M. Wilkinson Dr. R. H. Wilkinson, Jr. Dr. Myron L. Wolbarsht Dr. Susan E. Zarutskie

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Finding Journals at the Medical Center Library

Megan von Isenburg, Information and Education Services

The Medical Center Library subscribes to over 2,600 electronic journals that can save you time and effort by allowing you to browse, read, and print journal articles at your desktop. Some of these journals are accessible via the publisher's Website or through a third party vendor, while others are available electronically through multiple sites. The Library also has more than 747 current print journal subscriptions. Therefore, tracking down the full text of a journal article can be a multi-step process. This information should help guide you along the way.

E-Journals Web Page
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/find/ejournals

This is the first place to check for the availability of full-text electronic journals to which the Library subscribes.

• Click on the button on our Website at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu.
• Journal titles can be browsed alphabetically or by subject.
• Links take you directly to the journal, or to the site of the publisher or third party vendor, where you can browse available issues.
• Please note: Journals available through MD Consult require that you first set up a username and password. You may then access those journals by going to the MD Consult "Journals" tab and conducting a search for an article title or subject.

Online Catalog
http://library.duke.edu/catalog

The Online Catalog contains records for print and electronic journals that are available at all of the Duke University Libraries. If you do not find the journal title you are looking for on the E-Journals page, check the Catalog.

Searching the Catalog

Begin a Journals search by clicking on the Journals/Serials tab. If you know the exact title of the journal, you can select "Title begins with" from the dropdown menu. This searches an alphabetical list of titles for an exact match. If you are not certain of a title, select the "Keywords" option.

Reading a Catalog Record, or Does Duke have it?

When you search using keywords, results will be sorted first by year, then author. This means that the title you seek may be at the bottom of the list. In our example, the British Journal of Surgery appears ninth in the list.

Click on the Journal title for more information about our holdings and access.

If a journal is available at more than one library at Duke or in more than one format (i.e., electronic access through multiple providers), the record will show multiple locations. When looking for print journals at the Library, check the location for "Medical Center Library Journal Stacks" or "Medical Center Library Current Journals." For electronic access to a journal, click on the button at the top of the Journal Catalog record or go to the Medical Center Library's E-Journals Web page.

Click on the button for links to electronic access.

Clicking on the button opens a pop-up window with links to the electronic access options available. Click on the provider name that indicates the appropriate date coverage. The Medical Center Library's E-Journals Web page offers links to the most direct provider, but coverage for the dates you need may not be available.

Printing Articles

• If you want to print an article, look for a link to the portable document format (PDF). This electronic format best mirrors the print version, generally including the same size graphics and page numbers. Please note that the PDF version requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (standard on most computers).

• When the journal article you want to print is accessible through the Ovid interface, but there is no PDF version available, be sure to click "Print Preview" to generate full-sized graphics that will print out legibly.

Additional Tips and Reminders

• Most journal content is only available to Duke users. To access journals from off-campus, you will need to set up your computer to use a VPN client or the proxy server. For more information, connect to http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/services/remoteaccess.html or call the Library Service Desk at 660-1100.

• Current print journals (mostly those from the current calendar year) are located on the Mezzanine Level. Bound journals (A-C) are located on the First Stack Level and (D-Z) are on the Second Stack Level.

• If we do not have an article you are looking for, you can request it via Interlibrary Loan. Connect to our Website at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/services/mcldd.html for instructions and fees information.

• Help is just a phone call or click away! Use the "Ask a Librarian" link on our Website at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/ or call us at 660-1100.

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Staff News

Rick Peterson, Deputy Director, Beverly Murphy, Assistant Director, Marketing and Publications, Stephanie Holmgren, formerly Information and Education Services Librarian (now Biomedical Sciences Librarian, NIEHS, RTP), and Pat Thibodeau, Associate Dean, have co-authored an article, "The LibQUAL+ Challenge: An Academic Medical Center's Perspective," in the Journal of Library Administration [2004 40(3/4):83-98].

Pat Thibodeau has been selected as a mentor in a program designed to prepare emerging leaders for directors positions. Supported by the National Library of Medicine and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Librarians, the program is being offered in cooperation with the Association of Research Libraries' Office of Leadership and Management Services. Pat's protégée is Jett McCann, Assistant Director, Resources Management Services, Libraries and Learning Resource Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.

Pat Thibodeau recently gave presentations at two of the Medical Library Association's regional chapter meetings on the topic of managing e-resources. She presented to the Midwest Chapter in Springfield, IL on October 10 and to the Upstate New York and Ontario Chapter (UNYOC) in Ottawa on October 15. At UNYOC's meeting, Pat and Steven Melamut, JD, MLS, were also invited to speak about copyright law and issues for US and Canadian librarians.

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Happy Holidays

Christmas & New Year's Hours

Monday	Dec. 20	8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday	Dec. 21	8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday	Dec. 22	8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday	Dec. 23	8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday	Dec. 24	CLOSED
Saturday	Dec. 25	CLOSED
Sunday	Dec. 26	CLOSED
Monday	Dec. 27	8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday	Dec. 28	8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday	Dec. 29	8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday	Dec. 30	8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday	Dec. 31	CLOSED
Saturday	Jan. 1	CLOSED
Sunday	Jan. 2	2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Coming Soon! The redesign of our Website, DUMCL Online, will debut in January, 2005. Stay tuned to http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu for details.

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National Medical Librarians Month Sponsors and Contest Winners

Thank You to Our Sponsors!

Majors Scientific Books, Inc.

MD Consult, a service of Elsevier, Inc.

Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

Ovid Technologies, Inc.

Congratulations to Our Winners!

	Guess the Number of Lifesavers Contest Winner (courtesy of DUMC Library) Alison Rager, School of Medicine
	Power Break Winner Flash Drive/Lunch Bag (courtesy of Ovid/MD Consult) Elizabeth O'Halloran, OHNS Surgery
	Grand Prize iPod Winner (courtesy of DUMC Library) William C. Logan, Jr., Geriatrics
	Textbook Winner Sabiston Textbook of Surgery (courtesy of Majors) Isaac Karikari, School of Medicine
	Textbook Winner Harrison Principles of Internal Medicine (courtesy of Majors) Shakelia Bennett, Physical Therapy

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Medical Center Library News Has Moved to Online Only

The August 2004 issue of the Medical Center Library News was the last issue distributed in print and mailed to subscribers. Beginning with the October 2004 issue, our newsletter is only available in electronic format. For your convenience, we are continuing to offer an HTML version and a portable document format for printing at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/about/news/newsletter.html.

If you want to be notified by email when the electronic versions are available, you may send an email message to mclnews@mc.duke.edu or complete the Notification Form at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/about/news/mailform.html. If you are already receiving notification by email, you may disregard this reminder.

If you have any questions, please contact Beverly Murphy, Editor, Medical Center Library News, at murph005@mc.duke.edu or 919-660-1127.

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Book Drop Locations and Schedules

The main book drop slot for the Medical Center Library 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 the South Clinics and Duke Hospital North. 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.

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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 Library Education Center (MLEC) is located in Room 104 on the Lower Level of the Library.

INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP SESSIONS

Please contact the topic instructor to arrange for a session

MEDLINE

Using the Web Gateway
Connie Schardt, 919-660-1124

PubMed
Anne Powers, 919-660-1128

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Library Orientation
Megan von Isenburg, 919-660-1131

Grant Information On The Web
~ COS and Other Resources ~
Anne Powers, 919-660-1128

Introduction To EndNote
Ginger Carden, 919-660-1184

Introduction To Reference Manager
Ginger Carden, 919-660-1184

Introduction to Sources for Health Statistics
Hattie Vines, 919-660-1125

Searching the Internet
Connie Schardt, 919-660-1124

SELF-INSTRUCTION

MEDLINE: Ovid Interactive Tutorial
This 40-minute tutorial is designed to show you step-by-step the basic
components of a MEDLINE search using the Ovid Web Gateway.
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training/ovid

EndNote Tutorial
Tutorial designed to assist users who have completed a search in the Ovid Web
version of MEDLINE and would like to import citations into EndNote.
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training/endnote

EBM Tutorial
This tutorial identifies the steps in the EBM process and key issues related to critical appraisal.
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/services/tutorials/ebm/index.htm

Virtual Tour of Library
This online tour provides you with information about the Medical Center Library,
its services, and where to find them within the building.
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/about/virtualtour

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.

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Duke University Medical Center Library News is published bimonthly.

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

Editorial Board:

Jennifer Glasier ............... Maurice Reece

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

Anne Powers

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