EHSLibrary » essential news http://library.med.utah.edu/blog/eccles Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library Blog Fri, 17 May 2013 19:45:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 2013 Free Lecture Series: Spine Health in the Workplace http://library.med.utah.edu/blog/eccles/2013/05/17/2013-free-lecture-series-spine-health-in-the-workplace/ http://library.med.utah.edu/blog/eccles/2013/05/17/2013-free-lecture-series-spine-health-in-the-workplace/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 19:45:51 +0000 Ray Balhorn http://library.med.utah.edu/blog/eccles/?p=3186 This free lecture will teach about basic spine anatomy and proper posture.  Learn how to keep your spine healthy (or get it healthy again!) while at work.

Shawnee Haws received her Doctor of Physical Therapy from the University of Utah in 2005, and is a certified Pilates instructor and educator.  Her current clinical practice includes the treatment of many orthopedic conditions with a focus on proper neuromuscular re-education after injury

Everyone is welcome! Light refreshments will be served.

Thursday, May 23rd
11am – noon
Hope Fox Eccles Health Library
Located just off the Main Lobby in University Hospital (next to Starbucks)

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Anticipated downtime is 2 hours.

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Apply online!

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Interested applicants should consult the full position description that outlines more responsibilities at http://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/23049.

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Since Google Reader is a tool we at the Eccles Library have recommended using for RSS feeds in the past, we wanted to make sure you, our patrons, are aware of this and provide some options.  Here are the four Google Reader alternatives that I have seen suggested the most:

Feedly – https://www.feedly.com/
NewsBlur – http://www.newsblur.com/
The Old Reader – http://theoldreader.com/
NetVibes – http://www.netvibes.com/

You can find overviews and comments about these and other RSS tools in posts on Gizmodo and The Verge. If none of those work for you, there are plenty of other options, including ones that make your RSS feed look like a Star Wars movie opening or a Star Trek computer display.

Basic information about retrieving your Google Reader data before July 1st can be found on the Google support page. For more information about how to transfer your data and feeds from Google Reader to your new reader, try this Lifehacker post.

Personally, I have been trying out Feedly for the last few weeks.  This is one of the easier transitions because Feedly pulls your RSS subscriptions directly from your Google Reader account.  I have found that after tweaking some of the preferences, I feel pretty comfortable using it and am no longer quite so devastated about losing Google Reader. I have tried the Chrome and Firefox plugins, as well as the iPhone and iPad apps.  I think I even like the mobile apps a little better than using Google Reader on my iPhone.

Which RSS reader are you using?

]]> http://library.med.utah.edu/blog/eccles/2013/04/17/google-reader-is-shutting-down/feed/ 0 April 10 – LIFT Forum — The U & You; student stories http://library.med.utah.edu/blog/eccles/2013/04/06/april-10-lift-forum-the-u-you-student-stories/ http://library.med.utah.edu/blog/eccles/2013/04/06/april-10-lift-forum-the-u-you-student-stories/#comments Sat, 06 Apr 2013 18:10:53 +0000 jeanneleber http://library.med.utah.edu/blog/eccles/?p=3087 The Wednesday, April 10 Library and Information Technology Forum features Tony Sams who will present The U & You: An Asynchronous Human Library, a session focused on a project collecting student stories. Please join us in the Eccles Health Sciences Education Building, Room 5100 B at 12:05 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.

The U & You project seeks to build a longitudinal collection of students’ academic and social growth. The project consists of two parts:
1. Interviews with students that are transcribed and assigned metadata for relevant recall.
2. Development of a website to access the stories, by searching for metadata on the participant

The U & You project is producing original documents (interviews) in the form of local oral histories and experimenting with an entirely new “collection” that is social in origin, and special in the access it provides to the personal experiences of the U’s student population.

Tony Sams is the Digital Scholarship Consultant and Project Manager, Digital Scholarship Lab in the Faculty Center at the J. Willard Marriott Library.

Join us in the Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Health Sciences Education Building, Room 5100 B at 12:05-1:00 p.m. for this program.

For more details, visit the LIFT Forum page. Program can be viewed from off-site via link from the web page; and available on demand after the program.

The LIFT Forum is co-sponsored by the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library and the Media-on-Demand committee.

Questions can be directed to:
Jeanne Le Ber; 801-585-6744

uandyou

 

 

 

 

 

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We recently started a month-long trial of Data Citation Index and we want to know what you think. So check it out and send feedback, either through the survey linked below, or by emailed your comments directly to abby.adamczyk@utah.edu

Data Citation Index Trial: http://wok2trial.isitrial.com.ezproxy.lib.utah.edu/UofUtah/client.cgi
Database Trial Survey: http://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/survey.php?survey_id=2354
More information about Data Citation Index: http://wokinfo.com//products_tools/multidisciplinary/dci/

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