Newsletter 2007
Volume 7 - Issue 1

In This Issue:
  

ILL ADVISED


ANNOUNCING NEW RELEASES OF DOCLINE ®

DOCLINE® Version 3.2 was released into production on August 22, 2007:

Requests

  • Borrow: Activate borrower's LinkOut icons at login to eliminate need for libraries to access PubMed using their holdings string prior to logging in to DOCLINE.

    A user logging in as more than one library on the same day will see each library's LinkOut icons in PubMed until the LinkOut cookie expires after 8 hours of inactivity. For more information on activating LinkOut icons, see:

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=helplinkout.section.using.Activating_Icons_for

    Important: Individual users should only login to DOCLINE in one browser session at a time. Users will experience data problems in the request module if logged into DOCLINE in multiple concurrent sessions on the same PC.

General

  • Security upgrades were made to Loansome Doc and DOCLINE.
  • Technical changes were made to accommodate recent changes in PubMed.

Help

  • Help screens were added or modified for new features and changes to DOCLINE 3.2.

What’s Next?

DOCLINE 3.2.5 (more or less a “technical release”) will be released into production sometime this Fall. The release entails a move to secure socket layer (SSL) for DOCLINE, which means that all DOCLINE data passed between NLM servers and local PCs will be encrypted (including all data that’s shown on user screens – requests, institutional info., contact info., etc.)

Following this release, users may need to create a new bookmark (or favorite) from their browser to link to the DOCLINE login page.



FALL Cleaning – DOCLINE in Autumn

With the advent of the Fall season in New England and the spectacular foliage season just weeks away, we’d like to remind everyone take a moment to do a little DOCLINE house-cleaning:

REVIEW ROUTING TABLE

Step 1. Log into DOCLINE
Step 2. Click "Institutions" tab
Step 3. Click "Update (your LIBID)" button
Step 4. Click "DOCLINE Options"
Step 5. Click "Edit Routing Table"
Step 6. Check the box next to any rows designated with "Closed" or "NOT a DOCLINE library" in rust-colored letters. [NOTE: "Inactive" designation is fine.]
Step 7. Then, click "Delete" and repeat for every cell
Step 8. Click yellow buttons: "Save" & "Request Approval"

REVIEW SERIAL HOLDINGS

Step 1. Log into DOCLINE
Step 2. Click "Serial Holdings" tab
Step 3. Click "Reports" button
Step 4. Click "Holdings by Library"
Step 5. In several hours, batch report should be ready to print hard copy report.
Step 6. Check stacks and update holdings on hard copy report.
Step 7. Go back in DOCLINE and update SERHOLD records appropriately. Changes are made in computer "real time".
Step 8. Call Mark at 508-856-5964 for a quick refresher on updating serial records.


Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Come One, Come All!

To a staging of

Nursing Practice Court:
A Play About Evidence-Based Information

Put on by the Regional Advisory Committee Players
(a.k.a. members of the Hospital Library Subcommittee)

The play was written several years ago by health science librarian Jean Slepian and was created by the Evidence Based Nursing Practice Group at the Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, NH.

The play will have a single performance at NAHSL'07 on Monday, October 29, at 4:15-5:15 pm, at the Courthouse in Woodstock, VT.

Hope you can join us!


Having some ...

The NER now offers advocacy services for hospital libraries

Expecting a reduction in staff, hours, services, or space? Y / N ?
Organizing a move of the library within your institution? Y / N ?
Leaving the library (for a new job, retirement, etc.), yet hoping the institution will hire a suitable replacement? Y / N ?
Just got word that your institution (and library) will be going through a consolidation or merger? Y / N ?
Are rumors circulating about the possible elimination of the library function? Y / N ?
Has your institution announced that it's closing its doors? Y / N ?
Arriving to your institution as the new librarian? Y / N ?

If you responded in the affirmative to any of these questions, contact Mark (508-856-5964; mark.goldstein@umassmed.ed) for a consultation over what the NER can provide you in the way of an appropriately measured response.



Welcoming the NER’s Newest Members

Bay Path College
Longmeadow MA		 MAULOR New Affiliate Member
InRhodes Resource Center
Providence, RI		 RIULNZ New Full Member
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Worcester
Worcester, MA		 MAUCFU New Affiliate Member
(formerly Full Member)
Medical University of the Americas
Gardner, MA		 MAULPJ New Affiliate Member
North Adams Regional Hospital
North Adams, MA		 MAUNAB New Full Member
(formerly Affiliate Member)
Philip Read Memorial Library
Plainfield, NH		 NHULLP New Affiliate Member
Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH		 NHULLQ New Affiliate Member


Help? Advice? Questions?

Contact Mark:
Phone: 508-856-5964
Email: mark.goldstein@umassmed.edu

NLM | NN/LM | NER


Comments to:
Penny.Glassman@umassmed.edu
University of Massachusetts Medical School
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508-856-5979
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