A Review of: “The Medical Library Association Essential Guide to Becoming an Expert Searcher: Proven Techniques,Strategies, and Tips for Finding Health Information. Jankowski,Terry Ann.”

Abstract

The Center for Families Resource Library at St. Louis Children’s Hospital was integrated into the hospital’s new Epic electronic medical records system in June 2018. The new system enables clinicians to request consults from the Center for Families Resource Library. The librarian can participate more actively and collaboratively with patient education by providing reliable health information and charting it as part of the patient’s permanent record. The article reviews improvements over the former system and reveals an enhanced role for the health services librarian.     

Things They Didn't Teach Me in Library School: Photocopiers

Abstract

The Role Of The Library In The First College Year. L. Hardesty, ed. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2007. Reviewed by Christopher Millson-Martula.     

A Narrative History of Resource Sharing in the State of Maryland

ABSTRACT

The evolution of statewide resource sharing and reciprocal borrowing for Maryland public libraries is discussed. Beginning in the 1950s, the Enoch Pratt Free Library assumed responsibility for filling interlibrary loan requests for the state due to the size of its collection. In 1971, Pratt became the State Library Resource Center and its interlibrary loan responsibilities became formalized. Through a series of technological advancements in library catalogs and interlibrary loan systems, Maryland has arrived at the MARINA system to facilitate sharing resources throughout the state. The state has a long-standing philosophy of cooperation, which makes the MARINA endeavor possible.     

An Interview Forum on Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery with Lynn Wiley and Tom Delaney

Abstract

The Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian Award is the most prestigiouscommendation given to practitioners in the field. The following questions about ILL were posed to the two most recent recipients of the Boucher Award: Tom Delaney (2002), Coordinator of Interlibrary Loan Services at Colorado State University and Lynn Wiley (2001), Information Resource Retrieval Center Coordinator at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Questions were written by Douglas Hasty, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Access Services.     

A Holocaust Resource Center Becomes a Beehive

Summary

This contribution describes the beginning years of a Holocaust Resource Center and its collection development in a four-year public institution, the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. The authors argue that, with such preconditions as strong institutional leadership and commitment and with good “town-gown” relationships, Holocaust and Genocide Studies can be placed central to the liberal arts experience. Such centrality is particularly important given the repeated occurrence of genocide in this century. In view of uncertain fiscal support for public higher education, multiple ways must but can be found to develop Holocaust and Genocide book and media collections.     

Cable and Telecommunications

William A. Lucas and Robert K. Yin's Serving Local Needs with Telecommunications (Santa Monica, Calif: Rand Corporation Report R-1345-MF, November 1973—$3.00, paper).

Fred B. Wood's The Potential for Congressional Use of Emergent Telecommunications: An Exploratory Assessment (Washington, D.C.: George Washington University, Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology, May 1974—apparently free on request)

Walter S. Baer, Michael Botein, Leland L. Johnson, Carl Pilnick, Monroe E. Price, and Robert K. Yin's Cable Television: Franchising Considerations (New York: Crane, Russak, & Co., 1974-=T13.50)

Charles G. Woodard's Cable Television: Acquisition and Operation of CATV Systems (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974—$27.50)

Planning Interconnection Systems: Options for the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (Washington, D.C.: Cable Television Information Center, 2100 M St. N.W., 1974-47.50, paper)

Cablelines (Cable Communications Resource Center, 1900 L St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036—monthly/free on request)     

The Information Specialist Customer Partnership

Abstract

“To make significant contributions at appropriate points in the research process, information specialists must be positioned for proactive service to their users” (Von Seggem p. 101). At the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences Manufacturing Information Resource Center, information specialists are part of their customer' s team and contribute valuable expertise, information, and skills. The synergy of this relationship will be illustrated by describing three projects where these knowledge workers collaborated with their customers. From this experience, these information professionals share recommendations for fostering the customer librarian partnership. In conclusion, the synergistic practices described are related to literature on the topic of librarian customer teamwork.     

Building a Better Mousetrap

Abstract

Businesses and inventors require timely and complete information relative to the new products they are developing. Requests for business information often require an understanding of an industry that goes beyond the scope of services provided by the library. It is important for the librarian to build linkages to community business resources such as the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), or others whose purpose is to assist local businesses, inventors, and new product developers. Patent and trademark searches and other research related to new products present an ideal way for librarians and community business consultants to work together. Such a relationship exists on the campus of Central Missouri State University where library staff and the staff of the SBDC on campus have assisted new product developers by providing patent and trademark searches, and technology and market research. Many clients of this partnership have successfully brought products and services to the marketplace.     

A Brief History of the OCLC Members Council

ABSTRACT

On May 19, 2009, the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Members Council held its 90th and final meeting. It was the end of an era that began in 1977, when the Ohio College Library Center changed its name to OCLC and adopted a new governance structure that extended membership in the cooperative to libraries outside Ohio. In the ensuing 30 years, libraries around the world elected 450 delegates to attend three Council meetings each year at OCLC.     

Researching Initiatives and Referenda: A Guide for Missouri

SUMMARY

This research guide is intended for those wishing to explore the history and develop a basic understanding of the initiative and referenda petition process in Missouri. The I&R process attracted national attention when Missouri's controversial Constitutional Amendment 2 dealing with stem cell research appeared on the ballot in the 2006 general election. Recently, there have been efforts to overturn this petition which narrowly passed. Hopefully, this guide will provide background and suggest paper and electronic resources for those wishing to study the process and determine what “paper trail” is available for initiatives and referendum in Missouri.     

International and Foreign Communications

Benjamin D. Singer, ed. Communications in Canadian Society (Toronto: Copp Clark, 1975—price not given, paper)

Svennik Hoyer, Stig Hadenius, and Lennart Weibull's The Politics and Exonomics of the Press: A Developmental Perspective (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1975—$2.50, paper)     

Book of the Month

Harvey J. Levin's The Invisible Resource: Use and Regulation of the Radio Spectrum (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1971—$12.00)     

Media in the Devetopingk Countries

John A. Lent Topics in Third World Mass Communications: Rural and Developmental Journalism, Cultural Imperialism, Research and Education (Asian Research Service, G.P.O. Box 2232, Hong Kong, 1979—$6.95, paper)

Techniques for Improving Educational Rradio Programmes by James M. Theroux (Educational Studies and Documents No.: 30,1978—-&3.25, 43 pp. )

Communication Policies in The Republican of Korea by Hann Bae-ho (1978– $4.00, paper,50.pp)     

Foreign/International

James D. Halloran and Michael Gurevich (eds.) Broadcaster/Researcher Co-Operation in Mass Communication Research (Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester, England, 1971 -- price not known, paper)

Global Communications in the Space Age (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1972 -- $1.00, paper)

Katherine Shervis (comp.) Satellite Teleconferencing: An Annotated Bibliography (Edsat Center, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706 -- $2.00, paper)

0.J. Firestone's The Public Persuader: Government Advertising (Toronto: Methuen, 1970 -- $12.70)

Telenation (Canadian Broadcasting League, Box 1504, Ottawa, Canada KIP 5R5 -- $8.00 per year/12 issues)     

General Mass Communications

Edward Jay Whetmore's Mediamerica: Form, Content, and Consequence of Mass Communication (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, l979—price not given, paper)

Mary B. Cassata and Molefi K. Asante's Mass Communication: Principles and Practices (New York: Macmillan, 1979—price not given, paper)

James M. Curtis' Culture as Polyphony: An Essay on the Nature of Paradigms (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1978—$15.00)

Colin Cherry's On Human Communication (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1978—$17.50)

James E. Fletcher and Stuart H. Surlin's Mass Communication Instruction in the Secondary School (ERIC Speech Module, SCA, Suite 1001, 5205 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, Va. 22041 —$5.50, paper)

Information Market Place 1978-79—An International Directory of Information Products and Services (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1978—$21.50, paper)     

Instructional/Educational Media

Public Telecommunications Review (bi-monthly at $12.50 per year in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, $17.00 Elsewhere) and Volume I:1 appeared in August 1973

S. Young Lee and Ronald J. Pedone's Summary Statistics of Public Television Licensees Fiscal Year 1972 (Washington: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1973—no price listed, paperback)

Frederick Williams, Geraldine Van Wart and Monty Stanford's Carrascolendas: National Evaluation of a Spanish/English Educational Television Series (Austin, Texas: School of Communication, Center for Communication Research of the University of Texas, June 1973—$6.00, paper)

Children's Television Workshop offers its 1973 Annual Report (1 Lincoln Plaza, N.Y. 10023) which discusses developments in Sesame Street, Electric Company     

Improving ADA Access

Summary

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) motivated libraries all over the United States to evaluate their accommodations and services to patrons with disabilities. This article presents a case study of the Texas Tech University Libraries project to meet the needs of their patrons in relation to ADA. The study focuses on including adaptive technologies in the library environment to aid blind, hearing, visually and physically-impaired patrons and increasing library staff awareness of the needs of patrons with disabilities. Findings from the study will also benefit school, public, and special libraries that are evaluating their access for patrons with disabilities.     

Future Proof for Physics: Preserving the Record of SLAC

ABSTRACT

This article provides a brief introduction to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), discusses the origins of the SLAC Archives and History Office, its present-day operations, and the present and future challenges it faces in attempting to preserve an accurate historical record of SLAC's activities.