Meet Your New Clinical Library Team

Beginning this month, the Lamar Soutter Library begins an even greater expanded role within the U Mass Memorial Clinical System Network. This means that regardless of your location within the organization – Memorial, Hahnemann, Family Health Center, Barre, etc. – you have direct access to the following librarians for research assistance or any other information needs:

• Len Levin – 508-856-6028 – len.levin AT umassmed.edu
• Nancy Harger – 508-856-3334 – nancy.harger AT umassmed.edu
• Judy Nordberg – 508-856-2921 – judy.nordberg AT umassmed.edu

No question or request is too large or small. We can even, given adequate notice, come to your location in Worcester or beyond to assist you individually or to train a group in searching skills, effectively using PowerPoint, and using bibliographic management tools (e.g., RefWorks or EndNote) just to name a few. Please contact us – we look forward to hearing from you and working with you in the future.

Didn’t Win the Kindle?

Back in April, you were invited, through Library Corner, to participate in one of our library website re-design Focus Groups for a chance to win a new Kindle. Emily Smith, a student with GSBS was the lucky winner. But, the Lamar Soutter Library also has five Kindles that are now available for two week loan. Each Kindle contains 49 titles – all in the medicine in humanities or medical mystery genre. Go to http://library.umassmed.edu/kindle_titles.pdf to access a full list of titles.

New Titles in the Lamar Soutter Library

While the library certainly concentrates on high-quality biomedical and scientific information in our collection, we also have some special collections such as our Worklife Collection, our History of Medicine Collection and our Humanities in Medicine Collection.  Below are some new titles in each of these collections, all available to borrow.  Not on University Campus?  Contact Len Levin in the Lamar Soutter Library to request that a book be checked out in your name and sent to your office via inter-campus mail.

Worklife Collection
Chenoweth, David H., 1952-
Worksite health promotion / David H. Chenoweth. , 2nd ed.
Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, c2007.
WA 400 C5181w 2007

Hewlett, Sylvia Ann, 1946-
Off-ramps and on-ramps : keeping talented women on the road to success / Sylvia Ann Hewlett.
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2007.
HD6054.2.U6 H49 2007

History of Medicine
Boulis, Ann K., 1968-
Changing face of medicine : women doctors and the evolution of health care in America / Ann K. Boulis, Jerry A. Jacobs.
Ithaca : ILR Press, 2008.
WZ 80.5.W5 B763c 2008

History and health policy in the United States : putting the past back in / edited by Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg, and Lawton R. Burns.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006.
WA 11 AA1 H6727 2006

Medicating modern America : prescription drugs in history / edited by Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.
New York : New York University Press, c2007.
QV 11 AA1 M489 2007

Micale, Mark S., 1957-
Hysterical men : the hidden history of male nervous illness / Mark S. Micale.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
WM 11.1 M6192h 2008

Humanities in Medicine
Body in the library : a literary anthology of modern medicine / edited by Iain Bamforth.
London ; New York : Verso, 2003.
WZ 5 B668 2003

Silence kills : speaking out and saving lives / edited by Lee Gutkind ; foreword by Karen Wolk Feinstein ; introduction by Abraham Verghese. , 1st ed.
Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 2007.
W 84.1 S582 2007

Webster, Charles, 1936-
Paracelsus : medicine, magic and mission at the end of time / Charles Webster.
New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2008.
WZ 100 P221Wa 2008

Help the Library and Win a Kindle

The library is redesigning its website. We’re asking the UMMS/UMMHC community to help us make our website better. You’re invited to attend an hour-long session to discuss library resources and the library website. All attendees will be eligible to win a 6-inch Amazon Kindle. Lunch/dinner will be provided.
Here are the available dates:

o Thursday, April 29 (12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
o Tuesday, May 4 (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.)
o Friday, May 7 (12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.)

If you would like to attend, please respond to Robert Vander Hart (robert.vanderhart AT umassmed.edu), indicating your preferred date(s). If you would like to participate but can’t make any of the available dates, please let us know and we will try to include you in the website evaluation process.

PubGet

The library now has access to PubGet, a life science search engine. PubGet is free of charge to users at UMass Medical School and it allows you the freedom to search through biomedical journals with much quicker access to the full-text PDF when available. With PubGet, you can view, share, and bookmark PDFs. PubGet also provides tools like PaperPlane, which allows you to search PubMed and still get the PDF through PubGet from the abstract page.  To try it, visit the Lamar Soutter Library homepage and try the link from the “Library News and Events” blog on the right.

New e-Books

The Lamar Soutter Library is constantly striving to update its e-books collection. New this month are two packages that will be very helpful to Family Medicine practitioners – the LWW Sports Medicine and LWW OB/GYN collections. You can find these titles by clicking “Books@OVID” on the library’s e book page. Take special note of the title that comes up second on this list.

NCME-TV

NCME-TV is an online service offered by the library as a means of earning continuing education credits.  Every month, a new 1-hour video is posted on the site.  Physicians can view the video and then take the self-assessment quiz to earn CME credit.  This service is available directly via the NCME-TV website http://www.ncmetv.com/.  However, to register as a member of the UMMS community, you must first contact the Library Service Point in the Lamar Soutter Library (508-856-6099 or X6-6099) to acquire the correct hospital ID number.