HLSP Committee

PubMed for Experts
(half-day class) is going to available, taught by Joan Siedman, at SENYLRC in July. Is this a topic which would be of interest to you or the staffs of your hospitals? If so, please let me know. - Nora

Pre-requisite: People attending this class should have some knowledge and experience with PubMed searching.

Target Audience: For all librarians and library staff who use PubMed whether in hospital, special, academic, or public libraries.

Designed as an advanced class for experienced MEDLINE searchers, this hands-on class will highlight advanced PubMed techniques that can be used to conduct comprehensive searches. Topics include searching with field tags, discipline searching, clinical queries, setting filters and saving and updating search results in My NCBI. Attendees are encouraged to contribute past and present difficult searches to discuss with the class.

About the trainer:
Joan Seidman is the Education Programs Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Middle Atlantic Region, located at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City. Joan has been concerned with health information access for many years. Currently, Joan provides demonstrations and training sessions on the many online resources from the National Library of Medicine, including PubMed and MedlinePlus. She also conducts outreach to the public health workforce in the region. Joan's undergraduate degree was in health studies and she earned an MLS from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy.

We are using the DynaMed and we do like it. They have just released a new look, but more importantly have integrated more with the EBSCOhost access. I do get positive comments about it and we do plan to continue. It is our clinical "go to" database. We do still get requests for UpToDate and some docs purchase individual access. As a library, we are promoting DynaMed. I had suggested that DynaMed work with EBSCOhost about 2 years ago and now that they are, I think the next step will be more linking directly to EBSCOhost full text articles.

Has anyone heard any early rumblings about NYU taking over the NLM MAR contract? Any idea of what changes we're likely to see? There was a UNYOC posting this morning which was very generous in crediting the NY Academy's achievements, but I haven't seen a precise timetable of what will be happening when, have you?

I'm looking forward to talking with you at our conference call meeting on Thursday, May 18, at 10:00 am.

Nora

This blog will allow each of the HLSP Committee members to add content. The contributed content can be written in the blog directly, OR copied-and-pasted from other documents. You can add images (to show off a new library.....) as well as text.

Please use this space to share information on

• new electronic resources for collaborative purchase
  
• new resources of interest to hospital libraries
• upcoming events, trial offers, etc.

Enjoy!
Nora