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• Transferred the Medline database from our local server to OVID Technologies' Utah server. With the switch to OVID Online, we added the "Ask a Librarian" feature which enables our Medline users to contact us when they experience difficulties with their searches. Use for most OVID databases continued to climb.
• The Head of Reference, Janine Tillettt, was invited to join a working group creating a Center of Excellence for Evidence-Based Medicine with librarians from other medical schools and AHEC. The goal is to provide an online resource for teaching evidence-based medicine. The page debuted in September.
• Checked the Library's collection against the new Brandon Hill list. Librarians evaluated the reserve collection, weeding older titles and replacing with newer, often BH titles.
• Designed the SDRME (Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education) Web site which has been officially accepted by the organization.
• Continued refinement of our Web site. Pam Cabe, Web Developer, continued to update content and check links twice weekly. She created keyword-searchable databases for many of the Web page links with Craig Cunningham, our LAN (Local Area Network) Administrator, similar to the electronic journals database. She also streamlined the consumer section.
• Continued our relationship with the Department of Internal Medicine. Janine Tillettt attended Morning Report three times a week to perform searches and demonstrate electronic resources.
• Surveyed users on Medline usage.
• Taught PubMed classes to the Medical Center.
• Updated and revised the Policy and Procedures manuals for Reference, Circulation, and the Learning Resources Center.
• Continued support for the medical school curriculum. Librarians organized orientation for matriculating medical and physician assistant students: second-year medical students trained new medical students on ThinkPad basics; librarians led them through Netscape e-mail and demonstrated Medline, Micromedex, and online textbooks and journals. Overall, we taught 113 medical students and 48 physician assistant students. Librarians assisted in two sessions of the Pop/Epi class with Medline demonstrations.
• Demonstrated Medline to 25 Pediatrics residents during their noon conference in the Pediatrics Department. We worked with 2 Chief Residents to prepare material on evidence-based searching.
• Conducted tours of the library for 113 medical students, 48 PA students, 43 graduate students, 20 CRNA students, and 20 Forsyth Tech Respiratory Therapy students.
• Taught PsycINFO, Science Citation Index, IPA, EBM, and PubMed to seven upper-level Psychiatry residents.
• Taught other classes during 2000-2001:  Reference Manager: 28; Medline (Basic/Advanced): 27; Web of Science: 15; Netscape Calendar: 13; PubMed: 11; Netscape EMail: 9; Windows NT: 7; Basic Netscape: 7; Searching the Web: 5; EndNote: 2; Micromedex: 2; Evidence-Based Medicine: 1.
• The Learning Resources Center hosted 167 classes during 2000-2001.
  
   

TECHNICAL SERVICES ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Created Electronic Journals Database which allows faster access to the Library's online journals' sites with password information and subscription years.

• Developed a cataloging policy for electronic journal subscriptions. E-journals will be cataloged on the same bibliographic record as the print subscription, with an added header indicating library holdings, location, etc.

• Signed an agreement with Academic Press for a site license to their IDEAL© Library that will provide both campuses of the University with access to all 176 Academic Press electronic titles.

• Added OVID Technologies' OpenLinks to all Academic Press and Elsevier titles. OpenLinks allows a user of OVID Medline to link from a Medline citation to the article on the journal's Web site.

• Added site licenses for Nature, Nature Weekly, and four Cell Press  titles.

• Developed an electronic table-of-contents feature and then created a database of those titles.

• Initiated a major weeding of the book collection. All books published before 1985 will be considered as candidates for removal.

• Began a reorganization, weeding, and relocation project for the closed reserve collection. This project will free up space at the Circulation Desk and make the PreTest series books more accessible.

• Completed the Faculty Publications appendix and statistics tables for the 1999-2000 Dean's Annual Report. The number of faculty publications for 2000-2001 remained steady.

• Attempted migration of Faculty Publication database from Cuadra to Voyager, then instead worked with the Library's LAN Administrator to migrate all data to Microsoft Access and make Faculty Publications in Access searchable via the Library's Web page.

• Provided HTML files for the monthly Faculty Information Bulletin to appear on the Library's Web page.

• Updated the Cataloging Policy and Procedures manual.

• Updated the Collection Development section of the Technical Services  Policy and Procedures manual.

• The Dorothy Carpenter Medical Archives became the official and permanent repository for the NCBH School of Nursing Transcripts, a collection that is 22.03 cubic feet and includes transcripts from 1926-1974.

• The Archives began work on the Heritage Display for the school's Centennial Celebration that kicks off in September 2002. The theme is 100 Years of Medicine at Wake Forest and the archivists are researching the history of the Wake Forest School of Medicine from its beginning in 1902 to the present.
• Archivists worked with Pam Cabe to begin a project of updating the Archives' Web page and making the site more user-friendly.
• Archivists continued to coordinate oral history sessions with faculty members and the former library director.
• Changed hours of the archives to 9am to 4pm (previously they were 8:30am-2:30pm). The new hours allowed us to serve our patrons more efficiently [Archives Use by Patron Category].

• Completed work on a WFUSM copyright policy. The committee was charged to draft a policy that would apply Medical-Center-wide and would be published in the Organization and Policies Manual of the Medical Center. Attended a meeting of WFU Libraries on copyright concerns. We reviewed current policy at each library and agreed that we had adequate policies in place and would continue to monitor developments.
• Introduced the new Alerts product. These are monthly updates on topics most frequently requested by AHEC member physicians and other health care professionals. When the topics have been updated, all registered users are notified by an e-mail message containing an embedded link to the updates page. The Web page can also be reached from the Northwest AHEC Web site.
• Provided Spanish-language materials to the consumer health collection with funds from the Duke Endowment for the North Carolina AHEC Spanish Language and Cultural Training Initiative.
• Carpenter Library sponsored/cosponsored two teleconferences in November and December. The first was produced by the Medical Library Association (MLA) on the impact of electronic journals on libraries. The second--cosponsored with the Reynolda Campus libraries and produced jointly by several library associations, including MLA--focused on UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act), an amendment to the Uniform Product Code. It is an attempt to conform state contract law governing software and information licensing to a uniform national standard. This legislation has significant ramifications for libraries and all educational institutions. Further informational sessions will be held as we prepare for the legislation to be presented in North Carolina.
• Updated Document Delivery Policy and Procedures manual.
• Designed and implemented new Table of Contents (TOC) service to be available electronically from the Library's Web site. A Web page listing all the e-journals with TOC alerting services allows one to subscribe by clicking on the links provided. Also developed a page offering TOCs to the ten most heavily requested clinical journals. TOCs are immediately available by clicking on a link. Counters have been attached to these pages to determine use and utility.

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