News from The Libraries

San Antonio Water System exhibit celebrates the gifts of water

Recent visitors to the Briscoe Library may have noticed the large, translucent figures placed around the 3rd floor in particular, the Spanish dancer at the Information Desk.

These "Aqua People" are part of an art installation created by the San Antonio Water System to expand the message of water conservation. At the base of each of the larger-than-life figures are explanations in Spanish and English.

The exhibit will be on view in the library through the end of March, when it will move to Austin to be
displayed at the Texas State Capitol.

A few of the interesting facts noted in the exhibit:

The average person consists of 60% water.

For every day you don't water your lawn, you can save about 2000 gallons of water.

There are over 9000 miles of water pipes (drinking water and wastewater) underneath San Antonio. If laid end-to-end, they would reach from here to Australia.

From 1988 to 2006 San Antonio's population increased by 30%, but pumping from the Edwards Aquifer remained the same thanks mainly to water conservation.

Pennie Borchers, Special Collections Librarian

Renovations update: Briscoe Information Commons consolidates on the 3rd floor of the library; 2nd floor computer lab to be closed

One more phase of renovations at the Briscoe Library will be completed this month when computers are moved from the 2nd floor to the 3rd floor Information Commons. In addition to desktop computers relocated from the 2nd floor, new electrical outlets and data cables have been added on the 3rd floor to accommodate laptop users.

In the next phase of construction, tentatively scheduled for March through December of 2009, the 2nd floor of the Briscoe Library will be closed. State-of-the-art classrooms will be built to replace the Multidisciplinary Labs.

Classrooms 2A and 2C as well as all of the study rooms on the 2nd floor will no longer be available. However, study rooms on the 3rd, 4th and 5th floor will continue to be available.

For information about the use of alternative classroom space, please contact the Information Desk at (210) 567-2450 during business hours. If you have questions, comments or suggestions, please contact Jonquil Feldman, Associate Library Director for Public Services, at feldman@uthscsa.edu.

EndNoteRx: Drop in. Ask. Learn.

Individual EndNote help-Your prescription for success

Learn tips and tricks that make working with EndNote even easier. This class will be held the last Wednesday of each month, 12 noon to 1 p.m., in Briscoe Library Room 3.130. No appointment necessary.

Featured resource: The Color Atlas of Family Medicine showcases the uses of photography in medical practice

The Color Atlas of Family Medicine features 1,500 color photographs depicting both common and uncommon diseases and presentations that clinicians encounter every day. More than just images, The Color Atlas includes patient stories, differential diagnosis, website referrals, references, and detailed information for all practitioners of family medicine. For quick access to relevant information and
images, the book is arranged by topic and includes regional, morphological and subject indexing.

The authors of The Color Atlas of Family Medicine include HSC faculty Richard P. Usatine, MD and James Tysinger, PhD. Other authors are Mindy A. Smith, MD, Heidi Chumley, MD, and E.J. Hayeaux, Jr., MD.

The Color Atlas is available in the Briscoe Library at WB 17 C719 2009 and additional copies are available at the Ramirez Medical Library at the RAHC and the Laredo Campus Extension Library.

Katie Prentice, Education and Information Services Coordinator

WIRES interdisciplinary online resource features the work of three UT Health Science Center investigators

Wiley-Blackwell has launched a new online reference series called Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) that is designed to combine the most powerful features of online reference works and review journals. WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology, the first title in the series, went live in January. William T. Phillips, MD, Beth A Goins, PhD, and Ande Bao, all of the UT Health Science Center radiology department, are represented in the release:

Phillips WT, Goins BA, Bao A. Radioactive liposomes. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology. 1(1):69-83, 2009 Jan/Feb. Click here to link directly to the PDF (note: you will be prompted to log into the proxy server if you are off campus).

The UT HSC Libraries have free access to WIRES through 2009, so our faculty, staff, and students may view it and provide feedback. WIRES may be found through the catalog and the electronic journals page.

Future releases in the series include Computational Statistics, and Systems Biology and Medicine (2009), Cognitive Science, Climate Change and Computational Molecular Science (2010), Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery and Developmental Biology and RNA (2011).

We encourage anyone interested in this title or any titles in this series to take a look and give us your opinions. Contact John Weed, Electronic Resources/Serials Librarian, at weedj@uthscsa.edu with any comments.

GetHIP: Health Information Plus outreach program serves the K-12 community throughout South Texas

It started with a one-day conference promoting a coordinated approach to school health. A total of 122 teachers, school nurses and school librarians from across South Texas attended the first getHIP conference, held at the UT Health Science Center's Long Campus in San Antonio in June, 2008. Since then, librarians continue to conduct classes at schools, participate in health fairs, and present at other events focused on promoting health information and health careers for youth. Highlights from recent outreach activities include:

• Teaching a session entitled "How to Use MedlinePlus, Tox Mystery, Tox Town and Household Products Databases to Provide Access and Delivery of Health Information on Your Campus," and distributing related resources at the 15th Annual Library Resource Round-Up sponsored by the Education Service Center-Region 20

• Making a presentation, "Beyond Google: Fun & Informative Health Websites," for high school students in Laredo, Texas. In a hands-on instruction format, students learned how to locate reliable and authoritative health information on the Internet

• Introducing Tox Town and Tox Mystery, the National Library of Medicine's interactive and educational databases that teach about environmental health hazards, during a summer day camp program sponsored by the Edgewood Family Network in San Antonio

• Sharing online resources related to senior, child and consumer health resources at "Celebrating Grand-Families" a program sponsored by the Bexar Area Agency on Aging and the Alamo Area Council of Governments for grandparents and other senior relatives acting as primary caregivers

GetHIP is a project of South Texas Regional Information Services, a division of The Libraries. This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. N01-LM-6-3505 under the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center.

Lara Sapp, Health Information Outreach Fellow

Library Classes for March

All classes are free and open to all. Advance registration is appreciated but not required. If you would like to request a class or schedule a consult at any HSC campus, please contact the library at (210) 567-2450 or email AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu.

To register for a class or to read class descriptions, visit the classes page.

Briscoe Library, Long Campus - San Antonio

• Introduction to EndNote: March 10, 12 Noon - 1 pm, Collaboratory (4.074)
• PDA Drop-In Q&A: March 11, 12 Noon - 1 pm, 3.130
• PubMed: Getting the Most Out of PubMed: March 12, 2 pm - 3:30 pm, Collaboratory (4.074)
• Ovid Tips & Tricks: Getting Started with MEDLINE: March 16, 9 am - 10:30 am, Collaboratory (4.074) • New! Presenting a Poster Session: March 19, 12 Noon - 1 pm, Howe Conference Room
• Using EBSCO CINAHL to Locate Nursing & Allied Health Information: March 19, 2 pm - 3:30 pm, Collaboratory (4.074)
• PubMed: Getting the Most Out of PubMed: March 20, 9 am - 10:30 am, Collaboratory (4.074)
• Introduction to RefWorks: March 25, 9 am - 10 am, Collaboratory (4.074)
• New! EndNote Hour: March 25, 12 Noon - 1 pm, 3.130 • PDA Basics: March 26, 12 Noon - 1 pm, Collaboratory (4.074)
• Swimming in Information? Stay Afloat with RSS, Podcasts and Blogs: March 26, 2 pm - 3:30 pm, Collaboratory (4.074)
• Searching the Web for Biomedical Information: March 27, 1 pm - 2:00 pm, Collaboratory (4.074)

Ramirez Library, RAHC -- Harlingen

• MS Word 2007: March 3, 12 Noon - 1 pm, Room 1.132
• MS Word 2007: March 3, 6pm - 7 pm, Room 1.132
• Introduction to RefWorks: March 10, 12 Noon - 1 pm, Room 1.132
• Introduction to RefWorks: March 10, 6:00 pm - 7 pm, Room 1.132
• MS Access 2007: March 24, 12 Noon - 1 pm, Room 1.136
• MS Access 2007: March 24, 6 pm - 7 pm, Room 1.136

Katie Prentice, Education and Information Services Coordinator

Angela Myatt joins the staff of the Briscoe Library

Angela Myatt has joined the staff of the Briscoe Library as Curriculum and Liaison Librarian, with a joint appointment in the School of Medicine. In addition to working with the faculties of the School of Medicine and other schools to integrate evidence based practice into the curricula, she will also assist with the UT Health Science Center's Quality Enhancement Project (QEP) for virtual case management learning.

Angela has a degree in Biology from the University of London and a Masters in Information Science from the City University, London.

Most recently, Angela worked on integrating Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) across the curriculum in the College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. She has been a librarian tutor for the Evidence Based Clinical Practice workshop at McMaster University for the past 5 years, and is an instructor for an online course on EBM for Medical Librarians, hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Angela and her family moved to San Antonio from Cincinnati, Ohio, where she and her husband Les were both on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. They have two children: George, a sophomore at the College of Wooster and Louise, who is a sophomore at Churchill High School.

UT Health Science Center Libraries donate Index of Medical and Veterinary Zoology to Texas A&M University

In order to gain needed shelf space, certain areas of the Briscoe Library are being reviewed, and infrequently used or outdated books are being considered for weeding. Under consideration for withdrawal were the multiple volumes of the infrequently used Index of Medical and Veterinary Zoology. Fortuitously, Texas A & M University Medical Sciences Library has a grant proposal for digitizing this work and making it publicly available. Since their set was tightly bound and difficult to digitize, they were interested in the possibility of using the Briscoe Library's volumes to be "sacrificed" to make the digitization easier.

After establishing that no other library in the University of Texas System wanted the Briscoe Library's copies of the index, the volumes were boxed and shipped to Texas A & M University. Once the digitization is complete, the Index of Medical and Veterinary Zoology will be freely accessible, possibly in the Texas Digital Library. Through this act of cooperation among libraries, an important index of the world's literature on parasites of animal and man will be preserved and made available to a wider audience.