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McGoogan News

Faculty Development PubMed Opportunity

A faculty development seminar titled “Locating, Collecting and Storing Literature Using PubMed” will be held Thursday, June 11 at 11 a.m. in the Sorrell Center, Room 4053. Being able to effectively and efficiently search for meaningful literature is an important competency in academic health care settings. PubMed is an essential tool for locating relevant medical information on quality care, medical interventions, teaching and research. Teresa Hartman offers this session for faculty to explore approaches in searching PubMed for the greatest gains in the least time, maximizing success in research and scholarly activities. At the conclusion of this course, the participant should be able to:

  • Format an effective search statement to use in PubMed;
  • Save collections and store search strategies to MyNCBI;
  • Create a relevant email alert to cover a current research topic;
  • Identify and utilize MeSH educational subheadings for effective searches using PubMed; and
  • Access full-text literature sources through electronic means and through Interlibrary loan services.

Pre-registration is required. For UNMC faculty, there is no fee to attend this course (CIK 9821). Register online at unmc.edu/facdev or call 559-5929. A complimentary lunch for registered participants will be served at 11 a.m. with the course beginning shortly after. The registration deadline is June 8. For more information about faculty development programs contact Linda Love at 559-6192 or lmlove@unmc.edu.

Inaugural Davis Lectureship May 21

by Jo Giles, UNMC public relations

We can learn a lot from the past.

In fact, lessons learned from past scientists — whose significant discoveries led to new therapies and treatment of disease — can be valuable to those who work to confront modern disease.

This idea is the foundation for the new Richard B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D., History of Medicine Lectureship, which is sponsored by UNMC’s McGoogan Library of Medicine.

Dr. Davis, UNMC professor emeritus of internal medicine, has a long-standing interest in the history of medicine. Throughout his career, he published more than 90 articles on hematology, most recently on contributions to science throughout history.

The annual lectureship was set up to bring national experts to UNMC’s campus to discuss the history of various scientific findings and support the library’s special collections.

“The Davis lecture gives our students, faculty and community a forum to study and discuss how unexpected findings set the stage of great progress. We are extremely grateful to Dr. Davis for providing this opportunity.”

The inaugural speaker for the Davis Lecture will be Gregory Anstead, Ph.D., M.D., associate professor in the department of medicine, division of infectious diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The title of his lecture will be, “Syphilis: A 20th Century Social and Therapeutic History.”

The medical center campus and community are invited to the Davis Lecture May 21 at 3 p.m. in room 4053 of the Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education.

“Some of the most important hypotheses have challenged the prevailing wisdom of their day,” Dr. Woelfl said. “The Davis lecture gives our students, faculty and community a forum to study and discuss how unexpected findings set the stage of great progress. We are extremely grateful to Dr. Davis for providing this opportunity.”

Date Published: Wednesday, May 13, 2009

What do you think of the beta library webpage?

The McGoogan Library’s redesigned Web site is ready for viewing in a “beta” version! The beta can only be viewed while you are on-campus.

The goal of the redesigned site is to bring more resources to the front and reduce the amount of searching and clicking. Take a look, and let us know what you think and please provide us with feedback. The new design has several improvements, including:

 

  • McGoogan Library News, ‘About Us’, Research Help, and Services are now available on the home page;
  • Research Help, the library’s custom research portals, are now available in a drop down by group format (COD, CON, COP, etc);
  • A navbar has been applied across all .html pages to help users more easily navigate the site.

 

 

Input from the campus community has been incorporated into the design and is still invited, so please let us know your opinions.

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Swine Flu information resources (Updated 5/6)

Update: Check out the UNMC flu page http://www.unmc.edu/flu/ which includes the new library guide http://unmc.libguides.com/h1n1swineflu

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The government has many informative Swine Flu resources on the web:

CDC

  • http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/
  • Get the latest updates through the CDC Twitter (http://twitter.com/CDCemergency) and RSS feeds (http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/rss/)

MedlinePlus (good for patients and family)

  • http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/swineflu.html

Environmental Health and Toxicology Links on Swine Flu
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/swineflu.html
The National Library of Medicine Division of Specialized Information Services has released an Enviro-Health Links page on Swine Flu. This page contains links to resources about the 2009 Swine Flu outbreak, including transmission, prevention, treatment, and the genetic makeup of the influenza virus.

Additional sources of information:

World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/en/

HealthMap is a global disease alert map
http://www.healthmap.org/en
It also has a Twitter account which includes swine flu alerts and useful links to news and resources: http://twitter.com/healthmap

Summer book sale on through April 29

Popular fiction and nonfiction books and videos are available for a monetary donation. All donated money goes to purchase new books for the Fontenelle Elementary School Library.  Visit the library, on the 6th floor of Wittson Hall, to peruse the book carts!

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