Library Raffle Winners

Congratulations to Sarah McBratney, Karen Thomas and Anna De La Pena for winning the National Library Week raffle for 10 dollar print cards!

EndNote Q&A

The library will be hosting a Q&A session with Donna Kirking, the Senior Product Trainer for Endnote.  Donna will be at the library from 2pm – 4pm on Tuesday, February 15th.This will be an open tech support session.  Bring your problems, questions, frustrations and Donna will help with troubleshooting solutions.

Please invite any of your colleagues who also use Endnote.
Contact Jeanne Sadlik (JSadlik[at]lumc.edu or 6-5304) if you have any questions.

DynaMed Mobile App

The EBM app has all the usual perks of DynaMed: point-of-care information updated daily, easy access to articles with one click, ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes, and easy navigation.  Once the app is downloaded to your phone or tablet you never need to log-in to use the database again; it’s just one click and you’re in the database. If you’re interested in downloading the app through the library’s subscription for free, email Liz Novak for an access code at Elnovak[at]lumc.edu with information on the type of phone/tablet you use.  Access codes expire after one year, but you can contact the library for a new one at that time.  The library is also offering workshops on how to download and use various medical apps including DynaMed, Micromedex, and MDconsult on 2/9 (1-2pm), 3/11 (10-11am), and 4/11 (10-11am).  If you’d like to participate in one of these workshops, contact Jeanne Sadlik at JSadlik[at]lumc.edu.

Spring Classes

Join us at our Spring Classes!  Whether you’re a beginner or looking to sharpen your advanced skills, you’re welcome to participate in our workshop-style classes.  RSVP by emailing Jeanne Sadlik at JSadlik[at]lumc.edu or via e-learning.   Brief Class Descriptions are below.  For more information visit here.

Biomedical Mobile Apps: We will describe the medical apps available, with an emphasis on the ones available for free through the library.  We’ll also go through the process of downloading and getting started with them.
Classes: 2/9 (1-2pm), 3/11 (10-11am), 4/11 (10-11am)

Evidence Based Medicine: We will cover the easiest and most thorough ways to search for the highest levels of EBM.
Classes: 2/21 (10-11am), 3/23 (3-4pm), 4/20 (3-4pm)

Using Refworks: Make compiling and formatting your bibliography easy with Refworks! We will learn how to download citations from various databases, upload to Refworks, and use the citations to create a formatted bibliography in Word.
Classes: 2/8 (3-4pm), 3/8 (3-4pm), 4/5 (3-4pm)

Searching Cinahl on EbscoHost: Learn to optimize your searching skills.  We’ll focus on using Subject Headings efficiently to create powerful search queries significantly improving access to relevant biomedical information.
Classes: 2/10 (3-4pm), 3/10 (3-4pm), 4/14 (3-4pm)

Searching Ovid MEDLINE Effectively: We’ll focus on using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) more efficiently and revising strategies for optimal results.
Class es: 2/22 (1-2pm), 3/24 (10-11am), 4/26 (1-2pm)

Searching PubMed Effectively: Learn how to do advanced searches in PubMed using MeSH terms, searching within Special Queries, using PubMed Subsets, and using additional PubMed interfaces.
Class Times: 2/17 (11am-noon), 3/18 (3-4pm), 4/27 (noon-1pm)

Whats @ Your Library: We will cover how to access print and electronic resources through the library. Attendees will also learn how to request articles that are not owned by the library, request literature searches, and make purchase recommendations.
Classes: 2/16 (noon-1pm), 3/16 (1-2pm), 4/14 (noon-1pm)

Discover DynaMed: DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the ‘point of care’.  We’ll learn how to search in DynaMed, DynaMed’s levels of evidence recommendations, persistent links, find Continuing medical Education Credits (CME), and other features.
Classes: 2/23 (noon-1pm), 3/25 (3-4pm), 4/27 (noon-1pm)

Deselection List 19: Hematology

Note: We will begin withdrawing these items May 5th, 2010. If you would like any of these books, mark those you are interested in on the list and return it to the attention of Jeanne Sadlik. You can bring the list to the library, fax it to Jeanne at 6-8115, or email it to her at jsadlik@lumc.edu.

If you believe an item or items should be reconsidered, please send a response with justifications to Jeanne Sadlik at jsadlik@lumc.edu.

Deselection List 19: Hematology

In order to maintain a vital collection that meets the needs of our users and utilizes the limited space we have in the stack areas, the Health Sciences Library periodically deselects materials from our collection. The Library will begin this process in May and continue through the whole collection. Periodically a list of books slated for de-selection will be posted on this blog.

When a book is de-selected from the collection, it must meet one or several of the following criteria:

• The item no longer meets the mission of either the Health System or University.
• The item contains out-of-date information, has incorrect information, or is being replaced by a newer edition.
• The item is physically redundant as in the case of multiple copies of the same item.
• The item is not used or infrequently used (excluding historically significant or “rare book” material).

Items chosen for de-selection will, at some point, be placed on our “give away” shelf or sent to Better World Books (Better World Books collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide).

A critical component of any de-selection project is to consult with our users about the books we have identified for de-selection.

National Library Week 2010

Come celebrate National Library Week at the Health Sciences Library from April 12^th – April 16th. In addition to gummy worms available all week, join us on Friday the 16^th for “Respect a Librarian? Get a cookie!” for home-made cookies by the library staff!

Also on display in the library is a traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine called Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos

Healing and faith have always played a role in the lives of the faithful. They are interwoven in the fabric of social history. How we regard illness and healing, and how we cope with them have captured our imagination throughout the ages.

The expression of our relationship with illness is wonderfully illustrated in the ex-voto, a devotional painting that gives thanks to a saint or deity for a miraculous healing or blessing. The faithful have always used prayer to invoke the aid of saints as a means to heal the sick and end one’s suffering. These devotional paintings are an individual’s expression of thanks for the intercession of the divine in a crisis, a snapshot in time of illness and healing. They offer a rare opportunity to view health, healing and illness through the hearts and minds of the ordinary person.

So come celebrate with the staff of the Health Sciences Library next week!

Thanks and congratulations!

Thanks to all who helped us celebrate National Library Week.  We hope everyone enjoyed the gummy worms and the cookies on Friday.  Each day we raffled off a prize.  On the entry blank for the raffle, participants were ask to answer a simple question “Why do you come to the Library?” Here are the the results of that mini-survey.

Congratulations to the winners of our raffle prizes:

• Aaron Gerds – the Chocolate Basket
• Monique Perkins – Leather Coffee Mug
• Shawn Lapetiao – Dinner in a Bag
• Phyllis Michalek – Sports Chair

National Library Week April 13-17

National Library Week begins on Monday, April 13.   This year’s American Library Association theme is Worlds Connect @ Your Library.  Libraries, librarians, and support staff across the nation help users connect to the world around them every day.  Come help us celebrate all that libraries have to offer.

Visit the library this week and you may win a great prize!  All prizes were donated either by the Library Staff or LUEF Credit Union.  We have some very unique items this year. Find  a world continent hidden somewhere in the Library and this  is what you will win:

• North America. A Pair of movie tickets
• Australia. A Pair of movie tickets
• South America. $10 print/photocopy card
• Asia. Popcorn/Candy gift pack
• Antarctica. A mystery “grab bag” gift
• Africa. A mystery “grab bag” gift
• Europe. $5.00 print/photocopy card.

We will also have a daily raffle.  Fill out a raffle form and your may be the lucky winner.  Each day, the winner will pick from the following prizes.  Enter early and often.

• A sports chair
• Chocolate basket
• A leather coffee mug with 1 year of free coffee from the Library’s staff lounge coffee machine.
• “Dinner for Two” packed in a Loyola cooler

On Friday, all raffle tickets will be eligible for the Grand Prize.  A $30.00 gift card to Subway.