• Managing Knowledge at UTHSCSA - A Shared Vision for the Future
• RAHC Library Projects Highlighted
• Periodical Price Survey 2004
• Medical Image Collection Now Available
• Farewell to Tania Bardyn
• Library Switching from SSN to UTHSCSA Badge Number
• UTHSCSA Librarians Attend Annual MLA Conference
• Anatomy of Anatomy Exhibit Returns
• Nursing Journals Can Now Be Checked Out
• Site to See: Entrez, the Life Sciences Search Engine
• E-Journal News
• Library Class Schedule
• F.Y.I...Average Price of Health Sciences Journal Subscriptions 2000-2004

Managing Knowledge at UTHSCSA - A Shared Vision for the Future

On June 2nd the UTHSCSA Library and Information Management and Services brought together 50 opinion leaders and decision makers to consider a recent document from the AAMC academic library directors (http://www.aahsl.org/document/ACF20BE.pdf) about the future of the Library and its role in knowledge management.

Knowledge management can be defined as the collection of processes that govern the creation, distribution, and use of knowledge. It is also described as a collaborative process through which organizations generate value for their intellectual assets.

The meeting focused attention on knowledge management at UTHSCSA and identify opportunities for collaboration among various partners. The invited speaker was Wayne Peay, Director of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah. He spoke of advances in knowledge management in libraries including local repositories of teaching materials, new models for scholarly publishing, digitized archives, and new collaborative partnerships involving libraries in teaching, research and patient care.

Following presentations by Dr. Wartman, Mr. Jerry York, Mr. Peay, and Mary Moore, small discussion groups addressed many opportunities for the UTHSCSA Library to contribute value to the UTHSCSA by helping to manage knowledge. Over one hundred ideas were generated.

There are five items for immediate action:

1. Seek input from other key groups and possible partners
2. Establish opportunities for continuing shared discussion
3. Pursue possibilities of an IAIMS planning grant
4. Develop an institution-wide repository of learning objects
5. Develop informational symposium on new options in scholarly publishing, per faculty request

We would be glad to talk with you or your group about knowledge management. Please call 567-2400 or email moorem3@uthscsa.edu.

Mary Moore, Ph.D.
Director of Libraries

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RAHC Library Projects Highlighted

RAHC Library Director Debi Warner and Lucy Hansen, lead librarian at Biblioteca Las Americas at South Texas High School for Health Professions (Med High) in Mercedes, presented their award-winning MedlinePlus Peer Tutor Project to the National Library of Medicine's Board of Regents on May 20th in Bethesda, MD. On May 21st, Debi made a presentation to the directors of NLM's Regional Medical Libraries on the Colonias outreach project. Lucy and Debi also met with Representative Rubén Hinojosa at his office in Washington. Rep. Hinojosa invited them to return on May 24th to meet with a representative of the Gates Foundation, known for its grants to Libraries.

Pictured are, from left: Lucy Hansen; Dr. Fred Wood of the NLM Office of Health Information Programs Development; Serena Arancibia, 2003 Med High graduate and Peer Tutor, who is now a pre-med student at the University of Chicago; Debi Warner; and Dr. Elliot Siegel, associate director for NLM Health Information Programs Development.

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Periodical Price Survey 2004

Each year in April, Library Journal publishes a study of the cost of periodicals indexed in the Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) various citation indexes. Librarians watch this study e to predict prices for the next year. The April 2004 study included 1,342 titles published in the health sciences throughout the world and detailed subscription costs for years 2000-2004. In 2004, the average cost of a health sciences journal was $975, a 10% increase over the average cost in 2003. Over the five year period, the average cost of a health sciences journal increased 39% from 2000. The F.Y.I... shows the trend in journal pricing over the last five years. Because of the weakened U.S. dollar, predictions are that periodical prices for 2005 will rise more steeply than they did in 2004, so we are anticipating increases of around 15%.

The article also discussed other factors affecting the journals subscription market this year. These factors include the growing open access movement, protests against commercial publishers' practice of bundling their journals in packages that librarians have dubbed the "Big Deal," and the increasing movement to subscribe to journals in online format without a print copy. The complete article can be viewed at http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=articleArchive&articleid=CA408358. For further information about the UTHSCSA Library's journal collection, contact Rajia Tobia, Associate Library Director for Collection Development, at tobia@uthscsa.edu.

Rajia Tobia, A.M.L.S.
Associate Library Director for Collection Development

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Medical Image Collection Now Available

The Library now has access to images.MD, an online encyclopedia of over 50,000 medical images that faculty and students should find this site useful for teaching and learning purposes. images.MD is browsable by "collection," such diabetes; disorders of water, electrolyte, and potassium metabolism; or the small intestine, or by specialty. Keyword searches allow you to filter your search by specialty, image type, modality, and clinical descriptor, such as anatomy, physiology, behavior, surgery, etc. Registered uses can personalize the collection and even create their own image library. Most of the included images are copyrighted, but are available for personal use and teaching. Information on other uses can be obtained by contacting the images.MD permissions department. It includes both phots and graphical illustrations.

images.MD can be accessed through the Databases list on the UTHSCSA Library's web site, or by going directly to http://www.images.md. Off-campus use is available to UTHSCSA students, faculty, and staff who have registered with the Library and set a PIN. For more information, contact the Library Information Desk at 567-2450 or AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu.

Janna Lawrence, M.L.I.S.
Reference and Instructional Services Coordinator

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Farewell to Tania Bardyn

Tania Bardyn, Access Services Coordinator at the Briscoe Library, has resigned to accept a position as the New York University Medical Center Assistant Director for Affiliate Services at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.

Tania has been employed by the Briscoe Library since 1996, serving as Education Services Librarian before becoming Access Services Librarian in 1998. In 2001, she received a UTHSCSA Employee Excellence in Service Award for her outstanding contributions to Library service and for co-chairing the successful campus-wide "Expo 2001: e-University" in conjunction with Information Management Services. In addition to supervising the staff in Circulation and Interlibrary Loan, Tania also worked at the Information Desk and took an active role in the Library's instructional program.

Tania is also well-known on campus and in the library community. She will be missed. We wish her the very best and are happy that she is able to advance her career and be nearer to her family. We are also please that although our relationship with Tania is changing, it is not ending, as we continue to work with her in the field of health sciences librarianship.

Evelyn Olivier, M.L.S.
Projects/Planning Librarian

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Library Switching from SSN to UTHSCSA Badge Number

Beginning September 15th, you will need to use your new UTHSCSA identifying number or "badge number" to log into the Library's proxy server, and for all other purposes where the Social Security number has been used in the past.

The Library will be one of the first departments on campus to switch from using social security numbers to using the badge number (formerly referred to as the HSC ID number). Already, new employees and students are using the badge number rather than their Social Security number for Library identification purposes.

Since April, UTHSCSA employees have been able to find their new badge number on their pay stubs. Numbers are also listed in a database available on inside.uthscsa, the campus intranet. Guest numbers will have to be assigned to non-UTHSCSA personnel who use the Library.

If you have questions or concerns about the conversion, you may contact Sallieann Swanner, Associate Library Director for Systems, at 567-2400 or swanner@uthscsa.edu, or contact the Library Information Desk staff at AskALibrarian@uthscsa.edu or 567-2450.

Sallieann Swanner, M.L.S.
Associate Library Director for Systems

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UTHSCSA Librarians Attend Annual MLA Conference

UTHSCSA librarians were very active at the annual conference of the Medical Library Association, which was held in Washington, D.C., May 21-26. CHLIN librarian Greysi Reyna's logo designed to promote MedlinePlus was awarded first place in the Regional Libraries division at the Public Relations "Swap and Shop" booth for library promotions. Entries were judged by MLA's public relations consultants for creativity, accomplishment of stated goals, and best use of available budget and resources. Greysi designed the logo with RAHC Library Assistants Sylvia Muniz and Monica Tovar. While at MLA, Greysi also presented a poster session called "Empowering the Community through Wireless Outreach." Other authors of the poster were Mary Jo Dwyer, Debi Warner, Evelyn Olivier, Andrew Lombardo, Cindy Olney (Evaluation Specialist, UTHSCSA Academic Information Services), and Santiago Villanueva (associate regional director, Colonias Program, Texas A&M University-Weslaco).

Next year's MLA conference will be in San Antonio and will be hosted by librarians from UTHSCSA and other local health sciences libraries. To interest MLA members in attending next year's meeting, San Antonio librarians sponsored a booth where they distributed information about the city. They also made a short presentation (involving cascarones) at the conference business meeting.

UTHSCSA librarians were busy in other ways at the conference, too. Janna Lawrence represents the Public Services Section on the MLA Section Council and Melissa De Santis represents the Electronic Media and Technology Section. Melissa also served as secretary at the year's Section Council meeting and Janna continues to serve as the Section Council liaison to the Continuing Education Committee. Janna also finished her term as Chair of the MLA Publications Committee. Linda Levy is Chair-designate of the Credentialing Committee.

Jonquil Feldman serves as a member of the Professional Recruitment and Retention Committee, an ad hoc committee that is charged with implementation of the "Plan to Recruit the 21st Century Workforce of Health Information Professionals." Jonquil is also on the Library Management Section's Nominating Committee and has been chosen, along with Janna Lawrence, to be a nominee to the slate of candidates to be elected to the MLA Nominating Committee. Lynda Howell attended training to support the UTHSCSA's participation in the National Library of Medicine's "Go Local" project.

Greysi Reyna and Mary Jo Dwyer with their poster session at MLA 2004, Washington, D.C.

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Anatomy of Anatomy Exhibit Returns

The "Anatomy of Anatomy" photo exhibit will return to campus on July 22nd for a second showing on the Library's 5th floor. Supported by a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and brought to San Antonio last year by the UTHSCSA Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics, it has found an overwhelmingly positive response from both students and faculty around the nation.

In her book Anatomy of Anatomy, free-lance photojournalist Meryl Levin has captured in images and journal excerpts the reactions of first-year, medical students to gross anatomy. Eleven students from Weill Medical College at Cornell University were asked to keep records of their day-to-day experience of dissection while Levin accompanied them throughout the semester, documenting their feedback. In a subtle fusion of words and pictures, she has created a moving account of personal transformation.

"Anatomy of Anatomy," which is free of charge and open to the public, will be on view in the Library until mid-August. For additional information, please contact Pennie Borchers, Special Collections Librarian, or Pat Brown, Special Collections Library Assistant, at 567-2400 or by email to borchers@uthscsa.edu.

Pennie Borchers, M.L.S.
Special Collections Librarian

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Nursing Journals Can Now Be Checked Out

Beginning July 1st, nursing journals may now be checked out for 3 days. Individual issues as well as bound volumes may be checked out; however, a new issue must have been in the Library for 30 days before it can be checked out. This new policy coincides with the policy for most other journals. If you have questions about this policy, contact the Library Information Desk at 567-2450 or AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu.

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Site to See: Entrez, the Life Sciences Search Engine

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/
This meta-search engine searches any or all of the National Library of Medicine's Entrez databases with one click. The databases include clinical literature (MEDLINE through PubMed), population and experimental data sets (PopSet and GEO DataSets), sequence databases (Nucleotide and Protein), and more than a dozen others.

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E-Journal News

The following electronic journals have recently been added to the UTHSCSA Libraries' collection. Most of these new e-journals are provided through the Library's membership in the TexShare statewide library consortium, or through subscriptions purchased through the University of Texas System Digital Library. Links to e-journals can be found in the BLIS catalog record for the journal or from the E-journals web page at http://uthscsa.1cate.com. E-journals that are restricted to use in the UTHSCSA domain may be accessed off-campus by UTHSCSA students, faculty, and staff who have registered with the Libraries and set a PIN. An 'embargo' on a journal means that current issues are not available for the embargo period. For more information about journals, contact the Information Desk at 567-2450 or AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu.

*Briscoe Library has a current print subscription

Jude Lynch
Library Assistant III, Cataloging

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F.Y.I...

Average Price of Health Sciences Journal Subscriptions
2000-2004

See the related story, Periodical Price Survey 2004.

Information from Periodicals Price Survey 2004: Closing in on Open Access by Lee Van Orsdel & Kathleen Born, published in the April 15, 2004, issue of Library Journal and available at http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout= articleArchive&articleid=CA408358.

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Editor of the Library News is Janna Lawrence (jlawrence@uthscsa.edu.

Suggestions, questions, and comments should be directed to AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu