Here is a document regarding evaluation points in determining adequacy of
library services.  it will eventually be put in the files section.

this could be part of the agenda in April.

Evaluation points for OM libraries.

General consideration:
Is the library an integral partner in promoting the mission of the institution?
Do the collection and services provided reflect the institution's
teaching/healing focus?

Overall physical facilities.
Does the library have sufficient space to accommodate normal use by students,
staff and faculty?  Are operating open hours sufficient to meet research
demands?

Computer and related facilities.
Does the library offer the following computer/online services:
--internet hardwired computers with printer capabilities?
--is WiFi available?
--is a photocopier available?
--is there remote 24 hour online access to library resources such as the library
catalog and research databases?

Are  the services provided sufficient to provide for present needs and allow for
future expansion?

The collection.
Does the library have sufficient materials of all sorts to support the needs of
the institution and meet the institution's stated goals?  Is the collection
current and does it grow as new requirements are added?  Are there other
institutions in the area which can provide services and material which the
library does not provide?  This could be through the use of public libraries or
specific consortium-like arrangements.

Collection management.
Does the library have adequate management of the collection through software
programs which are based either in-house or are internet based?  Do users have
access to library holdings and other research aids through computer/internet
access?  Is the system robust enough to meet current needs and allow for further
expansion?

Staffing
Does the library have sufficient staffing to provide the research services
required by the user base and the institution's mission?  Is there a
professional librarian on staff or is professional guidance provided by
volunteer or contract arrangements?  Are all staff members given adequate
training for stated tasks.

Research.
Does the library have through a variety of resources the tools and materials
necessary to provide current awareness and literature competency?  Is staff
trained to provide guidance in doing research?  Does the library use other
research facilities such as public or medical libraries to supplement library
services?  Is there internet or other computer base for 24 hour remote access to
research sites?




Finance.
Does the library receive sufficient funding through various sources to support
the abovementioned criteria?  Is there overall sufficient support from the
institution for library functions?

Institutional communication..
Is there good communication between various parts of the institution to ensure
that the library is an integral of the institution's mission?

jimemdy
2/17/10

Here is the agenda for the spring meeting on Thursday April 8 in Albuquerque NM.

LIBRARIES OF ACUPUNCTURE & ORIENTAL MEDICINE COMMITTEE


(Albuquerque * Thursday, April 8, 2010 * 9 am - 12 noon)


Agenda


Chair: Jim Emdy



1. Introductions and opening remarks.

2. Update on membership in subcommittees dedicated to specific library concerns.

3. Discussion of cooperation between LCAOM members and NLM PubMed search terms,
including news of cooperation between an institute in China and PubMed.
--illustration of topic terms, e.g. five elements.

4. Presentation of printout of PowerPoint slides showing orientation to the Five
Branches Library for new students.

5. Other topics as group indicates.

Documentation will be provided in the Files Section of the usergroup or in hard
copy at the meeting.

Two documents in the Files sections have been set up for viewing relative to the
spring meeting.
Titles are:

PowerPoint orientation for Five Branches library

Evaluation of library...

See also document called "headings."

forwarded message from David Sales.
Jim:

             Would you please let your committee members know via the CCAOM
Libraries Yahoo domain that there will be a speaker phone in the Libraries
committee meeting room in Albuquerque. The committee will meet on Thursday,
April 8, from 9 am – 12 noon (Mountain time) [thus, the meeting will begin in
other time zones as follows: 8 am Pacific time, 10 am Central, and 11 am
Eastern].



  I will be present in the room at the beginning of the meeting to facilitate
access to CCAOM's conference call number so that everyone in the room (through
the speaker phone device) and AOM librarians at CCAOM colleges elsewhere who are
not able to attend the meeting can be virtually present. I will also be in the
room at the end of the meeting to facilitate the disconnect from the line as
CCAOM will be billed for a 3-hour conference call with a charge per each outside
participant on the call…this will not be inexpensive…but we do want to try to
facilitate the virtual presence of AOM librarians as this is an important
committee with important work. If you end the meeting before the allotted time
(i.e., before 12 noon Central time), please contact me by cell (number to be
provided) so that I can ensure prompt disconnect from the call.



Thanks for posting this notice, Jim

This year's Symposium for Portland Area Research in CAM (SPARC) will be on
Saturday April 17, 2010, focused on Research in Clinical Practice.   There will
be an afternoon breakout to explore effective collaborations of administration
and librarians in the education and implementation of evidence-informed
practice.  As a pre-conference on Friday April 16th we are doing an afternoon
program on CAM research methodology and teaching strategies--designed
specifically for librarians.   It is entitled "Librarians as Leaders in Evidence
Informed Practice".   Heather Zwickey, PhD, will present an introduction to
methodological challenges to CAM research, Liz Sutherland, ND, will discuss CAM
outcome measures (i.e. is health the absence of symptoms?), and Adi Haramati,
MD, will discuss how librarians can help students and researcher who are new to
CAM reach the appropriate literature with different teaching strategies.



There will be both Portland area librarians and librarians from all of the CAM
R25 schools.  There are a limited number of travel scholarships available to
librarians.   Attached is the pre-conference flyer for your reference.  Full
SPARC brochure can be easily accessed at helfgott.org.

Here are the minutes of the April meeting in Albuquerque 2010.  If you have
corrections please email the chair at librarian@....  A copy of the
minutes should be available as well in the "Files" section of this group site.

LIBRARIES OF ACUPUNCTURE & ORIENTAL MEDICINE COMMITTEE
(Albuquerque * Thursday, April 8, 2010 * 9 am - 10:30)
Minutes
Chair: Jim Emdy

1. In attendance:
Claudia O'Neill, Sandra Lillie,ITEA; David York, AOMA; Vladimir DiBrigida,
CSTCM; Pat Bernarding, Daoist Tradition; Teri Powers, AIMC.
By telephone: Jen Hartman, NESA; Dan Kanaly, Chris Sheldon, Finger Lakes School,
NY;  Della Schupe, Ann Kempf, NW Health…Duluth MN.
Thanks to support for the Council, a speaker phone system was made available to
expand the reach of the meeting.  We hope this service can continue at future
meetings and it is probable that member libraries will help out in covering
costs.

2. Update on membership in subcommittees dedicated to specific library concerns.
  Formation of a subcommittee to explore the possibility of a Consortium of OM
libraries to provide greater support and cooperation between members.  This will
involve review of past comments (email in Yahoo group) and active exploration of
the consortium under the umbrella of CCAOM.  Committee members are:
Teri Powers, AIMC, Dan Kanaly, Finger Lakes, David York, AOMA
Rick Severson has previously expressed interest in this committee but was not in
attendance.

3. Discussion of cooperation between LCAOM members and NLM PubMed search terms,
including news of cooperation between an institute in China and PubMed.
Western medical term sources do not adequately reflect the world of OM.  The
National Medical Libraries are working with OM libraries to provide more
adequate terminology for search and categorization.  A thesaurus already in
print may soon be available and there will be cooperation with an institution in
China on this topic.  A subcommittee has been formed to facilitate this process:
Members are:
Jen Hartman, NESA, Ann Kempfe, NW Health.
Naomi Boering has already begun some work in this area and will be invited to
join this subcommittee.  The LCAOM chair person offers to coordinate the overall
effort of these  subcommittees.
The action taken on the above three items represent fulfillment of goals set at
the October 2009 meeting in Idaho.  We hope to be able to report our progress in
these two areas at the next meeting.
4. OM libraries and PubMed, especially DocLine.
Searching the PubMed database from NML is free but sometimes only abstracts are
available.  DocLine is an interlibrary loan and document exchange service to
which several OM libraries already belong.  More OM libraries are urged to
become part of DocLine-it is relatively easy to join (an online interactive
tutorial is required), the service is basically free and staff of the West Coast
and Pacific division are very helpful.
The chair person will be sending in a separate email more details on carrying
out this process.
5. Presentation of printout of PowerPoint slides showing orientation to the Five
Branches Library for new students.
A PowerPoint slide show for orientation to library services and search
techniques was discussed. It was developed by students at the Five Branches
Library and is available for download and modification from the "files" section
of the Yahoo user group.
6. Evaluation of library adequacy and new information technologies.
A short paper on procedures for evaluating adequacy of library services was
discussed.  The paper is in the "files" section under title "Evaluation.."  Many
of the databases, including PubMed, MDConsult and LibraryWorld(internet library
data service used by Five Branches) are accessible from mobile devices such as
iPhones, Blackberries, etc.  WiFi is now generally available for internet
connection.  The NetLibrary ebook vender apparently has a good number of titles
relevant to OM.  Ebooks may be useful as a source for textbook materials,
obviating the need for students to purchase as many hard copy books.
A matter brought up at the committee meeting but not mentioned in the Chair's
oral report at the general meeting on Friday concerned WiFi sensitivity.  There
are claims that WiFi signals cause health problems for some individuals. 
Perhaps this could be a research project for someone to pursue. The Chair will
be doing some investigation in this area.


Thanks to all who participated in our lively discussion, and special gratitude
to the Council for support of telephone connectivity.

Submitted April 12, 2010

Jim Emdy, Chair.

http://guides.library.ucla.edu/east-west_medicine/

Hi all, this website was cited in an article in MLA news, June/July 2010, p.20
titled "The Information Center at the University of California-Los Angeles: an
innovative resource for integrative and traditional Chinese medicine" by Tania
Bardyn and Daming Su.  Dan.

Daniel Kanaley
Library Director
New York Chiropractic College
2360 State Route 89
Seneca Falls, NY 13148
dkanaley@...
315-568-3246; fax 315-568-3119

You are right! I did not think about that. Sorry.
Daniele

--- In ccaomlcaom@yahoogroups.com, "Boni, Bethyn A. M.L.S." <bboni@...> wrote:
>
> In the interests of not violating copyright please (several of us may not have
a subscription to the journal) be a good librarian and only send the citation.
>
> Thanks,
> Bethyn
> __________________________________________
> Bethyn A. Boni, M.L.S., Associate Librarian, Media
> New York Chiropractic College
> 2360 State Route 89
> Seneca Falls, New York 13148
> voice: (315) 568-3252 fax: (315) 568-3119
>
> From: ccaomlcaom@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ccaomlcaom@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Daniele Perez-Venero
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 5:27 PM
> To: ccaomlcaom@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [ccaomlcaom] article about CAM databases
>
>
> Sorry about that, it was sent as a PDF attachment at the end. I don't know why
it didn't work. The title of the article (found in Medline PubMed) is:
> An overview of 45 published database resources for complementary and
alternative medicine.
> I will try to send it again by going a different way.
> Daniele
>
> ________________________________
> From: Naomi Broering <NBROERING@...>
> To: ccaomlcaom@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Fri, August 6, 2010 3:37:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [ccaomlcaom] article about CAM databases
>
>
> The attachment is blank
> Naomi
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Daniele Perez-Venero <dperezvenero@
yahoo.com<mailto:dperezvenero@...>> wrote:
>
[Attachment(s)<https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quir\
ks.html#12a43d8204b4816a_TopText> from Daniele Perez-Venero included below]
> Hello,
>
> You may have seen this already, but in case you haven't, I am forwarding you
this article which is of interest for all of us.
> Best wishes,
> Daniele Perez-Venero
> dperezvenero@ yahoo.com<mailto:dperezvenero@...>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Attachment(s) from Daniele Perez-Venero
>
> 1 of 1 File(s)
> Error! Filename not specified.
> ra.pdf<http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/15364377/1503340109/name/ra.pdf>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Naomi C. Broering, MLS, MA
> Dean of Libraries
> Pacific College of Oriental Medicine
> 7445 MIssion Valley Rd. Ste 101
> San Diego, CA 92108
> Ph: 619-574-6909 ext 134
> Fax: 619-574-6641
>

You are right! I should have thought about that. Sorry, it won't happen again
:-(
Daniele

--- In ccaomlcaom@yahoogroups.com, "Boni, Bethyn A. M.L.S." <bboni@...> wrote:
>
> In the interests of not violating copyright please (several of us may not have
a subscription to the journal) be a good librarian and only send the citation.
>
> Thanks,
> Bethyn
> __________________________________________
> Bethyn A. Boni, M.L.S., Associate Librarian, Media
> New York Chiropractic College
> 2360 State Route 89
> Seneca Falls, New York 13148
> voice: (315) 568-3252 fax: (315) 568-3119
>
> From: ccaomlcaom@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ccaomlcaom@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Daniele Perez-Venero
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 5:27 PM
> To: ccaomlcaom@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [ccaomlcaom] article about CAM databases
>
>
> Sorry about that, it was sent as a PDF attachment at the end. I don't know why
it didn't work. The title of the article (found in Medline PubMed) is:
> An overview of 45 published database resources for complementary and
alternative medicine.
> I will try to send it again by going a different way.
> Daniele
>
> ________________________________
> From: Naomi Broering <NBROERING@...>
> To: ccaomlcaom@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Fri, August 6, 2010 3:37:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [ccaomlcaom] article about CAM databases
>
>
> The attachment is blank
> Naomi
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Daniele Perez-Venero <dperezvenero@
yahoo.com<mailto:dperezvenero@...>> wrote:
>
[Attachment(s)<https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quir\
ks.html#12a43d8204b4816a_TopText> from Daniele Perez-Venero included below]
> Hello,
>
> You may have seen this already, but in case you haven't, I am forwarding you
this article which is of interest for all of us.
> Best wishes,
> Daniele Perez-Venero
> dperezvenero@ yahoo.com<mailto:dperezvenero@...>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Attachment(s) from Daniele Perez-Venero
>
> 1 of 1 File(s)
> Error! Filename not specified.
> ra.pdf<http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/15364377/1503340109/name/ra.pdf>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Naomi C. Broering, MLS, MA
> Dean of Libraries
> Pacific College of Oriental Medicine
> 7445 MIssion Valley Rd. Ste 101
> San Diego, CA 92108
> Ph: 619-574-6909 ext 134
> Fax: 619-574-6641
>

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        : /whoicf.pdf
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Hello,

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An early reminder about the upcoming LCAOM committee meeting in Asheville NC on
November 3rd.  Please note it is an evening meeting (6:30-9:30).  Telephone
conferencing was invaluable in Albuquerque and could be use again, with the
understanding that West Coast participants would have a late evening.

two documents germain to current concerns have been put in the files section. 
you will receive notification about the PDF files separaely.