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Friday, March 30th, 2012
Are you drowning in news?
Can’t stay current with important information about your field?
Do you wish there was an easier way to keep on top of what’s happening?
Join us for ‘Keeping Current with Social Media’ on April 6th at 2pm in HSEB 3100B. Amy Honisett and Peter Jones from the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library will show you the basics of two great tools (RSS Feeds and Twitter) you can use to streamline your information overload. They will also briefly cover dashboards, which are services that collect your many social media accounts into one place.
Register online at: http://bit.ly/HpAfwi
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
The next EndNote for Mac workshops will be offered:
- Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. in HSEB 3515-A
- Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in HSEB 3515-B
- Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. in HSEB 3420
We will be covering EndNote X5, which can be purchased online or in-person from the University Bookstore. Participants are encouraged to register online beforehand, and follow the instructions for downloading handouts and exercises to their laptops for use during the workshop. Questions? Contact Todd Vandenbark, Web Services Librarian, at 801-581-5263 or by email at 
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
The Spring 2012 issue of eSynapse, the newsletter of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, is now available online.
Enjoy these issue highlights:
- From the Director – IPE
- John W. Mauger – Library Champion
- Introducing . . . Christy Jarvis
- Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Eccles Library — Part III
- Reorganizing the Eccles Library Website
- Cool Tools: Dropbox
- eReader/Tablet Checkout Available at the Library
- Jean P. Shipman Appointed Co-Convener of Chicago Collaborative
- Upcoming Events
- Exploring Health Care Disparities
- Priscilla M. Mayden Lecture Focuses on eScience-eResearch
- Join Us for the NCBI Discovery Workshops
- Workshops @ the Library
- 2012 Eccles Library Construction Notice
Questions can be directed to the newsletter editor:
Jeanne Le Ber; 801-585-6744
Assistant editors:
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.
Tags: 40th anniversary, Dropbox, eReaders, eSynapse, Library Champion, workshops
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
Do you serve pre-med, nursing, or health sciences students? Do you have faculty or students asking for help on how to identify the latest research on a given health topic? Need a refresher on PubMed so you can effectively aid your users with their literature searching? Then join us on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. MDT (11:00 a.m. Central) for a one-hour online session presented by Rebecca Brown, a trainer for the National Library of Medicine Training Center, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Rebecca will discuss how to keep current with changes in PubMed, tips on how to use many of PubMed’s special features, explain and explore PubMed’s controlled vocabulary (MeSH), and more! Also learn whom you can contact to get help when you are stumped with a search.
Here are the details:
- “Refresh and Extend Your Health Literature Search Skills to Better Support your Users: PubMed Update” webinar
- Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012
- Time: 10:00 a.m. MDT (11:00 a.m. Central)
- Presenter: Rebecca Brown, National Library of Medicine Training Center
- Be sure to read the equipment requirements and login information prior to the start of the webinar.
- Questions? Contact Todd Vandenbark, Web Services Librarian, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, 801-581-5263, email:
Tags: for librarians, health science librarianship, literature searching, MeSH, online workshop, PubMed, PubMed searching, webinar
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
The Fall 2011 issue of eSynapse, the newsletter of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, is now available online.
Issue highlights include:
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.
Tags: 40th anniversary, Amy Honisett, eReaders, Infofair, Infofair 2011, interprofessional education, Library Champion, library workshops, RISe, STAT!Ref, tablets, Wiggio
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Friday, July 8th, 2011
The Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library is hosting two NCBI classes in the coming week. Peter Cooper from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) will be presenting BLAST and Genomes Updates. Peter will present these two sessions via Adobe Connect. Please join us in the Eccles Health Sciences Education Building, Room 3100B. There is no fee to attend, but please register.
Class: BLAST: The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
Date: Friday, July 15, 2011
Time: 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Place: HSEB 3100 B
Description: The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of local similarity between protein or nucleotide sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence in a database and calculates the statistical significance of the matches. This class provides an introduction to BLAST and then describes the practical application of different BLAST program.
Class: Genomes Updates
Date: Monday, July 18, 2011
Time: 11:00 a.m.-Noon
Place: HSEB 3100 B
Description: Contains sequence and map data from the whole genomes of over 1000 organisms. The genomes represent both completely sequenced organisms and those for which sequencing is in progress.
For more information contact Jeanne Le Ber; 801-585-6744
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Each month the National Network of Libraries of Medicine offers a one-hour online class on a different resource from the National Library of Medicine. Tomorrow’s “Spotlight!” session will be on “Toxicology Resources”:
Are you exploring ways your library can become an active participant in emergency preparedness planning, response and recovery? In this interactive session, learn about National Library of Medicine toxicology resources you can bring to the community of planners, responders, health care professionals, and stakeholders. Discover free, authoritative tools for crisis response, rapid decision making, and consequence management.
Taking the one-hour class and completing the exercises and class evaluation makes you eligible to receive 1 Medical Library Association Continuing Education credit. This online training is FREE.
Registration is not required but greatly appreciated.
How to connect:
- URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr/
- Equipment: connection to the Internet and a phone.
- Login: as a guest with your first and last name. Instructions to connect to the audio will show up once you’ve logged in. Captioning will be provided a few minutes before the hour.
- Questions: email mmagee@unmc.edu
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
The Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library is hosting TOXNET and Beyond: Using the National Library of Medicine’s Environmental and Toxicology Portal webinar on Wednesday, June 1 and Friday, June 3. Stephanie Publicker, from Specialized Information Services, will present these two sessions via Adobe Connect. Please join us in the Eccles Health Sciences Education Building, Room 3100-B at 10:00 a.m. for both. There is no fee to attend, but please register.
PART ONE: Introduces users to the Environmental Health and Toxicology Portal and covers the basics of searching the TOXNET system, including saving, printing and downloading citations. The databases covered in this session address factual and bibliographic information about chemicals and toxicology. (Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 10:00-Noon)
PART TWO: Continues the exploration of the portal by introducing resources that can be used to learn about environmental exposure, map environmental release data, and find drug and dietary supplement information. (Friday, June 3, 2011 at 10:00-11:30 a.m.)
For more information contact Jeanne Le Ber; 801-585-6744
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
Are you having trouble managing your citations? Do you wish there was a way to share citations with your colleagues? Have you dreamed of a tool that can help you insert references directly into the paper you’re writing, while helping you build a bibliography? If so, today’s your lucky day.
The Eccles Library is offering classes on the web-based reference management tool EndNote Web.
This hands-on class will cover how to create an account, import data directly, and manually enter data. You will also learn how to edit and organize your database, and how to use EndNote Web to add references to your paper and create your bibliography.
Three sessions are available:
May 23 from 10 am – 11 am
May 26 from 10 am – 11 am
June 2 from10 am – 11 am
The class is free, but registration is required.
The instructor is Amy Honisett:
801-587-9246
Classes meet in HSEB 3100 B
Tags: citations, EndNote Web, library workshops, reference management
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
How To Make Your Smartphone Smarter: What You Should Know About QR Codes
The University of Utah Libraries have embraced QR (‘quick response’) codes as a means of delivering additional information to patrons via their mobile device. QR codes are two dimensional codes that can be scanned with a mobile device’s camera and a reader application to link to various resources such as a URL, application, or video. This presentation will introduce QR codes and explore how they can allow libraries to connect faculty, students and visitors to the information they want at the point of need. The libraries on campus are currently using them to link to Web sites, access digital learning objects, promote classes, and guide users to specific library locations. Participants will learn how to use and create their own QR Codes in class. Come learn about the next generation bar codes and see how they can be useful to you!
Instuctors:
- Anne Morrow, Digital Initiatives Librarian at Marriott Library
- Nancy Lombardo, Information Technology Librarian at Eccles Health Sciences Library
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011
Time: 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Place: Marriott Library 1120
The workshop is free, but please register so the instructors know how many to expect. See you there!
Tags: QR codes, quick response codes, smartphones
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