2008/2009 ANNUAL REPORT
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES LIBRARY
Prepared by Mary L. Ryan, Library Director
Table of Contents
A. Mission
B. Highlights
Education
Clinical Care
Research
Outreach
UAMS Community Life
C. Summary of Library Activities
D. Statistical Overview
E. Physical Facility
F. Personnel
G. Selected Goals for 2009/2010
UAMS LIBRARY
A. MISSION
The mission of the UAMS Library aligns
closely with the overall mission of the University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences. As a major health sciences information resource and a partner
in the mission of UAMS, the Library promotes the advancement of research,
education and clinical care at UAMS and service to the state of Arkansas.
To help meet the mission of UAMS,
the Library provides:
- a comprehensive collection
of information resources
- a variety of services
- a physical facility
- the expertise of Library
faculty and staff
As indicated in the statistical summary
page (Section D), the Library's resources and services are heavily
used by UAMS faculty, staff and students, as well as by the public.
The use of the information resources and physical facility continues
to increase.
B.
HIGHLIGHTS
EDUCATION
Learning Resource Center -
The LRC provided student access to many curriculum-based instructional
programs, and provided students with online testing, email instruction
and technology (such as PDA) support.
Teaching Resource Center -
The TRC provided staff, state of the art equipment, and software to
assist faculty in incorporating technology into their educational activities.
Usage of the facility and services continues to grow.
Electronic Reserves - Eight
hundred sixty-one items were provided through the electronic reserves
system for 36 classes, a 5% increase over last year.
Orientations/Tours/Presentations/Classes
- The Library provided tailored presentations about the Library's
information resources and services to all colleges, housestaff, new
faculty and students. Classes were taught on diverse topics such
as PubMed, Evidence-based Medicine, RefWorks, Databases and Searching,
Social Sciences Resources, and Toxicology Resources. Presentations
were made on topics ranging from specific resources provided by the
Library to more general topics such as scholarly communication/publishing.
Library liaisons worked with all colleges and many other departments
and academic units throughout the year to keep faculty and students
aware of new resources and services of interest in their disciplines.
Copyright Assistance
- Jan Hart provided copyright assistance to 79 individuals,
made presentations to various groups, and was frequently called upon
to work with other presenters to field copyright questions. She
created an online module 'Copyright - Good Habits' that is available
from the Library website and was accepted for inclusion in the AAMC's
MedEd Portal.
Northwest Campus
- Jan Hart and Dena Plaisted participated in the Northwest
Campus Study Group to ensure that library resources and services are
adequate and accessible to faculty and students at the satellite campus.
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Training Committee - Jan Hart and Bruce Newton (COM) chaired this
subcommittee of the UAMS Stimulus Plan EHR Committee that focused on
the training of health professions students to adequately and appropriately
use electronic health records. The Library's involvement was
critical as the proposal, Interdisciplinary Curriculum Integrating
Electronic Health Records, Evidence-based Medicine, and Medical Informatics
Training across the UAMS Colleges, provided an excellent opportunity
to integrate library resources and services into the curricula of the
colleges. Brynn Mays and Jan are members of the steering committee
for the proposal and worked closely with the College of Medicine Medical
Informatics Committee, which Jan chaired, to help direct COM support
of the proposal.
Program Support and
Service on Education Committees:
Academic Computing Advisory Committee (ACAC)
Academic Services Lab Committee
ACH Educational Council
Blackboard Administration Committee
COM Basic Sciences Course Committee
COM Curriculum Committee (ex officio)
Critical Thinking/Life Long Learning Subcommittee
Medical Informatics Subcommittee, Chair
COM Testing Solution Committee
Distance Education Steering Committee
Education/Stimulus Package Committee
Education Technology Support Committee
Electronic Health Record (EHR) Training Committee
Graduate Medical Education Working Groups
Psychiatry Portfolio Working Group
Clinical Skills Center Team
Northwest Campus Study Group
Online Testing Committee
Teaching and Technology Committee, Executive Director and Technical Director
Task Force for the Investigation of Collaborative Learning Tools
Teaching with Technology Symposium Coordinating Committee
Friday@Noon Coordinator
CLINICAL CARE
Clinical Information Resources
- Four major point of care clinical information resources (UpToDate,
Clin-eguide, ACP Pier and DynaMed), as well as many other information
resources, were provided to UAMS clinicians from the clinical desktop,
and three are available from off-campus as well.
ANGELS Project - Susan Steelman
provided in-depth, extensive literature searches in numerous databases
for each new topic and guideline renewal for the Antenatal and Neonatal
Guidelines, Education and Learning System (ANGELS) project.
Arkansas Childrens Hospital Contract
- The UAMS Library provides a librarian and library services
at ACH on a contract basis. The UAMS Library provided training and backup
for the ACH librarian as needed, cataloged ACH library materials, and
provided interlibrary loans and document delivery service for ACH personnel.
Sunrise System Development
- Jan Hart was an ex-officio member of the Physicians IT
Advisory Committee for the Sunrise System and the Sunrise Physicians
Design Team in order to provide input about library resources and their
possible integration into the electronic health record.
Program Support and
Service on Clinical Committees:
Clinical Resources Committee
Family Resource Center AdvisoryGroup
Patient Education Advisory Committee
Physicians IT Advisory Committee for the Sunrise System
Sunrise Physicians Design Team
University Hospital Electronic Record Coordinating Committee
ACH Patient Education Committee
RESEARCH
Research & Clinical Search
Services (RCSS) - The RCSS provided free expert literature searches
for research, patient care, teaching, publication and presentation purposes,
etc. One-on-one or small group database training sessions were
provided as well as consultations on search strategies and searching
techniques. Expert searchers Brynn Mays and Susan Steelman completed
177 in-depth literature searches this year, including ANGELS, IACUC
and AUP searches, and other searches requested by clinical or research
faculty.
Institutional Animal Care and Use
Committee (IACUC) - Susan Steelman served as a voting member of
the IACUC. She reviewed each protocol's animal alternative
search and attended the monthly committee meetings. Consultations
or literature searches were provided for researchers needing assistance
with the search under Assurance Statement 1. Susan and Brynn Mays,
her back-up on IACUC, reviewed 90 searches for animal alternative protocols
in 2008/09. A significant number of protocols required consultation
with the researcher or, in some cases, they required full mediated searches.
IDeA Networks for Biomedical Research
Excellence (INBRE) - Heather Smith and Fred Bassett ran the
Access Grid/IOCOM teleconferencing facilities for meetings of INBRE
that enabled researchers from various locations around the state to
meet and consult via teleconference.
Program Support and
Service on Research Committees:
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
Arkansas EPSCoR Grant Committee
Medical Research Endowment Fund Grant Program, Reviewed
ACH Nursing Research Committee
OUTREACH
National Network of Libraries of
Medicine/South Central Region Outreach Contract
- Through an annual contract with the NN/LM SCR, the Library
provided three classes and made three presentations on biomedical information
resources to non-UAMS health professional groups, exhibited at one national
and four state/regional professional conferences, and exhibited at five
health fairs to promote awareness of National Library of Medicine and
state/local health information resources.
ARHealthLINK
- Arkansas Go Local -
Individuals searching for information on a health condition or disease
can find it at MedlinePlus (www.medlineplus.gov), a health information website maintained
by the National Library of Medicine that offers free health information
written for consumers. The "Go Local" feature on each health topic
page enables searchers to access a list of related Arkansas services.
Or, users can start at the ARHealthLINK -Arkansas Go Local
home page to first identify services and then select a link to a MedlinePlus
health topic for more information about a condition or disease. The
UAMS Library maintains more than 2,000 Arkansas records in the system.
AHEC Support
- The Library continues to support the AHEC libraries by
cataloging their collections, sharing resources when possible, providing
technical support, and hosting regular AHEC librarian meetings and training
sessions at the UAMS Library.
DynaMed, AHECs, and Health Care
Professionals - The UAMS Library developed an information portal
which provides easy access to DynaMed, a knowledge-based point of care
clinical information resource, and several other health information
resources for all health care professionals in Arkansas. The outreach
staff is currently working with the AHEC libraries to publicize the
availability of the portal and these information resources, and they
are working with Arkansas hospitals to establish IP verification for
access to DynaMed.
Health Sciences Libraries in Arkansas
- The UAMS Library hosted two Medical Library Association webcasts
and invited health sciences librarians throughout Arkansas to participate,
as well as to share information and plan joint activities. The
outreach librarian also made five site visits to libraries throughout
the state.
Program Support and Service on Outreach Committees:
Institute on Aging Outreach Committee
UAMS Family (Family Resource Center) Advisory Committee
UAMS Outreach Reporting Working Group
Area Health Education Center Librarians Group (AHEC)
Council of University of Arkansas Research Libraries (CUARL)
ARKLink (consortium of 46 college & university libraries in Arkansas)
National Network of Libraries of Medicine/South Central Region - Outreach Committee,
Technology Committee, Disaster Preparedness Committee, Arkansas Regional
Advisory Committee
UAMS COMMUNITY LIFE
The Library has contributed to the
welfare of the UAMS community through service on committees that enhance
the quality of the work-life of the employees at UAMS. Four Arts of
UAMS exhibits and receptions were hosted by the Library. The History
of Medicine Associates sponsored a fall dinner meeting with a speaker
and a spring lecture on a history of medicine topic. Library staff
provided various exhibits in the Library and throughout the campus.
The Library received a grant with the Central Arkansas Library System
(CALS) to host Ecuador: Country Doctors on Rough Roads and Remote
Rivers, and a film screening and discussion were held at UAMS and
CALS.
Program Support and
Service on Community Life Committees:
Arts of UAMS Committee
Catastrophic Leave Committee
Chancellor's Diversity Committee
History of Medicine Associates
UAMS Circle of Excellence/Pathways Planning Committee
UAMS Leadership Institute
C.
SUMMARY OF LIBRARY ACTIVITIES
ADMINISTRATION
Input for planning and evaluation
of the Library's resources and services is obtained from many sources,
including but not limited to the following: Library Advisory Committee;
comments form on the Library's website; emails and other communications
received from Library users; input received through the Library liaisons;
and survey results from various accreditation self-studies.
Because the Library deleted three
positions and shifted nearly $200,000 in personnel and maintenance funding
to the journal/database budget, and received a $100,000 increase in
the base budget for 2008/2009, the Library's budget was balanced without
any major cuts in resources or services. Major efforts were made
throughout the year to control the rising costs of journal and database
subscriptions.
Several incidents occurred in the
Library during the year which warranted notifying the police.
Security policies and procedures were improved, and additional cameras
and alarms were installed.
COLLECTION MANAGEMENT
The Library's print collection of
journals and books contains approximately 150,000 volumes, and online
access was provided to 4,513 journals, about 5,000 books, and 34 databases.
Seven hundred and sixteen print books were added during the year, nearly
600 books were cataloged for departmental libraries (a 40% increase),
633 books were cataloged for the AHEC libraries, and 1,559 out-dated
books were removed from the Library's collection. At the end
of the fiscal year, the Library had 40,203 volumes of books, 762 fewer
than last year. Seventeen new online journals were added, and
twelve journal and four database subscriptions were cancelled.
Negotiating licensing agreements with vendors of online resources is
becoming an increasingly complicated and frustrating process, and prices
for information resources continue to rise at a rate of nearly 10% annually,
despite our efforts to control costs by joining library consortial purchasing
groups and working individually with various vendors of information
resources.
Comprehensive online journal backfiles
were purchased for Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, Nature, Critical
Care Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Obstetrics & Gynecology,
and eight psychiatry journals. These online backfiles provide
much more efficient access for UAMS users, and they enabled the elimination
of the print volumes and the conversion of the stack space to other
uses. Bound journal backfiles are also removed when the journal
backfiles become available for free on PubMed Central. Over 5,000
bound journal volumes were removed from the UAMS Library collection
during the past year.
DOCUMENT ACCESS SERVICES &
SYSTEMS
Document Access Services maintains
the equipment and physical space for accessing information resources,
provides access to the Library's print book and journal collection,
provides interlibrary loan service for items not owned by the Library
and document delivery service for print items owned by the Library,
and provides support for varied systems throughout the Library.
Since most of the current journals and many books are available online
only, over 100 computers are available in the Library for accessing
the collection, and one-third of the computers are replaced each year.
Library staff members provide prompt support to students, faculty and
staff when problems arise with software, printing or networking.
Journal articles not owned by the Library but needed by UAMS personnel
can usually be delivered electronically to the requestor's desktop
within 4 to 24 hours of request. The Library continues to be a
net lender of journal articles on DOCLINE, and consistently has the
best "fill rate" of the 14 academic health sciences libraries in
our five-state region. The ILL staff members are considered experts
on ILLiad, DOCLINE and EFTS use, and are often consulted by ILL staff
from other libraries and the vendors of EFTS and ILLiad. The Library
received many interlibrary loan requests from outside of our region
which generated revenues to help support library activities.
Printing and overdue fines revenues increased about 30%.
The Library worked to strengthen the
relationship with UAMS IT by collaborating on several academic projects
and committees. The move of the Library's servers and two IT
staff to UAMS IT resulted in some temporary loss of access on several
occasions, but staff worked persistently with IT to remedy problems.
The Library's computers in the UAMS_Library domain were consolidated
into the UAMS domain, but continue to be managed by Library personnel.
Library faculty and staff serve on the following IT groups/committees:
Academic Affairs Technology Action Group (AATAG); IT Coordinating Committee;
and the IT Leadership Group.
HISTORICAL RESEARCH CENTER
One hundred in-depth reference requests
were handled by the HRC staff. The digital collection of historical
materials (www.library.uams.edu/HRC/hrcinfo.aspx#collections) continued to grow at a steady rate, four
exhibits were prepared for various venues, and three oral histories
were completed. Several archival collections of personal papers
were processed by Edwina Walls Mann, the former head of the HRC who
works on a volunteer basis, and the backlog of unprocessed collections
is shrinking. Library staff spent considerable time working on
plans to acquire, organize, preserve and provide access to the Dr. Gazi
Yasargil collection of materials and artifacts, and working with the
Arkansas State Hospital to assess their archives collection and develop
plans for processing it. The History of Medicine Associates support
group for the HRC awarded funding for two research awards for projects
adding to the recorded history of the health sciences in Arkansas, and
sponsored the fall dinner meeting and the spring history of medicine
lecture.
LEARNING AND TEACHING RESOURCE
CENTERS
Many curriculum-related instructional
resources were provided to students in the Learning Resource Center
or remotely through the Library's Citrix server, which was upgraded
this year. Access to nearly 600 AV and computer software applications
was also provided. Students received instructions for using UAMS
email and support for using technology applications, such as PDAs, and
they have access to a 24/7 computer lab. Also, 523 online tests
were provided to a total of 4,105 students, a 28% increase over the
number of tests administered last year. Webcams and software were
installed on each testing workstation for better monitoring of testing
activities. With the growing popularity of online testing and
the growing number of students in each class, finding enough space for
testing is becoming increasingly difficult.
The Teaching Resource Center provides
expert staff, high end equipment, and a variety of software applications
to assist faculty in incorporating technology and applications into
their educational activities. Faculty use of the equipment, software,
and expertise of the staff of the TRC increased this year to 1,066 (a
13% increase). In addition to the construction of two staff offices
next to the TRC for better support of the activities of the TRC, the
TRC was renovated and rearranged during the year, providing a more efficient
and effective work space for faculty using the Center. Due to
construction of the 3rd floor offices and TRC renovation,
the Access Grid/IOCOM room was unavailable for several months.
When available, the use of the facility for meetings and remote collaboration
continued to increase. New video camera equipment was purchased
and TRC staff worked with the HRC staff to begin video recording of
oral histories of individuals important to the history of UAMS and the
health sciences in Arkansas. The number of Friday@Noon presentations
on new software, devices and other educational topics significantly
increased, as did the number of attendees at these sessions. Staff
worked with the Office of Educational Development and Academic Computing
to successfully develop and implement plans to assist faculty and students
using Blackboard as the environment and versions of the software changed
dramatically.
REFERENCE
The most astounding change in reference
services was the huge increase in the use of the Research and Clinical
Search Services, with an increase of 40% over last year due mainly to
a large increase in IACUC searches. The two expert searchers worked
well beyond regular hours to support this increase in activities indicating
that additional reference librarians to assist researchers and clinicians
would be warranted. This is especially true as quite a few of those
researchers who were assisted by librarians in their IACUC protocols
have come back to the librarians for additional assistance or have referred
others to our services. Susan Steelman was included as an expert searcher,
a collaborator, and trainer in the use of library resources in the CTSA
grant for UAMS. Susan Steelman and Brynn Mays collaborated on the GME/OED
collaboration to increase publications by residents.
The library liaisons have found opportunities
within the colleges to give presentations, training classes, orientations
and tours to the students and the faculty in their assigned colleges.
Each college received an orientation to the Library. Jan Hart and Brynn
Mays have worked steadily with the Medical Informatics Committee of
the College of Medicine to increase the inclusion of library resources
into the curriculum. Reference librarians also provided support for
the activities of the Outreach librarian.
Work-life balance has long been an
interest for our librarians and staff. With assistance from Heather
Smith, Brynn Mays and Susan Steelman developed, implemented, and analyzed
the results of a nationwide survey on work-life balance which was completed
by over 500 Medical Library Association (MLA) members. A poster about
the survey project won the 1st place research award at the
MLA annual meeting. Consideration of work-life balance issues, high
costs related to commuting to work, and the effects on the environment
led to some flexible time and flexible location work plans. Though this
effort was initiated with reference librarians, several other members
of the staff took advantage of the four ten-hour day options, which
have been a success for those whose positions allowed this flexibility.
| D.
STATISTICAL OVERVIEW |
2008/2009 |
2007/2008 |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| Facilities
Use |
|
|
| Gate
Count Total |
213,987 |
189,910 |
| 24/7
usage (included in total gate count) |
8,058 |
3,838 |
| Tests
Administered/Students Tested |
523/4,105 |
409/3,705 |
| Testing/Instructional
Room Reservations |
283 |
282 |
| Teaching
Resource Center Usage |
1,066 |
945 |
| Access
Grid/IOCOM Facility Use (groups/people) |
74/668 |
151/1362 |
| Access
Grid/IOCOM Use (groups/people) |
29/157 |
25/139 |
| Website
Visits |
|
|
| UAMS
Library |
295,476 |
293,306 |
| ARHealthLink
- Go Local |
8,393 |
4,049 |
| Public
Health Virtual Library |
32,468 |
n/a |
| Formal
Instruction |
|
|
| Tours,
orientations, presentations, and classes/attendees |
53/1895 |
125/2,153 |
| Workshops/Seminars
(includes Friday@Noons)/attendees |
26/602 |
6/130 |
| Teaching
with Technology Symposium/attendees |
1/125 |
1/125 |
| Mediated
Searches & Consultations |
|
|
| Reference
Mediated Searches, Protocols, & Consultations |
267 |
191 |
| HRC
Consultations/Bibliographies |
100 |
97 |
| Collections |
|
|
| Book
Volumes |
40, 203 |
40,965 |
| Print
Book Titles |
33,426 |
34,205 |
| Electronic
Book Titles |
4,955 |
4,190 |
| Current
Journal Subscriptions |
4,568 |
4,445 |
| Electronic
Journal Titles |
4,513 |
4,387 |
| Bound
Journal Volumes |
103,456 |
108,464 |
| AV
& Computer Software Titles |
582 |
595 |
| Items
Checked Out |
|
|
| Books |
5,106 |
5,313 |
| AV
& Computer software |
221 |
390 |
| Items
used in-house |
|
|
| Books
and Journals |
5,949 |
6,748 |
| Historical
Research Center |
408 |
512 |
| AVs |
3,350 |
3,377 |
| eReserves
Items/# of classes |
861/36 |
820/35 |
| Laptop
Checkout |
331 |
97 |
| Interlibrary
Loan/Document Delivery |
|
|
| Items
Borrowed From Other Libraries |
3,586 |
4,057 |
| Items
Loaned to Other Libraries |
5,592 |
5,394 |
| Document
Delivery Items |
2,377 |
2,125 |
| Exhibits |
|
|
| Outreach
Fairs & Exhibits/attendees |
10/331 |
7/212 |
| HRC/Arts
at UAMS Exhibits |
4/5 |
9/4 |
E. PHYSICAL FACILITY
The Library occupies 44,000 square
feet in the Ed II building and has 1,500 square feet of storage space
in the Distribution Center. The Library contains a variety of
study areas, soft seating areas, stacks, staff offices/work spaces,
the Learning and Teaching Resource Centers, a classroom with 12 workstations
and an instructor station; a testing room with 11 workstations; a 24/7
computer lab; a videoconferencing room; and a lounge with vending machines.
Several improvements were made to the facility this year. Two
staff offices were built on the 3rd floor to provide better
staffing and a more functional arrangement for the TRC and better space
for archives processing on the 5th floor; electrical outlets
were added in several areas on the 1st floor and the south
end of 3rd floor for student use; artwork was added throughout
the public areas on the 1st floor, and new doors were ordered
for the History of Medicine room so the room could be included in the
24/7 study area. Several other plans for renovations were put
on hold because of the campus-wide spending restrictions.
The 24/7 study area, which occupies
over ½ of the public space on the 1st floor, is accessible
for students and residents when the rest of the Library is closed.
Usage of the area more than doubled this year from 3,828 to over 8,000
uses. The space not only gives students a comfortable and relatively
safe place to study when the Library is closed, but also gives the Library
more flexibility about closing earlier during bad weather and holidays.
This space has definitely been a win/win situation for library users
and the Library.
The Historical Research Center, which
contains the archives for UAMS, materials and artifacts on the history
of the health sciences in Arkansas, and some general history of medicine
resources, is out of space and needs to expand. In conjunction
with discussions about the donation of the Yasargil collection to UAMS,
a plan was developed to acquire additional space for the HRC in the
old Arkansas State Hospital property. If the additional
HRC space is acquired, the move of the HRC would free up a significant
amount of space in the Library to be converted to badly needed student
study space.
F
. PERSONNEL
The Library has 14 librarian faculty
positions including the ACH librarian, and 23 (20.65 FTE) paraprofessional
staff. Nancy Clark (30 years) and Barbara Graggs (5
years) were recognized for their years of service to UAMS. Debra
Miller was hired to replace Abby Holt as the Liaison Librarian.
Rachel Gyore, outreach librarian, resigned in September and the position
has not yet been filled. Mary Hawks retired as the head
of the Collection Management Department in May after 24 years of service.
Louise Montgomery was hired to replace Lily Liu as the ACH librarian.
Recruitment of a web services librarian began last fall and an excellent
candidate, Jon Goodell, was hired to begin in August.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
The Library faculty and staff participated
in national, regional, state and local organizations to further the
profession of library and information sciences, and to ensure that the
UAMS Library investigates and implements the best practices of academic
health center libraries. Relationships supported by the professional
organizations listed below provided opportunities for consortial purchases
and reciprocal agreements that helped mitigate the impact of the rapidly
rising cost of journals.
National Professional Activities
Medical Library Association
- Mary Ryan served as the President of the Medical Library Association
of the United States and Canada (MLA) for 2008/2009, and she was a member
of the MLA Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Susan Steelman
served as the MLA Chapter Council Alternate from the South Central Chapter,
and was appointed Chair-Designate of MLA's David A. Kronick Traveling
Fellowship Jury. Brynn Mays served on the MLA Webcast Planning
Committee for Finding Work-Life Balance: Strategies for You and Your
Institution and Mary Ryan was one of the webcast speakers. Susan
Steelman and Brynn Mays won the 1st place award for research
posters at the MLA annual meeting.
Association of Academic Health
Sciences Libraries - Mary Ryan served on the AAHSL Board of Directors.
Regional Professional Activities
South Central Chapter of the Medical
Library Association (SCC/MLA) -Susan Steelman and Brynn Mays served
on the SCC/MLA Chapter Website Redesign Task Force, and Susan served
on the SCC/MLA Bylaws Committee. Dena Plaisted was co-chair of
the 2008 SCC/MLA Annual Meeting Program Committee. Rena Sheffer
won the 3rd place award for research posters at the SCC annual
meeting.
South Central Academic Medical
Libraries Consortium (SCAMeL) - Mary Ryan served on the SCAMeL Board
of Directors, Dena Plaisted continued to chair the SCAMEL Interlibrary
Loan Committee, and Mary Hawks served on the SCAMeL Collection Development
Committee.
National Network Libraries of Medicine,
South Central Region (NNLM/SCR) -
Dena Plaisted continued to serve on the NNLM/SCR Document Delivery Committee
and the Technology Committee. Susan Steelman served on the Emergency
Planning and Preparedness Committee. Mary Ryan chaired the Arkansas
Regional Advisory Committee.
State and Local Professional Activities
ARKLink - Dena Plaisted and
Mary Hawks were members of the Resource Sharing Committee of ARKLink,
a consortium of 46 academic libraries in Arkansas.
Arkansas Library Association and
Association of Library Paraprofessionals - Several staff members
participated in the Arkansas Library Association and Association of
Library Paraprofessionals conferences.
Council of University of Arkansas
Research Libraries - Mary Ryan worked with other UA library directors
in the Council of University of Arkansas Research Libraries to maximize
access to information resources in the libraries. Several other
UAMS librarians were members of various subcommittees of the Council.
G.
SELECTED GOALS FOR 2009/2010
- Develop a new 3-5 year
strategic plan for the Library
- Review and enhance the
Library website
- Promote access to information
resources for unaffiliated health professionals throughout Arkansas
- Strengthen outreach programs,
including relationships with Arkansas hospital librarians
- Continue to improve study
space for students
- Use technology to provide
greater access to the Library's training and support programs
- Implement a revised emergency
preparedness plan
- Develop conflict of interest
guidelines for the Library faculty and staff consistent with the UAMS
guidelines
- Develop and implement a
plan for reducing the impact of the Library on the environment
- Acquire additional space
for the HRC and process the Yasargil and State Hospital collections
- Fill three vacant faculty
positions - Head of Collection Management, Expert Searcher, and Reference/Assessment
& Marketing Librarian
- Request the reclassification
of five classified positions for which job descriptions have changed
significantly in the past few years
- Work with the UAMS Stimulus
Committee on Electronic Health Records and the Health Information Technology
Committee to ensure that students are trained in use of EHRs, evidence-based
medicine, and medical informatics.
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