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 NewsJournal Cancellations Update
The Health Sciences Library staff would like to thank all of the faculty, staff, and students who responded to our call for feedback as we reviewed journals for cancellation over the last few months. Your input was and remains invaluable as we make difficult decisions in light of ongoing budget constraints. The process is coming to an end and we have posted an update with results on our Journal Cancellations webpage. In addition to cancellations, we continue to seek ways to absorb budget cuts, while ensuring our core services and resources remain available to Library users. As we have for several years now, we are also changing some of our journals from dual formats (print and online) to online only. Your input is always welcomed. Visit our online Suggestion Box to share your ideas. NC Health Info Helps Make Sense of Healthcare Reform
Confused about healthcare reform? NC Health Info, a project of the Health Sciences Library, has recently added a new resource about healthcare reform to its health information portal. This online resource provides a consolidated list of non- and bipartisan resources that help you sort through the complex issues of reform. Special Collections Blog Cited As One of "100 Best"The Carolina Curator blog was recently cited as one of the "100 Best Curator and Museum Blogs" by OnlineUniversities.com. The blog is an open-ended forum for the history of the health sciences, and alerts readers to news and events, useful resources, as well as highlights the activities of Special Collections and UNC generally. To see current and archived posts, visit the Carolina Curator online. It is also easy to subscribe, using free blog readers such as Bloglines or Google Reader.Dibble Wins 2009 McLendon-Thomas Award in the History of MedicineChris Dibble, a third-year MD/PhD student in the UNC School of Medicine, is the winner of the second annual McLendon-Thomas Award in the History of Medicine essay competition sponsored by the Bullitt History of Medicine Club. Funded by UNC alumni 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. Dibble will present his winning essay entitled, "The Dead Ringer: Medicine, Poe, and the Fear of Premature Burial," to the Bullitt Club on December 10, 2009. Dibble was also the winner of the inaugural McLendon-Thomas Award for his paper on Edward Trudeau Livingston's work on tuberculosis; a recording of his Bullitt lecture is available online, along with all other lectures for 2008-9. 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: medicine, pharmacy, public health, dentistry, nursing, and allied health sciences. The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2010. For further information, please see the competition guidelines. Exhibits @ HSL
There are a variety of exhibits to check out at the Library this semester. In the first-floor lobby display cases you'll find the following three exhibits: Great Minds, Great Finds: Explore Library Collections; New Books in the History of the Health Sciences; and The Sam W. Hitt Medicinal Plant Garden. In the new exhibition cases located near the User's Services desk are two additional exhibits, which are also described in recent entries on the Carolina Curator blog: Operation Coffee Cup and Socialized Medicine and The Bicentennial of Louis Braille [1809-1852]. For more info about our current and past exhibits, including those you can access online visit the Exhibitions section of the Special Collections web site. Tips and ResourcesHaving Problems Keeping Track of Articles and Literature Search Results? Help is Here! 
The Health Sciences Library is offering free monthly classes on EndNote and RefWorks this fall. These hands-on workshops will provide an introduction to each citation manager, including how to create a library of references and use it to automatically format your bibliography. Classes are held in Room 329 of the Health Sciences Library, with a computer for each participant to practice the skills as we learn them. Class Times Won't Work for You? Here are some
guides and tips. Upcoming Bioinformatics ClassesBasic Bioinformatics Tools Forums for Fall 2009 Space is limited and registration is required. Microforms Can Now Be DigitizedThe HSL has recently upgraded its microform reader to permit the easy digitization of both microfilm and microfiche. Located in the Audiovisual / Microforms section in the basement of the Library, the new equipment can quickly create high-resolution scans of any microform document. Digitized files can be copied to flash drives, CDs, or emailed. The new digital option replaces the previous printer, and there is no charge for scanning. HSL holds significant microform collections, including Early American Medical Imprints, 1668-1820, a set of 1,680 important titles (click here to browse) in the history of medicine that was acquired by Special Collections. For information on other microform titles in medicine, nursing, and pharmacy, as well as UNC theses and dissertations, see the Carolina Curator blog. New Hours for the Friends CaféThe hours of operation for the Friends' Café have changed for the fall semester. The Café will be open Monday-Thursday, 7:30am-6:30pm; Friday, 7:30am-5:30pm, and closed on weekends. Hours for holidays and breaks, as well as a full schedule of operating hours for the Library and the Café can always be found on the hours page of our website. We welcome your feedback through our online Suggestion Box. Tips and ResourcesUpcoming Bullitt Club Lectures on Jack London and Dr. Frances Sage BradleyThe Bullitt History of Medicine Club will be starting off the 2009-10 lecture series on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at HSL in the 5th Floor Conference Room (527). Please join us at 5:30pm for light refreshments followed by the lecture at 6pm. Meetings are free and open to the public. Dr. Philip Klemmer, Professor of Medicine at UNC, will be presenting a lecture entitled, "Jack London's Mysterious Malady." The lecture will present an analysis of the possible cause of London's death from uremia at age 40 based on his own writing and life events on the cruise of the Snark in the South Pacific. On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, from noon to 1pm, historian and author, Dr. Barbara Clowse, will be speaking on "Dr. Frances Sage Bradley: Her Biographer's Dilemma." Dr. Bradley [1862-1949] was a social activist and reformer who graduated from Cornell Medical School in 1899. For the next decades she advocated simple, cheap means to save infants and their mothers from death and increase odds that school age children would become healthy, productive adults. Writing the life story of this feisty, formidable woman presents challenges for even an experienced biographer. The Doctor Behind House, MD Reads from Her New Book Every Patient Tells a Story
Learned in Science, Explored in Art to be exhibited at HSL OPR — Teaching Hospital From September 21 to December 31, 2009 the HSL will be exhibiting a collection of paintings by Wolfgang Ritschel entitled Learned in Science, Explored in Art. Ritschel is professor emeritus at the Unverisity of Cincinnati, and enjoyed a successful career in pharmokinetics before becoming a full time artist. The paintings work will be displayed on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors of the Library. Join us at the Health Sciences Library on October 14, 2009 from 5:00-6:30pm for a reception and gallery talk celebrating the exhibit. Visit our website for more details.
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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