THE VANGUARD
The John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital
of Cook County
Academic Center-Library
April 2006
National Library Week
National Library Week will be observed April 2-8, 2006. The theme for 2006 is “Change Your World Your Library.”
National Library Week 2006 marks the sixth year of The Campaign for America's Libraries, a multi-year public education campaign sponsored by the ALA and libraries across the country to speak loudly and clearly about the value of libraries and librarians in the 21st century. More than 20,000 libraries in all 50
states are being reached by @ your library®, The Campaign for America's Libraries.
The Allied Professional Association of the American Library Association (ALA-APA) annual sponsors National Library Workers Day, which falls on the Tuesday (April 4) of National Library Week. The purpose is to recognize all library workers, including librarians, support staff and others who make library service possible every day.
As part of this annual event, The Academic Center-Library will be hosting the following programs and events from Sunday April 2 to Saturday April 8:
Library Exhibit - The Academic Center-Library will be in the Stroger Hospital Cafeteria from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on Wednesday April 5, 2006 to give the Stroger Hospital community the opportunity to learn about the latest services in the library. Stop by for freebies, handouts, brochures, etc.
Library Tours - The Academic Center-Library will provide tours of the library and informal information sessions on what databases are available on the Stroger Hospital campus and what is available from a home computer via the Internet. Stop by for freebies, handouts, brochures, etc.
Library Workshop - Loansome Doc Article Ordering Service -- What is Loansome Doc?
Library Workshop - Electronic Document Delivery to the Desktop – Access full-text documents sent to your desktop.
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WORKSHOPS
“NEW”
Loansome Doc Article Ordering Service -- What is Loansome Doc?
Loansome Doc enables PubMed® and NLM Gateway users to order documents found in MEDLINE®. It is available to users in the U.S. and internationally. A user can order articles from a list of citations retrieved from PubMed and the NLM Gateway by sending requests to a library for the full-text documents.
Dates:
April 6, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
April 20, 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
April 27, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
*Other dates/times available by appointment only.
For registration please phone (312) 864-0505 or email at aclib2002@yahoo.com.
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Electronic Document Delivery to the Desktop-via email
Definition of Electronic Document Delivery: The combination of electronic equipment and software used to provide services that scan and transmit electronic (digital) copies of paper documents between libraries or between a library and an end-user (library patron).
Benefits of Electronic Document Delivery
*Reliability
*Faster turnaround time
*Quicker delivery for making patient care decisions
*Cleaner sharper images
“This project has been funded in whole or part with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under contract No. NO1-LM-1-3513.”
Dates:
April 6, 3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.
April 27, 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
*Other dates/times available by appointment only.
For registration please phone (312) 864-0505 or email at aclib2002@yahoo.com.
Let Us Bring the Library to You
The Academic Center-Library outreach services include teaching workshops and customized sessions. Our audience includes all Stroger Hospital employees.
During 2005, we offered the following workshops and events:
- Full-Text Resource @ The Academic Center-Library workshop.
- Auto-Alert Services using My NCBI (PubMed) workshop.
- Library Information Fair @ The Academic Center-Library
- Library Information Fair with OVID. A Trainer from OVID presented new updates on the Ovid Web Gateway. Extra User Guides are available at the library.
- Library Exhibit in the Stroger Hospital cafeteria during National Library Week and National Medical Librarians Month.
- RSS (Really Simple Syndication) workshop.
- MedlinePlus demonstration for the Patient Education Committee and the National Nursing Leadership Conference.
Are you interested in having a librarian teach a session for you and your group? Please contact the
Reference/Research Librarian at (312) 864-0505 or email aclib2002@yahoo.com .
We appreciate as much advance notice as possible. ________________________________________________________________________
New Technology
PubMed® Limits Page Updated !
The PubMed (www.pubmed.gov) limits page will soon be redesigned to provide an improved interface to limit your search by age group, gender, human or animal studies, languages, publication types, dates and other parameters. Click the Limits tab to display the Limits page. Enhancements include new limits such as "Links to free full text," the ability to choose one or more selections under categories such as Languages, and a search builder for authors and journals (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: The new Limits page (partially shown).
Searching by Author or Journal
To search by author, click Add Author. An author search box will display. The author search box includes an autocomplete feature; enter a name in the Author name box and you will see a list of suggested names that gets shorter as you type more letters.
Figure 2: Add Author on the Limits page.
To add additional authors, click the Add Another Author link to open another author search box. To change this to search for any authors you selected click the radio button from All these authors to Any of these (see Figure 3).
Click the remove link to delete an author search box.
Figure 3: Author radio button on the Limits page.
Author names will automatically move to the PubMed search box when you click Go. Selected limits will be activated for any subsequent searches except for authors and journals.
Full Text, Free Full Text, and Abstracts
To limit your search results to only citations that include a link to full text, a link to free full text, or an abstract, click the appropriate checkboxes (see Figure 5).
Figure 5: Full Text, Free Full Text, and Abstracts Limits boxes.
Dates You may limit your search to articles published or added to PubMed by a pre-set date range (see Figure 6) or you mayenter any desired date range (see Figure 7).
Figure 6: Dates pull-down menu.
Figure 7: User-specified published date range.
Additional Limits Categories
Limits categories for Humans or Animals, Gender, Languages, Subsets, Type of Article (Publication Types) and Ages have been modified to allow users to choose multiple selections within each category. The complete lists of languages and publication types are also now available under the labels: More Languages and More Publication Types.
Scroll through the Subsets category to display topics such as Systematic Reviews, journal groups such as nursing journals, and more subsets such as PubMed Central (see Figure 8).
Figure 8: Limits categories.
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Consumer Health
MedlinePlus® Adds Tutorial on Evaluating Internet Health Information
www.medlineplus.gov
As consumer health information explodes on the Internet, teaching people how to evaluate information for accuracy and authority becomes more and more important. With this in mind, MedlinePlus now features a tutorial on the topic.
Evaluating Internet Health Information is a 16-minute narrated slide show. The tutorial runs automatically, but you can use the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen to go forward, backward, pause, or start over. Using fictional "good" and "bad" Web sites, the tutorial walks the user though a comparison of the two, pointing out features to look for concerning the information provider, funding source, quality, and privacy. The tutorial uses plain language and narration and is appropriate for users at a broad range of reading levels.
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Websites
http://www.qualitytools.ahrq.gov
HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a new interactive Web-based tool for States to use in measuring health care quality. The new State Snapshot Web tool is based on the 2005 National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) and the 2005 National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR).
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/pesticides.html
A new web page that addresses the relationship between pesticides and human health has been added to the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Enviro-Health Links. The page provides links to selected web sites on pesticide exposure, as well as on the treatment and prevention of pesticide poisoning.
Avian and pandemic influenza: some resources
http://www.ndu.edu/ctnsp/Bird_flu.htm
Center for Technology and National Security Policy: Bird Flu and You
- The CTNSP is part of the National Defense University in Washington DC, and exists to combine analysis of science and technology with national security policy.
http://www.hhs.gov/pandemicflu/plan/
Department of Health and Human Services: Pandemic Influenza Plan
http://www.osha.gov/dsg/guidance/avian-flu.html
GUIDANCE FOR PROTECTING WORKERS AGAINST AVIAN FLU
http://www.who.int/wer/2005/wer8044/en/index.html
Avian Influenza: Frequently asked questions
An article in the WHO's Weekly Epidemiological Record. Download the PDF version of the whole issue and go to page 377. Parallel text in English and French.
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en/index.html
World Health Organization
The WHO avian influenza site has news, reports and links, guidelines and outbreaks. The site includes a link to a report of cumulative numbers of confirmed human cases, and also to frequently asked questions. WHO also maintain a separate page about influenza in general. The WHO Director-General has made a statement on avian influenza and food safety.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/index.htm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
General information, prevention information, information on current outbreaks, and professional guidance for people exposed to the virus and about infection control in healthcare facilities.
New Acquisitions
1. CPT 2006 Current Procedural Terminology Professional Education. Call # Reference W 15 C876 2006 Medical Collection.
2. How to Read a Paper The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine. Call # Reference W 20.5 G813h 2006 Medical Collection.
3. Evidence-Based to Value Based Medicine. Call # W 84 AA1 B8785e 2005 Medical Collection.
4. Health Literacy help your patients understand. American Medical Association. Call # W 85 H434 2003 Medical Collection.
5. Achieving Evidence-Based Practice; A Handbook for Practitioners. Call # WB 102 A178 2005 Medical Collection.
6. Hospital Medicine. Call # WB 102 H828 2005 Medical Collection.
7. Knowledge to Action? Evidence-Based Health Care in Context. Call # WB 102 K73 2005 Medical Collection.
9. Handbook of Emergency Cardiovascular Care for Healthcare Providers. Call # Reference WG 205 H236 c.1, c.2 Medical Collection.
10. Yearbook of Critical Care Medicine. Call # Reference WB 5 Y39 2005 Medical Collection.
11. Yearbook of Cardiology. Call # Reference WG 100 Y39 2005 Medical Collection.
12. Improving the Effectiveness of the Helping Professions: An Evidence-Based Approach to Practice. Call # WM 55 G559i 2005 Medical Collection.
13. Lung Cancer Update Conversations with oncology research leaders 2 cd’s- 2 audio-tapes. Call # WF 658 L684 2005 v.2 #7 Medical Collection.
14. Colorectal Cancer Update Conversations with oncology research leaders 2 cd’s- 2 audio-tapes. Call # WI 520 L684 2005 v. 4 #7 Medical Collection.
15. Meet the Professors: A case-based discussion on the management of breast cancer in the adjuvant and metastic settings 3 cd’s- 2 audio-tapes. Call # WP 870 L684 2005 v. 3 #4 Medical Collection.
16. Breast Cancer Update: Targeted Adjuvant Systemic Therapy of Breast Cancer 3 cd’s- 2 audio-tapes. Call # WP 870 L684 2005 Medical Collection.
17. Handbook of Psychiatric Drugs. Call # QV 39 A332h 2005 Medical Collection.
18. 2006 Griffith’s 5 Minute Clinical Consult. Call # Reference WB 39 G75 2005 Medical Collection.
19. Atlas of Nuclear Cardiology. Call # Reference WG 17 A884394 2006 Medical Collection.
20. Manual of Rheumatology and Outpatient Orthopedic Disorders. Call # WE 39 H828 2006 Medical Collection.
21. Nurse’s Guide to Clinical Procedures. Call # WY 49 S662n 2006 Nursing Collection.
22. Physician assistant’s guide to research and medical literature. Call # W 20.5 P578 2006 Physician Assistant Collection.
23. A Healthier Your: Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Call # QT 235 H435 2005 Patient Education.
Library Hours
Monday-Thursday 7:00-10:00 P.M.
Friday 7:00-7:00 P.M.
Saturday 9:00-5:00 P.M.
Sunday 9:00-5:00 P.M.
Sat. & Sun. Closed for Lunch 1-2 P.M.
Phone Numbers
Library (Main--Circulation Desk): 312-864-0506
Director: 312-864-0502
Technical Services: 312-864-0503 / 312-864-0504
Reference and Research: 312-864-0505
Interlibrary Loan: 312-864-0505
Email: aclib2002@yahoo.com
Home Page: http://www.cchaclib.org/
The Vanguard is a publication of the Academic Center-Library.
It is published quarterly each year. The Academic Center-Library, a division of the Department
of Planning, Education and Research is located at
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