NeuroOphthalmology Virtual Education Library: NOVEL

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Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library
NOVEL

• Nancy Lombardo, MLS
• Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library,
  University of Utah
• Kathleen Digre, MD
• Moran Eye Center, University of Utah
• Larry Frohman, MD
• New Jersey Medical School
• http//library.med.utah.edu/NOVEL/

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Redesign DRAFT ONLY - http//library.med.utah.edu/
NOVEL/new
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Administrative

• Memorandum of Understanding
• MoU signed May 7, 2007
• Agreement between NANOS and Eccles Library
• NANOS Funding
• 20,000 - 6/28/07
• 20,000 - 9/30/07
• Pfizer Grant - 80,000.00 for 2008 Recd
  2/14/08
• Web site Re-Design In Progress
• Advanced search function implemented
• Results are displaying in Marriott Library
  template
• Hope to replace with NOVEL template soon
• CONTENTdm database upgrade
• required re-coding of entire Hoyt Web site

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Personnel

• Project Director, Nancy Lombardo, MLS - .5 FTE
• Funded by Eccles Library until January 2008
• Now funded .25 by Pfizer funding, .25 Eccles
  Library
• Professional Cataloger, Ken Rockwell, MLS - .25
  FTE
• Funded by University of Utah Marriott Library
• Cataloged 65 Kennerdell cases, now working on
  Sadun lectures
• Full time Video Technician, Ray Balhorn
• Funded by
• Eccles Library JanJun 07, NANOS Jul Dec 07,
  Pfizer until June 30, 2008
• Working on Wray, Moran, Daroff, Cogan collections
• Contributed to scanning and PPT conversion on
  Kennerdell collection
• Web Programmer
• Alex Reid Funded by Eccles Library .10 FTE
  Left in January
• Posted position to be funded .5 by Pfizer funding
• Student Assistant, Katherine Pasker - .5 FTE
• Funded by Eccles Library
• Working on Walsh abstracts, Curriculum outline,
  Patient Portal, new menus for Web display

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NOVEL Collections

• William F. Hoyt, MD 857 images, complete
• Disorders of the optic disc slide collection
• J Lawton Smith, MD 111 lectures, slides,
  complete
• Various neuro-ophthalmology topics
• AAO/NANOS Slide collection 418 images, complete
• Various neuro-ophthalmology topics

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Growing Collections

• Shirley H. Wray, MD, PhD 114 cases, growing
• Digitized 98 16mm reels (multiple clips per reel)
• Reviewing clips with Dr. Wray
• Scanned more than 400 slides
• Moran Eye Center 67 objects, growing
• Video, and PPT lectures on range of topics
• Digitized 240 new clips, reviewing with Dr. Digre
• Walsh Society Meetings 885 objects, growing
• Added 140 items this year
• 2005 - 2007 - PPT, abstracts, images, videos
• 1981, 1982, 1985 -2004 - abstracts

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Growing Collections

• John S Kennerdell Collection 66 cases NEW
• Orbital surgery cases cataloged, ready for peer
  review
• 600 slides scanned and converted to PPT
• Web site developed, menus in progress
• Alfredo A. Sadun Collection NEW - In process
• 100 best lectures in PPT-PDF format
• In cataloging now
• Web site and menus under development
• Robert B Daroff Collection NEW - In process
• Eye movement disorder video from the VHS set
  produced in the 1990

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Growing Collections

• David G. Cogan, MD 76 video cases, growing
• Teaching collection
• Randy Kardon 3 lecture and video, growing
• The Pupil
• David Newman-Toker 2 animation, lecture,
  growing
• Skew deviation
• Irene Loewenfeld, PhD 224 images and pdf, can
  grow
• Pupil references, annotated cards, literature

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NOVEL Web Site Usage
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Visits by Country Sept 07
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Visits by Country - Sept 2007
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Video Usage Statistics2004 - 2007
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Video Usage StatisticsInternational 2006
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Curriculum Committee Progress

• Valerie Biousse and Victoria Pelak Co-Chairs
• Committee going through Wray subjects, matching
  with outline headings
• Also, NOVEL team is analyzing the outline for
  subjects within NOVEL

NANOS Curriculum Outline
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Peer Review Committee Progress

• Chair, Leah Levy
• New Peer Review Mechanism
• Trying new Open Journal System (OJS, developed by
  Stanford and Univ of BC as an open source
  e-publishing tool)
• Will serve as means for online contributions
• Provides means for online review
• Can also provide means for publishing

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NOVEL Wiki Committee

• Committee not active yet
• Moved to new architecture TWiki
• http//library.med.utah.edu/twiki/bin/view/Novel/
• Encyclopedia of Neuro-Ophthalmology (interactive
  textbook) In Progress
• Seeded with Jacobson chapter from Joynt and
  Baker's Clinical Neurology CD.
• Create teams of experts in specific areas for
  collaborative creation and maintenance of
  encyclopedia sections using a stewarded wiki.

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New NOVEL Projects

• JNO Archives (Jon Trobe, Lyn Sedwick)
• Approval to proceed with repository for JNO
  articles, after publisher embargo period to
  ensure ongoing free, open access
• Working with Jon Trobe, Lyn Sedwick, Erin
  McMullan at LWW
• LWW to send archives to NOVEL team, followed by
  systematic release of previous years issue upon
  publication of current
• Patient Portal (Luis Mejico)
• Added all available patient information brochures
  to NOVEL
• Collecting links Medline, MedlinePlus, support
  groups, etc
• Will create Patient Information page
• Rare Disease Stewardship (Larry Frohman, Deb
  Friedman)
• Selecting stewards and diseases
• Develop forms for systematic data collection

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Potential Projects

• NANOS Syllabi Should we add these?
• NANOS Archives? James Goodwin
• Preferred Practice Patterns?
• AAO Symposia Add to NOVEL? Annually?
• Skew Deviation animation
• Quiz Tool
• Do we need a Memorandum of Understanding with our
  contributors?

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User Comments

• 2/27/07 Name Clement TanEmail
  clement.tan_at_nuheye.comComments /
  SuggestionsThank you for this marvelous
  website. It has been a major contribution to
  education. Making the material freely available
  is truly an enlightened act for which I am
  grateful. Best wishes, Clement Tan, Consultant
  Neuro-ophthalmologist, National University
  Hospital, Singapore
• 3/20/07 Name C P Panayiotopoulos Email
  tom.panayiotopoulos_at_gstt.nhs.ukComments /
  SuggestionsThank you for this magnificent
  educational material
• 5/5/07 Name anand singhEmail
  hbk_sengar_at_yahoo.comComments /
  Suggestionsreally its very nice and
  obsessionfull site
• 5/9/07 Name Paola FaricelliEmail
  paola_faricelli_at_hotmail.comComments /
  SuggestionsThe excellent page

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• 6/26/07 Name L.KrapinEmail pkrapin_at_nycap.rr.co
  mComments / Suggestionsadd Lawton Smith N-O
  tapes from the 1990s
• 11/7/07 Name dr.fatima almannaiEmail
  fatimamannai963_at_hotmail.comComments /
  SuggestionsI am neuro ophthalmologist and i
  want to learn from these collection
• 11/9/07 Name elizabeth godoy MDEmail
  godoy.elizabeth_at_gmail.comComments /
  SuggestionsYour page is spectacular, could link
  for my students to learn? Chilean University
• 12/11/07 Name Ãzkan ErgürEmail
  ozkanergur_at_superonline.comComments /
  SuggestionsI CONGRULATE YOU FOR YOUR EXCELLENT
  LÄBRARY
• 12/23/07 Name BENEDICTUS GBOYEGA AJAYIEmail
  beegeekay_at_gmail.comComments / SuggestionsFirst
  time at this site. I am impressed.

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COME VISIT THE POSTER SESSION FOR DEMONSTRATION
OF NOVEL

• Feel free to contact us at
• Nancy Lombardo
• nancyl_at_lib.med.utah.edu
• Kathleen Digre
• Kathleen.digre_at_hsc.utah.edu
• NOVEL Web Site
• http//library.med.utah.edu/NOVEL/