Lane Resource Description for Grants

The mission of Lane Medical Library & Knowledge Management Center is to get the right knowledge, to the right person, at the right time, in the right context in support of translational research, innovative education and advances in patient care. We envision Lane as the ubiquitous connection to knowledge and learning, virtually and physically, supporting world class patient care, research, and learning. It saves time, fosters collaboration, enables discovery, informs decision-making and crosses boundaries seamlessly. See our Strategic Plan for more details.

Lane has 37 FTE staff of which 16 are librarians or technology professionals.

Lane Services include: an extensive collection of journals, books, databases, reference sources and learning materials; facilities with 306 seats including 72 computers, multimedia stations, fully wireless, copiers, laser printers; knowledge skills training for students and other trainees; videoconferencing and digital video capture; classroom management services; curriculum content management; expert research consultation; liaison program to departments; and resource library for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.

Lane focuses on creating a digital collection accessible on or off-campus in clinical medicine, biomedicine, and public health. Chemistry, engineering, physics, law, business, social sciences and humanities are readily available through the collaborative of libraries at Stanford, including shared online licensing. The digital collection includes 4500 journal titles (2087 are complete back to volume 1) and 42,000 other digital resources. The LaneConnex website received over 6,555,067 page views this year.

The total collection includes 30,000 historical/rare works and 169,100 print book titles. Overall, the collection includes 15,917 periodical titles and 373,000 volumes. The annual resources budget of $2.8 million excludes the biosciences expenditures at other Stanford libraries that enrich the total accessible collection for School of Medicine faculty and students. Document delivery is available for materials not available online or at Stanford. Over 144,000 articles, books, and other materials were circulated or delivered as PDF files last year.

Lane develops interfaces that enable smart searching with anytime, anywhere access, including a link resolver for journal articles from PubMed and other databases; user-focused portals (e.g., clinician, bioresearcher); and a simple SUNetID proxy service for easy off-campus access to restricted content. The LaneConnex Search is a quick way to find a specific journal, book, database, calculator, biotool or FAQ. The Clinical and Bioresearch metasearches quickly provide a hit count from multiple relevant sources from different vendors.

Lane liaisons embed knowledge management, scholarly research, evidence practice, biotools and data management and other skills directly into the formal and informal curriculum. Liaisons teach best available evidence practice with clinicians in the MD curriculum and residencies. The Scholarly Research series is a partnership with the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs designed for postdocs, fellows and graduate students that emphasizes searching the literature and citation tracking, managing information, writing grants and manuscripts, preparing presentations and posters, and designing a science course. The Biotools and Data Management series is a partnership with core research centers designed for all biomedical researchers that emphasizes selection and use of genome, proteome and chemical tools and databases and methods to manage data.

Contact your departmental library liaison for detailed information.

See our Strategic Plan for a description of future work.