ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


1000 / C&RL News ■ D ecem ber 2000

(contact information and the toll-free phone 
number are listed). This Web site also pro­
vides access to the Atlas o f  C a n cer Mortality 
and to the SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology 
& End Results) Program an “authoritative 
source of information on cancer incidence 
and survival in the U.S.” Other resources avail­
able on the National Cancer Institute Web site 
include Cancer Trials, Ethnic and Minority 
Health resources, and links to information 
provided by the Office of Cancer Comple­
mentary and Alternative Medicine. The Na­
tional Cancer Institute Web site provides in- 
depth information on cancer research and clini­
cal trials. Access: http://www.nci.nih.gov/.

O th e r s ite s  o f in te re s t
The Consumer and Patient Health Informa­
tion Section of the Medical Library Associa­
tion has compiled an extensive list of evalu­
ated Web resources entitled “Web Sites You 
Can Trust.” This well-organized list is briefly 
annotated and is an excellent resource for 
additional consumer health information. 
Among the resources available on this site is 
a list of Web resources focusing on children’s 
health and parenting resources. A ccess: 
http://caphis.njc. org/consumerAll. html.

• The Melanoma Patients’ Inform atio
Page. This non-commercial site provides cur­
rent information for patients diagnosed with 
melanoma. The site includes selected read­
ings specific to the stages of melanoma. An 
“ASK Our RN” link, for submission of e-mail 
questions to an oncology nurse, was recently 
added to this site. The “Community” section 
of this Web site provides access to a bulletin 
board, a chat room, and other support re­
sources. Access: http://www.mpip.org/. ■

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Letter to the editor
I have just read “Academic librarians 

as advisors” by Paul Studdard (C&RL News, 
October 2000). Never have I read such a 
concise and well written defense of, and 
advertisement for, our profession. People 
rarely understand what we are profession­
ally capable of, and this piece did much 
to strongly state our case and our cause.

This is the kind o f article that should 
be featured in all of our professional me­
dia. While professions have nothing in the 
way of apologetics, but this article comes 
c l o s e .— G ary P arson s, F lo r id a  A tlan tic 
University, p arson s@ fau .ed u

http://www.nci.nih.gov/
http://caphis.njc
http://www.mpip.org/
mailto:parsons@fau.edu