Medical Library Collaborations

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Medical Library Collaborations

• Kay Deeney
• Education Exhibit CoordinatorNational Network
  of Libraries of MedicinePacific Southwest Region

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Medical Digital Reference Project

• PSRML sponsored with MCLS
• 2nd level reference
• Public librarians
• Recruitment via
• Rmlrg7-l listserv
• 2001 Joint Meeting in Scottsdale
• Word of mouth

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Training in DigRef Software

• Summer of 2002
• Los Angeles
• San Francisco
• Recruited the already trained
• Practice starts 8/1/02
• Hours staffed
• 8 am 6 pm intermittent times

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About 40 Network Librarians

• Hospital librarians
• Small and large libraries
• St. Judes, Olive View, VA from NV
• Kaiser, CA Pacific
• Academic institutions
• Stanford, USC, UC Davis
• Other libraries
• The Health Library, Oakland Public Library, CA
  School of Professional Psychology

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Challenges

• IT departments libraries
• Firewalls
• Computer settings
• Need for more memory
• Operator error
• Remembering shifts
• Logging all the way in
• DOCLINE screen displays
• Javascript problems

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Clientele

• Who we will serve
• Public librarians with health questions
• Collaboration with the Law Librarians?
• Other 24/7 participating libraries
• UCLA
• University of Washington
• Boston and the world!

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Meetings Through the System

• Sharing sessions
• Training updates
• PubMed training
• DOCLINE instruction

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Advantages

• Assistance to public librarians
• Experience with new technology
• Experience with web training
• Possible prototype for MEDLINEplus

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Future plans

• Arizona training tentatively 1/10/03
• Going live!
• Hawaii Medical Library
• Extend our time periods
• Voice interactions