TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Access to Information Resources
  Eligibility of Agencies
  Services Available
  Procedures for Establishing GAHEC Library Contacts
  Responsibilities of Agency with a Library Contact
  Procedures for Updating Library Contacts
  Library Contacts

1. ACCESS TO INFORMATION RESOURCES:
The MCHS/GAHEC Medical Library is the Information resource center for all health care providers in the Greensboro AHEC. In order to access Library services and resources, the individual health care provider should:

• a. Contact the library within your institution or agency.
  
  • 1). All area universities, colleges, and community colleges have a library
  • 2). Several area hospitals have a library
  • 3). Some health care agencies may have a Library

• b. Eligible health care agencies (see below) in the Greensboro Area may set up a Library Contract with the MCHS/GAHEC Medical Library. See PROCEDURES FOR ESTABLISHING NEW AHEC LIBRARY CONTACTS.

 

• c. If you are not affiliated with an agency or if your agency does not wish to set up a Library contact arrangement, please contact Leslie Mackler, at Cone Medical Library, 336-832-7484 or by email at leslie.mackler@mosescone.com, for further information.

 

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2. ELIGIBILITY OF AGENCIES:
Institutions eligible to set up Library contact arrangements with the MCHS/GAHEC Library:

• a. must be located within the 8 county GAHEC region

 

• b. must provide either direct patient care services or health education for health care providers

 

• c. must complete a memorandum of agreement, signed by the facility administrator, to establish Library privileges

 

• d. If you have questions concerning your eligibility, please contact Leslie Mackler, at Cone Medical Library, 336-832-7484 or by email at leslie.mackler@mosescone.com.

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3. SERVICES AVAILABLE:

• a. Borrowing of GAHEC audiovisual titles. A list of audiovisuals is available on the Library Web site.

 

• b. Photocopying of articles from journals in the Library's journal collection

 

• c. Literature searches by the MCHS/GAHEC Librarian

 

• d. Instruction for End-User searching within the Moses Cone/GAHEC Library

 

• e. Fees may be applicable for some of these services.

 

• f. Copies of articles from journals not in the MCHS/GAHEC Medical Library's journal collection should be requested from:
  • 1). Your local public library. All libraries have access to requesting and receiving copies of articles from other libraries, through a service called Interlibrary Loan. Fees may apply, depending on the policies of your local library.

   

  • 2). REQUEST-A-COPY from UNC-CH. This service allows an individual to request a copy of an article from the Health Science Library at UNC-CH. Fees do apply. Click HERE for information and a request form for this service.

   

  • 3). Loansome Doc. Loansome Doc is an arrangement between an individual and a health sciences library for provision of articles accessed and requested through the National Library of Medicine's PUBMED . For a fact sheet describing this service click HERE. In this area, UNC-Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University, and Duke University offer this service on a limited basis. Call for specific information. Fees do apply.

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4. PROCEDURES FOR ESTABLISHING GAHEC LIBRARY CONTACTS:

• a. Submit a request in writing, by fax or mail, to:
   
  • Leslie Mackler
    Moses Cone Health System Library
    1200 N. Elm St.
    Greensboro, NC 27401
    Fax: (336) 832-7328

• b. Complete and return the form to the above address or fax.

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5. RESPONSIBILITIES OF AGENCY WITH A LIBRARY CONTACT:

a. Appoint one staff member within the organization as the official Library Contact person  

b. Provide the MCHS/GAHEC with the name of the designated Library Contact, and to notify the library in writing should the institution elect to change their designated Library Contact.  

c. Communicate with all staff members within the organization of the agreement with the MCHS regarding services available and requirements for accessing those services.  

d. All services and borrowing of materials shall be requested only through the organization's designated Library Contact person.

e. Reimbursement of the MCHS/GAHEC Library for materials lost or damaged by the recipient's staff while on loan to the recipient.

f. Reimbursement of the MCHS/GAHEC Library for all fees incurred in providing requested library services.

g. Adherence to the interlibrary loan procedures of the MCHS/GAHEC Library

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6. PROCEDURES FOR UPDATING LIBRARY CONTACT:

• a. Notify Leslie Mackler by
  
  • email -
    leslie.mackler@mosescone.com

    fax (336-832-7328)

    mail to address listed above.

b. Include name, title, address, telephone number, email (if available) of new Library Contact.

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LIBRARY CONTACTS

• Leslie Mackler, Library Director
  Moses Cone Health System Library
  Moses Cone Health System
  1200 N. Elm St.
  Greensboro, NC 27401
  Phone: (336) 832-7484 Fax: (336) 832-7328
  Email:
  leslie.mackler@mosescone.com

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