submitted by Kathy Martin
Please welcome the following new members.
| Heidi Sue Adams | Kalispell, MT |
| Jaque Jakovac | Helena, MT |
| Patricia Mills | Vancouver, BC |
| Claire Rivers | Portland, OR |
| Jane Saxton | Kenmore, WA |
| Cheryl Silverblatt | Portland, OR |
| Kelly Thormodson | Seattle, WA |
| Naomi Trapp | Seattle, WA |
During 2001 I forwarded 28 'Alert' messages from the American
Library Association Washington Office Newsletter listserv, ALAWON,
to hlib-nw. ALAWON messages usually ask for help from librarians
and library staff to lobby our Senators and Congressmen on behalf
of topics inportant to libraries, such as literacy, internet filtering,
etc, as bills make their way through Congress.
Professional Development Committee
The Program Planning Committee arranged for the following CE courses at this years annual meeting:
Ovid For The Clinical Patron: Making the Most of your Training
Time with Staff
This class will focus on information seeking behavior of the clinician
and the Ovid resources appropriate during the clinical process.
It will highlight the Ovid features and products clinicians can
use at the point of care, including evidence-based resources,
and fully integrated decision support software. Lastly, it will
cover Ovid integration and customization features that allow clinicians
real time access to high quality medical information.
Introduction To QuickDOC For Windows - Jay Daly
The class will be in demonstration format and will provide an
introduction to the interaction of the new QuickDOC and the new
DOCLINE system. The following topics will be included: a brief
history of QuickDOC & DOCLINE; how to install QD4Win (demonstrated
live, if internet access is available); how to import selected
records from old QuickDOC; how QD interacts with the Web-based
DOCLINE; updating, editing and adding database records; Printing
reports; Billing methods and procedures; adding ISO ILL Protocol
compatibility; and a discussion of future trends.
Words That Change Minds - Mary Devlin
Imagine what you could accomplish by identifying motivational
triggers from everyday conversation. The Language and Behavior
(LAB) Profile provides the framework to understand people and
their behavior. You will learn to see what will stimulate and
maintain someone's motivation and conversely, what will turn him
or her off. Get a handle on how to specifically match your language
and processes to theirs to spark their interest and enthusiasm.
Face To Face: Strategies For Effective Consumer Health Communication
- Michele Spatz
Focuses on effective communication strategies for dealing with
a range of dilemmas in the consumer health setting. From distraught
patrons to problem patrons to ethical dilemmas, there are techniques
you can use to help you successfully negotiate these close encounters.
Self-care for the consumer health information provider is also
touched upon as an important component.
Digital Library Issues And Techniques - Roy Tennant
Digital libraries are the latest "hot" trend in librarianship,
but exactly what are they? This workshop will begin by defining
some key terms and quickly move on to specific examples that illustrate
the basic perspectives on digital libraries. From there, we will
explore the various processes required to build, organize, and
preserve digital collections. Additional issues such as copyright
and techniques for integrating digital collections with print
will be explored. Specific projects, collections, and services
will be demonstrated along the way to illustrate the essential
points. The workshop will end with places to go for additional
information and assistance as well as techniques for staying current
in the field.
PNC Web Site
The Professional Development Committee maintains the section of
the PNC/MLA web site dedicated to continuing education. The web
site includes: continuing education opportunities, funding opportunities,
CE survey information, and the professional development committee
roster and annual reports as well as an archive of past CE courses.
The web site is available at http://depts.washington.edu/pncmla/ce/
PNC CE Survey
PNC/MLA continuing education survey forms were posted in HLIB-NW
and put up on the PNC/MLA web site in February of 2001. Survey
results indicated that respondents are interested in course offerings
about: PubMed, ejournal licensing and group purchasing, critically
evaluating medical literature, and Internet document delivery.
The complete results can be found at: http://depts.washington.edu/pncmla/ce/01results.html
Goals for 2001
Our committee met 8/29 and reviewed its charge, which is to increase the use of electronic document delivery in the Pacific Northwest. Few hospital libraries in the northwest are using electronic document delivery, probably because of a combination of firewall, cost, and knowledge issues. We will be identifying technical barriers by talking to those who have had success, and to those who have tried to use electronic document delivery and have given up. We'll provide information about overcoming these barriers via Web, articles, and workshops. We'll begin by attending the Ariel roundtable lunch at the PNC/MLA meeting at Salishan, to hear what issues are of major concern. Bob, who wants to encourage libraries to at least be able to receive articles in TIFF or PDF format (so that he can use scanned articles from his microfilm backfiles of nursing journals to fill ILL requests), has already composed some information and he'll gather that together. Cathy and Bob will conduct reviews of what's been published in print and electronic literature about electronic document delivery, and Susan will review the ARIE-L listserv (the email discussion list for users of Ariel, the most common system for electronic document delivery). Cathy and Susan will do a search of the "Members" Database, a file on the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Intranet based on DOCUSER data, to derive a list of libraries that cannot receive interlibrary loans via TIFF or PDF or email; this group will be our target for educational efforts. We hope to be able to demonstrate a positive change -- a decrease in the number of these libraries -- as a result of our efforts.
1. Meetings: This is the 41st annual meeting of PNC/MLA, and the second one held in Glenedon Beach, Oregon (1989 and 2001). Other meetings in Oregon include:
2. History: The early history of PNC/MLA, formally known as the Pacific Northwest Regional Group, can be found on the PNC web site: http://depts.washington.edu/pncmla/history/early.html A summary history appeared in MLA News: Geographically challenged Pacific Northwest Chapter has a proud history. MLA News June/July 2000 327: 20.
4. Records: The inactive records of PNC/MLA are kept at the University of Washington Libraries Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives. Any records (especially Program Chair's records from this meeting) should be sent to Janet Schnall as Archivist of PNC/MLA. When committee chairs present or write annual reports, please include the names of the committee members.
5. Questions: Members are welcome to ask the Archivist for information that is in the Archives. This is especially helpful when members apply to MLA's Academy of Health Information Professionals and need verification of holding an office in PNC/MLA. Please allow enough lead time to search the Archives, as some of the archives are located off the University of Washington campus. Also note that there is a Chapter History section of the PNC/MLA web site that has useful information, including a chart of officers and chairs of committees from 1980-: http://depts.washington.edu/pncmla/history/
Several Montana hospital libraries will soon be moving into new and improved space.
St. Vincent Hospital in Billings is relocating their library in about 18 months into a space that has 40% more floor space. The current library is quite small for the size of the hospital so this is a welcome change.
St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula is also building a new library and Marianne Farr expects to start moving into her new, roomy location on St. Patrick's Day, 2002. She's also getting 10 new computers in the deal and plans to upgrade her OPAC system to Endeavor. She's doing this in cooperation with the University of Montana. Also of interest is the hospital web site where Marianne has posted a multimedia history of St. Patrick Hospital and the Sisters of Providence. The URL is: http://www.saintpatrick.org/heritage.phtml
Heidi Sue Adams of Kalispell Regional Hospital had some earthshaking news. She reported that she has had bulldozers on her ceiling. At one point in time, she could actually see daylight! She's been getting some good publicity for her library. She's taking the photographs for the online physician directory that is being developed specifically for the board of trustees.
Montana State University at Bozeman is one of four institutions in the Northwest participating in the Public Health Document Delivery Study for the Regional Medical Library. The study will look at the provision of free document delivery to the workplace of state public health employees.
Connie Younkin, Deaconess Billings Clinic librarian, resigned this spring to join her family in Washington. Bruce Bennett is coming from California soon to replace her.
Martha Thayer from Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton reported that her collection's book holdings are now on the NIH website.
As a group, the health sciences librarians in Montana are trying to work with the Montana State Library to make medical databases more affordable for the individual institutions. At the present time, Health Reference Center is the only health-related database on the state contract.