News From the Libraries - UT HSC Newsletter July 2009

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Contact UT Health Science

Center Libraries

Rajia Tobia, Executive Director of

Libraries (210) 567-2413

Email: [email protected]

http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/

San Antonio

Administration

(210) 567-2400

Briscoe Library

Circulation Desk (210) 567-2440

Information Desk (210) 567-2450

Email:

[email protected]

UT HSC Library Downtown

(210) 358-3939

Jesse H. Jones Comprehensive

Research Library

(210) 562-5098

Harlingen

Ramirez Library

(956) 365-8850

Laredo

Laredo Campus Extension

Library (956) 523-7404

In the news this month:

Humanities Texas funds visit by author Pauline Chen, MD Page 2

One Community/ One Book: Have you started reading yet? Page 2

Medical illustration exhibit opens in Lecture Hall Foyer Page 3

Librarians to teach at Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice Page 3Library offers classes in institutional records management Page 4Librarian Anne Comeaux joins board of ARMA International Page 4

Increasingly, adults seek health information on the Internet: Study Page 5Library classes for July Page 6Librarians improve access to health information on the Internet Page 7Student internship experiences in the library Page 8Librarian Greysi Reyna accepts Debakey Library Outreach Award Page 9

FOR LIBRARY CLASSES, go to page 6

Historical anatomy texts such as VesaliusDe humani corporis fabrica libri

septem (1543) were a key element of this springs Art and Anatomy Workshop,

which brought medical students and art students together to learn techniques ofvisualizing the body more clearly. The story can be found on page 3.
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Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities,has awarded a grant to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonioto extend One Community/ One Book 2009 to practicing health professionals in theSan Antonio Community. The book selected for the 2009 One Community/ One Bookprogram isFinal Exam: A Surgeons Reflections on Mortality, by Dr. Pauline Chen.

Dr. Chen, a liver transplant surgeon, attended Harvard University and the FeinbergSchool of Medicine at Northwestern University and completed her surgical training at

Yale University, the National Cancer Institute and UCLA. In 1999 she was named theUCLA Outstanding Physician of the Year. She writes the Doctor and Patient columnfor theNew York Times and also keeps a professionalblog.

This is the second year that UT Health Science Center Libraries, in cooperation withthe Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics, has sponsored One Community/ One

Book. This year University Transplant Center, the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Texas NursesAssociation District 8, and nursing sorority Sigma Theta Tau-Delta Alpha, are also partners in the project.

Funding provided by Humanities Texas and the National Endowment for the Humanities will supportpublicity efforts such as radio ads and mailings in order to include practicing physicians, nurses and hospitalstaff in the San Antonio area in a conversation about health care at the end of life.

Humanities agency provides support for One Community/ One Book

One Community/ One Book: Have you started reading yet?

This is a wonderful way to introduce One Community/ One Book, a community reading project that aims tostimulate vibrant, multidisciplinary and local conversations on topics that matter to practicing health careprofessionals.

Pauline Chen will speak in the Parman Auditorium on the Long Campus of the UT Health Science Center SanAntonio at noon on September 25. Her talk will be streamed live to locations at the School of Health

Professions, the Regional Academic Health Center and the Laredo Campus Extension Library. Plans for otherremote locations are pending. Copies ofFinal Exam are available in the UT Health Science Center bookstoreat a 25% discount and also in all branches of The Libraries at call number WZ 100 C518f 2007.

Training for facilitators and hosts of small group discussions leading up to Dr. Chens visit will be offered onAugust 8 and 13 at noon in the Briscoe Library. Register here.

To learn more about One Community/ One Book, about this years book,Final Exam, and about ways you canparticipate in the conversation, visit the One Community/ One Bookproject Web site.

This program is made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the NationalEndowment for the Humanities.

A few months after my book was published... [a] colleague told my friend that the stories wereso similar to his own; he had no idea I had had so many of the same feelings and experiences... A

part of me was delighted that the book had resonated with him. But another part of me asked:why had we never talked to one another about it but just soldiered on in our work alone?

Pauline Chen, MD,Pallimed, March 17, 2008
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An exhibit currently on display in the medical schoollecture hall foyer showcases the work of students in theSpring 2009 Art and Anatomy Workshop. This innovativemultidisciplinary class was developed by Charleen M.Moore, PhD, from the Department of Cellular andStructural biology at the UT Health Science Center, withConstance Lowe, MFA and Jayne Lawrence, MFA, bothfrom the Department of Art and Art History at theUniversity of Texas at San Antonio, and Penelope Borchers,Special Collections Librarian at the UT Health ScienceCenter Briscoe Library.

The goal of the Art and Anatomy Workshop, which wasopen to medical students at the UT Health Science Centeras well as to UTSA art and art history students, was to helpparticipants develop their ability to imagine the body moreaccurately. Students received instruction in basic drawingtechniques and in perspective and proportion of the humanface. They were also introduced to the work of importantanatomists/artists from the Renaissance to the present andto contemporary artists whose work involves anatomy,medicine and the body.

The classes, which were held in late March and early April, met in the Department of Cellular and StructuralBiology, in UTSA art studios, and at the reading room of the PI Nixon Medical Historical Library.

The exhibit,Medical Illustration: Ars Anatomica, was organized by Penelope Borchers. It will be on displayin the lecture hall foyer until mid-August.

A drawing of the foot by Hiromi Tsuji, a UTSA art

student who participated in the Art and Anatomy

Workshop.

News from The Librarieshttp://www.library.uthscsa.edu/

Medical illustration: Exhibit opens in lecture hall foyer

UT Health Science Center librarians Linda Levy and Angela Myatt will teachLibrary Skills for the Clinician:Locating Evidence for Practice in two break-out sessions at the 2009 Summer Institute on Evidence-Based

Practice that will be held in San Antonio from July 9-11. The classes will focus on resources and techniquesfor finding and evaluating information for evidence-based practice. Attendees will be introduced toinformation sources that may not be familiar to nurses and other practitioners and advocates of evidence-

based practice, including the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ), the National GuidelinesClearinghouse, Turning Research into Practice (TRIP) an evidence-based search engine, and theCochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

This is the 8th year for the Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice. The overall theme for this yearsprogram isAchieving Excellence with Evidence. The Institute is sponsored by the Academic Center forEvidence-Based Practice (ACE), a division of the UT Health Science Center School of Nursing. To learn moreabout the Center or to register for the Institute, link to thatACE web site.

Library Skills for the Clinician: Librarians will teach research

skills for clinicians at Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice
http://www.acestar.uthscsa.edu/http://www.acestar.uthscsa.edu/


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Records management and retention has become increasingly important in recent years to the UT HealthScience Center campus. We are no longer a young campus but are reaching the point where we are simplyrunning out of room to store records, as evidenced by the numerous filing cabinets that were recentlyremoved from the hallways due to safety issues. Departments need to know how long they are legally requiredto keep records so they may discard old records that have met their useful life span. In addition, they alsoneed to know which records are considered so important that they must be backed up to an offsite location(vital records), and many departments are now converting their records from paper to electronic or otherformat and need to know the state requirements for keeping records electronically or on microfilm. Staff

dealing with patient or student records need to know the requirements of the HIPAA and FERPA laws thatmandate special security for these types of records. The UT Health Science Center Library offers 3 classes thathelp staff manage their records.

Module A, Records Retention and Inventory, covers state laws regarding records management for stateagencies, reasons we need to manage our records, how to interpret the Records Retention Schedule (RRS),how to use the online RRS to find the required retention period for records, and how to do an inventory ofdepartment records.

Module B, FERPA, is recommended for all staff who must handle student records. This class explains theFamily Educational Rights and Privacy Act requirements for handling of student records by institutions ofhigher education, including student rights, parent rights, and limitations on giving out information aboutstudents.

Module C, Managing Permanent Records and Electronic Records, covers the pros and cons of thevarious options for storing permanent records including paper, microfilm, and document imaging. It alsoexplains state laws for electronic records and other pertinent issues, including security.

To sign up for records management classes or to ask questions on the management of records contact AnneComeaux at 567-2428, [email protected].

Anne Comeaux, Assistant Director for Special Collections and the RecordsManagement Officer for the UT Health Science Center, was recently elected to serveas a Director on the Board of the San Antonio Chapter of ARMA International for the2009 2010 year. ARMA International is a not-for-profit association and theleading authority on managing records and information paper and electronic.

The San Antonio chapter of ARMA International is composed of records informationmanagement professionals from greater San Antonio and surrounding communities,representing a wide variety of industries in the business community as well as federal,state, and local government agencies.

Institutional records: Library classes can help you comply with

requirements for management and retention

Anne Comeaux is named to the board of the San

Antonio chapter of ARMA International
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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As Americans become more comfortable with integrating theInternet into all aspects of their lives, they are increasinglyconsulting it for health information. A recent survey by the PewInternet & American Life Project found that 61% of Americanadults go online for health information. This is a significant

increase from 2000, when only 25% of Americans adults did so.According to the report, As younger adults face more health carequestions and challenges, they may turn to the tools they havesharpened in other contexts of their lives to gather and share health advice.

However, the Internet has not replaced the traditional role of consultations with health professionals.According to the report, the vast majority of people meet with a health professional when they needinformation about a medical issue. Many people also talk with family or search online. Those who use theInternet to find health information for themselves or someone else are known as e-patients. Much of thisinformation they consult is user-generated content, such as patients commentaries about health conditions,reviews of hospitals, or blog entries. Americans are also turning to the Internet for exercise and fitness advice.

A third of Internet users look online for weight-loss information, and more than half of all users consult theInternet for fitness tips.

Increasing numbers of adults consult the Internet for health

information: Pew Internet & American Life Project

E-patients are more likely than other Internet users to participate in social networking sites such as Facebook.When they find health information online, most e-patients continue the dialogue offline with friends andfamily. Social networking is not just for health consumers, however. Health professionals are finding ways toincorporate websites such as Twitter into their practices. In her recent New York Times article, Dr. Pauline

Chen discusses how physicians can use social media as a way to maintain contact with their patients betweenvisits. (Dr. Chen is also the author ofFinal Exam, the Health Science Centers One Community/One Book2009 selection.)

The survey indicates that people are attaining favorable results by getting health advice online. Sixty percentof e-patients said that they or an acquaintance have been helped as a result of following online healthinformation, and only 3% reported knowing someone who had been harmed by it. The report foresees that

Americans will continue to turn to the Internet for health information as the younger generation ages andmobile access to the Internet becomes more common.

Rachael AndersonLibrary Intern

Sixty percent of e-patients said that they or an acquaintance have

been helped as a result of following online health information, and

only 3% reported knowing someone who had been harmed by it.

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The National Network of Libraries of Medicine, SouthCentral Region, has awarded a subcontract to theEdgewood Family Network (EFN) in San Antonio fortheir project, TECNO: Technology-EnhancedCommunity Neighborhood Organization.

The project will improve access to electronic consumer healthinformation among families in EFNs service area by training an

existing group of youth, the Tekkies, to teach neighborhoodresidents how to use consumer health information produced bythe National Library of Medicine.

In June, Julie K. Gaines, Information Technology Librarian atthe Briscoe Library, met with six members of the Tekkie teamand the EFN program coordinator. In addition to introducingthe youth to MedlinePlus, MedlinePlus en Espaol, and GoLocal, she also taught critieria for evaluating healthinformation on the Internet. Equipped with these skills, theTekkies will be able to recommend reliable consumer healthsites for residents of the Edgewood community. On a future

visit to the library, the Tekkies will tour University Hospital,receive information about the different schools at UT Health Science Center, and learn about other healthresources for their project.

Edgewood Family Network (EFN) is a 501(c)(3) community-based organization that focuses on services tofamilies in a well-defined, high-priority community within San Antonio whose residents are predominantlyHispanic.

Eight staff members of the San Antonio AIDS Foundation (SAAF) joined UT Health ScienceCenter librarians Linda Levy and Lara Sapp on Wednesday, June 17 to learn about reliable

Web sites for health information, with a focus on HIV/AIDS information.

The SAAF staff members were interested in sites that they could share with patients for health education,sites that they would be able to use to find ideas for community prevention and education programs, andsites that would offer information for case management activities such as insurance or Social Securityeligibility.

The librarians started with a brief overview of how to evaluate the quality of health information sites on theWeb and then demonstrated sites such as Partners for Information Access for Public Health Professionals(PH Partners), MedlinePlus,AIDSInfo, Clinicaltrials.gov, the National Cancer Institute, and PubMed. A

bibliography of additional sites was included as well.

Youth in the Edgewood neighborhood of

San Antonio learn about consumer health

information resources produced by the

National Library of Medicine.

UT Health Science Center librarians work to improve community

access to health information on the Internet
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Student internship experiences in the library

Lisa Matye Finnie is completing a 120-hour internship in the CollectionResources Division of the Briscoe Library. Collection Resources overseesprocesses involved in selecting, ordering, receiving and cataloging all types oflibrary materials, including monographs, serials and electronic resources.

During her internship Lisa, who has a BA in mathematics from St. MarysUniversity, will gain experience cataloging electronic books, journals and

dissertations, and will learn to perform site verification and cost per useanalysis for electronic serials.

My eventual goal is to work in the library of an academically-orientedinstitution, such as UT Health Science Center or one of the local universities orcolleges, Lisa says.

Previously, she has been employed by the Northside Independent SchoolDistrict, by the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library,and by the Houston Public Library. She will complete her MLS from Texas

Womans University in August.

Rachael Anderson is a summer intern with the library's South TexasRegional Information Services Division. Her internship is sponsored by theSouth Central Area Health Education Center as an opportunity to raiseawareness among undergraduates of health sciences librarianship as acareer opportunity.

One of my biggest projects for the summer is to develop a model for a new daycamp for high school students through the Academic Health Education Center

(AHEC), Rachael says. Ive also been developing content for the South TexasGo Local website and Healthytexas.org. Im helping plan a week-long visit for agroup of high school students from Mercedes, TX to learn about health careers.

Rachael is a senior at Trinity University, majoring in economics with a focuson the health care system in the United States. During the summer she willparticipate in outreach activities in the San Antonio area as well as theLower Rio Grande Valley, and assist with the development of theHealthyTexas.org website and the "South Texas Go Local" online directoryof health services. She will also be trained to work with librarians at theinformation desk in the Briscoe Library.

Texas Womans University MLS student Lisa Matye

Finnie is working in the Division of Collection Resources

AHEC sponsors library internship for Trinity University economics

major Rachael Anderson


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On the evening of Tuesday, May 5, Greysi Reyna, Assistant Library Director for the Ramirez Library at the UTHealth Science Center San Antonios Regional Academic Health Center in Harlingen, attended the annualdinner of the Friends of the National Library of Medicine in Washington, DC. While there, she received the

Michael E. DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award. This award recognizes the service of a health scienceslibrarian working in underserved or rural communities.

Greysi began working with the UT Health Science Center Libraries in 1995 as the circuit librarian for theLower Rio Grande Valley. "As circuit librarian, I used to go to the hospitals and make sure that the doctorsand nurses, and our students that were here from the health science center, had the information that theyneeded," Greysi said in a May interview with the Valley Morning Star. In addition to her work with healthprofessionals and students, Greysi has also worked extensively withpromotoras community health workersin the Lower Rio Grande Valley teaching them how to use consumer health resources produced by theNational Library of Medicine.

Brava! Greysi Reyna, Assistant Library Director at the RAHC,

receives prestigious DeBakey award for Library Services Outreach

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