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, [...]

Find Out More About Top Ranking Journals

Are you thinking of submitting a manuscript to Plant Cell but don’t know how high that journal is ranked in your field? Do you want to know more about the top journals in your field?
Journal Citation Reports can help! This resource allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 [...]

Celebrating 10 years of Service to Middlebury Area Hospital

“It’s a great service to pick up the phone and get what you need,” says Elaine Coon, coordinator of education services at Porter Medical Center, a small hospital that serves the health care needs of Middlebury, VT and surrounding communities.
Ten years ago, the Dana Medical Library started sending a librarian to Porter Medical Center  for [...]

Dana Supports Administrative Personnel

A handful of brave souls came out on a stormy day in January to attend a reception held by Dana Library Liaisons for administrative personnel across the College of Medicine, College of Nursing and Health Sciences and Fletcher Allen. This was the second year Dana librarians hosted such an event in the hopes of educating [...]

New Year’s Resolution: Do a Better Search, Ask a Research Question

With the new semester starting, it’s great to see so many students in the Dana Library getting a jump on research papers, board exams, and study.
Are you working on a research project? A literature review is a normal part of the research paper. It requires that you find authoritative journal articles, books and websites on [...]

Lunch and Learn Series Spring Schedule

Bring your lunch and your questions to the Dana Library Conference Room for our Brown Bag Lunch and Learn sessions, Wednesdays at noon.
EndNote
Learn the basics of EndNote. This demonstration could include creating a list of references in EndNote, downloading records from online databases such as PubMed, creating a bibliography, or adding citations to a paper [...]

Winter Holiday Hours

Dana Medical Library hours will be reduced between Friday December 19, 2008 and Sunday January 4, 2009:
Friday December 19 7:30am-7pm
Saturday December 20 9am-7pm
Sunday December 21 9am-10pm
Monday-Tuesday, December 22 and 23 8am-10pm
Wednesday December 24 8am-3pm
Thursday December 25 through Sunday December 28 – CLOSED
Monday – Wednesday December 29-31 noon-5pm
Thursday January 1 through Saturday January 3, 2009 [...]

Dana Medical Library Staffing Changes

Sandra Aldrich has moved from the position of Acquisitions/Cataloging Library Professional to Serials/E-resources Library Professional.
Several of Dana‘s long term staff members retired this past year. Shirley Bolkum, Library Support Senior in Technical Services retired in December 2007 after 35 years of service to Dana Library, and Helen Olson, Library Support Assistant in Technical Services [...]

Expert Searching Works for Clinicians and Researchers Alike

Whether you’re pursuing evidence-based clinical practice or creating new knowledge through research, a literature review is an essential step in the process. The literature review can provide you with:

vital background information,
a rationale for research,
highlights of work that has already been undertaken in the field,
a review of previously-used methods, or
insight into unexplored research areas.

A thorough literature [...]

Fall Semester Pilot: New Reference Hours

Due to increased activity as Liaisons to individual departments, Dana Library is issuing a pilot project this fall reducing the hours that the reference desk is open. The reference desk will be open from 10 am to 4 pm M-F this semester.
However, just because a reference librarian isn’t sitting at the reference desk, doesn’t mean [...]