1. Medical Library at
HealthAlliance Hospital-
Leominster Campus.
Frank Landry, MSLS, AHIP
HealthAlliance
Medical Library Manager &
Coordinator of Medical Education
2. Library Locations and Hours
Medical Library --Leominster Campus 2nd Floor
-- South 2.
Phone Ext. 4035 Fax: 4038
Monday--Thursday 7AM to 3:30 PM.
See “Staffed Hours” Library Intranet page.
E-Mail: Library@healthalliance.com
3. Medical Library Staffed Hours
Mondays: Closed
Tuesdays: 9 AM to 3:30 PM
Hospital Grand Rounds (Guild) 7 AM to 9AM
Wednesdays 9 AM to 3:30 PM
Resident’s Conference Room 7 AM to 8:30AM
Thursdays 9 AM to 3:30 PM
Tumor Board (MD Conference Room B) 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
South 2.
Closed Fridays
4. Background
Boston College Library
U. Mass Boston System 1974
BA 1974
12 years / 4 divisions
Simmons College MLS
+ MBLC Cert. 1985 Mount Auburn Hospital
Advanced Study in 2 1/2 years Asst. Lib.
Library Management Waltham-Weston
2000/01 5 years Med. Library.
MLA- Academy of Heywood Hospital
Healthcare Info. 5 years Libr. + CME
Professionals 10+ Yrs. HealthAlliance - 12 yrs.
Lib. Mgr. + CME
5. Service Objective
The HealthAlliance Medical Library
services the entire hospital community
including the medical, nursing, and allied
health staffs. The medical library also
serves patients, students and members
of the local community. The medical
library is an active participant in the
National Network of Libraries of
Medicine and other regional consortia for
resource sharing.
7. State of the Library Report
1997/98
Both library facilities and collections in
deplorable condition. 5th floor.
Outdated book collection. Journal
subscriptions canceled for two years.
All resource sharing services had ceased.
Very limited Online searching/ No Internet.
Library was considered inactive.
Pharmacy now occupies the area.
8. State of Library Report
1998/99.
Collections weeded, New Books Ordered.
Journal titles ordered/updated.
Interlibrary loan services reinstated.
Online Bibliographic Lit. Searches
Current Awareness Service.
Mediated Internet Access. (Leominster)
Fax Service Available.
Commendation from Mass. Med. Society.
9. JCAHO Survey- January 1999
Library passed-no deficiencies. Mr.
Cronin Administrative Surveyor.
Recommendations: Consumer Health
Facility, TQM/CQI materials.
Telemedicine-Awareness.
10. October 1999 Library Moves
As new facilities came online within hospital,
space was needed for other Patient Care
departments.
Medical Library temporarily moved into a tiny
resource room near the cafeteria and
overflow was moved into Burbank Hospital
Medical library.
8 years! 1999-2007 in resource room.
11. Leominster Collection
MAIN BRANCH South 2
Mediated Online Literature Searching.
Pubmed / Infotrac/ StatRef
Wi-Fi Internet Access.
Index Medicus (Pubmed Online) / CINAHL- Ebsco
Host.
Main Library 500+ current books, 100 active journal
titles. Medicine / Nursing /Allied Health.
Online Inter-Library Loan Service ( 1 week)
Consumer Health Library
Free Internet access - Reference Texts,
Encyclopedias, Patient Care Literature.
[Omnigraphics textbook Series]
12. Medical Library Area – South 2
Opened March 2007
1. Consumer Health Collection
2. Medical Librarian’s Office
3. Medical Library
Recent Journals—Up to 1 year backfile.
Textbooks -- 5 Year Limit.
Core Reference Collection
15. Medical Library Area – South 2
Opened March 2007
1. Consumer Health Collection
2. Medical Librarian’s Office
3. Medical Library
Recent Journals—Up to 1 year back file.
Textbooks -- 5 Year Limit.
Core Reference Collection
17. Medical Library Area – South 2
Opened March 2007
1. Consumer Health Collection
2. Medical Librarian’s Office
3. Medical Library
Recent Journals—Up to 1 year back file.
Textbooks -- 5 Year Limit.
Core Reference Collection
19. Medical Library --Core Clinical
Reserve Collection --Reference
Texts:
Basic collection of standard reference texts
representing various medical, surgical, nursing
and allied health specialties and subspecialties.
(1st Purchase Selections)
-Education and Library Committee.
-User Surveys/ Needs Assessments.
Materials never circulate except for clinical
emergencies.
21. Medical Library Area
Lit search
Area. Online
Databases
[ Ex. PubMed
etc.] and
Internal
Databases
{Ex. Up To Date
– E- Medicine.}
22. Burbank Collection
Closed in 2006.
Entire collection was transferred to
Leominster Campus after Medical Library’s
move to South 2 in Early March of 2007.
23. Library Services: Intranet
Reference
Go to Hospital Intranet Icon
Click on to “Departmental Pages.” Scroll down to Medical Library
Section. http://intweb/HAL/
Blue Side Bar to the following Online References:
Medical Library Information Requests
Stat REF-Full text reference books
Info Trac- Gen.Databases
Ebsco Host- Specific
Medline Plus—Consumer Health
PubMed– Clinical/ Biomedical/ Nursing journal citations.
24. Medical Library Web Pages
http://intweb/HAL/
Hospital’s Intranet Icon / link
http://intweb/hal/library/index.cfm
Specific link to the Medical Library’s online
pages.
25. MedLine-Plus Online Tutorial
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tour/tour.html
8 Minute Video produced by the National Network
of Libraries of Medicine.
Consumer Health Resource.
26. Pubmed - Medline
PubMed is a service of the
U.S. National Library of Medicine that
includes over 17 million citations from
MEDLINE and other life science journals
for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
PubMed includes links to full text articles
and other related resources.
www.pubmed.gov
27. Medline Searches/ Nursing
CINAHL
Mediated computerized literature
searches using the National Library of
Medicine data bases (MEDLINE /
HEALTH) are available. PubMed
www.pubmed.gov
CINAHL- Available on EBSCO HOST on
the medical library’s Intranet pages.
28. Services: Inter-Library Loan
Journal articles and books available for loan
from other libraries.
Delivery time varies:
Same day for articles from journals the library has
by subscription.
3-6 business days local requests, usually free.
1-2 weeks for Govt.. Documents/ Out of State
Major Resource Libraries--Fee For Service
(Boston College, Harvard Med., U. Mass. Medical
Center--$15.00 mail. $24.00 + fax.)
29. Service:Notary Public
Medical librarian is a licensed NOTARY
PUBLIC for the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts. Please call/visit the medical
library if you have any documents to be
notarized.
LIBRARY DOES NOT PROVIDE LEGAL
ADVICE.
30. Services AV
Medical Librarian promotes live
broadcasts of JCST-TV specialty
programming hospital wide.
For academic credit
Popular topics (ACLS, and Hosp.
Management, CDC, NIH, U. S. Army
Surgical Service.)
Opportunity to question experts live by
direct call in.
Service will END in December 2008.
31. CME- Hospital Grand Rounds
Leominster Campus-Guild Conf. Room.
Tuesday Mornings 7:30AM-8:30AM. Open to
all clinical staff.
Library & CME Committee
Principals
Dr. Edison Wong – CME Director
Ms. Michelle Martin- Manager of Physician
Services
Frank Landry, CME Coordinator.
32. Committees / Resource
Support
Education and Library Committee. (CME)
Medical Residency Program (Wed. AM)
Oncology / Cancer Committee/ Tumor Board.
Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee
Hospital Information Services (Med. Records)
Patient and Family Education. ( Outreach Pgrs.)
Corporate Education ( Staff / Nurse Educators)
Schwartz Center Rounds. (CME 5th Tues.)
34. Ongoing Programs
Collection Development
Books / Journals/ Online services.
Partnership -- U. Mass. Medical Center
Systems/ services
Partnered Libraries –Local Community
Hospitals.
Outreach--
Internal - Inter-Departmental - Committees
Local Community- Public Libraries
35. Ongoing Programs
Expanded Outreach to Local Communities.
Public Libraries: Leominster Semi-Annual
Programs on Consumer Health.
Other Libraries: Gardner and Fitchburg.
Consumer health programs to be negotiated with
their adult services librarians.
Local Community Centers
36. Ongoing Programs
Telemedicine-
Expressed desire of medical staff to develop
broadcast link with U. Mass. Medical Center
to broadcast / transmit Grand Rounds /
Clinical Conference programming between
both institutions and / or among partnered
institutions, with ACCME Category 1 CME
Credit. Part of Hospital Strategic Plan. Ex.
Tandberg/ U Mass.