Tox Town now available in Spanish

Tox Town is now available in both English, http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov and en español, http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/espanol. Visitors can learn in English or in Spanish about environmental health concerns and over 30 toxic chemicals in these imaginary neighborhoods: a City, Farm, Town, US-Mexico Border, and Port.

In either language, Tox Town uses neighborhood scenes along with color, graphics, sounds, and animation to add interest to learning about connections between chemicals, the environment, and the public’s health. Tox Town’s target audience is high school, college and graduate students, educators, and the interested public.

Tox Town en español identifies Spanish-language information in a subject area – environmental health and toxicology – that currently has few Web resources. To supplement the limited Web resources in Spanish, nearly 100 pages of background information describing environmental health concerns were translated and reviewed by a team of bilingual health information specialists.

Tox Town® is a project of the Specialized Information Services Division of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.

Furniture Move - Monday, August 13th, 2007

Library staff offices on the first floor will be renovated into new student study rooms which will connect to the vending / break room area. The move is expected to take the entire day on Monday, August 13th. Further construction of new walls in these areas will begin thereafter.

Final Approval

Library Managers pleased with upgrade!

Pictured left to right: Mary Hawks, Collection Management; Mary Ryan, Library Director; and Dena Plaisted, Document Access Services.

Complete!

Construction completed around 1:00pm.

Worksite Observations

Dr. Wheeler, COM Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and Mary Ryan, Library Director, inspect the construction.

Building "The Wall"

8:00am, August 1.

Library Renovations

Construction of a glass entrance to the first floor computer area begins Wednesday, August 1st. Ear plugs are available at the public services desks on the first floor for your convenience. Please be patient as we make the library a better place to study.