Library Update no.36, 2010
Published each week, the Library Update lists recent library acquisitions such as books, journals, audiovisual material, reports, statistics, and any other items of interest.
Current and past issues are also available from the library in print.
Books on display may be placed on hold, and borrowed when removed from display. Use the catalogue to place a hold, or contact library staff.
Items listed are on display until 13 September, 2010
- News this week
- Recent staff publications
- Books, reports, statistics, other media
- Journals in print
- Health and science news
News this week
Library centenary: we've turned 100!
The RCH library was established in 1910, 40 years after the hospital was founded. Some "useful medical books" were obtained, and it was hoped these would form the "nucleus of a valuable library". By the 1920s more material had been donated and it was noted at the time that it was beginning to look like a true library.
In 1949, the library was named in honour of John "Jock" Grieve. As a generalist paediatrician his special interests were in congenital abnormalities of the heart and behavioural problems in children. His position as an authoritative children's physician, teacher, and examiner, allowed him to influence the thoughts and attitudes of the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Medicine and the Australasian College of Physicians, which slowly led to the field of paediatrics becoming a discipline in its own right. He also pioneered the view that children were not simply "small adults" in terms of their illness and treatment. Jock's colleagues observed that he was "high-principled and courageous, steadfast, dependable, genial but not ostentatious, well-informed and very wise".
At the dedication ceremony it was reflected that the qualities which the word 'library' evoke - an "atmosphere of calm and serenity, in which knowledge might be sought for its own sake, ideas might be weighted in the balance of contemporary opinion, and assistance obtained in the solution of difficult and perhaps pressing problems" - were to be found in the personality of Dr Grieve "as witnessed by his even temperament, his reflective disposition, imperturbability under stress, and his store of knowledge and wisdom freely drawn upon by both senior and junior colleagues". Lady Latham noted that "the calm atmosphere of the library accords well with Dr Grieve's contemplative nature" and Dr H. Boyd Graham said that the library "will be an imperishable memorial to a well-loved colleague".
In 1951 a librarian was appointed, and by 1954 the library held a grand total of 106 journal titles and 1128 other items. Assistance was gratefully accepted from the hospital's volunteers, and this assistance continues today. In 1979 the library joined the Australian Medline Network and began on-demand searches through a single dumb terminal in the library, with the results arriving by post. Selected articles would also arrive by post several weeks later. In 1985 an Integrated Library System was purchased, along with four computer terminals, three for staff and one for library users. Interlibrary Loans were requested by phone or by post, and took several weeks to arrive by post.
Today the library has access to almost 3000 journal titles, and around 4500 other items. Twelve computers are available for library users to conduct searches on multiple databases and get immediate results, and very often also get immediate full text articles. Library training sessions last year reached over 400 staff. Interlibrary Loans are now requested online, and can often be retrieved on the same day or within 24 hours. Find out more about the history of the library.
Tell us your library story and win a $100 book voucher
If you have a story about how library resources, services, or staff have helped you in your work, we want to hear it. Best story wins a $100 SPP Medical & Legal Books voucher.
Everyone has a story. Maybe yours is about a training session that helped you gather vital information for your research, or how that key article or search helped you to treat a patient, or how the library played a part in you getting your grant or getting your article published, or you might want to share something you learned at the library which changed the way you think or work, or maybe you just received extraordinary service which saved you hours of extra work. Enter here (competition open to RCH, MCRI, or GHSV staff and students only).
Recent staff publications
About these links: article citations are linked to full text where available, or to information about ordering documents.
Alhusaini, A. A., Crosbie, J., Shepherd, R. B., Dean, C. M. and Scheinberg, A. [Victorian Paediatric Rehabilitation Service, Royal Children's Hospital, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Mechanical properties of the plantarflexor musculotendinous unit during passive dorsiflexion in children with cerebral palsy compared with typically developing children', Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 2010; vol.52(6), pp.e101-e106
Beringer, R., Skeahan, N., Sheppard, S., Ragg, P., Martin, N., McKenzie, I. and Davidson, A. [Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Study to assess the laryngeal and pharyngeal spread of topical local anesthetic administered orally during general anesthesia in children', Pediatric Anesthesia 2010; vol.20(8), pp.757-762
Chan, C.-W. and Chalkiadis, G. A. [Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'A case of sympathetically mediated headache treated with stellate ganglion blockade', Pain Medicine 2010; vol.11(8), pp.1294-8
Deasy, C. and Babl, F. E. [Emergency Department, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Intravenous vs intramuscular ketamine for pediatric procedural sedation by emergency medicine specialists: a review', Pediatric Anesthesia 2010; vol.20(9), pp.787-96
Doyle, L. W., Ehrenkranz, R. A. and Halliday, H. L. [Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, Vic., Australia. ], 'Postnatal hydrocortisone for preventing or treating bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants: a systematic review', Neonatology 2010; vol.98(2), pp.111-7 (full text via Interlibrary Loans)
Hoare, B. J., Imms, C., Rawicki, H. B. and Carey, L. [Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Modified constraint-induced movement therapy or bimanual occupational therapy following injection of Botulinum toxin-A to improve bimanual performance in young children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy: a randomised controlled trial methods paper', BMC Neurology 2010; vol.10, article no. 58
Jones, B. O., Ditchfield, M. R., Cahoon, G. D., Hardy, P., d'Udekem, Y., Brizard, C. P., Penny, D. J. and Cheung, M. M. [Department of Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging prior to bidirectional cavopulmonary connection in hypoplastic left heart syndrome', Heart, Lung & Circulation 2010; vol.19(9), pp.535-40
Konstantinov, I. E. [Cardiac Surgery Unit, Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Carinal stabilization technique in severe tracheobronchial malacia after slide tracheoplasty', Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery 2010; vol.140(3), pp.717-9
Lewis, S., Lucas, R. M., Halliday, J. and Ponsonby, A. L. [Public Health Genetics, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Vitamin D deficiency and pregnancy: from preconception to birth', Molecular Nutrition & Food Research 2010; vol.54(8), pp.1092-102 (full text via Interlibrary Loans)
McKenzie, M., Olsson, C. A., Jorm, A. F., Romaniuk, H. and Patton, G. C. [Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Association of adolescent symptoms of depression and anxiety with daily smoking and nicotine dependence in young adulthood: findings from a 10-year longitudinal study', Addiction 2010; vol.105(9), pp.1652-9
McKenzie, R., Burton, M. D., Royce, S. G. and Tang, M. L. [Department of Allergy and Immunology, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Age and sex influences on airway hyperresponsiveness', Journal of Asthma 2010; vol.47(6), pp.651-4 (full text via Interlibrary Loans)
Ng, H., McGinley, J. L., Jolley, D., Morris, M., Workman, B. and Srikanth, V.[Orthopaedics and Gait Analysis, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne School of Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Effects of footwear on gait and balance in people recovering from stroke', Age and Ageing 2010; vol.39(4), pp.507-510
Rinehart, N. and McGinley, J. [Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, School of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Is motor dysfunction core to autism spectrum disorder?', Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 2010; vol.52(8), pp.697-697
Shann, F. [Intensive Care Unit, [Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Letters to the editor', Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health 2010; vol.46(5), pp.279-280
Shann, F. [Intensive Care Unit, [Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'The non-specific effects of vaccines', Archives of Disease in Childhood 2010; vol.95(9), pp.662-7
Tan, T. Y., Gordon, C. T., Amor, D. J. and Farlie, P. G. [Genetic Health Services Victoria, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Developmental perspectives on copy number abnormalities of the 22q11.2 region', Clinical Genetics 2010; vol.78(3), pp.201-18
Books, reports, statistics, other media
- 616.07548 WES
- MRI at a glance
- Catherine Westbrook. 2nd ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- Provides concise, easily accessible information on MRI physics and is an invaluable revision aid. All topics are included from magnetism to safety, K space to pulse sequences, image contrast to artefacts. The second edition has been fully revised and updated with brand new information on data acquisition and pulse sequences.
- 616.3 GAS
- Gastroenterology
- edited by Warren P. Bishop. McGraw-Hill Medical, 2010.
- The care of the patient forms the core of this full-color resource, which also provides perspectives on epidemiology, pathophysiology, and diagnosis that every pediatrician, pediatric resident, gastroenterologist, and pediatric nurse needs to know. Expert authors in each subject area provide detailed, yet concise, overviews of important disorders of the esophagus, stomach, intestine, pancreas, and liver. You will also find discussion of common symptoms, their differential diagnosis, and how they should be evaluated and treated along with an introduction to the use of diagnostic modalities such as radiology, nuclear medicine, and endoscopy.
- 616.89 SHA
- Treating child and adolescent mental illness: a practical, all-in-one guide
- Jess P. Shatkin. W.W. Norton, 2009.
- Using evidence-based practice, this book explains to a range of practitioners, both medically trained and not, how to understand, diagnose, and effectively treat a host of common issues and disorders that affect our children today. ADHD, learning disorders, speech and language disorders, mental retardation, autism spectrum disorders, Tourette's and tic disorders, anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, psychosis, substance abuse, and sleep and eating disorders, among other problems that can interfere with normal child development, are all covered.
- Pediatrics Audio-Digest
- v.56 (16), 21st August 2010 [CD]
- Cultural conundrums.
- RCH Grand Rounds
- 1st September 2010 [DVD]
- Wadja Aboriginal Family Place: towards cultural safety at RCH - presented by staff of the Wadja Aboriginal Family Place.
Journals in print
About these links: the following links are for on-site access. For remote access, try your Athens login, or see the Journals list for other link options.
- American Journal of Medicine
- v.123 (8), August 2010
- American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
- v.182 (3), 1st August 2010
(Short-term associations between ambient air pollutants and pediatric asthma emergency department visits, p.307)
(Intensive insulin therapy in severely burned pediatric patients, p.351) - Archives of Internal Medicine
- v.170 (15), 9th August 2010
- Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
- v.164 (8), August 2010
- BMJ: British Medical Journal
- v.341 (7769), 21st August 2010
(When does childhood obesity become a child protection issue? p.375) - British Journal of Haematology
- v.150 (5), September 2010
(Pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease children under 10 years of age, p.601)
(Outcome of children with sickle cell disease admitted to intensive care, p.614) - Burns
- v.36 (6), September 2010
(Laser Doppler Imaging prediction of burn wound outcome in children, p.793)
(Perioperative use of cuffed endotracheal tubes is advantageous in young pediatric burn patients,
p.856)
(Burns caused by alcohol-based fires in the household coal stove in Anhui Province, China, p.861) - Child Abuse and Neglect
- v.34 (8), August 2010
- Child: Care, Health and Development
- v.36 (5), September 2010
- Circulation
- v.122 (4), 27th July 2010
(Enalapril in infants with single ventricle, p.333)
v.122 (5), 3rd August 2010
(Pulmonary and systemic vascular dysfunction in young offspring of mothers with preeclampsia, p.488) - Circulation Research
- v.107 (3), 6th August 2010
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
- v.51 (4), 15th August 2010
(Tuberculosis transmission to young children in a South African community, p.401) - Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care
- v.40 (6), July 2010
- Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
- v.52 (9), September 2010
- Families, Systems & Health
- v.28 (2), June 2010
- Gastroenterology
- v.139 (2), August 2010
(Oral viscous budesonide is effective in children with eosinophilic esophagitis in a randomized, placebo-controlled trial, p.418)
(Determinants of changes in linear growth and body composition in incident Pediatric Crohn’s Disease, p.430) - Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing
- v.33 (3), September 2010
- JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
- v.304 (5), 4th August 2010
- Journal of Child Psychotherapy
- v.36 (2), August 2010
- Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- v.48 (8), August 2010
- Journal of Clinical Oncology
- v.28 (22), 1st August 2010
(Pediatric phase 1 trial and pharmacokinetic study of vorinostat, p.3623)
v.28 (23), 10th August 2010
(Procarbazine-free OEPA-COPDAC chemotherapy in boys and standard OPPA-COPP in girls have comparable effectiveness in pediatric Hodgkin’s lymphoma, p.3680) - Journal of Pediatric Surgery
- v.45 (7), July 2010
- Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- v.49 (8), August 2010
- Nature
- v.466 (7309), 19th August 2010
- Nursing Outlook
- v.58 (2), March/April 2010
v.58 (3), May/June 2010
v.58 (4), July/August 2010 - Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
- v.29 (8), August 2010
- Pediatrics in Review
- v.31 (8), August 2010
- Social Work in Health Care
- v.49 (6), July 2010
(Parents' perceptions of food availability: implications for childhood obesity, p.565) - Thrombosis and Haemostasis
- v.104 (2), August 2010