Message from the Director: Dana Offers Services to Vermont Clinicians Unaffliliated with UVM or Fletcher Allen

While some may say that “everything is free and available on the Internet” medical professionals know that the full-text of all published journal articles or medical textbooks is not available online – even from Google. The PubMed database is free to search but often only citations and abstracts are available for free, and ordering from [...]

EndNote How-To

One of Dana’s most-used services is assistance with EndNote. And now, thanks to librarian Angie Chapple-Sokol, a new Online Resource Guide [http://danaguides.uvm.edu/Endnote] has been created to assist patrons in their use of EndNote, the bibliographic management software that helps organize your references and produce bibliographies for the preparation of papers and grants. This guide covers [...]

Fletcher Allen’s Frymoyer Community Health Resource Center: An Interview with the Coordinator

For years now, the Dana Medical Library has worked collaboratively with the Frymoyer Community Health Resource Center, Fletcher Allen Hospital’s patient medical library, but we’re often asked:

What is the Frymoyer and what do they do?

The Dana Medical Library Newsletter sat down with Alan Lampson, Coordinator of Fletcher Allen’s Frymoyer Community Health Resource Center, to find [...]

Brown Bag Lunch and Learn at Dana Medical Library

Fall 2009
Wednesdays, Noon-1 PM
Bring your lunch and your questions to the Dana Library Conference Room for our Brown Bag Lunch and Learn sessions.

Orientation
Weldome to the Dana Medical Library! Tour the Library and web site.
Wednesday
September 9, 2009
Noon-1pm

Endnote
Learn the basics of Endnote. This demonstration could include creating a list of references in Endnote, downloading records from online [...]

New Fall EndNote Office Hours

Dana is pleased to offer new fall EndNote Office Hours. Bring your EndNote questions to the library for individual assistance. We will provide instruction, help solve a citation problem, or assist in getting your library of documents under control.
Tuesdays, 2-3 pm with Angie Chapple-Sokol, angie.chapple-sokol@uvm.edu, 656-9396
Fridays, 10-11 am with Laura Haines, laura.haines@uvm.edu, 656-4143
For best results, [...]

Welcome New Residents!

Dana Medical Library staff welcomed some 55 new residents to the Library on June 17, 2009. New Fletcher Allen House Staff were greeted by librarians who introduced Library services and resources and answered residents’ questions.
While most residents did not have their FAHC badges at the time, many have since returned to the Library with new [...]

New Borrowing Privileges for Vermont Faculty

As members of the Vermont Consortium of Academic Libraries (VCAL), the University of Vermont Libraries now offer borrowing privileges to faculty members at any participating institution.
University of Vermont faculty can obtain VCAL Reciprocal Borrowing cards at the Dana Medical Library circulation desk, which will allow them to borrow materials from libraries at Middlebury College, Bennington [...]

Faculty Member Acknowledges Dana with Book Donation

Gale Golden LICSW BCD, and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry in UVM’s College of Medicine, recognized Dana Medical Library with a donation of her latest publication, In the Grip of Desire: A Therapist at Work with Sexual Secrets.
Professor Golden used the Dana Medical Library’s space and services to complete this book and kindly donated a [...]

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 [...]