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f you had 25 hours in a day, what would you do with the extra hour?<\/h3>\nf you had 25 hours in a day, what would you do with the extra hour?<\/h3>\nI would love to focus more on my creative side\u2026something I have yet to discover.\u00a0 As I move closer to retirement, I need to find ways of staying relevant, purposeful, and yet enjoy a new chapter in Life.\u00a0 I may even try to learn a new language\u2026perhaps French or Italian.\u00a0 Haven\u2019t decided yet.\u00a0 Or take voice lessons and join a choir!\u202fVolunteering is also on the radar, but the choices are overwhelming.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I work at New Hampshire Hospital<\/a>. We are New Hampshire\u2019s only Acute Psychiatric Hospital for Adults.\u00a0 Two years ago, we also treated children, adolescents, and young adults. That mission moved to Hampstead Hospital, which has become a State resource.\u00a0 As the Director of Library Services, I am the sole librarian responsible for the administration, collection development, acquisition, research, reference, instruction, etc.\u00a0 My library has recently moved from having print and electronic resources to just electronic\u2026a virtual library.\u00a0 I have physically moved locations. While still in the hospital, I now have just an office\u2014though it is one with windows! <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve been in this position for just over ten years, and it is indeed a very dynamic one.\u00a0 I also oversee the budget of the Patient\u2019s Library. Up until recently when we finally hired a replacement for the Media Specialist who retired about 4 years ago, I was ordering books and providing guidance on library operations to the Rehab department as well.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m currently working in collaboration with the University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire Historical Society, and New Hampshire Humanities Council on the New Hampshire Hospital Digital Humanities Project to digitize our history and make available for research.\u00a0 This project aims to build an online platform from which that history can be digitally preserved. <\/span>After transitioning to a virtual library, I\u2019m working feverishly on a marketing plan to increase visibility of library services.\u00a0<\/span>Additionally, I\u2019m working to provide our staff and affiliates Remote Access to our electronic resources.\u00a0 Exploring several options\u2014TDNet, Open Athens, EZProxy.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to hear recommendations from other hospital librarians.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I would have to say that I use PubMed and DOCLINE extensively.\u00a0 The bulk of my literature searches are conducted through PubMed, and of course I use DOCLINE for ordering materials that are not available through other channels. Being such a small library, these tools are immensely helpful.\u00a0 But I have to add that I depend heavily on library Listservs, such as MEDLIB-L in order to get some ideas for marketing, answers to search strategy questions, etc.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n New Hampshire <\/span>is <\/span>full of great outdoor <\/span>opportunities and<\/span> provides<\/span> an unbeatable quality of life<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span>We have <\/span>a good number<\/span> of excellent academic institutions, <\/span>one of which we are affiliated <\/span>with,<\/span> and<\/span> faculty <\/span>that <\/span>provide<\/span>s<\/span> care<\/span> for our patients<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span>The libraries have a great network, both public<\/span> and private, <\/span>academic<\/span> and medical<\/span>. W<\/span>e easily share resources<\/span>, <\/span>which is <\/span>something we all need to do in a time where budgets are tight<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you had 25 hours in a day, what would you do with the extra hour? I would love to focus more on my creative side\u2026something I have yet to discover.\u00a0 As I move closer to retirement, I need to find ways of staying relevant, purposeful, and yet enjoy a new chapter in Life.\u00a0 I… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[119,532,332,568],"class_list":["post-17769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communities-of-interest","tag-hospital-librarians","tag-member-spotlight","tag-national-library-of-medicine","tag-new-hampshire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17788,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17769\/revisions\/17788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tell us about your position\/institution.<\/h3>\n
What special projects are you working on?<\/h3>\n
What National Library of Medicine resource is the most useful to your work, and why?\u00a0(ClinicalTrials, DailyMed, DOCLINE, History of Medicine Collection, PubMed, PubMed Central, MeSH, MedlinePlus, etc.)<\/h3>\n
What is the coolest thing about your library\/organization\/county\/state?<\/h3>\n