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SUNY Upstate
Medical University
LIBRARY SYNAPSE
Vol. 2, No. 4
Fall 1996
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Librarian Receives President's Award
Congratulations to Rosemarie P. Bundy, M.L.S., who was recently chosen as a
recipient of the President's Award for Excellence in Library Science. President
Eastwood presented Rosemarie with the award at the Fall Faculty Convocation on
September 4, 1996, in the Weiskotten Hall Auditorium.
Rosemarie joined the Health Sciences Library in 1985 as Circulation Supervisor,
and currently serves as Collection Development/Reference Librarian.
Effective August 30, Ovid Technologies discontinued distribution of Reference
Update. From that point forward, the Library has made available Current
Contents/Life Sciences (CC/LS) on CD-ROM. This version is searchable in the
Library on its microcomputers or through CDLink on the HSC VAX.
CC/LS is the world's premier current awareness service and includes more than
1350 key journals in the life sciences. It uses the same Ovid search software
that the current Library databases, such as MEDLINE, employ to obtain relevant
results quickly. Features include:
- Displayable weekly updates of the tables of contents of over 1350 journals.
- Complete English-language author abstracts.
- Eighteen individual search fields.
- Ability to construct search profiles defining your interests that can be
saved and rerun against future updates.
- 52-week rolling file that you can use to find data from the previous year.
- Multiple access points including author keywords and "Keywords Plus."
- Coverage of every item on the contents page including:
- Research Papers
- Editorials
- Commentaries
- Book Reviews
- Correspondence
- Research Notes
The "Table of Contents" (TOC) feature of CC/LS allows you to view the latest
issue of their favorite journal, with abstracts, from the comfort of your own
terminal. To use TOC on CDLink the following steps must be taken:
- Choose Current Contents from the menu.
- Go to the FULL MENU by pressing E (no return) and then F (no return).
- Choose the Search Menu (ALT plus S).
- Select the TOC Fields (T return).
- Select the TOC Journal Name.
For further information, please call the Reference Desk at 464-4581.
Peter A. Uva
Head of Access Services
Come Take a Tour With Us
Starting September 17, and continuing at least through November, the Health
Sciences Library staff is offering guided tours of the Library each Tuesday and
Wednesday at 9:30 and 3:00 pm. A tour guide will meet you at the "Library
Tours Start Here" sign opposite the Circulation Desk. It is not necessary to
call or sign-up, just arrive in time. Please allow 20 to 30 minutes for the
tour.
Customized tours tailored to your particular needs and schedule are also
available for employees, students, and faculty of the Health Science Center.
Individual department heads will also give prearranged tours of their own
departments, e.g., Media Services, Historical Collections, or Technical
Services.
Directions for a leisurely self-guided tour of the
Library may be found by visiting the Synapse home page at http://www.hscsyr.edu/~lufte/synapse.html and
selecting the link called "Self-Guided Tour of the Library." These directions were printed in the Winter 1996 issue of the Synapse.
For further information or to arrange a tour, please call Bette Jean Ingui, Tour Coordinator, at 464-7192, or e-mail
her at inguib@vax.cs.hscsyr.edu. If you have not seen the new Library, please join us.
Bette Jean Ingui
Reference Services
The first program of the Health Sciences Library Lecture series was held on
October 5 during the 121st Annual Reunion of the College of Medicine. Three
veterans of the U.S. Army 52nd General Hospital, otolaryngologist David W.
Brewer, M.D., neurosurgeon Arthur D. Ecker, M.D., and internist Max Kutzer,
M.D., offered impressions of their time in the Medical Corps during World War
II.
L to R: Dr. Kutzer,
Dr. Ecker, and Dr. Brewer.
 L to R: Mrs. Dory
Brewer; Dr. David Brewer, her husband; and Eric Luft, Curator of Historical
Collections, who served as emcee.
The 52nd was founded at the Syracuse University College of Medicine just before
the war, trained in Louisiana and New Jersey, and was stationed in England from
1943 to 1945.
Among the highlights of the presentation was the replaying of a BBC and WSYR
radio broadcast from August 21, 1943, by Lt. Col. Richard S. Farr, Capt. Ivy
Wadsworth, and SSgt. Thomas Wagoner, reporting from the 52nd to families and
friends back home. The 15-minute recording was transcribed from 78 RPM vinyl to
cassette tape by the Belfer Archive of Syracuse University.
Another veteran of the 52nd, ophthalmologist Eugene W. Anthony, M.D., was
unable to participate, but donated an autographed copy of the ETOUSA Journal
of Ophthalmology, the publication he edited in 1943 for the benefit of
military ophthalmologists serving in the European Theatre of Operations. This
rare volume was included along with many other artifacts of the 52nd in a
display of World War II medicine which was set up in September on the main
floor of the Library.
The session was recorded on audiotape as part of the Library's oral history
project, "Health Science the Way It Was."
For more information about the 52nd, visit its home page at: http://www.upstate.edu/library/history/local/52nd.php
[IMAGE IN PRINT VERSION] Ecker with mascot.
[IMAGE IN PRINT VERSION] Brewer with mascot.
[IMAGE IN PRINT VERSION] Kutzer with three other officers.
[IMAGE IN PRINT VERSION] Anthony examining soldier.
Eric v. d. Luft
Curator of Historical Collections
Newspaper Abstracts Now Available
The Library has acquired access to Newspaper Abstracts-National,
produced by UMI (University Microfilms International), covering major U.S.
newspapers from 1994 to the present, with monthly updates. The database
contains bibliographic citations and abstracts for all substantial articles
from the following publications: New York Times (including the Book
Review and Magazine), Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor.
Newspaper Abstracts is located on a single workstation on the first
floor of the Library, across from the Reference Desk. It is available for
in-Library searching only, along with other databases provided through the SUNY
Cortland Joint Database Sharing Project: 1. Sport Discus: sports
medicine and physical fitness; 2. PsychLIT: psychology and behavioral
sciences; and 3. Periodical Abstracts: 1000 periodical titles in the
areas of business, current events, art and literature, politics, computers, and
consumer issues.
Diane K. Hawkins
Head of Reference Services
Instruction in Advanced Searching?
The Library has offered a monthly class, "Introduction to Literature
Searching," for about a year, and may open an additional session on advanced
search techniques in MEDLINE and other in-house databases if there is
sufficient interest. If you would be interested in attending such a class,
please let us know by contacting the Reference Desk at 464-4581 or Diane
Hawkins at 464-7114 or hawkinsd@mail.upstate.edu.
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