History of the
UMKC Clinical Medicine Librarian Program
The diaries
The early CMLs worked long hours to establish themselves and to prove their worth to the docent teams.
- MON 9-25-72
- 8:00 a.m. Orientation for new staff (4 hours)
- 12:00 noon Lunch
- 12:30 p.m. Visited Dr. B___ and discussed a Medline search performed earlier. Ordered
articles for him. Discussed another search to be performed.
- 1:00 p.m. Talked to Dr. L___ about his search on lipase; will redo search based on new information.
- 2:00 p.m. AM called in a search for Dr. W___; prepared search strategy.
- 2:30 p.m. Ran online searches for Drs. L and W.
- 3:30 p.m. Office hours: worked on Current References, talked to R about AV resources. Dr. G___ asked for photocopy of article.
- 5:00 p.m. Looked for article, arranged ILL, more online searches.
- 6:30 p.m. Home
- TUE 9-26-72
- 7:30 a.m. Talked to CR about MEDLINE
- 8:00 a.m. Picked up photocopies for Green Unit--delivered
- 8:30 a.m. Rounds: questions
- Use of tetracycline
- Rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmunity
- SGOT and SGPT in diagnosis of liver diseases
- Recent articles on vitamins
- Flu vaccines
- 10:00 a.m. X-ray rounds:Dr. P___ said she thought Current References were good.
- 10:30 a.m. Dr. N____ presented a patient history
- 11:00 a.m. Looked for article on rheumatoid arthritis
- 12:00 noon Talked to S about line notations
- 12:30 p.m. Photocopies and ILL for Dr. M
- 1:30 p.m. Lunch
- 2:00 p.m. Evaluate Dr. L___'s online search
- 2:30 p.m. AM called in a search for Miss W; talked to S about drug names and help on search. Referred a question to DK.
- 3:15 p.m. Delivered photocopies to Dr. C___; met TW (pharmacist), J gave me a citation for Current References
- 3:30 p.m. Office hours: read article on hypertension for discussion Wed. a.m.
- 5:00 p.m. Talked to Dr. JP about Current References.
- 6:00 p.m. Home
CMLs often worked Monday-Friday and Saturday morning as well.
Go back to the History of the UMKC CML home page.
Go to the Clinical Medical Librarian Bibliography
http://research.med.umkc.edu/teams/cml/CMLhist.html updated 5/98 by
B. R. Pfannenstiel, MALS, MA