Just a reminder that the next meeting of LCAOM will be on Thursday
April 23rd at the Hyatt Capitol Park Hotel in Sacramento, 1209 L
street.  If you have concerns and/or agenda items for discussion,
please share them with the group.  one item concern the possibility of
forming a library consortium.

also I have a new Yahoo email which you can use: jimemdy@....

hope to hear from you and see you in Sacramento.

Jim Emdy
Chair

this is a reminder of the upcoming meeting of CCAOM in Sacramento in April, from
22nd to 25th.  the library committee will meet on Thursday April 23 at 1:30,
location to be determined.  Please plan to attend and in advance, please submit
agenda items.

Pursuant to formation of a consortium of OM libraries, I have prepared a brief
questionnaire. Please take a moment to fill out and share with other listserv
members.  we will discuss further in April

March 26, 2009

Questionnaire on library resources.

Name of Library________________________________________
Number of students____________________
Professional librarian on staff ()Yes ()No

Library software used______________________
Libraries sharing your catalog(same software)"Union" Catalogs___________________
Approximate number of titles(not physical volumes)____________

Approximate number of physically held journal titles:_________
On-line journal databases used____________________________
Other online databases:__________________________________
Affiliations with other institutions?_________________________

Resources your library could share with other libraries:
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________

Is your institution/library interested in developing a formal consortium of OM
libraries?
()Yes ()No
What services would your library like a consortium to provide?
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________

Sample from Five Branches University
March 26, 2009

Questionnaire on library resources.

Name of Library__Five Branches University______________________________________
Number of students____350________________
Professional librarian on staff (x)Yes ()No

Library software used____LibraryWorld 2.0__________________
Libraries sharing your catalog(same software)"Union" Catalogs___2
schools________________
Approximate number of titles(not physical volumes)___4000_________

Approximate number of physically held journal titles:__20_______
On-line journal databases used___Pubmed, MDConsult, Acubriefs, Cochrane
_________________________
Other online databases:_____Planetree library_____________________________
Affiliations with other institutions?__Dominican Hospital, Good Sam Hospital Los
Gatos; links to public libraries; borrowing privileges at UC Santa
Cruz_______________________

Resources your library could share with other libraries:
_______help with cataloging, advice on collections and categorizations;
_____________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________

Is your institution/library interested in developing a formal consortium of OM
libraries?
(x)Yes ()No
What services would your library like a consortium to provide?
_purchase of additional databases;
_________________________________________________
__________________________________________________

this the second call for agenda items for the meeting in sacramento on april
23rd. also please submit resource survey sent out earlier

agenda items
1. role of library is aiding/educating researchers in current awareness search.

2. discussion of library resources survey

3. and implications for work on consortium

handouts will be available.

LCAOM meeting is scheduled for Tbursday, April 23rd.  Proposed agenda:

1. Discussion of collection development in the libraries, guidelines and
suggestions.

2. Role of libraries in training/teaching researchers in basic skills;Five
Branches University PubMed as example.

3. Discussion of library resource survey-sent earlier.  If you have nont
completed and sent in the survey, please do so soon, whether or not you are
planning to attend the meeting.

4. Implications of survey results on efforts to form AOM library consortium.

Some documents from previous meetings will be available.

Additional agenda items are welcome.

Hope to see you in Sacramento.

Jim Emdy
Five Branches University

The LCAOM will meet in Sacramento on Thursday.April 23rd at 1:30 p.m.  Here is
the agenda to date.  Please note that I will be away from Tuesday April 21st
until the meeting date.

1.Role of libraries in educating researchers in finding current awareness
journal articles.

2. Possibilities for cooperation between United States AOM colleges and
institutions in China.

3. Discussion of survey on library resources and further action plan for
consortium of AOM libraries.

4. Possibility of using conference calls or telemedia internet means to include
particants who cannot attend in person.

Hope to see you in Sacramento.

Jim Emdy
Chair, LCAOM
Five Branches University.

Here is data from the survey. it is in odd format; better copies will be
available at the meeting.

Table One: General information from responding libraries

Library Nr. Students Prof.Librarian? Software Shared catalogs Nr.Titles Nr.
Journals
Dragon Rising 31 Yes Excel None 950 30
Five Branches Univ. 400 Yes LibraryWorld EWC, AIMC 4500 60
Inst. of Clinical Acup 38 No Cybertools None 1525 5
Northwestern Health 820(100 OM) Yes Library Solution None 9100 345
NCNM 500 Yes Innovative Interface OHSU, WSCC 14000 150
NY Chiropractic Coll. 800(60 OM) Yes Symphony 3.2.1(Dynix) None 16000 400
Oregon College OM 274 Yes InMagic/Innovative 1, 3 ** 4000 60
PCOM 280(3 sites) Yes Cybertools 3 sites linked 25000 162
Seattle Inst. of OM 31 No Excel/card catalog None 2500 70
Tai Sophia 444 Yes Folletts None 8606 45


**3 using other software



Table Two: What resources can be shared?

Library Services
Dragon Rising Ill journal sharing in progress
Five Branches Univ. Cataloging help; consulting on collection
development;teaching;  chair of LCAQM;coordinate sharing
Inst. of Clinical Acup Advice on Cybertools, cataloging
Northwestern Health ILL books and journals
NCNM OCLC, DocLine
NY Chiropractic Coll. ILL books and journals
Oregon College OM ILL books and journals
PCOM ILL journals, not books/AV
Seattle Inst. of OM
Tai Sophia Cataloging help; limited document delivery, teaching information,
help with simple websites.






Table three: Interest in developing consortium and desired services.

Library Consortium? Services desired
Dragon Rising Yes [Date missing]
Five Branches Univ. Yes Coordination of sharing efforts; discount purchases of
databases
Inst. of Clinical Acup Yes Access to Online journal database
Northwestern Health Yes Shared bibliographies of essential resources; shared
expertise via electronic list
		 possible collaboration on purchasing resources.
NCNM Perhaps Concerns with financial obligations of consortium membership
NY Chiropractic Coll. Yes shared lists of important resources; possible group
purchases of ..electronic
		 resources, electronic discussin list to share problems and solutions.
Oregon College OM Yes Resource sharing all material types; discount consortium
purchases
PCOM Yes Discount pricing for databases, esp EBSCO, E-Books in OM/
		 Massage Therapy
Seattle Inst. of OM Possible Concerns with financial obligations of consortium
membership
Tai Sophia Yes Access to Online full text journal databases; exchange mechanism
for donating
		 and receiving surplus copies/editions of books and journals; a place to share
		 teaching resources.


Table Four: Databases currently being used

Database  Number of users
About Herbs  1
Academic Search Premier  2
ACP Journal Club  1
Acubriefs  1
Acutrials  1
Agricola  1
Althealthwatch  5 accessed through EBSCO
AMED  2
BioMed Central  1
CHANT  1
China Online Journals Med. Coll.  1
CINAHL  2
Classicalchinesemedicine.org  1
Clinical Pharmacology  1
Cochrane databases  3
Directory of Open Access Journals  1
Drug and Herbal information NIH  1
EBSCOHost purchased  2
EBSCOHost via public libraries  3 may include Gale resources and others
EJE E Journals  2
Florida Electronic Library  1
Health Source Nursing Acad.ed.  1
Health&Life Science Collection  1
HealthStar  1
HerbalGram  1
HerbMedPro  2
ImagesMD  1
Index to Chiroprachtic Literature  2
Journal of Trad. Chinese Medicine  2
List of free medical journals  1
Mantis  1
MDConsult  2
MedLIne full text  2
Natural Medicine comprehensive 	 4
Natural Standard  4
Nccam  1
OCOM Journal article index  1
PapersFirst  1
Planetree Library  1 San Jose Hospital website
PlosMedicine  1
ProceedingsFirst  1
Psychology & Behavioural Sci. Col..  1
PubMed  4
Science Direct  1
Wang fan Data base(Chinese journ.)  1


Results of Current Survey

Results of Previous Survey

an item from an earlier email was omitted from the later email on sacramento
agenda.  the item is

Guidelines and consultations on developing and maintaining an AOM library
collection.

Sorry for the omission.

Jim Emdy
Chair, LCAOM

Here are the minutes of the Library Committee of April 23rd, Sacramento meeting.

In attendance: Jim Emdy(Five Branches University) Chair; Lana Thelen, OCOM;
Scott Ahn, SCUSOMA; Shen Ping Liang, ACAOM.

1. Role of libraries in educating researchers in finding current awareness
resources: Several online tutorials from an email from Mark Seem will be added
to the OPAC catalog page of Five Branches University.  Research literacy is a
foundation of competencies of an AOM graduate, and traditionally librarians have
a leading role in this effort.

2. A brief discussion on collection development was held. Materials from
previous meetings was made available for assistance in this matter.

3. We discussed briefly the possibility and usefulness of cooperation between
AOM schools in the United States and China.

4.  Use of webcam/interactive video-audio connectivity for widening
participation for those who cannot attend the committee meetings in person was
discussed.  Several attendees will do more research in this matter.

5.  In regard to formation a consortium of AOM libraries, the results of a
recent survey of library shared resources and interest in forming a consortium
indicate a good number of institutions which are willing to share resources via
interlibrary loan.  It was decided that as a first step toward formal chartering
of am AOM library consortium, the Yahoo usergroup listserv would be a vehicle to
place and fill ILL requests, with Five Branches University library maintaining
an online accessible database for tracking transactions.  Some institutions will
begin the process by offering some material for ILL transactions.  Sample
contracts and protocols in relation to ILL transactions will be submitted later.
The survey results will be sent as an attachment in a later email.  If your
library has not responded to the survey, please do so.

Jim Emdy
Chair
Five Branches University

4/27/09

Hello,

This email message is a notification to let you know that
a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ccaomlcaom
group.

   File        : /survey091.xls
   Uploaded by : jimemdy <jimemdy@...>
   Description : survey results april 2009

You can access this file at the URL:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ccaomlcaom/files/survey091.xls

To learn more about file sharing for your group, please visit:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/members/web/index.htmlfiles

Regards,

jimemdy <jimemdy@...>

--- In ccaomlcaom@yahoogroups.com, "Linda Moore" <linda@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> Pursuant to formation of a consortium of OM libraries, I have prepared a
> brief questionnaire. Please take a moment to fill out and share with other
> listserv members. we will discuss further in April
>
> March 26, 2009
>
> Questionnaire on library resources.
>
> Name of Library__Emperor's College
> Library______________________________________
> Number of students_____220_______________
> Professional librarian on staff (X)Yes ()No
>
> Library software used__LibraryThing.com___________________
> Libraries sharing your catalog(same software)"Union"
> Catalogs___________________
> Approximate number of titles(not physical volumes)___3,000_________
>
> Approximate number of physically held journal titles:__60_______
> On-line journal databases used___Ebscohost Cinahl Full-Text,
> PubMed_________________________
> Other online
> databases:_AcupunctureToday.com_________________________________
> Affiliations with other institutions?__DOCLINE Freeshare Network; Marina Del
> Rey Hospital Medical Library_______________________
>
> Resources your library could share with other libraries:
> __Journal articles__________________________________________
> ____________________________________________
> ____________________________________________
>
> Is your institution/library interested in developing a formal consortium of
> OM libraries?
> (X)Yes ()No
> What services would your library like a consortium to provide?
> __Union Catalog;________________________________________________
> __Recommended Lists of Books and Journals in   OM; Purchase of Additional
> Databases________________________________________________
>
>
>
>   _____
>
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> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 12:09 PM
> To: ccaomlcaom@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ccaomlcaom] New file uploaded to ccaomlcaom
>
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>
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>
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>
> Hello,
>
> This email message is a notification to let you know that
> a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ccaomlcaom
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>
> File : /survey091.xls
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> Description : survey results april 2009
>
> You can access this file at the URL:
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> yahoo.com/group/ccaomlcaom/files/survey091.xls
>
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the following books are available from Five Branches library for the cost of
shipping:

2296 	 The Pill Book 2009-06-08 2009-06-22
OUT
7411  China's food 	 2009-06-08 2009-06-22
OUT
7410  Enzyme nutrition 	 2009-06-08 2009-06-22
OUT
7409  A short textbook of medicine / 	 2009-06-08 2009-06-22
OUT
786  The New Anti-Aging Revolution ; stopping the clock for a younger, sexier
happier you/ RA776.75  2009-06-08 2009-06-22
OUT
749  Soul Coaching ; 28 days to Discover your authentic self/ BF637.S4 
2009-06-08 2009-06-22
OUT
3918  Life, liberty and the pursuit of healthiness : Dr. Dean's commonsense
guide for anything that ails you/ RC81 WESTMED EDELL  2009-06-08 2009-06-22
OUT
3854  Getting past no : negotiating your way from confrontation to cooperation /
BF637.N4  2009-06-08 2009-06-22
OUT
2366  Focusing / BF698.2 PSYCH GENDLIN  2009-06-08 2009-06-22
OUT
2348  Your body is your best doctor / RA776 HOL.MED PAGE  2009-06-08 2009-06-22
OUT
2323  Healing the whole person, the whole planet : spirit teachers share
understanding.../ BT732.4 HOL.MED HEALING  2009-06-08 2009-06-22
OUT
7412  Japan: In The Land of the Brokenhearted: Falling In and Out of Love With
the New Superpower

there may be also some vhs videos later.

It is early in terms of the Idaho fall meeting but I thought I would put out
some suggestions for agenda for the meeting.

Here is a comment from David Sales:
  Just wanted to remind that at the Council's general business meeting in
Sacramento, the Libraries Committee was asked to put on its fall meeting agenda
in Idaho the issue of "information literacy." The discussion at the general
business meeting noted that "information literacy" is one of the Institute of
Medicine's core competencies and is included in ACAOM's draft of the
re-conceptualized Master's Degree standards. It was further stated at the
meeting that the colleges ought to have workshops concerning information
literacy and that it takes time to build such literacy across a curriculum.
Perhaps the Libraries Committee can make a recommendation in this subject area
at the Idaho meeting.

  research and literature competency has been briefly touched on in the past, for
example, the Fall 2008 meeting.  I think for our next meeting it should be a
major focus.  I will be consulting with David about what procedures should be
pursued to further integrate libraries in the general discussion of literacy
competency, especially in view of DAOM programs.

Please share any thoughts you have on this issue.

thanks

Jim Emdy
Chair