February 1996 Issue: 137

       The home page includes information on the 1996 LAUNC-CH Conference, the Librarian's Datebook, Internet resources for librarians, the Librarians' Association Newsletter and information about LAUNC-CH. Adding the membership directory is currently under discussion. Lynn Eades, WebMistress and Co-Editor of the Newsletter, would like member feedback concerning putting the directory online.
       With the Newsletter being put on the web page, the editors are offering the members a choice in how they would like to receive the Newsletter. The current paper edition will remain for members who do not choose to receive the newsletter via email or view it solely on the web. In order to make the transition a smooth one, the editors ask that you let us know how you would like to receive the newsletter. Please return your mailing label with either paper, email or web written on it to Lynn Eades, HSL, CB#7585 or Geneva Holliday, Davis Library, CB#3900. Any comments or suggestions for the web page are greatly appreciated. Please contact Lynn Eades, WebMistress for LAUNC-CH at beades@med.unc.edu or via campus mail at HSL, CB#7585.

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American Journal of Medicine
American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
American Journal of Surgery
Annals of Internal Medicine
Archives of General Psychiatry
British Medical Journal
Canadian Medical Association Journal
Circulation
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American Volume)
Journal of Clinical Investigation
The Lancet
Pediatrics
Science

       The New England Journal of Medicine, already available on UNCLE, completes the first collection from OVID.

Useful Features
       The Core Biomedical Collection Includes three years of full-text articles and graphics. Here are some more exciting feature of these full-text journals:

• Structured Abstracts - The abstract is divided into sections paralleling the article's structure. Selecting a particular section heading with the abstract brings that section of text to the screen.
  
• Author-Defined Outline - OVID builds an outline from the section headings in each article. By using the outline feature, the reader can jump from an article's section heading to that section of the article.
  
• Searchable Full-Text - A search can find every occurrence of a word or term, whether it is in the abstract, text, figure captions, or references.
  
• Reference Links - Each highlighted author reference within the text can pop-up a window containing the complete citation. You can also link from an item in the article's bibliography to the context in the text.
  
• Printing/Saving - An entire article, with or without graphics, can be printed from a color or monochrome printer. Figures may be printed independently of the text. Saving the full text, including all figure captions and references, to an ASCII file allows the entire article to be imported into any word-processing program.

       As you can see, this UNCLE enhancement will improve your ability to find and retrieve information rapidly from the journal literature.

In the Future
       A forthcoming feature of these OVID full-text journals is that UNCLE users will be able to search MEDLINE and link to the full-text of articles found in the journals. You will be able to link immediately from the full-text to MEDLINE.
        A client-server version of the OVID software will soon be available. It will allow display of the graphics, figures, and tables as seen in the original articles. At present, the locations of these are shown in the text.
       The word from OVID is that the company will be introducing more core collections to meet the needs of other disciplines.

       This article was prepared based on demonstrations and information provided by OVID.

--Francesca Allegri

*OVID is the vendor supplying the search software, the formatted data, and the electronic versions of the journals. MEDLINE, CINAHL, and several other key databases on UNCLE use OVID search software.
UNCLE (University of North Carolina Literature Exchange) is a joint project of the Health Sciences Library and the Office of Information Systems (OIS) in the School of Medicine.

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• encompassing all types of information (patient data, clinical information, and knowledge- based resources, for example);
  
• being multi-disciplinary; and
  
• requiring a continual learning process to main tain a high level of expertise.

       They forecast that economic conditions will lead to greater diversity in an individual's career over a lifetime, and that both employers and individuals will need to take more responsibility for adding to employees' knowledge and skills. Marketability and meeting the complex demands of information management in all health related environments will drive this need.
       A series of studies will be used to validate this view of the educational needs of health sciences information professionals over a lifetime. The studies will also be used to create appropriate educational programs SILS could offer to respond to these life-long learning needs. Local members of the grant planning team include: Barbara Moran, Dean, SILS, and SILS faculty members Barbara Wildemuth, Claudia Gollop, and Helen Tibbo; Health Sciences Library Director Carol Jenkins and HSL faculty Peggy Morrison and Margaret Moore; Charles Friedman, Director of UNC's Medical Informatics Training Program; and Carolyn Lipscomb, Project Coordinator.

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Art Library

Biology Library

Geology Library

Health Sciences Library

Law Library

Music Library

School of Information and Library Science Edward G. Holley, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor, was honored and roasted at a retirement party on November 17th at the Carolina Inn. On October 4th, he was presented with the Distinguished Service Award by the North Carolina Library Association. Professor Holley retired December 31st.
Barbara B. Moran, Dean and Professor, chaired the ALA Committee on Accreditation External Review Panel for reaccreditation of McGill University's School of Library and Information Studies. Moran presented "Contemporary Leadership: How to Lead when No One Wants to Follow" at the convocation at the School of Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan. She also participated in a meeting of the University Library Advisory Committee at Appalachian State on Nov. 10th.
Frederick G. Kilgour, Distinguished Research Professor, visited South Africa as part of the Citizen Ambassador Program to establish professional working relationships in that country. On Dec. 5th Kilgour presided at a session of ONLINE 95 in London and presented the paper "Online retrieval of single-screen miniature catalogs by university library users" on Dec. 6th.
Diane H. Sonnenwald, Assistant Professor, presented the paper "Knowledge Exploration in Design: Boundary Spanning Roles and Strategies" at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, October 9-12 in Chicago, IL. The paper was also published in the conference proceedings. She was an invited attendee at the National Science Foundation Conference on Women and Science held in Washington, DC, December 13-14.
Evelyn H. Daniel, Professor, attended the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference in San Antonio. Jerry D. Saye, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, and Daniel were named co-editors of the the ALISE Statistical Report. Daniel also chaired the American Association of School Libraries (AASL) Statistics Committee and participated in the Planning Retreat for restructuring the AASL.
The XTP Book (about next-generation Internet communication software) co-authored by Bert J. Dempsey, Assistant Professor, originally published in 1992 has been translated into Japanese and appeared as XTP: the Xpress Transfer Protocol published by Addison-Wesley Toppan, Tokyo, 1995.
Sydney J. Pierce, Associate Professor, attended the ALISE annual conference in San Antonio, where she served as moderator for the General Session III (Topic: Cultural Change: Conflict or Cooperation for the LIS School and Its Constituencies) and was co-convener of the Gender Issues SIG (Topic: Athena on the Field of Mars: Representing Female-Intensive Programs in the Unviersity).
Paul Solomon, Assistant Professor, received the ALISE Research Award at the ALISE Annual Conference. His review of the book The Think Aloud Method: A Practical Guide to Modelling Cognitive Processes by Van Someren, Barnard, and Sandberg was published in the November issue of Information Processing and Management.
Helen R. Tibbo, Associate Professor, reviewed Elsie Freeman Finch's Advocating Archives: An Introduction to Public Relations for Archivists in the January 1996 issue of the Library Quarterly.

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MOVIE STUDIOS:

MCA/Universal
http://www.mca.com

MGM
http://www.mgmua.com

New Line Cinema
http://www.cybertimes.com/NewLine/Welcome.html

Paramount
http://www.paramount.com

Warner Brothers
http://www.warnerbros.com

TELEVISION:

CNet
http://www.cnet.com
[Stories on computers and how they are changing our LIVES!]

CNN
http://www.cnn.com

Discovery/Learning Channel
http://www.discovery.com

ESPNet
http://espnet.sportszone.com/studios

History Channel http://www.historychannel.com
[FIND out what happened on the day of your birth!]

WRAL-TV
http://www.wral-tv.com
[Local news and weather]

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       Robert M. Losee, "Determining Information Retrieval and Filtering Performance Without Experimentation," Information Processing and Management 31 (1995): 555-572.

       Robert M. Losee, "Evaluating Retrieval Performance Given Database and Query Characteristics: Analytic Determination of Performance Surfaces," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 47 ( Jan. 1995): 95-101.

       Robert M. Losee, "Learning Systatic Rules and Tags with Generic Algorithms for Information Retrieval and Filtering: An Empirical Basis for Grammatical Rules," Information Processing and Management 32 (1996): 185-197.

       William M. Shaw, "Term-relevance Computations and Perfect Retrieval Performance," Information Processing and Management, 31 (1995): 491-498.

       Diane H. Sonnenwald, "PPIG-7: The Seventh Annual Workship of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, " SIGCHI Bulletin, 27 (Oct. 1995): 50-52.

       Diane H. Sonnenwald, et al. "The Design Explorer Project: Using a Cognitive Frameword to Support Knowledge Exploration, " Proceedings of ICED "95 (10th International Conference on Engineering Design in Praha, Czech.).

       Diane H. Sonnenwald, "Contested Collaboration: A Descriptive Model of Intergroup Communication in Information Systems Design," Information Processing Management 31 (1995): 859-877.

       Barbara M. Wildemuth, et al. "Medical Students' Personal Knowledge, Searching Proficiency, and Database Use in Problem Solving," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 46 (Sept. 1995): 590-607.

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