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Pharmacy 543, guest lecture
Cassandra
My name is Cass Hartnett, and I am the U.S. Documents librarian at Government Publications. We are located on the Ground Floor of the newly-renovated Suzzallo/Allen Library. For those of us interested in government information and insuring that citizens can get their hands on government documents, the Web has been revolutionary. Librarians have concerns about the organization of the Web, as well as its permanence, but we are thrilled to see users brought infinitely closer to the information they need 24 hours a day. No more worries about the library or government office being closed! In a short series of clicks, I can move from the government of my hometown, to my county, to my state, to my country, to another country, to an international agency like the World Bank.
I'm happy to be here with my colleagues, Terry Jankowski from the Health
Sciences Library and
I'm going to focus today on legislation and regulation, at the federal level. Remember, the legislative branch makes the laws, the executive branch enforces the laws, and the judicial branch interprets the laws. Starting with the legislative branch, what do we call a law before it becomes a law? Bills are the first significant step in what is known as the "dance of legislation." One of my hobbies is collecting diagrams of legislative process, following a bill through Congress, like this simplified children's version.
Regulatory process has some parallels to legislation – it’s also a kind of dance. As with legislative process, the public has some input into the drafting of regulations. Funny note on vocabulary: you only seem to hear the word “promulgate” in a regulatory context. Congress writes, or enacts, or passes laws; the executive agencies promulgate regulations. It means the same thing – to write or draft – but it sounds fancier.
Draft regulations are published in the Federal Register – a daily publishing arm of the executive branch of government. We are all supposed to be reading it every day in our role of citizens monitoring our government. Don’t understand the Federal Register? There is a tutorial linked from pharmacy.html.
SAMPLE SEARCH #1 (FR) -- (GPO Access, Federal Register, Search the 2002 Federal Register.) What announcements or proposed regulations have appeared in the Federal Register this year relating to pharmacists and the practice of compounding?
· pharmacy AND compound*
(check box for 2002 – search Rules, Proposed Rules, etc.)
Open the citation regarding Pharmacy Compounding Compliance Policy Guide; Availability.
Return to pharmacy.html page and point out the FDA compliance policy guides link. Browse the guides by section, locating chapter 460, Pharmacy Issues.
SAMPLE SEARCH #2 (FR) Repeat search in LexisNexis Congressional and compare the two screens side by side. Show PDF version from GPO Access. Show different views in L-N and end up with USCS links – value added for a price.
·
pharmacy AND compound!
Talk about purpose of CFR – codified version of all existing regulations.
SAMPLE SEARCH #3 (CFR) -- (Proquest Congressional, Overview, Regulations, CFR) A friend told me that the CFR contains regulations on how many cherries must be in commercially sold fruit cocktail. Is this fact or fable?!
· cherr!
AND fruit cocktail
(Should bring back one result only: 21 CFR 145.135
SAMPLE SEARCH #4 (News search) -- (LexisNexis Congressional
Inside
· pharmac! AND compounding, previous five years
SAMPLE SEARCH #5 (
· bar code AND pharmac!
SAMPLE SEARCH #6 (Demo LexisNexis)
If enough time, show:
http://www.lib.washington.edu/Govpubs/
(explain role of department, etc.)
http://www.lib.washington.edu/Govpubs/congress.pdf
E-mail: cass@u.washington.edu