library committee to meet

The Austin Health/Mercy Hospital Library Committee meets four times a year. The next meeting is scheduled for Monday, 16 August. If you have particular Library issues that you would like discussed at this or any future meetings, please let us know. You can either talk to one of the Library staff, or to one of the Committee members ( Dr. Jennifer Johns (Chair), Dr. Sianna Panagiotopoulos, Ms Amanda Bladen, Mr. Rod Mann, Dr. Fergus Kerr, Dr. Brad Gardiner, Mrs Anne-Marie Mahoney, Mr Michael Fink, Dr. Andrew Scanlon, Dr. Chris O'Callaghan, Dr. John Ferguson, Dr. Heather Grusauskas, Dr. Peter Wein, Mr. Paul Drinkwater)  

more about the new look ovid

Last week we talked about creating personal accounts on Ovid. Once you have a personal account, you may store all your searches, alerts, annotations and projects under the ‘My Workspace’ tab. Ovid now also provides for every user with a personal account to have 50MB to store additional links and files (ie. non-Ovid material) in a ‘My Projects’ space. To see how this might work for you, view the training session ‘Introduction to My Projects/My Workspace’ or link to the ‘My Projects’ FAQ. Currently at Austin Health you are not able to install the toolbar that goes with the ‘My Projects’ feature (requires administrator rights) but the Library is currently talking to the IT department about how we might get around this – we will let you know! If you are outside of the Austin Health network there should be no difficulty in installing the toolbar.

Cochrane library updated

The Cochrane Library has been updated for August, link here to see a list of all new additions.

new online

Dietary interventions and physical activity interventions for weight management before, during and after pregnancy / Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, 2010. (NICE public health guidance ; 27)
The guidance includes six recommendations which are based on approaches that have been proven to be effective for the whole population. They include advice on: how to help women with a BMI of 30 or more to lose weight before and after pregnancy – and how to help them eat healthily and keep physically active during pregnancy; how to help all pregnant women eat healthily and keep physically active; the role of community-based services; the professional skills needed to achieve all the above.
Hepatitis and liver cancer : a national strategy for prevention of hepatitis B and C / Heather M. Colvin and Abigail E. Mitchell. National Academies Press, 2010.
This ( US) book identifies missed opportunities related to the prevention and control of HBV and HCV infections. The book presents ways to reduce the numbers of new HBV and HCV infections and the morbidity and mortality related to chronic viral hepatitis.

new on display @ Austin

Acute blood purification / edited by H. Suzuki and H. Hirasawa. Karger, 2010. (Contributions to nephrology ; v. 166)
Developing holistic care for long-term conditions / edited by Carl Margereson and Steve Trenoweth. Routledge, 2010.
Diseases of the nervous system in childhood / Jean Aicardi. 3 rd ed. Mac Keith Press, 2009. (Clinics in developmental medicine)
Patient safety / Charles Vincent. 2 nd ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Pocketbook of taping techniques / Rose MacDonald. Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2010.
Respiratory management of ALS : Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Lee Guion. Jones and Bartlett, 2010.
Spinal cord injury : functional rehabilitation / Martha Freeman Somers. 3 rd ed. Pearson, 2010.
Thoracic radiology / Theresa C. McLoud and Phllip M. Boiselle. 2 nd ed. Mosby Elsevier, 2010. (The requisites)

Books on display may be reserved – call 9496 5393.

To see a list of all recently added titles go to the link on the library catalogue (and click on the link ‘new print titles’ on the left hand bar).

ringing the changes

There have been so many changes to our online Library resources in the last couple of weeks. We can understand that you might be confused and even frustrated, and apologise. Unfortunately our suppliers do not talk to each other, so probably didn’t know that other publishers/vendors had major interface changes in the pipeline. So not only has there been some major changes with OVID, the Ebsco databases (Cinahl and PsycInfo), Wiley online and the Springer interface also changed in the last week. OVID and Wiley (in particular The Cochrane Library) are still mopping up some glitches after the changes, but hopefully all will be resolved soon! Please let us know if you experience any difficulty with any of the changes and we will attempt to help you sort it out!