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  Happy Holidays and Congratulations Graduates!Beginning December 3, 2008, stop by the HSL lobby to grab a sweet treat. It's our way of saying happy holidays, good luck on exams and congrats to all who are graduating! Also, in our lobby you'll find information about HSL resources that are still available to you after you graduate, and how you can stay connected with us by joining the Friends of the Library . So, come on by! From all of us at HSL---have a happy and healthy holiday season!
Friends' Café Holiday Hours
Visit our Web site for more information on holiday hours. New Policy for Student FinesEffective November 17, 2008 students will be required to pay overdue library fines on the day the late item is returned. If you do not make a payment at the Library on the day you return the late item, you must pay your fine at the Cashier's Office or online on the following day. All Interlibrary Loan fees will continue to be paid at the HSL. This does not apply to faculty. If you have any questions, feel free to drop by the front desk. New Online Suggestion Box and Blog
New Resources and Product TrialsIn response to positive feedback, HSL has purchased four products recently featured on our " Evaluate New Products" page. These new products include Global Health Archive, Mosby's Nursing Consult, Procedures Consult, and VisualDx. We are also conducting trials on several additional products. Your feedback makes a difference! Please check out the "Evaluate New Products" page and let us know what you think about featured trial products. HSL Librarians Contribute to HealthNet.orgKaren Crowell, Clinical Specialist and Christie Silbajoris, Director, NC Health Info have created a new Patient Education section for the Essential Health Links Web site at www.healthnet.org/essential-links . Essential Health Links provides a gateway to selected Web sites for health professionals, researchers, medical library communities, and publishers in developing and emerging countries. The Patient Education section will primarily serve as a resource for clinicians for whom English is not a first language. It will also provide informational materials for distribution to patients and other intermediaries. News from the Bullitt History of Medicine ClubJames Fraser, a third-year UNC medical student and Bullitt History of Medicine Club member, has won the $1500 William B. Bean Student Research Award sponsored by the American Osler Society (www.americanosler.org). James project title is "Molding an Independent Specialty: Plastic Surgery in Postwar America, 1919-1941," and he will present his work at the next annual American Osler Society meeting in Cleveland in April 2009. James will be exploring the story of how plastic surgery struggled to establish itself as an independent branch of surgery in the United States. An earlier version of his research was presented at a Bullitt Club meeting on February 20, 2008, in a talk entitled "A Faceless Odyssey: Reconstructing Facial Wounds in the First World War." * * * The next meeting of UNC's Bullitt History of Medicine Club will be Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at the UNC Health Sciences Library in the 5th Floor Conference Room (527). Please join us at 5:30pm for light refreshments followed by the lecture at 6pm. Meetings are free and open to the public. Dr. Vanessa Gamble, University Professor of Medical Humanities at George Washington University, will be presenting a lecture entitled, "Without Health and Long Life All Else Fails": A History of African-American Efforts to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Health and Health Care." * * * Bullitt Club lectures for 2008-9 are now available online as mp3 downloads. The most recent lecture online is Chris Dibble's talk that was delivered on November 17, 2008. Chris was the inaugural winner of the McLendon-Thomas Award in the History of Medicine, and gave a presentation on the pioneering work of Edward Trudeau Livingston on tuberculosis. Guidelines for the 2009 essay competition as well as information on future Bullitt events are also available on the Bullitt site. Ongoing Exhibit at HSLUNC Gillings School of Global Public Health: Meeting the Public Health Challenges of the 21st Century A new exhibition has just been installed in the Health Sciences Library. We invite you to visit the Library to view displays on the history and current initiatives of the newly renamed UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. A highlight of the exhibition is an audiovisual station, where you can listen to Dinah Shore & Frank Sinatra's 1946 contribution to public health in North Carolina, as they sing "It's All Up To You" to music by Kay Kyser and His Orchestra. Also featured are excerpts of oral history interviews with Drs. Dennis Gillings and Daniel Okun, and short videos of investigators in three of the Gillings Innovation Labs. You'll find the exhibit inside the Columbia Street entrance. For more information, contact Daniel Smith, Special Collections Librarian, dlsmith@unc.edu or visit http://www.hsl.unc.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/index.cfm. Visit HSL on FacebookIf you're on Facebook, visit the UNC Health Sciences Library's Facebook page or search for "UNC Health Sciences Library" in Facebook. You can check our hours, see the latest news and announcements from the HSL, find out what classes are coming up, view photos of some of our displays and events, search PubMed, and learn about some of the other electronic resources we offer. Become our fan to receive updates when we add features to our page or schedule new events or classes.
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