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Library Workshops This Week

Attend a 30-min workshop to enhance your research skills!

Location: Research Corner in the 1st floor of Library 

Mon, Oct 17th
How to Find Books 11 am

Tue, Oct 18th
Evaluating Web Sites: 10 am
Government Resources: 4 pm

Wed, Oct 19th
Legal Research: noon
Scholarly Articles: 3:30 pm
How to Find Books: 5pm

Thur, Oct 20th
How to Find Articls: 1 pm
Research for Com 108: 3 pm

Fri, Oct 21st
Finding Resources in the Library: 9:05 am

NLM’s Digital Collections

The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce the launching of “Medicine in the Americas,”  (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/americas/index.html), part of NLM’s Digital Collections. This digital resource includes over 300 freely available early American printed books, showing the development of American medicine from 1610 to the early 20th century. The collection will be of interest to scholars, educators, writers, students and others who wish to use primary historical materials to help expand knowledge of medical and public health history for the advancement of scholarship across the disciplines and for the education of the general public.

NLM’s Digital Collections,( http://collections.nlm.nih.gov/muradora/), is a free online archive of biomedical books and videos residing in the public domain, and freely available worldwide. “Medicine in the Americas” joins another recently launched digital collection, “The Public Health Film Goes to War,” as well as other digital resources. “Medicine in the Americas” is made possible in part through the participation of the National Library of Medicine in the Medical Heritage Library, a digital curation collaborative supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and administered by the Open Knowledge Commons.

50th Anniversary of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

On November 18th, NLM marks the 50th anniversary of MeSH with a talk by Robert Braude, PhD. The talk entitled MeSH at 50 – 50th Anniversary of Medical Subject Headings will be videocast with captioning at http://videocast.nih.gov/ The event is scheduled from 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm. (Eastern Time)

MeSH was first published in 1960; in 2010 we observe 50 years of this subject control authority. The seeds of MeSH were planted in December 1947. The Army Medical Library, the NLM predecessor, sponsored a Symposium on Medical Subject Headings in 1947. Participants, who included Seymour Taine, Thelma Charen, and Eugene Garfield, considered the challenges of the bibliographical control of publications. It was noted that the increasing complexity of scientific literature necessitated increasingly sophisticated approaches to organization and access. The participants recognized that the issue of a subject authority was not an academic exercise. Rather, subject cataloging and the subject indexing of journal articles were acknowledged as the essence of bibliographic control. The needs of the user of scientific information was to be always at the forefront in creating a set of medical subject headings that were made equally for subject description of books and for indexing of journal articles.

That first edition of MeSH  represented a departure from the then usual library practice. MeSH contained 4300 descriptors, and it was designed to be used for both indexing and cataloging. It is likely the first vocabulary engineered for use in an automated environment for production and retrieval.  MeSH continues to evolve and grow. The 2011 edition contains more than 26,000 subject headings in an eleven-level hierarchy and 83 subheadings. Annual revision and updating are ongoing to assure that MeSH remains useful as a way to categorize medical knowledge and knowledge in allied and related disciplines for retrieval of key information. MeSH is 50 years old and new each year.

The speaker: Robert M. Braude received his Masters of Library Science in 1964 from UCLA. In 1965, he attended MEDLARS training at the National Library of Medicine and his talk reflects on his 45 years of life with MeSH.   In 1987 he received a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Nebraska and he was Director of the Mid-Continental RML. His career included positions as director of three academic health science libraries and he has served on many NLM Committees and Panels such as IAMS Review Committees, the Planning Panels on Medical Informatics and NLM Outreach Programs, and the Biomedical Library Review Committee. He is a past  Janet Doe Lecturer, a Fellow of the Medical Library Association and Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.

The talk is co-sponsored by the Division of the History of Medicine and the Medical Subject Headings Section, NLM

Library Hours – FALL QUARTER 2010

 

FALL QUARTER 2010 (SEPTEMBER 13 – NOVEMBER 26, 2010)
	Library	Reference Desk	Computer Lab
Monday	9:00 AM -10:00 PM	9:30 AM – 9:30 PM	7:30 AM -10:00 PM
Tuesday	9:00 AM -10:00 PM	9:30 AM – 9:30 PM	7:30 AM -10:00 PM
Wednesday	9:00 AM -10:00 PM	9:30 AM – 9:30 PM	7:30 AM -10:00 PM
Thursday	9:00 AM -10:00 PM	9:30 AM – 9:00 PM	7:30 AM -10:00 PM
Friday	9:00 AM -5:00 PM	9:30 AM – 5:00 PM	7:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday	Closed	Closed	Closed
Sunday	11:00 AM – 7:00 PM	11:00 AM – 7:00 PM	Closed
EXCEPTION TO ABOVE: November 11, Thursday Veterans Day – CLOSED November 20, Saturday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM November 24, Wednesday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM November 25-26, Thursday & Friday Thanksgiving – CLOSED

WINTER BREAK (NOVEMBER 27 – JANUARY 4, 2011)
	Library	Reference Desk	Computer Lab
Monday	9:00 AM -5:00 PM	TBA	TBA
Tuesday	9:00 AM -5:00 PM	TBA	TBA
Wednesday	9:00 AM -5:00 PM	TBA	TBA
Thursday	9:00 AM -5:00 PM	TBA	TBA
Friday	9:00 AM -5:00 PM	TBA	TBA
Saturday	Closed	Closed	Closed
Sunday	Closed	Closed	Closed
EXCEPTION TO ABOVE: December 24- January 2 CLOSED

Finding Articles Written by a Nurse in CINAHL

We are pleased to annouce the recent release of several new features in CINAHL. 

There are two limiters of this variety:

• First Author is Nurse – If this limiter is applied, then you will only retrieve records where it is confirmed that the first author of an article is a nurse, according to credentials noted in the article.
• Any Author is Nurse – If this limiter is applied, then you will only retrieve records where at least one author is a nurse, according to the credentials noted in the article.

The written by a nurse limiter applies to records from 2009 and forward. Credentials include RN, BSN, MSN, or appropriate degree. As this limiter pertains to non-U.S. journals, the credentials include licensed nurse or appropriate nursing degree in the particular country.

Paul Ambrose Scholars Program

 Request for Applications

APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 8, 2010

 The Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) would like to inform you of a valuable scholarship opportunity for students of the health professions.

APTR is now accepting applications for the 2010 Paul Ambrose Scholars Program (PASP).  PASP is the leadership program that stimulates interest in disease prevention, health promotion, and interprofessional collaboration among students of the health professions. This unique program provides scholarships for 40 to 50 students to attend a 3-day symposium in Washington, DC and conduct a funded community-based health education project in their community or at their institution. 

Please visit our website at www.aptrweb.org/pasp to learn more about the Paul Ambrose Scholars Program and to access the online application.  For additional program information or questions regarding the application process, please contact Amy Doggett (202.463.0550, ext 123) or Emily Springer ( oreas@aptrweb.org 202.463.0550, ext . 137). PASP Eligibility:Applicants must be a current student* in one of the following areas of graduate study within the US:

Dentistry (entering years 2-4 in fall 2010)

·  Allopathic Medicine (entering years 2-4 in fall 2010)

 ·  Osteopathic Medicine (entering years 2-4 in fall 2010)

 ·  Graduate Physician Assistant

  ·  Graduate Nursing 

 ·  Pharmacy (entering years 5 or 6 in a PharmD program in fall 2010)

 * Note: Students currently enrolled in public health programs or with graduate degrees in public health are NOT eligible. Applicants graduating in the spring/summer 2010 are NOT eligible.*Application Deadline – *February 8, 2010

 Applicant Notification – April 1, 2010 2010 Paul Ambrose Scholars Symposium – June 25-27, 2010

APTR-ODPHP Health Policy Fellowship Program

The Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) with support from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), offers Health Policy Fellowships to eligible individuals in the public health field.

Selected Fellows will have training in health promotion, prevention, and health communication policy at the national level while contributing to ODPHP’s activities.

Applicant must have completed a graduate degree in communication, marketing, or public health.
 

For more information, please go to

http://aptrweb.org/prof_dev/fellowships_HCF.html

Research Corner Hours

Have you been to the Research Corner yet?

Stop by WSL 107 for one-on-one assistance from a librarian.

Monday: 3:30-5:30pm

Tuesday: 11:30 am-1:30pm

Wednesday: 12:30-2:30pm

Thursday: 11:30am-1:30 and 2:30-4:30pm

Friday: 11:00am-12:30pm

See you there!

Library Hours for Winter 2010

Welcome back!

The Library Hours for Winter 2010  (January 6 – March 20, 2010)

Monday – Thursday  9:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Friday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Saturday: CLOSED

Sunday: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM

EXCEPTIONS TO ABOVE:
January 15, 2010, Furlough Friday – CLOSED
January 18, 2010, Monday Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday – CLOSED
January 22, 2010, Furlough Friday – CLOSED
February 12, 2010, Furlough Friday – CLOSED
February 26, 2010, Furlough Friday – CLOSED
March 12, 2010, Furlough Friday – CLOSED
March 13, 2010, Saturday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM