| General | Frequency of Website Use | |||||||||||||
| Available 12 days | Daily | 1030 | 38.7% | Monthly | 133 | 5.0% | ||||||||
| 2,600 responses | More than once/day | 472 | 17.7% | Less than once/month | 50 | 1.9% | ||||||||
| Supportive comments | Weekly | 790 | 29.7% | First time user | 185 | 7.0% | ||||||||
| Duke Status | How Information Is Used | Areas of Website Visited | ||||||||||||
| Phys/Clinical Faculty | 578 | 21.7% | Sci Research | 1699 | 63.9% | MEDLINE | 2269 | 85.9% | ||||||
| Basic Sci Faculty/Staff | 489 | 18.4% | Pt Care/Hospital | 855 | 32.1% | E-Journals | 1801 | 68.2% | ||||||
| Resident/Intern | 324 | 12.2% | Pt Care/Other | 510 | 19.2% | Databases | 1100 | 43.0% | ||||||
| Med/Health Student | 256 | 9.6% | Teaching | 825 | 31.0% | Online Catalog | 778 | 29.4% | ||||||
| Other Student | 251 | 9.4% | Grant Preparation | 722 | 27.1% | MD Consult | 659 | 24.9% | ||||||
| Duke Hospital Staff | 224 | 8.4% | Studying/Class | 492 | 18.5% | E-Books | 462 | 17.5% | ||||||
| Other DUMC Staff | 161 | 6.1% | In-service Ed | 410 | 15.4% | Clinical Pharm | 446 | 16.9% | ||||||
| DUHS Staff | 114 | 4.3% | Personal | 364 | 13.7% | Library Serv/Facilities | 388 | 14.7% | ||||||
| Other Duke | 98 | 3.7% | Management | 267 | 10.0% | Web of Science | 355 | 13.4% | ||||||
| Non-Duke | 165 | 6.2% | Other | 68 | 2.6% | Subj/Internet Guides | 194 | 7.3% | ||||||
We also received hundreds of wonderful comments about the importance of our Library and the types of materials needed to support your work at Duke, but they are too numerous to post here.
Please contact Pat Thibodeau, Associate Dean for Library Services, with any comments or questions about this survey. Thank you again from all our Library staff!
 Grand Prize Winner | Congratulations to Sung Oog Kim, the grand prize winner of a Palm Pilot in our National Medical Librarians Month (NMLM) Web Scavenger Hunt drawing. In addition to Kim, we also extend our congratulations to all the other winners during the NMLM celebration in October. We received over a hundred entries for our Web Scavenger Hunt drawings and gave away mediated searches, Web page design consultations, copy/print cards, document delivery vouchers, free scanning, and the grand prize -- a Palm Pilot. Our "Special Wednesdays" winners received travel portfolios and gift certificates. Random prizes, including tote bags, T-shirts, key chains, and mouse pads, were also given out daily by our Circulation staff.
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EBM Subject Guide 
Redesigned and organized around the steps used in practicing EBM, to assist faculty, housestaff, and students in understanding and teaching EBM principles and concepts. The Critical Appraisal Worksheets have been enhanced with links to the full text of the Users' Guides, CAT templates, and information on statistical issues related to the results.
EBM Toolkit for the PDA 
Created with a suite of pages for uploading to a PDA via AvantGo.com. Pages include the Ovid MEDLINE Quick Reference card and brief summaries of validity issues for critical appraisals.
A self-service public scanning station is now available for use free of charge, just outside the Electronic Classroom in the MLEC (Medical Library Education Center). Basic scanning software and Adobe PhotoDeluxe Home Edition allow users to do limited image manipulation. Images can either be burned on a CD-ROM or saved on a floppy disk. CD-ROMs and disks are available for purchase from the Circulation Desk for $2.00 each. If you have a complex educational technology project or need to do extensive image manipulation, you may contact Tiffany Anderson, Instructional Technology Librarian, at 919-660-1123 or ander098@mc.duke.edu, to consult about the Library's Multimedia Studio (Rm 411).
Now that the Website has been relocated, you will need to re-bookmark any saved pages using one of the following options:
| Change: http://www.mc.duke.edu/mclibrary/ |
To: http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/ |
For example, the Web address for the E-journals page has changed as follows:
| Old address: http://www.mc.duke.edu/mclibrary/respub/collections/ejrnl.html |
| New address: http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/respub/collections/ejrnl.html |
 Psychiatry Housestaff |
Your responses to the Web survey we held during the last two weeks in August were overwhelming. Overall, we received more than 2,600 responses and over 2,200 entries for the Palm Pilot. Thank you again from all our Library staff!Victoria (Tory) Payne Winner of the Palm Pilot Web Survey Drawing |
Over the past 2 weeks, the responses have been overwhelming. We received over 50 surveys in the first hour and more than 1,500 by the end of the first week. Many of you took time to send us wonderful comments about the importance of our Library and the types of materials needed to support your work at Duke. Your responses have provided us with lots of useful data! In the next few weeks, a summary of the results will be posted on our site. Thank you again from all our Library staff!Pat Thibodeau
Associate Dean for Library Services
| Sept 13 (Thursday) | 12:00 to 1:00 pm |
| Sept 25 (Tuesday) | 5:30 to 6:30 pm |
| Registration Required: | Contact Alveria Pugh at 660-1160 or pugh0001@mc.duke.edu. |
| For further information: | Contact Connie Schardt (660-1124) |
Social Work Consumer/Patient Health [Revised] If you have suggestions for other subject guides we should develop, please contact Hattie Vines (660-1125; vines001@mc.duke.edu)
Over the next few weeks, the Medical Center Library will be conducting a Web survey to help us justify our budget and save our Library resources. If the Library's resources, especially its online journals, books and databases, are important to you in your role at Duke, please consider the following:Why should you answer this survey?
The Library may be facing some drastic budget cuts that could result in:
If the Library's resources are important to you, PLEASE fill out the survey that will be appearing over the next few weeks. By completing this survey, you will provide us with data that could justify maintaining our current funding level.
- Cancellation of the Ovid database system and specialty databases
- Loss of electronic full-text journals
- Substantial cuts (hundreds) in the number of paper journal subscriptions
- Reduction of book purchases to only core clinical and reference titles
- Substantially increased fees for all Library services
- Reduced Library services and hours due to decreased Library staff
- Requirement of an ID and password to use any resource offered by the Library
We need to know:
We have made access to the online materials so easy (no password or ID) that we can no longer accurately track who is using which tools. We are hoping that this quick survey, combined with general statistics from our publishers and vendors, will provide us with a better picture of which groups of DUMC/DUHS staff tap into and rely on our information resources.
- Who is using our electronic services
- How you use the information from our Library -- patient care, teaching, research, etc.
- How often you use them
PLEASE help us justify our budget and the continuation of online materials by taking a few minutes to answer our questions. You may answer this survey every time you start a new session at the Library's Website, and you may enter our drawing for a PDA whenever you complete the survey.
Thanks for providing us with the data to help support the continuation of our information resources and services!
Pat Thibodeau, Associate Dean for Library Services
Rick Peterson, Deputy Director
Medical Center Library
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday-Friday | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm |
| Saturday-Sunday | Closed |
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In Their Own Words documents the early days of HIV/AIDS as recalled by NIH researchers. This Website commemorates the 20-year struggle to confront this deadly pandemic and includes images, stories, audioclips, full transcripts, and other resources. |
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Created in response to user requests for a repository of quality medical images on the Internet, this new subject guide compiles sites that contain both free and restricted images. Image sites are grouped by discipline and links are provided to usage policies where available. Instructions on saving images from the Web and links to Duke's copyright resources are also included. |
| June 7 (Thursday) | 6:00 to 7:00 pm |
| June 13 (Wednesday) | 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm |
Individuals or groups who are unable to attend one of the scheduled sessions may call Julie Garrison (660-1157) or Anne Powers (660-1128) to arrange a special session.
We have also created a "Life After Duke" Web page (http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/subject/lifeafterduke) with links to information resources that are either free or allow individual subscriptions. These may be useful resources in your private practices.
| June 20 (Wednesday) | 8:00 to 9:00 am |
| June 26 (Tuesday) | 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm |
| July 12 (Thursday) | 5:30 to 6:30 pm |
| July 26 (Thursday) | 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm |
| Registration Required: | Contact Alveria Pugh at 660-1160 or pugh0001@mc.duke.edu. |
| For further information: | Contact Connie Schardt (660-1124) |
To use this new option:Direct Export will then open your EndNote or Reference Manager program, give you the option to select the library or database you wish to import the citations into, and then import them for you. No longer is it necessary to save, email, or detach citations.
- Finish your Ovid search and select your references
- From the Ovid Citation Manager, choose Direct Export (rather than Reprint/Medlars format)
- Click Save
If you have any questions about Direct Export or if you would like to set up an EndNote or Reference Manager consultation, please contact Virginia Carden (660-1184; carde009@mc.duke.edu).
Outlined below are some of the issues that concern the library community and our users about the licensing terms offered for Nature.
The Medical Center Library has joined with the other research libraries in the Triangle to negotiate more favorable terms for these important journals. We are certainly sorry for the inconvenience and hope this matter can be resolved soon.
Along with a Gateway PC, you will find a flatbed scanner with attachments to scan film negatives, slides, and transparencies. You will also have access to a DVD drive and a CD recordable/rewritable drive, so you can save multimedia presentations or back up your files to CD-ROM. The Multimedia Studio computer contains the following software for creating educational materials:
- Adobe Photoshop 5.5 to manipulate graphics and create original images, such as Web page banners and buttons
- Adobe Acrobat 4.0 to convert documents to PDF (Portable Document Format) for viewing by anyone who has the free Acrobat reader software
- Macromedia DreamWeaver 3.0 to create course Web pages without learning HTML
- Macromedia Flash 5.0 to create animations for Web pages
- Microsoft Office 2000 to easily convert documents and presentations to HTML format
To begin using the Multimedia Studio, contact Tiffany Anderson, Instructional Technology Librarian, at 660-1123 or tiffany.anderson@duke.edu. During the initial consultation, you will get an introduction to the equipment and receive the policies for using the room. You will then be able to check out the key to the room from the Circulation Services Desk anytime during library hours. For more information on the Multimedia Studio, visit DUMCL Online at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/services/multimediastudio.
The Medical Center Library has won national recognition and a $100 award for its creative PR campaign during National Medical Librarians Month (NMLM) in October, 2000. The Medical Library Association (MLA) gave the top award to Duke and the University of Virginia this year. Judged by Public Communications, Inc., MLA's public relations consultant, the Creative Promotions Award contest recognized the library with the most innovative and creative celebration of NMLM.In addition to a large banner on the entrance of the Seeley G. Mudd building, the Medical Center Library staff created and displayed an imaginative poster, titled "Anatomy of a Medical Library," in which an anatomical image was creatively labeled with the units of the Library. While a skeleton beckoned from the lobby windows, Library users were also drawn into the event with weekly scavenger hunts in which winners were eligible for drawings for free services and prizes. The grand prize was a Palm Pilot personal digital assistant, and the lucky winner was Deborah Horvitz from HR.
Hans Horst Meyer (1853 - 1939), pharmacologist and anesthesia pioneer, holds a prominent place at the historical intersection of pharmacology and anesthesia. His greatest achievement was the formulation of the lipoid theory of narcosis which still stands today largely unchallenged. This year marks the 102nd anniversary of the publication of Meyer's classic paper in which he proposed that the ability of a substance to produce narcosis or anesthesia is governed by its partition coefficient. The materials on exhibit in the lower lobby of the Medical Center Library were given to the History of Medicine Collections by J. Horst Meyer, D.Sc., Fritz London Professor of Physics, who is the grandson of Professor Meyer. Among the items on display are an oil portrait, numerous photographs, publications, diplomas, certificates of membership in learned organizations, accolades from friends and colleagues on significant birthdays, a bronze medal, and the honorary citizenship of the city of Vienna. This exhibit can be seen through the end of March during the hours the Library is open.
One of the most impressive features MEDLINEplus offers is the collection of interactive health tutorials. These multimedia resources from the Patient Education Center cover diseases such as diabetes, tests & diagnostic procedures such as colonoscopies, and surgery & treatment procedures such as hip replacement. The tutorials include anatomy, symptoms, risks, alternatives to procedures, complications, and prevention.
We are delighted to welcome Rick Peterson, who will be our new Deputy Director starting March 5. He comes to Duke from the William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library at East Carolina University (ECU) in Greenville, where he first worked from 1977 through 1979 and again since July 1997.
Rick has a very broad range of library experience, which will be a great asset to the Medical Center Library. His first job at ECU was as the Librarian for the Eastern Area Health Education Center. He then went to the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia, where he worked in the Reference Department as well as Automated Services. From 1991 – 1997, he was Assistant Director of the Learning Resources Center.
Rick returned to the Health Sciences Library at East Carolina University in July of 1997. While there, he has served in several areas of the library including Electronic Services, Audiovisuals and Informatics, Systems, and Access Services. Since June, 1998, he has been the Associate Director of the Library.
Rick has a B.S. in Biology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a Masters in Library Science from Case Western University. He is a very active and enthusiastic member of the medical library profession, and we are all looking forward to working with him here in the Medical Center Library.
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Nettina: The Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice  |
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