Morehouse School of Medicine Library formerly the MultiMedia Center

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Morehouse School of Medicine Library (formerly
the Multi-Media Center)

• Cynthia L. Henderson, MILS, AHIP
• Director

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Why a Library?

• To support excellence
• in teaching, learning, research, and practice
• by the acquisition, development, management and
  delivery of information resources
• to users in the library, at the desktop,
• at remote sites and at home

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What a library is depends on what it does it
is a social enterprise, a physical
infrastructure, a symbolic site of collective
memory

• Thomas August

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Physical Space

• 2004
• 23,500 square feet
• 92 Seats
• 8 public workstations
• 1 group study room
• 1 conference room
• 1 twenty-four hour area
• 1 electronic laboratory (12)

• 2006
• 23,500 square feet
• 160 seats
• 10 public workstations
• 4 group study rooms
• 1 multi-purpose room
• 3 twenty-four hour areas
• 1 electronic laboratory (20)

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Print Resources

• 2004
• 70,000 print volumes
• 750 core print journals
• 400 audiovisual titles

• 2006
• 75,000 print volumes
• 500 core print journals
• 475 audiovisual titles

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Online Resources

• 2004
• 98 Electronic Books
• 2,188 Electronic Journals
• 11 Databases

• 2006
• 202 Electronic Books
• 4,000 Electronic Journals
• 13 Databases

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Staff

• 2004
• 5 Librarian Positions
• 6 Paraprofessionals
• 6 Part-time workers

• 2006
• 6.5 Librarian Positions
• 6 Paraprofessionals
• 6 Part-time workers

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High achievement always takes place in the
framework of high expectation.

• Jack Kinder

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External Proposals Funded

• Since 2004
• 1,690 Award
• 40,000 Award
• 1,685 Award
• 1,750 Award
• 1,585 Award

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News from the Library

• Purchased Scopus
• Conducted LibQUAL Survey in 2005
• Renovation 90 complete

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News From the Medical School

• LCME Site Visit Successful
• New Dean and Senior Vice President for Academic
  Affairs Dr. Eve Higginbotham
• New President Dr. John Maupin
• Search for Chairs of Pharmacology, Physiology
  Microbiology/Biochemistry/Immunology

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Library Web Page
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The greatest thing in the world is not so much
where we stand as in which direction we are
moving.

• Oliver Wendell Holmes