Dentistry Library Newsletter

September-October 1999

DENTISTRY LIBRARY NEWS:
* Evening Reference Service begins late October
* Humor in Dentistry Exhibit
* Journal Shift Successful!
* Faster than Light (Almost): E-Mail Library Notices
* Upcoming Classes

CAMPUS NEWS:
* New Databases Available
* More on Digital Images

FYI:
* Announcement: African-Americans in Education Conference
* Public Hearing: Local (MI) Water Quality Management
* Minority Community Health Links: General & Dental
* Aging & Health Initiatives and Web Resources
* Y2K Clinical Compliance Resources
* NTIS Closing (Government Reports Primary Source)
* Librarian Wins Presidential Medal for Preservation Efforts

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EVENING REFERENCE SERVICE BEGINS LATE OCTOBER

In the previous newsletter (August 1999), we welcomed Thea
Lindquist, to the Dentistry Library. We have high hopes for
providing reference assistance in the evenings when the
students will be out of clinics. This service will begin
in late October, on Monday and Wednesday evenings *only*,
from 5-7:30PM. As always, if you have a question, please feel
free to:

 - e-mail us at 
 - schedule a one-on-one session with you and a librarian
 - or just drop by and ask for help!


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HUMOR IN DENTISTRY EXHIBIT

In honor of the incoming students, the Dentistry Library has
an exhibit on Humor in Dentistry currently on display by
the reference and circulation desks. Please stop by, and enjoy!


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JOURNAL SHIFT SUCCESSFUL!

Thank you all for your patience and consideration during the
major shift. For those of you who are new or were out of
touch over the summer, all the journals have been rearranged
in an ALPHABETICAL by title arrangement. We have received
several glowing and appreciative comments from patrons, so
we hope this continues to work well for you. Again, if you
have any difficulties in finding materials, do please ask
for assistance at the Circulation Desk.


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FASTER THAN LIGHT (ALMOST): E-MAIL LIBRARY NOTICES

Have you ever suffered from the pain of receiving a library
notice through the mail long after it was relevant? Finding
out that your book was overdue -- a week ago? Discovering that
the book you wanted urgently last week was waiting for you to
pick it up, but the notice was in the mail? Well, here is the
solution you've all been waiting for! You can now sign up
to receive your library notices via e-mail. To sign up for
this service, you can stop by the library Circulation Desk
or send an e-mail request to:

  glcirc@umich.edu   

Please include your name, e-mail address, and UM ID# or Social
Security number, OR the barcode from the back of your M-Card.


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NEW DATABASES AVAILABLE

Alt-HealthWatch http:// www.softlineweb.com/althealth   
Alt-HealthWatch is a full text and image database comprised of
publications focused on the area of complementary and alternative
approaches to health. The resources include peer-reviewed journals,
reports, and proceedings, association and issue-oriented newsletters,
professional publications, consumer magazines, background pamphlets and
reference material.

Ethnic NewsWatch http:// www.softlineweb.com/ethnicw   
Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is a full text database of the newspapers,
magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press,
with a collection of more than 470,000 full-text articles from
over 200 publications. Searchable in both English and Spanish.

GenderWatch http:// www.softlineweb.com/genderw   
GenderWatch is a full text database comprised primarily of periodicals
that focus on women and women's issues, including academic and scholarly
journals, regional publications, magazines, newspapers, newsletters,
booklets and reports.


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MORE ON DIGITAL IMAGES

There are three resources to highlight this month for finding
images on the web. None of these are intended as sources of
clinical images, but rather sources of images which may enrich
and enhance your professional presentations and publications.

First, you may have already heard of the American Memory
Project from the Library of Congress. You may not have been
aware that this resource is searchable and includes historical
and contemporary images on a variety of topics, including
dentistry and the University of Michigan. I confess, I was
surprised to find included in their collection several
early pictures of the School of Dentistry!

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/   

A more extensive local resource is the ever-expanding collections
of the University of Michigan Digital Library Initiative Image
Services Collection. The best starting point for these 37,000 images
is:

  http://images.umdl.umich.edu/   

This includes images from many local sources and collections, although
the topics included cover the globe! Among the collections represented
are the Bentley Historical Library with 993 images primarily of UM;
UM Museum of Art; Media Union Library; UM History of Art Department,
Visual Resources Collections; and Harper's Weekly (including dental
advertisements).

Third, as part of envisioning what we might want for our library
in the future, you may want to look at the national winners from the
"Beyond Words: Celebrating America's Libraries Photo Contest", which
are now posted on the ALA Web site at http://www.ala.org/celebrating/photo.


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ANNOUNCEMENT: AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE

The Fourth Annual African American-Americans in Education Conference
is focusing on the topic of "Education & the New Millennium ... Charging
into the 21st Century." The conference will happen this month at
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, October 14-16, 1999. The website
listed below has all the conference details.

http://www.uwm.edu/People/klb/indexAAASC.html   


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PUBLIC HEARING: LOCAL (MI) WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Notice of public hearing: Water Quality Management Plan for
Southeast Michigan. This includes some discussion of
fluoridation in local water supplies.

http://www.semcog.org/news/releases/208_plan.html   


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MINORITY COMMUNITY HEALTH LINKS: GENERAL & DENTAL

Closing the Gap
  http://www.omhrc.gov/ctg/ctgOH.pdf   
  Includes articles such as, "Minority Dentists: Why do we
  need them?"

Michigan Department of Community Health, Office of Minority
Health, Promote Healthy Lifestyles in Communities of Color:
Color Me Healthy
  http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/pha/omh/index.htm   

African-American Men's Health, State of Michigan
  http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/mdch2/aamh.htm   

CDC's Office of Minority Health Issues
  http://www.omhrc.gov/   

US. DHHS. Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities
in Health
  http://raceandhealth.hhs.gov/   

The President's Initiative on Race and the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services Hold Forum on Race and Quality Health Care
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/OneAmerica/pirsummary.html   


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AGING & HEALTH INITIATIVES & WEB RESOURCES
International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations
http://www.omhrc.gov/minorage.htm   
http://www.aoa.gov/international/iyop/default.htm   

including:

Living Longer & Healthier
http://www.unc.edu/depts/cmaweb/iyop/WEBINTRO1.html   

Older Americans Act
http://www.aoa.gov/international/default.htm   

Michigan Aging Services System (MASS)
http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/mass/masshome.html   

Demographic Profile of Older Michiganians
http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/mass/demoprof.html   

National Institute on Aging
http://www.nih.gov/nia/index.htm   


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Y2K V.A. CLINICAL COMPLIANCE RESOURCES

Veteran's Administration
  http://www.va.gov/Y2K_Resources.htm   
  http://www.va.gov/year2000/   

Clinical Compliance Checklist
  http://www.va.gov/year2000/docs/visnchk.htm   

Contingency Planning Guidebook
  http://www.va.gov/year2000/conguide/   

Y2K Compliance Plan
  http://www.va.gov/year2000/conguide/Compliance/Index.htm   
  http://www.va.gov/year2000/conguide/Compliance/complan13.PDF   
  (includes Master schedule for planning support for clinics)

Medical Device Assessment Y2K Planning Guidebook
  http://www.va.gov/year2000/mdguide.pdf   


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NTIS CLOSING

Following Commerce Secretary William Daley's August 13th
announcement that Congress would seek to close the National
Technical Information Service (NTIS), Congress last week
held hearings before the subcommittee on technology of the
House Science Committee. Testifying on behalf of the ALA,
AALA, SLA, and ARL, Caroline C. Long, Associate Librarian
for Collection Services at George Washington University,
forcefully outlined the library community's concerns,
reiterating the position that the NTIS should not be closed
until "a thorough assessment of the full range of NTIS
services" has been completed. NTIS has been the government's
primary way to distribute technical reports and information
of "our country's $80 billion federal research and development
investment." The full text of Long's testimony can be viewed
at: http://www.ala.org/washoff/clong.html   .


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LIBRARIAN WINS PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL FOR PRESERVATION EFFORTS

President William J. Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton will award one of eight 1999 National Humanities
Medals to a librarian, Patricia Battin. Battin is being
recognized for leading a national campaign to save millions
of brittle books in America's libraries and archives.  Since
the Dentistry Library journal collection is suffering from
this same "brittle book" problem, I am particularly pleased
to see national recognition for this important issue.