DOCLINE System Updates

NN/LM's membership renewal process occurs as part of a 5-year cycle, timed to concur with the start of the NLM (National Library of Medicine) contract period.

As part of that process, institutional and member contact information is verified or modified, followed by a review of the Institution Records within DOCLINE (R). Finally, NN/LM member certificates are mailed out individually to the entire membership. The NER has recently placed their order with the printer for the certificates. As soon as they arrive at the NER office, we will immediately begin to mail them out individually to the membership. We hope to have this task completed before the end of March.

As of February, 2007, the NER consists of 507 members: 234 Full Members and 273 Affiliate Members.

As outlined in the NER website membership requirements are as follows:

Qualifications for Membership: Full and Affiliate

There are two categories of membership within the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM): Full Member and Affiliate Member.

A Full Member may be any health sciences library or health-related information center, institution, or organization that meets the following criteria:

• Regular Staffing: A minimum of three or more mornings per week is recommended.
• Network Connectivity: At least one computer connected to the Internet.
• Health Science Collection: May include books, journals, audiovisuals, and electronic databases. (A minimum of 25 titles is recommended.)
• Information services: includes DOCLINE participation, along with traditional reference services and online literature searching provided to health professionals-and/or-the general public.

Full members are also encouraged to provide Loansome Doc service to their own patrons and/or unaffiliated users.

Affiliate Member

An Affiliate Member may be a library or information resource center that provides health information services to their patrons/users, but they do not meet all of the criteria (listed above) for Full Membership. Public libraries are encouraged to join the NN/LM as Affiliate Members. Some Affiliate Members may form a cooperative relationship with a Full Member for assistance with reference services or document delivery.

WHAT'S COOKIN' ON THE HOSPITAL LIBRARY
SUBCOMMITTEES'S FRONT BURNER?

The Hospital Library Subcomimittee (HLS) of the Regional Advicory Council (RAC) of the NER is currently working on a Hospital Library Promotional Toolkit. Action items for the completion fo the toolkit are expected to be realized towards the end ot hte RML's current fiscal year (April 30).

When the product is completed and approved by the entire Subcommittee, both the Hospital Librarian Orientation Toolkit (completed last year) and the Hospital Library Promotional Toolkit will be made publicly accessible via the NER web site.

While on the back burner...

The Subcommittee has submitted a poster for MLA'07, which has been approved and assigned to the Administration & Management section for the conference poster session. If you're planning to be at MLA'07 in Philadelphia, please stop by and see us!

Also waiting temporarily in the wings (behind the curtain)...

At NAHSL'07, the Subcommittee will be putting on a production of "Nursing Practice Court", a play about evidence-based nursing. The playwright is Jean Slepian, who is the librarian at Cheshire Medical Center. Please stop by to see the show!

If you responded "Yes" to any of the questions above, contact Mark Goldstein at the NER for a consultation over what the Regional medical Library can provide you in the way of an appropriately measured response.

The Nutz and Boltz of LinkOut

If you're thinking: it's about time we added link resolver software to our repertoire to provide full-text access to our online journals, why not consider NCBI's LinkOut program as one of your options?

Link resolver software brings together information about the cited resource, the user, and the library's many subscriptions, policies, and services. The link resolver becomes activated when the user clicks on a link or button ("Search for full text") embedded in the user interface of PubMed (or other services). Using the OpenURL Framework, information, such as the metadata for that citation, is bundled together from the Source and sent to the resolver software that will process the data, comparing it to the Knoweldgebase.

LinkOut is a service of Entrez that allows you to link directly from PubMed and other Entrez databases to a wide range of information and services extending beyond the Entrez system. LinkOut aims to facilitate access to relevant online resources extending, clarifying, and supplementing information found in the Entrez databases. Examples of LinkOut resources include: full-text publications, biological databases, consumer health information, research tools, and more!

For more information about LinkOut:

Also, you may contact the LinkOut Representative for your region:
Mark Goldstein, 508-856-5964, mark.goldstein@umassmed.edu

Membership Updates at the NER

1. Southern Maine Medical Center, Biddeford, ME - MEUWEB
2. Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, MA MAUIEF

1. St. Joseph Hospital, Bangor, ME - MEUSJY
2. Waldo County General Hospital, Belfast, ME - MEUWAS
3. New Hampshire Community Technical College, Nashua, NH - NHUKQI
4. North Adams Regional Hospital, North Adams, MA - MAUNAB
5. North Shore Community College, Danvers, MA - MAUFOY
6. Otis Health Care Center, Townshend, MA - VTUARG

1. Colebrook Public Library, Colebrook, NH -NHULDR
2. Conway Public Library, Conway, NH - NHULDU
3. Dalton Public Library, Dalton, NH - NHULDW
4. Gateway Community College, New Haven, CT - CTUKCG
5. Granite State Colleg, Portsmouth, NH - NHULCN
6. Morrill Memorial Library, Norwood, MA - MAULDT
7. Morse Institue Library, Natick, MA - MAULEY
8. Vernon Free Library, Vernon, VT - VTULDV
9. Ineyard Haven Public Library, Vinyard Haven, MA - MAULGJ

Help? Advice? Questions?

Please contact Mark at:
508-856-5964 -or- mark.goldstein@umassmed.edu.