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From: "Rick A Peterson" <peter073@MC.DUKE.EDU>
To: <aahsl@aamcinfo.aamc.org>
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 1:10 PM
Subject: AAHSL: Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Donates Library
Collection to Duke University
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> CONTACT: Pat Thibodeau
> Duke University Medical Center Library
> Voice (919) 660-1150
> thibo001@mc.duke.edu
>
>
> UNDERSEA AND HYPERBARIC MEDICAL SOCIETY DONATES LIBRARY COLLECTION TO DUKE
> UNIVERSITY
>
>
> DURHAM, N.C. -- The Duke University Medical Center Library is pleased to
> announce the acquisition of materials from the Undersea and Hyperbaric
> Medical Society’s Charles W. Shilling Library. The array of materials,
> received from the Society’s headquarters in Kensington, Maryland on March
> 9, 2005, will strengthen the Medical Center Library’s undersea and
> hyperbaric medicine collection.
>
> The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) is an international,
> non-profit organization serving over 2,000 members from more than 50
> countries. Most UHMS members are diving or hyperbaric scientists and
> physicians. The purpose of the UHMS is to provide scientific information
> to protect the health of commercial, sport, and military divers; to
improve
> the scientific basis of hyperbaric oxygen therapy; promote sound treatment
> protocols and standards of practice; and provide CME accreditation.
>
> The Duke Medical Center Library provides information services to support
> the research, clinical, and education programs at the Duke University
> Medical Center and Health System. The Library’s collection consists of
> over 280,000 volumes, 742 print subscriptions, and 971 electronic journal
> titles.
>
> Pat Thibodeau, Associate Dean for Library Services & Archives commented
> that the "Duke Medical Center Library is very pleased and honored to
become
> the new home of the UHMS library collection. In addition to serving the
> UHMS worldwide membership, these unique materials will support the
research
> information needs of Duke's Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and
> Environmental Medicine, the Divers Alert Network, also located in Durham,
> North Carolina, and be accessible to researchers at other institutions."
> The UHMS collection consists of over 250 linear feet of books, reports,
> journals, abstracts, reprints and other assorted materials; in addition to
> the archival collections of several prominent UHMS members. Much of the
> material will be entered into online catalogs of the Medical Center
Library
> and Archives, making the holdings information for these collections
> accessible online to the public for the first time. UHMS members will be
> provided with desktop delivery of scanned articles, a full array of
> reference support including mediated literature searches, and access to
the
> Society’s archival collections.
>
> Don Chandler, Executive Director of UHMS stated, “Relocating the Shilling
> Library to the Duke University Medical Center Library is something I am
> sure Dr. Shilling would approve. The UHMS holdings will be available to a
> much larger audience than would have been possible by leaving the holdings
> at the UHMS corporate offices. We look forward to a long and fruitful
> association with the Duke University Medical Center Library.”
>
> Additional information about the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society
is
> available at http://www.uhms.org. For more information about the Duke
> University Medical Center Library visit http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu.
>
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