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.
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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

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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

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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.

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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