New Content Development Librarian Joins Dana

Tom Schmiedel joins the Dana Medical Library this month as the new temporary Content Development Librarian. Tom holds a BA in Chemistry from the University of Colorado at Boulder, an MS in Education from Western Connecticut State University and an MLS from Southern Connecticut State University. He comes to Dana from Colorado, where he served [...]

Summer Hours

These hours are in effect between Friday, July 3, 2009 and Saturday August 08, 2009:
Mon-Thu 8 am – 10 pm
Fri 8 am – 7 pm
Sat 9 am – 7 pm
Sun [...]

Nursing Librarian Participates in Knowledge Fair

Fletcher Allen Health Care celebrated National Nurses Week on Wednesday, May 13th, with a Knowlege Fair featuring informational displays from around the organization including one hosted by Dana’s Nursing Librarian, Angie Chapple-Sokol. Professor Chapple-Sokol hosted a table with information about the library and a PowerPoint presentation entitled A Day in the Life of a Dana [...]

New Book Highlights: Respiratory Resources

Our new acquisitions lists are now available as weekly RSS feeds. Subscribe to one or more feeds to receive weekly notification of titles in your field(s) of interest. Updates are posted on Friday morning.
This month many titles dealing with the respiratory system are featured. To subscribe to a feed on this topic, visit the Respiratory [...]

Help with Medical Images

A new Online Resource Guide [http://danaguides.uvm.edu/images] has been created to assist patrons in locating and using medical images in papers and presentations. The guide provides a road map to general medical images as well as images in the areas of oncology, neurology and medical history, just to name a few. Copyright issues are also explained [...]

2008 Summary Report Now Available

The Summary Report for the fiscal year of 2008 (covering July 2007-June 2008) is now available. Highlights include news of the year on Facilities, Teaching & Learning, and Personnel Changes.

New Wireless Wi-Fi Service on Campus

There is a new wireless service on campus that replaces the old CatsPaws network. The new “UVM” network does not require Cisco VPN. Joining “UVM” takes a few minutes of setup the first time, but after that, your wireless device should connect automatically. Important: You must have changed your NetID password [...]

Dana Librarians Celebrate Vermont Libraries

Dana Librarians Shiela Phillippe and Nancy Bianchi both presented posters at the Vermont Library Association’s Annual Vermont Library Conference in a session entitled Celebrating Vermont’s Libraries.
Shiela Phillipe’s poster, entitled UVM Dana Medical Library’s Community Services, covered the many programs Dana initiates to meet the health information needs of the citizens of Vermont. Highlights included VT [...]

H1N1 Virus Information

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) offer the following resources on the H1N1 Flu:

Newest 2009 H1N1 Flu Outbreak Sequences
Citations recently added to PubMed
MedlinePlus (consumer health information)
Enviro-Health Links.

The following information is provided by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the US Department of Health and Human [...]

The New Web Site: An Interview with Libraries Head of Systems

The Dana Medical Library Newsletter sat down with Paul Philbin, Head of Systems at UVM Libraries, and the project manager for the new Libraries Web Site to talk about the making of a new web site, the most significant changes and his favorite features.
1. Why did the Libraries create a new web [...]