January - February 1999          Volume XII Number 1

IN THIS ISSUE
LIBRARY HOURS

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Saturday:
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Sunday:
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CIRCULATION
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Audiovisual materials: 7 days, 2 renewals.

Books; 2 weeks, 2 renewals.

Bound journals: Same day, non-renewable.

Nursing journals: In-house use only.

Unbound journals: 2 hours.

Renewals:
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OVERDUES


Overdue charges are $1.00 per item per day. Unpaid fines result in the suspension of borrowing privileges.

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Location and Hours:
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Administrative Offices:
799-7110

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KnowledgeNetwork Services:
799-7161

Health Informatics Education Ctr:
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Education and Training:
799-7169

McGovern Historical Center:
799-7139

Photocopy/Interlibrary Loan:
799-7179

Computer Access:
790-7042

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Administration:
790-7052

KnowledgeNetwork Services:
797-0163

Photocopy/Interlibrary Loan:
790-7056

Regional Medical Library:
790-7030

WORLD WIDE WEB:
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LIBRARY LINES
Library Lines is published six times per year. Please call the Library's administrative offices to be placed on our mailing list (713/799-7139).

Executive Director:
Naomi C. Broering, MLS, M.A.

  
The Library's New Home Page
     On January 31, 1999, the HAM-TMC Library introduced a revised website for access to the Library's growing collection of full-text and bibliographic databases. This new website will help over 10,000 users who access the HAM-T MC Library Home Page two million times a year. The old Home Page was cluttered and cumbersome to use.
     The Library collaborated with Baylor College of Medicine's Department of Medical Illustration to create the graphics and screen displays. The icons of choices are: About the Library, Databases/Full Text, Consumer Health, Requ ests, Web Links, and Seminars.

     To save time, pop-up images tell users what they will find in each category before they actually choose it. For example, the "Databases/Full Text" icon pop-up image brings up links to the Library's catalog, the PubMed databas e, full-text information resources, and other databases.
     Users with slow modems should click "Text Only" at the top of the new Home Page for rapid access without graphics. The new website can be visited at http://www.library.tmc.edu .

More Full-Text Journals

     The Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library has added 77 more full-text clinical journals and 71 biomedical journals to its website for a 1 year pilot project.
     This brings the total number of full-text journals on the Library's Web site for 1999 to 650. This latest addition includes four biomedical collections (62 journals), a nursing collection (15 journals), and two publisher col lections.
     Titles include Science, Nature, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, Journal of Virology, etc.
     Access to these full-text journals is restricted to cardholders of HAM-TMC Library. Visit our Web site to see the full-text journal list.

Noteworthy

   Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), visited the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library on November 5, 1998. During the visit Dr. Lindberg toured the entire library and met with the staff o f Knowledge Network Services, Health Informatics Education Center, and National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region. He was accompanied by Mrs. Mary Lindberg and Dr. Elliot Siegel, Associate Director for Health Information Programs Deve lopment of NLM. Dr. Lindberg was delighted to visit the library, meet with the staff and comment on the Library facilites. Dr. Lindberg was in Houston as a keynote speaker at a colloquium honoring Dr. Michael Debakey's 50th anniversary at Baylor College o f Medicine.
 
 

Dr. Hamilton		  
Dr. Speer		  
 

Dr. Carlos Hamilton, Jr. has been elected President of the Harris County Medical Society. Dr. Michael E. Speer will serve as President Elect. Dr. Hamilton and Dr. Speer are members of the Board of Directors at the Houston Academy of Medicin e-Texas Medical Center Library.

Reference Manager Demonstration
     Nancy Matus, from Research Information Systems, conducted an update and demonstration of the latest version 9.0 of Reference Manager at the HAM-TMC Library on March 12, 1999, from 2:00PM-4:00PM in the Library HIEC Classroom. Library clients who attended were able to learn more about this useful software. The Library offers classes in bibliographic software every semester.

Computers In Health Care Conference Coming Soon
     The Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library will sponsor its third annual Computers in Health Care Conference on Friday, June 18th. This year's theme is Access to Consumer Health and Public Health Informatio n. The conference will be held in the Sammons Auditorium of the Jones Library Building.
     Last year's conference was an outstanding success. Some of this year's speakers are Donald W. Hackett, President and CEO of DRKOOP.COM, Dr. William Yasnoff, from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and representat ives from the National Library of Medicine, and the TIF grants program.
     Lunch and educational workshops will follow the morning presentations. Door prizes will be awarded by drawing. Last year's lucky winners received prizes that included VIP hotel getaways, four-star restaurant dinners, and Hou ston Grand Opera tickets. Registration information will be released soon. Don't miss this unparalleled event.

LIBRARY EMPLOYEE AWARDS

On November 6, 1998, the Library held the Employee Awards Ceremony. This yearly event is held to recognize Library employees for their years of service, morale booster, employee of the year, and volunteer work. The following employees were recognized:


Alice Richardson (left) receives an award for 20 Years of Library service from Naomi C. Broering (right).		  
Diane Omberg: Employee of the Year

Left to Right: Sonia De Guzman, Georgia Ropper, Diane Omberg, Dawn Bick, and Mireille Clark.

Translation Of Vesalius Work Now Available

 

       The Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library recently acquired On the Fabric of the Human Body: A Translation of De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem. Book 1: The Bones and Cartilages by Andreas Ves alius. Translated by William Frank Richardson in collaboration with John Burd Carman. San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1998 for the McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center.
     The revolutionary texts De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem by Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), comprised of seven volumes on the structure of the human body, were first published in 1543 at the height of the Italian Renai ssance. This work inaugurated the modern study of anatomy. The famous descriptions and illustrations drawn from dissections performed by Vesalius corrected misconceptions prevailing since ancient time. The volumes are richly illustrated with fine woodcuts based on drawings by Vesalius and artists in the workshop of Titian. This monumental work is regarded as a scientific and graphic art classic of the mid-sixteenth century.
     For the first time a modern translation of this extraordinary medical classic is available to the medical and scientific communities. The whole text of Book 1: The Bones and Cartilages have been translated including Vesalius' s marginal notes. A facsimile of the 1543 edition was used to reproduce the original letters and seventy-three illustrations. This striking award-winning publication is housed in the McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center. It complements oth er works of Vesalius that are in the Library's superb historical collection.

 

  LIBRARY LINES
Library Lines is published six times per year. Please call the Library's administrative offices to be placed on our mailing list (713/799-7139).

Executive Director:
Naomi C. Broering, MLS, MA

  
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