Thursday, February 19, 2009
Minutes, 12-9-2008
South Central Regional Library Council
Hospital Library Services Advisory Committee Meeting
10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m., Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Virtual Meeting, OPAL
Minutes
Present: Sue Bretscher, Laura Dixon, David Lester, Ward Romer. Minutes taken by Nora Hardy.
1. Minutes, August 12 – Approved.
2. Schedule for 2009: February 17, 1:00, Conference Call; 4/14, SCRLC, 10:00; 6/9, Conference Call, 10:00; 8/11, Lourdes, 10:00; 12/15, Conference Call, 10:00.
3. Goals
a. 2008 Goals Review
i. The Weblog was used to evaluate and discuss collaborative database selection options.
ii. SCRLC and HLSP provided all members with subscriptions to Harrison’s Online, STAT!Ref, New England Journal of Medicine, and added the British Medical Journal. Six hospital libraries took advantage of the NY3Rs offer of the discounted Ovid/Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins package.
iii. Onsite training on databases was available for hospitals to offer to their staff members.
iv. In partnership with CLRC, two half-day MLA Classes were offered at Broome County Public Library on 9/11/08: Expert PubMed and Making PubMed Work for You were taught by Arpita Bose, NN/LM Mid-Atlantic RML.
v. The Nursing School Library Support listserv has been used at least once each month to share information among SCRLC, the hospital libraries, and the nursing library support library staff in our region.
vi. The UNYOC Annual Conference was successfully held in Ithaca in October, 2008. SCRLC hosted the Continuing Education session, committee members (led by conference co-chair, Sue Bretscher) helped with logistics, registration, and planning for the event.
b. 2009 Goals
i. Provide access to full text databases.
ii. Provide onsite training for library and hospital staff on HLSP-funded databases to assure their effective use.
iii. Co-sponsor an MLA Continuing Education course with the Central 3Rs Council.
iv. Move forward in providing information sharing between hospital libraries and nursing school libraries.
v. Explore participation in the upstate New York GoLocal project with input from regional hospital libraries and other potential stakeholders such as public and healthcare libraries.
c. Databases are all working well. Current subscriptions have all been approved and paid through December 2009. At that time, depending upon the HLSP 2009-10 budget, it will be necessary to reevaluate regional database selections in light of use and value.
4. HLSP Grant 2008-9 distribution has been held-up due to New York State’s budget cuts. As soon as definitive amounts are confirmed and disbursed, SCRLC will be able to distribute the grants. The amounts will be smaller than in recent years, but there will be grant funds available.
5. MISP funds have not been released by NYS and SCRLC is awaiting a final decision on the amount to be received. When the amount is announced, it is anticipated that some funds will be available for EFTS and medical library-supplied articles.
6. MLA Class(es) – Preferred topics for spring 2009 are: Health Care Issues in the Headlines and Evidence-Based Medicine (perhaps for nursing).
7. Around the Table: Ward reported that he sometimes finds related materials in BMJ. Article requests keep rising. Island Health has been requested a lot of support for doctoral level physical therapy. Laura reported that their print stacks are shrinking yet further to make way for a new medical program. David said that a Medical Office Building is under consideration. Sue reported that Lourdes will break ground in Spring for a large ambulatory care center. She almost has Illiad up and running. Her library now reports to the Asst. VP of Learning Services.
Hospital Library Services Advisory Committee Meeting
10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m., Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Virtual Meeting, OPAL
Minutes
Present: Sue Bretscher, Laura Dixon, David Lester, Ward Romer. Minutes taken by Nora Hardy.
1. Minutes, August 12 – Approved.
2. Schedule for 2009: February 17, 1:00, Conference Call; 4/14, SCRLC, 10:00; 6/9, Conference Call, 10:00; 8/11, Lourdes, 10:00; 12/15, Conference Call, 10:00.
3. Goals
a. 2008 Goals Review
i. The Weblog was used to evaluate and discuss collaborative database selection options.
ii. SCRLC and HLSP provided all members with subscriptions to Harrison’s Online, STAT!Ref, New England Journal of Medicine, and added the British Medical Journal. Six hospital libraries took advantage of the NY3Rs offer of the discounted Ovid/Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins package.
iii. Onsite training on databases was available for hospitals to offer to their staff members.
iv. In partnership with CLRC, two half-day MLA Classes were offered at Broome County Public Library on 9/11/08: Expert PubMed and Making PubMed Work for You were taught by Arpita Bose, NN/LM Mid-Atlantic RML.
v. The Nursing School Library Support listserv has been used at least once each month to share information among SCRLC, the hospital libraries, and the nursing library support library staff in our region.
vi. The UNYOC Annual Conference was successfully held in Ithaca in October, 2008. SCRLC hosted the Continuing Education session, committee members (led by conference co-chair, Sue Bretscher) helped with logistics, registration, and planning for the event.
b. 2009 Goals
i. Provide access to full text databases.
ii. Provide onsite training for library and hospital staff on HLSP-funded databases to assure their effective use.
iii. Co-sponsor an MLA Continuing Education course with the Central 3Rs Council.
iv. Move forward in providing information sharing between hospital libraries and nursing school libraries.
v. Explore participation in the upstate New York GoLocal project with input from regional hospital libraries and other potential stakeholders such as public and healthcare libraries.
c. Databases are all working well. Current subscriptions have all been approved and paid through December 2009. At that time, depending upon the HLSP 2009-10 budget, it will be necessary to reevaluate regional database selections in light of use and value.
4. HLSP Grant 2008-9 distribution has been held-up due to New York State’s budget cuts. As soon as definitive amounts are confirmed and disbursed, SCRLC will be able to distribute the grants. The amounts will be smaller than in recent years, but there will be grant funds available.
5. MISP funds have not been released by NYS and SCRLC is awaiting a final decision on the amount to be received. When the amount is announced, it is anticipated that some funds will be available for EFTS and medical library-supplied articles.
6. MLA Class(es) – Preferred topics for spring 2009 are: Health Care Issues in the Headlines and Evidence-Based Medicine (perhaps for nursing).
7. Around the Table: Ward reported that he sometimes finds related materials in BMJ. Article requests keep rising. Island Health has been requested a lot of support for doctoral level physical therapy. Laura reported that their print stacks are shrinking yet further to make way for a new medical program. David said that a Medical Office Building is under consideration. Sue reported that Lourdes will break ground in Spring for a large ambulatory care center. She almost has Illiad up and running. Her library now reports to the Asst. VP of Learning Services.
