Automatic Medical Information Alerts in Your E-Mail

The world of medical and health information is changing rapidly. To help keep Upstate faculty, students, and staff informed about what's new in the world of medical information, the Health Sciences Library is introducing an electronic news bulletin to publicize innovations in the Library or significant health care news. Called CONNECT@Library, it acts very much like a listserv. Subscribers will receive it via e-mail two or three times a month. Announcements will be brief -- just long enough to make sure that you don't miss what's happening!

Staying connected is easy. Just send an e-mail to <connect@upstate.edu>. Ask to subscribe to CONNECT@Library, include your name and full e-mail address, and we will add you to the listserv.

Questions? Contact Diane Hawkins, 464-7114, or Pamela White, 464-8141.

News from the HIC

Recent Exhibits and Presentations

• American Heart Association Health and Fitness Expo at Shoppingtown Mall.
• Cultural Diversity Day at University Hospital, Celebrating Latino Culture.
• Scholars Day at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
• Annual Syracuse Chamber of Commerce Business Show at the New York State Fairgrounds.

Cultural Diversity Web Page

HIC staff have developed a guide to cultural diversity resources available at the Library, along with links to other useful sites. These resources are available through the HIC Patient Education page at <www.upstate.edu/library/hic/pated/diversity.htm>.

OASIS Update

The Library has hired Jeffrey Berman under a grant award from the National Library of Medicine. The collaborative project with the Syracuse chapter of OASIS (Older Adult Service and Information System), will teach older adults how to find reliable health information on the Internet.

Jeff will teach introductory classes on using Windows and Web browsers. Advanced classes will cover various techniques for finding health information on the World Wide Web.

Jeff will be completing a certificate at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies in June 2001. He has experience teaching older adults the basics of computers and the Internet. He also has extensive experience volunteering for community organizations related to the interests of older adults.

New Resources in the HIC

• Women's Health Advisor. A monthly newsletter to help women over 40 make informed health decisions, published by the Cornell University Medical College Center for Women's Healthcare. The HIC has volume 5 (2001) in its unbound, uncataloged periodicals section.
• George Wootan and Sarah Verney, Take Charge of Your Child's Health: A Parents' Guide to Recognizing Symptoms and Treating Minor Illnesses at Home -- 2nd edition -- (New York: Marlowe & Co., Balliett & Fitzgerald, 2000). Consumer Health WS 113 W918t 2000
• Children With Autism: A Parent's Guide, edited by Michael D. Powers -- 2nd edition -- (Bethesda, Md.: Woodbine House, 2000). Consumer Health WM 203.5 C536 2000
• Russell A. Barkley, Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents -- revised edition -- (New York: Guilford, 2000). Consumer Health WS 350.8 A8 B256t 2000
• Nancy Oster, Lucy Thomas, and Darol Joseff, Making Informed Medical Decisions: Where to Look and How to Use What You Find (Beijing: O'Reilly, 2000). Consumer Health W 85 O85m 2000
• A. Maria Hester, Your Family Medical Record: An Interactive Guide to Getting the Best Care (New York: Wiley, 2000). Consumer Health WB 290 H588y 2000

James A. Capodagli
Head, Health Information Center
464-4410 or <hic@upstate.edu>
<www.upstate.edu/library/healthinfo/>

Alumni Make Major Donation to Historical Collections

The Department of Historical Collections is grateful to James D. Rose, M.D. (Class of 1958) and his wife, Marie C. Rose, M.D. (Class of 1957), for their generous gift in August 2000 of over 300 medical books, journals, and manuscripts that once belonged to Jim's grandfather, Otto Pfaff, M.D.

Dr. Pfaff received his medical degree from the City University of New York in 1888 and practiced in Oneida, New York. He was for many years a surgeon for the New York Central Railroad and served as a medical officer during World War I, but he spent most of his career in public health. Among the offices he held were county coroner, postmaster, city health officer, water commissioner, mayor of Oneida, and president of the Fifth District Branch of the Medical Society of the State of New York. He died in 1948.

Among the outstanding titles in this donation are:

• James Copland, Dictionary of Practical Medicine, 9 volumes, 1834-1859.
• Frederick Hollick, The Marriage Guide; or, Natural History of Generation: A Private Instructor for Married Persons and Those About to Marry, Both Male and Female, 1851.
• Henry N. Guernsey, The Application of the Principles and Practice of Homoeopathy to Obstetrics, and the Disorders Peculiar to Women and Young Children, 1875.
• Nine manuscript volumes of medical student notes by Edwin Rushton Boden, Class of 1881 at Long Island College Hospital School of Medicine, now SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.
• New York State Board of Health / Department of Health, annual reports, 1896-1899, 1906-1929.
• Transactions of the New York and New England Association of Railway Surgeons, 1915-1919.

Introducing SIM -- Serials Information Manager

Effective February 1, 2001, the Library's new computer system for looking up the journals that are received and expected in the Library, Serials Information Manager (SIM) Patron Inquiry, has been installed on the computer in the Current Periodicals Room on the first floor. SIM Patron Inquiry replaces REMO and is now available for use by all. It provides access to the latest holdings information about the Library’s current journals.

SIM Patron Inquiry is simple to use, as follows:

1. To access SIM, click on the SIM Patron Inquiry icon on the desk top.
2. To search for a journal title, click on the Check-In icon at the top bar on the Patron Inquiry screen. If no response, click on "Search for a Copy" at the bottom of the screen.
3. Type in the journal title on the Search screen and either press <Enter> or click on "Search."
4. To view a journal title, press <Enter> or click on "View."
5. If more than one title appears on the View screen, select the title you want by highlighting it with the cursor, then either press <Enter> or click on "View."
6. The Check-In screen displays the volumes and issues either received (R) or expected (E).
7. To search for another title, click on "OK" at the top right corner of the screen to return to the View screen.
8. On the View screen, type in the desired title and either press <Enter> or click on "Search."
9. To exit, click on "OK" on the View screen, then on "X" on the Search screen, and finally on the Exit icon on the Patron Inquiry screen.

Please refer any questions or problems to the Serials Department, either in-person through the patron assistance window or by phone, 464-7096. Happy searching!

The Top Ten New Titles

• Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery, edited by R.C.G. Russell, N.S. Williams, and C.J.K. Bulstrode -- 23rd edition -- (London: Arnold, 2000). WO 100 B154s 2000
• John Matthews, Introduction to Randomised Controlled Clinical Trials (London: Arnold, 2000). WA 950 M439i 2000
• Practical Management of Pain, edited by P. Prithvi Raj -- 3rd edition -- (St. Louis: Mosby, 2000). WL 704 P895 2000
• Practical Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Neuropathology, edited by R.A. Prayson and M.L. Cohen (Totowa, N.J.: Humana; Oxford: Blackwell Science, 2000). WL 141 P895 2000
• Jamal J. Hoballah, Vascular Reconstructions: Anatomy, Exposures, and Techniques (New York: Springer, 2000). WG 170 H681v 2000
• Brain Mapping: The Systems, edited by Arthur W. Toga and John C. Mazziotta (San Diego: Academic Press, 2000). WL 335 B8148 2000
• Shane A. Thomas, How to Write Health Sciences Papers, Dissertations, and Theses (Edinburgh; New York: Churchill Livingstone, 2000). Z 253 M4 T462h 2000
• Stephen M. Stahl, Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Application -- 2nd edition -- (Cambridge, England; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000). WM 402 S781e 2000
• Geoffrey R. Norman and David L. Streiner, Biostatistics: The Bare Essentials -- 2nd edition -- (Hamilton, Ontario; Lewiston, N.Y.: B.C. Decker, 2000). WA 950 N842b 2000
• Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, edited by Meir H. Kryger, Thomas Roth, and William C. Dement -- 3rd edition -- (Philadelphia: Saunders, 2000). WM 188 P957 2000

Rosemarie Bundy
Head, Collection Development
464-7109 or <bundyr@upstate.edu>

Thank You All!

The SUNY Upstate Health Sciences Library thanks all the thoughtful and generous people and organizations who made gifts to our collections in 2000:

Without such supporters our Library could not perform at its best. Gifts enlarge and enhance the services we can offer in this age of shrinking budgets. The Library deeply appreciates all sorts of donations to help its mission of supporting Upstate in teaching, research, and patient care.

• To donate recent books or journals, please contact the Collection Development Librarian, Rosemarie Bundy, 464-7109 or <bundyr@upstate.edu>.
• To donate rare, scarce, "old," or historical books, journals, instruments, or artifacts, please contact the Curator of Historical Collections, Eric Luft, 464-4585 or <lufte@upstate.edu>.
• To donate money, please contact the Director of the Library, Laurie Thompson, 464-4582 or <thompsol@upstate.edu>.

Your donation may be tax deductible. Check with your accountant or attorney.

Welcome David Lawrence!

The Library welcomes David Lawrence, who joined the staff on January 16, 2001 as the Personal Computer and Media Support Specialist. David, whose home town is Philadelphia, is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, where he obtained a B.S. in Psychology. Before coming to Upstate, David was employed as a technical support specialist in the Information Technology Department at Le Moyne College.

Library’s Media Center Installs Scanner

The Media Services Department of the Health Sciences Library is pleased to announce that a Hewlett Packard ScanJet 6300Cse scanner has been installed on the second floor in the Media Center. With the HP ScanJet 6300 Professional Series color scanner you can quickly create excellent electronic images from original pictures, textbooks, or journals. You can then save your image on either a 100MB zip disk or, for smaller files, on a 1.44MB floppy disk. The software will allow you to insert your image directly into Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, or Corel WordPerfect. The scanner is connected to a Dell Gx1 PC.