Evaluating a historical medical book collection.

BACKGROUND: After several years of storing a large number of historical medical books that had been weeded from the general collection, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center developed a set of evaluation criteria to determine whether the material should be kept and included in the library catalog or discarded. The purpose of this article is to share lessons learned in evaluating and processing a historical medical book collection. The authors share how we determined review criteria as well as cataloging and processing procedures. CASE PRESENTATION: Best practices for evaluating, cataloging, and processing historical library material were determined through a literature search and then reviewed and adapted for application to this project. Eight hundred sixty-two titles were selected to add to the catalog and were added to a shelving location in our offsite storage facility. CONCLUSIONS: These materials are now discoverable in the library's catalog for library users who are interested in historical research, and the materials have been processed for easy retrieval as well as preservation purposes.

Preservação para a construção da Coleção Memória da Enfermagem na UNIRIO / Preservación para la construcción de la Colección Memoria de Enfermería en UNIRIO / Preservation for building Collection Memory of Nursing in UNIRIO

Objetivo: Mostrar os resultados do projeto de digitalização e publicação on-line dos acervos da Coleção Memória da Enfermagem (BSEN). Método: Foi realizada pesquisa do material bibliográfico existente no acervo, com as etapas de seleção, preparação dos itens, digitalização e publicação no catálogo on-line. Resultados: Criação da biblioteca digital da Coleção Memória da Enfermagem da UNIRIO. Conclusão: A digitalização dos acervos especiais é processo indispensável para a preservação da memória e disseminação da informação histórica

Objective: The study's goal has been to show the results of the digitization project and online publishing of Collection of Nursing Memory (BSEN). Methods: It is a research of existing bibliographical material that was held in the collection, with the stages of selection, preparation of items, digitization and publication in the catalog. Results: The creation of the digital library collection Memory Nursing - UNIRIO. Conclusion: The digitization of special collections is an essential process for the preservation of memory and dissemination of historical information

Objetivo: Mostrar los resultados de las colecciones de diseño y publicación en línea de escaneo de la colección Memoria de Enfermería (BSEN). Método: Investigación del material bibliográfico existente con las etapas de selección, preparación de artículos, la digitalización y publicación en el catálogo. Resultados: La creación de la biblioteca digital de la Colección Memoria de la Enfermería - UNIRIO. Conclusión: La digitalización de las colecciones especiales es un proceso esencial para la preservación de la memoria y la difusión de información histórica

Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde Pública Brasil: Catálogo de Bibliotecas

Reúne catálogos de bibliotecas das instituições participantes do Comitê Consultivo Nacional.

Métodos, técnicas y constantes para la evaluación de los catálogos de acceso público en línea / Methods, techniques and constants for the evaluation of online public access catalogs

Examinar los métodos y técnicas utilizados en la evaluaciَn de los catلlogos de acceso pْblico en lيnea e identificar las constantes para su evaluaciَn. Métodos: se utilizَ el anلlisis documental para verificar dentro de la bibliografيa los estudios referidos a los métodos y técnicas utilizados en las evaluaciones de los catلlogos de acceso pْblico en lيnea. Se analizaron ademلs diferentes iniciativas dedicadas a la evaluaciَn de catلlogos en lيnea, de forma que se pudiera identificar a qué aspecto evaluativo se dedicaba cada uno de los estudios analizados. Resultados: se han desarrollado un conjunto de iniciativas para la evaluaciَn de la calidad de los catلlogos de acceso pْblico en lيnea desde diferentes dimensiones, entre las que se encuentran las referidas a las prestaciones de los catلlogos en lيnea; la que toma en consideraciَn el anلlisis de los errores; la referida a los estudios de la interfaz y la que considera la usabilidad de los sistemas, en la que generalmente se relacionan los aspectos relativos, por una parte, a la arquitectura de la informaciَn y, por otra, a la implيcita ya en este enfoque desde la perspectiva de los usuarios. Conclusiones: en los estudios dedicados a la evaluaciَn de catلlogos en lيnea existe gran diversidad terminolَgica para identificar las diferentes prلcticas, pero pudieran sistematizarse en tres grandes divisiones: cualitativos, cuantitativos y los que utilizan las comparaciones. Los métodos utilizados en la evaluaciَn de los catلlogos en lيnea contienen, en general, un amplio componente de aplicaciَn estadيstica y pudiera plantearse que no son en su totalidad métodos producidos por la Bibliotecologيa o la Ciencia de la Informaciَn, de forma propia, sino que estلn marcados por la influencia de otros campos de conocimiento, como son las Ciencias Matemلticas y de la Computaciَn, la Psicologيa cognitiva, la usabilidad, entre otras disciplinas...

Examine the methods and technique used in the evaluation of the catalogues of public access on line and identify the constants for its evaluation. Methods: document analysis was used to verify in the bibliography the studies referred to the methods and technique used in the evaluations of the catalogues of public access on line. They analyzed besides different initiatives related to the evaluation of catalogues on line, so that it could identify to which evaluative method appearance devoted each one of the studies analysed. Results: a group of initiatives are developed for the quality of the evaluation of the catalogues on line from different dimensions; among them is the referred to the provision of the catalogues on line; the one who takes in consideration the analysis of the errors; the referred to the studies of the interface and the one that considers the usability of the systems, in which they generally relate the relative appearances of the architecture of the information and the already implicit in this approach from the perspective of the users. Conclusions: in the studies about the evaluation of catalogues on line there is a terminological diversity to identify the different practice, but it could be systematised in three big divisions: qualitative, quantitative and those that use the comparisons. The methods used in the evaluation of the catalogues on line contain, in general, a wide component of statistical application, but we can say that in their whole methods they are not properly produced by the Bibliotecology or by the Science of the Information, but they are marked by the influence of other fields of knowledge, as the Mathematical Sciences and the Computation, the cognitive Psychology, the usability, among other disciplines...

Greek manuscripts at the Wellcome Library in London: a descriptive catalogue.

This article presents a new, detailed catalogue of the Greek manuscripts at the Wellcome Library in London. It consists of an introduction to the history of the collection and its scholarly importance, followed by separate entries for each manuscript. Each entry identifies the text(s) found in the respective manuscript - including reference to existing printed edition(s) of such texts - and gives a physical description of the codex, details on its provenance and bibliographical references.

[History of trichinellosis in the history of the catalog of the French National Library]. / Quelques aspects de l'histoire de la trichinellose à travers le catalogue de la BNF.

The Open Line public access catalogue of the French National Library was consulted for the following key-words: trichine, trichinose, Trichina, trichinellose. Around 50 monographs in French were published during three periods: 1860-1869, 1880-1889 and 1970-1979. The 1970-1979 wave was linked with the emergence in Paris and its region of an outbreak related to horse-meat consumption. The 1880-1889 wave is explained by an economical war between Europe and the United States of America. The 1860-1870 wave occurred when the parasite cycle and the human disease were identified in Germany by Virchow and Zenker. In addition, some political and economic events could have increased the fear of the disease.

[Physiology in the mirror of systematic catalogue of Russian Academy of Sciences Library].

Representation of general human and animal physiology publications in the systematic catalogue of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences is considered. The organization of the catalogue as applied to the problems of physiology, built on the basis of library-bibliographic classification used in the Russian universal scientific libraries is described. The card files of the systematic catalogue of the Library contain about 8 million cards. Topics that reflect the problems of general physiology contain 39 headings. For the full range of sciences including physiology the tables of general types of divisions were developed. They have been marked by indexes using lower-case letters of the Russian alphabet. For further detalizations of these indexes decimal symbols are used. The indexes are attached directly to the field of knowledge index. With the current relatively easy availability of network resources value and relevance of any catalogue are reduced. However it concerns much more journal articles, rather than reference books, proceedings of various conferences, bibliographies, personalities, and especially the monographs contained in the systematic catalogue. The card systematic catalogue of the Library remains an important source of information on general physiology issues, as well as its magistral narrower sections.

El modelo FRBR en el servicio de referencia y su implementación en los catálogos automatizados / The model FRBR in the reference service and its implementation in automated catalogs

Los catálogos en linea u OPACs (Online public access catalog) que paulatinamente se están implementando en las organizaciones de información, son utilizados tanto por referencistas como por usuarios finales, quienes necesitan que la visualización de los registros bibliográficos permita una comprensión clara, definida y con precisión de la información recuperada. En el presente trabajo se exponen las potencialidades para una mejor visualización de los registros bibliográficos que ofrece, fundamentalmente para el servicio de referencia, la implementación del modelo de requisitos funcionales para registros bibliográficos (FRBR) en los catálogos en línea de las organizaciones de información. Tales beneficios se manifiestan en la descripción bibliográfica, el almacenamiento de datos, la formulación de búsquedas bibliográficas y la recuperación de información. Se toma el catálogo mundial WorldCat como ejemplo de aplicación del modelo FRBR. Se recomienda valorar el trabajo manual y capacitación del personal bibliotecario requerido para implementar este modelo conceptual, así como tener en cuenta el costo de inversión de su generalización en los catálogos de las bibliotecas.

Online catalogs or OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) which are gradually being implemented in organizations of information are used by both end users and reference librarians, who require the display of bibliographic records allow a clear, defined and accuracy of the information retrieved. The present study discusses the potential for better visualization of bibliographic records offered, primarily for reference services, by the implementation of the model of functional requirements for bibliographic records (FRBR) in online catalogs of information organizations; these benefits are manifested in the bibliographic description, data storage, in developing a literature search and information retrieval. The WorldCat global catalog is taken as an example of implementing the FRBR model. It is also recommended to assess how much manual work and training of library staff is needed to implement this conceptual model and take into account the capital cost of its general implementation in the libraries catalogs.

Bibliotecas de la Universidad de la República (BIUR)

Base de datos bibliográfica unificada de las bibliotecas de la Universidad de la República (Uruguay).

Biblioteca de la Consejería de Salud de la Junta de Andalucía

Ofrece acceso al catálogo de publicaciones de la Consejería de Salud y de la Junta de Andalucía. Algunas publicaciones se pueden descargar en formato electrónico. También incluye información para solicitar el envío por correo postal.

Aplicação de pressão positiva na insuficiência cardíaca: uma revisão bibliográfica

Introdução: A insuficiência cardíaca (IC) é o desfecho comum de quase todas as doenças do coração e afeta consideravelmente a qualidade de vida dos indivíduos. É uma síndrome clínica complexa de caráter sistêmico que resulta de uma disfunção cardíaca estrutural ou funcional, na qual ocorre inadequado suprimento sanguíneo para atender necessidades metabólicas tissulares. O uso da pressão positiva como tratamento coadjuvante da IC vem sendo utilizado, visto que, traz benefícios a essa população, podendo melhorar a função cardíaca e aliviar os sintomas da IC, dependendo do tipo de disfunção, seja ela diastólica ou sistólica. Objetivo: Realizar uma revisão da literatura a fim de identificar os efeitos de diferentes técnicas de pressão positiva não invasiva na IC direita e esquerda, tanto de origem sistólica quanto diastólica. Material e Métodos: A pesquisa foi baseada na busca de artigos por meio da Biblioteca Virtual Bireme, sendo consultada nas bases de dados Medline, Lilacs e Scielo e na Biblioteca da Faculdade de Medicina da USP de Ribeirão Preto. Resultados: Foram utilizados artigos que correlacionassem a IC e os efeitos dos diferentes tipos de pressão positiva. Dentre os tipos de pressão positiva selecionados, 27 eram sobre CPAP, 4 sobre Binivel e 3 sobre a utilização da PEEP. Conclusão: As diversas técnicas de pressão positiva não invasiva estudadas apresentam efeitos diferentes sobre o VD e o VE, tanto de origem diastólica quanto sistólica, podendo assim, prejudicar ou beneficiar no tratamento desses pacientes.

Using multi-terminology indexing for the assignment of MeSH descriptors to health resources in a French online catalogue.

BACKGROUND: To assist with the development of a French online quality-controlled health gateway(CISMeF), an automatic indexing tool assigning MeSH descriptors to medical text in French was created. The French Multi-Terminology Indexer (FMTI) relies on a multi-terminology approach involving four prominent medical terminologies and the mappings between them. OBJECTIVE: In this paper,we compare lemmatization and stemming as methods to process French medical text for indexing. We also evaluate the multi-terminology approach implemented in F-MTI. METHODS: The indexing strategies were assessed on a corpus of 18,814 resources indexed manually. RESULTS: There is little difference in the indexing performance when lemmatization or stemming is used. However, the multi-terminology approach outperforms indexing relying on a single terminology in terms of recall. CONCLUSION: F-MTI will soon be used in the CISMeF production environment and in a Health MultiTerminology Server in French.

Rare book library catalogs with significant eye and vision content.

Rare book library catalogs can serve as useful historical reference works. This paper discusses the content and format of seven rare book library catalogs with significant information relating to the eye and vision. The catalogs examined are held in the libraries on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University.

Informatização e automação da Biblioteca do Instituto René Rachou: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, em BH-MG

Informatização e automação de biblioteca requerem planejamento de: pessoal qualificado, de equipamentos modernos e previsão orçamentária aprovada de investimentos financeiros da sua instituição mantenedora, para cumprimento da missão bibliotecária institucionalizada de disseminação da informação em saúde. Software para biblioteca deve atender e adequar-se às necessidades contemporâneas da mesma a custo baixo pago com recursos públicos federais e com soluções inovadoras, por isto a Biblioteca do IRR, atenta às demandas informacionais de usuários, optou pelo Personal Home Library - PHL fornecido pela InfoArte, inclusive por recomendação da Rede de Bibliotecas da FIOCRUZ, ação esta local planejada para gestão da unidade de informação do Instituto René Rachou, unidade regional em BH-MG, da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz do Rio de Janeiro, permitindo assim divulgação na Internet e consulta online de acervo em saúde pública, além do cadastro de usuários com senhas, tornando o atendimento automatizado de rotinas e serviços da Biblioteca do IRR com utilização de equipamento leitor ótico de códigos de barras de publicações e carteiras de identificação de usuários com interoperabilidade em software de gestão