Informatics/Digital Librarian Joins Dana

Benjamin Sandoval joins the Dana Medical Library this month as the new temporary Informatics/Digital Librarian. Ben has a Masters degree in Library and Information Science at UCLA and BA in history with a secondary education focus. His most recent library position was at the UCLA Biomedical Library. He comes to Vermont from Arizona, where he’s [...]

NIH Open Access Policy Update

The NIH Public Access Policy will continue to be in effect in 2009 and “thereafter,” according to a provision in the recently approved federal appropriations bill.
“The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require in the current fiscal year and thereafter [emphasis added] that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted [...]

New Technologies in the Library

Enhanced Catalog Feature
You may have noticed that the catalog has more images and more information than before. That’s because information from Google Book Search has been loaded into UVM Libraries’ online catalog, Voyager.

More Information About This Book
Many of the books in the catalog now have an image of the cover of the book, and a [...]

Dana Wants to Hear from YOU!

The Dana Medical Library cares about what you think. We want your voice to be at the heart of our planning and assessment efforts as we evaluate library services, including such things as electronic journal access, library employees’ ability to solve problems, the new library web page, and the quality of the physical facilities.
On Monday, [...]

Community Medical School Is Back for Its 10th Year

The Community Medical School lecture series began in 1998 and was designed to provide people in the community with an opportunity to share in the medical learning experience. Offered each semester, Community Medical School consists of seven weekly lectures on such diverse subjects as heart failure, DNA, food allergies, asthma, melanoma, stem cell transplants, [...]

VT Medical Libraries: Partner for Health at Blueprint Conference

“What are your unmet health information needs?” librarian exhibitors asked at the Vermont Blueprint for Health Conference, on March 9 at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center. Public health professionals among others wanted to know how they could obtain full-text journal articles if they are not affiliated with UVM. The Dana Medical Library [...]

Book Display for Bruce A. Gibbard Memorial Lecture

The Dana Medical Library is happy to display a set of books donated in support of the Bruce A. Gibbard Memorial Lectureship Program, to be held Friday, April 10 at the Davis Auditorium, Fletcher Allen/UVM.
The featured speaker this year is Eve Caligor, MD, who will present An Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder.
Eve Caligor, [...]

Journal Changes for 2009

Every year Library faculty and staff work hard to assess the journal collection to make sure it meets the needs of patrons. Indicators such as journal usage statistics, impact factors, and ranking of a journal title within its subject area assist the Library in deciding which journal titles to add, change to online subscription, or, [...]

“No fee” policy continues for Dana InterLibrary Loan

Dana Library will continue indefinitely the “no fee” policy for UVM faculty, staff and students, and Fletcher Allen employees needing to borrow journal articles and books from other libraries (Interlibrary Loan). Since the elimination of fees last September, health science students, faculty researchers and clinicians have taken advantage of their ability to obtain information resources [...]

Preview the NEW Dana Medical Library Website

For the month of February, UVM Libraries will preview its new website.  Please send comments and suggestions using the linked form.  During the week of March 9 the preview site will become the new site for the UVM Libraries.  Your comments during the preview stage are greatly appreciated.