Welcome to the Research Medical Library

“I’m just going to take advantage of your wonderful space before our meeting starts.”-Professor, Experimental Therapeutics

Fast Facilities Facts

Scenario 1: You office is being relocated to 1MC and you need a group study room for a team meeting.

“I’m excited to be able to use my phone to book a study room. I’ve never used a QR code before.”- Fellow

Total booking time for Group Study Rooms FY2013: 226,020 minutes Occupied approximately 48% of the time

Scenario 2: You are a student who has identified this article in a PubMed search and need the full text

Metrics for Interlibrary Loan Jan 1 – July 1, 2013

Total Number of Articles: 1465

Average TimeSubmitted to Processing: 17.70 hours

From Processing to Send: 3.73 hours

From Sent to Received: 1.47 days

From Received to Notified: 18.48 minutes

Average Total Time 2.38 days

“Thank you so much for your Illiad service. It is extremely valuable to me.”- Associate Professor in Molecular Carcinogenesis, Smithville

Top Libraries Lending to UsLibrary # borrowed

UT Health Science Center (San Antonio) 471

National Library of Medicine 456

Texas Medical Center Library 315

Texas A and M University 236

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences 175

University of Texas Southwestern Med Ctr 140

Purchased 112

Johns Hopkins University 101

LSUHSC New Orleans 86

University of Pittsburgh 86

Scenario 3: You are a new Administrative Assistant hired to support a group of doctors. One of the doctors would like you to create an EndNote library and insert citations into a grant proposal, but you have never used EndNote before.

“You do a phenomenal job teaching employees EndNote and helping us find articles. You have saved me several times by helping me achieve my work on time and I greatly appreciate your time.”

- Senior Administrative Assistant

Scenario 4 : As a Fellow in Cardiothoracic Surgery, you need to take the Advanced PubMed class. How do you sign-up?

“This will greatly help me in the future by giving me the tools and the “know-how” on how to execute efficient and specific searches using medical subject headings and advanced search strings using

PubMed search builder. It is a skill that I can use for the rest of my career.” - SHP student

Scenario 5: You’re a new faculty member and you need flexible access to library resources to accommodate your hectic schedule.

Average Views per Month 36,685

Average Users per month 1433

Total Tablet Page Views 5,765

Total Mobile Site Page Views 831

“Thanks. This is excellent.  As an avid iPad user, I have been hoping the Research Library would take on an initiative like this.”

- Faculty Member

Web Stats FY2013

Scenario 6: You are the faculty lead in charge of the Invasive Breast Cancer Algorithm Annual Update. You need assistance in finding evidence that supports molecular testing to give to our regulatory committee.

“You are awesome! Thank you so much Yimin…I know the group highly appreciates your efforts and so do I.”- Clinical Effectiveness Specialist

Scenario 7: You are a new Fellow in General Internal Medicine and your mentor has assigned you this systematic review question: “Does tight glycemic control in cancer patients with diabetes improve patient outcomes?”

How are Systematic Review Search Requests Changing? (Calendar years, 2013 is Jan – Jun)

“Thank you Greg for your help. You were extremely helpful to me and because of you I was able to finish this project.”

- Fellow, General Internal Medicine

Scenario 8: You are a director in Academic Affairs preparing a presentation and want to include audio clips on leadership.

Making Cancer History® Voices Oral History Collection

Oral History Interviewees: 71Oral History Interview Sessions: 139

Number of Segment topics (by category): The Interview Subject’s Story: 24The Story of MD Anderson: 16

Number of clip codes (by category): The Interview Subject’s Story: 14The Story of MD Anderson: 20Key Stories: 28Issues and perspectives: 19

Number of files in digital library: 376About the Making Cancer History® Voices Oral History Project:

“The stories are very compelling…Thank you so much for your efforts and your assistance.”- Associate Director, Academic Affairs

Scenario 9: You have a list of citations for articles and booksand not all of them link to full text. Why not? What can you do?

For the year 2012, the following are the highest accessed resources:

Scenario 10: Adding metadata for an ebook

Monthly Average of Cataloging Activity Sept. 2012 – June 2013

“I am pleased to announce that 21 of the oral history interviews are now searchable on WorldCat and Voyager. Thanks to Linda for her had work on the project.”

- HRC Archivist

Research Medical LibraryEBooks cataloged 32

Books cataloged 19

Videos cataloged 2

Titles withdrawn 33

Tables of contents 53

Bib work  60

Diagnostic ImagingBooks cataloged 1

Bib work  1

Historical Research CenterBooks cataloged 1

Bib work  8

The Learning CenterBooks cataloged 25

Bib work  53

Original Cataloging 9

Scenario:11 Reporting statisticsHow can you do today's job with yesterday's tools?

“Sherry, That is amazing and you don’t know how much I appreciate your help on this.  Thank you.” - Administrative Assistant, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Database session counts FY 09 cost per use

FY 10 Cost per use

FY 11 Cost per use

FY12 Cost per use

Cinahl + FT $0.31 $0.49 $0.52 $0.59Cochrane Library (Wiley) $0.04 $0.03 $0.16 $0.17Dissertations and Theses $5.09 $3.83 $5.18Dynamed $21.07 $13.47 $17.83eAnatomy $7.08Embase $33.38 $23.39 $19.71FirstSearch $0.29 $0.30 $0.46 $1.08HaPI $0.04 $0.16 $2.73 $3.49Health Management $3.87 $1.48 $2.02JCR $0.71 $0.63 $0.67 $0.77Library Lit & Info FT $26.28 $23.97 $14.05 $9.95LISTA $18.64 $13.93 $17.88 $10.51MMY/TIP $5.21 $4.97 $6.94 $3.96Ovid Medline $0.10 $0.12 $0.15 $0.19PsycInfo (incl. loader fee) $3.34 $4.53 $3.94 $5.25Reaxys $36.79 $52.72 $32.14 $36.54SciFinder Scholar $6.49 $12.08 $15.88 $10.17Scopus $1.25 $1.09 $0.95 $0.88Springer Protocols $5.64 $1.62 $1.45 $2.47Stat!Ref $3.40 $2.02 $1.76 $8.26UpToDate $0.10 $0.30 $0.50 $0.59Web of Science $1.94 $1.98 $2.12 $2.23Average cost per use $6.14 $8.38 $6.57 $7.08

Cost is always a factor but not always the deciding factor.

Scenario12: Administrative Wrap-up Keeping all the pieces moving

“Thank you for doing this for AA!!!!”- Administrative Director, Academic Affairs

Thank you for your time!