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UNMC SHARING Clinics: Cultivating Compassion, Learning Through Service

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SHARING Clinic faculty volunteer, Ricki Otten, and student volunteer Kaitlyn Walton, process laboratory samples at the Leavenworth clinic location. Image courtesy of UNMC Strategic Communications

Written by: Carrie Meyer

The idea for a student-run free health clinic at UNMC emerged in the late 1990s, championed by then-students Sharon Stoolman, MD, and Christopher Connolly, MD. On September 10, 1997, with 80 UNMC students and 25 physicians, the SHARING Clinic opened at UNMC’s South Omaha location.  Opening night, they treated 10 patients.  Since then, SHARING clinics have expanded to four entirely student-led clinics and have treated thousands of patients.   

For almost 30 years, UNMC’s SHARING clinics have served Omaha with high-quality, low-cost preventative health care, where students applied knowledge to help real people, and where health care professionals mentored students and built relationships with their community members. Hundreds of UNMC volunteers, both faculty and students, serve thousands of community members with high quality services including examinations, laboratory testing, imaging, prescription medications, physical and occupational therapy, and mental health services, all free of charge.    

The newest exhibition installation in the Wigton Heritage Center explores the origins and impact of UNMC’s student-run clinics. The physical and online exhibitions explore the various clinics, historic milestones of SHARING, and highlights 20 oral histories recorded to preserve the origins and impact of student-run clinics here at UNMC.  

To learn more about getting involved in SHARING, please visit: 
https://www.unmc.edu/sharing/about/get-involved.html 

Keeping the Library and the Landfill Clean – Campus Sustainability Month

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Library staff member holding box of old dry erase markers

Written by: Kelly Gonzalez

Libraries, by definition, are sustainable spaces by promoting the use, return, and reuse of materials, but McGoogan Heath Sciences Library is taking it a step further. 

The library provides white board markers and highlighters for students to use, and while they aren’t quite reusable, they can be recycled! On any regular day, roughly 205 white board markers are available for use around the library in study rooms and on mobile white boards. AskUs staff make regular rounds throughout the library to replenish supplies and tidy the space. During this process, old, dry markers are identified, collected, and diverted from the regular trash. 

So far, the library has saved almost 8 lbs of old markers and highlighters from being thrown away! These expired items will be sent to the Office of Sustainability to be recycled through the TerraCycle program. The library also provides microfiber erasers and cloths for white boards that are washed and reused, further preventing waste from entering the local landfill. These efforts are keeping the library, campus, and the community just a little cleaner during Campus Sustainability Month and all year long.

UNMC Published Journals in Digital Commons: An Open Access Week Conversation with the Editors 

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Written by: Heather Brown

On October 22 from noon – 1 p.m., McGoogan Health Sciences Library will host a panel discussion of UNMC based journal editors in observance of International Open Access Week. The editors will discuss their experiences starting and maintaining an open access scholarly journal. Panelists will represent three journals that are hosted in the McGoogan Library’s DigitalCommons@UNMC repository.  

  • Graduate Medical Education Research Journal (editors: Chandrakanth Are, MBBS, MBA, FRCS, FACS and Premila Leiphrakpam, MBBS, DGO, PhD) 
  • Innovations in Health Sciences Education Journal (editors: Elizabeth Beam, PhD, RN and Maha Farid, MBBCH, MS, PhD) 
  • Translational Science in Occupation (editors: Nancy E. Krusen, PhD, OTR/L and M. Nicole Martino, PhD, OTR/L) 

This panel will be presented via Zoom.
Registration (https://unmc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N-HPK4-KTnGJ3rS_73bViA) is required. 

DigitalCommons@UNMC is an institutional repository provided by the McGoogan Library. Scholarly works of UNMC faculty, staff, and students are represented in this open access platform that is searchable in Google and Google Scholar. The journal platform within DigitalCommons@UNMC contains full editorial and peer review management, as well as an analytics dashboard and is available to the UNMC community members wishing to publish a recurring open access journal. For more information, contact Heather Brown at hlbrown@unmc.edu.   

Meet Our Newest Team Member!

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Written by: Courtney Kilroy

The McGoogan Library team is excited to welcome Savanna Falter as its most recent addition. Savanna began her position as Collections Specialist in August. She works primarily with the College of Nursing collection as a part of our Special Collections and Archives department.

“I’m excited to help manage the College of Nursing collection and help preserve and share the legacy of nursing at UNMC,” Savanna said. “It’s a meaningful opportunity to make these materials more accessible and engaging for students, faculty and researchers.”

Savanna comes to the library with plenty of previous experience in archives and the arts; she has held prior roles with the Christian Petersen Museum, Iowa State University Special Collections and Archives, Joslyn Art Museum, Pottawattamie Arts, Culture, and Entertainment, and Omaha Performing Arts, as well as with private art collectors. Savanna holds BAs in Anthropology and Art History from Iowa State University, where she also minored in Classical Studies.

“I enjoy curating and creating exhibitions that highlight diverse and underrepresented stories,” Savanna said. “I’m passionate about uncovering and amplifying lesser-known histories, especially in the areas of history, identity, and cultural memory.”

When she’s not doing collections work, Savanna enjoys writing, visiting museums, and watching vintage films.

Welcome Savanna!

Writing Center supports UNMC students, faculty and staff each step of the way 

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Written by: Courtney Kilroy

Whether you’re writing your first research proposal, having trouble finding the right words for your resume or searching for just one more set of eyes to go over your dissertation, the trained consultants who staff The Writing Center @ UNMC are exactly the right people to help.  

A collaboration between the McGoogan Library and the University of Nebraska at Omaha Writing Center, The Writing Center @ UNMC is available to all UNMC students, faculty, and staff for assistance with all types of writing, from class assignments to publication manuscripts. The staff are eager to help you with your writing, no matter where you are in the process.  

You can book an appointment online by heading to the Writing Assistance page on the McGoogan Library website and selecting “The Writing Center @ UNMC” as your appointment location. 

The Writing Center is housed in the library’s Design Hub space on the sixth floor of Wittson Hall, right next to the AskUs desk. The Center also offers virtual hours so you can get help from wherever is convenient for you. See their full fall schedule and make an appointment here. 

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