Category Archives: About the Library

Curious About the Total Number of Publications by MSK Authors in 2019?

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The 2019 Synapse Publications Report is now available to help answer this question! Compiled by librarians, this report provides an analysis and documents the publications produced by MSK researchers, clinicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals for the year in review. The final bibliography includes 5,130 works, comprised of references to research and conference papers, reviews, meeting abstracts, books and book sections. This represents an increase of over 11% from publications identified in our 2018 report.

Synapse is a public facing resource and the authoritative bibliographic database developed and maintained by the Library. Our ultimate goal is to track and showcase the wealth of knowledge attributed to Memorial Sloan Kettering.

I hope that by browsing the 2019 Synapse Publications Report, readers will gain a sense of the contributions made by MSK authors to the ever-growing body of scholarly research.

Feel free to send me an email and let me know what you think about this year’s report.

Donna Gibson
Director of Library Services

Three Questions – Rebecca Meng

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Next up in our Three Questions series, Rebecca Meng, Document Delivery Services Librarian.
 
What areas can you help MSK users with?
 
As a librarian on the Document Delivery Services team, I help people at MSK access scholarly materials that fall outside of MSK Library’s own specialized collection. Cancer affects the whole person, so the work and research going on at MSK covers a wide variety of disciplines—from nuclear physics to music therapy, machine learning to nutritional outcomes. It’s our team’s job to track down any resources needed to support research and evidence-based care.
 
What projects have you been working on recently?
 
Anyone who has used our services to request an article or book is familiar with ILLiad, the program we use to manage the flow of requests between our users here at MSK, our staff, and the other libraries and suppliers we work with. This year, ILLiad will be getting some much-needed upgrades—both behind the scenes, keeping our workflows efficient—and excitingly, on our public-facing webpages. We are working to customize the new ILLiad request pages for our MSK Library community. They will not only look nicer and more streamlined but will also be mobile-responsive and accessible.
 
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?
 
Like many other city-dwellers who have been sheltering in place, I’d happily go almost anywhere right now. I’m especially looking forward to visiting family in New Jersey—not exactly a far-away land, but sitting in a suburban backyard eating a bowl of noodles prepared by my Dad is my current idea of pure luxury.