Button Chair Exhibit Here!

This interactive exhibit is designed to increase awareness of breast cancer.

On display Nov. 9th - 30th
Entrance Level

Reception: Nov. 19th, 5 - 7 pm
First Stack Level

Free and open to the public!

Let's Celebrate!

October is National Medical Librarians Month. To kick off the month-long celebration, coffee and snacks will be served on the Mezzanine Level, courtesy of Elsevier.

Come join us and register for your chance to win a Memorex MP3 player. October 5th starting at 9:00 am.

Community Reads Together

Copies of Something for the Pain are available at the Medical Center Library!

Durham County Library has selected "Something for the Pain" by Durham resident Dr. Paul Austin for Durham Reads Together 2009, the library's bi-annual community-wide reading event. The book, which Library Journal calls "a definite page-turner and a riveting debut," is a deeply-felt and deftly rendered first-person account of the life of an ER doctor.

Durham County Library encourages everyone to read the book in preparation for programs and events (listed online) throughout the month of October. Durham Reads Together will conclude with a Meet the Author event on Sunday, November 1 at 3:00 pm at the Doris Duke Center in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, 426 Anderson St., Durham. All Durham Reads Together programs are free and open to the public. For more information about the book, the author, and events and programs, visit www.durhamcountylibrary.org/drt. Durham Reads Together 2009 is sponsored by the Friends of the Durham Library.

With support from the Friends of the Durham Library, Durham County Library has purchased more than 200 additional copies of Something for the Pain to ensure that the book circulates easily throughout the community.

Now that the title has been announced, everyone in Durham - individuals, community organizations, businesses, book groups, high school and college students, healthcare workers and members of the faith community - is encouraged to read and discuss the book, and attend programs in October.

This is the third Durham Reads Together project coordinated by the Durham County Library. In 2005 the book featured was James McBride's The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. In 2007 Durham Reads Together featured Darcy Frey's The Last Shot.

Durham County Library provides the entire community with books, services and other resources that inform, inspire learning, cultivate understanding and excite the imagination. For more information about the library, visit us online at www.durhamcountylibrary.org

Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science,Magic, and Medicine

Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine
September 2 - October 2
Durham County Main Library
300 N. Roxboro St

Organized by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, this traveling exhibit explores the link between the Harry Potter novels and the history of science. The exhibition tour is coordinated by the American Library Association Public Programs Office, Chicago.

Related materials from the Medical Center Library's Trent Collection will also be on display.

Sponsored by the Durham County Main Library and the Duke Medical Center Library

Against the Odds Exhibit Reception 9/3/09

This traveling exhibit highlights the role of communities in improving health at home and around the world. On display until Sept 11th; 1st Stack Level

Exhibit Reception: September 3rd from 5:30 - 7:00 pm

Special History Lecture

"African American Physicians
in the Civil War"

Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD

Wednesday, Apr. 1st; 12:00 - 1:00 pm

Rm 102 Lower Level

Light buffet available from 11:45 am

Duke/UNC Speaker Series

Join us on March 10 at 6:00 pm for a presentation by Seymour Mauskopf, PhD, on "Fritz Haber: A Cautionary Tale." read more...

Tea with Trailblazers

Join us for a presentation by two of Duke's African-American trailblazers in medicine: Dr. Haywood Brown and Dr. Danny Jacobs; Feb. 9th; 2:30-4 pm; First Stack Level.

Wear Red Day - Feb. 6th!

Help support the fight against heart disease in women by wearing red on Friday, Feb. 6th. It's a great way to raise awareness!

Meet the women of Untold Stories of the Heart, a television special which aired nationwide recently, focusing on real women's stories of struggle, success and support on their journey to heart health.

Celebrate Open Access Day: Oct. 14th with Duke Libraries

Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society.

Duke Talks about Open Access
2:00 - 3:30 p.m., Perkins Library, Room 217

James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, Chairman of the Board, Creative Commons.
Professor Boyle will focus on Creative Commons, an organization which is working to facilitate the free availability of art, scholarly and creative materials through online licenses that authors can attach to their work.

His talk will be followed by a panel of speakers from the Duke community who will share their perspectives and their activities within the Open Access arena.

• Melanie Dunshee, JD, AMLS, Assistant Dean for Library Services, Duke Law Library
• Ricardo Pietrobon, MD, PhD, MBA, Associate Vice Chair and Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery Duke University Health System
• Josh Sommer, fellow in Duke's Program on Global Health and Technology Access, co-founder Chordoma Foundation

Open Access Webcast
7:00 - 8:00 p.m., Perkins Link AND Medical Center Library (Room 104)

The Webcast features:

• Sir Richard Roberts, Nobel laureate, Chief Scientific Officer at New England Biolabs, US, and a member of the PLoS Biology Editorial Board.
• Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D. founding editor-in-chief of PLoS Computational Biology, Professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the UC San Diego, Assoc. Dir. of the RCSB Protein Data Bank, Senior Advisor to the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Adjunct Professor at the Burnham Institute, and Co-Founder of SciVee.

Both speakers will discuss how Open Access impacts research and will answer questions on this topic from participating campuses.

Throughout the day, the libraries will feature short video clips on open access, make handouts about author rights, access to research, and copyright available, and distribute OA Day buttons. If you are a supporter of Open Access you are also invited to join our Facebook page.

For more information about the speakers and other events, please contact
Kevin Smith, kevin.l.smith@duke.edu, 668-4451 or Pat Thibodeau, at patricia.thibodeau@duke.edu, 660-1150. Additional information about Open Access Day is available at http://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/openaccess or http://www.openaccessday.org/.

DukeReads-Online Book Club

DukeReads is an online book club that provides alumni and friends a chance to discuss a range of books -- contemporary, classic, fiction, and nonfiction -- from the comfort of a computer. Seven titles, offered over seven months, are selected by Duke bibliophiles.

The summer book choice is "What is the What" by Dave Eggars. For more information on the book club, how to register, or how to order the books online from Gothic Bookstore with a discount, see: http://www.dukereads.com/

Happy reading!

Science Blogging Conference in RTP

Science Blogging Conference
Saturday January 19, 2008 in Research Triangle Park
http://scienceblogging.com/

Register now to reserve your place to discuss the future of science communication. The conference addresses a variety of issues and perspectives on science communication, including science literacy, the popularization of science, science in classrooms and in homes, debunking pseudoscience, using blogs as tools for presenting scientific research, writing about science, and health and medicine.