Outreach Outlook

Outreach Services (Document Delivery, Interlibrary Loans, Ž) of the Coy C. Carpenter Library supports, within the limits of its available resources, the mission of the Carpenter Library and the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

To accomplish this task, this area of the Library will foster the discovery and application of new knowledge by educators, researchers, and clinical professionals.

New opportunities for resource sharing will be sought and new relationships and cooperation with other health sciences libraries will be encouraged.

Use of the EPIC 3000 system and ARIEL software will be increased, enabling the delivery of articles and other documents to the physician's desk or to the clinical setting.

The development of programs for students on community rotations, their physician preceptors, and for physicians and other healthcare professionals in the community will be enhanced through the support of continuing medical education programs.

Integration of the Northwest AHEC Library Network (LINK) into the Coy C. Carpenter Library will continue, creating an outreach service that will explore and implement cost effective, innovative programs for health professionals in the Northwest AHEC region of North Carolina.

Grants and alternative sources of funding will be sought to carry out the above goals.

Public Services Outlook

Public Services (Circulation, Learning Resources Center, Reference) of the Coy C. Carpenter Library is committed to supporting the mission of the Library and the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

To accomplish this task, this area of the Library will work to help provide a superior education for students and teachers of medicine and related health professions.

Public Services will begin the process of designing a new library space that will be more conducive to learning. This new space will better accommodate the ThinkPad technology by providing students and faculty with increased academic network connections. It will create more group study areas and more stand alone workstations for medical center staff use.

Expansion of student and staff knowledge with library-sponsored classes will continue to be important. The Library will teach students specific software skills, expand existing classes for medical center staff, and increase workshops on special topics. Such support will depend upon upgrading existing computers in the library classrooms, purchasing a library ThinkPad, and purchasing a mobile liquid crystal display projector to allow classes to be taught in the departments or offsite locations, and naming more librarians to act as liaisons with specific departments.

Patient and community education will be enhanced by acquiring and making available more consumer-oriented materials and databases.

Technical Services Outlook

Technical Services (Acquisitions, Cataloging, Serials, Faculty Publications, Archives) is committed to supporting the mission of the Library and the Wake Forest University Medical Center.

To accomplish this task, this area of the Library will improve access to information by organizing materials through the Library's Web Page and the Voyager Online Catalog. We will work with publishers and vendors of electronic information (especially journals) so that more information will be available online.

Technical Services will work with appropriate groups to develop a library space plan. Overcrowding in the stacks has reached critical mass and, though we continue to relocate materials offsite, a long-term solution must be found to alleviate overcrowding.

The cataloging function of Technical Services will be reorganized in order to utilize staff in a more efficient manner. NWAHEC and departmental cataloging will be affected.

Data from both the Dorothy Carpenter Archives database and the Faculty Publications database will be migrated to the Library's integrated online system in order to increase ease of use and functionality.

Technical Services will continue to discover ways in which the shared, integrated library system can be made more user-friendly, not only for library users but also for library staff.