Library Contribution to Accreditation, SPEC Kit 330 (September 2012)

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University of Calgary
American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA). Standard 5: Library and Information Resources (March
2012)
an authentication ID and proxy server. Students and faculty also have access, at no cost to them, to the
extensive print biological sciences, biochemistry and environmental sciences collections of the main
campus libraries via a photocopy and book delivery service to the Foothills campus. Books and journal
articles not available in the University Library system may be requested via a web form, with average
desktop delivery of journal articles in 2 to 5 working days. From the feedback that we receive, access to
library information resources is adequate, regardless of student or faculty location.
5.5 Describe current plans for improvement
Development of the collection with new material relevant to an expanding program is an on-‐going
process. New library and information technologies relevant to the DVM program are monitored on an
ongoing basis.
1. Ugaz AG, Boyd CT, Croft VF, Carrigan EE, Anderson KM. Basic list of veterinary medical serials,
third edition: using a decision matrix to update the core list of veterinary journals. Journal of the
Medical Library Association 2010 Oct 98(4):282-‐92

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SPEC Kit 330: Library Contribution to Accreditation · 81
University of Calgary
American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA). Standard 5: Library and Information Resources (March
2012)
an authentication ID and proxy server. Students and faculty also have access, at no cost to them, to the
extensive print biological sciences, biochemistry and environmental sciences collections of the main
campus libraries via a photocopy and book delivery service to the Foothills campus. Books and journal
articles not available in the University Library system may be requested via a web form, with average
desktop delivery of journal articles in 2 to 5 working days. From the feedback that we receive, access to
library information resources is adequate, regardless of student or faculty location.
5.5 Describe current plans for improvement
Development of the collection with new material relevant to an expanding program is an on-‐going
process. New library and information technologies relevant to the DVM program are monitored on an
ongoing basis.
1. Ugaz AG, Boyd CT, Croft VF, Carrigan EE, Anderson KM. Basic list of veterinary medical serials,
third edition: using a decision matrix to update the core list of veterinary journals. Journal of the
Medical Library Association 2010 Oct 98(4):282-‐92

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University of Calgary
American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA). Standard 5: Library and Information Resources (March
2012)
STANDARD 5: LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES (edits by Lorraine Toews, Jan 11, 2012)
5.1 Describe and comment on the adequacy of information retrieval and learning resources.
The UCVM program is supported primarily by the veterinary medicine, basic science and human
medicine collections of the Health Sciences Library at the Foothills campus. The Library and its
resources are supported by the U of C.
The Health Sciences Library subscribes to 94% of the titles on the most current published standard
list of veterinary medicine journals 1 ,and 93% of these subscribed titles are available online. The
University Library system as a whole subscribes to over 25,000 electronic journals, of which over 3900
are health and biomedical titles. Over 2900 print veterinary medicine and related basic science books
have been added to the Health Sciences Library collection since 2006, and the University Library
subscribes to over 500 e-‐book titles in veterinary medicine, animal behavior, animal genetics, animal
welfare, animal nutrition, comparative medicine, environmental health, food safety, laboratory animals,
production animals, wildlife, veterinary research methodology and zoonoses. The University Library
subscribes to the following veterinary medicine and life sciences databases: Agricola, Animal Behavior
Abstracts, Animal Health &Production Compendium, Biological &Agricultural Index, BIOSIS Previews,
CAB Abstracts, Global Health, OVID Medline, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Wildlife &Ecology
Studies Worldwide, WildPro Encyclopedia and Zoological Record. The Health Sciences Library web pages
provide a rich, quality-‐filtered gateway to both licensed online resources and open access information.
5.2 Describe the academic credentials of the librarian in charge of the library.
The Director of the Health Sciences Library has an MLS (Masters of Library Science), twenty-‐seven
years of experience in academic and special libraries, and is a senior member of the Medical Library
Association’s Academy of Health Information Professionals. The veterinary medicine librarian has a MLIS
(Masters of Library and Information Science), sixteen years of experience in academic health sciences
libraries in liaison, instruction, and collection development for veterinary medicine, human medicine
and nursing. Two other librarians qualified at the Masters level also work in the Health Sciences Library,
and a biological sciences librarian and an environmental sciences librarian work in the Taylor Family
Digital Library on the main university campus.
5.3 The availability of learning resources support for faculty and students, including personnel.
The Health Sciences Library, which has undergone a complete renovation, provides an excellent
learning and study environment. It has a 48 seat computer classroom, 52 public computers, 7 bookable,
wired small group study rooms, 44 wired individual study carrels, network printing, photocopiers, a
scanner, and access to the University wireless network in all areas of the library. The library is open 82
hours per week including weekends.
Support for faculty and students is provided not only by the veterinary medicine librarian, but by 11
FTE Health Sciences Library staff, in person and via email, phone and instant messaging service. The
veterinary medicine librarian teaches veterinary information literacy classes in the first and second year
Professional Skills courses.
UCVM also maintains a small learning commons at the Clinical Skills Building to support student
learning. This library runs on the honour system and is not part of the university library system.
5.4 Describe the methods of access to library information resources for faculty and students when
they are on and off campus.
Network access to all Library online journals, databases and e-‐books is available to UCVM faculty,
students and DVLC clinical instructors via the University Library website on campus and off-‐campus via

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Iowa State University
American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA). 21.5. Library and Information Resources
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21.5. Library and Information Resources
21.5.1 Adequacy of information retrieval and learning resources. The Veterinary Medical
Library, a part of the Iowa State University Library system is a facility of 6,600 square feet,
housed in the CVM complex. The library provides access to a variety of print and electronic
information resources for veterinary science and related disciplines. The physical collection
includes 27,995 volumes. The ISU Library subscribes to 97,352 journals, and 84,174 are
available online. The library maintains subscriptions to major online bibliographic databases
such as Biosis Previews, CAB Abstracts, and the Web of Science. From these databases, library
users can often link directly to the full text of the indexed journal article.
For items that are not owned by the library, users can easily request journal articles and books
from the library’s interlibrary loan service. In many cases, these requests are filled within two to
three days. Currently, the library has adequate funds for purchasing books for research and
teaching, including multiple copies of student texts where necessary to support classes.
Beginning in 2009, the library started purchasing electronic books for the collection. There are
currently 27 books related to clinical veterinary medicine available online.
21.5.2 Academic credential(s) for the librarian in charge of the library. The veterinary
medical librarian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Nebraska Wesleyan
University, a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and a
Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois. She
has been at Iowa State University since October 2003 and is an assistant professor. She assumed
the veterinary medical librarian duties in January 2008 after the former veterinary medical
librarian retired. Her time is divided between the veterinary medical library and Parks Library
on main campus. She is at the veterinary medical library two to three days per week. She
provides reference, instruction, and collection development services to a number of life sciences
departments and the animal science department on main campus.
21.5.3 Learning resources support for faculty and students, including personnel. Besides
the veterinary medical librarian, learning resources support for library users is available from the
Head of the ISU Library Branch Facilities Department, two full-time library merit staff
employees, and several student assistants. The Veterinary Medical Library is open seven days
per week, for a total of 83.5 hours, during its regular fall and spring semester schedule. During
dead week and finals week, the library is open extended hours.
Since her arrival in 2008, the veterinary medical librarian has been providing instructional
sessions to DVM students, faculty, and staff. First-year students receive an orientation to library
resources and services in BMS 345: Case Studies I. She has also provided instructional sessions
to students who participate in the Summer Scholars research program and students who are hired
by the Center for Food Security and Public Health as summer interns. These sessions provide
more in depth information about how to search PubMed, CAB Abstracts, and other library
resources as well as information about using EndnoteWeb, an online bibliographic management
tool. In spring 2010, the veterinary medical librarian and a colleague from Parks Library offered
three instructional sessions to CVM faculty and staff about Endnote and Endnote Web. Also, an
instructional session was offered to VM-3 students in late spring 2010 this presentation provided

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