no news on 800 number yet.
April 25, 2012

LCAOM MEETING ADENDA

Core Curriculum Committee meeting action on Evaluation Points Document

The CCC discussed the Evaluation Points Document (henceforth EPD) and decided
that the document was not within the scope of its charge.  It was suggested that
the LCAOM and Accreditation committees should have jurisdiction.  It was noted
that the EPD was useful as a tool for libraries, site visitors and institutions
in assessing library adequacy.  Jim Emdy made it clear the document was advisory
for libraries and not meant to address ACAOM standards.  One path forward would
be to coordinate the EPD with actually ACAOM statements of standards.

2.Additional agenda item:

Each committee has been asked to examine its mission statement, name and mode of
meetings.
Current name is LCAOM; suggested name (and name at CCAOM.NET) is libraries of
AOM.
Current mission statement: not sure
Suggested mission statement: The Library committee's primary mission is to
support and develop libraries in creation, maintenance and expansion of the
knowledge  base of Oriental Medicine and enhance access and effective use of 
library materials.  The committee seeks to provide cooperative solutions for all
member libraries.

Current meeting schedule: every six months, with telephone call in capability.
Options:
--Maintain current schedule.
--Meet annually with telephone ( or other technology) plus regular conference
call remote meetings, particularly for subcommittee work.
--some combination of the above.

Consistent with recent practice at Council meetings, a speaker phone will be
available for the meeting of the Libraries Committee on Thursday (April 26).
That meeting will begin at the following times for each time zone:

7:30 pm (Eastern)

6:30 pm (Central)

5:30 pm (Mountain)

4:30 pm (Pacific)

If your school librarian is not able to attend the meeting of the Libraries
Committee in Chicago in person, please forward this e-mail to your librarian
with an encouragement to attend the committee's meeting by calling the
followingtoll-free number at the appropriate time in his/her time zone as
indicated above:



Dial 1-866-352-3799;

Enter Meeting Number *8978346* (include the * key before and after number);

Ignore Prompt for Moderator's Pin Number (to be executed by CCAOM staff)

Thanks to all who participated in the meeting and to the council for providing
telephone support.  Here are the preliminary notes from the meeting.

April 26,2012

Minutes of the Library Committee held Thursday, April 26, 2012, Chicago Ill.
(T) indicates participation by telephone.

Attendees:
Jim Emdy, Chair; librarian, Five Branches University; librarian@...
(T)Jennifer Kirin; Library director; Tai Sophia;jkirin@...
(T)Lisa Wood; Library director, STCM; lisawood@...
(T)Candise Branum, Librarian OCOM; cbranum@...
(T)Naomi Broering, Dean of Libraries, pCOM; nbroering@...
(T)Teresa Infeld, Librarian Daoist Traditions; librarian@...
(T)Bethyn Boni, Library Director NYCC; bboni@...
(T)Sara Wang, Director Learning Center, ACTCM; sarawang@...
Dickie Walls, Outreach director ATOM; dickiewalls@...
Vladimir O'Brigida, Admin. Director, CSTCM; director@...
Cissy Majebe, President Daoist Traditions; president@...
Kyo Mitchell, Interim associate Dean Bastyr University; kmitchel@...
Laura Kraus, Registrar Texas College of TCM; administrater@...
Sandra Lillie, President ITEA; president@...
Robert Lynch, COO at FCIM; blynch@...
Mitchelle Kopteros, Librarian Midwest College of OM; mcomlibrary@...
Kopter15@...

1. Name of library committee and structure, etc.

Name: Libraries of AOM
Charge: as before: To make recommendations concerning the development of
libraries of AOM.
Meeting structure: as is, twice a year, with telephone/technological
connections.

2. Evaluation points draft document

The library committee voted to send the document on the Executive Council for
further deliberation with the understanding that the document would not be sent
on to ACAOM until further review is made to allow for concerns about the
document expressed by attendees are addressed.  It is understood that this is a
draft document and is set of benchmarks or suggestions to be considered as
guidance in evaluating adequacy of library services.

3. ICD-11

Information on the alpha version of the updated ICD-11 document was presented
and members were urged to comment on the document.  The committee expressed
appreciation for the work of those who prepared the document.

4. Consortium

A new subcommittee to pursue extablishing a consortium of OM libraries has been
formed.  It was agreed that momentum on this issue must be sustained and that a
strong lead person may be needed to pull it all together. The members are:

	 Naomi Broering, Laura King, Candise Branum, Michelle Kopteros

The chair will work with this group and coordinate efforts in this area.

5. CCAOM.NET

The library committee is up on the CCAOM.NET site and two documents have been
uploaded.  Library members are urged to join the group.  As the Droople site
becomes fully operational, documents from the Yahoo user group will be migrated
to the new site.  Eventually we may use the new site instead of the Yahoo user
group; at this time the Yahoo user group is still the main vehicle for
communication.

6. OM libraries and social media.

At this time most libraries are not using Facebook or similar social media
sources. OCOM has a facebook account with some activity, as does Tai Sophia. 
Using social media to reach potential library users may be a useful tool for
outreach.

7. Online test prepartion software.

The current practice seems to be that students do this on their own.  Five
Branches Library provides a link on the online catalog/research page to sites
provided by NCCAOM.

8. E-Books.

At present there is some activity in this area. PCOM subscribes to OVIDE; some
libraries have attempted to work with EBSCO for services.  Five Branches
University library urges to use e-book services provided by nearby public
libraries.  To date the chair  has not found sufficient relevant materials in
e-book format for OM topics.

9. Other topics

A lively discussion on a variety of related topics touched on subjects such as
tensions between world views of the East and West, how to assess effectiveness
in library services and related ideas.  It was suggested that one tool would be
some sort of assessment test for new students to be used as a base line, then
assess in later years using the same assessment test to measure change in
competency.  The summary here does not encompass the full scope of this
discussion.

an offer for student discount on Alternative Medicine review. do we as a group
want to promote this? see message below.
  Itis fine for Kelly Czap to market the magazine to the schools, but this
cannotbe done directly through the Council's national office as the office
doesnot promote specific vendors or journals to the membership. There are two
ways thepromotion can occur:



Ø She can go to the Council'swebsite, where there is contact information for
every school, and approach eachschool individually or collectively based on that
contact information. Referher to
http://www.ccaom.org/members.asp?sort=alpha(alpha list) or to
http://www.ccaom.org/members.asp?sort=state(state list).



Ø If Jim wants to, he can post her offer forAOM librarians on the CCAOM Yahoo
Group and/or on ccaom.net. If the AOMlibrarians want to make arrangements for
obtaining a poster for their schools,they are free to do so in accordance with
any internal school guidelines theschools may have regarding posters.

From the Executive Council of CCAOM

Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

600 Wyndhurst Avenue • Suite 112 • Baltimore, MD 21210
Telephone: 410.464.6041 • Fax: 410.464.6042

May 24, 2012

Mark McKenzie, MSOM, LAc, Chair
ACAOM
14502 Greenview Drive
Suite 300B
Laurel, MD 20708


Dear Mark:

The Council's Libraries Committee and Accreditation Committee have developed the
enclosed proposed guidelines as a formal recommendation from these committees to
ACAOM concerning the application of Standard 11 (Library and Learning
Resources).
The guidelines have been under development by these committees since the
Council's Baltimore meeting last year and were submitted to the full Council for
review before the recent Chicago meeting. The committees would appreciate the
Commission's review and, as appropriate, incorporation of these recommendations
in connection its application of Standard 11 during site visits.


Sincerely,
Jim Emdy, MA, MLS
Chair
Libraries Committee


Todd Knudsen, DC, DACBR, Co-Chair
Kris LaPoint, PhD, Co-Chair
Accreditation Committee
Cc: William Goding, MEd, RRT, Executive Director, ACAOM

September 25, 2012

LIBRARIES OF ACUPUNCTURE AND ORIENTAL MEDICINE
CCAOM. Thursday, November 15th, 6:30-

Tentative Agenda.

1. Introductions

2. How is your library located from the institute's website?

3. Research trends, e.g. artivle by Will Morse in Acupuncture Today.

4. How are donations to the library handled?

5. Migration from Yahoo group to Drupal CCAOM.NET.

6. Integration of the library in the curriculum.

7. Assessment of library use and effectiveness.
--survey monkey
--in house user surveys
=compiling user statistics.

8. Update on subcommittee on consortium issues.

Meeting will take place in the Clayton Room of the JWMarriot Cherry Hill Hotel. 
Telephone access for those who cannot attend in person should be proviced.

If you have additional items, please contact.  Thank you.

Jim Emdy
Chair

LIBRARIES OF ACUPUNCTURE AND ORIENTAL MEDICINE

CCAOM. Thursday, November 15th, 6:30-



Tentative Agenda.



1. Introductions



2. How is your library located from the institute's website?



3. Research trends, e.g. article by Will Morse in Acupuncture Today.



4. How are donations to the library handled?



5. Migration from Yahoo group to Drupal CCAOM.NET.



6. Integration of the library in the curriculum.



7. Assessment of library use and effectiveness.

--survey monkey

--in house user surveys

=compiling user statistics.



8. Update on subcommittee on consortium issues.



Meeting will take place in the Clayton Room of the JWMarriot Cherry Creek Hotel.
Telephone access for those who cannot attend in person should be provided.



If you have additional items, please contact.  Thank you.



Jim Emdy

Chair

Here is a set of documents generated relating to consortium issues. this is an
agenda item for the Denver meeting.  i will follow with a more specific proposal
for moving forward.  Please comment.
Initial charge to the LCAOM subcommittee on consortium issues.
Pursuant to the decision made at the Chicago meeting of the Libraries of AOM
(aka LCAOM), I am proposing to move forward with work on developing plans for a
possible elaborated cooperative organization of OM libraries.

1. Formulation of a mission statement/"charge" of the subcommittee.

2. Review of past documents relative to consortium, most of which are in the
files section of the LCAOM Yahoo group.

3. Examination of existing library consortia; I will provide links to some of
these later.

4. Literary search on formatuion of consortia, etc.  I have at least two
articles I can share.

5. Analysis of consortium issues in order to parse them into smaller interest
units which can be addressed.

6. Preparation of a report on efforts, to be presented in Denver in November.

I think ultimately we should be working through the Druple-based CCAOM.NET
portal, using WIKI document processes.
Initial statement, based on suggestions from Jim Emdy and elaborated by David
Sales.
The Consortium Subcommittee of the CCAOM Libraries of Acupuncture and Oriental
Medicine Committee,  seeks to develop and eventually implement a Consortium of
Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AOM) Libraries to deliver reference and
communication resources to AOM students, staff and faculty. The means to this
end include possible purchase of relevant databases at reduced corporate rates,
coordinated Interlibrary loan (ILL) services, and communication services to
assist CCAOM member libraries.  The consortium could establish its own webpage,
as well as use existing Internet based facilities such as the CCAOM Yahoo user
group and the CCAOM Drupal platform CCAOM.net. as a complex mix of information
systems environments with few issues related to performance. The consortium
design should provide a means of management and governance, and necessary
sourcing of funds to realize the goals of the consortium. This proposal is
subject to review by the full Committee, the CCAOM Executive Committee and
Finance Committee, and full Council.
The committee may wish to make specific recommendations about the following:
 What legal status should the Consortium have, if any? If the Consortium
establishes itself as a legal entity, there would be attendant contractual and
other liability for itself, and possibly for the member schools whose libraries
participate in the Consortium and for CCAOM as the membership organization for
the participating schools.
 Should the Consortium not have any legal status of its own, but instead
be a less formal association with dependence on CCAOM and/or member colleges for
funding, especially for purposes of purchasing relevant databases at reduced
corporate rates? Note: presumably, "corporate rates" would only be available for
corporate entities. If the Consortium is not a corporate entity, then presumably
only member colleges and/or CCAOM would be eligible to purchase the databases at
corporate rates. As a practical matter, given the number of member colleges that
might participate in the Consortium and the need for a database vendor to deal
with only one entity, is it inevitable that the Consortium will need to rely on
CCAOM to make the database purchases?
 Once purchased, where would the database be housed, who would
administer it on the backend, and what would the expectations be regarding the
administrator's time commitment and expertise?
 Does the Consortium intend to request funding from the Council and/or
participating colleges to purchase the relevant databases? If so, a cost
estimate would be needed.
 Are there any library consortia outside the AOM profession whose
administrative structure and practices might inform the development of an AOM
library consortium?
 It would seem desirable to develop a charter under which the Consortium
would function. Perhaps there are precedents from other professions in the area
of library consortia?

Comments of Naomi Broering regarding consortium issues.
Re: Consortium management and legal status.  I think we should start with
something simple. We are novices at this.

1.Realistically, we do not have much clout to negotiate huge discounts for
databases, e books, etc from vendors, AND there is the potential issue that not
every school would want to pay for databases or digital resources that are not
of primary importance to them.  Let's keep it simple.

2. A consortia groups should be established so individual schools can decide if
they want to subscribe to a discounted database, not have the council pay for
everyone. this could lead to problems and dissention.

3.Also, re management, is this something CCAOM can manage for the libraries? Our
libraries are so small, I do not see any particular librarian having the time or
staff to manage accounts.

4. There are informal Consortia arrangements, such as  Memorandum of
Understanding that do not require legal agreements.

5.  We also need to agree that for-profit and not-for-profit could be members. 
Many of our schools are for-profit institutions.

We used to have a DOCHSIN Libraries consortium in DC that was quite informal
with memorandum of understanding which worked well for interlibrary loans.  We
can look in google or wikipedia for samples.
And, the SCELC consortium is an example of a formal group that requires
membership.  They charge fees and surcharges based on what each library
subscribes to and $s associated.  They have a staff set-up which requires
salaries and quarters.  This is a more elaborate example.

One other possible way for discounts is, if the librarians agree on a database
they all want, and then go to the vendor and negotiate a discount price directly
with the vendor.  In this scenario the vendor invoices the libraries directly
and no staffing or management is required on our part.

Re. Interlibrary loans our libraries should join the NNLM in their region and
use DOCLINE for Ills. Its cheap and no extra management work.
Shared catalogs is tough unless everyone switiches to one system.  We like ours
CybertoolsforLibraries.
However, we can certainly look each others catalogs if we share the URLs.
Alliances with larger colleges would be good too, but I think its very
expensive,

1. How you think your library can benefit from a consortial arrangement.
Comments of Andrea Anzalone, MLIS Library Manager  Yo San University
I believe we would most benefit from having access to a greater number of online
resources (journal databases and e-books, for example), if cost-effective
licensing agreements could be negotiated with vendors.  At present, our library
is an affiliate member of SCELC (Statewide California Electronic Library
Consortium, www.scelc.org ), which offers discounted subscriptions to a wide
assortment of databases.  Perhaps it may be possible for LCCAOM libraries to
negotiate with SCELC as a group (?)   I believe they have broadened their
definition of "California libraries" to include libraries outside the state, and
so perhaps it is worth investigating this possibility…


2. What do you think your library can offer a larger group and institutions.

We could consider offering ILL of journal articles and books on a reciprocal
basis.  Since our library is small, however, we would need to develop guidelines
in this regard in order to enable ready access to materials for our students.


3. How you see LCCAOM libraries participating together toward effective resource
and services sharing.

As mentioned in question #1, negotiating discounts to databases would be the
greatest benefit.

4. Please also include your thoughts on what challenges you see in becoming part
of a consortium.
  As you noted in your message, structuring the consortial systems and
organization would have to be worked out.  My main concern as a part-time
library manager is the time factor.  In other words, though I would love to
offer ILL to member libraries, for example, my time is very limited for
additional tasks.  But levels of involvement and membership are topics to
explore further—and all in all I think being part of a consortium will have
tremendous benefits.

From David Sales:
I do not think the CCAOM national office can function administratively for any
consortium that is established as there are only two people in this office, one
of whom (Paula Diamond) definitely does not have administrative time for this as
she administers the entire CNT program, which is an ongoing daily
responsibility, and further serves as the CCAOM Finance Administrator for
day-to-day finances






.

Please email librarian@... if you intend to call in to the meeting
so I can compile a list.


LIBRARIES OF ACUPUNCTURE AND ORIENTAL MEDICINE
Thursday, November 15, 2012, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Chair: Jim Emdy
Location: Clayton Room (JW Marriott Hotel, Denver, CO)
Start Time: 5:30 pm (Pacific), 6:30 pm (Mountain), 7:30 pm (Central), 8:30 pm
(Eastern)
Toll Free Call-in Number:
• Dial Access Number in your time zone: 1.866.352.3799
• At prompt, enter meeting number: *8978346* (include * before and after number)
• Ignore Moderator's Prompt as CCAOM Executive Director will execute

AGENDA
1. Introductions
2. How is your library located from the institute's website?
3. Research trends, e.g. "Post-paradox: Room for View," article by Will Morris,
	 PhD, DAOM, LAc, in Acupuncture Today (August 2012),
http://www.acupuncturetoday.com/mpacms/at/article.php?id=32606

4. How are donations to the library handled?
5. Migration from Yahoo group to Drupal CCAOM.NET.
6. Integration of the library in the curriculum.
7. Assessment of library use and effectiveness.
A. Survey monkey
B. In-house user surveys
C. Compiling user statistics.
8. Update on Consortium Subcommittee issues.
If you have additional items, please contact Jim Emdy at
librarian@....

Here is information from David Sales re Drupal:
Access will probably be denied if they have not already joined Drupal. Have them
try and if that is the case, have them get in touch with me so I can authorize
them. Most important, however, is that they identify in their request to me the
college with which they are on staff as librarians and that their e-mail address
be their college address; i.e., the e-mail needs to end in the name of the
college, such as Janedoe@.... This is a security feature we are
requiring.

Thanks,
David
executivedirector@...

A previous message is correct for drupal. please note the nature of the email
address you should use.

Go to http://ccaom.net/home

Click on the link that says login (upper right).

At the next screen, under User Account, click on the link CREATE NEW ACCOUNT
Complete the form and submit it.  YOUR EMAIL SHOULD INCLUDE YOUR SCHOOL OR
INSTITUTION NAME, e.g. Rasputin@...

You will receive an automated response, and then, once approved, you will
receive instructions for activating.

Dear Group:

This is some of what we discussed at the meeting.


DOCLINE® System

DOCLINE® is the National Library of Medicine's automated interlibrary loan (ILL)
request routing and referral system. The purpose of the system is to provide
efficient document delivery service among libraries in the National Network of
Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM).
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/docline/

FreeShare - Free Reciprocal Interlibrary Loan Group

FreeShare is a cross-regional DOCLINE Library Group whose members agree to fill
DOCLINE requests for affiliated users free of charge on a reciprocal basis. The
loan is totally free to the requesting library. Loansome Doc transfers for
unaffiliated users must not be sent to the FreeShare Library Group.
http://nnlm.gov/rsdd/freeshare/


Bethyn Boni
Library Director
New York Chiropractic College
Seneca Falls, New York 13148
315.568.3252

LIBRARIES OF ACUPUNCTURE AND ORIENTAL MEDICINE
Thursday, November 15, 2012, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Preliminary minutes.  Please provide corrections as needed.
Chair: Jim Emdy, librarian, Five Branches University; librarian@...
Location: Clayton Room (JW Marriott Hotel, Denver, CO)
Attendees:
T Marilyn Kahn, Librarian, Eastwest School; mkahn@...
T Bethryn Boni, Dean, CSTC; bboni@...
T Teresa Imfeld, Librarian, Dallas Traditional; timfeld@...
T Naomi Broering, Library Director, PCOM; nbroering@...
Robert Lynch, C.A.O., FCIM; blynch#fcim.edu
Corine Danchik, Academic Dean, CSTCM; dean@...
John Nieters, President, ACCHS; jnieters@...
Linda Ballantine, Librarian, Middle Way Acupuncture; linda@...
Sandra Lillie, President, ITEA; president@...
Lisa Wood, Librarian, SWAT; librarian@...

T indicates contact by conference phone. Thanks to the council for providing
this support.


1. New attendees to the meeting were urged to join the yahoo user group LCAOM. 
It is free and the first step to receiving information about cooperative
efforts.
2. How is your library located from the institute's website? Each institution
seems to locate the library link (if any) in various places, e.g. under
research, current students, or directly on the institutions home page.
3. Recommend reading:
Research trends, e.g. "Post-paradox: Room for View," article by Will Morris,
	 PhD, DAOM, LAc, in Acupuncture Today (August 2012),
http://www.acupuncturetoday.com/mpacms/at/article.php?id=32606

4. How are donations to the library handled? Generally the donor(s) receive
communication to the effect that all donations are accepted but not all will be
part of the permanent collection.  A plate may be placed in books added to the
collection. Other materials may be given away, resold or otherwise treated.  The
library may provide a list of donations but is not responsible for IRS
considerations.
5. Migration from Yahoo group to Drupal platform CCAOM.NET. This platform
provides for more features, including wiki-interactive editing of documents. 
Eventually all contacts and files contained in the Yahoo user group should be
repositioned in ccaom.net.  (See also item 8)
6. Some discussion of library matters such as classification systems.
7. Assessment of library use and effectiveness. Libraries were urged to use
various tools to measure how the library is serving their constituents.  Such
information can be useful during site visits.  Below are some tools that can be
used.
A. Survey monkey
B. In-house user surveys(e.g. # of people in library, type of service provided,
such as circulation and reference questions, copier and printer problems, etc.)
C. Compiling user statistics. Some library software packages supply such
information as number of items circulated, number of hits on online public
catalogs, etc.
8. Update on Consortium Subcommittee issues.
Thanks to the work of the subcommittee on Consortium issues and input from David
Sales, the following was decided:
1. A full scale library consortium with bylaws, staff, webpages etc is not
possible at this time. CCAOM cannot provide an umbrella for such an
organization, nor are libraries ready to pursue this option now.  Interim
measures will be explored,
2. As mentioned above, all libraries not part of the Yahoo group should join.
3. Library members should also join CCAOM.net.  Both Yahoo and CCAOM.NET are
free.
4. A survey of members will be prepared to establish a list of up to three
databases members would like to subscribe.  Those vendors will be queried as to
rates for a group of interested library members, which might enter into a
Memorandum of Understanding regarding billing, use and information sharing.
5. The Southern California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) will be
examined as an avenue for purchasing databases at reduced rates.  It will also
be determined if out of California libraries can become part of the SCELC,
possibly as affiliates.
6. Libraries are urged to become part of the DocLine document delivery system
from the National Libraries of Medicine.
The next meeting will be from May 14th to May 18th  2013  in Coeur d'Alene,
Idaho. Meeting times may be reduced to 90 minutes.

This is the second draft of minutes from denver meeting.  absent furthr
corrections i will post the minutes in yahoo group files and in ccaom.net
LIBRARIES OF ACUPUNCTURE AND ORIENTAL MEDICINE
Thursday, November 15, 2012, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Second draft of minutes. Please provide corrections as needed.
Chair: Jim Emdy, librarian, Five Branches University; librarian@...
Location: Clayton Room (JW Marriott Hotel, Denver, CO)
Attendees:
T Marilyn Kahn, Librarian, Eastwest School; mkahn@...
T Bethyn Boni, Dean, CSTC; bboni@...
T Teresa Imfeld, Librarian, Dallas Traditional; timfeld@...
T Naomi Broering, Library Director, PCOM; nbroering@...
Robert Lynch, C.A.O., FCIM; blynch#fcim.edu
Corine Danchik, Academic Dean, CSTCM; dean@...
John Nieters, President, ACCHS; jnieters@...
Linda Ballantine, Librarian, Middle Way Acupuncture; linda@...
Sandra Lillie, President, ITEA; president@...
Lisa Wood, Librarian, SWAT; librarian@...
T indicates contact by conference phone. Thanks to the council for providing
this support.
1. New attendees to the meeting were urged to join the yahoo user group LCAOM.
It is free and the first step to receiving information about cooperative
efforts.
2. How is your library located from the institute's website? Each institution
seems to locate the library link (if any) in various places, e.g. under
research, current students, or directly on the institutions home page.
3. Recommend reading:
Research trends, e.g. "Post-paradox: Room for View," article by Will Morris,
PhD, DAOM, LAc, in Acupuncture Today (August 2012),
http://www.acupuncturetoday.com/mpacms/at/article.php?id=32606
4. How are donations to the library handled? Generally the donor(s) receive
communication to the effect that all donations are accepted but not all will be
part of the permanent collection. A plate may be placed in books added to the
collection. Other materials may be given away, resold or otherwise treated. The
library may provide a list of donations but is not responsible for IRS
considerations.
5. Migration from Yahoo group to Drupal platform CCAOM.NET. This platform
provides for more features, including wiki-interactive editing of documents.
Eventually all contacts and files contained in the Yahoo user group should be
repositioned inccaom.net. (See also item 8)
6. Some discussion of library matters such as classification systems.
7. Assessment of library use and effectiveness. Libraries were urged to use
various tools to measure how the library is serving their constituents. Such
information can be useful during site visits. Below are some tools that can be
used.
A. Survey monkey
B. In-house user surveys(e.g. # of people in library, type of service provided,
such as circulation and reference questions, copier and printer problems, etc.)
C. Compiling user statistics. Some library software packages supply such
information as number of items circulated, number of hits on online public
catalogs, etc.
8. Update on Consortium Subcommittee issues.
Thanks to the work of the subcommittee on Consortium issues and input from David
Sales, the following was decided:
1. A full scale library consortium with bylaws, staff, webpages etc is not
possible at this time. CCAOM cannot provide an umbrella for such an
organization, nor are libraries ready to pursue this option now. Interim
measures will be explored,
2. As mentioned above, all libraries not part of the Yahoo group should join.
3. Library members should also join CCAOM.net. Both Yahoo and CCAOM.NET are
free.
4. A survey of members will be prepared to establish a list of up to three
databases members would like to subscribe. Those vendors will be queried as to
rates for a group of interested library members, which might enter into a
Memorandum of Understanding regarding billing, use and information sharing.
5. The Southern California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) will be
examined as an avenue for purchasing databases at reduced rates. It will also be
determined if out of California libraries can become part of the SCELC, possibly
as affiliates.
6. Libraries are urged to become part of the DocLine document delivery system
from the National Libraries of Medicine.
The next meeting will be from May 14th to May 18th 2013 in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Meeting times may be reduced to 90 minutes.

Membership for non-California libraries
  :
I am chair of the Libraby committee of the CCAOM (Council of colleges of
acupuncture and oriental medicine).  Our medical libraries vary in size and
services offered and are linked through a Yahoo user group and semi-annual
meetings.  As a group we are seeking to purchase relevant databases, possibly at
a group discount.  Some libraries are in California, others are not.  Can
non-California libraries join SCELC?  Can we as a group of libraries (perhaps
working under a Memorandum of Understanding regarding responsibilities, etc)
work through SCELC to facilitate access to for-fee databases?

Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, I believe, is currently a member.

James Wiser jwiser@...
	 Nov 28 (1 day ago)








James,

Thanks for reaching out to us. Yes, non-California institutions can join SCELC
as an affiliate.  To learn more, simply visit this link:

http://scelc.org/application

Each institution would need to join as an affiliate, and then they would join
our larger pool for discounts.

I hope this answers your question -- if not, please let me know!

Hi all,
As part of our Community Health Information Programs at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, I am attaching two presentations as separate files on recently presented on Sharing Disaster Health and Emergency Preparedness Information for the LCAOM library group.
 
The first program has National Library of Medicine resources on Disaster Health Information, including their DIMRC and WISER links and apps.(I have trimmed this program because the file is too large to send}

All members have been sent an e mail with the presentations by Pacific College
of Oriental Medicine on Sharing Disaster Health Information and Emergency
Preparedness.

The message includes slides on access to NLM Disaster Health Information
Resources including DIMRC Links and WISER Apps, and a section on Library
Planning for Emergencies with Library Toolkit.

It was sent Dec 19th to all LCAOM member libraries.  If you did not receive it
please send e mail to nbroering@...