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Our thanks to all who attended our annual fall reception honoring the Friends of the Health Sciences Library on October 29th. In case you missed the event, we highlighted expanding roles for the HSL, including increasing our work in global health; making reliable health information available to North Carolinians through NC Health Info; making more of our collections available to more people digitally; and supporting students making professional presentations through our
Media Design Studios.
A special thanks to Myron Cohen, MD, Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health [pictured left] whose remarks about the HSL partnership with the UNC Project in Malawi inspired all of us to continue on the path to becoming a leader in global health information. We are grateful for the support of so many individuals whose continued generosity allows us to be a premiere health sciences library.
Become a Friend of the Health Sciences Library
We take pride in providing access to information and services that fuel your work. Whether you visit us on the Web or on South Columbia Street, we are pleased to be a location for learning, collaborating, and teaching. If these things matter to you, please take a moment to join Friends of the HSL! You'll be invited to exclusive events and receive our Friends publications! For more information visit: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/friends
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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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We are pleased to announce that Diana McDuffee, Director of AHEC Information and Library System Network, was elected the Chair-elect for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC/MLA) at the chapter's annual meeting October 20-22, 2008. The Mid-Atlantic Chapter is made up of members from North Carolina, Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland, and West Virginia. In her new role, Ms. McDuffee will help to guide MAC/MLA's activities and will oversee the chapter's ongoing strategic planning initiatives. She will serve as an officer for a total of three years, serving as Chair-elect, Chair, and Immediate Past Chair, each for a one-year term.
Eight Health Sciences Library staff members presented papers and posters at the annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC/MLA) held in Morgantown, WV, October 20-22, 2008. Contributions by HSL staff included:
- Engaging Faculty and Students: Expanding Horizons with New Multimedia Technologies
Barbara Rochen Renner, Robert Ladd
- The Ripple Effect: The Benefits of Focused Resources Initiatives
Susan Swogger, Barbara Rochen Renner
- Expanding our Reach: Libraries Teaching Presentation Skills
Barbara Rochen Renner, Robert Ladd
- Bioinformatics Research, Service, and Training (BIRST) Program: New Horizons-Outreach to Bioinformatics Researchers within a University Environment
James Harroun, Barrie Hayes, Kelli Monahan, KTL Vaughan (HSL)
Brad Hemminger (School of Information and Library Science, UNC-CH)
Vedana Vaidhyanathan (University of Miami)
- Diana McDuffee served as a panelist for the discussion, "Greatest Challenges Libraries Face," and gave a presentation entitled, "The North Carolina AHEC Digital Library -- A Digital Library for North Carolina Hospitals, University Preceptors and Rural, Underserved Health Care Providers." The panel was part of the Hospital Librarians Symposium at the conference.
- Julia Kokot-Shaw, Lara Handler, Melanie Norton, Karen Stafford, and Emily Vardell also participated in the conference. The Mid-Atlantic Chapter is made up of members from North Carolina, Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland, and West Virginia. For a complete listing of the conference posters and papers, visit: http://macmla.org/events/2008/pp.html
The Bullitt History of Medicine Club is pleased to announce that Chris Dibble, a second year medical student, has been awarded the first annual McLendon-Thomas Award in the History of Medicine. Mr. Dibble will be presenting a lecture on his work entitled, "Edward Livingston Trudeau: The First American Physician-Scientist and the Fight against Tuberculosis," at noon on Monday, November 17, in the fifth floor conference room (527) of the Health Sciences Library. Meetings of the Bullitt Club are free and open to the public. For the 2008-2009 schedule of events, please visit the Bullitt web site at (http://www.med.unc.edu/bhomc/).
Initially funded by S. Gregory Boyd (MD '03, JD '04) and Laura Boyd (JD '02), the McLendon-Thomas Award honors Dr. William McLendon and Dr. Colin Thomas, Jr. and recognizes scholarly excellence in the history of health sciences. The essay competition is now accepting submissions for the current academic year, and is open to all UNC-Chapel Hill students in the health sciences. The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2009. For further information, please see the competition guidelines.
This year, the UNC University Libraries (University Library, Law Library, and Health Sciences Library) acquired its six-millionth volume, John Keats' Poems, published in 1817. With this acquisition, UNC has become the 19th university library in North America to attain the 6-million-volume mark.
On November 20, 2008, a program, with an accompanying exhibit, Presenting John Keats, will be held in the Rare Book Room of the Wilson Special Collections Library to commemorate the milestone. For more information, see http://www.hsl.unc.edu/specialcollections/highlights/sixmillionth.cfm.
Known mainly for his brilliant literary output in a foreshortened life, John Keats [1795-1821] also underwent extensive medical training. He served a five-year apprenticeship to a surgeon-apothecary in Edmonton from 1811-15, followed by two semesters at the Borough Medical School of the United Hospitals of Guy's and St. Thomas', where he also attended the wards for eight months. (For further information on the relationship between Keats' experience in medicine and his writing, see Romantic Medicine and John Keats).
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health: Meeting the Public Health Challenges of the 21st Century
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 and 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 of the Library. For more information, contact Daniel Smith, Special Collections Librarian, dlsmith@unc.edu or visit http://www.hsl.unc.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/index.cfm
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We are all about cutting costs these days. Have a class or conference that can be done by videoconference instead of travel? HSL has facilities for both standard and high-bandwidth videoconferencing. Our large classroom (307) and our small conference room (328) can be used with groups of on- and off-campus students. Reserve the rooms through our Room Requests form. If you have questions about the facilities, contact Julia Shaw-Kokot at jsk@med.unc.edu or 919-966-0952.
English Language & American Culture (ELAC) workshops continue at the Health Sciences Library in November. ELAC is a service of the UNC Writing Center for students, scholars, faculty, and staff who speak English as a second language.
The ELAC workshops at HSL this month are:
- Critical Thinking for Academic Reading and Writing (November 10, 3:30-5:00pm)
- Proofreading Techniques (November 19, 2-3pm)
- Resume and CV Writing (November 19, 3-4pm).
For a complete schedule and online registration, please visit:
www.unc.edu/writingcenter/elac.
ELAC workshops are free and open to all international and non-native-English-speaking UNC students, scholars, and employees. For
more information, please contact Nigel Caplan, ESL Specialist, The Writing Center (nacaplan@unc.edu or 843-9604).
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
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