1. Medical Library Collections and Services for the 21st Century
New resources and new materials

2. How will medical library collections and services change in the 21st century?
What kinds of materials are most important?
What formats for information will be most useful?
What services will medical libraries be adding or changing?

3. Collections and materials
What are the important types of materials to collect?
How are these materials changing?

4. The journal literature is still the most important resource
Where new medical knowledge is published…
Now with Internet accessibility
personal access to e-formats is desireable
Alerting services are important
Current Contents™, TACOS services, and Journal Watch-type publications are needed

5. What e-journals are available?
Open access journals are free to all
PubMedCentral
BiomedCentral
Public Library of Science
Special programs for developing nations
HINARI
INASP

6. Open Access journals
access to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals...in all subjects and languages.
Medical & health sciences journals

7. PubMed Central
“a digital archive of life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health”
“NLM is taking the lead in preserving and maintaining unrestricted access to the electronic literature, just as it has done for decades with the printed biomedical literature. PubMed Central aims to fill the role of a world class library in the digital age. It is not a journal publisher.”

8. BioMed Central
an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research

9. PLoS- Public Library of Science
“a nonprofit scientific and medical publishing venture that provides scientists and physicians with high-quality, high-profile journals in which to publish their most important work”
PLoS Medicine is an open-access, peer-reviewed medical journal published monthly, online and in print

10. HINARI Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative
Now more than 3503 full text online journals
more than 70 publishers are offering their content in HINARI

11. INASP
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications
Vietnam Journals On Line: INASP are working with National Center for Scientific and Technological Information (NACESTI), the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), and Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) to establish an online platform for Vietnamese journals. It is hoped that the website will be available by the end of 2006

12. Indexing and abstracting tools are still key resources….
IF a journal is indexed, then it will be accessible to users….
The NLM lists of journals indexed for MEDLINE® is an important list

13. MEDLINE® is first choice

14. List of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE®
It is estimated that there are about 13,000 to 14,000 biomedical titles currently published throughout the world.
About 5,000 titles are indexed for the MEDLINE database.
List of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE
List of Serials Indexed for Online Users
10,582 serial titles, including 4,850 titles currently indexed for MEDLINE

15. Other indexes of choice
CINAHL®
covers nursing and allied health literature from 1982 to the present
Excerpta Medica/EMBASE
a comprehensive pharmacological and biomedical database renowned for extensive indexing of drug information from 4,550 journals published in 70 countries.

16. Textbooks remain popular
New services and tools provide access to chapter level information
Some Internet, CD-ROM and OPAC initiatives are available.
Most contain back-of-the-book indexing only
there is little access to textbook content from traditional indexing services and library catalogs

17. Three commercial sources
Site licenses and subscriptions are necessary
$$$ are needed
MDConsult™
StatRef™
McGraw-Hill’s ACCESSMedicine™

18. MDConsult™ 61 medical textbooks 30 “Clinics” titles
In 90% of North American medical schools and by over 1,700 health care organizations in 46 countries

19. StatRef™ 126 textbooks and the Stedman’s Medical Dictionary

20. McGraw-Hill’s ACCESSMedicine™
11 major medical
and surgical texts

21. Reference books are still vital tools
Drug information/formularies
Tables of laboratory values
Guides to diagnosis & therapy
Directories
in-house, telephone, society and association memberships
Clinical manuals

22. eReference Tools are available
Use MedlinePlus®
from the US National Library of Medicine
Dictionary
Directories
Drug Information

23. Both Textbooks and Reference Books are changing.
Electronic access makes a difference
“Palmtop” availability is becoming common
Integration into hospital information systems is increasing

24. Media remain important
Audiovisual tools
CD-Roms
DVDs
Software
Information management tools
Collaborative tools
Image collections
Models

25. Other items are also useful
Government publications
clinical practice guidelines
statistical compendia
Monographs other than textbooks
Autobiographies, histories, etc.
Conference proceedings
Rare books/history of medicine

26. Consumer and Patient Education materials are increasing in number
Materials in easy-to-read formats
Audiovisual & Web materials
Materials for patients and families
Materials for special populations
Workshops
& classes

27. A good list of all the types of materials is available
MEDLINE Publication Types
definitions
labeled in record
Searchable

28. From a list of most widely used reference materials
What are the essential 3 print resources that you can't work without in answering Professional Medical reference questions ?
DSM-IV-TR
Principles of Internal Medicine (Harrison)
Physician's Desk Reference (PDR)
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary,
Essentials of Medicine (Cecil),
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary,
Merck Manual of Medical Information
Stedman's Medical Dictionary

29. Future challenges for collections…
Knowledge management systems will acquire, conserve, organize, retrieve, display, and distribute information in a single process…..
But we must be able to assure the integrity and maintenance of the knowledge base for the future.….

30. More challenges… Libraries are becoming knowledge servers.
Libraries as archival stores will cease to exist.
Librarians and subject experts are coming together more so than in the past.

31. Will these resources be available in medical libraries in Vietnam?
Questions to discuss
What technology is necessary to provide these materials?
What new skills will be needed to locate, acquire and use these resources?
Who are the leaders who can make this change happen?

32. What about services?
If the materials in the collections are changing, the services medical librarians provide to their clients will also change.

33. Reference services Reference desk E-Reference 24/7 backup
Liaison Librarians for Departments
Expert Literature Searches
Animal welfare Literature Searches
History of Medicine

34. Circulation services Circulation Reserve readings for classes
Document delivery & inter-library loan
Shelf/stack maintenance

35. Educational services Classes "Lunch With A Librarian" Series
Self-Paced Interactive Educational Programs
Customized Instruction for Courses
User Guides, and Tutorials
Presentations & Workshops

36. Media & Computer services
Hardware
Software
Technology consultations
Computer labs
Collaborative & group sessions

37. Remote services Serving users at a distance
Web-based portals to collections and services
Ask-a-librarian services

38. Knowledge creation Library websites Institutional support tools
Internet guides
Institutional support tools
Directories
Curriculum-specific materials
Portals for users

39. Consumer health & patient education services
Specialized libraries affiliated with large medical and hospital libraries
Special sections in public libraries
Virtual web-based libraries

40. First we will see pictures of three patient and consumer health libraries in Pittsburgh. This is the largest patient/family library in Pittsburgh, located in a large medical/surgical hospital..

41. This is the library for parents and siblings of patients at the Pittsburgh children’s hospital.

42. Can these new services work in medical libraries in Vietnam?
Questions to discuss
What technology is necessary to provide these services?
What new skills will be needed to provide these services?
Who are the leaders who can make this change happen?