Ten Things You Didn’t Know About….Harrison’s Online

The Health Sciences Library provides access to nearly 200 electronic textbooks.  One of the most popular texts we have is the online version of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. Close to 450 Harrison’s Online searches are performed each month. Harrison’s Online is provided by Access Medicine.Access Medicine offers many features that enhance the value of the e-text.

Ten things you didn’t know about Harrison’s Online:

1. Searching – Autosuggest.  Type in a key word or phrase for a list of possible search queries . Search suggestions come from the AccessMedicine lexicon of  thousands of symptoms, disorders, and drug names.
2. RSS feed.  You can set up a feed for the latest updates.
3. Podcasts. Have a blackberry or IPod?  Get your updates via podcasts.
4. Browse-ability.  There is an A-Z index for those who just want to browse through the online index.
5. Table of Contents search.  Like the print verison, there is a Table of Contents.
6. Linked References.  Want to get to the full text of the references at the end of the chapter?  No problem.  Click on the PMID link which will lead you to PubMed.
7. Download a Chapter.  Need to have the information provided in a chapter at your fingertips?  Download the chapter to your PDA.
8. Large figures and graphs.  Click of a figure or graph to display it full screen
9. CME Credit – Grand Rounds. IPMA designates this feature for a maximum of .5 Category 1 credits toward the Physician’s Recognition Award of the American Medical Association.
10. Additional resources.  Because the Library has a subscription to Harrison’s Online through Access Medicine, you have access to the following addition resources:

• A full text, interactive drug resource
• An image database which contain some animated images (real-time echocardiographs)
• Diagnosaurus – a differential diagnosis tool
• Patient Education Information

For more information about this or an other electronic textbook, contact a reference librarian at researchservices@lumc.edu or 6-9192.

Summer Reading

Looking for a hot, summer romance (romance novel, this is)?  The Library is the place to start looking. In the Library’s lounge, there is a bookcase full of books for the taking. Stop by the Library today and get your mystery, romance, fiction, or non-fiction books. Go home and sit under a nice shade tree and discover the joy of summertime reading.  If you have old novels hanging around your house, bring them to the Library and we will put them out on the free book shelf.

New titles for Henry Stewart talks

Innate Immunity:

Host recognition and response in health and disease

List of talks:

1. The anti-microbial defense of Drosophila: a paradigm for innate immunity

Prof. Jules Hoffmann – University of Strasbourg, France

2. Innate immune sensing and response

Prof. Bruce Beutler – The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA

3. Leukocyte recruitment in vivo

Prof. Paul Kubes – Snyder Institute, University of Calgary Medical Centre, Canada

4. Monocyte/macrophages in innate immunity

Prof. Siamon Gordon – University of Oxford, UK

5. Dendritic cells: linking innate to different forms of adaptive immunity

Prof. Ralph Steinman – Rockefeller University, USA

6. Colony stimulating factor-1 regulation of macrophages in development and disease

Prof. E. Richard Stanley – Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

7. Phagocytosis

Prof. Joel Swanson – University of Michigan Medical School, USA

8. Clearance of apoptotic cells and the control of inflammation

Prof. Sir John Savill – University of Edinburgh, UK

9. Signaling by innate immune receptors

Prof. Michael Karin – University of California, San Diego, USA

10. Nuclear receptors at the crossroads of inflammation and atherosclerosis

Prof. Christopher Glass – University of California, San Diego, USA

11. Humoral innate immunity

Prof. Alberto Mantovani – Istituto Clinico Humanitas and State University of Milan, Italy

12. Cytokines regulating the innate response

Prof. Anne O’Garra – National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK

13. Arginase and nitric oxide

Dr. Peter Murray – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA

14. Novel lipid mediators in resolution of inflammation

Prof. Charles Serhan – Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA

15. Iron metabolism and innate immunity

Prof. Tomas Ganz – University of California, Los Angeles, USA

16. HIV-1 and immunopathogenesis: innate immunity

Prof. Luis Montaner – Wistar Institute, USA

17. The taste of a fungus: recognition of Candida by the innate immune system

Prof. Neil Gow – Aberdeen University, UK

18. Innate immunity in children

Prof. David Speert – University of British Columbia, Canada

19. Innate immunity of the lung and adaptation to air breathing at birth

Prof. Jeffrey Whitsett – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA

20. From bench to bedside: evolution of anti-TNFalfa therapy in rheumatoid arthritis

Prof. Sir Ravinder Maini – Imperial College London, UK

21. Macrophages, a cellular toolbox used by tumors to promote progression and metastasis

Prof. Jeffrey Pollard – Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

The Cell Division Cycle:

Controlling when and where cells divide and differentiate

New talks added:

1. Initiation of DNA replication

Prof. Bruce Stillman – Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, USA

2. Chromosome biorientation in yeast

Prof. Mike Stark – University of Dundee, UK

3. The kinetochore as a target for the development of mitosis specific anti-cancer drugs

Dr. Tim Yen – Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA

Obesity: Epidemiology, Etiology, Consequences and Treatment

Latest Developments in the Field

New talks added:

1. Adipose-immune interactions in obesity

Dr. Vishwa Dixit – Pennington Biomedical Research Center, USA

2. Health benefits of intentional weight loss

Prof. Xavier Pi-Sunyer – Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA

Click here for access www.hstalks.com/access

Medical Library Association Honor

Associate Dean, Logan Ludwig, PhD, AHIP, FMLA, Inducted as Fellow of the Medical Library Association

Each year, the Medical Library Association (MLA) bestows the honor of Fellow status on several of its most accomplished members. Fellows of the association are chosen based on their commitment to furthering MLA’s goals and their contributions to the health sciences information profession.  Loyola Associate Dean for Library Services, Logan Ludwig, PhD, AHIP, FMLA, was inducted as an MLA Fellow at the Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Monday, May 18, 2009, during the annual meeting of MLA in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Logan has been an active member of the association for over twenty years, serving as chair of the Grants and Scholarships and the Doctoral Fellowship Juries (1980-82), Annual Meeting Local Assistance Committee Chair in 1999, Governmental Relations Committee Chair (2001-2004) and has served as Associate Editor, for the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) for 12 years.  A Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP), Logan was the first recipient of MLA’s Virginia L. & William K. Beatty MLA Volunteer Service Award.  He has also served as an MLA’s representative to Section 8 US Copyright Office Working Group and to the American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Principles for Libraries in a Networked World Task Force, and provided MLA testimony on several occasions before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies.

Logan can also include among his numerous achievements the honor of being elected president to several library health communications associations including both the Midcontinental (1985) and the Midwest MLA chapters (1995), Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (2006), and the Health and Sciences Communications Association [HeSCA] (1986).   He was awarded the Midwest Chapter Librarian of the Year Award in 2008 and has received both the Distinguished Service Award and the Golden Raster Award from HeSCA.  Logan is also active as the AAHSL representative to the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Academic Societies and as a frequent grant reviewer for NIH’s Center for Scientific Review.
Committed to sharing the vast knowledge he has gained throughout his career, he has authored over sixty articles in many peer reviewed journals, several book chapters, presented numerous workshops and platform presentations, and is a well-know library building consultant having helped design or renovate over two dozen libraries world-wide.
MLA Fellows are elected by the Board of Directors, for sustained and outstanding contributions to health sciences librarianship and to the advancement of the purposes of MLA. Fellows may use the initialism “FMLA” following their names. Please join us in congratulating Logan on this fine achievement!