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Anesthesia Library
SUNY Downstate Medical Center at Brooklyn
450 Clarkson Ave., Box 6
Brooklyn, N.Y. 10203
Tel: (718)270-1937 (O)
Fax: (718)270-3928
Welcome to the Anesthesia Library. The Library is available to all faculty, residents, CRNA's and student nurse anesthetists who are specializing in or completing a rotation in Anesthesiology. The Library is managed by Qianli Hu, B.A., M.A., and M.L.I.S. The Library's collection consists of books, journals, and audiovisual materials relating to Anesthesia and Surgery. There are about 1,000 circulating, reference and reserve books, over 50 journals in the Library. Journals are arranged in alphabetical order by title. The audiovisual collection consists of videocassettes, audiocassettes and slides, a laser disc program on Transesophageal Echocardiography and several computer simulated programs on case management in Anesthesia and Surgery. Members of the Anesthesia Department will find assistance in locating the following: circulating, reference, and reserve materials; bibliographies, interlibraryloan materials, and indexes. The Library also provides its users with literature searches and training using the Medline database. A net work connection to the Medical Research Library allows Anesthesia staff to view their book collection. If the materials cannot be located in the Anesthesia Library, the Medical Research Library located in the Health Science Education Building is given as a referral. The Anesthesia Library's Hotlinks here is a sample only. To access the full Hotlinks, please use the Anesthesia Library's computer or see the Librarian.
GENERAL POLICY
NO FOOD OR DRINKING IN THE LIBRARY |
Please contact Librarian Qianli Hu at 270-1937 (Rm.B3-333) or Anesthesia office members before removing any material from the Library. |
To reserve the Library, please contact Qianli Hu in advance. |
LIBRARY HOURS
Monday-Friday | 9am-5pm |
CIRCULATION POLICY
Circulating and reserve books | 2 weeks |
Journals and media materials | 3 days |
Reference books | Not to be removed from the Library |
Renewals | On approval of the Librarian. |
To search the Anesthesia Library Online Catalog, you may either use the computer in the Anesthesia Library or make a disk copy from the Librarian, and use it in any computer with Microsoft Works software. The Library still keeps the card catalog which is locate on the top of the computer cabinet. The card catalog has not been updated since 1997.
To access the Online Catalog, double click on the Anesthesia Library Catalog icon from our Library's computer menu. There are three ways to find information, here are two simple methods:
1. Highlighting with Find
* Choose Find from the EDIT menu. Type a term you seek. Click on <OK>. You can type less than a complete entry, but type enough to weed out similar entries, e.g. typing bus you will find not only bus, but business, busy, and bush.
2.Simple Queries
* Choose CREATE NEW QUERY from the TOOLS menu.
* Change the name that WORKS has given the query you are about to create, e.g. change AUTHOR to TITLE.
* For every criterion you want to include in the query, complete one row.
Click on APPLY NOW icon.
VIEWING RECORDS
After finding information, switch from list view to form view by clicking on different icons.
SHOWING DISPLAYED RECORDS
After viewing your results (the other records are temporarily hidden), you can switch back the displayed records by choosing SHOW ALL RECORDS from the VIEW menu.