In this issue:
Spring Holiday Hours Friends Café Extends Hours Bullitt Club - Women Medical Missionaries Botanical Therapies Exhibit - 4/16 Open Access/SPARC talk - 4/25	Product of the Month - GIDEON Reports from HSL: User Tip of the Month - Ebrary April Health Awareness Observances

SPRING HOLIDAY HOURS

HSL hours will be reduced slightly during Spring Holiday:

Thursday, April 5	7:30am-5pm
Friday, April 6	11am-5pm
Saturday, April 7	11am-5pm
Sunday, April 8	11am-Midnight Study Hall: 9pm-Midnight

APRIL 10 BULLITT CLUB LECTURE - LAST OF THE YEAR Livingstone's Long Shadow: Women Medical Missionaries of the 1890s Jeanne Moskal, Ph.D. UNC Department of English and Comparative Literature For directions and the complete 2007 lecture schedule, go to: http://www.med.unc.edu/bhomc/sched.htm

THAT'S A LOTTA LATTES!

New Cafe hours effective April 9: Mon-Thurs 7:30am - 7:30pm; Fri 7:30am - 5:30 pm; Sunday 11:00am - 4:00pm. And now that the cash register has been updated, the Cafe is once again accepting credit cards.

BOTANICAL THERAPY: PLANTS WITH A PURPOSE

Whether admiring a blossom, planting rosemary, or making herbal tea, the botanical world affects our lives in many ways. "Plants with a Purpose" is a new exhibit curated by Anne Wood Humphries, opening April 16th at the UNC Health Sciences Library. The exhibit examines the impact of plants from three perspectives:

The Sam W. Hitt Medicinal Plant Garden: The library's own medicinal plant garden, with its special layout, is dedicated to the memory of Sam Hitt, an avid gardener, who directed the library from 1976-1986. Horticultural Therapy: Wellness through Gardening: Since 1978, the horticultural therapy program at the NC Botanical Gardens has helped its clients face injury, mental illness, dementia, and many other issues by offering specific treatment programs built around the activities of gardening. Medicinal Plants: Nature's Pharmacy: The medicinal properties of plants, current practices in herbal medicine, and special herbal prints from the library's rare book collections are highlighted.

GROW YOUR OWN

Learn how to grow a wide variety of native woodland botanicals for fun and profit from Jeanine Davis, Specialty Crops Program, NC Agricultural Extension. This hands-on workshop will be held at the NC Botanical Gardens on Friday, May 4 from 9 am-12 noon, and will be followed by a guided tour of the herb garden. The fee is $35, call 962-0522 for more information or to register for this workshop.

OPEN ACCESS AND SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING TALK - APRIL 25 Publishing choices: Know your rights and expand your impact! Wednesday April 25, 2:30-4:00 pm Room 527, Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill Light refreshments will be served Guest Speaker: Heather Joseph, Director, SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Please join Heather Joseph and leaders of the Scholarly Publishing community for this lively, interactive discussion.

Topics include:

• Dispelling myths of open access
• Negotiating and retaining author's rights
• Choose the best publishing options for the author AND the audience

Before becoming Director of SPARC in 2006, Ms. Joseph was President and Chief Operating Officer for BioOne, which helps small scholarly societies in the biological sciences remain independent and competitive in the electronic arena. For her work with BioOne, she received the 2002 Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers' Award for Services to Not-for-Profit Publishing.

Pre-registration is requested for this event. The first 20 registrants will receive free Friends of the Library commuter mugs (you must be present at the event to collect your mug!) You can also submit questions for Heather Joseph online. For more information, to submit questions, or to register, go to: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Collections/ScholCom/sparctalk.cfm

EVALUATE OUR PRODUCT OF THE MONTH

GIDEON: Global Infectious Disease & Epidemiology Network - Trial ends May 14, 2007
GIDEON is a global infectious disease database providing an evidence-based, diagnostic reference tool for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology. It includes four modules: diagnosis, epidemiology, therapy and microbiology, with tracking information, country reports, maps and historical time lines. Information is also drawn from MEDLINE, WHO publications, abstracts of major international meetings, user feedback and National Health Ministry Reports. The database covers: 300+ diseases, 200+ countries, 1,000+ microbial taxa, and 300+ antibacterial agents and vaccines. To evaluate this or other products, or to see results of previous product evaluations, visit: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/evaluation/trials.cfm

Reports from HSL

News about events and happenings in and around the Health Sciences Library

MOLDOVAN LIBRARIANS VISIT HSL

On Thursday, March 29, the UNC Health Sciences Library held a reception for librarians visiting from Moldova. In the spring of 2006, librarian Donna Flake and volunteer Diane Darrow from Coastal AHEC (Area Health Education Centers) established a partnership between the Moldovan Scientific Medical Library and the medical libraries in North Carolina. This is part of a broader bilateral agreement called the North Carolina-Moldova Partnership for Peace, initiated in 1999 between Governor Easley and the President of Moldova, and facilitated by North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall.

Liubovi Karnaeva, Library Director; and Silvia Ciubrei, Deputy Director, Scientific Medical Library, Moldova, were impressed by how many resources we can offer our students and faculty, and by our welcoming spaces and new technology. By contrast, their technology is outmoded and their Internet access is slow and unreliable. They are faced with enormous challenges in meeting even basic needs for current biomedical information, while also trying to provide new services such as patient education. Their collection is still primarily in print format, although some online journals and databases are available from The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), which provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries. Online content is also provided by libraries such as HSL, and we also offer free interlibrary loans to Moldova. The librarians were very appreciative of our hospitality and our willingness to strengthen the library partnership in any ways we can. For more information about the Moldovan - NC libraries project, visit: http://www.coastalahec.org/library/library-moldova.asp

To learn more about HINARI, go to: http://www.who.int/hinari/en/

SUCCESSFUL BIOINFORMATICS WEEK AT UNC

In February, HSL sponsored a series of NCBI workshops at UNC and Duke during Bioinformatics Week - 2007. The National Center for Bioinformatics teaches the use of tools they provide, but they don't have a training facility and their trainings are not widely publicized. HSL fills this gap by offering classes which are open to anyone, advertised (with help from Center for Genomics and other departments/programs who are interested in learning how to use NCBI tools), and provide a streamlined registration system and excellent classroom facilities.

Over 100 participants attended classes such as a Mouse Genome Database Workshop, Making Sense of DNA and Protein Sequences, and Structural Analysis QuickStart. For a full listing of workshops and materials, go to: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Collections/Bioinformatics/BBTForum.cfm

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL THESES GETTING CLEANER EVERY DAY

In 2004, the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) gave the Health Sciences Library a Collection of International Medical Theses. The Collection includes approximately 3,500 linear feet of post-1801 theses from prominent scholarly institutions throughout the world. One of the stipulations of the gift is that the Collection be made available for research purposes.

HSL staff and hardworking students are almost 1/4 of the way through moving, cleaning, stamping, ordering, and processing the wonderful theses (almost 230 boxes so far). They're moving on to Edinburgh next (with slight detours to Zurich & Leipzig). Here is quote from email from a physician and historian in St Louis to whom we sent copies of 3 theses from Leipzig: "You are a gem of surpassing worth! Many thanks indeed. Question: To whom should I write my ecstatic letter of thanks and support?" It's not always easy to see the way from dirty boxes to letters of ecstasy, so give credit to our student cleaners and organizers and to our catalogers!

SOME LIBRARIANS HAVE MORE TO WORRY ABOUT THAN OVERDUE BOOKS

The Public Television Station (PBS) NOW program in the United States features a recent interview with Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraq National Library and Archive which can be viewed at: http://www.pbs.org/now/news/index.html

USER TIP OF THE MONTH - LOOKING FOR AN ELECTRONIC BOOK?

The University has purchased over 33,000 electronic books for the new "Ebrary" collection: http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/. You can now easily search the online catalog for Ebrary books and many other electronic texts. The Health Sciences Library is in the process of adding about 40 Wiley e-books on statistics and research design. You can see a sample of the Wiley books on the Evaluate new products page: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/evaluation/trials.cfm

Right now, in order to read the ebrary titles you will need to download a reader to your computer. Ebrary tells us that beginning this summer, the reader will no longer be needed. Try it for yourself - just look for the E-books search choice in the catalog, right under E-Journals.

GET A JOB!

Check out the jobs available at HSL at: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/AboutLib/employment/jobindex.cfm

HSL E-NEWS is a monthly publication of the UNC-Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library. For more information on this publication, contact Susan Siegel, Communications Coordinator: sysiegel@med.unc.edu, 919-966-0944.