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SMILE project targets information literacy for dental health professionals and promotoras
A team of librarians will be traveling throughout South Texas during the next ten
months, educating dental health professionals about information resources that are
available to them through the National Library of Medicine and the University of Texas
Health Science Center at San Antonio Libraries. SMILE— the project name is an
acronym for Sharing Medline®/MedlinePlus® for Information Literacy Education— is
a $25,000 contract from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine South Central
Region (NN/LM SCR) that provides funding for community outreach education.
As one of two public health projects funded by the NN/LM SCR, SMILE targets dental
health professionals and dental health promotoras, providing training and resources for
both professional education and patient education.
In February, librarians Julie Gaines, Linda Levy and Keith Cogdill conducted the first of
several classes for dentists and dental hygienists from Gateway Clinic in Laredo and from
the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District.
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Blog will chronicle construction in Briscoe Library
A new blog has been created to provide information on construction that is planned this year in the Briscoe Library. The blog contains construction updates, floor plans, and photos. Readers are invited to contribute feedback and comments. The blog can be found at http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/renovate/.
Construction of offices for the Academic Center for Excellence in Teaching (ACET) began on Monday, February 25. The offices will be located in a corner of the 4th floor where group study rooms are currently located. Construction is expected to be completed by early May of 2008. The 4th floor group study rooms will no longer be available, but the rest of the 4th floor will be accessible for journal use or study. Study rooms on the 2nd and 5th floors, and individual study
rooms on the 4th floor, are not affected by the construction.
Meanwhile, plans are in the works to build nine group study rooms in a more desirable location on the 3rd floor (main floor) of the library building along the windows facing the library parking lot. The new study rooms will have sliding glass doors to allow for natural lighting and easy access. They will be larger than the ones they are replacing on the 4th floor, with extra soundproofing, electric outlets, data lines, flat panel monitors and whiteboards. The eight group study rooms on the 5th floor will continue to be available.
Send your comments or questions about the construction projects to Rajia Tobia, Interim Executive Director of Libraries, at tobia@uthscsa.edu or Jonquil Feldman, Associate Library Director for Public Services, feldman@uthscsa.edu.
Jonquil Feldman, Associate Library Director for Public Services
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Medical Library Association Webcast to cover Web 2.0 platform, best practices, and navigating the participatory Web
The Briscoe Library will host "Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices: Discovering the
Participatory Web," a Webcast produced by the Medical Library Association. The program
will take place on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 1:00 p.m., in Room 2C of the Briscoe Library.
Anyone who is interested in learning more about Web 2.0 is invited to attend.
The agenda
for the Webcast is as follows:
Part I: Introduction: Web 2.0 Terms and Concepts
- AJAX, Web as platform
- Social networking and collaborative technologies
Part II: Web 2.0 in Use
- Google Docs
- Wikis for institutional collaboration
- Blogging, microblogging, and chat reference
- Library mashups
- Tagging
- Research
- Question and answer period
Part III: Adoption and Forecasting
- Adoption
- Learning 2.0
- Planning and implementing Web 2.0
- Forecasting
- Microsoft Healthvault
- Google Health
- Question and answer period
Part IV: Conclusion
Participants will receive 2.0 MLA CE contact hours for attending the Webcast. To register
for the Webcast, please send an email to Susan Hunnicutt, Special Projects Librarian, at
hunnicutt@uthscsa.edu.
Funding for presentation of this Webcast has been provided by the National Library of
Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under
Contract No. N01-LM-6-3505.
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The National Library of Medicine’s Drug Information Portal provides comprehensive access to pharmaceutical information
In February, the National Library of Medicine announced the release of the new NLM Drug Information Portal, designed to give healthcare professionals, researchers and the general public a one-stop resource for current, accurate and understandable drug information.
The Drug Information Portal provides access to information about more than 12,000 drugs, pulled from numerous drug information databases, including MedlinePlus®, AIDSinfo®, Medline/PubMed®, LactMed, HSDB®, Dietary Supplements Labels Database, TOXLINE®, DailyMed®, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubChem, NIAID Anti-HIV/OI Database, ChemIDplus®, Drugs@FDA, DEA and USA.gov.
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Public access policy for NIH-funded investigators: Library Web site answers important questions
The UT Health Science Center Libraries have published a Web page, "The NIH Public
Access Policy and You," at http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/scholar/nih_policy.cfm. The
Web page is designed to assist UT Health Science Center investigators to comply with the
new mandatory NIH Public Access policy. The page includes general information about
the policy, an explanation of which articles are subject to the requirements, a handy stepby-
step compliance checklist, a list of journals that deposit manuscripts for authors, a
glossary of terms, and lots of links to further information and resources.
Last month's News from the UT HSC Libraries (http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/publications/libnews/2008/ln0208.cfm#access),
contained an article describing important new provisions of the recently-revised NIH
Public Access Policy. The policy requires investigators and authors to deposit final
manuscripts of all articles resulting from NIH-funded research into PubMed Central upon
their acceptance for publication. This further means that researchers will need to retain
(or secure from their publishers) the right to make that deposit. The policy also requires
investigators to include the PubMed Central ID when citing those articles in applications,
proposals and progress reports.
We hope that "The NIH Public Access Policy and You" Web page will assist authors in
complying with the new NIH policy. We welcome comments and suggestions about the
Web page and librarians are available to answer questions regarding the new NIH policy.
For further information, contact Luke Rosenberger, rosenberger@uthscsa.edu, or email
AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu.
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Library classes for March
The following hands-on workshops are scheduled to take place in March at the Briscoe Library. These workshops are taught in Room 2A except where noted. They are free and open to all. Advance registration is appreciated but walk-ins are welcome.
- Using EBSCO CINAHL to Locate Nursing & Allied Health Information: March 11, 2008, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
- Ovid Tips & Tricks: Getting Started with MEDLINE: Thursday, March 13, 2008, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
- 10 Reasons to Love Your PDA: Monday, March 24, 2008, 12 noon - 1:00 p.m.
- Introduction to RefWorks: Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- Introduction to EndNote: Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 12 noon - 1:00 p.m.
- PubMed: Getting the Most Out of PubMed: Thursday, March 26, 2008, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
- Searching the Web for Biomedical Information: Thursday, March 27, 2008, 12 noon – 1:00 p.m.
- Swimming in Information? Stay Afloat with RSS, Podcasts and Blogs: Monday, March 31, 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Class descriptions can be viewed by clicking on the title of the class. To register for a workshop, go to http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/consultation/schedule.cfm and click on the "Register Now" button next to the course title.
Registration is also available through the UTHSCSA Knowledge Center at https://kc.uthscsa.edu/kc/
If you would like to take a workshop that is not offered in March, please contact the Library at (210) 567-2450 or
AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu to schedule a one-on-one consult or small-group session
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"Library Spaces: Future Needs" will be subject of March 7 Webcast
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio Briscoe Library will be a host site for the College of DuPage Webcast, Library Spaces: Future Needs, Room 2C (lower level) 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Friday, March 7. Links to general information about the Webcast, and the location of the downlink site on the UT Health Science Center campus, can be found at http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/workshops/teleconferences/2008/mar7.html.
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Sylvia Muniz works with health care providers at Regional Academic Health Center
As a Library Assistant III in the Ramirez Library, Regional
Academic Health Center – Harlingen, Sylvia Muniz has
developed a diverse skill set. In addition to responding to
requests for medical literature from physicians, nurses and
other healthcare providers, Sylvia also conducts tours of the
library, develops marketing tools and assists with outreach
projects. She is responsible for updating and editing item and
bibliographic records in the library catalog for RAHC books
and journals, and assists with technical services projects.
"Working with the UT Health Science Center has been a
fulfilling experience," Sylvia says. "I enjoy working with
people, going out into the community and participating in
health fairs and conferences."
Sylvia joined the UT Health Science Center circuit librarian
staff in 1998. She has been married to her husband, Jesus, for
32 years. They have three children, Eric Sean, Michael Paul,
and Shavaun Amanda, and six grandchildren.
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Featured Resource: Web of Science
Web of Science is a citation database that contains information gathered from scholarly
research journals. It is the online version of Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation
Index. The UT HSC Libraries and the UT System Digital Library have entered into a
cooperative agreement to provide access to Science Citation Index Expanded from 1955 to the
present and Social Sciences Citation Index from 1956 to the present.
Science Citation Index Expanded fully indexes more than 6,500 major journals across
150 scientific disciplines, including biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, medicine,
neuroscience, oncology, pharmacology, physics, psychiatry and surgery.
Social Sciences Citation Index covers more than 1,950 of the world’s leading social
sciences journals in a broad range of disciplines. Also indexed are individually selected,
relevant items from more than 3,300 of the world’s leading scientific and technical journals.
Disciplines covered by SSCI include psychology, psychiatry, public health and social work.
Web of Science is available through the library's catalog and from the database section of
the UT HSC Libraries Web site, http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/databases/databasescf.cfm.
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