News from The Libraries

Welcome and Welcome Back!

September is the month in other parts of the country when thoughts turn to falling leaves and crisp fall mornings. In Texas, we just turn our thoughts to another two months of heat. September is also the time when we see many new faces on campus -- students, faculty, residents, staff. We want to welcome all of our new and returning colleagues to campus and to the UT Health Science Center Libraries.

The UT Health Science Libraries have much to offer. We invite you to visit one of our campus locations — the Briscoe Library on the Long Campus, Downtown Library at the University Health Center, Jesse H. Jones Comprehensive Research Library at the Texas Research Park, all in San Antonio; the Mario E. Ramirez, MD Library at the RAHC in Harlingen; and the Laredo Campus Extension Library in Laredo.

The library's web site at http://www.library.uthscsa.edu provides a portal to a wealth of information for research, teaching, learning, and clinical care. Our librarians are available to provide instruction and consultation on information resources and the latest emerging technologies.

Each month we send this newsletter to the faculty-staff mailing list. We hope that you will find the newsletter useful in helping you to connect to the many resources available to you through the UT Health Science Center Libraries.

Best wishes for a happy and productive academic year!

Rajia Tobia, Executive Director of Libraries
tobia@uthscsa.edu

Dr. Pauline Chen will speak on the Long Campus on September 25

On Friday, September 25, at 12:00 noon Dr. Pauline Chen, author of Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality, will speak in the Parman Auditorium on the topic "Our Best Selves: One Surgeon's Reflections on Compassionate Care." Her talk will be followed by a reception in the Parman Auditorium foyer. Final Exam, a practice memoir, is this year's One Community/ One Book selection.

In addition to Final Exam, Pauline Chen is also the author of Doctor and Patient, a column which appears regularly in the New York Times. She was educated at Harvard University and the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and completed her general surgery training at Yale University, the National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health), and UCLA, where she has also served on the faculty. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the UCLA Physician of the Year Award in 1999.

Dr. Chen's talk will be simulcast to Room 4.102 of the School of Health Professions building in San Antonio, Room 1.102 at the Laredo Extension Campus, Room 2.120 at the RAHC in Harlingen, and SBC Room 1.120 at South Texas Research Park.

As part of this year's One Community/ One Book project, opportunities to meet and discuss Final Exam have been scheduled throughout the month of September and into October at locations both on and off campus. A calendar of book discussion opportunities appears in the next entry and is also posted online at http://library.uthscsa.edu/events/onebook2009Events.cfm.

In addition to her noon appearance in Parman Auditorium, Dr. Chen will also present at Transplant Center grand rounds at 8:00 a.m. on September 25 in the School of Medicine Room 444B.

This program is made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. One Community/ One Book is a project of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics, the University Transplant Center and The Libraries.

One Community/One Book discussion opportunities

http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/events/onebook2009Events.cfm

The following events take place both on and off campus, and are open to all. Please note that in some cases RSVPs are requested.

• Thursday, September 3, 12:00 noon, Howe Conference Room, Briscoe Library 5th Floor: Facilitators: Rajia Tobia, Executive Director of Libraries and Ashlei Lowery, M.D., Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow.
• Tuesday, September 8, 6:30 p.m., location to be announced. Please RSVP to Stephanie De La Vega at DeLaVegaS@uthscsa.edu. Facilitator: Ruth Berggren, M.D., Director of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics.
• Wednesday, September 9, 12:00 noon, University Health Clinic-- Downtown, UT HSC Library, 3rd Floor, B Building. Facilitators: Linda Levy, Assistant Library Director for Branches and Database Services and Susan Hunnicutt, Special Projects Librarian.
• Thursday, September 10, 1:15 p.m. , Audie L. Murphy Veterans Hospital, GRECC Conference Room A323. Facilitator: Sandra Sanchez-Reilly, M.D., Hospice and Palliative Medicine Program Director, South Texas Veterans Health Care System and UT Health Science Center.
• Friday, September 11, 12:00 noon, University Hospital-- ASL 29-- 6th floor classroom. Please RSVP to Ryan Pflipsen, Transplant Social Worker, at ryan.pflipsen@uhs.sa.com.
• Tuesday, September 15, 4:00 p.m., South Texas Psychiatric Genetics Research Center, Conference Room, 454 Soledad Street Suite 200. Facilitator: Salvador Contreras, M.D.
• Wednesday, September 16, 12:00 noon, Howe Conference Room, Briscoe Library 5th Floor. Facilitators: Rajia Tobia, Executive Director of Libraries and Ashlei Lowery, M.D., Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow. Please RSVP to tobia@uthscsa.edu.
• Friday, September 18, 12:00 noon, School of Nursing 1.202. Facilitator: Adelita Cantu, R.N., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Nursing.
• Friday, September 18, 12:00 noon, University Hospital-- ASL29-- 6th floor classroom. Please RSVP to Ryan Pflipsen, Transplant Social Worker at ryan.pflipsen@uhs.sa.com.
• Monday, September 21, 9:30 a.m., 1919 Oakwell Farms Parkway Suite 135 (210-829-1299). Facilitator: Marolyn Stubblefield, Regional Vice President, National Kidney Foundation.
• Tuesday, September 22, 12:00 noon, Audie L. Murphy Veterans Hospital, VERDICT Conference Room #B200. Facilitator: Sarah E. Lapey, MD, Assistant Director for Humanities Education, Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics.
• Wednesday, September 23, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., AAB 108-110-112. Please RSVP to humanities@uthscsa.edu. Facilitators: Jerry Winakur, M.D. and Lee Robinson.
• Friday, October 2, 12:00 noon, University Hospital— Sublevel classroom. Please RSVP to Ryan Pflipsen, Transplant Social Worker at ryan.pflipsen@uhs.sa.com.

Exhibit explores the end of life in caregiver culture and practice

A new library exhibit, Hospice and Palliative Care, will be on display in the lecture hall foyer from August to late October. Hospice and Palliative Care is part of One Community/ One Book 2009. The exhibit explores selected facets of Dr. Pauline Chen's practice memoir, Final Exam, this year's One Community/ One Book selection.

• A timeline explores the roots of hospice care in an ancient understanding of guest-host relationships, including images of refuge for medieval wayfarers and crusaders en route to religious shrines. It also honors key figures in modern hospice care -- Mary Aikenhead, Rose Hawthorne, and Cicely Saunders, to name but a few.
• Another panel explores medical study of the human body, including human dissection, gross anatomy, and the Willed Body Program.
• Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Reilly, assistant professor of geriatrics and palliative care, asked students from her medical ethics class to share a specific story about their experiences with the dying. A number of these personal impressions are included in the exhibit.
• The 2009 the University of Texas Health Science Center's One Community/One Book selection, Final Exam, by liver transplant surgeon Pauline Chen, MD, takes center stage in the last exhibit section. Dr. Chen has travelled the country extensively, speaking about end-of-life issues to medical and general audiences. On September 25 she will be on campus to give a special presentation: "Our Best Selves: One Surgeon's Reflections on Compassionate Care." Excerpts from her writing reveal the shifts in perception toward the dying which she has experienced in the course of her career as a physician.

Hospice and Palliative Care was created by Briscoe Library Special Collections staff members Karen Eads and Pennie Borchers. For more information about the exhibit, contact Pennie Borchers, Special Collections Librarian at Borchers@uthscsa.edu.

This exhibit was made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Library classes for September

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.

If you would like to request a special class for your department or group at other days/times, please contact us!

To register for a class or to read class descriptions, visit http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/gethelp/classSchedule.cfm. When you register for a library class, your registration confirmation now includes a file that you can save as an appointment into your electronic calendar.

Briscoe Library, Long Campus - San Antonio

• More Than Mail: Getting the Most Out of Windows Live (Technology Brown Bag): Wednesday, September 9, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm, Collaboratory
• Ovid Tips & Tricks: Getting Started with MEDLINE: Monday, September 14, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., Collaboratory
• PubMed Advanced: Thursday, September 17, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m., Collaboratory
• Introduction to EndNote: Thursday, September 17, 12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m., Collaboratory
• Using EBSCO CINAHL to Locate Nursing & Allied Health Information: Thursday, September 17, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., Collaboratory
• Introduction to RefWorks: Tuesday, September 22, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., Collaboratory
• PubMed: Getting the Most Out of PubMed: Wednesday, September 23, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., Collaboratory

Katie Prentice, Education and Information Services Coordinator

The Libraries participate in Operation Lone Star

In August, uninsured residents of South Texas had the opportunity to receive free health and dental care by visiting an Operation Lone Star clinic. Operation Lone Star (OLS) is a joint project of the Texas State Guard, Army and Air National Guard, state health and human services agencies, county health departments, local service groups and volunteers.

In August staff members from The Libraries were on-site at Louis J. Christen Middle School in Laredo as part of OSL, sharing information about MedlinePlus in English and Spanish, as well as the resources that are available at the Laredo Campus Extension library.

Similar clinics were available in Brownsville, Raymondville, Lasara, San Juan, La Joya, Laredo, Hebbronville, Rio Grande City, and Zapata.

Online tutorial focuses on resources for dental health practitioners working in public health settings

The Oral Health Information Tutorial (http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/community/oralhealth.cfm) is now available for dental practitioners, educators and others in the field of dental public health. Each of the four modules of the tutorial can be viewed independently:

• Module 1: Toolkit for Dental Public Health Professionals - Learn how to find professional resources to help stay informed of developments in the field.
• Module 2: Evidence-Based Dental Public Health - Learn to search evidence-based scientific literature and apply it to your practice.
• Module 3: Oral Health Data Tools and Statistics - Learn about available statistics related to oral health and how to find these resources on the Internet.
• Module 4: Oral Health Education Resources - Learn about reliable online information resources for patients and consumers. Lara Sapp, Information Outreach Fellow

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 Library.

Paula Maez joins the library staff as a fellow with the National Library of Medicine

The UT Health Science Center Libraries welcome Paula Maez, who arrived here August 31 to complete her second year as a fellow of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Paula is one of four fellows in the 2008-2009 National Library of Medicine Fellowship program, designed to provide a broad foundation in health sciences information services and to prepare librarians for future leadership roles in health sciences libraries and in health services research. The first year of Paula's fellowship was spent at the NLM in Bethesda, MD.

Paula received her Master's of Library Science in May 2008 from the University of Arizona and also holds a BS in speech and hearing sciences and a BA in education from the same university. While in graduate school, Maez was a Knowledge River Scholar. She participated in a program that "fosters understanding of library information issues from the perspectives of Hispanic and Native Americans and advocates for culturally sensitive library and information services to these communities." She is interested in using her education and background to serve as a leader in overcoming health disparities among underserved populations.

During her year at NLM in Bethesda, Maez focused on developing her outreach skills. She worked with the Southeastern/Atlantic Region of the NLM's National Network and the Specialized Information Services of NLM on exhibiting, as well as teaching NLM resources to local high school students and students from the NIH Youth Initiative. She worked with the Bibliographic Services Division developing a suite of ClinicalTrials.gov Quick Tour learning packages and with Specialized Information Services enhancing the circumpolar health topics section for the Arctic Health Web site. As part of the fellowship, Paula attended the 14th Annual International Congress on Circumpolar Health in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.

At the UT Health Science Center Libraries, Paula will work with the library's active outreach program to South Texas students, faculty, staff, and community. She will also spend time learning about various library operations such as administration, information and access services, interlibrary loan, collection development, cataloging, and electronic resource management.

Briscoe Library book give-away: September 15th

The library will have a book give-away on Tuesday, September 15, 2009. The book give-away will start at 8:00 a.m. at the entrance to the Briscoe Library. Books to be included in the giveaway are old editions withdrawn from the library's collection, or donations given to the library but not needed for the collection. All give-away books are available on a first-come, first-served basis. For information, contact Andrea N. Schorr, Cataloging and Acquisitions Librarian, at (210)567-2400 or e-mail at schorr@uthscsa.edu.

A featured resource from the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library

Anatomia per Uso et Intelligenza del Disegno Bernardino Genga (1620 -- 1690)
Dissections: Bernardino Genga, Italian anatomist and surgeon
Drawings: Charles Errard, court painter to Louis XIV Text and indexes: John Maria Lancissi, papal physician

Genga's Anatomia per Uso et Intelligenza del Disegno is one of the finest examples of anatomy and artistry in balance, a masterwork from the age of copperplate engraving. His drawings of the human body, based on dissections and inspired by antique Roman statuary, were originally intended for painting and sculpture classes at the French Royal Academy. The Anatomia has since become one of the most famous books on anatomy for artists. The Nixon Library owns the 1723 English translation of Genga's Anatomia - 39 annotated engravings on osteology and myology, followed by representations of the Laocoön, the Borghese Faun, the Medici Venus, and other classical sculptures.

Pennie Borchers, Special Collections Librarian