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VOLUME XI1 NUMBER 4 IN THIS ISSUE Library Celebrates 50 Years Grants & Contracts Elizabeth Blackwell Exhibit Public Health Grant Library Hosts Special Classes Important Library Information Noteworthy Special Insert: Naomi C .  Broering LlBR4RY HOURS Monday-Thursday 7:00 am-Midnight Friday 7:00 am-9:00 pm Saturday 9:00 am-5:00 pm Sunday 1:00 pm-10:M pm CIRCULATION POLICIES Audiovisual materials: 7 days, 2 renewals Books: 2 weeks, 2 renewals Bound journals: Same day, non-renewable Nursing journals: In-house use only Unbound journals: 2 hours RENEWALS: Call 7131799-7147 OVERDUES Overdue charges are $1.00 per item per day. Unpaid fines result in the suspension of borrowing privileges. TELEPHONE NUMBERS Location and Hours 7 131795-4200 Administrative Offices 799-7 1 16 Circulation Desk (renewal$ fines) 799-7147 KnowledgeNetwork Services 799-7161 Health informatics Education Clr. 799-7128 Education and Training 799-7 154 McGovem Historical Center 799-7139 Photocopyllnterlibrary Loan 799-7179 Publications Services 799-7803 Otllitle edition: Ii~p:/hww.library.1111cd~iblinesh~1t1l RU CELEB TES SOYEARS WELCOME TO THE HAM-TMC LIBWRY Welcome to the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center (HAM- 2000 and beyond. We offer a full complement ofservices and resources to help you find and manage medical information: the Knowledge Network databases; our Health Informatics Education Center; up-to-date book and journal collections (many ofourjournals are available in electronic format); and the Jesse H. Jones Community Health Information Service. On page 3 ofthis newsletter, you will find much useful information about the Library. Each year we publish this orientation issue to welcome new anivals to all Texas Medical Centerinstitutions. The EM-TMC Library was founded in 1949, when the Houston Academy of Medicine and Baylor College of Medicine combined their collections to better serve Harris County physicians and Baylor's teaching and research programs. In 1954, the Library was moved £rom Baylor's Roy and Lillie Cullen Building to its own facility, the new Jesse H. Jones Library Building. In 1970, the University of Texas Medical School was established in Houston, and a unique joint governance structure was created, making the Library the primary information resource for both medical schools and the other institutions of the Texas Medical Center. The Library also serves as the Regional Medical Library for theNational Network of Libraries ofMedicine, South Central Region (NNLM SCR). The NNILM SCR is responsible for providing health science practitioners, adrninistmtors, educators, Network members, and consumers with convenient access to biomedical and health care information resources in the five-state region of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. I GRANTS & CONTRACTS BLACKWELL A M m R S A R Y  NLM AWARDS PUBLIC The following grants and contracts have been awarded to the HAM- TMC Library: o Houston Endowment for the Jesse H. Jones Community ' Health Information Service- $50,000 e Friends of the TMC Library for the Jesse H. Jones Community Health Information Service- $100,000 0 Rockwell Fund for TEXAS HealthInfe$20,000 National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region (NN/LM SCR) Inforrrzation Access for Public Health Professionals-$48,814 NNLM SCR for the Resource Library subcontract-$10,000 Elizabeth Blackwell received a diploma &om Geneva Medical College 150 years ago, the first woman in America to receive a mzdical degree. To celebrale this occasion, the NLM prepared an exhibit highli$ting Blackwell's education and career. This exhibit, That Girl There is a Doctor in Medicine, was first shown at this year's Medical Library Association (MLA) meeting and then at the HAM-TMC Library to help celebrate the Library's 50" anniversary. AlthoughNLM's exhibit was returned early in July, library cardholders can read more about the early struggles ofwomen to gain acceptance in medical schools ftom several books in the collection. Stafford, Ted. May Owen, M.D. WZ 100 097s  1990 Abram, Ruth. Send Us a Lady Physician. WZ 80.5 W5 S474 1985 Brew, Lydia E. The Sloty ofEdith Irby Jones, M.D. WZ 100 J765B 1986 The Library has been awarded $48,814 by the NNLM SCR to participate in a pilot project, Itforr~ratiotr Access for Pzihlic Healtll Profissiot~als. This is a collaborative endeavor anlong the Houstoil Dept. of Health and Human Services, the Houston Public Library, and the Harris Counly Public Library. The goal of this two-year project is to improve health information service tluough outreach to public health workers and consumers by achieving the following objectives: to develop an aggressive outreach1 public relations campaign 0 to provide a public health information training program for public health workers 0 to design and launch a public health Web page 0 to evaluate the pilot project as it progresses HOSTS SPECME CLASSES HAM-TMC librarians recently taught two classes for In July, the Library hosted over 300 high school visiting physicians from Spain who were taking special students froin the National Youth Leadership course work at Baylor College of Medicine. The Forum on Medicine. The students used the Library focused on PubMed, library services and Library's resources to research specific topics finding information related to their specialty field, in health care. Each sumner, the Foizlm brings oncology. There were a total of 48 participants. together outstanding students from the U.S. and over 40 foreign countries to help motivate them to enter medical professions. HlEC Computer Lab HIEC Teleconference Room HIEC Classroom KNS Desk KNS Public Area Jesse H. Jones Community Health Information Service Remodeled McGovem Historical Collection The HAM-TMC Library Board and staffwish Naomi and her husband Greg Chauncey the best of luck in their move to San Diego, CA. Executive Director o f the  HAM-TMC Library 1996-1 999. "It is the Houston Acacleniy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library's goal to become a center of excellence that supports lqe- long learning, access to the latest information and attainment of knowledge in the health sciences. " As Executive Director, Naomi initiated ajive-year restructuring plan in 1996. In the last threeyears, the following goals have been accomplished: + Renovation of the Library building 4 Creation of a Health Informatics Education Center (HIEC) s Establishment of a Knowledge Network Services (KNS) management center s Development of a consumer health information service + Procurement of  grant funds 6 Remodeling the McGoveru Historical Collection and Archives + Sponsorship of an annual Computers in Health Care Conference + Creation of  a publications service O Development of a digital library with electronic book and journal collections Naomi at the kickoff for the Medica l  Questions: MEDLINE Has Answers project, Fifth Ward Branch, Houston Public Library. Third Annual Computers in Health Care Conference: Naomi, Dr. Michael Fordis, Dr. Constance Baldwin, Roy A. Smith, Rhoda Goldberg, and Dr. William Yasnoff. Friends Gala, October, 1998. Greg Chauncey, Dr. Ferid Murad, Naorn and Carol Murad. IMPORTMT INFOMATION ABOUT THE HAM-TMC LIBMRY LOCATION & PARKING The Library is located in the Jesse H. Jones Library Building in the TMC at 1 133 M.D. Anderson Boulevard. Short term parking (20 minutes) is available in front of the Library on a first-come basis, and there is a parking garage under the building. L l  BRARY CARDS Faculty, students and staff from all TMC institutions, as well as members ofthe Harris County Medical Society, are eligible for Library cards. Associate (fee-based) memberships are available to individuals and institutions not affiliated with the TMC. Health care providers who are not card holders can receive some services through our affiliation with the NNlLM SCR. T o  obtain a Library card and for more information please contact the Circulation Desk at (71 3) 799-71 47. LOCATION OF MATERIALS First Floor: Circulation and Reference desks; reference and core collections; reserve books; Knowledge Network databases; current journals; photocopiers; book and audiovisual collections; consumer health resources Second Floor: Bound journals; photocopiers; oversized book collection; PhotocopylInterlibrary Loans; McGovem Historical Center; individual and group study rooms Street Level: Health Informatics Education Center laboratory and classroom; teleconferencing facilities; Publications Services office; T M C  archives; reference storage; NNILM SCR offices LIBRARY SERVICES Circulation Department (713) 799-7147 Register for Library card Check out and return Library materials Purchase copylprint cards Place holds on circulating items Pay fines and fees Pick up computer searches, photocopies, interlibrary loans Access reserve and core collection items Knowledge Network Services (713) 799-7161 Searching and electronic access to information Database searches Reference assistance Online catalog assistance Assistance using the Library Consumer Health Information (713) 799-7183 Assistance finding patient-related information e Brochures, information packets Consumer health databases Education (713) 799-7154 Schedule orientations, tours, classes PubMed, Internet Grateful Med classes 1 Electronic Journals Health Informatics Education Center (713) 799-7128 a Computer lab Classroom b Scanner MS Word, Powerpoint, Excel Teleconferencing facilities Public lunchroom Publications (713) 799-7803 Manuscript preparation a Grant writing consultations Editorial services Citation verification Page LayoutIGraphics McGovern Historical Collection (713) 799-7141 On-site use of historical collections Reference assistance Consultation on local history projects, book, manuscript and photograph preservation Rare book collections Harris County Medical Archives (713) 799-7139 On-site use of manuscripts and records Reference assistance Consultation on local history projects and preservation Hospital Library Services (713) 799-7163 Contract hospitals Access to collections, electronic resources and services of HAM-TMC Library Photocopyflnterlibrary Loan (713) 799-7179/7805 0 Interlibrary borrowing services a Staff-assisted photocopy service Assistance with self-service photocopying Library Website ht tp: / /www. l ibrary .  trric.edrr Links to PubMed, Internet Grateful Med and other databases Links to electronic journals Remote access NN/LM SCR (713) 799-7880 T h e  NNlLM SCR is responsible for providing health science practitioners administrators educators  0 Network members consumers with convenient access to biomedical and health care information resources i. the five-state region of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Itttp://wwtv.library. tttrc. edu/ejorrrnals. Irttnl Texas. VISITS HAM-TMc LIBWRY Charles Breedy joined the Library as a catalog collection assistant June 2 1, INTEMM EXECUTIVE 1999. He was previously employed DIRECTOR with Baker Hughs as a tape librarian J. Robert Beck, MD, and playback technician. Chuck has a Vice President for great interest in music and plays the Medicine and 1998/ 999 HAM-TMC Library Timothy Shola Abolarinwa, 1999 Dawn Bick, Associate Chair, has been appointed Interim recipient ofthe MLA'~ Cunningham Director for Collections, Executive Director of the Library. Fellowship, visited the Library in July. Dr. Beck has served on the Library A native omigeria, Timothy is 9 to devote her efforts for seven Years and has interested in public health issues and full time to the Cat's served on the Board of the National diseases toNigeria, as well Pajamas, a business she and her Network of Libraries of Medicine, as technologies he plans to implement husband, paul, started many years South Central Region. in his medical library in Lagos. While ago, she paul plan to relocate in Houston, he touredTexas Medical their business to Santa Fey NM in the Center facilities and the University of near future. WELCOME Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center The Library welcomed and School of Public Health libraries. Assistant Director for F E L L O W S ~ S  LIBRARY LMES Collections, on June 28, Library Lirres is published six times Assistant Director of the per year. Please call (713) 799-7169 to HEC, was a recipient of be placed on our mailing list. 10 years at the Emory University the 1999 Fellowship Editors: Beatriz Vaman, MLIS General Libraries in Atlanta, where Award sponsored by the Deborah Nalsted, MLS he served as head of the Acquisitions National Library of Medicine to attend Graphic Design; momas Gegeny Department and more recently as the Health Informatics Course at the Interim Executive Director: Electronic Licensing Coordinator. Marine Biological Laboratory in J. Robert Beck, MD Houston Academy ofMedicine- Texas Medical Center Library 1 1 33 M.D. Anderson Boulevard Houston, TX 77030 Nonprofit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Houston, Texas Permit No. 5142 

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