Library Catalog Unavailable During Monday, Dec. 13 Maintenance

A library server is being relocated from 7-9 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 13. During this time the catalog, renewals and holds will be unavailable. Please call the Circulation Desk at 686-5980 for assistance with these services.

50th Anniversary of Medical Subject Headings

The National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) turns 50 this year. Most of us know about MeSH from using PubMed. Learn more about MeSH and see a digital copy of the 1st edition of the Medical Subject Headings published in 1960.

Featured Book - Inflammatory Dermatoses: The Basics

The second featured book from this week's New Acquisitions List is Inflammatory Dermatoses: The Basics by Dr. Bruce R. Smoller and Dr. Kim M. Hiatt, both from the UAMS Department of Pathology.

Inflammatory Dermatoses: The Basics will serve as an effective and efficient handbook for the student of dermatopathology, and as a practical bench reference for the practicing diagnostician who desires rapid access to focus upon a single histological observation, i.e., inflammatory conditions without epidermal changes, and use this as a starting point from which to build a differential diagnosis based upon pattern recognition. As each entity is addressed, there will be a concise discussion of the basic clinical findingsand epidemiologic associations. This will be followed by a histologic description, highlighting areas that serve to discriminate between the entity under discussion and similar ones. Any immunologic studies that might augment the diagnostic sensitivity or specificity will be discussed. The chapters are thematically based and consist of essential bullet points arranged in organized outlines allowing for easy access and direct comparison between entities. The salient histologic features are depicted with abundant high quality, full-color photomicrographs placed immediately adjacent to the appropriate histologic bullet points. This volume will serve as an effective and efficient reference for rapid access to criteria that are useful in differentiating histologically similar entities. The elaborate pictorial documentation will also enable the book to serve as an atlas of the commonest dermatologic disorders.
-Amazon product description

WR 160 Sm79i 2010
Inflammatory Dermatoses: The Basics/Bruce R. Smoller and Kim M. Hiatt
New York; London: Springer, 2010

Featured Book - Pediatric Practice: Gastronenterology

This week we have two featured books from the current New Acquisitions List. The first featured book is Pediatric Practice: Gastroenterology edited by Warren Bishop featuring contributions by UAMS Faculty members Dr. Judith O'Connor and Dr. Jose Romero, both from the Department of Pediatrics.

Part of the Pediatric Practice series, Pediatric Practice: Gastroenterology is a unique source of clinically relevant information on the diagnosis and treatment of children with gastrointestinal symptoms and disorders. The care of the patient forms the core of this full-color resource, which also provides perspectives on epidemiology, pathophysiology, and diagnosis that every pediatrician, pediatric resident, gastroenterologist, and pediatric nurse needs to know.

Expert authors in each subject area provide detailed, yet concise overviews of important disorders of the esophagus, stomach, intestine, pancreas, and liver. You will also find discussion of common symptoms, their differential diagnosis, and how they should be evaluated and treated along with an introduction to the use of diagnostic modalities such as radiology, nuclear medicine, and edoscopy. A listing of relevant, recent articles appears at the end of each chapter allowing you to expand your exploration of a given topic.
-Barnes and Noble synopsis

WS 310 P345 2010
Pediatric Practice: Gastroenterology/edited by Warren Bishop
New York: McGraw-Hill Medical, 2010

Toxicology & Environmental Information Training Class

Update: The TOXNET Class scheduled for November 17th from 9 AM – 12 Noon has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience.

The UAMS Library will host a hands-on TOXNET: Toxicology & Environmental Information training class on Wednesday, November 17th from 9 AM – 12 Noon in the Learning Resource Center (LRC) classroom located on the 5th floor of the UAMS Library. There is no fee for the class but we do need you to register to insure adequate seating and workbooks.

This is a 3-hour hands-on class intended for inexperienced users. It is designed to introduce participants to the different databases available on the National Library of Medicine’s TOXNET database. Attendees will gain experience locating toxicology, chemical, and other hazardous substance information. Databases to be covered include: Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), LactMed, TOXLINE, TOXMAP, Household Products Database and ChemIDplus.
Participants will be able to:

• Identify the five types of databases in TOXNET
• Select the database most appropriate to their information need.
• Demonstrate proper searching techniques

There will be 3.0 hours of Medical Library Association (MLA) continuing education credits awarded. The class is being taught by Michelle Malizia, Associate Director, National Network of Libraries of Medicine - South Central Region (NN/LM SCR).

Parking is available in Parking 2 for $1.25 for the first hour, plus $.75 for each additional hour up to a maximum of $7 per day.
(http://www.uamshealth.com/?id=4123&sid=1)

Please RSVP to plaisteddenak@uams.edu.

Featured Book - Learning to Learn: The Teaching Legacy of Eugene A. Stead, Jr., M.D.

The featured book from the current New Acquisitions List is Learning to Learn: The Teaching Legacy of Eugene A. Stead, Jr., M.D.; edited by Francis A. Neelon, E. Harvey Estes, and Andrew G. Wallace.

Learning to Learn traces the teaching legacy of one of America's most gifted medical educators. Eugene Stead was active at Duke University for more than 50 years and chaired the Department of Medicine there from 1947-1967. His philosophy of education touched future doctors, nurses, and physician assistants at Duke and across the nation through leaders he trained. The heart of Stead's legacy is a handful of principles that are as essential today as they were 50 years ago: that people are the most important product of any educational system; that patients are the focus of learning to doctor; that taking responsibility is essential to learning; that in a community of learners, everyone has something to contribute; that teachers learn by teaching; that no two patients and no two learners are the same, and that, for the learner-mentor relationship to work optimally, it needs to be close and maintained over time. These principles are captured and amplified in seven papers presented and discussed by several of Stead's colleagues and pupils at a symposium held in 2008 in honor of the 100th anniversary of Stead's birth.

- Amazon product description

WZ 100 L479 2010

Learning to Learn: The Teaching Legacy of Eugene A. Stead, Jr., M.D./edited by Francis A. Neelon, E. Harvey Estes, and Andrew G. Wallace

Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2010

Register Now - MLA and NISO Webcasts

Register now for free e-book and e-journal webcasts by the Medical Library Association and National Information Standards Organization. Hosted by UAMS Library. Read more...

Featured Book - Biology, Nanotechnology, Toxicology and Applications

The featured book from the current New Acquisitions List is Biology, Nanotechnology, Toxicology and Applications: Proceedings of the 4th BioNanoTox and Applications Research Conference: Little Rock, Arkansas 21-22 October 2009. The main editor is Olga Tarasenko of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Several University of Arkansas for Medical Science faculty members were guest editors, as well as presenters, at the conference.

BioNanoTox has become the forum for leaders in biology, chemistry, nanotechnology, toxicology, and medicine to share knowledge as well as applications in many scientific disciplines. BioNanoTox recognizes both the clinical and the laboratory aspects of Biology, Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Medicine, and Diagnostics. BioNanoTox offers a variety of educational tools to instruct a diverse audience. Experts in academia, industrial scientists, and laboratory specialists will have an opportunity to share the latest information through a combination of lectures, case studies, and poster abstracts.

QT 36.5 B521 2010
Biology, Nanotechnology, Toxicology and Applications: Proceedings of the 4th BioNanoTox and Applications Research Conference: Little Rock, Arkansas 21-22 October 2009/main editor Olga Tarasenko
Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2010

UAMS Email Connection Problems

Some users may be unable to access their mailboxes on Mail4. Server support is aware of the issue and is currently working to resolve it.

Library Citrix Server and Digital Collections Unavailable This Weekend

The Library Citrix server and Digital Collections server will be unavailable this weekend, September 18 – 19 while campus IT Support moves these servers to the new Data Center. Services will return to normal on Monday September 20th.

Featured Book - Giving Through Teaching: How Nurse Educators are Changing the World

The featured book from the current New Books List is Giving Through Teaching: How Nurse Educators are Changing the World, edited by Arkansan Cathleen M. Schultz, Joyce Fitzpatrick, and Tonia Aiken with contributions by UAMS College of Nursing Faculty: Shannon Finley, Joy Jennings, Susan Ritchie, Jan Rooker, and Cheryl Schmidt.

This book celebrates the remarkable stories of nurse educators from around the globe. The volume editors have gathered an extensive and compelling body of stories from more than 70 nurse educators, detailing their professional and personal experiences - their goals, challenges, and tremendous breakthroughs in the field.

A major component of the book is the profile of international work of US Educators. In doing so, the volume showcases the exciting diversity of the nursing profession itself. This collection of stories will quickly become and inspiration for nurse educators everywhere.

-Barnes and Noble

WY 18 G449 2010

Giving Through Teaching: How Nurse Educators are Changing the World/edited by Cathleen Schultz, Joyce Fitzpatrick and Tonia Aiken

New York: Springer Publishing Co., 2010

Featured Book - This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine

The featured book from the current New Books List is This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine, edited by Eliza Jo Chin.

Eliza Jo Chin, MD (Harvard Medical School) has brought together about 100 stories, poems, essays, and quotations that speak to the joys and trials of being a woman in the field of medicine. Beginning with the writings of early medical pioneers, the anthology reveals how women have coped with the demands of a medical career in addition to being wives, mothers, and community leaders.
-Booknews.com

WZ 305 T349 2002
This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine/
edited by Eliza Jo Chin
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002

Featured books for July

There are two featured books this month: Aschraft's Pediatric Surgery and The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Disease. Dr. Samuel D. Smith, Arkansas Children's Hospital Surgery Department was a contributor to Ascraft's Pediatric Surgery. Dr. Suzanne V. Klimberg, Director of Breast Surgical Oncology, was a contributor to The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Disease.


Acclaimed for its unsurpassed readability ad manageable scope, Aschraft's Pediatric Surgery presents authoratative, practical guidance on treating the entire range of surgical problems in infants, children, and adolescents. The new 5th edition continues this excellent legacy with its thoroughly updated coverage of today's hot topics including the increased use of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for pediatric patients, urology, bariatric surgery in adolescents, and evidence-based treatments and outcomes in children.
-From Barnes and Noble



WO 925 P3472 2010
Aschraft's Pediatric Surgery/edited by George W. Holcomb III and J. Patrick Murphy
Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier, 2010



The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Disease, 4th edition, by Kirby I. Bland, MD, and Edward M. Copeland, III, MD, is a surgical reference that offers the comprehensive, up-to-date resource on the diagnosis and management of, and rehabilitation following, surgery for benign and malignant diseases of the breast.
-Barnes and Noble




WP 900 B740 2009, v.1 & 2
The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Disease/by Kirby I. Bland and Edwards M. Copeland
Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier, 2009

eJournal access page service interruption, Fri. July 16...

Access to ejournals via the eJournals page at the library site may be interrupted Friday July 16, 4 p.m. until 10 p.m.. **You can still access journals via the library catalog.** However, links to ejournals from databases such as PubMed may be unavailable. The interruption should only be brief periods.

Ulrich'sweb is very likely to be unavailable during this time period.

Server Update - Sunday, July 18

A server update is scheduled for Sunday, July 18th from 7:00 to 10:00 AM. Some online library services will be unavailable during this time.

Some ejournals not available Saturday, June 19

Wiley-Blackwell is doing system maintenance starting at 7:00 a.m. (CDT) and lasting up to five hours (noon).

Featured Book - Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions

The featured book from the current Library New Books List is Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions: Advocacy and Action, edited by Donna Middaugh, Associate Dean, UAMS College of Nursing, Donna M. Nickitas and Nancy Aries.

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions: Advocacy and Action provides a nursing focus within an interdisciplinary approach, which intertwines to create an understanding of economics, politics, and policy in relation to health care. Contributors to this text offer future nurses and health care providers keen insight about clinical practice and its derivation from regulation, laws, and policies that have roots in public policy and politics.

This innovative text also offers practical knowledge on how health care professionals can get involved an be proactive in the policy that directly affects their profession and patients.

Key pedagogical features include chapter objectives, summaries, examples, boxed articles, case studies, review questions, key terms, photographs, and a toolkit that includes a "skills" section of how-tos.
- From Barnes and Noble

WA 540 AA1 P758 2011
Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions/edited by Donna Middaugh, Donna Nickitas, and Nancy Aries
Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett, 2011

E-Reserves/Docutek Unavailable Wednesday, June 2

Due to a scheduled server migration, E-Reserves/Docutek will be unavailable Wednesday, June 2.

Library Closed Memorial Day - Monday, May 31, 2010

The library will be closed Memorial Day. The 24x7 study area will continue to be open for students and residents who have ID badge access.

Library 24/7 Area Closed Monday, May 17 at 10:00pm

Due to an electrical outage on Monday, May 17 between 11:30pm and 2:30am the 24/7 area will close at 10:00pm on Monday, May 17 and not reopen until Tuesday, May 18 at 7:30am.

UAMS Computer Systems Scheduled Outage Sunday, May 16 4:30 to 6:00am

All network connectivity will be unavailable during this time. This includes Internet, e-mail, Citrix, VPN, SAP, Printing, all clinical applications and interfaces including Sunrise, Logician, Webchart, etc. More...

Featured Book - Radiology 101: The Basics and Fundamentals of Imaging

The featured book from the current Library New Books List is Radiology 101: The Basics and Fundamentals of Imaging, edited by William E. Erkonen and Wilbur L. Smith.

Featuring over 900 state-of-the-art images, Radiology 101, Third Edition provides the basic groundwork necessary for interpreting images and understanding how current imaging modalities function. Subsequent chapters examine anatomic areas and organ systems, includinga separate chapter on the pediatric chest and abdomen. Clearly labeled images show normal anatomy from various angles with various modalities and depict normal variants and common pathology. Each chapter includes suggested radiologic workups and key points summaries. This edition has extensive updates, especially on nuclear imaging (PET/CT), computed tomography (Multi-slice), magnetic resonance (DWI, t-MRI, MRS), sonography (FAST), abdominal imaging (CT urography), mammography (digital mammograms), and the many indications for interventional radiology.

-From Amazon

WN 180 R118 2010

Radiology 101: The Basics and Fundamentals of Imaging/edited by William E. Erkonen and Wilbur L. Smith

Philadelphia: Wolters Klewer/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2010

Health Information Relevant to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

In response to the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, the Disaster Information Management Research Center, Specialized Information Services Division of the National Library of Medicine has created a new page of links to information on Crude Oil Spills and Health (Via NN/LM SCR)

Featured Book - A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

The featured book from the current Library New Book List is A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink.

Synopsis:
Lawyers. Accountants. Software Engineers. That's what Mom and Dad encouraged us to become. They were wrong. Gone is the age of "left-brain" dominance. The future belogs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers - creative and empathic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the advanced world, Daniel Pink outlines the siz fundamentally human abilities that are essential for professional success and personal fulfillment - and reveals how to master them. From a laughter club in Bombay, to an inner-city high school devoted to design, to a lesson on how to detect an insincere smile, A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and offers a provacative and urgent new way of thinking about a future that has already arrived.

BF 408 P655w 2006
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future/ by Daniel H. Pink
New York: Riverhead Books, 2006

24/7 Study Area Closed Late Tuesday Night/Early Wednesday Morning

Due to a scheduled electrical outage, the 24/7 study area will close 10:00pm Tuesday April 27th and reopen Wednesday, April 28th at 7:30am.

SPSS in the Learning Resource Center

The Library Learning Resource Center just purchased a copy of SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). It is on the computer near the printer kiosk in the LRC (5th floor of the library). SPSS is also available on computer lab computers on the 1st floor of the College of Public Health. The door to the 5th floor hallway is closed at 5pm Monday through Friday (no weekends).

Featured Book - Introduction to Computer Systems for Health Information Technology

The featured book from the current Library New Book List is Introduction to Computer Systems for Health Information Technology by Nanette B. Sayles and Kathy C. Trawick.

"The authors are Health Information Management veterans active in today's classrooms. They sought to create the ideal book for their own courses, resulting in a text that not only covers all the information systems material required by CAHIIM domains, subdomains, and tasks, it also incorporates all model curriculum topics for the HIM associate's degree." - back cover.

Kathy C. Trawick, EdD, RHIA, is the chair and associate professor of the Health Information Management Department in the College of Health Related Professions at UAMS. In addition to her 10 years in academics, Dr. Trawick has profound HIM practitioner experience in acute care facilities, serves as a consultant to health care facilities, holds offices at the state level in HIM and Cancer Registry associations, and currently serves on the CAHIIM Panel of Reviewers for HIT/HIA program accreditation.

W 26.55.C7 Sa99i 2010
Introduction to Computer Systems for Health Information Technology/ by Nanette B. Sayles and Kathy C. Trawick
Chicago, IL : American Health Information Management Association, 2010.

Library Server Update

Library servers are scheduled for an update on Sunday, March 21 between 7:00 and 10:00am. Library electronic resources may be intermittently unavailable during this time.

Featured Book - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Note: The Library will be publishing the New Book List every two weeks instead of once a month.
The featured book from the current Library New Book List is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.

It was the Best Books of the Month on Amazon.com for February 2010. The following is from the Amazon.com review:
"From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta's family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the question, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories?" -- Tom Nissley

QU 300 Sk45i 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / by Rebecca Skloot.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2010.

Featured Book - Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System

This month's featured book from the Library's New Book list is Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System: Bacterial, Fungal, Viral, and Parasitic Infections by Dr. Laura W. Lamps, UAMS College of Medicine, Pathology Dept.

This book provides a unique diagnostic reference text for the pathological diagnosis of infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Written for the practicing surgical pathologist, this text combines the superior illustrations of an atlas with a carefully written prose to create a useful diagnostic companion. The text is divided into four sections covering bacterial, fungal, viral and parasitic infections of the gastrointestinal tract. The descriptive sections of the each chapter are organized into short paragraphs for easy reference and include the use of tables to compare and contrast organisms and summarize differential diagnoses.

WO 142 L199s 2009
Surgical pathology of the gastrointestinal system : bacterial, fungal, viral, and parasitic infections / by Laura W. Lamps.
New York ; London : Springer, 2009.

Continued Access to RefWorks If You Leave UAMS

Thanks to the library’s subscription to RefWorks, a new policy allows those who established a RefWorks account while at UAMS (students, faculty, staff) to keep the account and their "personal library" of research after leaving. The library is pleased to make this commitment to scholarship and research. Read more...

UAMS Inclement Weather Policy Implemented

UAMS has implemented the inclement weather policy for its Little Rock campus. Call the library at 501-686-5980 to check hours today. Please refer to the campus policy on inclement weather and the hospital policy. UAMS employees working at sites outside of Little Rock should consult with their supervisors when bad weather occurs. Students in the various UAMS colleges and graduate school should look to the specific weather policy in their own college to determine what to do when UAMS implements the inclement weather policy.

National Wear Red Day

Friday, February 5, 2010 is “National Wear Red Day” – a day when Americans nationwide will show their continued support for women's heart disease awareness by wearing red. Employees can participate in the national movement by wearing their favorite red dress, shirt, tie, or Red Dress Pin on Friday, February 5, 2010, to help spread the critical message that "Heart Disease Doesn't Care What You Wear – It's the #1 Killer of Women."

The Heart Truth campaign, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, first introduced the Red Dress as the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness in February 2003.

Please visit the following Web site for additional information: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/hearttruth/index.htm.

RefWorks down 2 hours Sat. Jan 30 for maintenance

RefWorks will be doing maintenance starting at 9:30 PM CT Saturday Jan. 30. It is projected to last up to 2 hours.

Science Direct Journals unavailable Saturday Jan. 23, 2010

Science Direct is doing maintenance for about 12 hours starting 7:00 a.m. CST Saturday Jan. 23 until about 7:00 p.m. CST. Changes include a re-design of article/chapter pages and including graphical abstracts in RSS feeds, email alerts.

Academic Medicine Responds to Haiti Crisis

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has created a new website to provide reliable sources of information about the crisis in Haiti; including notices, fact sheets, links to the many relief efforts underway at AAMC member institutions, and a list of organizations accepting charitable contributions (updated regularly).The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is has also provided a special website about the earthquake and disaster relief efforts. Information from government agencies and non-governmental organizations as well as a section on Haitian Creole and French-language materials are included. Links to background information on earthquakes and subsequent health issues, such as public health assessments, emergency surgical care, and sanitary care of human remains, are also provided.

Research and Clinical Search Services

Let us save you time searching the world of literature! The Library’s Research and Clinical Search Services can save you valuable clinical and research hours by providing free customized, in-depth literature searches. RCSS Librarians can also conduct individual consultations regarding resources and searching techniques. Customized one-on-one or small group training sessions on site are also available. To request a RCSS service, call 686-6737 or email rcss@uams.edu. Literature searches may also be requested via the online form.