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Loaner Library

Are you interested in learning to improve your job skills? Or do you need help studying for your Assistant’s or Technician’s Registry Examination?

The library has a variety of books that will be very helpful in your endeavor.

Librarian
Camille Seganos, CPO
c/o Johnstown Family Vision
1513 Scalp Avenue
Johnstown, PA 15905
voice (814) 266-7611 -- office
fax (814) 266-3532
camilivanili@yahoo.com

Guidelines for Borrowing Library Materials
All materials can be borrowed on an eight week schedule. If you need to keep material longer, please contact the librarian for availability.

Inside the front cover, you will find a card with the shipping date and the date the book should be returned to the library. Since the library has many magazines available, we can make arrangements to have copies made of specific articles for a small fee. The library will pay for shipping to you. You are responsible for return mailing costs back to the library.

Available Materials

• AN INTRODUCTORY HANDBOOK “THE VISION CARE ASSISTANT (MILLER), 1990 VISION EXTENSION
• ASSISTANT’S WORKSHOP, 1993 (BAUSCH AND LOMB)
• CLINICAL REFRACTION (BORISH), 1954
• CLINICAL USE OF PRISM - A SPECTRUM OF APPLICATIONS, 1995
• DICTIONARY OF EYE TERMINOLOGY, 2nd edition (CASSIN/SOLOMON)
• DISEASES AND SURGERY OF THE LENS, SYMPOSIUM (HAIK), 1957
• DISEASES OF THE EYE (MAY), 1941
• DISEASES OF THE EYE, MAY’S MANUAL (PERERA ) 1953DUO-CHROME REFRACTION, STUDIES OF (COPELAND and LUECK) 1933
• EYE GLASSERY – MARCHON – SECOND EDITION (WEBER) 1996
• HOME STUDY COURSES FOR OPTOMETRIC ASSISTING (AOA PARA SECTION) 1988, with self assessment exam 1989 (2 copies are available)
• INTERNAL DISEASES OF THE EYE AND ATLAS OF OPHTHALMOSCOPY (TRONCOSO) 1937
• GIFFORD’S OCULAR THERAPEUTICS (VAIL) 1947
• MARCHON & MARCOLIN – 101 DISPENSING TIPS (WEBER ) 1993
• OFFICE POLICY/PROCEDURE MANUAL FOR PARAOPTOMETRIC
• PERSONNEL (AOA) 1974
• ON LEADERSHIP (GARDNER) 1990
• OPHTHALMIC ASSISTANT, THE – FUNDAMENTALS AND CLINICAL
• PRACTICE (STEIN-SLATT-STEIN) 1988 (4TH, 5TH & 6TH editions)
• OPHTHALMIC DISPENSING BY CORRESPONDENCE (WALMAN OPTICAL CO.) 12 LESSONS
• OPHTHALMIC MEDICAL ASSISTING – AN INDEPENDENT STUDY COURSE (ROBERT L. STAMPER, M.D.) 1991 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
• OPTOMETRIC EXTENSION PROGRAM INFORMATION AND CIRRICULUM
• OPTOMETRY – PROFESSIONAL, ECONOMIC, AND LEGAL ASPECTS (HOFSTETTER) 1948
• PARAOPTOMETRIC HANDBOOK – A GUIDE FOR OPTOMETRIC ASSISTANTS (BREMER) 1986
• PARAOPTOMETRIC ORGANIZATION HANDBOOK (AOA) 1979
• PARAOPTOMETRIC REFERENCE MANUAL (AMUNDSON) 1988 (new edition should be available late 1999)
• PHARMACIST’S HANDBOOK OF CONTACT LENSES AND CONTACT LENS SOLUTION (HIND/ZUCCARO) 1987
• PHYSIOLOGY OF THE EYE – AN INTRODUCTION TO THE VEGETATIVE FUNCTIONS (FATT/WEISSMAN) 1992
• PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY (STARLING)
• PRINCIPLES PRACTICE OF PERIMETRY (PETER) 1923
• RETINAL AND CHOROIDAL MANIFESTATION OF SYSTEMIC DISEASE SINGERMAN/JAMPOL) 1991
• SELF-STUDY COURSE FOR OPTOMETRIC ASSISTING and corresponding Self-assessment examination 1996 (Update to HOME STUDY COURSE AOA PARA SECTION) 2 copies available
• VISION ENHANCEMENT TRAINING (SHANKMAN) 1988 OPTOMETRIC EXTENSION PROGRAM
• VISUAL FIELDS, THE… A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO TESTING AND INTERPRETATION (TROBE/GLASER)
• BOOKS ON LOAN TO THE LIBRARY
• AMERICAN OPTICAL BOOK SERIES (A COURSE IN PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION, 1983
• BOOK 1 OF 4 BASIC OPTICAL CONCEPTS
• BOOK 2 OF 4 LENSES, PRISMS AND MIRRORS
• BOOK 4 OF 4 NORMAL AND ABNORMAL VISION

Magazines

• EYETALK  May 1982 – December 1984*
• INSIGHT  January 1985 – April 1987
• VISION CARE ASSISTANT  September 1989 – October 1990

*There is a home study course covering many topics, from the history of optometry, front office, pretesting, to drugs, etc., starting in EYETALK July/August 1984 and continuing in INSIGHT under the heading “Concepts in Vision.”

Separate articles and booklets

• SALES TRAINING PROGRAM (BAUSCH & LOMB SUNGLASS DIVISION) 1937-1987 (108 copies)
• UPDATED COPY OF PPA’S CONSTITUTION & BY-LAWS (amended 1989)

Reprints of articles from magazines

• CONTACT LENS FORUM – December 1988, “Rigid Lens Verification Saves Time, Avoids Embarrassment” by Jerold F. Silverman, O.D.
• OPTOMETRIC MANAGEMENT – October 1986,  “Beefing Up Your Professional Correspondence” by Russell S. Worrall, O.D.
• CLINICAL ISSUES IN CORNEA AND CONTACT LENS, Vol. 1, No.2, 1987
• MARCHON OP-TOPICS, Vol. 6, No. 1, Autumn/Winter 1989
• MARCHON’S CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM, Lesson 1 “Visual Acuity and Refraction”