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    Bottoming Out the Bottomless Pit with the Journal Usage/Cost Relational Index
    (Hayworth Press, 1994) Francq, Carole
    What journal subscriptions should be cancelled and what is a systematic way to do it? The Usage/Cost Relational Index identifies low-use journals and ranks the titles in relation to their subscription costs. The Index has a simple formula easy for librarians to apply and explain to inquisitive faculty. The Index Numbers are calculated in ASCII format on a spreadsheet with imported files of subscription prices and use statistics. The Index is individual for each library and flexible in the usage-data needed for the study. Use statistics may include interlibrary loan activity, exclude in-house use or have other data quirks. It is important for the manager to be aware of what the usage figures represent. Use studies can be time-consuming and, therefore, expensive, but their costs can be recovered in the cancellation of journal subscriptions that are costly in relation to their use.
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    Subscription Statistics for Collection and Budget Decisions
    (Indiana Library Federation, 1995) Ralston, Rick K.; Francq, Carole
    The most successful library managers in the future will plan using solid and consistent statistical data about library collection budgets.
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    Strategic Planning with Multitype Libraries in the Community
    (1997-07) Gall, Carole Francq; Miller, Ellen G.
    Medical libraries are discovering that ongoing collaboration in fundraising with other types of community libraries is mutually beneficial. Such partnerships may lead to joint grants, increase library visibility and access to decision makers, allow participation in community information networks, and provide leverage in additional fundraising projects. These partnerships have the potential to raise the profile of libraries. The accompanying community recognition for the parent organization may create a positive image, draw patients to the health center, and position the library and institution for future success in fundraising. Within institutions, development officers may become allies, mentors, and beneficiaries of the medical librarian's efforts. For a planned approach to community outreach with extra funding as the major objective, busy medical library administrators need guidelines. Standard participative techniques were applied to strategic planning by Indianapolis libraries to help achieve successful community outreach and to write joint statements of mission, vision, goals, and objectives.
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    Providing medical information to college health center personnel: A circuit librarian service at the University of Illinois
    (2003) Stumpff, Julia C.
    College health center personnel are no different from other health practitioners in their need for medical information. To help meet this need, the McKinley Health Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed a partnership in 1997 with the Library of the Health Sciences–Urbana, a regional site library of the University of Illinois at Chicago campus. This partnership led to the adoption of circuit librarianship, a dynamic outreach model, to enhance access to health information for McKinley Health Center personnel. A circuit librarian consults with health center personnel during regularly scheduled on-site visits to the health center and its satellite office. Upon returning to the resource library, she conducts research for clinical information on their behalf. Articles, books, and relevant Web sites, are identified and delivered to assist in answering questions regarding topics such as disease management, drug therapy, wellness, and health administration.
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    Retrieval comparison of EndNote to search MEDLINE (Ovid and PubMed) versus searching them directly
    (2004) Gall, Carole; Brahmi, Frances
    Using EndNote version 7.0, the authors tested the search capabilities of the EndNote search engine for retrieving citations from MEDLINE for importation into EndNote, a citation management software package. Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed were selected for the comparison. Several searches were performed on Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed using EndNote as the search engine, and the same searches were run on both Ovid and PubMed directly. Findings indicate that it is preferable to search MEDLINE directly rather than using EndNote. The publishers of EndNote do warn its users about the limitations of their product as a search engine when searching external databases. In this article, the limitations of EndNote as a search engine for searching MEDLINE were explored as related to MeSH, non-MeSH, citation verification, and author searching.
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    The Indianapolis Foundation Library Partners
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2004) Champlin, Constance J.; Gall, Carole; Lewis, David W.
    In 1989 an anonymous bequest of nearly $15 million was made to The Indianapolis Foundation, creating the Library Fund, which would be used to support Marion County libraries. This group, which would come to be called The Indianapolis Foundation Library Partners, was made up of the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library (IMCPL); the libraries of all of the public, private, and parochial high schools in Marion County; and the libraries of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Marian College, and the University of Indianapolis. The donor stipulated that that The Indianapolis Foundation “shall give preference to projects which cannot be met by the operating budgets of the recipient institutions.” Further, the donor expressed a hope that, “in exercising its discretion, the Foundation will emphasize provision of books and other library materials rather than the employment of personnel and the construction of buildings.” Thus the proceeds of the Library Fund were to be used for new, innovative, and collaborative projects. Core library operation expenses and building projects were excluded. This remarkable gift created a resource, now valued at approximately $25 million and producing approximately $1.25 million a year, that is truly unique. Since its beginning in 1989, the Library Fund has made over $16 million in grants to Marion County libraries. This resource in turn fostered a collaborative environment among the libraries and librarians in Marion County that is also unique. In this article we describe the history of The Indianapolis Foundation Library Partners, its current programs, and its growth over the years.
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    EndNote and Reference Manager Citation formats compared to "instructions to authors" in top medical journals
    (2006) Brahmi, Frances; Gall, Carole
    The study compared citation format in EndNote version 7 and Reference Manager version 11 with the citation format for references found in the instructions to authors from the most significant medical literature. The resulting information should be very useful to those who depend on citation management software to format and organize their references for publication in medicine, and librarians and others who teach the use of citation management software.
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    MEDICAL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF LIFELONG LEARNING AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    (2008-02-06T16:20:16Z) Brahmi, Frances A.
    This study explored medical students’ perceptions of Lifelong Learning (LLL) at Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM). The IUSM was selected because it has been in the forefront of the competency-based curriculum movement since 1999, a trend for which IUSM is now a leader among undergraduate medical education (years 1-4 of medical school). This study addressed the following issues: 1) definition of LLL, 2) LLL development, 3) LLL attitudes and behaviors, 4) role models, and 5) LLL and technology.
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    Do local citation patterns support use of the impact factor for collection development?
    (Medical Library Association, 2008-10) Ralston, Rick K.; Gall, Carole; Brahmi, Frances A.
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    Zotero: A Product Review
    (Routledge, 2009) Gall, Carole; Brahmi, Frances A.; Trinoskey, Jessica
    Zotero is a free and open source Firefox extension that exists within the web browser and allows one to collect, manage, store, and cite resources in a single location.1 Zotero automatically imports citation information from a number of sources, including: non-subscription, newspaper and commercial websites, and web databases such as PubMed and MedlinePlus. Zotero offers more options for note taking than the better-known citation management system, EndNote. Sixteen citation styles are available when Zotero is initially downloaded, with many more freely available. Zotero also integrates with Microsoft Word once users install a plug-in. Though Zotero does not have an on-demand customer support service, its website offers a wealth of information for users. The authors highly recommend Zotero