Appendix. Official Organ of the Health Sciences Library. November 2014, The

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The Appendix, newsletter of the Health Sciences Library is a UC Denver email list.

November

2014

News from the University of Colorado Health Sciences

Library

November 2014

E-book Access Question: Sudden Loss of Full-Text

QUESTION: I was able to access an e-book recently, but now I can only get to the table of contents. What happened? The library is participating in a PDA (Patron Driven Acquisition) purchase program with some publishers, including R2 e-books. These books can be found on our e-books page and in our catalog. They are fully accessible until […]

Submit your art, prose or poetry to 2015 The Human Touch arts

anthology

Faculty, staff, students, patients, and friends of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus are invited to submit Prose, Poetry, Photography, and Graphic Arts for publication in the 2015 Edition of The Human Touch. Submission Deadline: December 15, 2014. Please read and follow the submission

instructions. Direct questions or concerns to: <helena.winston@ucdenver.edu> or

<rachel.rivard@ucdenver.edu> Volumes […]

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November 7th_{& 8}th_{, the library hosted the second annual Rocky Mountain Region Public Health Case}

competition. The event began Friday afternoon, when the students were given a case study about marijuana exposure in minors after legalization in the state of Colorado and were tasked with coming up with a public health intervention to address accidental exposure […]

Walking off the stress: 46,000 calories burned on the walk stations

Since their installation this past September, the walk stations in the Health Sciences Library have proved to be immensely popular. Statistics reveal that 864 miles have been logged on the walk stations so far; that’s 46,000 calories and nearly 1,400 kilometers! If you haven’t checked out the new walk stations, come by the Health Sciences […]

Happy Birthday! Google Scholar Turns Ten

Do you use Google Scholar? November 18th marked the 10th anniversary of the search engine that boasts that it helps scholars “See Farther Faster”. The brainchild of Google search engine staff Alex Alex Verstak and Anurag Acharya, Scholar now provides access to over 160 million scholarly articles. Scholar allows an “everything but the kitchen sink” approach […]

New furniture is coming to the Health Sciences Library

Please join the Health Sciences Library in welcoming new furniture to the third floor! As part of a pilot project, the library has installed two new types of furniture. Starting November 6, the library will have new study booths and pods available. Mosey on up to the third floor to check out these exciting new […]

Call me (or Ask Us) maybe

Kind words for librarians and encouragement for PhD candidates from Woody Caan, the editor of Journal of Public Mental Health in Times Higher Education (THE). Remember, you can contact us any time through Ask Us, that hot pink button on every Library webpage! [Lynne M. Fox, Education Librarian]

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A traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine will be on display in the Gallery November 24, 2014 – January 3, 2015. “And there’s the humor of it: Shakespeare and the four humors” explores the role played by the four humors – blood, bile, melancholy, and phlegm – in several of William Shakespeare’s most […]

24/7 Library Hours Rock: A Refresher & Rules for the Road

The following info and bullets lay out the FYI ‘need to knows’ and other guidelines for use of the Health Sciences Library facility during hours when services are closed and library staff unavailable. Designated University students and employees with proper and active ID badge have the ability to stay in the library after it closes to […]