The annual report of the Roxborough Memorial Hospital School of Nursing Library summarizes the library's activities and achievements over the past academic year. Key events included: updating the school's website after taking Microsoft FrontPage classes; installing nursing database software on additional computers; taking over responsibility for audiovisual equipment and ensuring laptops could connect to the internet; sending and receiving over 200 journal articles to and from other libraries for research; and conducting 13 literature searches for faculty, students, and hospital staff. Routine duties like weeding older materials, cataloging new additions to the collection, and troubleshooting equipment were also performed.

1. ROXBOROUGH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
SCHOOL OF NURSING
LIBRARY ANNUAL REPORT, 2005
Two Library Committee Meetings were held. Two student representatives, one from each class,
were elected to serve as members of this committee, but were unable to attend the meetings.
Among the achievements over the past academic year:
 I attended two classes to learn to use Microsoft FrontPage. After taking the classes, I was
able to update the School of Nursing’s website. The additions to the website include Internet
links to websites for financial aid; a list of the faculty, their educational credentials, and the
courses they teach; links to lists of textbooks required for each year; the curriculum plan; and
other information.
 The CD-ROMs for the CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
database were installed on one of the computers in the computer lab. We receive monthly
updates for the CD-ROMs, which are installed on the same computer. I finally was able to
talk with our account representative at the publisher of the CD-ROMs: she told me that under
our license for the software we are able to install the CD-ROMs onto other computers. I
called the HELP line for Tenet to have someone from Information Services to install the
software onto the other computers in the computer lab and the library. I will also install the
software onto the computer in my office.
 I have taken over responsibility for the audiovisual equipment for the School. Someone from
Information Services updated the laptops so that they are able to connect to the Internet; he
also installed software so that the laptops can now use memory sticks. (One of the laptops
has Windows 98 First Edition, which is too old to install the software to use a memory stick.
It should be at least Windows 98 Second Edition, but then all of the programs would need to
be re-installed. We still have three other laptops that can read memory sticks.) Universal
remote controls have been ordered for the laptops that do not have useable remotes.
 One of my duties is sending copies of articles to other libraries and requesting copies of
articles from other libraries for faculty, students, and hospital personnel. This is done
electronically. From June 1, 2004, to June 1, 2005, I sent 144 copies of articles to 64
libraries across the United States and Canada. During the same time period, I requested and
received 62 copies of articles from 23 libraries.
 Another of my duties is to perform literature search requests for faculty, students, and
hospital personnel. I search PubMed (through the National Library of Medicine), CINAHL
(the software installed on a computer in the computer lab), and the Internet. From June 1,
2004, to June 1, 2005, I conducted 13 literature searches.
 I attended the annual Fall Meeting of DEVIC (Delaware Valley Information Consortium),
the regional library group to which we belong, in October, 2004. There was to have been a
Spring Meeting this year, but it was canceled. The next meeting of DEVIC will be in the
fall.
 The annual binding of the previous year’s journals was just completed. The journals were
sent to the bindery on May 9; they were returned on June 6. A total of 82 volumes were
bound. A few issues were missing from last year, but they have been ordered, so that they
can be bound next year.

2.  In April, my volunteer and I weeded the oldest issues of medical journals from the hospital
library. This is done on an annual basis. It is done because some journals are only held for
the most recent year and a certain number of back years.
 Outdated material is constantly being weeded from the collection and either withdrawn or
replaced with new editions or similar material. From June 1, 2004, to June 1, 2005, 576
items were cataloged and added to the collection. During the same period last year, 532
items were cataloged. These figures include anything that was purchased for the library:
books, CD-ROMs (most of which came with books), videos, etc. I am in the process of
cataloging a large book order from Rittenhouse. As of this writing, I still have 3 boxes of
books to catalog. I have compiled two more book orders. I will order the next one before the
current order is finished being cataloged.
 All of the above I have done in addition to: troubleshooting the photocopier and computers,
including changing toner in the copier, undoing paper jams, and contacting the copier
company for repairs; ordering office and library supplies; ordering textbooks from publishers
for the faculty; helping the students; going to the mailroom to pick up the mail every day;
contacting representatives from book publishers, Rittenhouse, etc. about various issues;
filling out check requests for items to be purchased; coordinating the video loan program to
borrow videos for faculty to use in classrooms; contacting Rittenhouse re the annual textbook
list for students; and other job-related duties on a regular basis.
Submitted June 27, 2005
Eric M. Bucher, MLS