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Annual Report 2005 - 2006
In the fall of 2003, the staff of the Library created a strategic plan which was approved by the Library and Learning Resources Committee. This plan formalizes goals to be achieved over the next few years and is divided into three sections: Education Goals, Research Goals, and Clinical Goals. Driven by the Medical School's strategic plan, the Library's strategic plan addresses the specific ways that Coy C. Carpenter Library can assist the Medical School and the Hospital in meeting their goals and aspirations for the future. Our achievements over the past fiscal year (2005-2006) reflect our commitment to achieving the goals established in our strategic plan. EDUCATION GOALS / RESEARCH GOALS / CLINICAL GOALS EDUCATION GOALS Librarians taught 175 classes in 2006 to 1,208 faculty, nurses, residents, staff, medical students, graduate students, allied health students and physician assistant students. The Library was awarded an Express Outreach Project for $4,613.00. This project will purchase equipment for a training room at the Forsyth County Public Library where Carpenter Librarians will train public librarians how to find and evaluate useful consumer health information. Digital Forsyth, a project headed by the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Winston-Salem State University, and Forsyth County Public Library, was created to digitize over 12,000 photographs depicting the history of Forsyth County. The library coalition has secured a federal grant for equipment and staffing. The grant was awarded by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), administered by the State Library of North Carolina. The coalition received $75,000 for the first year of what is hoped to be a three-year, $225,000 Digital Forsyth project. Scanning and digitization has begun. The Dorothy Carpenter Archives created three digitized collections that reflect the history of the medical school and of Baptist Hospital: Footprints Over Time, a building history of the medical center, covers the growth of the school and the hospital with pictures from the 1920’s to the present; North Carolina Baptist School of Nursing displays digitized objects from the nursing school collection housed in the Archives; and, Oral History Snapshots presents audio selections from the Archives’ large library of oral histories given by the many of the school’s and hospital’s most prominent members. The Library championed the four NC medical schools and Central AHEC to apply for and win an NN/LM grant to create a statewide consumer education program. The Library Director along with the Associate Directors for Public Services and Technical Services now serve on the steering committee of this project. In an effort to create a more comfortable environment for our students, the Library added new, larger carrels to the reference area, repainted the classrooms in the LRC, and installed new lighting and ceiling tiles to the upper reading room and quiet study rooms. Librarians oriented new medical students, physician assistants, graduate students, nurse anesthesia students, medical technology students, as well as nursing and physical therapy students from Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) and allied health students from Forsyth Technical Community College (FTCC). Reference librarians are on a committee headed by Dr. Alan Bertoni to investigate better methods of incorporating Medline instruction, biomedical literature evaluation and searching into the medical schools undergraduate curriculum. Two more librarians earned membership to the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP). Professional activities including teaching and publication are evaluated and points awarded leading to full credentialing. The appointment is for a five year period. A total of seven librarians now have AHIP status.
RESEARCH GOALS New journals were added in the areas of biochemistry, neuroscience, genetics, and pharmacology. An enhanced avenue for finding full text articles has been implemented. Article Linker points the user to all of the sources that contain a given full text article or lets the user know that the requested article can only be ordered through interlibrary loan. The Library working with Academic Computing migrated the faculty publications database to PeopleSoft in 2006. The searchable database of over 25,000 citations will eventually be link to the Faculty Database. In order to provide the lowest charge to our customers for materials borrowed from other libraries yet covering our costs, the price for all interlibrary loans was set at ten dollars. The Library added new ways in which researchers, clinicians, and students can relay their questions to a librarian quickly by installing an instant messenger program that handles “live” questions coming in over instant messenger systems like AOL, Yahoo and MSN. The Library also added an email address for the reference desk. This expands our ability to answer questions anytime during the 100 hours a week the reference desk is staffed.
CLINICAL GOALS DynaMed, a clinical resource tool was added. DynaMed provides nearly 2,000 evidence-based medicine articles as well as dosing tools and calculators. DynaMed is available off-campus and can also be loaded to a PDA. It was purchased as an equivalent tool to UpToDate which, because of licensing issues, is not available off-campus. Pepid Online is a medical reference tool with over 2,000 medical topics, 5,000 drug monographs and dosing tools and calculators. It is being evaluated by third-year medical students and residents in the Department of Family and Community Medicine to see if it would be useful for students doing clinical rotations and to residents. Over 500 new titles from Elsevier’s ScienceDirect in the areas of radiology, obstetrics and gynecology, neurology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and pathology were added to the Library’s online journal collection. The Library is cataloging all of the materials owned by the Family Resource Center (FRC) of Brenner Children’s Hospital. The FRC will be able to check materials out to patients and their families using our online catalog system. This collaboration has grown out of the “Access to Electronic Health Information for Children and Parents” grant awarded to the Carpenter Library in 2004. All cataloging for the NW AHEC libraries is now being done by Carpenter Library. The Library is also doing literature searches for healthcare professionals in the NW AHEC region. A link on the NW AHEC site connects the healthcare professional requesting a literature search to the Carpenter Library’s reference desk. A reference librarian is working with a physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine writing evidence-based articles for the Family Physician Information Network (FPIN). OVID Technologies, Inc. gave us their Medline database at no charge so this popular interface is once again available to our users along with PubMed from the National Library of Medicine. The Library hosted a teleconference from the Medical Library Association entitled “Keeping Patients Safe”. Librarians from Forsyth and Greensboro public libraries as well as NW AHEC attended. The National Library of Medicine presented a class on new technologies for Carpenter and NW AHEC librarians in May. Reference librarians continue to provide support to the Department of Internal Medicine’s Morning Report and to the Nursing Research Council’s monthly meetings.
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