Spring, 2004
University of Rhode Island.
Graduate School of Library and Information Studies.
Class meets Tuesday, 6:30 P.M.-9:05 P.M.
URI Kingston Campus, Room 2.
Frank Kellerman
Brown University
Sciences Library, Box I
Providence, RI 02912
e-mail:Frank_Kellerman@Brown.Edu
phone: (401)863-1532 or (401)863-3333 (work)
phone: (508)761-4072 (home)
William H. Anger, Jr.
Cardillo Health Sciences Library
Women & Infants Hospital
101 Dudley Street
Providence, RI 02905
e-mail: wanger@wihri.org
Mon-Fri 9 am-1 pm.
phone: (401)274-1122 x2338
fax (401)453-7518
OR
Phillips Memorial Library
Providence College
549 River Avenue
Providence, RI
e-mail: wanger@providence.edu
phone: (401)865-2581
fax: (401)865-2823
Mon and Wednesday 4-11 pm.
Sat 10 am-8 pm.
OR
home/cell: (508)667-5245
Please send me an e-mail or call me (work or home) when you have questions or something you want to discuss. We can also meet after class or another day.
Course objectives:
LSC537 serves as an introduction to the field of health sciences librarianship.
We aim to help class members learn to use the literature, understand the
vocabulary, practice information retrieval, explore computer applications,
develop useful book and journal collections, investigate new reference
tools, identify key issues affecting our profession, and to understand
the environments of health sciences librarianship and the larger institutions
that the library supports. We learn these tools in order to effectively
assist our patrons, health services professsionals and consumers, in accessing
the health information they require, in order that our physicians and health
care professionals more effectively treat our patients. We assist them
in their practice of the highest standards of evidence-based medicine.
(The more you know, the better you heal.) Our patrons will come from diverse
backgrounds, clinicians, researchers, educators, nurses, administrators,
allied health professionals, other librarians, students and interns, healthcare
consumers, patients and families.
READINGS FOR THE COURSE
No textbook is assigned for you to buy for the class. Readings are
due the day of class. Readings will be placed on Reserve, or be accessible
electronically.
-Readings are assigned from a variety of books and journals and from
Web sites. Most of the assigned readings are available at the URI Kingston
Library Reserve Desk or Linked directly from the syllabus.
-URI
Kingston Library Hours
-Some of reserve readings may be scanned, so those are available electronically
(access with your URI ID card bar code).
-Note that several of the assigned readings are from the Bulletin
of the Medical Library Association (BMLA). URI Kingston Library has
this serial in the stacks - Serial/Z675/M4/M4. Also, BMLA articles
are available for free on PubMed Central, http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/
BMLA became JMLA (Journal of the Medical Library Association)
with the January, 2002 issue.
Detailed information about readings will be at each week's listing.
-Additional readings will be added during the semester.
SOME USEFUL WEB SITES/DISCUSSION LISTS TO CONSULT UDURING THE SEMESTER
-LSC 537 course syllabus -
http://www.uri.edu/personal/fke7641u/HSL04SYL.html
-Association of Rhode Island Health Sciences Libraries (ARIHSL) Web
Site
http://library.umassmed.edu/arihsl/
-Medical Library Association Web Site
http://www.mlanet.org/
-National Library of Medicine Web Site
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
-NN/LM National Network of Libraries of Medicine - New England Region
http://nnlm.gov/ner/
-North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries
http://www.nahsl.org/
-MEDLIB-L Discussion List Archive
http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/medlib-l.html
-NAHSL-L Discussion List.
To subscribe, send the SUBSCRIBE command to the host
server
(lyris@list.umassmed.edu):
join NAHSL-L firstname lastname>
-ARIHSL Discussion List
To subscribe to the ARIHSL list,
send a message to:
lyris@list.umassmed.edu
In the body of the message, type:
Join ARIHSL-L firstname lastname.
ASSIGNMENTS AND EXAM
There will be an assignment each week - due the next week. Cumulative
percent for the assignments, 70%. Final Exam, 25%.
Assignment List
1.Biomedical Journals
2.Inter-library loan
3.MeSH Indexing
4.PubMed Searching/OVID Searching
5.Evidence Based Medicine
6.Collection Development and Acquisitions
7.Reference/NLM Cataloging (2)
8.Information Needs of Physicians
9.Bioinformatics
10.Genetic Databanks
11.Consumer Health
12.Library Budget
13.Student Presentations
14.Final Exam
Week # 1 - January 13, 2004
Introduction to the Course
Syllabus
Roles of the Biomedical Journal
Indexing the Journal Literature/Index Medicus
Readings
-Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship, ch. 1 (Book
on Reserve, URI Kingston)
-Van Ordsel, L and Born, K. "Big chill on the big deal?" Library
Journal 128(7) 51-56, April 15, 2003.
Available electronically through H.W.WilsonWeb
- http://hwwilsonweb.com/login, using supplied ID/password.
Web Sites to Visit:
Public Library of
Science - http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org
-SPARC: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
http://www.arl.org/sparc/
-NorthEast Research Libraries consortium (NERL)
http://www.library.yale.edu/NERLpublic/
Assignment:
Investigate Biomedical journals.
January 20, 2004 - NO CLASS (Monday classes meet this week.)
Week # 2 - January 27, 2004
Electronic Document Delivery
Consortia
Licensing
Budgeting
DOCLINE
SERHOLD
ILL
Ariel
Link-Out
Electronic Access
Copyright
PLoS/PubMedCentral/Amedeo
-Readings:
Shipman JP. "Desktop document delivery using portable document format
(PDF) files and the web." Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
86(3):307-315. Jul 1998. Available electronically from PubMedCentral.
-Hill, T.W. "Time was, time is now, and time is past: electronic document
delivery." National Network. 28(1)14-15 July 2003. Available electronically
from Hospital Librarians Section, Medical Library Association
http://www.mlanet.org/. Go to
Sections (right side of homepage), Select Hospital Libraries Section.
Select Newsletter. Select "Past Issues Available Online."
Web Sites to Visit:
-PubMed Central Web Site
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
-DOCLINE Fact Sheet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/docline.html
-SERHOLD Fact Sheet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/serhold.html
-JAKE Database
JAKE Database - http://jake.med.yale.edu/index.jsp(at
Yale Med School)
-Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. By Charles W. Bailey,
Jr.
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
-HighWire Press
http://highwire.stanford.edu/about
-Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences (from the Medical College
of Ohio)
http://www.mco.edu/lib/instr/libinsta.html
-Hardin MD Electronic Journal Showcase from the University of Iowa (list
of free full-text medical journals on the web)
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/ej.html
-Free Medical Journals
http://freemedicaljournals.com/
Assignment:
Inter-library loan assignment
Week # 3 - February 3, 2004
Indexing by NLM
MeSH
MEDLINE
Readings:
-Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship - ch.2 (On Reserve,
URI Kingston Library)
-Index Medicus. "Introduction." (handout)
-Medical Subject Headings - Annotated Alphabetic List. - "Sample
Entries" page (handout). Also take a look at the volume at URI Library
- URI Govt Pub HE 20.3612/3-4:
-MeSH Fact Sheet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/mesh.html
Web Sites to Visit:
-MeSH Websites
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html
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Web Sites at NLM visited during class, February 3,
2004
The MeSH Browser on the left sidebar on the PubMed page
MESH Browser
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/meshbrowser.cgi
Another MeSH Browser that displays additional information
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/meshbrowser.cgi
Linked information about MeSH
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/introduction2004.html
Redundant information displayed a little differently about MeSH
http://www.uri.edu/personal/fke7641u/www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/features2003.html
I did not display this page, but I should have
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/
Publication Types links
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/pubtypesg.html
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/pubtypes.html
"What's the Difference Between MEDLINE® and PubMed®?"
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/dif_med_pub.html
"The Reorganization of National Library of Medicine (NLM) Bibliographic
Databases"
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/dif_med_pub.html
OLDMEDLINE
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/databases_oldmedline.html
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Assignment:
MeSH Indexing and Searching
Week # 4 - February 10, 2004
MEDLINE Searching
PubMed
OVID -----CINAHL
Readings:
-PubMed Tutorial
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html
Web Sites to Visit:
-CINAHL
http://www.cinahl.com/
-URI Life Sciences, Marine & Environment Databases
http://www.uri.edu/library/reference_databases/life.html
-URI Health Sciences Databases
http://www.uri.edu/library/reference_databases/health.html
-NLM Publications, Including the NLM Technical Bulletin
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/
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Web Sites at NLM visited during class, February 10,
2004
PubMed, again
http://pubmed.gov/
NLM Gateway
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/
URI's Reference Databases
http://www.uri.edu/library/reference_databases/title.html
ETOH database
http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/
Literature, Arts and Medicine Database
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/topview.html
AIDS Drugs
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/HIV/HIVDrugs.html
POPLINE
http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform/basic.html
TOXNET
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
WHO links to regional health databases
http://www.who.int/library/country/regional/index.en.shtml
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Assignment:
PubMed searching
Week # 5 - February 17, 2004
Evidence Based Medicine
Types of Articles
Cochrane Database
Steps to a Study
Libraries and EBM
Evidence Based Librarianship
Readings:
-BMJ articles (free) on Evidence-Based Health Care
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/openlearning/uebpp/uebpp.htm#how
scroll down to the series of articles, "How to Read a Paper"
-Dickersin, Kay and Manheimer, Eric. "The Cochrane collaboration evaluation: valuation of health care and services using systematic reviews of the results of randomized controlled trials." Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology 41(2):315-331, June, 1998. (reserve - photocopy)
Web Sites to Visit:
-National Guideline Clearinghouse
http://www.guideline.gov/
-Clinical Practice Guidelines from the University of Minnesota
http://evidence.ahc.umn.edu/
-Primary Care - Clinical Practice Guidelines - Index from the Univ.
of Calif., San Francisco
http://medicine.ucsf.edu/resources/guidelines/
-CancerNet
http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/
Assignment:
Evidence Based Medicine.
Week # 6 - February 24, 2004
Collection Development and Acquisitions in the Hospital
Books: Collection Development
Collection Development Policy (CDP)
Book Reviews
Core Lists;
Electronic Medical Books: MD Consult; Books@OVID
Readings:
Please scan the Brandon-Hill lists.
Complete current versions of all Brandon-Hill lists are now available
only electronically, and only at the Brandon-Hill website, in PDF format.
If you look to the left side of the page, you will see the titles available:
Web Sites to Visit:
-Medical/Health Sciences Libraries on the Web
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/hslibs.html
-Doody Publishing. Registration required (free one month trial) Call
http://www.doody.com/Rev450WebScripts/Main_Mall.asp?
Assignment:
Collection Development and Acquisitions
Week # 7 - March 2, 2004
Reference Tools Print & Electronic(Clinical)
National Library of Medicine Cataloging
Readings:
-Roper. Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences.
Skim book. Read chapter 10 (Drug Information Sources)(Available at
URI Kingston Library, REF Z6658 I54 1994)
-Medical Subject Headings - Annotated Alphabetic List. "Cataloging
practices." URI Govt Pub HE 20.3612/3-4:
-"Cataloging Practices" also at - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/catpractices2002.html
-National Library of Medicine Classification. 5th ed. 1994. "Introduction."
-NLM Classification Practices." Skim the schedules. HE 20.3602:C
56/994
"Introduction" also at - http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/class/nlmclassintro.html
"NLM Classification Practices" also at http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/class/nlmclassprac.html
-And also links to MeSH from Week#3 of syllabus.
Supplementary Reading - Not Assigned:
-Snow, Bonnie. Drug Information: A Guide to Current Resources.
2d ed. Chicago, Medical Library Association, 1999.
Available at URI Kingston Library REF Z6675 P5 S64 1999
Web Sites to Visit:
-American Board of Medical Specialties
http://www.abms.org/
-AMA Physician Select
http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm
-Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors
http://www.docboard.org/
Massachusetts
http://www.docboard.org/ma/df/masearch.htm
Rhode Island
http://www.docboard.org/ri/main.htm
-National Library of Medicine Classification
http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/class
-LocatorPlus at NLM
http://locatorplus.gov/
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Links/Sources covered during class (Cataloging) -
Links for NLM Classification
http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/class/
Sample Online Catalog of a Medical School
Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering
http://tri-cat.rockefeller.edu/search
NLM Online Catalog - LocatorPlus
http://locatorplus.gov/
Medical/Health Sciences Libraries on the Web
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/hslibs.html
Handed out photocopy,
"An Exercise in Original Cataloging: Subject Cataloging"
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Links/Sources covered during class (Reference)
Citation Verification:
PubMed Single Citation Matcher http://pubmed.gov
Web of Science
Search Jake http://jake.med.yale.edu/search
Official ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists
URI REF R712 A1 O34
Directory of Physicians in the United States (AMA) URIR712
A1 A6
FOLIO Medical Directory (Connecticut & RI)
http://www.abms.org ABMS Website
http://www.ama-assn.org AMA Website
http://www.docfinder.org Docfinder
http://www.docboard.org/ri/df/search.htm
Rhode Island
http://profiles.massmedboard.org/Profiles/MA-Physician-Profile-Find-Doctor.asp
Massachusetts
http://www.dph.state.ct.us/MD_Profile/hlthprof.htm
Connecticut Dept. of Public Health
AHA Guide to the Health Care Field URI REF RA977 A1 A462
Medical and Health Information Directory URI REF R110.4 U6 M4
Encyclopedia of Associations URI REF AS22 E52
World Meetings-United States & Canada CEASED
World Meetings-Outside the United States & Canada CEASED
Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings URI REF T6 I52
Graduate Medical Education Directory URI REF R840 D56
Electronic/FREIDA http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2997.html
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics URI REF QD65 H3
FASEB Biology Data Book URI REF QH310 A392
Drug Information Print
Physicians Desk Reference URI REF RS75 P5
PDR for Herbal Drugs URI RS 75 P554
AHFS Drug Handbook URI REF RS156 P48
AHFS Drug Information URI REF RS125 A56
USP DI - link to the lay level in http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
PDR.net - http://www.pdr.net/pdrnet/librarian/action/command.Command
Micromedex - http://www.micromedex.com
ePocrates on PDA - http://www.epocrates.com
Stedman’s Medical Dictionary URI REF RS121 S8
Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary URI RS121 D73
Computer Access to Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
MEDLINEplus - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthstatistics.html
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Assignment:
Reference
NLM Cataloging
March 9, 2004
Spring Break
Week # 8 - March 16, 2004
Physicians as Patrons
Hospital Librarianship
Tumor Board
Outreach
Readings:
Wolf, Diane G.; Chastain-Warheit, Christine C.;Easterby-Gannett, Sharon;
Chayes, Marion; Long, Bradley A.
"Hospital librarianship in the United States: at the crossroads."
Journal of the Medical Library Association 90 (1): 38–48, January,
2002.
http://www.pubmedcentral.org/articlerender.fcgi?artid=64756
(can click on PDF link)
-Flexner, Abraham. Medical Education in the United States
and Canada; a report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching. 1910. "Introduction" pp.vii-xvii. And skim chapter 1, "Historical
and General" pp.3-19. (reserve)
Web Sites to Visit:
-JCAHO - Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
http://www.jcaho.org/
Assignment:
Information needs of health care professionals
Week # 9 - March 23, 2004
Internet and Computer Applications
Bioinformatics
PDA - CPOE
Primary Care Informatics
Readings:
To be assigned.
Assignment:
Bioinformatics
Week # 10 - March 30, 2004
Genetic Diseases and Databanks
Genetic Searching for Researchers
Physicians and Genetic Diseases
Readings:
-Gonick, Larry and Wheelis, Mark. The Cartoon Guide to Genetics.
Updated edition. New York, HarperPerennial, 1991. Lightly read through.
(reserve personal copy)
Web Sites to Visit:
-National Center for Biotechnology Information
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov./
-Amos' WWW Links Page
http://ca.expasy.org/alinks.html
Assignment: Genetic Databanks
Week # 11 - April 6, 2004
Consumer Health
Readings:
- MEDLINEplus
http://medlineplus.gov/
-The Medical Library Association consumer health reference service
handbook. Photocopy of a chapter on reserve.
Web Sites to Visit:
-Healthnet: Connecticut Consumer Health Information Network
http://library.uchc.edu/departm/hnet/
-NN/LM Guide to Internet Discovery Tools
http://nnlm.gov/tools.html
-NOAH: New York Online Access to Health, available in Spanish language
http://www.noah-health.org/
-Treadwell Library of Massachusetts General Hospital
Consumer
Menu of Treadwell Library
-How to Search for Medical Information
How to Search
for Medical Information
-Internet Resources from Darling Biomedical Library of UCLA
http://wwwtest.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/cdd/mainpage.htm
-Clinical Trials from NIH and NLM
http://clinicaltrials.gov/
Assignment:
Consumer Health
Week#12 - April 13, 2004
Economics of the Library
Managing the Health Sciences Library
Readings:
-Medical Library Association Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries.
Z675 M4 M5 2000(reserve). chapters to be assigned.
-Marshall, Joanne G. "The impact of the hospital library on clinical
decision making: The Rochester study." BMLA 80(2):169-178, April,
1992. Available electronically on PubMedCentral
-Shearer, Barbara S.; Seymour, Anne; and Capitani, Cheryl. "Bringing
the best of medical librarianship to the patient team." Journal
of the Medical Library Association 90(1):22-32, January, 2002. Available
electronically on PubMedCentral
Web Sites to Visit:
-Hospital Libraries Section of MLA
http://www.hls.mlanet.org/
Assignment:
Student Presentations - due April 20
Library Budget - due April 27
Week # 13 - April 20, 2004
The Environment of Hospitals
Insurance
Medicare
HMOs
Topics of Interest to Students
Readings: TBA
Web Sites:
-GrantsNet
http://www.hhs.gov/grantsnet/
-CRISP: Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects
http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/
-Search EDGAR for 10-K filings.
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
Week #14 - April 27, 2004
Health Care Associations and Organizations
Our Jobs
Medical Library Association
Academy of Health Information Professionals
SLA
Readings/Web Sites to Visit:
-Medical Library Association home page
http://www.mlanet.org/
-Platform for Change
Educational Policy
Statement of MLA
-Association of Rhode Island Health Sciences Libraries (ARIHSL) home
page
http://library.umassmed.edu/arihsl/
Week# 15 - May 04, 2004
Final Exam
webpage/syllabus last updated on 1/26/2004