Ramadan Mubarak to our UNMC students, faculty, and staff!
To support members of our community who are observing Ramadan through fasting and prayer, the library offers the following resources:
Prayer Spaces: Reflection rooms equipped with a Qibla and prayer mats are available for students, faculty, and staff.
Iftar Dates: Dates are available on Level 6 near the entrance for those breaking their fast at sunset.
What is Ramadan? Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and a sacred time of fasting (Sawm), prayer, reflection, and community. Fasting during Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, alongside faith (Shahada), prayer (Salah), charity (Zakat), and pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj).
We wish all those observing Ramadan a peaceful and meaningful month.
The National Library of Medicine produced This Lead Is Killing Us: A History of Citizens Fighting Lead Poisoning in Their Communities, guest curated by historian and educator Richard M. Mizelle, Jr, PhD (University of Houston).
For over a century, citizens have confronted lead industries, housing authorities, and elected officials to protect their health against the dangers of lead poisoning. When people ingest lead—by breathing contaminated air, drinking contaminated water, or accidentally eating leaded paint chips—they can become very sick. Lead poisoning causes neurological problems and sometimes even death. Today, researchers believe that no amount of exposure to lead is safe for children.
The traveling banner exhibition located on Level 6, McGoogan Library, Wittson Hall and companion website explore the story of citizen action taken against an environmental danger. Lead exposure can cause neurological problems and sometimes even death; yet this metal has been pervasive in many aspects of American life for over a century.
Historically, mining, battery manufacturing, smelting, and enameling industries included lead in their production processes, impacting factory workers and consumers. Manufacturers added lead to household paints and gasoline, endangering the health of families and polluting the air through exhaust fumes. To protect themselves against the dangers of lead poisoning, scientists, families, and individuals opposed industries, housing authorities, and elected officials.
This Lead Is Killing Us: A History of Citizens Fighting Lead Poisoning in Their Communities is on display now through March 21st on Level 6, McGoogan Library, Wittson Hall.
From Eugenics to Ethics: Lessons for Today’s Medical Community
February 17th from noon to 1 p.m. via Zoom Medicine has come a long way—but its past still shapes the present.
McGoogan Library presents a thought-provoking panel, exploring the troubling legacy of eugenics in medicine and its enduring impact on healthcare ethics. Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH and Patricia Heberer-Rice, PhD, MA, will discuss how misguided “science” once justified harm, and how those historical practices influenced the medical education, policy, and the ethical frameworks that guide contemporary care. Through critical reflection, the discussion will highlight lessons for today’s clinicians and researchers, emphasizing the importance of equity, autonomy, and justice in medical decision-making.
Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH is a professor of medicine and of public health at the University of Colorado, where he directs the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities.
Patricia Heberer-Rice, PhD, MA joined the United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum in 1994 and is now the Museum’s senior historian.
This presentation is provided in partnership with Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the Calvin T. Ryan Library at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, host of Americans and the Holocaust: A Traveling Exhibition for Libraries made possible by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association. The Leon S. McGoogan Library developed a companion exhibition highlighting these themes, A Poisoned Practice: The Holocaust, Medical Complicity, and the American Response, on display at McGoogan Library, Level 8, Witson Hall and online.
McGoogan Library is excited to announce our Spring 2026 McGoogan Sessions schedule. Choose from six options, led by our experienced library faculty, designed to equip you with essential research skills and resources.
Upcoming Schedule
Types of Literature Reviews
Tues, February 24 from 1:00-2:00pm
Learn about the different types of literature reviews, how to choose the right one for your research (e.g., scoping vs. systematic vs. rapid) and understand the key features that distinguish each review. Register to attend via Zoom link
AI Literacy for Current and Future Healthcare Providers
Tues, March 3 from 1:00-2:30pm
This session will cover types of AI, effective use of GenAI tools, critical appraisal of GenAI outputs, and the ethical issues regarding GenAI in academic and scholarly work. Register to attend via Zoom link
Systematic Review Tools
Wed, March 11 from noon-1:00pm
Learn about tools that will help develop and manage your systematic review through each step of the process, including creating a research question, registering protocols, open and fee-based screening tools, and citation management tools. Register to attend via Zoom link
Professor Teresa (Teri) Hartman is retiring from a career of more than three decades as a health sciences librarian, with twenty-six of those years at the McGoogan Health Science Library. Teri started at McGoogan Library in 1999 as an Assistant Professor and National Network of Libraries of Medicine MidContinental Region (NNLM-MCR) outreach librarian. She moved to a liaison librarian role and was promoted to the Head of Education in 2004. She earned full professor in 2015.
Prior to being hired at McGoogan Library she was first a customer. While working as the Northeast Missouri Area Health Education Center librarian in the mid-1990s, Teri visited McGoogan library for training on using and promoting the MEDLINE index to rural healthcare providers.
Reflecting on her career, Teri said, “my career is a sum of my choices plus the opportunities offered.” Over the years, she championed information literacy and interprofessional education, helping the campus and Nebraska communities navigate an ever-changing information landscape. For Teri, McGoogan Library is “a place of growth,” a place where we are “not adapting to change but leading to change.”
