Veterinary library and development blog

The session was moderated by Robert Taylor, Content Manager, Human Animal and Social Sciences. CABI, Wallingford, OXON, OX10 0PB, UK. There is only a short list of the presentatitions, as the full texts will be openly accessible on the Internet at a later date. They were the following:

The Impact of Technology on the Ross University Library

Cheryl Cumberbatch, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine,

Stanley Mark Dennis Veterinary Medical Library, Basseterre. St. Kitts,

West Indies

The library and its services as well as the special local situation were presented.

African indigenous knowledge: dissemination of IK related information in the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute Library and the Jotello F. Soga Library, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria

DA Swanepoel* and EE van der Westhuizen** (Presenter)

*Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute Library, ONDERSTEPOORT, South Africa

**Jotello F. Soga Library, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, ONDERSTEPOORT, South Africa

The contents is best summed up with a quotation from the abstract. “In 2008 the South African government released an official policy on indigenous knowledge systems (IKS). After years of Eurocentric approaches in veterinary research, indigenous knowledge was brought to the forefront after 1994. The paper starts with some definitions on the concept of IK. An overview follows on work done within the ‘Animal Health for Developing Farmers’ research project at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (OVI) that draws on indigenous knowledge. The OVI is a division of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) of South Africa.”

An Investigation into the Information Behaviour of Veterinary Practitioners in South Africa

Marguerite Nel, Jotello F. Soga Library, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

The quantitative study dealt with the information behaviour of veterinarians with special consideration of the Internet and the possibilities opened therewith.

Friedhelm Rump

This session was chaired by Friedhelm Rump, Library of the Veterinary University Hannover Foundation, Hannover, Germany. Only a short outline of the program is given, as full texts will be openly accessible at a later date. As the blogger was also the moderator of the session, the blog had to be preconceived and consists largely of quotations from the submitted abstracts.The presentations were:

Before the NetGen

Judith Licea de Arenas (Presenter) , Miguel Arenas, Javier Valles

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,

Ciudad Universitaria, México, D.F.

The paper is an investigation into the technical and digital literacy of veterinarians whose education dates back to pre-cyber-times.

Use Intute Integration tools to personalise your Intute experience! How to ensure you retrieve relevant Web content for academic studies and research in veterinary medicine

Laurian Williamson, Intute: Veterinary Medicine, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

“This paper explores the role of Web 2.0 tools and services in veterinary education, and in particular Web 2.0 developments by Intute, a free UK Higher Education Internet service providing access to the ‘Best of the Web’ for students, academics, researchers and practitioners.“

Advancing Communication of Animal Health Professionals: A Transition in a Veterinary Curriculum from Paper Notes to Paperless Notes and TabletPCs

Cindy Logan, Veterinary Medical Library, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA

“Using new technologies and software, K-State’s College of Veterinary Medicine implemented an electronic notes initiative into the veterinary curriculum. The goal is to create improved lifelong learners who are able to adapt to new technologies as veterinary professionals.”

The Heritage of American Veterinary Medicine is Being Lost

C. Trenton Boyd, Veterinary Medicine Library, University of Missouri Columbia, MO, U.S.A.

“In the United States, there are currently 28 schools of veterinary medicine; 10 were established since 1973. Forty-one veterinary schools are no longer in existence. Only a handful of veterinary schools have libraries that contain the early publications and paper ephemera relating to veterinary medicine in the U.S. Many types of literature have been lost forever. This presentation examined the several types of literature that has been lost over time. It will illustrate the need to locate, catalogue and preserve what still exists.”

Friedhelm Rump

Vicki Croft, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, chaired the 2^nd session. Again only a short list of the presentation is given here, as the full texts are going to be available openly on the internet soon.

Advances in Collection Management: The Use of Technology to Create a New Basic List of Veterinary Serials

Ana Ugaz, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA (PRESENTER)

C. Trenton Boyd, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

Esther Carrigan, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

Vicki F. Croft, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

Katherine M. Anderson, of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

A new list of basic veterinary journals, based on recommendations obtained from a survey across the veterinary librarianship in the US was created

Information services and products for Phytomedicine and Ethno-veterinary medicine: supporting new research niche areas in Africa

Tertia Coetsee and Marguerite Nel

Jotello F. Soga Library, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of

Pretoria, South Africa

A webpage with database of “Phytomedicine and ethno-veterinary medicine” was set up. The contents was also uploaded under consideration of other national and international libraries’ holdings of related literature.

Exploring the State of Veterinary Informatics

Kristine M. Alpi, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

A study of the use of veterinary informatics based on surveys was presented.

VetMed Resource: Developing an online resource for practicing veterinarians

Robert Taylor, Content Manager, Human Animal and Social Sciences. CABI, Wallingford, OXON, OX10 0PB, UK

“In 2007 CABI created a new Internet site called VetMed Resource to bring the CAB Abstracts Database and other information to practicing veterinarians.” The presentation explored the use and preferences and requests from its users.

Friedhelm Rump

At the ICML 2009 the 6th ICAHIS was included. This entry covers the first session. Here follows only a short listing of the papers with minimal descriptions, as the full articles will be openly accessible at a later date.

C. Trenton Boyd, University of Missouri, Columbia, Veterinary Library, Columbia, MO, USA chaired this session. The presentations were:

Getting it all together: Building an institutional repository collection of ICAHIS papers

Vicki Croft and Kay Vyhnanek, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

Starting with the first International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists in Reading, UK, there have been papers which unfortunately have not all been archived . The presenters of this paper contacted the authors all around the world for the original manuscripts and put them in a repository. The process and usage, including access statistics, were described.

Medical and Life Science Journal Usage in Veterinary Medicine: Identifying the Complementary Core

Gregory Youngen, University Library of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign , IL, USA

Medical and to a large extent Life Science Literature at Urbana-Champaign is acquired by the veterinary medical library. The “paper describes the resources and processes that individual collection managers can use to identify the non-veterinary journals of importance to veterinary researchers at their institutions”.

Assessing dissemination of animal health research findings

Kristine M. Alpi, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA (Presenter: Kristine Alpi)

The paper is an analysis of categories of veterinary medicine studies funded by the Morris Animal Foundation for groups

Canine, Equine, Feline, Llama/alpaca, Wildlife and Miscellaneous

It focuses on the statistics of published articles and theis retrieval and use connected with it.

Partnering Across Libraries and Institutions to Manage Veterinary Grey Literature

Esther Carrigan, Ana Ugaz, and Joe Jaros, Medical Sciences Library, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA (Presenter: Esther Carrigan)

An approach to locate and improve the accessibility of grey literature was developed. The co-operation of various, also international partner libraries was put to use in this effort.

Friedhelm Rump