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At the UNC-CH Health Sciences Library, the New Year has brought with it a new Deputy Director! We are pleased to share the news that Jim Curtis has rejoined the UNC Health Sciences Library as our Deputy Director. He is no stranger to UNC or to our library, having served us for over a decade as Assistant and Associate Director before leaving in 2004 to become the Director of the Savitt Medical Library and Information Technology Services at the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Reno. He oversaw the growth of medical library services on both Reno and Las Vegas campuses, and expanded library outreach activities throughout the state and region.
In his former position at UNC, Mr. Curtis led the library's major building renovation completed in 2004. We are excited that he is returning to occupy the office he never moved into! Regarding his return, he says, "I am glad to find that, Thomas Wolfe not withstanding, you can go home again. I am delighted to be back at the Health Sciences Library at UNC. It is very much like coming home... only to a home I never quite got the chance to live in, and to a position that presents many new opportunities. I look forward very much to an exciting, rewarding future, and to working with the very best colleagues with whom one could hope to be associated."
As the Deputy Director, Mr. Curtis will work closely with Library Director, Carol Jenkins, to help lead us toward our vision of being a global health information partner serving the University, the state, and the world. He will help create the library's strategic objectives and set priorities, guide library programs and services, and work to enable optimal overall library performance.
We know that you will join us in welcoming him back!
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For information about these health concerns as well as local health care services, programs, and providers to help manage them, see NC Health Info Go Local at: http://nchealthinfo.org
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Spring 2009 Class Schedule
This semester we will be holding two RefWorks classes each month. Please make note of the new time for classes.
Classes held from 9-10am on January 20, February 17, March 17, and April 14.
Classes held from 5-6pm on January 28, February 25, March 25, and April 15.
Basic classes
January 22, 3-4pm
March 16, 11am-12 noon
April 9, 3-4pm
Advanced classes
January 27, 11am-12 noon
March 24, 3-4pm
April 17th, 11am-12 noon
Wondering what happened to February?
Donna Kirking from Thomson Reuters (the company that produces EndNote) will be offering an introductory EndNote class here on February 13th from 10am to 12 noon.
New EndNote Tutorial
In addition to the classes for EndNote, you can also check out an updated version of the EndNote tutorial that correlates to the latest edition of
EndNote, X2. Never fear, if you are looking for the
EndNote X tutorial version, it is still available on the
Guides and Tutorials page as well!
Other Workshops for RefWorks and SciFinder Scholar
Want to learn RefWorks, Patent Searching in SciFinder Scholar, and more?
Workshops provided through the UNC Graduate School and University Library, while focused on graduate students, are open to everyone. For details on what is offered in January, location, and times visit the Graduate School Library Workshops page.
The library liaisons to the Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Public Health provide weekly office hours for faculty, staff, students, and the general public. Office hours are a great time to drop in for help from a librarian, either online or on campus (but outside the Health Sciences Library itself). All are welcome regardless of school affiliation.
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Lara Handler
, School of Medicine Liaison, holds an online office hour Sunday evenings from 9-10pm.
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K.T. Vaughan
, Eshelman School of Pharmacy Liaison, holds an online office hour Tuesdays from noon-1pm and an on campus hour Tuesdays 4-5pm in Beard Hall 114.
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Mellanye Lackey
, Gillings School of Global Public Health Liaison, holds an on campus office hour Thursdays from noon-1pm in the Atrium of the Hooker Research Building.
According to a randomized controlled trial published
last summer in BMJ, open access articles had 89% more full-text downloads than subscription access articles. While open access articles were viewed more frequently, this study found that they were not cited any more frequently within the first year.
These results led the BMJ
editor to speculate that most authors citing research have subscription access to journals, but that the demand for research information is far broader than the audience of academic researchers. Will the number of downloads start to supplement the number of citations? Learn about open access publication support at UNC-CH via
HSL's webpage for Open Access and Scholarly Communications.
The Carolina Curator is a new blog for Special Collections at the Health Sciences Library. The blog is an open-ended forum for the history of the health sciences, and will serve to alert readers to news and events, useful resources, as well as highlight the activities of Special Collections at the Health Sciences Library and the university generally. The blog is also very easy to subscribe to, with options for various RSS news readers and aggregators on the main page (http://carolinacurator.blogspot.com).
The next meeting of the
Bullitt History of Medicine Club will be Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at the UNC Health Sciences Library in the 5th Floor Conference Room (527). Please join us at noon for light refreshments and lecture. Meetings are free and open to the public.
Dr. Aldo Rustioni, Professor of Cell Development and Biology at UNC School of Medicine, will be presenting a lecture entitled, "The Neuron Doctrine of 1891 and the 1906 Nobel Award for Physiology or Medicine."
Dr. Rustioni earned his M.D. in 1965 at the University of Parma (Italy), and was a resident in neurology at the University of Perugia (Italy). He served as assistant professor of Anatomy at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (The Netherlands) from 1968-1973, before joining UNC in 1973. In his talk, Dr. Rustioni will outline the development of ideas about the cell as the basic constitutive element of all biological tissues and address the controversy between scientists who believed the nervous tissue to be a fiber network and those who identified the neuron as the basic constitutive element of the nerve tissue. The Nobel for Medicine and Physiology was awarded in 1906 to the two main representatives of these opposite hypotheses, Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
For the schedule of upcoming events, visit the Bullitt Club web site. Bullitt Club lectures for Fall 2008 are now available online as
mp3 downloads.
If you have not had a chance already, we invite you to visit the Library to view the exhibit, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health: Meeting the Public Health Challenges of the 21st Century, which contains displays of both the history and current public health initiatives of the newly renamed school. A highlight of the exhibit 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 the
HSL Special Collections web site.
Congratulations to medical student Meredith Gilliam! She is the winner of our holiday gift basket drawing sponsored by the Friends of the Health Sciences Library. Over the holidays she enjoyed Carolina themed ornaments, a stocking, Santa hat, Tar Heel cookie, candies, and a Friends of the Library travel mug--just to name of a few of the goodies in our basket. She also received a free annual membership to Friends of the Library!
To learn more about Friends of the Library visit www.hsl.unc.edu/friends
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