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April 4, 2008National Library Week is April 14th-18th The library will celebrate National Library Week April 14th - April 18th with workshops available Monday through Thursday in the Teaching Lab (Room 211) on the 2nd floor of the library. Refreshments will be served. Reserve a seat by calling (909) 469-5323 or email reference@westernu.edu. There is a limit of 12 seats per workshop. Attend one of the workshops and you will be entered into a raffle for a $30 Starbucks gift card. The raffle drawing will take place on Friday, April 18th and the winner will be notified by email. Also on Friday, April 18th the Circulation Department will host Fine Free Friday. Please see the daily activity descriptions below for more information. Monday, April 14, 2008 EndNote Web 4:00-5:00 pm Learn how to use this online version of the popular EndNote bibliographic software. You can save up to 10,000 references, create separate folders, share folders, and use the Cite While You Write feature in Microsoft Word. Facilitated by Alicia Saulpaugh, Reference Librarian Tuesday, April 15, 2008 How Aware Are You?: Creating database alerts and current awareness services 12:00-1:00 pm Attendees will be introduced to database and journal alerts and alerting systems. Discussed will be the types of alerts available and the databases that provide this service. Students will also be shown how to set up alerts. Facilitated by Rudy R. Barreras, Reference Librarian Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Got PDA? 2.0 5:00-6:00 pm In this version of Got PDA? an online tour of the PDA subject directory will be given. This tour will expose students to the various library databases that offer PDA connectivity and sources for software downloads. Facilitated by Rudy R. Barreras, Reference Librarian and Ruth Anderson, Reference Librarian Thursday, April 17, 2008 images.MD 4:00-5:00 pm As every physician knows, medicine is a visual science. Images are an important aid to diagnosis and teaching. images.MD compiles over 70,000 high-quality images spanning all specialties of internal medicine. In this workshop, participants will learn how to search for images and create a My Slides account. Copyright implications will also be covered. Facilitated by Ruth Anderson, Reference Librarian Friday, April 18, 2008 Fine Free Friday The Circulation Department will host Fine Free Friday. Return your overdue library materials on Friday, April 18th and the fines will be forgiven. April 2, 2008 Electronic Resource of the Month - images.MD Because medicine is a visual science, high-quality images are an important aid in diagnosis and teaching. Images.MD compiles over 70,000 high-quality images spanning all specialties of internal medicine. All images in images.MD are taken from Current Medicine Group LLS's series of illustrated atlases. As new atlases are published or existing series updated, images.MD delivers these updates to its subscribers. Each image is accompanied by detailed and informative text written by over 2,000 contributing experts. Users may register for a “My Slides” free account, which allows images to be saved for future use. “My Slides” allows users to created slide sets, PowerPoint presentations, and customized CDs. Images.MD is available from the library's Electronic Resources page under "Article Searching and Databases". Databases are listed in alphabetical order. April 1, 2008 April Workshops Monday, April 14, 2008 EndNote Web 4:00-5:00 pm Learn how to use this online version of the popular EndNote bibliographic software. You can save up to 10,000 references, create separate folders, share folders, and use the Cite While You Write feature in Microsoft Word. Facilitated by Alicia Saulpaugh, Reference Librarian Tuesday, April 15, 2008 How Aware Are You: Creating database alerts and current awareness services 12:00-1:00 pm Attendees will be introduced to database and journal alerts and alerting systems. Discussed will be the types of alerts available and the databases that provide this service. Students will also be shown how to set up alerts. Facilitated by Rudy R. Barreras, Reference Librarian Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Got PDA? 2.0 5:00-6:00 pm In this version of Got PDA? an online tour of the PDA subject directory will be given. This tour will expose students to the various library databases that offer PDA connectivity and sources for software downloads. Facilitated by Rudy R. Barreras, Reference Librarian and Ruth Anderson, Reference Librarian Thursday, April 17, 2008 Images.MD 4:00-5:00 pm As every physician knows, medicine is a visual science. Images are an important aid to diagnosis and teaching. images.MD compiles over 70,000 high-quality images spanning all specialties of internal medicine. In this workshop, participants will learn how to search for images and create a My Slides account. Copyright implications will also be covered. Facilitated by Ruth Anderson, Reference Librarian All workshops will be held in the Pumerantz Library Teaching Lab (2nd floor) Limit of 12 seats, walk-ins welcome if space allows. Reserve a seat by calling (909) 469-5323 or email reference@westernu.edu. | |
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