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MLA 2009, NLM Update, Sheldon Kotzin

 

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NLM UPDATE: Library Operations Sheldon Kotzin Associate Director for Library Operations kotzin@nlm.nih.gov May 19, 2009

NLM UPDATE: Library Operations

Sheldon Kotzin
Associate Director for Library Operations
kotzin@nlm.nih.gov

May 19, 2009

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Image: Black & White photo of Sheldon Kotzin in 1979 when he was promoted to RML Director at NLM.

Image: Black & White photo of Sheldon Kotzin in 1979 when he was promoted to RML Director at NLM.

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Medical Librarians on NLM Advisory Committees Board of Regents Eileen Stanley Ginny Tanji Holly Buchanan, consultant Board of Scientific Counselors, Lister Hill Center Joan Ash

Medical Librarians on NLM Advisory Committees

Board of Regents

Board of Scientific Counselors, Lister Hill Center

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Medical Librarians on NLM Advisory Committees PMC National Advisory Committee Cynthia Henderson Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC) Cathy Norton Linda Walton

Medical Librarians on NLM Advisory Committees

PMC National Advisory Committee

Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC)

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Medical Librarians on NLM Advisory Committees Biomedical Library Review Committee Judy Consales Jim Shedlock Michele Tenant Deborah Ward

Medical Librarians on NLM Advisory Committees

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Image: Screenshot of MedlinePlus Web page from October 22, 1998 October 22, 1998: 22 Health Topics Health topics are primary Search box on front But… Too much text Too much jargon

Image: Screenshot of MedlinePlus Web page from October 22, 1998

October 22, 1998: 22 Health Topics

But…

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2001 494 topics Tutorials News Email lists Image: Screenshot of MedlinePlus Web page in 2001 Image: Screenshot of MedlinePlus interactive health tutorial in 2001

2001

Image: Screenshot of MedlinePlus Web page in 2001

Image: Screenshot of MedlinePlus interactive health tutorial in 2001

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2002 En español! Redesign ASHP Drugs in Spanish & English First Go Local Image: Screenshot of MedlinePlus home page in 2002

2002

Image: Screenshot of MedlinePlus home page in 2002

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Image: Screenshot of a MedlinePlus page in 2008 2008 Multiple languages 27 Go Local sites Topic summaries 771 topics

2008

Image: Screenshot of a MedlinePlus page in 2008

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Emergency Access Initiative Collaborative partnership between NLM, NN/LM and participating publishers to provide free access to full-text articles from 300+ biomedical serial titles and select reference books to healthcare professionals and libraries affected by disasters in the United States

Emergency Access Initiative

Collaborative partnership between NLM, NN/LM and participating publishers to provide free access to full-text articles from 300+ biomedical serial titles and select reference books to healthcare professionals and libraries affected by disasters in the United States

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Sample Journal Titles Accident and emergency nursing American journal of infection control Burns Cochrane database of systematic reviews Depression and anxiety Emergency radiology Environmental toxicology and pharmacology International journal of cardiology International journal of infectious diseases Journal of anxiety disorders Journal of emergency medicine Journal of traumatic stress New England journal of medicine Pest management science

Sample Journal Titles

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Sample Book Titles Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy Public health and prevention management Trauma Human virology Emergency medicine procedures Infectious diseases: the clinician’s guide to diagnosis, treatment and prevention AHFS Drug Information

Sample Book Titles

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Publisher Participants BMJ Elsevier Mary Ann Liebert Oxford University Press Springer University of Chicago Press Wiley Wolters Kluwer (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins) Various Societies

Publisher Participants

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Emergency Access Nancy Roderer, Johns Hopkins Welch Medical Library Becky Lyon, NLM Angela Ruffin, NLM Ada Seltzer, University of Mississippi Mary Moore, University of Miami Jocelyn Rankin, CDC Barbara Aronson, WHO Janice Kelly, University of Maryland Diane Scott-Lichter, The Endocrine Society

Emergency Access

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MedlinePlus Go Local Coverage: 32 States/Regions & 45% of US Population Image: MedllinePlus Go Local Coverage Map displays the status of each state or region, and the 8 RML regions are numbered and outlined. Source: Go Local Statistics and Charts http://www.nlm.nih.gov/internal/webadmin/webstats/golocal.html (Map is dated 3/9/2009)

MedlinePlus Go Local Coverage: 32 States/Regions & 45% of US Population

Image: MedllinePlus Go Local Coverage Map displays the status of each state or region, and the 8 RML regions are numbered and outlined.

(Map is dated 3/9/2009)

Source: Go Local Statistics and Charts
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/internal/webadmin/webstats/golocal.html

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Inventory of NLM Serials Collection Goal: Item Records for all post-1800 volumes Completed: Titles indexed in MEDLINE and Index Catalogue Not Done: Non-Indexed English and other non-English

Inventory of NLM Serials Collection

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Image: Screenshot of the Welcome page of the NLM Journal Donation System

NLM Journal Donation Program

Image: Screenshot of the Welcome page of the NLM Journal Donation System

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Image: Screenshot of search results in the NLM Journal Donation System

Image: Screenshot of search results in the NLM Journal Donation System

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History of Medicine Travelling Exhibitions Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Surgeons Changing the Face of Medicine Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature Harry Potter’s World Rewriting the Book of Nature

History of Medicine Travelling Exhibitions

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HMD’s Images in the History of Medicine 70,000 images upgraded to new platform Enables users to: View, resize, and download images No watermarks or slashes New search capabilities

HMD’s Images in the History of Medicine

70,000 images upgraded to new platform

Enables users to:

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Image: Screenshot of the Web page "Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)"

Image: Screenshot of the Web page "Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)"

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Image: Screenshot of search results from the "Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)" Web page

Image: Screenshot of search results from the "Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)" Web page

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Image: Screenshot of the former "detailed view" of a record from the "Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)" Web page

Image: Screenshot of the former "detailed view" of a record from the "Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)" Web page

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Image: Screenshot of the newly designed "detailed view" of a record from the "Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)" Web page

Image: Screenshot of the newly designed "detailed view" of a record from the "Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)" Web page

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Image: Screenshot of the newly designed "Zoom Feature" of a detailed record from the "Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)" Web page

Image: Screenshot of the newly designed "Zoom Feature" of a detailed record from the "Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)" Web page

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Webinars PubMed Search clinic Searching Redesigned PubMed (Summer/Fall 2009) RxNorm, MyMedicationList, & DailyMed UMLS Documentation Using UMLS Data in MS Access Processing Vocabularies for Representation in the Metathesaurus (tentative)

Webinars

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Molecular Biology Webinars Possible Modules: Sequence Databases Genes & Genomes Using BLAST PubChem Gene Expression

Molecular Biology Webinars

Possible Modules:

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“How to” Approach Find a curated version of a sequence record Find expression data for a gene Find genes associated with a disease View the 3D structure of a protein Find published information on a gene

“How to” Approach

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Special Populations Web Pages American Indian Health Asian American Health Arctic Health Women’s Health Resources Enviro-Health Kids Portal Prototype Image: Brochure cover with a photo of a Native American girl holding an American flag above a second photo of waterfalls Image: Book cover titled "Hands Around The World"

Special Populations Web Pages

Image: Brochure cover with a photo of a Native American girl holding an American flag above a second photo of waterfalls

Image: Book cover titled "Hands Around The World"

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2008 AIDS Community Outreach Awardees Alliance Library System (East Peoria, IL) California State University (Long Beach, CA) Magnolia Coastland AHEC (Statesboro, GA) Maricopa Integrated Health System (Phoenix, AZ) Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (San Diego, CA) Philadelphia FIGHT/AIDS Library (Philadelphia, PA) University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM) The Wall Las Memorias (Los Angeles, CA) Queens Borough Public Library (Jamaica, NY) AID Atlanta (Atlanta, GA) Univ of Maryland Health Sci Library (Baltimore, MD)

2008 AIDS Community Outreach Awardees

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Production Highlights for FY09 Add 710,000 New Citations to MEDLINE Add 1947 Print Citations to MEDLINE Add Rare Disease Terms to MeSH Redesign MedlinePlus New PubMed Screens Digitize 100 Years of JNMA

Production Highlights for FY09

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2008-2009 AAHSL Leadership Fellows Names of fellows and their mentors: Laura Cousineau, Med U of South Carolina -- mentored by Gail Yakote, UC Davis Melissa Just, City of Hope Medical Ctr. -- mentored by Christina Pope , SUNY Upstate Rod MacNeil, Thomas Jefferson -- mentored by Scott Plutchak, U of Alabama Sandra Martin, Wayne State -- mentored by Gary Freiburger, U of Arizona Nancy Tannery, U of Pitttsburg -- mentored by Jim Shedlock, Northwestern

2008-2009 AAHSL Leadership Fellows

Names of fellows and their mentors:

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2008/2009 NLM Associate Fellowship Program Image: photo of the four fellows in front of NLM (Amy Donahue, Patrick McLaughlin, Kathleen Amos and Paula Maez) Amy Donahue, Patrick McLaughlin, Kathleen Amos and Paula Maez

2008/2009 NLM Associate Fellowship Program

Image: photo of the four fellows in front of NLM (Amy Donahue, Patrick McLaughlin, Kathleen Amos and Paula Maez)

Amy Donahue, Patrick McLaughlin, Kathleen Amos and Paula Maez

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Second Year Associates Image: Kate Flewelling Image: Emily Vardell Image: Brenda Linares Image: Joanna Karpinski Image: Melissa Resnick and her guide dog

Second Year Associates

Image: Kate Flewelling
Image: Emily Vardell
Image: Brenda Linares
Image: Joanna Karpinski
Image: Melissa Resnick and her guide dog

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THANK YOU!

THANK YOU!

Last Reviewed: June 16, 2009