As part of the federal budget, the National Institutes of Health were given a mandate that all NIH funded research be deposited in PubMed Central within 12 months of publication. Many organizations and universities are scrambling to figure out how this will affect their operations and how they can comply with the mandate. Failure of an NIH funded researcher to deposit a research report (usually a journal article) in PubMed Central could result in a loss of current or future funding and could jeopardize future university NIH funding.
UofA wants to adopt a university-wide set of policies and procedures to insure that funding is not jeopardized. Carla Stoffle (Dean of University Libraries) and I met with Leslie Tolbert (UA Vice President for Research, Graduate Studies, and Economic Development) last week. The first outcome of this meeting is that Dan Lee from the Main Library is putting together a web page describing the options available to faculty. (The Association of Research Libraries and other groups have already started putting together informative lists, links and pages.) The web pages from the AHSL, Main and the VP for Research will all point to this new page. A 3D memo will be coming out from Carla, Dr. Tolbert and I informing faculty of the issue and their options. Carla and I are attending a meeting in Denver on March 10 to learn what resources the Greater Western Library Alliance has put together and will be talking with Dr. Tolbert again after that to discuss other methods of supporting faculty participation.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
Joint Chapter Meeting
Last week the California, Nevada and Arizona chapters of the Medical Library Association held their joint meeting in Las Vegas and Jacque, Pat and I attended. I think each of us found it to be a valuable and useful meeting. Pat presented a paper on her research into the actual reading levels of “easy-to-read” medical information. Five SIRLS Knowledge River students attended the meeting with partial support from AHSL via our NLM grant. They presented a poster on the WeSearch project, which involved local high school students. (Pat, Annabelle and Mari all helped to support the students with this project.) The students met librarians from all over the West and charmed everyone they met. Jacque and I both moderated sessions and found the papers presented to be educational and sometimes inspirational. Another SIRLS student presented a paper on “visual searching” which discussed and demonstrated web search engines that present results visually, and systems for searching visual images. Jacque moderated a panel discussion on the future of hospital librarianship.
As you can see this meeting packed a lot into two days. I won’t go into detail about the three plenary speakers; Jim Cimino, MD from NLM who spoke on “infobuttons” in electronic health records systems, Mary Guinan, MD, PhD who spoke on her varied life in public health or Tom Bassler, PhD from the Medical University of South Carolina who described their amazing outreach program.
Jeanette is going to see if we can bring a little of the meeting to AHSL by arranging for you to see one or two of the presentations. Unfortunately that is about all of Las Vegas that we can bring back to you!
As you can see this meeting packed a lot into two days. I won’t go into detail about the three plenary speakers; Jim Cimino, MD from NLM who spoke on “infobuttons” in electronic health records systems, Mary Guinan, MD, PhD who spoke on her varied life in public health or Tom Bassler, PhD from the Medical University of South Carolina who described their amazing outreach program.
Jeanette is going to see if we can bring a little of the meeting to AHSL by arranging for you to see one or two of the presentations. Unfortunately that is about all of Las Vegas that we can bring back to you!
Friday, February 1, 2008
Systems vision and more on the budget
Systems “visioning”
One of the roles that everyone in the Systems Department plays is current awareness. They pay attention to new technologies and products and how they are being used or how they could be used in the library. With our Systems Department moving outside of the library and with no Systems Librarian, we need someone to fill this role. I have asked Kristy if she will help us. All of you may not know that she was the Head of Library Technology Services at the Medical College of Georgia before joining the AHSL-Phoenix. She will be keeping up with the latest trends in library technology and will be available to help us decide on the viability of new technology-related projects. Please feel free to call her with questions or ideas.
Budget woes begin
Dean Joiner has announced a plan to increase College of Medicine faculty salaries. This will be partially funded by “sweeping” vacant positions. I have been informally notified that we should not open any searches since at least one FTE vacancy will be taken. I have no more details right now.
One of the roles that everyone in the Systems Department plays is current awareness. They pay attention to new technologies and products and how they are being used or how they could be used in the library. With our Systems Department moving outside of the library and with no Systems Librarian, we need someone to fill this role. I have asked Kristy if she will help us. All of you may not know that she was the Head of Library Technology Services at the Medical College of Georgia before joining the AHSL-Phoenix. She will be keeping up with the latest trends in library technology and will be available to help us decide on the viability of new technology-related projects. Please feel free to call her with questions or ideas.
Budget woes begin
Dean Joiner has announced a plan to increase College of Medicine faculty salaries. This will be partially funded by “sweeping” vacant positions. I have been informally notified that we should not open any searches since at least one FTE vacancy will be taken. I have no more details right now.
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