September 04, 2009

New Book—Too Much Medicine

New Book—Too Much Medicine
A local doctor in practice for 25 years, Dennis Gottfried, has written “a doctor’ prescription for better and more affordable health care.” If you are participating in the dialogue on health care reform and need specifics on overutilization, Dr. Gottfried has written a well documented survey of medicine from “the little purple pill” to “the high cost of dying.”

Gottfried, Dennis,M.D. Too Much Medicine. W 84 AA1 G685t 2009

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September 02, 2009

Library Hours--Labor Day Weekend

Library Hours-Labor Day Weekend

Friday Sept 4 7am-7pm
Saturday Sept 5 9am-5pm
Sunday Sept 6 2pm-6pm
Monday Sept 7 CLOSED-Labor Day
Regular hours resume Tuesday, Sept 8, 7am-11pm

Please call 679-3808 for more information.

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Library and IT Dept. Roll Out Encrypted Laptops to First Year Medical and Dental Students

On August 20th and 21st, all incoming first year SOM and SODM students received their custom- imaged and fully encrypted laptops. Thanks go out to the Library and IT staff who helped to make this process run so smoothly!

Following the laptop distribution sessions, on Wednesday, August 26th, First Year students participated in Laptop Orientation sessions. These sessions gave students a “hands-on” look to the pre-loaded, sophisticated software on their laptops. Students learned about the Aperio Virtual Microscope program, SAIVIN system and E-Exam software, among other applications. Students were also learned about safe computing , printing best practices and service options. In addition, Blackboard orientation sessions were offered by CEC staff to the incoming MPH and PHD students. Welcome and Best of Luck to all of the UCHC 2009 students!
To see more pictures, visit our Facebook page!

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September 01, 2009

September Database Classes

SEARCHING AND ACCESSING HEALTH SCIENCE INFORMATION RESOURCES
Target Audience: Physicians, Researchers, Faculty, Staff and Students
Location: Computer Education Classrooms – Lyman Maynard Stowe Library

These classes will provide hands-on training and demonstrations by UCHC Reference Librarians. Each class will outline quick and efficient means of searching and managing citation information for the four databases listed below. There is no charge for these classes but enrollment is limited to UCHC personnel only. To register in advance for any of these quick courses, please call UCHC Library Information & Education Services Department at 679-4051, send an email to ref@nso.uchc.edu or register online.

EndNote
September 8th 10:30 to 12:00
Bibliographies made easy. Learn how to use this tool to search online bibliographic databases, organize the references and build lists of cited works automatically. It includes additional features such as unlimited storage capacity (number of references), Customized views & displays, Work Offline (anytime/anywhere), Local Personal Files and Documents, and many more.

Psych Sources
September 10th 10:30 to 12:00
UCHC users have access to two world-class psychiatry and psychology databases: PsycInfo and Psychiatry Online. This class is an introduction to the literature for psychiatrists, counselors, mental health and nursing professionals.

RefWorks
September 16th 10:30 to 12:00
A Web-based bibliography and database manager (whereas EndNote is a Desktop software for PC and MAC). This class covers how to create a personal database by importing references from text files or online databases and using these references in writing a paper, automtically formatting the paper and generating the bibliography.

Scopus
September 24th 1:00 to 2:30
Scopus is a database for UCHC library users, providing online searching of 27 million records covering articles from 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers.

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August 31, 2009

SciFinder

AS of August 31, 2009, UCHC and Uconn Storrs libraries have moved our online subscription access to SciFinder Scholar from a client based format to the web access format. This means that users will no longer have to download the SciFinder Scholar client to their desktops and it still has contains all the same material.

New features include print reference, substance, and reaction answers, save answers to the CAS server, and export answers to your desktop or another file location. A new feature, SciFinder's Keep Me Posted feature lets you quickly and easily set up alerts for references or substances of interest. Whenever the Create Keep Me Posted icon in the upper left of the SciFinder window is active, you can set up an alert based on the initial query for the current Explore task or on an answer set generated using a Refine operation.

Users will need to register for a personal username and password in order to use the web version. Registration requires a valid UCHC or UConn email address.

Once is registration complete, login to access SciFinder.

For more information, contact the library.

Arta Dobbs
Collection Management Librarian

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August 21, 2009

Hartford Medical Society Historical Library: Open House – Thursday, September 10th, 3-5 pm

Hartford Medical Society Historical Library: Open House – Thursday, September 10th, 3-5 pm

Please join us for the grand opening of the Hartford Medical Society (HMS) Historical Library, now located in the sub-basement, room LSB-016. This non-circulating library contains historical books, pamphlets, journals, manuscripts and artifacts. It is a wonderful resource for those interested in the evolution of health care in this country.

The Open House will start at 3:00 in the café area of the Lyman Maynard Stowe Library with a scavenger hunt and tours. At 4:00, in the Low Learning Center, there will be light refreshments and a lecture given by Lynn Laskowski and Francis Coan of Tunxis Community College: Mark Twain and the “Majestic Literary Fossil”. They will talk about a set of medicinal dictionaries, owned and reviled by Mark Twain, now housed in the HMS library. These will be on display for the event. A promotional poster is available at: http://library.uchc.edu/hms/pdf/HMSGrandOpening3.pdf

In the exhibit case in the LMS library there will be an exhibit of artifacts and materials from the HMS collection: Medicine – 1793 vs. 1893, showcasing the advances made in the intervening 100 years.

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