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 Time
Submitted 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 Us
Library # 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: 71
Oral History Interview Sessions: 139
Number of Segment topics (by
category):
The Interview Subject’s Story: 24
The Story of MD Anderson: 16
Number of clip codes (by category):
The Interview Subject’s Story: 14
The Story of MD Anderson: 20
Key Stories: 28
Issues and perspectives: 19
Number of files in digital library: 376
About 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 books
and 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 Library
EBooks cataloged 32
Books cataloged 19
Videos cataloged 2
Titles withdrawn 33
Tables of contents 53
Bib work 60
Diagnostic Imaging
Books cataloged 1
Bib work 1
Historical Research Center
Books cataloged 1
Bib work 8
The Learning Center
Books cataloged 25
Bib work 53
Original Cataloging 9

Scenario:11 Reporting statistics
How 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 $0.59
Cochrane Library (Wiley) $0.04 $0.03 $0.16 $0.17
Dissertations and Theses $5.09 $3.83 $5.18
Dynamed $21.07 $13.47 $17.83
eAnatomy $7.08
Embase $33.38 $23.39 $19.71
FirstSearch $0.29 $0.30 $0.46 $1.08
HaPI $0.04 $0.16 $2.73 $3.49
Health Management $3.87 $1.48 $2.02
JCR $0.71 $0.63 $0.67 $0.77
Library Lit & Info FT $26.28 $23.97 $14.05 $9.95
LISTA $18.64 $13.93 $17.88 $10.51
MMY/TIP $5.21 $4.97 $6.94 $3.96
Ovid Medline $0.10 $0.12 $0.15 $0.19
PsycInfo (incl. loader fee) $3.34 $4.53 $3.94 $5.25
Reaxys $36.79 $52.72 $32.14 $36.54
SciFinder Scholar $6.49 $12.08 $15.88 $10.17
Scopus $1.25 $1.09 $0.95 $0.88
Springer Protocols $5.64 $1.62 $1.45 $2.47
Stat!Ref $3.40 $2.02 $1.76 $8.26
UpToDate $0.10 $0.30 $0.50 $0.59
Web of Science $1.94 $1.98 $2.12 $2.23
Average 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!