The Wednesday, December 5 Library and Information Technology Forum features Cory Stokes and Adam Stewart who plan to provide an overview of services offered by Teaching and Learning Technologies. TLT is a new department that resulted from combining TACC (Technology Assisted Curriculum Center) and IMS (Instructional Media Services) into one entity.

Please join us in the Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Health Sciences Education Building, Room 2600 at 12:05-1:00 p.m. for this program.

Program Description:
In the Spring of 2012, the TACC Center and IMS were merged to form Teaching & Learning Technologies. TLT provides a wide array of technology support and assistance to University of Utah faculty, staff and students, both in classrooms and web environments. This informational session will provide an overview of this newly-formed department and the various resources that it offers to the campus community. Several members of the TLT staff will also be available to answer questions.

Presenters:
Cory Stokes, Executive Director, Teaching & Learning Technologies. Cory brings extensive instructional technology experience to the University specializing in large-scale course management systems and learning object repositories. He implemented several course and media services for institutions and schools across the Utah Education Network as well as collaborative projects with PBS and other national partners. Cory holds an M.S. in Instructional Technology from Utah State University.

Adam Stewart, Classroom Services Manager, Teaching & Learning Technologies. Adam oversees administrative functions of Campus Video Services and Audiovisual Distribution. Adam coordinates and implements workflow and new technologies. Adam is the co-coordinator for LIFT Forum programs.

For more details, visit the LIFT Forum web 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.

Bring your own device, discover new apps, share your favorites!

On Wednesday, December 5th from 4pm-5pm in room 2600 of the Health Sciences Education Building, the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library presents Appy Hour!

Appy Hour will focus on apps for various mobile devices that you can use for your work, your research, and more.  Bring along your own iPad, Android tablet, smart phone, or other mobile device and share your favorite and most useful apps.  Invite your colleagues and learn about the apps they are using!

Appy Hour Announcement

The Wednesday, November 7 Library and Information Technology Forum features Mark Beekhuizen and Aaron Dewald talking about “Technology and Learning Science in Simulation.”  Please join us in the Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Health Sciences Education Building, Room 2600 at 12:05-1:00 p.m. for this program.

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

The Marriott and Eccles Libraries invite you to a panel discussion on hybrid learning. The panel includes three students and two instructors who have been involved in hybrid courses. They will discuss the benefits and pitfalls of hybrid learning, as well as how they believe hybrid courses can best suit student needs.

Please join us on Monday, October 29 from 2:30 – 3:30 pm in the Health Sciences Education Building (HSEB), room 2600 for a lively discussion.

Contact amy.honisett@utah.edu (801-587-9246) with questions.

UpToDate is now available both on and off campus.  Health practitioners are encouraged to register to gain continuing education (CME/CE/CPD ) credit and other benefits. However, users can skip registration and use UpToDate anonymously.

NOTE:  uptodate.com/online continues to work from devices connected to the university network and  does not prompt for user registration.

NOTE to Mobile Users: the UpToDate app does not work with our institutional license. When possible, use your mobile browser to access UpToDate.

“A free source of evidence-based information for health care professionals and for researchers studying liver injury associated with prescription and over-the-counter drugs, herbals, and dietary supplements … LIVERTOX also includes a case registry that will enable scientific analysis and better characterization of the clinical patterns of liver injury.”

NIH news release.

Check Marriott Library’s Remote Software Access before purchasing expensive software for your own computer. Students, staff and faculty can log in with their uNID and access selected software for MAC, Windows and Linux operating systems. From Adobe Illustrator to Xcode for Macs, there are 40 programs available remotely.

Read more at fyi news article.

This week is Open Access Week.  Here is the schedule of events happening at the University of Utah.

Tuesday Oct 23rd:

Publishing SMART: How to Make Your Article Visible
Instructors: Allyson Mower, Marriott Library and Abby Adamczyk, Eccles Library
1 to 3 pm, Marriott Library, Room 1009
Register Here
Authors want their scholarly articles to be seen, cited and utilized. This class provides opportunities for researchers to increase their visibility by exploring various publishing and archiving choices. Tools for evaluating journal impact factors, online usage, local online availability, retaining copyrights, and submission to online archives are covered.
(If you cannot make this session, there will be another on Monday Dec. 3rd at the Eccles Health Sciences Library)

Wednesday Oct 24th:

The Social Impact of Research: New Modes of Scholarship and New Ways of Publishing
Presenters: Dr. Johan Bollen, Indiana University-Bloomington and Mr. Roger Schonfeld, Ithaka S+R
U of U Panelists: Jose Crespo, Biology; Rob Gehl, Communication; Randy Irmis, NHMU/Geology & Geophysics
2 pm to 4 pm, Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium
This year’s keynote address will provide insight into the world of scholarly communications and will include a panel of University of Utah authors who will share their experiences publishing in open access journals and how it affected their readership.
Check out the Marriott Library OA Week blog post for more information.

Thursday Oct 25th:

USpace at Seven: Shaping and Sustaining the U’s Institutional Repository
Presenters: Lisa Chaufty, Donald Williams, Kinza Masood, Sarah LeMire, Allyson Mower (Marriott Library)
2 to 3 pm, Marriott Library, Room 1150
During Open Access Week 2010, we celebrated USpace’s fifth birthday. Two years have flown by. Come and hear how the University of Utah’s open access digital repository has continued to develop and grow. Presenters will discuss recent projects, new content development streams, and areas of future growth.

The Wednesday, October 10 Library and Information Technology Forum features Allyson Mower talking about copyright – “Assessing Rights and Risks: A Faculty Copyright Primer.”  Please join us in the Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Health Sciences Education Building, Room 2600 at 12:05-1:00 p.m. for this program.

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

Please join the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. for Will Bagley presenting The Woman’s Face of Medicine in Frontier Utah. This event is located in the George and Dolores Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium on the first floor. Refreshments will be served.

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.