Finding and Re-purposing Datasets
Thursday, April 25
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
HSEB 3100 D

For questions on the content of this workshop, please contact Daureen Nesdill: daureen.nesdill@utah.edu

For more information about the workshop series or to suggest topics for Eccles Express, please contact Jessi Van Der Volgen: j.vandervolgen@utah.edu

Need to find the right image for your presentation? Once you find it, do you know how you can use it? This short workshop will cover Fair Use, Public Domain, Creative Commons and other issues in the use of images for teaching and presentations.

Please join us for Eccles Express:

Thursday, April 18
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
HSEB 3100 D

For questions on this workshop, please contact Nancy Lombardo: Nancy.Lombardo@utah.edu

Resources:

Digital Images – where to find them and whats legal
Using Digital Images URLs – Handout

The Updated NIH Public Access Policy
Thursday, April 11
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
HSEB 3100 D

For questions on this workshop, please contact Abby Adamczyk: Abby.adamczyk@utah.edu

Thursday, April 4
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
HSEB 3100 D

For questions on this workshop, please contact Jessi Van Der Volgen j.vandervolgen@utah.edu

Crunched for time? Stop in for Eccles Express!

Eccles Express is a short workshop with an overview of the topic where you can learn strategies, steps, or resources you can employ right away. We are pleased to offer the following sessions on Thursdays in April, from 11:30 am-12:00 pm in HSEB 3100D.

April 4: Enhancing the Impact of Research
Presented by Jessi Van Der Volgen
Optimize the visibility and impact of your research through increased discoverability. In this session you’ll learn strategies to consider in preparing for publication, disseminating your research, and keeping track of your research.

April 11: The Updated NIH Public Access Policy
Presented by Abby Adamczyk
Do you have an NIH grant and need to find out if your publications meet the updated NIH Public Access Policy requirements?  Learn how to check your compliance and make sure your papers are in PubMed Central.

April 18: Images: Where can you find them and what’s legal?
Presented by Nancy Lombardo
This brief overview will cover what is a legal use of images for teaching and presentations. Fair Use, Public Domain and Creative Commons issues will be discussed. Useful sites for finding images will be presented.

April 25: Finding and Re-Purposing Datasets
Presented by Peter Jones
Discovering and re-using research datasets has become much easier in recent years due in large part to data sharing initiatives, increasing use of standards and innovative new technologies. Come learn about some of the many treasure troves of research data available, as well as how to utilize and cite them.

These workshops are offered for free by Eccles Health Science Library and no registration is required. For questions about Eccles Express, please contact Jessi Van Der Volgen: j.vandervolgen@utah.edu

Among the items featured in the collection are photographs of international nurse uniforms, dental cartoons, health and hygiene puzzle blocks from China, U.S. Army malaria pinup calendars, Adolf Hitler’s X-rays, and a volume on the art of palm reading. Each item highlighted in the book has been specially selected and is paired with a commentary from a scholar on the history and significance of the item. “Some things are charming and entertaining. Others are disturbing to look at, or document terrible things,” Sappol says. “There’s a lot in the book. In some cases it’s a document of human suffering, showing the diseases and afflictions people have. In other cases, it’s a document of ingenuity and coming up with treatments.”¹

Hidden Treasure is available as a free download from NLM’s Digital Collections or, if you’d like a hardcopy to entertain your guests, you can purchase it through major online booksellers. You can also find a review in The New York Times.

1 http://infocus.nlm.nih.gov/2012/07/new-book-reveals-nlm-hidden-tr.html

Book Cover: http://irp.nih.gov/catalyst/v20i2/hidden-treasures-at-nlm

Through this new initiative, EPA is challenging the academic community to find innovative and creative ways to use TRI data to promote more informed decision-making and action on the part of communities, manufacturers, and government. Project ideas may range from one semester to multi-year research or coursework as long as the projects increase the knowledge, use, and understanding of TRI data and other related information. Priority will be given to projects related to one or more of the following topics:

• Pollution Prevention and Sustainability
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Technology and Data Mashups
• Environmental Education

Institutions whose project proposals are selected will serve as TRI University Challenge partners. Partners will receive direct non-monetary support from EPA TRI staff experts, and, depending on the outcome of their project, may receive national recognition for their project as well as speaking opportunities at conferences and events. Applicants who are not prepared to submit project ideas this spring are encouraged to submit project proposals during the next open application period.

Sample project ideas and evaluation criteria are posted on the TRI University Challenge website: www.epa.gov/tri/university.

Informational Webinar

Join us for a webinar on March 6 at 2:00 p.m. EST to learn more about the Challenge and ask questions about getting involved.  Register at:  https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/420376090.

Application Deadline

EPA will be accepting TRI University Challenge applications between March 18 and May 13, 2013. Award applications must be submitted electronically to Scott.Zachary@epa.gov by 5:00 p.m. on May 13, 2013, to be considered. Applicants will be contacted regarding their application status by June 14, 2013.

For questions not answered during the webinar, please contact Zachary Scott at scott.zachary@epa.gov

Help spread the word about the Challenge to your friends and professional contacts in academia.

Enjoy the opportunity to learn about new resources for collaboration, discovery, data sharing and data management and participate in discussions about how these resources can add value to your research community. This forum features a keynote address by Victoria Stodden entitled, “Open Data, Open Methods, and the Promise of Large Scale Validation.” Participants will also hear from developers of tools such as VIVO, eagle-i, REDCap, and the Data Management Planning Tool. See http://nnlm.gov/2013escience/ for full details.

This is a joint videoconference session with presenters and participants in Salt Lake City, Seattle, and Portland (OR).

Date: March 15, 2013 9:30am – 2:30pm. Lunch is provided.

Location: Dolores Doré Eccles Broadcast Center on the campus of the University of Utah, 101 S. Wasatch Dr., Salt Lake City, UT

Registration: Free, but required. http://nnlm.gov/2013escience/#reg

Contact: Claire Hamasu for more information. chamasu@RML4.utah.edu, 801-587-3412

Hosts: NN/LM MidContinental Region, NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region, Oregon Health Sciences Library.

Eccles Health Sciences Library is excited to pilot a new series of short, drop-in workshops. These 30-minute sessions will provide an introduction to the topic and present steps for getting started that you can put to use right away. Bring your laptop to follow along as we demonstrate and provide assistance with these tools.

The Eccles Express series will run on Thursdays in February at 11:30am in the Health Sciences Education Building, Room 2120 (Alumni Hall).

February 7: Data Management 101
Presented by: Abby Adamczyk
Not sure what to do with your data once a project is complete? Need to collaborate and share data with a researcher at another institution?  Get help and learn about resources and tools to help manage your research data.

February 14: One, Two, Three – Cite!
Presented by: Amy Honisett
Organize your citations, format your paper, and share with colleagues – for free! Join us for a short session to learn about three free citation management tools that can help you get control of your work.

February 21: Measuring Your Impact
Presented by: Jessi Van Der Volgen
H-index, G-index, i-10 index, altmetrics… confused? Learn about established and emerging tools for measuring author impact and steps for measuring yours.

February 28: Research Networking 101
Presented by: Peter Jones
How do you connect with research colleagues at the U or at other institutions? Come discover some of the time-tested techniques and new tools being developed to enable research communication and collaboration.

We hope to see you there!

Questions? Contact Jessi Van Der Volgen: j.vandervolgen@utah.edu

The Utah Landscapes Exhibit is an examination of the beauty and wonder that can be found throughout Utah via the photographic eye of Steven Leitch.

Steven Leitch has been employed as a Medical Photographer for the University of Utah’s School of Medicine since 1977. During that time, he has seen photography make drastic changes in the field of image capture.

It’s a new age, but despite the ease and automation in today’s digital world, the art, eye and skills of the artist-photographer are still necessary to produce fine art photography.

Throughout this exhibit Steven Leitch has employed the ideals of photography as they were years ago: true, actual, and real. These images of scenic Utah were all taken with digital cameras. He has striven to keep these images just as he saw them.

The exhibit will be accessible during the Library’s open hours:
Monday – Thursday 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Friday 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM.
Saturday 10:00 AM. – 6:00 PM
Sunday 1:00 PM. – 9:00 PM

Presentation and Reception: January 17, 2013 2:00-4:00 PM

Library Gallery, Main Level
Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library

Contact:  Shelli K. King, 801-581-7535, shelli.king@utah.edu
Directions to the Library

Program Description: Have you ever wondered how world leaders know how to react in times of crisis? In fact, where do world leaders learn how to handle these difficult situations? Fortunately, the University of Utah College of Law trains tomorrow’s leaders for these contingencies.

Each year, the S.J. Quinney College of Law runs a day long counter-terrorism simulation that puts students in a real life crisis scenario. Through this interesting use of technology, students learn the skills necessary to act and react appropriately in crisis situations.

Presenters will talk about:

• How we put together the simulation in conjunction with the Simulation Design Course taught at the College of Law
• How to leverage technology to make a smooth, realistic scenario
• What unfolds over the course of the twelve hour day

For more information and a short documentary about previous simulations, visit http://simulation.law.utah.edu

Presenters:
Mark Beekhuizen is the Director of Information Technology at the University of Utah S. J. Quinney College of Law. Mark is in a position where he is face-to-face with the social impacts of IT systems and change upon people and processes. The ability to daily engage in “beneficial work” is something too few IT leaders truly get to see firsthand. Mark is interested in supporting the growing movement to apply appropriate technology solutions to academic needs and the social impacts these systems and changes are having on the world around us.

Aaron Dewald is the Associate Director for the Center for Innovation in Legal Education at the University of Utah College of Law and a third year Ph.D. student in learning science at the College of Education.  With his job and schooling, Aaron has a unique perspective on technology use in pedagogical situations. Aaron received his B.S. in Information Systems from North Dakota State University in 2001, and his M.Ed. in Instructional Design and Educational Technology from the University of Utah in 2010. Aaron co-teaches the Counterterrorism Simulation Design course with Professor Amos Guiora. He also teaches Introduction to Web-based Tools at the College of Education.

For more details, visit the LIFT Forum page at http://library.med.utah.edu/or/lift/   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 or jeanne.leber@utah.edu

During the Forum, you can view the live video feed from this event at the following URL: http://ecclesvideo.med.utah.edu:83/liftlive.wmv

This program has a prerequisite and you have two choices:

1. Take the online class linked at: https://utah.instructure.com/courses/172949; this will prepare you for the hands-on session from 12:05-1:00 p.m. If you have questions or a scenario you would like evaluated, send to Allyson Mower ahead of the October 10 session.
2. OR you can attend the October 10 session from 11:30-Noon to get the information that informs the hands-on session from 12:05-1:00 p.m.

Hands-on Program from 12:05-1:00 p.m.: Do you have questions about copyright and what you can use in your teaching and research? Come to this session to learn more about copyright, what professors and researchers can do, and how to assess your rights and risks. This will be a hands-on session where you can learn how to make a fair use evaluation, how to find University of Utah copyright policies, and who to contact for copyright help.

Presenter: Allyson Mower, Librarian, Scholarly Communications and Copyright Librarian,  J. Willard Marriott Library

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 or

As old barriers crumble, the face of modern medicine is rapidly changing, but a look back at Utah’s colorful history reveals some surprising precedents. “A doctor if He had good sens[e] would not wish to visit women in child birth,” Brigham Young said in his medical lecture to the Board of Health at Great Salt Lake City in December 1851. “And if a woman had good sense she would not wish a man to doctor them on such an occasion.”

The territory’s early Mormon settlers were dedicated naturopaths of the Thompsonian persuasion, and as President Young’s words indicate, women dominated several fields of medical science, notably pediatrics. Frontier midwife Patty Bartlett Sessions recorded 3,977 births, with only “two difficult cases,” and performed her last delivery at the age of 85. During her career, Dr. Ellis Shipp, an 1878 graduate of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, delivered more than 5,000 babies at the Deseret Hospital.

Historian Will Bagley, whose great-great-grandparents lost seven children in three weeks to whooping cough, will take a fresh look at Utah’s surprising medical history and some of the courageous and colorful women who dealt courageously with diphtheria epidemics of 1864, 1872, 1891, 1900, and 1947.

Please join us for a series of events related to rediscovering the libraries. The Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library is hosting the National Library of Medicine’s Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women in Health Care from August 23 to October 7 on the main level of the library.

The grand opening of the exhibit, celebration related to rediscovering the libraries and the Snyder Lecture are planned for Thursday, August 30 starting at 10:30 a.m. in the Eccles Health Sciences Education Building, Alumni Hall.

Library Director, Jean Shipman, Senior Vice President Vivian Lee,  and Chairman Emeritus, Intermountain Banking Region, Spencer F. Eccles provide opening comments. Ellen S. More, Ph.D. delivers the Clifford C. Snyder, M.D. and Mary Snyder Lecture, Personal Stories, Cultural Change Women Physicians in America, 1850-2012. Dr. More is one of the original creator’s of the exhibit.

At noon, a light lunch will be served on the main floor of the Eccles Library. Lecture attendees are invited to the official opening of the exhibit and tours of the renovated Eccles Library and the Hope Fox Eccles Health Library.

Here is Google’s video describing this new service:

While Google does not share its trade secrets, the ReadWriteWeb blog reports that, in part, this system relies on Freebase, “a structured database of semantic information. It maps synonyms to help Google understand the meaning of words.” It also incorporates content from Wikipedia, Google Books and the World CIA Factbook [1], which means it is seeking to be more authoritative. This has implications for online content providers. As the EverSparkInteractive blog notes:

Because Google is providing this information to users, you can bet your bottom dollar the search engine will expect the sites it top ranks to provide information like this. So, when you are writing content for your website, remember to include verifiable facts. [2]

While libraries specialize in providing authoritative content via free and subscription databases and other resources, will Google’s new approach recognize this and increase their visibility? Librarians wear many hats, and it can be quite easy to slap up web content without proper metadata, let alone add important links “above the fold.” The structure and organization of information on a library’s website — its information architecture — may or may not be carefully planned and executed. How will this affect its ranking by Google now?

Have you used the new KG? Have you found it helpful? Tell us!

Reference:

1.         Mitchell, J., Google Goes Back to What It Does Well: Finding Things. ReadWriteWeb, 2012. 2012(May 29): p. Online article or blog post about changs to Google’s search interface, and the addition of the Knowledge Graph, with Wikpedia-like content.

2.         Baumwell, A., Google Knowledge Graph: Will It Change the Face of Search? EverSparkInteractive, 2012. 2012(May 29): p. Online article or blog post about changs to Google’s search interface, and the addition of the Knowledge Graph, with Wikpedia-like content.

Do click on the link to the Mauger: A Father and Son Dabbling in Landscape article to see a collage of pictures of notable folks who attended the Friday afternoon reception. It was a lot of fun and instructive.

This issue includes the results of our eReader and Tablets user preference survey. Not surprisingly – the iPad was the favorite tablet and the Kindle was the favorite eReader. Click the table of contents link to learn more.

The table of contents also links to various announcements about library services (like JoVE), professional activities (NANOS, AAMC WRC, personnel transitions, library faculty output), and upcoming events and celebrations (InfoFair 2012, National Library of Medicine Changing the Face of Medicine exhibit, Library Grand Re-opening, etc.)

It is a big issue, filled with lots of information. Please enjoy the read!

Summer Issue Table of Contents:
From the Director – Cultivating Innovations and Discoveries
Gerrie V. Barnett — Library Champion
Introducing . . . Jeff Folsom
User Preferences for eReaders and Tablets (survey results)
National Library of Medicine Training Center (NTC)
Cool Tools: Hootsuite and Protopage
Librarians Presented at NANOS 2012 and AAMC WRC 2012
Sally Patrick Receives Special Services to Libraries Award
Congratulations! Digre and Varner Receive the 2012 Rosenblatt Prize
Announcing Expanded Access to JoVE
Finding the Evidence for Systematic Reviews
GPO Notable Achievement Awarded to Eccles Library
Mauger: A Father and Son Dabbling in Landscape
A Triple Celebration
Eccles Library Professional Activity June 2011 to May 2012
Library Personnel Transitions 2011-2012

Questions can be directed to the newsletter editor:
Jeanne Le Ber; 801-585-6744 or jeanne.leber@utah.edu
Assistant editors:

• Julie Quilter; 801-581-5534 or julie.quilter@utah.edu
• Amy Honisett; 801-587-9246 or amy.honisett@utah.edu

Thanks to Stephen Mossbarger for his help with the PDF documents

eSynapse is published using open source software. The Open Journal Systems is a complete online journal management and publishing package that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research. OJS assists with every stage of the publishing process, from submissions through online publication and indexing.

Jeanne Le Ber, MLIS, AHIP
Associate Director for Education and Research

This is not a call to break up or bring down big-name publishers. They provide services that libraries have come to depend on. But if research is funded by public funding — gathered through taxes or charitable contributions — then the public should have complete and prompt access to its results, good or bad.

Publishers counter with (among many claims):

• Their work provides added value to the research, and
• The current one-year embargo is not enough time to recoup the investment made in adding value.

In testimony before Congress, one publisher argued

“The cutting-edge research in psychology published by APA is rarely obsolete within a year and may have a shelf life of five to 10 years or more. Furthermore, only 16 percent of the eventual ‘lifetime’ usage of APA journal articles—in the form of downloads—occurs within the first year after publication.”

The best rebuttal to this argument actually came in the form of a comment on the article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: publishers “neither pay for the intellectual content they publish (authors get no payments including no royalties), nor do they pay for the intellectual effort of the peer-reviewers – all of that professional/academic expertise is given to them for free.”

In addition, is the “added value” anywhere close to the prices publishers charge for access to this information? Now there is an area ripe for research!

One argument for open access is seldom, if at all, being made, and for this author, it is the most compelling: lives may hang in the balance. Some people cannot wait one, five or ten years for the publication of research that will lead to life-saving medical advances. Loosely described, building up collected knowledge of research is like arranging a box of dominoes so they are all standing on end, and next to one another. Arrange them all in the right way, and a single tap will send them all cascading into one another, until all are knocked down.  Researching and determining steps to treatments to take down conditions such as diabetes, various cancers, treatment-resistant diseases, and a myriad of other maladies should occur promptly, and benefit the many, not be delayed for the profit of a few.

First, the Center for Health Literacy Promotion Blog has a great story about “Esther,” a woman in the 1830′s whom the author calls “ahead of her time.” Too sick a 21 to help on the family farm or marry, she became a servant in a convent. When she became too sick to work there, she was sent home, where she founded a school, taught others to be teachers (who then started other schools), and broke social norms of the time to teach boys and girls together. At age 40, she and her teachers were recognized by the Catholic Church, becoming the Order of the Sisters of Saint Anne. While it may seem far afield to mention religious education in this context, closing words from the post make it a bit more relevant:

Aunt Esther was born two hundred years ahead of her time. Today her vision of literacy as the foundation for health, an escape route from poverty and the key to the advancement of women and society is an idea whose time has come. She inspires my work at the intersection of health and literacy.

The second item worth noting is a wiki created by researchers at the University of Michigan that is a catalog of more than 100 medical devices and technologies that can be used in poorer areas of the world. Example include:

• Pedal-powered nebulizer for asthma treatments
• Using a hand-cranked salad spinner as a centrifuge for blood samples
• Small, wax-filled sleeping bags that could be used to keep premature babies warm

Finally, an article in the Wall Street Journal asks some challenging questions about mobile devices and the future of medicine. In short, with all of the add-ons that are being created for smartphones, how will this transform the practice of medicine? The author offers these examples:

You can get an add-on to a smartphone which does eye refraction and then texts [the prescription] to get your glasses made. If you’re an optometrist, you might be worried about that. Or you can get your skin lesion scanned and get a text back quickly that there’s nothing to worry about. If you’re a dermatologist, that’s a big part of your practice. You will be able to take a DNA sequence on a USB port and pop it into your smartphone and get data out of it. It just goes on and on.

For patients that live a distance from a specialist in one area of medicine or another, online appointments could be used to maintain communication and improve patient outcomes. And many yet-to-be-invented uses of technology will radically alter how medicine is practiced. Yet medicine, as a profession, is slow to change. Will technology change that, or will it leave traditional medicine behind?

What do you think of these different stories and what they have to offer? Tell us!

Kroski’s page includes widgets to watch for times when her library is mentioned in/on:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• message boards
• Google alerts, and more.

To watch Facebook, the page’s user needs to be logged-in to Facebook first, which means this page cannot be shared as easily as this librarian would desire. Still, it’s a great idea, and kudos to her for sharing!

How do you watch for mentions of your library across various media and platforms? What does/not work for you? Tell us about it!

How serious is the earthquake threat in this area? According to Utah’s Seismic Safety Commission:

90% of Utah’s population lives in active earthquake zones. If a 7.5 Richter Magnitude quake were to occur in the Salt Lake City area, it is projected that 7600 people would die and approximately $18 billion would be lost to physical damage and loss of jobs and economic activity.

Utah has experienced damaging earthquakes in the past and geologic evidence indicates that earthquakes larger than any experienced locally in historical time are likely in the future.

In an emergency, we have only seconds to respond to assure our safety. Drills and practice assure we will do the right thing under pressure. More information is available from Emergency Management at the U, and the Great Utah ShakeOut website, including an online game, “Beat the Quake.”

So join us in this historic practice event. And if you read this blog from outside the area, tell us about how the news of this drill came across in your area!

This campaign encourages women to call 9-1-1 immediately if they experience one or more of the most common symptoms of heart attack:

• Chest pain or discomfort
• Unusual upper-body discomfort
• Shortness of breath
• Breaking out in a cold sweat
• Unusual or unexplained fatigue (tiredness)
• Light-headedness or sudden dizziness
• Nausea (feeling sick to the stomach)

More information can be found at the Make the Call website, including a quiz, how to survive a heart attack, and information about the myth of the “Hollywood Heart Attack.”

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. View the full job description and apply online at the University of Utah Human Resources department site, posting #PRN01682B.

73 percent of users said they would not be OK with an online search engine keeping track of their queries even if the data provides personalized results in the future. And 68 percent said they were not OK with targeted advertising because they don’t want their online activities tracked and analyzed.

Google is the preferred search engine for most online searching, though people surveyed don’t want information about their searches tracked. Yet unless you take steps to make sure this information is not collected, Google tracks it. And its search algorithms that include this information are what provides users with  the results they like. In a sense, we want it both ways: quality search results and privacy protections.

This is an area ripe for research: if we could define and control what information search engines and other online service providers can collect, would end users’ satisfaction with search engines change?

What do you think? Tell us!

iMedicalApps.com has published an insightful article about how the new hardware in Apple’s latest offering can benefit physicians and other health care professionals.The article highlights an increased screen resolution as a benefit to medical imaging and the addition of a voice dictation feature to the on-screen keyboard as a useful tool in many areas of health care practice. A last feature with significant potential in mHealth and telehealth is the upgraded camera and the ability to shoot video at resolutions up to 1080p HD combined with the optional high-speed 4G/LTE cell network connectivity.

This new device has a great deal of potential for health care education and practice.

March 5, 2012: Increasing Opportunities for Arts-Based Interventions in Long Term Care
Jackie Eaton, M.S. – Gerontology, College of Nursing
*College of Social Work – W.S. Goodwill Bldg. Community Room, Monday – noon to 1PM

March 19th, 2012: Changing Long-Term Care – A Culture Change
Diedra Kearny, Director of Community Education at Dignity Home Health & Hospice
and President of the Utah Elder Abuse Prevention Coalition
HSEB 2120 Monday – noon to 1PM

March 26th, 2012: Challenges and Priorities of Aging Issues in Salt Lake County
Sarah Brenna, Director of Salt Lake County Aging Services
*College of Social Work – W.S. Goodwill Bldg. Community Room, Monday – noon to 1PM

April 2nd, 2012: Caregiver Support
Charise Jensen, Assistant Program Manager, Community Care Transitions Salt Lake County Aging Services
*College of Social Work – W.S. Goodwill Bldg. Community Room, Monday – noon to 1PM

Week of April 9th-13th, 2012: Careers in Aging Week & Career Fair — *College of Social Work – W.S. Goodwill Bldg. Community Room

April 9th, 2012: AARP Perspectives on Aging Issues, Alan Ormsby and Laura Polacheck – AARP
*College of Social Work – W.S. Goodwill Bldg. Community Room, Monday – noon to 1PM

April 16th 2012: Autism Spectrum Disorder: Intergenerational Issues
Val’ D’Astous and Scott Wright, Ph.D. – Gerontology, College of Nursing
**College of Social Work – W.S. Goodwill Bldg. Community Room, Monday – 12:30 to 1:30PM

Seminars are sponsored by the Gerontology Interdisciplinary Program, College of Social Work; and the W.D. Goodwill Initiatives in Aging and University of Utah Center on Aging.

For more information contact:

• Scott Wright, Ph.D. – scott.wright@hsc.utah.edu – (801)-585-9542
• Fran Wilby, L.C.S.W., Ph.D. – frances.wilby@socwk.utah.edu – (801)-585-9276

Dr. Masheter continued to climb in her 60s, first Aconcagua, the highest peak in South America, followed by Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. On May 24, 2008, at age 61 years 7 1/2 months, she became the second oldest woman in the world to summit Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world. If Dr. Masheter summits the Carstensz Pyramid, a steep fin of limestone that rises out of equatorial jungle to over 16,000 feet in elevation next month, she will become the oldest woman in the world to summit the Seven Summits, the highest peak on each continent. Dr. Masheter now enjoys sharing lessons learned from her mountaineering experiences with others. At age 65, she also continues to climb.

Then join John Bramble, Technology Coordinator for the NN/LM MCR on Monday, February 27, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. MT, 12:00 p.m. CT for a demo of some of the basic features of the iPad 2. An iPad 2 is not required, and this online presentation is free and open to the public.

To join John online:

• Come to the online webinar room
• ***Dial-in instructions will be posted in the webinar room.***
• You do NOT need to register.

A sandbox session is just that: a chance for you to schedule time to play and learn something new to you, with someone there to answer your questions. Questions? Contact John via email at or at 801.585.5743 (Direct), 800.338.7657 opt. 1, 2, 6 (Toll free)

Would you sign up for such a program? What ways has texting and communicating with others electronically provided you with support to get through rough times? Tell us about it!

• February 13: “Navigating Your Rights: The Utah Legal Guide for Those 55 and Over” with Jilenne Gunther, M.S.W., J.D. Legal Services Developer State of Utah Department of Human Services Division of Aging and Adult Services.
• February 27: “No Magic Helicopter” (published book), The Story of Carol Masheter (SilverFox) and Climbing Mt. Everest at Age 61 — A Special Slide Presentation.
• March 19: “Changing Long-Term Care – A Culture Change” with Diedra Kearny, Director of Community Education at Dignity Home Health & Hospice and President of the Utah Elder Abuse Prevention Coalition.

For more information contact:
Scott Wright, Ph.D. – scott.wright@hsc.utah.edu – (801)-585-9542
Fran Wilby, L.C.S.W., Ph.D. – frances.wilby@socwk.utah.edu – (801)-585-9276

I jumped in with the second question and asked how the administration planned to address the failed system of copyright in a digital media age, particularly the restrictive DMCA, and cited how some vendors refuse to sell digital content to libraries. Chopra’s practiced very political response was that copyright was a macro-policy issue, and then he talked about the administration’s work on sharing and open data standards through leading by example-their work on the Learning Registry and other open education and data initiatives (check out all the stuff at data.gov). He did use the phrase “metadata standards,” which literally made me shiver. I guess I am a true librarian nerd girl at heart (as if there was any doubt)! Other questions asked about healthcare records, open data standards, SOPA and PIPA, broadband, delegating some of the wireless spectrum to public safety officials, resources for primary education, and more.

Her blog entry was written prior to the actual address, so it will be interesting to see what it was like to “tweet” with an estimated 50 other people at this constitutionally-required event.

Have you ever participated in a major political event such as this using Twitter or other social media? Tell us about it!

• January 30: “Emerging Models of Care: Saving Money and Improving Quality” with Fran Wilby, L.C.S.W., Ph.D. and Marilyn Luptak, M.S.W., Ph.D. from the College of Social Work; and Cherie Brunker, M.D., Geriatrics department, from the School of Medicine.
• February 6: ” Using Imaging Biomarkers to Understand Aging and Dementia” with Richard D. King, MD, Ph.D., Director, Alzheimer’s Image Analysis Laboratory, Center for Alzheimer’s Care, Imaging and Research and Assistant Professor of Neurology.
• February 13: “Navigating Your Rights: The Utah Legal Guide for Those 55 and Over” with Jilenne Gunther, M.S.W., J.D. Legal Services Developer State of Utah Department of Human Services Division of Aging and Adult Services.
• February 27: “No Magic Helicopter” (published book), The Story of Carol Masheter (SilverFox) and Climbing Mt. Everest at Age 61 — A Special Slide Presentation.
• March 19: “Changing Long-Term Care – A Culture Change” with Diedra Kearny, Director of Community Education at Dignity Home Health & Hospice and President of the Utah Elder Abuse Prevention Coalition.

For more information contact:
Scott Wright, Ph.D. – scott.wright@hsc.utah.edu – (801)-585-9542
Fran Wilby, L.C.S.W., Ph.D. – frances.wilby@socwk.utah.edu – (801)-585-9276

Mr. Ragon’s topic description: ‘Science is changing and changing fast. Concepts like the data life cycle, data curation, translational science, high performance computing, and data sharing are having an impact on how science is conducted. At the same time, libraries are adjusting services to meet the needs of highly networked and technically savvy patron groups. eScience is a term that describes the dynamic re-shaping of collaboration and workflows in science and creating unique and important opportunities for librarianship. This presentation explores potential roles for librarians in eScience, how new collaborations might form, and the role of the libraries in the data life cycle.”

A conversation break with light refreshments is scheduled from 2:00-2:30 in the EIHG atrium. At 2:30 at Meet the Experts panel convenes to further define and discuss issues related to eScience and eResearch. Panelists include: Bill Barnett, Ph.D., Steve Corbató, Ph.D., Donald McClain, M.D., Ph.D., Daureen Nesdill, M.L.I.S. and Ellie Phillipo; Bart Ragon moderates.

There is no registration or fee to attend. The program is being broadcast live and archived for on-demand viewing. The link will be available on the Mayden Lecture page for viewing from a distance.

For more information contact Jeanne Le Ber; 801-585-6744.

One of the critical components of this policy is “The HON Code of Conduct for medical and health Web sites” from the Health On the Net Foundation. Our website is HON Code Certified, meaning that the content we offer is/shows:

1. Authoritative: indicating the quality (ex: credentials) of the author
2. Complementarity: information should support, not replace, the doctor-patient relationship.
3. Privacy: respect the privacy and confidentiality of personal data submitted to the site by the visitor.
4. Attribution: cite the source(s) of published information, date medical and health pages.
5. Justifiability: must back up claims relating to benefits and performance.
6. Transparency: provide accessible presentation, accurate email contact.
7. Financial disclosure: must identify funding sources.
8. Advertising policy: clearly distinguish advertising from editorial content.

As an example of how this process is implemented, I recently received a request to link to the following site via an email sent to our Director:

Our site (http://www.bestnursingdegree.com/) is listed as a web resource by the American Nurses Association and the American Hospital Association, and the New York Times highlighted us in November 2010 as a nursing career/education resource. I’m biased : ) but I do think it might be a useful addition.

A visit to this URL leads to a site that claims to have widespread approval by “organizations such as the American Nurses Association, the American Hospital Association, the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, and the National Gerontological Nursing Association, among many others.” They also claim to have “given back to the nursing community by sponsoring over $12,000 in nursing student scholarships over the past two years.” It even claims to be a member of the American Library Association (ALA). The site is clearly organized and packed with useful information.

When compared to the HON Code Principles, however, this site falls short on several criteria. First, it barely meets the requirement for “Transparency,” only providing an email address as contact information, and nothing else.  A visit to the parent company’s website, Degree Prospects LLC, leads to a single web page with little information other than a generic email address, falling short in the “Authoritative” and “Financial Disclosure” categories. Finally, its so-called “Privacy Policy” can be changed at any time, and they reserve the right to sell assets, including any personal information provided by visitors. They claim that if personal information is sold, the Privacy Policy “shall remain in full force and effect and shall be binding” on those it is sold to. But any policy can be changed at any time by either the seller or the buyer, so privacy is fluid at best.

Should the library include a link to this site as a resource on our website, or not? What do you think? Tell us!

• Navigation structure updated, with organization based on functionality rather than by the library’s departments.
• Tabbed search box on home page, to help visitors begin their searches more quickly and effectively.
• Off-campus access link on every page
• New “Resources for” pages for librarians and researchers.

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Try clearing your cache of temporary internet files.

Feedback is welcome and encouraged! Add your comments to this post, or contact the Webmaster directly.

In addition to extending library hours, ASUU has partnered with the University Campus Store to distribute a limited supply of free bluebooks, pencils, highlighters, index cards, food, and parking validation stickers from Commuter Services. Beginning on December 5th through the 9th starting at 6:00 pm until midnight, look for the ASUU tables just outside of the Gould Auditorium on the first floor of the Marriott Library.

Program Description:
In an effort to expand its Web media service offerings, the University of Utah is working with Kaltura to provide simple, self-serve video publishing capabilities to all faculty, students, staff, researchers, and clinicians in a variety of convenient environments. Kaltura is a commercial online video publishing platform with an emphasis on open standards and flexible integration capabilities. Dave will provide an overview of the project’s goals and progress to date

Presenter
As the manager for University Information Technology (UIT) Streaming Media Services, Dave Adams is responsible for the coordination and support of Web media publishing strategies for the University of Utah campus, health sciences, hospitals and clinics. Dave provides infrastructure, tools, and support for all major video service providers including Instructional Media Services, the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library and the J. Willard Marriott Library, Media Solutions, Health Sciences Center Web Resource Center, and many colleges, departments and academic programs.

For more details, visit the LIFT Forum page.

Program can be viewed from off-site via links 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

Program Description: Eric Denna, Chief Information Officer at the University of Utah, will field questions related to the topic of cloud computing. As employees of the University of Utah many of us have questions about University policy and security related to the cloud. During this informal forum, Eric promises to answer all our questions about cloud computing or any other computing concerns.

Examples of cloud computing include web-based email, Google Wave, Slide Share, and services like Humyo or ZumoDrive that allow for online storage of data on someone else’s server.

Presenters
As Chief Information Officer for the University of Utah, Eric Denna has responsibility for Information Technology strategic planning, policy, standards, architecture, and the overall campus-wide IT governance process. He supervises networking, unified communications, administrative computing, classroom technology services, the university webmaster, Web design, video production, duplication, streaming, research computing, and services provided by the Center for High Performance Computing. In addition, Denna shares responsibility for central campus data centers and IT infrastructure services, IT compliance, and operational security with the University Hospitals and Clinics.

For more details, visit the LIFT Forum page.

Program can be viewed from off-site via links 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 or jeanne.leber@utah.edu

“nearly 90 percent of people would prefer to discuss blood test results during a doctor’s visit, only about 40 percent have discussed their results in person, primarily because the results were either mailed or emailed to the patient or the patient never received the results. In addition, some respondents reported that providers told them to assume everything was okay if the doctor did not notify them about the results.”

As a result, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors have launched a “Know Your Numbers” Educational Campaign in Conjunction with National Health Literacy Month. These two groups

“convened representatives from government, business, healthcare professional groups and consumer advocates to examine the state of the nation’s health literacy regarding blood tests. The result of this effort, “Fundamentals to Wellness and Prevention: A Call to Action,” is a report that encourages business, healthcare and government leaders to work together to help consumers become more aware of the importance of blood tests, facilitate timely access to test results and help consumers understand their blood test “numbers” so they can translate the knowledge into action.”

One would hope that these groups would also include librarians from public and health libraries, who are also “consumer advocates” that can put such important medical information before the public quickly, easily and for free.

Do you understand the information from your blood tests? Did you have the opportunity to discuss the results with a physician, or were you told that the doctor would call if there was a problem? Tell us about it!

UPDATE:

This online conference ends Friday morning, October 21, 2011. The last web presentations will be presented in the Auditorium in the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, directly behind the Eccles Health Sciences Library:

• 8:45 – 9:45 a.m.: IT from Both Sides of the Executive Table
• 9:45 – 10:00 a.m.: Online Conference Closing

There are two additional time slots for presentations (6:30 – 7:20 a.m. and 7:30 – 8:20 a.m.) where suggestions are welcome. Just consult the online list of presentations and bring your ideas when you come.

Join us!

Each pod has four sides, with two designed to seat one person, and the others designed for two or more people to work side-by-side. In addition, we have purchased rolling divider walls that can be expanded to enclose one side of a pod, giving the feel of a study or conference room. The walls have built-in whiteboards and markers for patron use. And once the pods are hooked up to the electrical system, patrons will be able to plug in their laptops and other devices.

Visit the library, have a look at our new study pods, then come back here and tell us what you think!

Program Description
Faculty and staff of the Eccles Library showcase their favorite apps for mobile devices. Each presenter has three minutes to present, describe and demonstrate a specific app and take one or two questions.

Apps to be presented include:
•    Dropbox
•    Evernote
•    GoodReader
•    Idea Flight
•    Inkling
•    Mendeley
•    QR Code Readers
•    Simplenote
•    Voice Memo
•    Weather and birds
If you are interested in showing us an app that you like please contact Jeanne Le Ber (contact information below).

Presenters
Faculty and staff of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library and you!

For more details, visit the LIFT Forum page; program can be viewed from off-site via links 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.

This column has featured many posts on mobile technology during the past two years, with particular emphasis on applications for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. This would not have been possible without the vision and creativity of the late Steve Jobs, founder and former CEO of Apple Computer, who passed away yesterday at the age of 56. Jobs transformed our relationship with computers and technology, democratizing access and enabling everyday people to do basic and amazing things.

Prior to Apple Computer’s debut, a select few had the know-how and access to utilize the enormous machines in temperature-controlled rooms at select sites in universities, businesses and government agencies. Jobs and his team at Apple built computers (Apple II, Macintosh, iMac, etc.) with graphical user interfaces (GUI, for short) that simplified interaction between human and machine so that everyday people could own and operate one.

When Steve Jobs gave the 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University, he spoke of his brush with death when he was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which his physician indicated would probably be incurable:

“I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.”

Jobs had the surgery and recovered from the cancer.

During the last 2-3 years, medical uses of mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad have increased dramatically, from interactive medical textbooks, to tracking blood glucose levels, to eye exams, to low-cost medical technology — with too many more examples to name in a single post. Steve Jobs looked beyond what was to what could be done with computing:

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

So I tip my hat in tribute to Steve Jobs, whose technological vision and creativity will live on to help many have better health through technology.

(Photo from Wikipedia article on Steve Jobs.)

At the end of this article, an update was added noting that after discussions with Facebook engineers, the engineers “agreed to make changes to the way their cookies are stored and handled so your account information is not present when you log out of Facebook.” But the cookies still remain on your computer after logging-out, so the author recommends using one or more of 3 browser extensions (mentioned above) to clear your cookies after each time online:

• Facebook Privacy List for Adblock Plus
• Facebook Disconnect for Chrome, and
• Disconnect for Chrome and Firefox

Are you concerned about privacy issues such as this? Why or why not? Tell us!

The website template is available in two formats, one using simple HTML (MyRA 1.0) and one utilizing Alfresco and Drupal (MyRA 2.0). The simple HTML version contains links to resources available to University of Utah researchers. These links can be replaced and customized with the associated links relevant to each institution. The more dynamic version utilizes Drupal for front end display and Alfresco for enterprise content management. This version requires local instances of these two open source programs.

For more information and instructions on how to download the templates, please visit the MyRA Web Portal Project website.

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, under Contract No. NO1-LM-6-3504 with the University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library.

This investigation was supported in part by the Public Health Services Grant number UL1-RR-25764 and C06-RR11234 from the National Center for Research Resources.

The Krafty Librarian recently asked some thoughtful questions about the value of social media to medical and academic librarians:

• Since it is apparent that social media is being used and it is here to stay for a while, what are the biggest issues you face personally and professionally?
• Do you worry about a lack of privacy?  As more and more companies are going on Facebook and Twitter what is your thought about following them?  Do you follow them? Why or why not?
• What is your library or institution doing on Twitter, Facebook or Foursquare? How is your library or institution engaging its users? How do you measure engagement?
• Does the increase of bots on Twitter and inactive Facebook followers concern you?

The Eccles Library is trying to engage its users via its Twitter feed, Facebook page and this blog. One hot topic among medical academic libraries is health literacy, which Wikipedia defines as “an individual’s ability to read, understand and use healthcare information to make decisions and follow instructions for treatment.” Twitter searches using “#healthliteracy” has proven to be informative in learning what that site’s users are reading and thinking about this topic, as noted in a previous post. And as I posted more tweets on this topic, our feed has gained a few more followers.

On our Facebook page, the topic that appears to have garnered the most comments and Likes was copyright issues. But measuring engagement has proven elusive. Having worked in business previously, the value of time spent on a particular project was described as a return on investment or ROI. The book Social Media ROI by Olivier Blanchard just arrived on my desk via Interlibrary Loan, and may offer some insights on how to apply this concept to libraries and their use of social media. Stay tuned…

Issue highlights include:

• From the Director — New Beginnings
• Library Champion — Don Blumenthal
• Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Eccles Library — Part II
• Introducing . . . Amy Honisett
• Research Support for You via RISe
• Tablets and eReaders Available for Checkout
• Cool Tools: Wiggio
• Meet Our Experts!
• Workshop Registration System Has a New Look!
• Need help? Contact our Reference Team
• What’s New with STAT!Ref
• Save the Date!

Questions can be directed to the newsletter editor:
Jeanne Le Ber; 801-585-6744 or jeanne.leber@utah.edu
or assistant editor Julie Quilter; 801-581-5534 or julie.quilter@utah.edu

eSynapse is published using open source software. The Open Journal Systems is a complete online journal management and publishing package that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research. OJS assists with every stage of the publishing process, from submissions through online publication and indexing.