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DragonflySpring 1999 -- Volume 30, Number 2 The newsletter of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region. |
Meet... Chholing Taha, the newest RML Network Librarian. Chholing, a recent University of Washington School of Library & Information Science graduate, joined the RML last year in a temporary position working with American Indian/Alaskan Native Resources. Chholing began as an RML Librarian in December 1998.
With an art and design background, Chholing is in a perfect position to develop Web pages. She developed the UW Library School's pages while a student, and is now gracing the RML Web pages with her artwork, including our new Dragonfly Newsletter logo.
To see some of Chholing's work, check out our Tribal Connections Special Project Web pages at www.tribalconnections.org
Purpose: The purpose of this outreach initiative is to ensure that health professionals, their patients and the general public are connected to the health information resources they need to make informed health care decisions.
Outreach can take various forms depending on the needs of the target audience: promoting awareness of relevant health information resources at the regional, state, and local level through presentations, demonstrations, and exhibits; linking individuals and organizations with an NN/LM member library for backup assistance in locating hard to find information; obtaining the full text of journal articles; teaching how to search the Internet for reliable and authoritative health information; demonstrating and teaching the use of PubMed, Internet Grateful Med, MEDLINEplus, additional NLM databases, and other sources to obtain health information; and developing web links to local, state and regional health-related information to enhance what is available in MEDLINEplus for consumers.
Eligibility: Network members in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region, are eligible to apply. Applications may cover groups of institutions. A single, NN/LM member lead institution, must apply on behalf of the group. Health science libraries, health information resource centers, public libraries and state library organizations which provide health information services are eligible for network membership. Contact the Regional Medical Library for information about becoming a network member library.
Funding: This solicitation uses the subcontract mechanism. The lead institution will act as a subcontractor to the NN/LM PNR Region with responsibility for the planning, direction, and execution of the proposed project. For a single institution, support is available up to $10,000; a group of institutions may receive up to $40,000. The proposed projects may target individuals and organizations providing health information to the public, as well as targeting the public directly.
Period of Performance: up to 18 months from date of the award.
Deadline for submission of proposals: July 30, 1999
For further information or to obtain a copy of the
Request for Proposals
contact:
Nancy Ottman Press, Acting Associate Director
pressno@u.washington.edu
1-800-338-7657
When updating your SERHOLD, you need to find the SERLINE UI. How do you do that with the new Web version of SERLINE which is up on LocatorPlus (for free)? Basically, you need to look at the "Details" for your journal title.
LocatorPlus is at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locatorplus/locatorplus.html
Click on "Search LocatorPlus"
Click on "Title/Subject/Author/Call Number"
Click on the circle for "Journal Title"
Type in the journal title. The title key (the "jou/o/t/a" thing) doesn't work here. Click on "Search"
The search will retrieve one or more journal titles; click on the title you want. After you have your search narrowed down to just one title, click on "Details." You will find the NLM UI at the end of the record, looking like this:
Other ID Numbers: (DNLM)A24010000(s)
You can get the most current list of your serials from our web site. A variety of union lists are also available. The information was pulled from the SERHOLD database on May 5, 1999 for the Pacific Northwest. (Other regions' holdings are being refreshed, too, but on a staggered schedule.)
Go to: http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/pnr/serhold/ftp.select.html
You can use your Web browser's features to search, save, or print your report. For a handsome print-out, set your print specifications for 2 columns, 1 inch margins, and 8 point Courier New.
These files have been refreshed for our region on a twice-yearly basis, but that will change with the new NLM SERHOLD program. Your Regional Medical Library provides FTP service not only for the Pacific Northwest, but for five other regions in the country as well. However, in the future, SERHOLD information will be available directly from NLM. We don't yet know the format or frequency of NLM's SERHOLD reports.
by Chholing Taha
Today our librarian's duties often hurry us to a computer terminal or Internet connection. Our training quite naturally involves expert knowledge in a variety of databases and published mediums. As librarians we carry the ability to match a user's information need with the appropriate materials.
Within this spirit, earlier this year, I had the opportunity to visit the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde at Grand Ronde, OR. My focus was to assess technical levels of varying sets of persons within the Tribe and those employed by the Tribe in hopes of leveling the field for all persons in regard to computer skills and access to critical information.
After a dreary winter in Seattle, driving through the beautiful countryside of Oregon was a treat. Daffodils in full-bloom greeted my eyes and an occasional elusive white cloud dotted blue skies of Spring time. In the town of Grand Ronde, heading toward the Tribal offices, I passed the Grand Ronde Library. This library was one room, about 30 x 40 feet with a hand-painted sandwich sign out in front of a dirt parking area announcing, "The Library is Open Today!" Yes, I had already decided my path would return there before the day was finished.
Open only on Mondays, the Librarian in attendance is Elsie Werth, custodian of the collection for over 47 years. She is a concerned and professional woman, who sat beside a wood stove for warmth, accompanied by a recipe box bursting with "check-out slips." She explained the purpose of her library with conviction: "a reading library." She told me that it was her job to "know good books and then sell the idea of reading to others." She deftly picked up a volume and proceeded to sell me.
Elsie told me how her father came to this territory in 1901 from Kansas. Colorful stories of the Elders her mother knew were next. She concluded with her worries about collection development and the actual future of her library. Sitting in a child's folding oak wood chair next to her sent me back to my own childhood. Viewing her collection of classic books, smelling the scent of the old oak floor with sun streaming through 6-foot tall windows of old wavy glass. Through all these sensations, I remembered who sparked my child's mind so long ago and why I personally became interested in the information profession myself.
It is pioneers such as Elsie who spark the match of learning and encourage curiosity, the very foundation of wisdom and learning. Elsie knew her community well, and the importance of freedom of expression--what a treasure. These librarians are the bedrock of information services delivered with a timeless passion for one's work. Today Elsie is attempting to develop her collection of books on the Pacific Northwest and the Indigenous Native People. Book donations can be sent to:
Grand Ronde Woman's Club Library
C/O Mrs. Elsie F. Werth
9030 Hebo Rd
Grand Ronde OR 97347
Again this year the RML has purchased the entire set of Medical Library Association Annual Meeting Audiotapes. To borrow any tape, contact the RML.
The list of tapes is available on line as part of Materials Available for Lending.
Note that the Doe Lecture was given by our own Sherrilynne Fuller!
Produced by NN/LM PNR.
Nancy Press, Editor
Michael Boer, Publication Manager
This publication is funded in whole with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. NO1-LM-1-3516.