Medical Library Collaborations Kay Deeney Education & Exhibit Coordinator National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Southwest Region

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3 Medical Digital Reference Project PSRML sponsored with MCLS 2 nd level reference – Public librarians Recruitment via – Rmlrg7-l listserv – 2001 Joint Meeting in Scottsdale – Word of mouth

4 Training in DigRef Software Summer of 2002 – Los Angeles – San Francisco – Recruited the already trained Practice starts 8/1/02 Hours staffed – 8 am – 6 pm intermittent times

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6 About 40 Network Librarians Hospital librarians – Small and large libraries St. Judes, Olive View, VA from NV Kaiser, CA Pacific Academic institutions – Stanford, USC, UC Davis Other libraries – The Health Library, Oakland Public Library, CA School of Professional Psychology

7 Challenges IT departments & libraries – Firewalls – Computer settings – Need for more memory Operator error – Remembering shifts – Logging all the way in DOCLINE screen displays – Javascript problems

8 Clientele Who we will serve – Public librarians with health questions – Collaboration with the Law Librarians? – Other 24/7 participating libraries UCLA University of Washington Boston and the world!

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10 Meetings Through the System Sharing sessions Training updates PubMed training DOCLINE instruction

11 Advantages Assistance to public librarians Experience with new technology Experience with web training Possible prototype for MEDLINEplus

12 Future plans Arizona training tentatively 1/10/03 Going live! Hawaii Medical Library – Extend our time periods Voice interactions