New Content Development Librarian Joins Dana

Content Development Librarian, Assistant Professor Thomas Schmiedel

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 as Visiting Electronic Resources Librarian at Fort Lewis College in Durango for the past year.

In his position at Dana Professor Schmiedel will be selecting health sciences resources, identifying open-access content and data for inclusion in the current organized collections, and analyzing collection usage and research collection alternatives. He hopes to “gain a better understanding of how Dana’s community of users views the library’s resources.” He is especially excited to improve the current collection by acquiring resources that Library patrons truly wish to use in their studies and research.

In his free time, Tom enjoys running, cycling, hiking, photography and writing. He is excited to be exploring new territories in Vermont this summer.

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 9 am – 10pm

Exceptions:

Independence Day Holiday
Fri July 3- closed (UVM Holiday)
Sat July 4- closed
Sun July 5- 9am-10pm

Regular hours will resume Sunday August 10, 2009.

See the Hours page for an interactive calendar with complete information on the Library’s hours of operation.

Nursing Librarian Participates in Knowledge Fair

Assistant Professor Angie Chapple-Sokol, Nursing Liaison, at the Fletcher Allen Knowlege 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 Medical Librarian: Anatomy of a Literature Search. The presentation follows a reference librarian’s literature search from the initial request to the delivery of articles to the patron.

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 System feed page.

Quick Facts Lung Cancer
By American Cancer Society
WF 658 Q6 2007

Egan’s Fundamentals of Respiratory Care
By Robert L. Wilkins, James K. Stoller, Robert M. Kacmarek
WB 342 E28f 2009

Principles and Practice of Mechanical Ventilation
By Martin J. Tobin
WF 145 P957 2006

Respiratory Physiology
By John B. West
WF 102 W518r 2008

Frozen Section Library: Lung
By Timothy Craig Allen, Philip T. Cagle
WF 600 A431f 2009

Introduction to Bronchoscopy
By Armin Ernst
WF 500 I618 2009

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 so you can feel confident using images in your presentation legally.

Marshall Fox. Histopathology of liver in fatal human plague. CDC. Public Health Image Library. [accessed 2009 May 11]. Available from: http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/imageidsearch.asp Image ID 728.

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 since May 2008 to successfully configure the UVM wireless. Instructions for setting up the “UVM” wireless are at http://www.uvm.edu/ets/wireless/.

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.

Assistant Professor Phillippe

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 Go Local, a Dana-maintained Vermont health services online referral site, and Dana’s Health Research Associate program that provides needed health information to local physicians not affiliated with UVM/FAHC’s Academic Health Center.

Associate Professor Bianchi attending Pediatric Professor Rounds.

Nancy Bianchi’s poster, Liaison Librarian and the Department of Pediatrics: Working Together to Improve the Health Care of Vermont Kids, presented an overview of Professor Bianchi’s work with the Pediatric Department. Specifically it covered her role as an informationist and librarian who attends weekly Pediatric Professor Rounds to answer reference questions raised by the clinical cases presented.

Many other Vermont libraries showcased their programs and services during this presentation, which coincided with the Advocacy Cocktail Reception.