St. John's Medical Library      Van K. Smith Community Health Library

St. John's Libraries 

St. John's provides two distinct libraries to service the community. Staffed by professional librarians, a wide variety of health information resources and library services is available at both libraries.

St. John's Medical Library
Serves St. John's affiliated physicians and employees. The Medical Library's services and resources are directed primarily toward health care professionals to enable them to provide excellent patient care and to support their continuing education needs.  Phone (417) 820-2795.

Van K. Smith Community Health Library
Serves patients, family members and members of the community in southwest Missouri and northwest Arkansas. The Community Health Library's services and resources are directed toward the health consumer and general public to enable them to make informed health decisions and become active participants in their health care and total well being.  Phone (417) 820-2539.

Free database trials: CINAHL and Nursing Reference Center from Ebsco (posted 4/24/2008)

The Medical Library currently provides co-workers access to the CINAHL database, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, via the Ovid search platform. Beginning in January 2009, access to CINAHL via Ovid will no longer be available. Access to the CINAHL database will only be available from the Ebsco search platform. The Medical Library is currently finalizing purchase details with Ebsco. The Medical Library plans to begin providing access to CINAHL via Ebsco on or before January 2009.

A free trial of CINAHL via Ebsco has been established through June 30, 2008 to give searchers experience with the new search platform. In addition to CINAHL, the trial also includes access to Ebsco's Nursing Reference Center. St. John's co-workers are welcome to participate in this free trial. Please forward any comments or questions about these database products to Holly Henderson, Medical Library Director, 417-820-3253.

CINAHL access will continue to be available via Ovid for the remainder of 2008. Co-workers that do not have an Ovid login and password may contact a Medical Librarian for assistance at 417-820-2795.

To Login to the Free Trial:
Go to: http://search.ebscohost.com
User Id: hslnkc
Password: ebsco

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Trying to email the library staff? (posted 4/15/2008)

Due to an error by St. John's MISD the Medical Library's general email account, libstaff@mercy.net, was unavailable for a short time during the last week of March. People sending messages to this account received a reply email stating the email address could not be found. The email account is active again and available for use.

The library staff has realized that some people are still having trouble sending emails to this account. This is due to the libstaff@mercy.net email receiving a slightly different name in the St. John's Outlook email directory when MISD reestablished the account. You may need to manually enter libstaff@mercy.net a few times until your Outlook address book "remembers" the new name and does not default to the old name. When you manually enter libstaff@mercy.net your Outlook directory should find the name .SPRG_MED Library. Please contact a medical librarian if you need assistance or have questions.

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Online version of Stedman's Medical Dictionary available from Intranet (posted 3/24/2008)

The Medical Library now provides access to an online version of Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Due to password restrictions, this resource is only available from the St. John's Health System Intranet, intranet.sprg.mercy.net. Visit the Intranet Homepage, scroll down to "Drug Information and Library Links" to find the link to Stedman's Medical Dictionary Online.

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