News

Join us for a chat with Dr. Oliver Smithies about the importance of information access to scientific research, especially his own. Audience participation will be encouraged. Don't miss this opportunity to have your questions answered by Dr. Smithies. You may also submit questions for Dr. Smithies when you register to attend.

Space is limited and registration is required. To ensure your seat, register today!

HSL will also make a video of this discussion with Dr. Smithies available online at a later date.

AACN and UNC School of Nursing Awarded Grant for Quality and Safety Initiative

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the UNC School of Nursing have been awarded grants totaling $4.25 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to conduct an innovative and far-reaching project aimed at preparing future nurses to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems. The grants -- $2.45 million for AACN and $1.8 million for the UNC School of Nursing -- will support the third phase of the multi-year Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative. See this announcement from the AACN for more details.

The Health Sciences Library has been a partner in these efforts, providing research support throughout each phase of the project. HSL's Jean Blackwell, Library Liaison to UNC Hospitals' Administration and Patient Resource Centers, has worked together with the School of Nursing investigators to complete phases one and two of this project, and will continue to partner with them to complete this newly funded phase to support the QSEN initiative. Including library support can strengthen your grant proposals. Learn more about our availability to partner with you on our Web site.

Health Observances/NC Health Info

• National Brain Injury Awareness Month
• National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
• National Nutrition Month
• Save Your Vision Month

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

Your State. Your Health. Your Story.

NC Health Info has a new look! Responding to our mission to provide health information to North Carolinians statewide, we have changed our tag line to, "Your State. Your Health." And we'd love to hear your story. How has NC Health Info helped you? Click on "Tell Us Your Story" and let us know. Or talk to us on Facebook. Become a fan and get updates about new and featured topics, read about our activities, tell us how you use NC Health Info, and invite your friends to become fans, too.

NC Health Info is Re-Accredited by HON Foundation

NC Health Info was recently reviewed and re-accredited by the Health on the Net (HON) Foundation. The HON Code of Conduct (HONcode) is the oldest and most used accreditation for medical and health related information available on the Internet. Web sites that earn the HONcode seal have been deemed to follow rules which hold Web site developers to basic ethical standards in the presentation of information and help make sure readers always know the source and the purpose of the data they are reading. For more information on HON initiatives go to: http://www.hon.ch/Global .

HSL Budget Update

The Library, like all units on campus, is considering options for how to adjust to budget reductions now and in the future. Our main focus is to continue to provide our users with the resources and services needed to do their work effectively. To that end, we will continue to consult our Library Advisory Committee, a representative group of faculty and students that meets twice a semester. With this group's input, we will seek to adjust to the budget reductions in ways that have the least possible impact on our users. We will work to keep you updated if any services or resources change. In the meantime, if you have any suggestions, we welcome your feedback.

HSL Student Employee Jasmin Jones Wins Election

Jasmin Jones, a student employee at HSL, won a record breaking runoff election to become the student body president for the 2009-2010 academic year. See more details in this article from the Daily Tar Heel. From all of us at HSL, Congratulations, Jasmin!

Library Tips and Resources

Spring Break Library Hours

Spring break is March 6 - March 16. Please note changes to the Library and Friends' Café hours posted on the hours page of our Web site.

Basic Bioinformatics Tools Forums for Spring 2009

The Tools Forum offers seminar and hands-on computer workshops on tools and resources for bioinformatics. All trainings are located at the Health Sciences Library in the Biogen-Idec Classroom (307).

To view complete class dates and details and for registration information, visit our Workshop Details page.

Space is limited and registration is required. Additional class sessions may be scheduled if initial sessions fill. Registration opens March 5, 2009

Identifying Funding Sources Workshop for Health Affairs Faculty

Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Time: 12:00 to 2 p.m.
Place: 307 Health Sciences Library (computer lab)

Carolina health affairs faculty members are invited to attend this hands-on workshop on identifying funding sources for your research, programs, and other scholarly endeavors. Susan Gramling, GrantSource Librarian, will provide time-saving tips for conducting a funding search and an overview of resources and services available through the GrantSource Library. Each participant will have access to a computer for searching and will set up customized alerts to receive announcements of new and reissued funding opportunities.

For details and required registration, visit the online registration page.

Need to know more about copyright? Check out our new tutorial.

Test your knowledge about copyright! The new HSL Copyright tutorial is now available on the HSL Web site. This tutorial uses health care examples to examine basic copyright issues. As you progress through the module, you can test your knowledge, and there is a comprehensive quiz at the end. If you use this tutorial as an assignment, there is a certificate that can be printed once the quiz has been successfully completed.

New Database Resource in Counseling and Pyschotherapy

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works is now available by searching More Databases on the HSL homepage. This database contains real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material. Its collections total more than 2,000 transcripts of actual therapy sessions - almost 40,000 pages of first-person accounts, together with 25,000 pages of major reference works. There are diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs along with the full text of the sessions themselves. All accounts are non-fiction, delivered in the first person and, where possible, contemporaneous.

Events

Unnatural Causes: Is inequality making us sick?

Friends of the Library

HSL Remembers Dr. David C. Sabiston, Jr.

Dr. David C. Sabiston, Jr., a pioneer in the field of surgery and a long time supporter of the Health Sciences Library, passed away on January 26, 2009. Dr. Sabiston, along with his wife Agnes, was a generous Friend to the Health Sciences Library. Perhaps, most notable among Dr. Sabiston's many achievements was when he led a surgical team in performing an early and daring coronary bypass operation on a human in the 1960s, paving the way for more effective cardiac procedures.

Dr. Sabiston was a North Carolina native, born near Jacksonville, NC. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, before earning a medical degree at Johns Hopkins in 1947. He became head of the department of surgery at Duke in 1967, a post from which he retired in 1994.

His contributions to the field of medicine and health sciences were multi-faceted. The Health Sciences Library expresses its deepest gratitude for Dr. Sabiston's legacy of generosity.

Honor with Books

Honor a friend, family member, or colleague with HSL's Honor with Books program. If you wish, you may designate the subject area in which you'd like us to purchase materials with your gift. A bookplate including the honoree's name and your name will be placed in the front of each book purchased with your gift. For more details visit our Honor with Books web page.

Become a Friend of the Library

Now more than ever, your support of your Health Sciences Library ensures our ability to fuel teaching, learning, and research at Carolina and beyond. One of the few libraries in the nation supporting five premiere health affairs schools and a robust healthcare system, UNC's Health Sciences Library strives to maintain the highest quality information resources and services. Your membership in the Friends of the Library is a vital part of our success! Visit our Friends page to learn more.

HSL E-NEWS is a monthly publication of the UNC-Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library. Past issues of enews are archived with many other library-produced publications accessible here. For more information on this publication, contact Ginny Bunch, Assistant Director of Development and Communications: gbunch@unc.edu