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P J Tucker

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PubMed2001

Customizing for clients: developing a library liaison program from need to plan.

Building on the experiences of librarian representatives to curriculum committees in the colleges of dentistry, medicine, and nursing, the Health Science Center Libraries (HSCL) Strategic Plan recommended the formation of a Library Liaison Work Group to create a formal Library Liaison Program to serve the six Health Science Center (HSC) colleges and several affiliated centers and institutes. The work group's charge was to define the purpose and scope of the program, identify models of best practice, and recommend activities for liaisons. The work group gathered background information, performed an environmental scan, and developed a philosophy statement, a program of liaison activities focusing on seven primary areas, and a forum for liaison communication. Hallmarks of the plan included intensive subject specialization (beyond collection development), extensive communication with users, and personal information services. Specialization was expected to promote competence, communication, confidence, comfort, and customization. Development of the program required close coordination with other strategic plan implementation teams, including teams for collection development, education, and marketing. This paper discusses the HSCL's planning process and the resulting Library Liaison Program. Although focusing on an academic health center, the planning process and liaison model may be applied to any library serving diverse, subject-specific user populations.

Academic Medical Centers↗
PubMed1999

How adult beliefs shape the speech communities of a child who has multiple disabilities.

Ethnographic and micro-ethnographic techniques were used to investigate how the strategies employed by two adults (a mother and a physical therapist) to initiate and maintain interactions with a 2-year-old child with multiple disabilities were reflective of the adult partner's beliefs and values about communication in general and about this child in particular. Results indicate that the physical therapist believed in using the child's existing abilities as the primary reference point for establishing a speech community with the child. The mother used the demands of the larger, mostly nondisabled speech community as her primary reference point. How these differences affect the nature of the child's membership and level of independence in these speech communities is discussed.

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PubMed1984

An approach to alcoholism in a university medical center complex.

We developed a three-part approach to the problem of alcoholism among the employees and faculty of the Vanderbilt University and Medical Center. This included identification of faculty and staff with problem drinking, guidance of those identified for rehabilitation, and an educational program for students. Forty university employees (37 staff and three faculty) with problem drinking were identified and referred for rehabilitation. The principles of employee assistance used successfully in industry were applied in this employee group. The 65% "job rehabilitation" rate is comparable with that achieved in industrial employee assistance programs. Identification and rehabilitation of faculty in the university required special approaches. The educational program for students as part of the medical school elective curriculum was attended by most of the first- and second-year medical students.

Academic Medical Centers↗
PubMed1978

A university medical center occupational health service: shoes for the cobbler's children.

A university medical teaching center can provide adequate health care for its employees by using the medical manpower and facilities it already possesses. Certain elements are of prime importance in the success of the development of such a service: (1) organization--concise knowledge of objectives, cost, and benefits, with emphasis on employee satisfaction; (2) staff--selection of interested, imaginative medical personnel and use of expanded role nurses as full-time health providers requiring a minimum of direct medical supervision; (3) collaboration--participation by both medical and nursing professions, educators as well as clinicians, in the formulation and direction of the service.

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