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No. 321.............................................December 2008
Pat Thibodeau, Associate Dean for Library Services & Archives
More and more people are using the Library’s computers, which is a good thing! However, with this increase in activity has come an increase in the use of our workstations for personal reasons. As a result, noise from headphones, cell phones, and personal conversations has escalated. Patrons who are doing serious work are having difficulty finding quiet and secure computer workspaces to access educational, research, and patient care information.
In order to fully support Duke Medicine’s primary missions of patient care, research, and education, we are redirecting the use of some of our computers. Effective January 5th, there will be an area for general computing and another one for those who need to do research to support their Duke activities.
What will be changing?
Computers on the Mezzanine Level and in the Electronic Classroom (Rm 104, Lower Level)
- Will be limited to research, clinical work, and educational activities
- Will require a login using your Duke Medicine computer ID and password This Windows Active Directory ID and password is the one you usually use to login to your regular computer workstation or laptop. If you are not sure what this is, call the DHTS Help Desk at 684-2243 or talk to the Systems Administrator in your department.
Computers on the First Stack Level
- No login required
- Will be limited to “quick look-up” of books and journals with a 15-minute time restriction
General computer workstations will be available on the Entrance Level near the Library Service Desk.
- No login required
- Available to the general public and those without Duke Medicine computer IDs
- May be used for general Internet access, e-mail, and other computer uses
- Time limits may apply if others are waiting
Reminder: Please be considerate of others! Silence cell phones, and keep music and conversations at a low level.
The Medical Center Library is seeking guest bloggers for our Crossroads blog. If you’re interested in exploring issues in medicine, nursing, information, research and education, here is your opportunity! Topics for posts could include:
- making evidence-based practice a reality
- spotlighting significant new articles from the literature
- use of technology in health care
- your life as a student or clinician
- other topics of interest
No previous blogging experience is required! Guest bloggers will receive free interlibrary loan privileges or copy cards for their participation.
Interested? Questions? Contact Megan von Isenburg at megan.vonisenburg@duke.edu or (919) 660-1131.
Megan von Isenburg
Associate Director, Public Services - Information Services
Associate Director, Public Services - Information Services
Having trouble distinguishing APA citation style from CSE? Wondering if you need to cite electronic journal articles with that mysterious DOI number you’ve heard about? Well, have no fear! Duke has recently purchased a site license to RefWorks. This personal online database and bibliography center can help you organize and share references and format your bibliographies and manuscripts with ease.
Create a personal database with unlimited storage online
Import references directly from multiple databases
Organize, manage, and share references
Format bibliographies and manuscripts
Connect to RefWorks directly at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/refworks or via our Website pages, Tutorials & Training or Tools for Authors. Accounts are free, but you will have to log in with your Duke NetID and password. To get you started, RefWorks offers a number of short tutorials at http://www.refworks.com/tutorial/.
Need help? Call the Library Service Desk at (919) 660-1100, IM dukemclref, or email mclref@mc.duke.edu. For tips and videos on using RefWorks, visit our Tutorials & Training pages at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training/refworks.
Medical Center faculty, students, and staff may check out one of the Library’s iPods containing:
Medical Podcasts
Listen to summaries of articles from JAMA, NEJM, Lancet and more
Duke Department of Medicine Talks
Noon GME Conferences, Grand Rounds, and Board Reviews
New England Journal of Medicine Videos
Clinical procedure videos formatted for the iPod screen
Netter’s Anatomy Flash Cards
Quiz yourself on anatomy
Library Tour
iPod Policies
- iPods may be checked out by Medical Center patrons only.
- The loan period is 2 weeks with 1 renewal. Call (919) 660-1100 for renewals.
- Do not connect the Library iPod to your computer. It is intended as a stand-alone device containing medical podcasts and videos.
- To re-charge an iPod, connect it directly to the wall with the enclosed cord and charger.
- Use headphones to listen to an iPod or plug it directly into computer speakers.
- Do not copy files from the iPod onto your computer or from your computer onto the iPod.
- You will be held responsible for replacement costs for iPods that are lost or damaged.
- Any personal content downloaded onto the iPod will be deleted immediately when it is returned to the Library.
If you know of other healthcare-related content that you’d like to see on the iPods, please contact Megan von Isenburg at (919) 660-1100 or megan.vonisenburg@duke.edu.
Jessica Roseberry, Medical Center Archives
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Fourth Annual “Tea with Trailblazers” Speaker Panel
Dr. Haywood Brown, Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, will join Dr. Danny Jacobs, Chair of the Department of Surgery, to talk about their experiences as African-American trailblazers at Duke.“Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons”
On loan from the National Library of Medicine, this traveling exhibit explores and celebrates African-American academic surgeons. It will be unveiled at a reception immediately following the Tea with Trailblazers panel presentation. The exhibit will be available for viewing at the Library until the end of April 2009.Figures from the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum
The Library will host several life-sized wax figures of medical personalities from the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore, MD. The figures will be available for viewing on February 9th.
These events are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Jessica Roseberry at (919) 383-2653. A summary of last year’s Trailblazers event is available on our Website at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/about/news/ln04-08.html#trailblazers.
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Andrew Conway School of Nursing
Lori Dowell
Kelly Mortellite
Annette Murphy
Meera Patel |
Andrea Stehman Doctor of Physical Therapy Program
Patricia Thibodeau
Megan von Isenburg
Iman Washington
Elizabeth Wulff-Burchfield |
National Medical Librarians Month
| Cold Spring Harbor Duke University Stores EBSCO Elsevier (MDConsult and ScienceDirect) Gold Standard (Clinical Pharmacology) Informa Healthcare Majors Books |
Jim Tate Mary Ann Liebert Natural Standard Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc. Solinet Unbound Medicine, Inc. Wiley |
Winning Entry "I’ve Got To Hand It To You" |
Heather Brockel iPod touch (courtesy of Informa Healthcare) |
Staff News
Robert James, Associate Director of Access Services, left the Medical Center Library in July to become the Assistant Director of User Services, Academic Library Services, Joyner Library, East Carolina University. Robert had worked at the Library since 2003.
Adonna Thompson became the Assistant Director and Librarian for Research, Outreach, and Education at the Duke Medical Center Archives in September. Adonna had previously served as Director and Archivist for the Physician Assistant History Center.
Brandi Tuttle, Information and Education Services Librarian, was one of twenty-four applicants selected for the 2008-2009 North Carolina Master Trainer Class. Sponsored by the State Library of N.C., this program aims to increase the ability of public and academic library staff to plan and present effective training.
Mira Waller has left the Duke Medical Center Archives to become the Project Euclid Manager at Duke University Press. Mira had served as Archives Assistant Director and Librarian for Research, Outreach, and Education.
Library staff presented the following initiatives during the poster and paper sessions held at the Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association in Morgantown, WV, October 21, 2008:
Karen S. Grigg, Charlie S. Lackey, Beverly Murphy, Richard A. Peterson, and Patricia L. Thibodeau - Speed Weeding: When Space Needs are on the Horizon
Karen S. Grigg, Marcos Rodriguez, Richard A. Peterson, and Patricia L. Thibodeau - Keeping Patrons Happy: Data-Driven Collection Management
Jeffery Loo (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science), Anne Langley (Duke University Libraries), Beverly Murphy, and Patricia L. Thibodeau - Global Health: Some First Steps to Serving This Interdisciplinary Field
Happy Holidays
| DAY | DATE | HOURS |
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| Monday | Dec. 22 | 8:00 am - 8:00 pm |
| Tuesday | Dec. 23 | 8:00 am - 8:00 pm |
| Wednesday | Dec. 24 | CLOSED |
| Thursday | Dec. 25 | CLOSED |
| Friday | Dec. 26 | CLOSED |
| Saturday | Dec. 27 | 10:00 am - 6:00 pm |
| Sunday | Dec. 28 | 2:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
| Monday | Dec. 29 | 8:00 am - 8:00 pm |
| Tuesday | Dec. 30 | 8:00 am - 8:00 pm |
| Wednesday | Dec. 31 | 8:00 am - 6:00 pm |
| Thursday | Jan. 1 | CLOSED |
Jessica Roseberry, Medical Center Archives
The Library welcomes its newest employee, Emma Cryer, who joined the staff in August. Emma received her master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and worked at Johns Hopkins for two years prior to coming to Duke.
As Electronic Resources and Serials Manager, Emma is in charge of the Library’s online and print journals, including collection development, contract negotiations, and licensing issues, which she finds the most interesting. Ultimately, she would like to transition the journal collection to be as print-free as possible, since this is the way that most patrons now view journals. “My biggest challenge will be balancing today’s high costs of journals with a realistic budget,” she says.
Emma is very interested in getting feedback regarding the journal collection, so please send your comments, suggestions, and other ideas to emma.cryer@duke.edu.
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Improve Your Library Research Skills! |
The Medical Center Library offers a variety of educational opportunities. A roster of training sessions is below. |
PubMed  Hands-on. Searching with MeSH, limiting, full-text access, saving searches, and creating alerts.
Feb. 19 ......12 - 1 pm Hands-on. Subject heading and keyword searching, limiting, full-text access, saving searches, and creating alerts.
Feb. 26 ......12 - 1 pm Hands-on. Adding and managing citations, and building bibliographies and in-text citations.
Mar. 5 .......12 - 1 pm Demo. Set up EndNote, add citations from databases, and automatically insert citations and build bibliographies while you write.
Feb. 12 ...... 12 - 1 pm | Feb. 19 ...... 5:15 - 6:15 pm |
Library Orientation Basics for navigating and using our print and electronic collections.
12:15 - 12:45 pm Send tables of contents and search results straight to your desktop using RSS.
Hands-on. Designed for support staff. Tips and tricks for finding articles, database searching, providing access to articles without violating copyright, and more! Registration required: http://hr.duke.edu/train.
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If you can’t make one of our scheduled classes, we can arrange a customized training session for you or your department on specific resources or topics. To make arrangements, contact the librarian consultant for the topic. If your topic is not listed, please contact Connie Schardt, Associate Director of Public Services - Education Services, at (919) 660-1124 or connie.schardt@duke.edu.
| CINAHL | Anne Powers | (919) 660-1128 | |
| Copyright | Pat Thibodeau | (919) 660-1150 | |
| Drug Databases | Connie Schardt | (919) 660-1124 | |
| EndNote | Ginger Carden Hattie Vines |
(919) 660-1184 (919) 660-1125 |
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| Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) | Connie Schardt | (919) 660-1124 | |
| Health Statistics | Hattie Vines | (919) 660-1125 | |
| Library Orientation | Brandi Tuttle | (919) 660-1126 | |
| MEDLINE OvidSP | Anne Powers Beverly Murphy |
(919) 660-1128 (919) 660-1127 |
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| MEDLINE PubMed | Megan von Isenburg | (919) 660-1131 | |
| NIH Public Access Policy | Pat Thibodeau | (919) 660-1150 | |
| Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and Mobile Devices | Brandi Tuttle | (919) 660-1126 | |
| RefWorks | Megan von Isenburg | (919) 660-1131 | |
| RSS | Brandi Tuttle | (919) 660-1126 | |
| Web of Science / Web of Knowledge | Megan von Isenburg | (919) 660-1131 |
For self-paced learning, online tutorials, handouts, and tips for using many of the Library’s resources can be found on the Tutorials & Training section of the Library’s Website at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training.
Book Drop Locations and Schedules
The Medical Center Library’s main book drop slot is located near the main lobby entrance. A 24-hour book drop is located near one of the entrance doors of the Library on the walkway between Duke Hospital North and the South Clinics. Materials deposited in the 24-hour book drop are picked up three or more times each day.
To avoid overdue fines, please pay particular attention to the pickup schedules, or return all journals, books, and interlibrary loan items directly to the Library. Audiovisuals should be returned to the Library Service Desk to avoid damaging them.Duke South Clinics
Personal Rapid Transit Lobby.Pickup: Monday through Friday at 9:30 a.m.
PRT Lobby, Lower Level near the walkway to Parking Garage II. Pickup: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday ONLY at 9:30 a.m.
Sands Building, on the Jones Building side near the rear exit door. Pickup: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday ONLY at 9:30 a.m.
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