THE ANESTHESIA LIBRARY OF SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER AT BROOKLYN

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.

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Media Materials in the Anesthesia Library

Media materials include audiovisual materials, slides, computer software (3.5" disks and CD-ROM disks).

The Anesthesia Library Online Catalog and web site, the Medical Research Center Library Online catalog and website, Medline, internet, ccMail or BMEC email, Anesthesia Simulator 3.0, WordPerfect 8.0, and scanning programs can be accessed in the Anesthesia Library.

HOW TO SEARCH THE ANESTHESIA LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOG

• Double click on Anesthesia Library Catalog icon, you will find any information in the Library. For more information on how to search our OPAC, please click here.

HOW TO ACCESS MEDLINE

Method 1: Double click on the Internet icon, enter www.hscbklyn.edu in URL (locator), press <ENTER> key, then click on Medical Research Library of Brooklyn, Databases, Databases by Title, M button, and any Medline database sequentially (Follow the instruction on the screen).

Method 2: Double click on the Telnet to BMEC icon.

Type hscbklyn.edu at IP Host/gateway, and click on CONNECT.

Enter your login name and password, press <ENTER>.

When the Main Library's main menu appears, enter 2, press <ENTER>, enter 2 again, and press <ENTER>. Ask the Librarian the login name and the password, then follow the instructions on the screen.

HOW TO SEARCH THE MAIN LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOG

• Follow the above method 1, click on Catalog after finding the Library web site.
• Follow the above method 2, enter 2 when reaching the main menu, then enter 1.

HOW TO USE THE INTERNET EXPLORER

• Double click on Microsoft Explorer (5.0), and fill out URL, e.g. http://www.asahq.org, and press <ENTER>.

HOW TO ACCESS THE ANESTHESIA LIBRARY WEBSITE

• Double click on the Internet icon, enter https://www.angelfire.com/ny/sunyanesthesialib/index.html in URL, then press <ENTER>.

HOW TO ACCESS YOUR CC EMAIL ACCOUNT

• Double click on the CC: Mail icon, enter your last name, and first name as the login name, type password, and click on <OK>.

(NOTE: To apply for your ccmail account, please contact the Computer Ceter at x4621.)

HOW TO SCAN YOUR TEXTS AND IMAGES

• Double click on OmniPage icon for scanning text, or PhotoImpact icon for scanning images. The scanner should be turned on first; otherwise reboot the computer. For more information, please click here.

BMEC account uses the Pine software. To apply for BMEC account, please contact the Main Library at x7445. To access BMEC account in the Anesthesia Library, double click on TELNET TO BMEC icon, type hscbklyn.edu at IP Host/Gateway, and click on CONNECT. Enter your email account name at the LOGIN prompt, and enter your password at PASSWORD prompt. (If you logon from your PC, the new dialing phone number is 718-756-6295. If this is your first time to use your communication software, you should set up baud to the highest level as your modem provides, e.g. 2400, parity to NONE, data bits to 8, stop bits to 1, and port to COM1 or com2 depending on the connection between your modem and your PC).

INTERNET GATEWAY MENU

After loging on, you will go to Medical Research Library of Internet Gateway Menu. To access to MEDLINE, enter 2; to EMAIL, enter 3; to INTERNET TOOL (Gopher, Telnet, or FTP), enter 4. The followings focus on email account:

EMAIL

After entering 3, you will go to the sub-menu, then enter 1 for EMAIL AND NETWORK NEWSREADER (PINE). There are several choices. To read new email, enter I, or highlight FOLDER INDEX; to compose a new email, enter C, or highlight COMPOSE MESSAGE; follow the commands at the bottom of the screen.

REMEMBER: The system automatically delete email you read. To keep the email, enter O for OTHER COMMAND, and S for SAVE, or forward email to yourself.

CREATING A SIGNATURE

If you would like to create a signature (your name, phone number, and address) which will automatically be attached to your each email, enter S for setting up (CONFIGURE OR UPDATE PINE) at the MAIN MENU, enter S again for signature, then follow the instruction on the screen.

SENDING AN EMAIL TO SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS

1. After logging on to your email account, enter 3, and 1 from Main Menu.

2. Enter A (Address Book).

3. Enter A (Addnew) again, a new form will display.

4. Enter Nickname. I recommend you enter it. It will save you a lot of time.

5. Enter Fullname (The name you want to send an email to).

6. Enter Address (The person's email address).

7. To save it, press Ctrl-X, and then enter Y to confirm. To edit it, press Ctrl-v.

To add more names, go through Steps 3-7.

8. When finishing, enter M to the Main Menu.

9. Enter C to Compose message. At CC prompt, enter people's nicknames or full names, and separate them by a comma and a space, e.g. John, Peter, Smith. Then your email will be copied to them also.

SENDING AN EMAIL TO A GROUP

To create a distribution list, please follow steps below:

1. After the above steps 1-4 (You may nickname your group. Examples would be panel, or meeting), skip Step 5, and go to Step 6.

2. If the names on your list have BMEC accounts within SUNY-Brooklyn, you just enter their login names, and separate them with a comma and a space, e.g. John, Peter, Smith. If the names on your list have accounts outside SUNY-Brooklyn, you should type each email address, and separate them with a comma and a space, e.g. John@cunyvm.cuny.edu, Peter@aol.com, Smith@prodigy.com. After you enter all email addresses, follow the above Steps 7 and 8.

3. Enter C to Compose message, enter the nickname at TO prompt. Then it lists all members of the group to whom you want to send.

SENDING AN ATTACHMENT (FILE)

To send an attachment, please follow steps below:

1. After reaching the Main Menu, enter 5 (Account Management Tools).

2. Enter 9 (File Transfer Tools).

3. If you have a text file, enter 3 (Receive a text file via Kermit from your desktop computer), If you have a ASCII file, enter 4 (Receive a binary file via Kermit from your desktop computer).

If you use Network (windows), click on File Transfer from menu bar, drag it down, and highlight Send Kermit. Then change Drivers to the drive you are using, i.e. if you transfer a file from A drive, change it into A drive. Then highlight the file you want to transfer, then click on Send. If you connect BMEC through a modem by using Procom(PCPLUS), press Page Up key, enter K (stand for kermit), enter your file's name, e.g. a:\test, then press ENTER key.

4. When a file is transferred, press any key to continue.

5. Press M to go to the Main Menu.

6. Go to your email account by entering 3, and 1.

7. Enter C (stand for Compose an email). When you go to Attachment Line, press Ctrl/J together. Enter file name, e.g. test, press <ENTER>. Then Attachment comment is displayed. If you have no comment, press <ENTER>.

8. To send your email, press Ctrl/X together.

REVIEWING AN ATTACHMENT (FILE)

To review an attachment, press V to review it, then press <ENTER> key.

LOGOFF

Enter Q for quit, enter Y for yes, and enter L for logoff.

The following is a simplified menu for scanning. For more information, please read the original menu. Before scanning, turn on the scanner first, then the computer (If the computer is on already, reboot it). Then open the scanner lid. Put the material to be scanned, face down with top of the page toward the window, on the scanner glass against the edge of the rulers. Close the lid.

How to scan the text

• Double click on the OPLIMIT to Scan Text icon.
• Click on NEW JOB from the File menu, or click on the icon with paper in a hand.
• Click on SCAN menu when the Load Scanner Window opens.
• After scanning the first page, click on Stop Scanning if one page to be scanned or Add Pages if more pages to be scanned.
• After clicking on Stop Scanning, Save As Window opens. Choose Drive A (Default is drive C), and enter a file's name, and click on OK. It is saved as a file.
• To exit, click on the File menu, drag and highlight EXIT.

The default format is WordPerfect 6.1, and it can be changed from the File Type window to other formats.

How to scan the image

• Double click on the PhotoImpact SE to Scan Image icon.
• Choose ACQUIRE from the File menu, highlight IMAGE menu, enter a file name, click on Save, and click on ACQUIRE from the Acquire Image Window.
• Click on PREVIEW to see a preliminary view of the image.
• Click on icon to select the final area to be scanned (Click and drag on the mouse to form a frame).
• Click on the first icon at the upper right of the screen. The Type Menu Window opens (To scan color image, choose Millions of colors, to scan black & white image, choose 256 shades of gray, to scan line art, choose line art. Resolution for color or black & white images should be 72 dpi, and line art 300 dpi).
• Click on SCAN icon. The image is delivered to your image-editing software, where it can be edited further and saved as a file.
• To exit, click on the FILE menu, drag and highlight EXIT.