Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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

Tuesday, August 10, 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

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

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

Monday, July 12, 2010

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.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

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).