HSL hosting MLA Webcast: Now’s the Time: Understanding the Electronic Health Record Maze and Health Sciences Librarians’ Roles

The Health Sciences Library at New York Medical College will be hosting the following MLA webcast at the library.

Now’s the Time: Understanding the Electronic Health Record Maze and Health Sciences Librarians’ Roles
MLA’s Educational Webcast
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 2:00-4:00 PM (Eastern)

 http://www.mlanet.org/education/distance_ed/ehr/index.html

We would like to invite all of our colleagues to attend this event free of charge.

Please let us know if you plan to attend by completing this brief form: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFJYYkZyYUV5WWR0VnpHS1c5U1JpZWc6MA

 This program is worth 2.0 MLA CE hour credits. We will have wraparound sessions if there is interest as indicated on the submitted registration forms.

Photos from the NYMC Faculty Authors Recognition Event are now online

View photos from the NYMC Faculty Authors Recognition Event held on January 12, 2010 at http://library.nymc.edu/bibliog/2010/ .  The event celebrated all NYMC faculty authors who published during the 2009 academic year (July 2008-June 2009). The event was presided over by Dr. Ralph O’Connell, Provost and Dean, and sponsor of the event, Diana Cunningham, Associate Dean and Director of the Library, and Dr. Michael Wolin, Professor of Physiology and Chair of the Library and Academic Support Committee (LASCOM).

16th Annual Faculty Authors Bibliography and Celebration

Today the Health Sciences Library with the sponsorship of the Dean and Provost, releases the 16th edition of the Annual Faculty Authors Bibliography. The Bibliography celebrates the scholarly publications and activities of New York Medical College’s esteemed faculty. The 16th edition recognizes publications from the 2008/2009 academic school year. An invitation-only celebration will take place in the Health  Sciences Library today from 4-5:50 PM.

Beginning this year, and with retrospective development underway, the full database will be browseable and searchable online using RefWorks bibliographic management software’s RefShare component. Data from the last five years has been converted from ProCite thus far, so the current database covers back to 2004/2005. Progress is being made toward migrating the data from previous years into the RefShare database.

You can access the database, PDFs of the print bibliography, tip sheets, and phtographs on the Faculty Author Bibliography site located at http://library.nymc.edu/bibliog

Library Employees Recognized at Employee Recognition Ceremony

On the morning of Wednesday, September 23, 2009, New York Medical College held its Sesquicentennial version of the annual Employee Recognition Ceremony, honoring employees for longevity of service to the university. Three Health Sciences Library employees were recognized:

• Juan Castro, Access Services Assistant – 10 years
• Patricia Kelly, Access Services Evening & Weekend Supervisor – 15 years
• Haldor Lougee-Heimer, Serials/Systems Librarian – 15 years

Sincerest thanks for all you do!

2009 Employee Recognition Ceremony. Honorees in back row (l-r): Haldor Lougee-Heimer, Patricia Kelly, Juan Castro. Other library staff, front row (l-r): Rie Smethurst, Nina Kurzban, Nick Dietschi, Chris Sheridan

Join us for Scopus Day in the BSB Lobby!

Today representatives from Elsevier Publishing will be visiting New York Medical College to demonstrate the use of the Scopus database and other electronic resources to users of the Health Sciences Library. The demonstrations and event will take place in the Basic Sciences Building Lobby from 10 AM -1 PM on Tuesday 9/15.

Scopus, marketed as the world’s largest bibliographic database, has gained wide acceptance at New York Medical College as a broad-based indexing and abstracting database with citations and links to over 29 million articles from over 15,000 journal titles. Besides its broad scope, Scopus is useful as a citation analysis tool. Authors wishing to use metrics such as the h-index, or citation alerts for their papers can learn how to set these up in today’s event. Furthermore, representatives will be on hand to work with you to clean up your author record and make your research more visible in the Scopus database.

Please stop by with questions, to discuss use of these products, or to enjoy a refreshment. Representatives from Elsevier Publishing will also be willing to discuss their other electronic products, such as Science Direct (a platform for their electronic journals), which is a source of many electronic journals at New York Medical College.

HSL to Host Full-Day NLM PubMed Class October 14

The Health Sciences Library is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the in-depth full-day PubMed training class offered by the National Training Center and Clearinghouse (NTCC) of the National Library of Medicine. This training will take place on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 from 8:30 AM-5:00 PM in the Alumni Computer Center in the School of Health Sciences and Practice Building (formerly the School of Public Health).

From the NTCC site: “This full-day class is designed to teach students how to use PubMed® which includes MEDLINE citations. The class also includes an overview of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) and its importance as a tool to both searchers and indexers.”

Registration is FREE and open to everyone, but pre-registration is required as space is limited. For more information and to register please go to:   http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/register.html?schedule_id=553

For further information please contact:

Marie Ascher
Head, Reference & Information Services
Health Sciences Library
marie_ascher@nymc.edu
914-594-3168

Celebration of New Online Catalog June 11 – Come Join Us!

A Contest! Name Our New Library Catalog and Win $50!

The Health Sciences Library is implementing a new integrated library system soon and we’d like you to help us name our new Online Catalog. Something memorable, something branded, something that feels like it is ours… let your creative juices flow and submit your best name for our new catalog using this form:

Online Catalog Naming Contest Submission Form

Winner of the selected name will receive a $50* gift card! No limit to the number of submissions per person. So submit early and often. And tell your friends! See the form at the link above for more details and contest rules. Deadline for submissions is midnight Friday, June 5, 2009.

The new system will be an Ex Libris “Voyager” system.

Some examples of other medical school library catalog names :

Columbia: CLIO (Columbia Libraries Online Catalog)
Harvard: HOLLIS
NYU: MEDCat
Weill Cornell, Sloan Kettering, Rockefeller University: Tri-Cat
Yale: Orbis

*The money comes from an anonymous donation.