HSL News

Masters Nursing Students!!

Study exploring contributions of UW Libraries and librarians seeks volunteers for focus groups: Nursing students in the final 3 quarters of the Masters Program.

See flyer for more information.

EndNote Training Scheduled for Oct 16, 2007

Donna Kirking from Thomson Scientific will conduct two information/training sessions:

• EndNote Web 10 am - 11:30 am


• Advanced EndNote 1:30 pm - 3 pm

Both sessions will be in Classroom C, Learning Commons, Health Sciences Library. Registration is not required. Arrive early for best seating.

HSL Open House Special Demo Schedule

In addition to the ongoing displays, there will be demonstrations of some resources in the Library Teaching Laboratory. See the schedule below:

• 12:00 pm - Putting the Plus in CINAHL Plus


• 1:00 pm - PubMed and Beyond


• 2:00 pm - What's New in Bioinformatics Tools?

ekatius(TM) Demo in HSL

Interested in tracking oral presentations? Come to the Library Teaching Laboratory (LTL) in the HSL Learning Commons on Wed, August 8th, between 11 am and 1 pm to see a demonstration of ekatius(TM).

This system, produced by Conference Archives, delivers the latest and past oral presentations (synchronized audio and PowerPoint) from the scientific meetings of the American Heart Association and the Heart Rhythm Society in a searchable online database.

Healing Waters

Stop by the new exhibit in the display case on the third floor of the Health Sciences Library. Step back in time through vintage postcard images of some of the region's hot spring resorts.

Corral Those Wandering PDFs with Quosa!

Come see a demonstration of the Quosa Information Manager on Wed Mar 14, 2007 in Classroom C of the Health Sciences Library. Attend your choice of sessions at 9 am, 11:30 am or 3 pm. No need to register!
With Quosa you can

• Organize, manage, and perform powerful full-text searching of PDFs within results from PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, NCBI, and other sources using their native interfaces.


• Scan automatically highlighted sections within articles


• Export references to citation management programs such as EndNote


• Create automated search alerts

EndNote Presentation

Come to the Library Teaching Lab on the 3rd floor of the HSL at 4 pm Thursday, January 18, for a presentation about EndNote and Endnote Web.
Jeremy McLaughlin of Thomson ResearchSoft will demonstrate these products designed to help you manage and cite your references. For more information about EndNote, visit the ResearchSoft web site.

Film Series for UW Common Book

The Global Health Resource Center, International Health Program, School of
Public Health and Community Medicine, UW Libraries, and the Department of
Communications are sponsoring a film series to support the UW Common Book theme.

In addition to public showings, copies of the films are on reserve at the Health Sciences Libary. They are listed in the UW Library catalog as a "course" called World Health Cinema and shelved by "course name" the reserve shelves. The DVDs may be checked out for 24 hours to view at home.

Librarian Receives Award

Sherry Dodson, HSL's Clinical Medical Librarian, has been awarded the UWMC 2006 Outstanding Patient Educator Award. This award was created to honor UWMC staff and volunteers who have demonstrated excellence in patient education, an important part of patient care at UWMC. Ms. Dodson received this award in recognition of her work in creating an online patient education tool that enables seamless access to UWMC-authored and other quality patient and family education resources and materials.

Grant$ for Lunch--NIH Budgets: Myths, Realities & Survival Strategies

10/18/06 12-1pm SCC316L

The current budget picture at NIH means fewer new grants funded and more anxiety for all investigators. This session will provide insight into both realities and myths of the current budget picture at NIH. We will also discuss strategies for coping, including things you can do that do not depend on NIH.

Please join the Research Funding Service for this informative hour. No registration necessary.

Spark Session -- Innovative Learning Spaces: 10/19/2006 2:30-4:00 Odegaard 220

Join Philip Long, MIT, as he showcases the Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) project which promotes collaborative learning through lectures, simulations, and hands-on experiments. Richard Anderson, UW Computer Science, will demonstrate Classroom Presenter (CP), a tablet-based system in which instructors and students share and mark-up slides. Daryl Pedigo, UW Physics, will show how clickers can promote anonymous and widespread participation in classroom discussions. Dan Gilbert, Stanford, will highlight the inventive, educational technology found in Stanford's Wallenberg Hall. (More information)

Don B. Katterman Memorial Lecture (6/15/2006 9am to 12:15pm - T435)

2006 Don B. Katterman Memorial Lecture sponsored by the UW School of Pharmacy - Pharmacy Alumni Association. June 15, 2006 9:00 am to 12:15 pm in Room T435.

Panelists include journalists JEAN ENERSEN of KING5 and PATRICIA MURPHY of KUOW. For more information and how to register please contact Beth Fenkner at 206-543-3485 or rxalumni@u.washington.edu or visit the UW School of Pharmacy website.

4/27/2006 Spark Session: UW Ed Tech Survey Results

Did you know that 68 percent of UW students and 79 percent of UW faculty own laptops and are more likely to bring them to class if there is wireless access? Learn about this and other findings from the 2005 Faculty and Student Educational Technology Surveys on April 27 from 2:30 - 4 p.m. in OUGL 220.

Catalyst's Cara Lane will share the results, and Mike Eisenberg (iSchool), Betsy Wilson (UW Libraries), and Bennett Hornbostel (Student Tech Fee Committee) will discuss the implications. (http://catalyst.washington.edu/events/spark.html)

Orientations for Library Research Award for Undergraduates

Orientation sessions for the "Library Research Award for Undergraduates" competition will be held in the Allen Auditorium, ground floor, Allen Library North at the times below. The competition recognizes University of Washington students who produce significant inquiry requiring use of information resources, the library and its collections:

• Tuesday April 4 - 10:45-11:15am
• Wednesday April 12 - 2:45-3:15pm
• Thursday April 20 - 9:45-10:15am
• Wednesday April 26 - 3:45-4:15pm

All undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Washington are encouraged to submit research projects for the award competition.

Award Application Deadline: 5:00 p.m. May 22, 2006.

UW Library Focus Group Invitation

UW Library is looking at ways we can improve services to the biosciences community. We are conducting three faculty and two graduate students focus group sessions. Please look at the flyer for details (PDF 48KB).

Please email us at biolib@u.washington.edu if you can participate. Thank you!

EndNote Drop-In Classes

Drop-in EndNote classes will be held in the Health Sciences Library's Library Teaching Lab on:

• Friday Jan 13 12-1pm
• Wed Jan 25 11am - 12pm
• Tue Feb 7 12-1pm

You can see what other classes are available at the Health Sciences Library by visiting our HSL Classes and Tours page.

Social Work Library Open House

Come join us at the UW Social Work Library for homemade cookies, punch, and candy treats on Monday, October 31, 11am-1pm. Help us celebrate the Library's recent acquisition of new computers, printer, and copiers to better serve you.

Lewis & Clark on Display

Please take a moment to stop by the newly installed display case on the third floor of the Health Sciences Library near the Information Desk. On display: "Lewis and Clark: a Glimpse into Their Practice of Medicine.

Waiting List for Grant Writing Workshops

The fall quarter grant writing workshops offered by the Research Funding Service (RFS) are full. You may send email to RFS to be placed on the waiting list. For more information, visit the RFS page.

Upcoming Grant$ for Lunch

Note corrected time: On June 8, 2005 from 1 pm - 2 pm in Room 303, South Campus Center, Barbara F. Perry, UW Associate Vice President and Director of Federal Relations, will conduct a Q&A session. No pre-registration required. Please join us!

Set Research Free

Join us on Wed, May 11 for a reception and panel discussion on the open access movement, Set Research Free: The Open Access Publishing Movement.
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Reception, Mary Gates 420
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Panel, Mary Gates 389

No RSVP is necessary and the event is free of charge.

The panel is part of the "Pressing Questions of the Information Age" series, presented by the Digital Medica Working Group and the Institute for International Policy's Center for Internet Studies with the generous sponsorship of the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

Risk & Responsibility: Ethical Boundaries in Scientific Discovery (as told by Mary Shelley)

Dr. Kelly Fryer-Edwards, from the UW Medical History & Ethics Dept presents a public lecture on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 in Gowen Hall 301 at 7:30 pm. For more information about the Libraries exhibit, visit the Frankenstein Exhibit web page.

Using Search Engine PubMed Links to Retreive More Articles

If you follow the links to the PubMed citations found when using a search engine such as Google, not only will you follow a trail to the full citation (and often the full-text of the article), you will now also get a link to a search on the topic described by the citation.

Once you click on the link to go to PubMed, you will see an added red "Note" on the PubMed screen indicating how many citations a direct PubMed search on this topic would produce. PubMed has created an algorithm based on the indexing and key words of the article to identify similar articles. Click on that link to run the search and retrieve more relevant references on your topic. You may have to "re-enter" proxy space (as described above) in order to make the purple UW Article Online button to appear.

How to Make a Monster: Medicine & the Creation of Frankenstein

Dr. James Whorton, Professor, UW Medical History & Ethics Dept, presents a public lecture on Tuesday, Mar 29, 2005 in Gowen Hall 301 at 7:30 pm. For more information about the Libraries' exhibit, visit the Frankenstein Exhibit web page.

Monsters in Medicine: Images from the Past

Stop by the Health Sciences Library and visit a display of early
teratology books from the Library's Rare and Special book collections. The
dislpay also includes selected early medical instruments on loan from the
Department of Medical History and Ethics.

Brochures from the National Library of Medicine are available that provide
an overview to the exhibit on display in Suzzallo Library as well as a
bibliography highlighting selections from the UW Libraries for your
reading pleasure.

Frankenstein Exhibit & Lectures

March 4- April 13, 2005, the UW Libraries is hosting "Frankenstein:
Penetrating the Secrets of Nature," a national exhibit based on Mary
Shelley's classic novel.

The exhibit explores the role of scientific experimentation and the
importance of exercising responsibility toward individuals and the
community in all areas of human activity, including science. The exhibit
also explores the life of the author, literary and historical aspects of
the novel, as well as our big screen fascination with Frankenstein's
monster.

Two events of particular interest to those in the health sciences will be
lectures by:

Dr. James Whorton, Professor
Medical History and Ethics
"How to Make a Monster: Medicine and the Creation of Frankenstein"
March 29 | Gowen Hall 301 | 7:30pm

Dr. Kelly Fryer-Edwards, Assistant Professor
Medical History and Ethics
"Risk and Responsibility: Ethical Boundaries in Scientific Discovery (as
told by Mary Shelley)"
April 5 | Gowen Hall 301 | 7:30pm

A complete list of Frankenstein events is available on the exhibit's web site.

A Conversation with Clifford Lynch

How does convergence in the digital age impact teaching, learning, and scholarship? What new types of knowledge will be created as a result? What does this mean for the world of Scholarship?

Come to the Catalyst Spark Session on Monday, February 14, 2005, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm in the Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall to find out.

Join Clifford Lynch, the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, as he shares his perspective on these issues. Professor Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last ten years as Director of Library Automation, and is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. He currently serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, the National Research Council's committee on digital archiving, and the National Archives and Records Administration.

HSL Student Technology Fee Proposal

 You can comment on these two proposals by following the links below.

• Proposal to upgrade Library PCs


• Proposal to replace outdated Microlab workstations and peripherals

HSL NCLIS Blue Ribbon Award Winner

HSL is being honored with a 2004 Blue Ribbon Consumer Health Information Recognition Award from the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS). These awards highlight libraries that promote healthy lifestyles. The award will be presented by Washington Secretary of State, Sam Reed, in a ceremony on Nov 17, 2004, to Sherrilynne Fuller, Director, HSL.

HSL receives the award for its efforts in providing accurate, useful, consumer health information in a variety of ways (e.g. the EthnoMed web site, Tribal Connections project and reference services) to the people of the state of Washington.

Award winners were chosen based on the overall success of the library's consumer health information services program, with particular emphasis on the program's potential impact, innovativeness, and replicability. Winning entries will be compiled into a report of best practices in consumer health information distribution done through libraries.

Publishing Your Research in Today's Environment

HSL is hosting a noon hour event on Publishing Your Research In Today's Environment, including a discussion of the issues surrounding Open Access.

Date: Friday, October 29 2004
Time: 12 noon - 1 pm
Place: Turner Auditorium (D-209)

Topics include:

• Open Access: what is it & how it will affect you
• NIH and public access to research information
• Copyright: Authors' rights & options

Save the Date

Friday, Oct 29, 2004 12 noon - 1 pm. Come one, come all! Discuss and learn more about Open Access at a brown bag session in Turner Auditorium (D-209) hosted by HSL. Stay tuned for details!