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PubMed1994

The Internet: will this highway serve the digital library?

The future of the biomedical enterprise and the biomedical libraries that serve it is tied closely to digital information. The changing nature of this type of information will create new pressures on libraries, particularly in health care organizations. Libraries must learn to deal with these pressures. Currently, libraries depend on the Internet primarily for connections to resources and other libraries; thus enhancements to the Internet will impact the libraries of the present and future significantly. This paper provides an overview of the technical capabilities that will be available in the near to midterm, what libraries will be able to do with those capabilities, and how libraries can position themselves to take advantage of the impending changes.

Computer Communication Networks↗
PubMed1993

Surveying knowledge and skills in the health sciences: results and implications.

The MLA Knowledge and Skills Task Force was appointed in May 1989. The task force decided to survey a sample of the membership to define the knowledge and skills required for competent professional performance and to enable MLA to establish educational policies which would ensure acquisition and maintenance of the necessary knowledge and skills throughout a professional career. This report presents the initial findings of the survey, upon which MLA's educational policy statement, Platform for Change, is based.

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PubMed1993

Impact of information technology on the role of health sciences librarians.

Information technology is transforming the nature of health sciences information and its management, thereby altering the traditional responsibilities of health sciences librarians. As a result, the traditional educational preparation for librarianship is no longer entirely relevant, and there is a real possibility that information management will be taken over by individuals with different educational backgrounds and skills. This paper explores four topics relevant to this issue: the emergence of new forms of health sciences information, the impact of technology on the practice of health sciences librarianship, the interaction of technology and the practice of health sciences librarianship, and the relationship among these three topics and the educational preparation of health sciences librarians.

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PubMed1993

The health information environment: a view of organizational and professional needs and priorities.

Inspired by Platform for Change: The Educational Policy Statement of the Medical Library Association, this paper discusses the institutional changes, new delivery modes and services, learning and development, leadership, and strategies needed for health sciences librarians to prosper in the changing medical information environment. To fulfill their potential, librarians must articulate and act upon a vision that involves them more fully in the work of faculty, researchers, and medical practitioners.

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PubMed1993

Charting a path for health sciences librarians in an integrated information environment.

Changes in the health information environment present a major challenge to health sciences librarians. To successfully meet this challenge, librarians must apply the concepts of informal, self-directed, lifelong learning to their own carers. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is creating an integrated information environment in health care organizations. The health sciences librarian brings unique knowledge and skills to this environment. The reference technique, a methodology that closely parallels other problem-solving approaches such as the physician's diagnostic technique, equips librarians with the conceptual skills to develop creative solutions to information management problems. Each health sciences librarian must assume responsibility for extending professional skills and abilities and demonstrating them in the workplace.

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PubMed1997

The Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library: resource for nurse administrators.

This article describes the major knowledge resource of the Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library, The Registry of Nursing. The first part of this article examines informatics issues and is accompanied by examples of retrieval from a typical bibliographic database and a retrieval from the Registry of Nursing Research using case mix, both as a subject heading and as a research variable. The second part of the article examines the interaction of informatics and technology used in the Registry and presents some other Library resources.

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PubMed1998

Health information multitype library reference referral networking: panacea for the '90s.

Librarians are exploring new approaches to information sharing to cope with a rapidly changing environment dominated by budget cuts, information explosion, and globalization of the economy, science, and culture. In 1990, the University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences (UIC LHS) initiated a pilot project aimed at establishing an effective balance between state-of-the-art information technology and traditional library methods and promoting cooperation among health information professionals by establishing the Health Information Referral Network (HIRN) in the state of Illinois. HIRN's background and development, Internet home page, and networking techniques reviewed in this paper are applicable to multitype libraries and information centers interested in improving information use and the referral process.

Computer Communication Networks↗
PubMed1992

The development and application of automated gridding for efficient screening of yeast and bacterial ordered libraries.

An automated gridding procedure for the inoculation of yeast and bacterial clones in high-density arrays has been developed. A 96-pin inoculating tool compatible with the standard microtiter plate format and an eight-position tablet have been designed to fit the Biomek 1000 programmable robotic workstation (Beckman Instruments). The system is used to inoculate six copies of 80 x 120-mm filters representing a total of approximately 20,000 individual clones in approximately 3 h. High-density arrays of yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) and cosmid clones have been used for rapid large-scale hybridization screens of ordered libraries. In addition, an improved PCR library screening strategy has been developed using strips cut from the high-density arrays to prepare row and column DNA pools for PCR analysis. This strategy eliminates the final hybridization step and allows identification of a single clone by PCR in 2 days. The development of automated gridding technology will have a significant impact on the establishment of fully versatile screening of ordered library resources for genomic studies.

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PubMed2000

Automated high-throughput liquid-liquid extraction for initial purification of combinatorial libraries.

An automated high-throughput liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) methodology has been developed and utilized for the initial purification of the combinatorial library samples containing unreacted amines and other water-soluble byproducts or impurities. Various extraction solvents were evaluated along with different extraction devices. The LLE method was automated using 96-well-format plates and a robotic liquid-handling workstation. In the optimized LLE method, crude combinatorial library samples were dissolved in a water-immiscible organic solvent, butyl acetate, and added to each well in a 96-well-format plate packed with an inert support material coated with hydrochloric acid. Separation occurs based on the partitioning of the compounds between two liquid phases. Product recovery, purity, and amine removal efficiency were determined by HPLC with and without precolumn derivatization. The automated method was successfully applied to the cleanup of some representative combinatorial library samples with greater than 98% amine removal and an average product purity of 90%. The application of the automated high-throughput LLE method should greatly reduce the labor, time, and cost associated with the purification of combinatorial libraries.

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PubMed2003

Creating an automated chiller fault detection and diagnostics tool using a data fault library.

Reliable, automated detection and diagnosis of abnormal behavior within vapor compression refrigeration cycle (VCRC) equipment is extremely desirable for equipment owners and operators. The specific type of VCRC equipment studied in this paper is a 70-ton helical rotary, air-cooled chiller. The fault detection and diagnostic (FDD) tool developed as part of this research analyzes chiller operating data and detects faults through recognizing trends or patterns existing within the data. The FDD method incorporates a neural network (NN) classifier to infer the current state given a vector of observables. Therefore the FDD method relies upon the availability of normal and fault empirical data for training purposes and therefore a fault library of empirical data is assembled. This paper presents procedures for conducting sophisticated fault experiments on chillers that simulate air-cooled condenser, refrigerant, and oil related faults. The experimental processes described here are not well documented in literature and therefore will provide the interested reader with a useful guide. In addition, the authors provide evidence, based on both thermodynamics and empirical data analysis, that chiller performance is significantly degraded during fault operation. The chiller's performance degradation is successfully detected and classified by the NN FDD classifier as discussed in the paper's final section.

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PubMed1986

Automation of film library functions.

The use of computer routines in the film library has resulted in tremendous improvements in the prompt interpretation of radiologic studies with comparison studies and in the furnishing of radiologic studies on demand to referring physicians. The four most important aspects of this automation are the simultaneous immediate availability of patient information upon inquiry at a terminal; maximum advance notification of the need for a new folder or a master folder on a returning patient; master folder, subfolder, and examination folder tracking; and the management of extradepartmental loans.

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