PROJECT B. PATHFINDER
“Searching for ‘Alternative Medicine’ (Adult NonFiction via the Bloomfield Public Library System”
Hunter J. Jones
LS566.W3
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Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street Bloomfield, NJ
07003 Phone: 973-566-6200 Website:http://www.bplnj.org/
• Guides and References to print resources in Bloomfield
Public Library and to resources on the Net.
• ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE/ALTERNATIVE HEALTH
• BLOOMFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOG
• Check the library’s catalog for books and other materials.
Begin with some basic keyword searches, combining a
few terms that relate to your topic, i.e.:
• Alternative Medicine
• Alternative Health
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Begin by clicking on the ‘Library Catalog’link (on the left
side of the screenshot). This will bring up a set of search
boxes (see screenshot below)…
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• Our library is part of a consortium called BCCLS. Books
from other member libraries are considered part of ‘our’
broader holdings. As such, we engage in “ReBL
Borrowing”(an alternative to Interlibrary Loan). But first
we narrow your search to the Bloomfield system proper.
• Search for your topic in the large display box using
“Alternative Medicine”in quotation marks.
• Change the left-hand search box labeled “Highlight for”
to “Limit to” (Bloomfield).
• Change “All Materials” to “Books”.
• Change “All Collections” to “Adult Non-Fiction”.
• Hit the large green “GO” button.
• {You have retrieved 31 books on your Subject, ‘we’ will
display the first four- showing their call numbers and
thus where they can be found on the shelves}.
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BCCLS : The Library Catalog : Keyword Search :“"Alternative
Medicine”" Help
Index & Site Map Summer Family Fun Your Library
Card
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Your Book Bag What’s New ‘New Title’ Suggestion Box Feedback
BCCLS : The Library Catalog :
Keyword Search :“"Alternative
Medicine”" Help
Index & Site
Map Summer Family Fun Your
Library Card
Your Book
Bag What’s New ‘New Title’
Suggestion Box Feedback New
Search : Item List (31) - Refine
Search Next
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Weil, Andrew.
Salud total en 8 semanas : un
programa probado para aprovechar al
máximo el poder curativo natural de su
cuerpo / by Dr. Andrew Weil.
1. ed.Nueva York : Vintage Español,
2007. LibraryMaterialCall
NumberStatus Bloomfield World
Language BookSP 613 W Available
View all library holdings and/or
place a request for this Book
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Weil, Andrew.
• Weil, Andrew.
Eight weeks to optimum health
: a proven program for taking
full advantage of your body's
natural healing power / Andrew
Weil.
Rev. ed.New York : Knopf,
2006.
• LibraryMaterialCall
NumberStatus Bloomfield Non
fiction Book613 W Checked
Out View all library holdings
and/or place a request for this
Book
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Hoffman, Ronald L.
• Hoffman, Ronald L.
How to talk with your doctor :
the guide for patients and their
physicians who want to
reconcile and use the best of
conventional and alternative
medicine / Ronald L. Hoffman,
with Sidney Stevens.
Laguna Beach, CA : Basic
Health Publications, c2006.
LibraryMaterialCall
NumberStatus Bloomfield Non
fiction Book610.69 H Available
View all library holdings
and/or place a request for
this Book
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Trudeau, Kevin.
• Trudeau, Kevin.
Natural cures "they" don't want
you to know about / Kevin
Trudeau.
Updated ed.Elk Grove
Village, IL : Alliance Pub.
Group, c2005.
• LibraryMaterialCall
NumberStatus Bloomfield Non
fiction Book615.535 T
Available Bloomfield New
Book615.535 T
Available Bloomfield New
Book615.535 T Available View
all library holdings and/or place
a request for this Book
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The first two are the same title but in Spanish and English versions. Patrons, you can
investigate all 31 titles at your leisure. Now try the same search but ‘open it up’ to all the
BCCLS consortium libraries-change the left-hand search box back to “Highlight for”
(Bloomfield), hit the green “GO” button and you get a whopping 317 titles.
Those at the ‘sister’ libraries may be requested by Bloomfield patrons and shipped
a.s.a.p.
• Murray, Michael T.
What the drug companies
won't tell you and your doctor
doesn't know : the alternative
treatments that may change
your life, and the prescriptions
that could harm you / Michael
T. Murray.
New York : Atria Books,
c2009.
• View all library holdings and/or
place a request for this Book
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Barron, Jon.
• Barron, Jon.
Lessons from the miracle
doctors : a step-by-step
guide to optimum health
and relief from
catastrophic illness / Jon
Barron.
Laguna Beach, CA :
Basic Health
Publications, 2008.
• View all library holdings
and/or place a request for
this Book
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Now explore the first title in detail by clicking-on the blue-colored phrase “View all library
holdings and/or place a request for this Book. This will bring up the next interface, which
will look like the below-
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The screenshot lists the 3 consortium libraries that own the title by Michael T.
Murray. You can use your Bloomfield library card, a “BCCLS card” to request
the title online. To expand the search, next try the variant term “Alternative
Health” in the large box-for the whole consortium. You get an additional 18
titles.
• DIRECTORIES
• There are 63 Reference books on
“Alternative Medicine” in the BCCLS
consortium, but only one at the Bloomfield
Public Library itself, which must be used
on the premises-
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Call No. REF 133S (1976)
• Author Kingston, Jeremy. Title Healing
without medicine / by Jeremy Kingston.
Publisher Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday,
1976.Description 144 p. : ill. ; 27
cm.Subjects Mental healing.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Alternative medicine.ISBN 0385113196 :
$8.95TCNa25505 view the MARC record
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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
(Databases)
• Go to the original “Home Page” (first screenshot) and
click on “Online Databases”. The most germane
databases for ‘our’ topic are- ‘Ebsco host’ and
‘Reference USA’. At this library for an ‘Ebsco host’
search you will need to contact your local library
administrator for a special user password. Upon logging
in to the database, try “Alternative Medicine”, then
“Alternative Health” as your keyword search terms. For
‘Reference USA’ you will need your library card number
(barcode) to log in. This will bring you to ‘Jersey Clicks’,
a Trenton-based statewide gateway to quality
information. Upon logging in, conduct yet another
keyword search for your topic(s).
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PERIODICALS
Go to the original “Home Page” and click on “Site Map”, click on
“Periodicals Holdings”.
• Periodical Holdings
• Periodical titles not physically present in the Bloomfield
library may be found online or at other libraries. Online,
search periodical databases such as EBSCOhost (enter
Library card barcode number for access),
FindArticles.com, or PubMed . Holdings in other NJ
libraries can be determined by searching JerseyClicks or
New Jersey Union List of Serials. You can also find
periodicals at other local libraries, such as Bloomfield
College Library, or Montclair State University's Harry A.
Sprague Library.
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• The journals most appropriate for our searches would
be:
• Body and Soul (formerly New Age Journal), keep 3
years.
• Christian Science Monitor (thru EBSCOhost), 3 months.
• Current Health I (thru EBSCOhost), 1 year.
• Curent Health 2 (thru EBSCOhost), Sept 2005• Harvard Health Letter (thru EBSCOhost), 5 years.
• Health, keep 5 years.
• Men’s Health (thru EBSCOhost), 5 years.
• Natural Health (thru findarticles.com –or- EBSCOhost), 3
years.
• Nutrition Action Health Letter (thru findarticles.com –orEBSCOhost), 1999-Sept 2002.
• Vegetarian Times (thru findarticles.com –orEBSCOhost), 3 years.
• Women’s Health Advocate Newsletter, Feb 1998-Feb
2000.
• Women’s Wellness Today, Jan 200717
• Yoga Journal, 3 years.
MULTIMEDIA
Note: ‘We’ have changed our ‘materials box’ from “Books”
to “Audiobooks”, “CDs”, “VHS/DVDs”, etc.
Audiobook(s):
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VHS/DVDs (first 4 of 12
consortium-wide holdings):
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Compact Disc(s)
Publisher
New York : Sony
Classical, c1998.
Description
1 compact disc :
digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects
• Title Build your
baby's brain :
[sound recording
(CD)] : through the
power of music!
Manufacturer's No.
Annotation
Music therapy.
Music-Physiological
effect.
Alternative
medicine.
SFK 60815 Sony
Classical
Excerpts of music of
Mozart,
Beethoven,
Handel,
Schubert,
Vivaldi, Bach and
Pachelbel.
TCN
a528562 view the
MARC record
Title
Natural solutions.
Publisher
Boulder, CO :
Innerdoorway
Description
Subjects
TCN
v.
uls
a978018 view the
MARC record
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SERIALS
• Title Natural solutions. Publisher
Boulder, CO : Innerdoorway Description
v.Subjects ulsTCNa978018 view the
MARC record
Consortium libraries- Haworth Public Library, Current Year.
Upper Saddle River, One year + current.
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• Title Alternative medicine digest.
Publisher Puyalup, WA : Future
Medicine Pub., Description v.Subjects
uls.First Published Began in Aug.
1994.Notes Description based on: Issue
5, published in 1995?; title from
cover.TCNa479363 view the MARC
record Consortium library- Livingston, 2
years.
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• “FAMOUS PERSONS”: Because of space limitations,
‘we’ haven’t even dealt with some famous names in the
broader area of ‘Alternative Health’. Mary Baker Eddy
was the founder of the Christian Science religious
denomination , with a mind-over-matter worldview of
healing. John Harvey Kellogg was, of course, the
founder of the cereal company and once a household
name in the field of natural health cures. These and
other famous advocates of alternative healing may be
searched either here at BPL or thru the Internet.
• INTERNET RESOURCES
• Note: At the very top of the OPAC terminal (the
computer on which you are searching BPL’s ‘Home
Page’) change the url from http://www.bplnj.org/ to
• the general portals like Google- http://www.google.com/
or Yahoo- http://www.yahoo.com/ and you can search
the Specialized Search Engives listed
• below, either by their name and/or by their unique,
individual urls.
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Specialized Search EnginesMain Databases specific to Alternative
Medicine:
DatabaseFee or FreeAccess InformationAMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine
Database)
Produced by the British Library Health Care Info. Service, this database
contains primarily European references, much of which is not found in
MEDLINE or EMBASE. FeeCD, Online library services, or individual
subscription. Search service available CAM on PubMed
NCCAM and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) partnered to create a
Complementary and Alternative Medicine subset of NLM's PubMed, providing
access to relevant citations from the MEDLINE database and additional life
science journals. To access, go to PubMed and click on the "Limit" function.
From the Subsets pull down menu, select "Complementary Medicine" and then
search from within this subset. FreePublic web accessCochrane Collaboration,
Complementary Field
This international alliance of researchers maintains and updates a registry of
randomized controlled trials. The Complementary Medicine Field is based at the
University of Maryland. See the Abstracts of systematic reviews related to
complementary and alternative medicine.FreeAbstracts and new protocols
available as pdf file on the CMP websiteCAMPAIN Complementary and
Alternative Medicine and Pain Database compiled from relectronic and hand
searches of scientific literature sources world-wide, maintained by the
University of Maryland, Center for Integrative Medicine. FreePublic web
accessDATADIWAN
The German, Patienteninformation fur Naturheilkunde, (Patient information for
natural therapies) has a searchable database on line, much of it in English,
providing information on holistic medicine and a network linking research
institutions and organizations worldwide. There are over 6,000 bibliographic 25
entries and 6,000 addresses.FreePublicly available on DATADIWAN website
Compare the ‘Alternative Medicine Homepage’
http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/database.html for more sites, e.g.:
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ACUBASE - http://www.acubase.fr/index.php?page=26
AltHealthWatch - http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/aw-complete.htm or
http://www.epnet.com/eptech/
Bandolier evidence-based health care- http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/Bandolier/index.html
CINAHL- http://www.ebscohost.com/cinahl/
Chinese Medicine/Traditional Chinese Medicine Database- Systemhttp://www.cintcm.com/index.htm
Clinical Trials.gov- http://clinicaltrials.gov/
Directory of Databases/Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicinehttp://www.rosenthal.hs.columbia.edu/Databases.html
HerbMed TM- http://www.herbmed.org/ (Note: searching is ‘pay per day’, not free)
Hom-Inform Database- http://hominform.soutron.com/
IBIDS- http://ods.od.nih.gov/Health_Information/IBIDS.aspx (on Dietary Supplements)
Index to Chiropractic Literature- http://www.chiroindex.org/#results
MANTIS {Manual, Alternative and Natural Therapy Index System}http://www.healthindex.com/MANTISDatabaseOverview.html
Native American Ethnobotany Database- http://herb.umd.umich.edu/
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Databasehttp://www.naturaldatabase.com/(S(wkmoox2oqmodgu55mol1ef55))/home.aspx?cs=&s=ND
Online Archive of American Folk Medicine- http://www.folkmed.ucla.edu/
Phytotherapies.org- http://www.phytotherapies.org/
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• All of the above may be searched for
articles or in some cases downloadable
pamphlets. In some cases, you may be
able to download-and-save (as to a pindrive)or print-out full text articles. If not,
you can check the journal name against
what Bloomfield lists in its “Periodicals
Holdings”.
• For article retrieval from journals/journal
years that neither the Bloomfield Public
Library carries, nor are obtainable online,
you may request a copy of the article thru
Interlibrary Loan.
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• INTERLIBRARY LOAN
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Bloomfield residents may request books and photocopies of
materials owned by other libraries. Interlibrary Loan requests
are to be filled out by a Reference Librarian at the Information
Desk. There is a charge of $.10 per page for interlibrary loaned
articles. For Lending Policies to other Libraries, please contact the
ILL department.
• By all means if you find you are having difficulty finding information
resources on your search topic(s), please contact the Reference
Desk in person, at the general phone number (973-566-6200), or
thru the ‘Ask a Librarian’ services• ASK A LIBRARIAN
• Email your reference question to a Librarian at the Bloomfield Public
Library. Feel free to send us an e-mail with your question to
reference@bplnj.org. Email the Children's Library directly at
kids@bplnj.org.
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APPENDIX:
Local Alternative Medicine Providers (sample)•
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1) Blu Lotus Metaphysical Center
Call today for more information
973-715-2760 or 973-746-7999 NNJHEALINGTOUCH@AOL.COM
20 Church St. Montclair, NJ 0704
http://blulotusboutique.com/about.html
or http://www.nnjhealingtouch.com/links.html
Shiatsu Massage
Reiki
Sports Massage
Swedish Massage
Hot Lava Rocks
Reflexology
2) Goldfard Acupuncture Center
Office Location: 1339 Pleasant Valley Way West Orange, NJ 07052
Tel: 973-325-8884; E-mail: Steven@AcupunctureWestOrange.com
http://www.acupuncturewestorange.com/html/contact_us.html
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• 3) Naturopaths Directory•
http://naturopaths.healthprof
s.com/cam/prof_results.php
?case=1&sid=1248744322.62
65_12051&zipcode=07042&zi
pdist=2&county=Essex&thrp
st_type=6 This website lists
17 Alternative Healing
(‘Naturopathic’) practitioners in
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New Jersey area, complete
with phone numbers and minidescriptions.
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4) Next Level Healing
(866) 348-9832
Address: 166 Franklin Rd, Denville, NJ 07834
Digestive and nutritional wellness, colonic and enzyme nutrition.
http://www.dexknows.com/business_profiles/next_level_healingb1179490?mkt=7OSMQ
5) Northeast Holistic Center
Northeast Holistic Center
212 DeWitt Avenue
Belleville, NJ 07109info@healnhc.org
450-4316
Aromatherapy
Feng Shui
Herbal Education
Homeobotanical Therapy
Hypnosis
Iridology
Massage
Reflexology
Regression Therapy
Main: (973) 759-7588Fax: (973)
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6) Wellness InnovationsSummer Hours Tuesday-Saturday
8:00am-6:00pm
277 Fairfield Road
Fairfield, New Jersey 07004
Business Phone: 973-244-1717
Business Fax: 973-244-1701
Cell: 973-856-0914
sandra@wiwellnessinnovations.co
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Colon Hydrotherapy, Seaweed Wraps,
Overcoming Food ‘Addictions’.
7) Since we live in a county with a
large Hispanic and/or Caribbean
community, we should include at least
one source that represents claims of
healing thru “white magic” or Santeria:
Cosmos Botanica Variety 1006
Clinton Avenue Irvington, NJ (973)371-8977 -or7th Star Religious Store, The 1205
Springfield Avenue Irvington, NJ
(973)-416-1441
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Editorial Comment: Where necessary, I have cut/copied/and pasted text from the ‘real’ Bloomfield
Public Library’s webpage (I worked there for 12 years, so they ‘owe’ me something). This assignment
is afterall a blend of the ‘real’ and the ‘hypothetical’. I just want to make sure that ‘some’ appropriate
credit is given to BPL. HJ
Sincerely,
Hunter J. Jones, LS566.W3
@ August 4, 2009
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