Snehal Gandhi, Chair / x / x
Loretta Aloi / Director of CME / x
Merrian Brooks, DO / GME (Pediatrics) / Appt. 9/13
Joan D’Antonio / Director of Allied Health / x / x
Brian Gable, MD / Internal Medicine / x / x
Nancy Hathens-Davies / Performance Improvement / x
Prithvi Sendi Keshavamurthy, MD / GME / Appt. 9/13
Michael Kirchhoff, MD / Emergency Medicine / x
Rebecca Lee / Medical Student – M2 / x
Betsy Lucas / Applications Analyst / x
Christopher McFadden, MD / Gastroenterology / x / excused
Barbara J. Miller / Director of Library / x / x
Sundip Patel, MD / Emergency Medicine / x / x
Medical Student (Phase II) / No Phase II Medical Students
Other Attendees: Nayan Desai, MD
Topic / Discussion / Action / Follow-UpLibrary Move /
- Barbara Miller gave an update on the continuing discussion of relocating the library
- B. Miller contacted Lynn Santore in Security in order to generate a report from from the 3 ID badge swipes covering the time period of January 2013 through (and including) April 2013
- Usage during time period was impressive: over 24,000 “swipes”
- Housestaff: 240 individuals for 7,206 swipes
- RWJ students: 60 individuals for 2,012 swipes
- Nurses (PA, NP): 256 individuals for 1,370 swipes
- Attendings: 164 individuals for 1,128 swipes
- Report was submitted to John Schwarz to forward to Administration
- There was some discussion of moving all library staff and services into the south side of the hallway
Remote Access to Library Resources for Non-Rowan Employees /
- Barbara Miller gave an update on an alternative to the citrix receiver for remote access to library resources for non-Rowan employees
- The housestaff have been very vocal as to how this is impacting their ability to access library resources both remotely and via mobile devices on campus
- A meeting between Cooper IT and Rowan IR was held the medical school on September 6, 2013 to discuss this issue
- The Rowan CIO, Mira Hand, proposed an EZProxy solution using a Shibboleth server
- The Cooper CIO, Jay Raman agreed to the proposed solution acknowledging it would take time to build out this server
- Cooper IT and Rowan IR will work on building out a Shibboleth server that will allow easier access for non-Rowan employees
Update from CMSRU Medical Student Representative
Rebecca Lee, M2 /
- Rebecca Lee, M2 representative to our committee gave an update
- R. Lee solicited input from both the M1 and M2 class
- Students are satisfied with library staff and resources
- She did have the same question posed by a number of students, why don’t we have a subscription to UpToDate?
- Barbara Miller updated the committee on the history of the decision by both institutions not to subscribe to UpToDate
- For CUH: Dr. Snehal and B. Miller met with representatives from LWW to come up with a proposal which was then forwarded to the Department Chiefs who voted not to subscribe
- For CMSRU: The Deans voted not to subscribe to this resource for the medical school
- R. Lee stated she would take this information back to the student body
How to work with user groups? /
- Dr. Brian Gable and Chief Resident, Nayan Desai, discussed an idea the Internal Medicine residents would like to propose to the library staff
- The IM residents would like to form a working group with the librarians to develop a portal for the library resources that they use most often and are most relevant to their patient care and education needs.
- Barbara Miller agreed that the librarians would work with the residents to develop a portal utilizing libguides. This could be a model for working to develop portals with other programs
- Nayan Desai, MD will organize a working group of interested Internal Medicine residents
Other business /
- Dr. Michael Kirchoff stated that the one of the links from the CUH portal to the new library website was not working
- Dr. Snehal Gandhi discussed input from Dr. Christopher McFadden who was excused from today’s meeting.
- Dr. McFadden would like to propose a survey of the faculty to get feedback on any issues with the new library website and interlibrary loan
- B. Miller will follow up on broken link
- B. Miller will follow up with a meeting with Dr. McFadden
- Link fixed
- Met with CM
The next meeting will take place on at in Library P137 .
Approved by: / Snehal Gandhi, MD / Submitted by: / Barbara J. MillerChairman / Recorder