In this issue:
Extended Hours Upcoming Classes Fall Membership Benefits November Bullitt History of Medicine Club	Google at UNC New in the Collections HSL Presents at Conference

YOU ASKED FOR IT, YOU GOT IT! HSL EXTENDS HOURS!

The Health Sciences Library is pleased to announce new extended hours beginning on Monday, November 13th.

The extended hours are funded through a collaborative cost-sharing agreement with the health affairs schools and the Health Sciences Library. Each school contributed to the costs involved in staffing the Library and enhancing security for the extended hours.

UPCOMING CLASSES:

Registration and information for all classes: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/classes/

Special RefWorks Class

Linda Bush, Training and Information Specialist, from CSA will be offering a special RefWorks class November 8th from 1:30 to 2:30pm. CSA is the producer of RefWorks.

PubMed

Basic sessions on searching PubMed.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 2-3pm
Friday, December 8, 2006 3-4pm

End Note

Basic Class: Wednesday, November 8, 2006 10-11am
Advanced Class: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10-11am

Media Kitchen Orientations

Wednesday, November 8, 2006 2-3pm
Thursday, November 16, 2006 3-4pm

Using RSS as a Research Tool

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 10-11am

MEMBERSHIP MONTH EXTENDED

There is still time to participate in the Friends of the Library Fall Membership Drive - until November 10, all new members will receive a free HSL Friends commuter mug, coupons for free coffee, and be entered into a drawing for a new iPod Nano! All Student members are invited to an exclusive pizza party at the Health Sciences Library on December 6. Special Student Rate to join Friends of the Library through November 10, only $20! For more information, go to: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/friends

NOVEMBER 14 BULLITT HISTORY OF MEDICINE CLUB LECTURE

Please join us at the Duke University Medical Center Library as Jeffrey P. Baker, M.D., Ph.D., Duke University Department of Pediatrics, presents: "Science Discovers, Man Adapts: Premature Babies on Display in American World Fairs, 1901-1939." This lecture is Tuesday, 11/14/2006, 5:30pm, DUMC Library, History of Medicine Reading Room (#102) For the complete lecture schedule, go to: http://www.med.unc.edu/bhomc/sched.htm

THE FUTURE OF INFORMATION - GOOGLE-STYLE

On Thursday October 26, the UNC Health Sciences Library hosted a panel discussion featuring Google's Technology Director Craig Silverstein on "Organizing the world's information: Google's vision for the 21st Century". Over 400 people attended the program, which included, from UNC-Chapel Hill, moderator Paul Jones, director of ibiblio.org and an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and School of Information and Library Science; Carol Jenkins, director of the Health Sciences Library; Dr. Barbara Rimer, dean of the School of Public Health; Dr. Jose-Marie Griffiths, dean of the School of Information and Library Sciences; and Fred Stutzman, a UNC doctoral student in the School of Information and Library Sciences studying social networking. A video of the presentation will be available soon on the HSL website.

Stop by the Info Wall area and pick up a free Google Tools CD while supplies last.

For a look at the media's take on the talk check out The Daily Tar Heel: http://tinyurl.com/yem59t or the News and Observer at: http://www.newsobserver.com/696/story/503991.html

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL THESES YIELD HISTORICAL TREASURES

The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) has given the Health Sciences Library a collection of International Medical Theses. The collection includes approximately 3,500 linear feet of theses, dating from 1801 to 1975, in many languages, and from prominent scholarly institutions throughout the world. A stipulation of this gift is that it made available to users for research. After almost two years of sorting, organizing, and cleaning, theses are now starting to be published on the HSL website: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Collections/HistoryOfMedicine/InternationalTheses.cfm

Dr. George Sheldon, UNC Professor of Surgery and medical historian, has long been interested in Susan Dimock, the first woman physician from North Carolina, born in 1847 in Washington, North Carolina, who received her degree from the University of Zurich in 1871 after being turned down for admission to Harvard. Her thesis is one of those in our collection, along with the theses of 3 of her female classmates. View biographical information and links to other sites with information about Dr. Dimock (including copy of rejection letter from Harvard) at; http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Collections/HistoryOfMedicine/DimockBio.cfm We have discovered theses written by a U-boat Commander in World War II, a member of the French resistance, a prominent burn doctor, a homeopathic physician, and a psychic physician. Every thesis leads to many questions about the lives of the person, the mentors and faculty at the schools, the topics chosen for the dissertations and of course to questions about the wonderful dedications, such as those to "my fallen comrades"

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