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Share a Testimonial, Get a Free Mug, Become a Friend of HSL!
To celebrate Medical Librarians Month, we are giving away Friends' Café thermal mugs in exchange for your testimonials. Just send an email to hsl-friends@unc.edu telling us how working with an HSL staff member has made a difference in your work. We look forward to hearing from you!
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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HSL is now able to make color copies available to you at a lower cost. As of Monday, October 6, you will notice that the cost has been reduced from $0.75 to $0.50 per copy. The color copier is located in the copy room on the first floor of the library.
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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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New Exhibit at HSL
UNC 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.
Global Health Archive is comprised of 6 printed abstract journals produced between 1910 and 1972 and includes over 800,000 records. Global Health Archive provides information on public health, tropical and communicable diseases, nutrition, helminthology, entomology, and mycology. Please take an opportunity to give us feedback. Visit: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Evaluation/trials.cfm
For UNC-CH Health Affairs affiliates, ILLiad is now your one-stop shop for all of your article neads.
Eliminate stress, save time, fuel, parking fees and let us scan articles for you at the low price of $5.00 per scanned copy. Color scanning of articles is also available. Health Affairs affiliates need to be registered in ILLiad prior to placing orders. Visit http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Illiad/logon.html for details. Any questions, feel free to contact the Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery staff at: hsl-ill@listserv.unc.edu
 | Carolina BLU (Brings the Library to YoU) is a new service being piloted by UNC-CH Libraries that allows you to have a book delivered from another campus library to the Health Sciences Library for you to pick up. Please give us your feedback on this new service. Visit http://www.lib.unc.edu/circ/doc_delivery/ for more details. |
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).
Space is limited and registration is required. For more information and to register, go to:
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Collections/Bioinformatics/BBTForum-TrainingsFall2008.cfm
In late September, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced an expanded ClinicalTrials.gov database. The database will accept basic results information, in addition to trial registrations. Due to growing public interest and a desire for improved access to clinical trial information and greater transparency in clinical research, Congress enacted Title VIII of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA, Public Law 110-85, section 801). In response to this new legislative mandate, those responsible for conducting clinical trials will submit data after the trial is completed. The enhanced database will provide summary results statistics for a broad range of trials of drugs, medical devices and biological products that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Patient-identifiable information will not be included. For more information visit: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/expanded_clinicaltrials.html
Dr. Elizabeth Fenn, Associate Professor of History at Duke University, will present a lecture entitled, "Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82," on Tuesday, October 21, 2008. Light refreshments will be served at 5:30 followed by the lecture at 6pm in the fifth floor conference room (527) of the Health Sciences Library. For more information on the Bullitt Club, please visit:
www.med.unc.edu/bhomc/. Bullitt Club events are free and open to the public.
The National Network of Libraries of Medicine Southeastern Atlantic Region (NN/LM SE/A) has appointed Melanie Norton to its Emergency Preparedness Committee. Ms. Norton is the Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Librarian for HSL. She will be working with NN/LM SE/A to develop and implement regional emergency preparedness plans; coordinate emergency preparedness activities in the state; and, when necessary, assist network members to continue services and to recover in emergency situations. For more information on NN/LM SE/A, visit: http://nnlm.gov/sea/
Working through an organization called Operation Medical Libraries (OML), HSL Collections Development Librarian Susan Swogger recently sent a package holding over 50 nursing and medical texts to Afghanistan. Swogger had recently received a generous donation of books from the School of Nursing and various nursing faculty. After selecting items that could be used at HSL, she was able to find a home for the remaining books through OML.
Operation Medical Libraries is a grassroots effort started through the UCLA Medical Alumni Association. OML's mission is to collect and distribute current medical textbooks and journals to war-torn countries through a partnership with American medical schools, hospitals, and physicians and the United States military. Donated materials are used in training courses for Afghani or Iraqi doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel, or distributed to a local medical school or hospital. If you are interested in making a personal donation of current materials to OML, they request that you contact them directly. Visit http://opmedlibs.medalumni.ucla.edu/ for more details.
 | On September 13 and 14, Team HSL-AHEC bicycled in the MS150 in New Bern, NC . Pedaling a combined 312 miles over two days, they exceeded their fundraising goal, raising over $2000 for multiple sclerosis research. Over $1500 was donated by HSL employees. Thanks to all who donated! Way to Go, Team HSL-AHEC! |
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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