March 2010

Contact UT Health Science

Center Libraries
Rajia Tobia, Executive Director of
Libraries
(210) 567-2413
Email: tobia@uthscsa.edu
http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/

San Antonio
Administration
(210) 567-2400
Briscoe Library
Circulation Desk
(210) 567-2440
Information Desk
(210) 567-2450
Email:
Askalibrarian@uthscsa.edu
In December, library staff met in the Dental School private dining room to
begin work on a new strategic plan. More information about the process and
about work that has already been completed can be found on pages 2 and 3. UT Health Science Center
Library Downtown
(210) 358-3939

In the news this month: Jesse H. Jones

Workshop: Creating and Presenting a Professional Poster Session Page 2 Comprehensive Research
Library staff works to create a new strategic plan Page 2 Library
Library strategic plan: Mission, vision and goals Page 3
Teaching evidence-based search skills to second year medical (210) 562-5098
students Page 4
Executive Director of Libraries participates in leadership programs Page 5 Harlingen
Exam Master: School of Medicine provides funds to restore access Page 5
Library classes for March Page 6 Ramirez Library
Librarians present classes to first responders in Laredo Page 7
(956) 365-8850
Around the library: new faces, service awards and retirements Page 8
Health and Medicine on Display: author talk in April Page 9
Save the date: getHIP Page 9 Laredo
Featured resource of the P.I. Nixon Library: Ophalmodouleia Page 10
Laredo Campus Extension
Library
(956) 523-7404
FOR LIBRARY CLASSES, go to page 6
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Workshop: Creating and Presenting a Professional Poster Session

Thursday, March 4, 12 noon - 1:00 pm
Collaboratory, LIB 4.074, Briscoe Library, San Antonio
Telecast to Room 1.132, Ramirez Library, Harlingen

In support of the upcoming 3rd Annual Community Service Learning

Conference, sponsored by the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics,
the Briscoe Library is offering a special workshop: Creating and
Presenting a Professional Poster Session. This one hour class covers
the development of a roll poster, presentation skills and best practices
for poster sessions at professional conferences. Everyone interested in
improving their presentation skills and posters is welcome to attend.
To RSVP for the special workshop, visit the Library website at http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/gethelp/
classDescriptions.cfm#577.
For more information about the 3rd Annual CSL Conference, planned for April 8, 2010, visit the Conference
website at http://www.texashumanities.org/cslconference.cfm.
To learn more about the workshop, please contact Katie Prentice at prenticek@uthscsa.edu or 210-567-6606.
Katie Prentice, Education and Information Services Coordinator

Library staff develops strategic plan

On December 4, 2009, library staff gathered in the Texas Star Café private dining room to begin the process of
developing a strategic plan for 2010-2013. Forty staff members were assigned to small groups to work on the
strategic mission, vision, and goals that will guide the library’s development over the next four years.
Librarians and members of the staff who attended the strategic planning session represented UT Health
Science Center libraries in San Antonio, Harlingen and Laredo.
Following the initial strategic planning session a smaller planning team refined the mission, vision, and goals.
A draft was presented to the Library Advisory Committee on February 4. The Library Advisory Committee
reviewed the plan and made some helpful recommendations. Revised versions of the Mission, Vision and
Goals statements can be found on the next page.
The next step in the strategic planning process will occur on March 12, when library staff will once again meet
as a group to begin developing objectives that will move the library toward its goals.
Rajia Tobia
Executive Director of Libraries

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UT Health Science Center Libraries

Strategic Plan

MISSION
The mission of The Libraries is to advance the educational, research, clinical care, and community
service programs of the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio by critically appraising, selecting,
and organizing health sciences information and by facilitating and maintaining access to these
resources for the faculty, staff and students of the UT Health Science Center and for the South Texas
community.

VISION
Information for Better Lives

The Libraries are leaders in promoting health information access, evaluating resources, and
encouraging resource use to meet the dynamic needs and challenges of the UT Health Science
Center and the South Texas community. The Libraries realize this vision by providing:

• Essential resources for teaching, learning, research and decision making;

• Innovative information and instructional services;
• Knowledgeable, service-oriented, and professional staff;
• Versatile facilities responsive to evolving educational culture; and
• Effective collaboration with educators, students, researchers, health professionals,
administrators, community members, and other health information stakeholders.

GOALS
The UT Health Science Center Libraries strive to achieve their mission and vision by working
toward goals that will advance the education, research, clinical care, community service, and
organizational effectiveness of the UT Health Science Center. Goals for 2010-2013 include the
following:

• To expand The Libraries’ role in the university’s educational mission by promoting quality
information in an environment conducive to learning;
• To support the discovery and exchange of knowledge to advance the university’s research
mission;
• To provide resources and services that advance clinical knowledge and informed decision
making;
• To promote access to quality health information for the South Texas region; and
• To manage a customer-oriented environment that is effective, efficient, and fiscally
responsible while fostering a learning environment for all.

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Teaching evidence-based search skills

to second year medical students

In January 2010, thanks to Dr. Nan Clare, Associate Dean for

Academic Affairs, librarians were given an opportunity to teach
literature searching skills in the context of Evidence-Based
Medicine (EBM) to the second year medical students.
To put this in context, third year medical students currently learn how to search Ovid MEDLINE during their
Pediatric Clerkship rotation. Feedback from the students indicated they wanted to learn these skills earlier in the
curriculum. The goal was to better prepare them for their third year clinical experiences, bearing in mind how
important it is to support clinical decision-making with the best evidence from the literature.

To take full advantage of the time, librarians divided the four hours of lecture time equally between large and small
group presentations. The small group sessions built on the material previously presented to the larger group. The
two sessions: “Search and Find: Skills for the Third Year,” both in the Clinical Neurosciences Module, were not
compulsory, but students earned extra credit for attending either one or both sessions.

Four librarians took a segment to teach, and each managed a small group, guiding students through practice
PubMed exercises and then through questions based on clinical scenarios. For example: forming a PICO,
identifying types of question, type of study, search strategy and so on. Librarians made sure the exercises were
relevant to the material they had already learned in Clinical Neurosciences.

With an already packed MS2 schedule, 25 students were expected, however, librarians were surprised when 150
students appeared in both sessions! In fact, there were 162 on day 1 and 151 on day 2 (out of a class of 250). Despite
the larger than anticipated attendance, everything went very smoothly. It was truly a team effort by the Education
and Information Services librarians.

Afterwards, the feedback was clear — over 60% of the students wanted the sessions to be mandatory for the next
academic year. Students were also asked to self-evaluate their skills, before and after both teaching sessions. The
percentage increase in skill level was very encouraging. For example, 24 students initially said they knew the
difference between therapy questions and other question types. This increased to 118. Initially only 41 students felt
confident using PubMed Clinical Queries. This increased to 117. One student commented: “Very helpful. This
session will save me lots of time in the future. Thanks!”

Based on this instructional experience, librarians are now working with the School of Medicine Academic Affairs
office to incorporate the material into the second year class of Fall 2010.

Angela Myatt
Curriculum Liaison Librarian

Librarians: Angela Myatt, Katie Prentice, Emily Hurst and Chris Gaspard. Special thanks are due to Dana
Whitmire, Jorge Martinez and Jonquil Feldman for all their support.

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Executive Director of Libraries participates in

two leadership development programs
Rajia Tobia, Executive Director of Libraries, is participating in two programs designed to develop leadership
among academic executives.
The Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) sponsors the New Directors Symposium to
enhance leadership skills among newly appointed library directors in academic health science centers. The
program began with a day-long leadership workshop at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
meeting in Boston in November and will conclude with a workshop held at the Annual Meeting of the Medical
Library Association in Washington, D.C. in May. A number of leadership webinars will also be conducted
throughout the seven month program.
Rajia has also been selected to participate in the UT Health Science Center’s Leadership Education and
Development (LEAD) Institute to develop leadership skills among campus faculty and staff. The LEAD
Institute, which begins on March 26, sponsors monthly sessions designed to expand leadership knowledge
and skills specifically designed for UT Health Science Center faculty and staff. The LEAD program is designed
and led by the UT Leadership Institute. Twenty-six fellows in the program will have the opportunity to
interact and work with colleagues from campus schools and administrative areas.

Exam Master: School of Medicine provides funds to restore access

The UT Health Science Center Libraries are once
again offering access to Exam Master. The
subscription is funded by the School of Medicine.
Access to Exam Master may be found on the
Databases page of the library Web site: http://
www.library.uthscsa.edu/find/databases.cfm.
John Weed
Head of Collection Resources

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Library classes for March

All classes are free and open to all. Advance registration is appreciated but not required. If you would like to
request a class or schedule a consult at any HSC campus, please contact the library at (210) 567-2450 or email
AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu.
If you would like to request a special class or orientation for your department or group at other days/times,
please contact us!

To register for a class or to read class descriptions, visit http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/gethelp/

classSchedule.cfm.
When you register for a library class, your registration confirmation email now includes a file that you can
save as an appointment into your electronic calendar.

Briscoe Library — San Antonio

• Creating and Presenting a Professional Poster Session: Thursday, March 4, 12 noon - 1:00
p.m., Collaboratory 4.074
• Introduction to PubMed: Tuesday, March 9, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., LIB 2.011
• Technology Brownbag: Saving Face on Facebook, Updated, Wednesday, March 10, 12 noon
- 1:00 p.m., Howe Conference Room
• Introduction to EndNote: Thursday, March 11, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., LIB 2.011
• Ovid Tips & Tricks: Getting Started with MEDLINE: Monday, March 15, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30
p.m., LIB 2.011
• Using EBSCO CINAHL to Locate Nursing & Allied Health Information: Tuesday, March 9,
1:30 p.m.- 3:00 p.m., LIB 2.011
• Introduction to RefWorks: Tuesday, March 30, 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., LIB 2.011

Ramirez Library, Regional Academic Health Center — Harlingen

• Creating and Presenting a Professional Poster Session: Thursday, March 4, 12 noon - 1:00
p.m., telecast to Room 1.132 Ramirez Library
Katie Prentice, Education and Information Services Coordinator

News from the UT Health Science Center Susan Hunnicutt, Editor: hunnicutt@uthscsa.edu
Libraries is published at the beginning of each Kelley Minars, Web Editor: minars@uthscsa.edu
month to highlight the programs, services and
Pennie Borchers and Katie Prentice, Copy Editors
resources offered by The Libraries.

Rajia Tobia, Executive Director of Libraries: Walter Creech, Katie Prentice and Robert Zuniga,
tobia@uthscsa.edu Photographers

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Information resources for disaster management:

Librarians present classes to first responders in Laredo
In February librarians Paula Maez and Linda Levy taught
two classes to employees of the Laredo Health
Department, fireman and EMTs from the Laredo Fire
Department, and area HazMat specialists.

The classes were on WISER — Wireless Information

System for Emergency Responders (http://
wiser.nlm.nih.gov/) and REMM (Radiation Emergency
Medical Management: (http://www.remm.nlm.gov/).

Both WISER and REMM are resources produced by the

Specialized Information Services division of the National
Library of Medicine as part of a continuing effort to bring
important information about disaster management to
those who need it.

WISER provides a wide range of information on

hazardous substances, including substance identification Librarians Paula Maez and Linda Levy traveled to
support, physical characteristics, human health Laredo in February to teach classes on information
information, and containment and suppression resources for first responders.
guidance. REMM provides guidance for health care providers and hospitals about clinical diagnosis and
treatment during transportation events involving radiation, terrorist incidents, or mass casualty radiological/
nuclear events.

The Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders can be found at http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov/.
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Around the library

Celebrating many years of service
Anne Comeaux, Assistant Library Director for Special Collections and
Rajia Tobia, Executive Director of Libraries, each received an award for
their years of service in February. Anne has worked in the UT System for
35 years, including several years at UT Austin before coming to the UT
Health Science Center in 1977. Rajia has 30 years of service with the UT
System at both the UT Health Science Center and UTSA.

Congratulations Anne and Rajia! Your presence here has been a great
benefit for the library and for those of us who are privileged to work with
you.

A new face in the Briscoe Library

The Libraries are pleased to welcome Patricia (Patty) Goldspink, the new
Administrative Assistant I in the Briscoe Library. Patty works at the front desk in the
library’s administrative offices, where she is the first person many visitors will see.
Patty was previously employed with USAA, where she held several different positions in
human resources including HR Analyst, HR Coordinator and HR Senior Service
Representative.

The Laredo library announces the retirement of Dolores Diaz, Library Assistant III
We are sorry to announce the retirement of Dolores Diaz, Library Assistant II in Laredo. Dolores has worked
part-time in the Laredo Campus Extension Library since 2007, when she retired from her first career as a
school librarian.
Dolores is loved by students and staff members for her sunny disposition, for her total commitment to “going
the extra mile,” and for providing outstanding service to all library users. In addition to her campus
responsibilities, Dolores has worked tirelessly as an advocate for the library’s outreach programs in Laredo.
Dolores always has been an asset to the Laredo Campus Extension Library. She leaves with our best wishes,
but we will definitely miss her!
Linda Levy
Assistant Library Director for Branches
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Save the date: Health and Medicine on Display: International

Expositions in the United States, 1876-1904
Author talk by Julie K. Brown, PhD
President, Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library
Wednesday, April 7
Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Howe Conference Room
"Health and Medicine on Display is a work of great significance in the fields
of cultural history, the history of world's fairs, the history of medicine,
museum studies, and visual anthropology. This book stands alone at the
intersection of these fields. Anyone interested in helping our current
populations better understand and prevent the spread of disease should
read this book."
—Robert W. Rydell, Professor of History, Montana State University

Save the date: getHIP 2010

Date: April 14, 2010
Time: 1:00—5:00 p.m.
Place: Texas Library Association meeting, San Antonio, Texas

getHIP 2010 is a Texas Library Association preconference for school librarians, public librarians, school
nurses, teachers, school administrators, health educators, health sciences librarians and others, to promote a
coordinated approach to school health. This preconference is an opportunity for attendees to raise their
awareness of health information resources available from the National Library of Medicine and other agencies
and organizations. It will also provide a chance for participants to work together to generate specific ideas for
collaborating across professional lines to promote access to health information for students, their families and
the broader community.

It is not necessary to register for the TLA conference to attend this workshop. Information on how to register
for the workshop can be found at http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/events/gethip2010reg.cfm.

For more information contact Paula Maez, National Library of Medicine 2nd Year Fellow, at
maez@uthscsa.edu

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Ophthalmodouleia by Georg Bartisch

A featured resource of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library
Dresden – 1583 - 1st edition
The first textbook on ophthalmology in the
German language

Georg Bartisch, the founder of modern ophthalmology, was court oculist in Dresden. The
illustrations in Ophthalmodouleia depicting Renaissance eye surgery in all its aspects were
made by Bartisch himself. Among the remarkable woodcuts are pictures of a patient tied to a
chair in readiness for his operation, procedures involved in cataract surgery, blepharochalasis,
and exenteration of the orbit, and the removal of eyelashes to cure trichiasis. Bartisch also
gives directions for pre-operative measures for the patient (fasting) and surgeon (abstention
from drink and venery).

For all his skill, Bartisch still came under the influence of the prevailing superstitions of the
day, astrology, witchcraft and magic.

Pennie Borchers
Special Collections Librarian

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