Library News & Announcements

Professor Michael Bliss will present the final Heberden Society Lecture of the 2007-2008 academic year on Thursday, May 8, at 5:00pm in the Uris Faculty Room (A-126). The lecture is open to the public; light refreshments will be served. Read more about the speaker and his lecture, entitled "Harvey Cushing and the Birth of Neurosurgery." The Library has several books by Professor Bliss as well as many other works by and about Harvey Cushing.

Need a book from our stacks? We'll get it for you! Just go to the item's Tri-Cat record and click the request button. If the item is available, we will retrieve it for you from the stacks right away and have it waiting for you at the Circulation Desk that same day. If the book is on loan, we will flag it for you the minute it is returned. Either way, we will email you when the item you requested is available for pick-up at the Circulation Desk.

Watch our video about this new service, or come into the Library and see it on our display screen, located in the Library Commons.

Donna Hamilton, a Physician's Assistant in the OR, came closest to guessing how many WCMC/NYPH author citations we had posted here in the Library last week in celebration of 4-11, Medical Information Day. Her winnings include two limited edition items - an official Weill Cornell Medical Library letter opener, and an equally official Weill Cornell Medical Library cap. Hat's off to you, Donna!
BTW- the correct number of citations posted was 186.

This week is National Library Week, and we invite you to "Join the Circle of Knowledge @ your Library".  In celebration, we've launched a new hold service for you, our patrons.  If you need a book from our stacks, just go to the item's Tri-Cat record and click the request button.  If the item is available, we will retrieve it for you from the stacks right away and have it waiting for you at the Circulation Desk that same day.

If the book is on loan, we'll flag it for you the minute it's returned.  Either way, we'll email you when the item you requested is available for pick-up at the Circulation Desk.

Watch our video about this new service, or come into the Library and see it on our display screen, located in the Library Commons.

Recipients of NIH funding should be aware of a new reporting requirement that has been implemented as part of the NIH Public Access Policy. Investigators must deposit all peer-reviewed articles accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008 that arise from direct costs funded by NIH into PubMed Central (PMC). PMC is NIH's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Full text of the articles will be made freely available to the public no later than 12 months after publication. Beginning May 25, 2008, anyone submitting an application, proposal or progress report to the NIH must include the PubMed Central or NIH Manuscript Submission reference number when citing applicable articles accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008 that arose from direct costs funded by NIH. The new requirement replaces NIH's previous policy asking that authors voluntarily deposit their publications.

The Weill Cornell Medical Library will help authors meet the NIH requirements by sharing updated information, identifying journal publisher policies and support services, and meeting with authors. See the Library's NIH Public Access Policy page for more information, including a PowerPoint and one page handout outlining the new NIH reporting requirements. You may also register for a consultation or class with Library Education & Outreach, x66061 or libeducation@med.cornell.edu.

Send questions to the InfoDesk at infodesk@med.cornell.edu or call x66055.

Classes are free and open to all staff, faculty and students of NYP/WCMC, RUL, MSKCC and HSS. Schedule conflicts? Request a customized class or individual consultation at a time and place convenient to you. To register for a class or consultation, please use the online form, e-mail Education & Outreach at libeducation@med.cornell.edu or call 212-746-6061.

Available April Library Class Offerings:

• PubMed Searching for Clinicians -- Wed., April 23, 11:00am-12:30pm
• RefWorks -- Mon., April 28, 10:30am-12:00pm

Recipients of NIH funding should be aware of a new reporting requirement that will be implemented this spring as part of the NIH Public Access Policy. Investigators must deposit all peer-reviewed articles accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008 that arise from direct costs funded by NIH into PubMed Central (PMC). PMC is NIH's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Full text of the articles will be made freely available to the public no later than 12 months after publication. Beginning May 25, 2008, anyone submitting an application, proposal or progress report to the NIH must include the PubMed Central or NIH Manuscript Submission reference number when citing applicable articles accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008 that arose from direct costs funded by NIH. The new requirement replaces NIH's previous policy asking that authors voluntarily deposit their publications.

The Weill Cornell Medical Library will help authors meet the NIH requirements by sharing updated information, identifying journal publisher policies and support services, and meeting with authors. For more information, see the Library's NIH Public Access Policy as well as this document outlining the new NIH reporting requirements. You may also attend a one-hour class on how to deposit your publications into PubMed Central.

These classes will take place:

• Monday, April 7, 2008 at 3:30pm-4:30pm
• Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 10:30am-11:30am
• Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 1:00pm-2:00pm
• Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 3:30pm-4:30pm
• Friday, April 11, 2008 at 9:30am-10:30am

Please register for a class with Library Education & Outreach, x66061 or libeducation@med.cornell.edu.

Please schedule a private consultation or ask particular questions through the InfoDesk at infodesk@med.cornell.edu or call x66055.

Classes are free and open to all staff, faculty and students of NYP/WCMC, RUL, MSKCC and HSS. Schedule conflicts? Request a customized class or individual consultation at a time and place convenient to you. To register for a class or consultation, please use the online form, e-mail Education & Outreach at libeducation@med.cornell.edu or call 212-746-6061.

Available April Library Class Offerings:

• Preparing to Publish -- Tue., April 1, 12:00pm-1:30pm
• OVID Searching -- Mon., April 7, 11:00am-12:30pm
• Mastering the Library -- Tue., April 15, 11:00am-12:00pm
• PubMed Searching for Clinicians -- Wed., April 23, 11:00am-12:30pm
• RefWorks -- Mon., April 28, 10:30am-12:00pm

The Match List and the Match Statistics for the WCMC Class of 2008 are now available.

A new web version* of SciFinder Scholar®, a chemical information retrieval tool, has just been released. Individual registration is required. After registering, log on here. SciFinder Scholar searches CAplus (references from Chemical Abstracts, 1907-present) and MEDLINE as well as chemical structure, reaction, directory and regulatory databases. The Windows client version of SciFinder Scholar is now available from the ITS Downloads page. The Mac OS X version will be available for direct download soon but meanwhile it can be requested by emailing infodesk@med.cornell.edu with your contact information, CWID and Mac OS version number.

*Structure & reaction searching not yet enabled for Mac users.

Be sure to catch our latest display screen promotion highlighting Access Surgery's surgical videos and animations. Access Surgery, an integrated online resource that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with a well-stocked storehouse of surgical information, is available from the Library's webpage. Look for it under Electronic Resources or click here.

Classes are free and open to all staff, faculty and students of NYP/WCMC, RUL, MSKCC and HSS. Schedule conflicts? Request a customized class or individual consultation at a time and place convenient to you. To register for a class or consultation, please use the online form, e-mail Education & Outreach at libeducation@med.cornell.edu or call 212-746-6061.

Available March Library Class Offerings:

• Electronic Resources -- Tue., March 11, 2:00pm-3:00pm
• EndNote Basics -- Wed., March 19, 11:00am-12:30pm
• Mastering the Library -- Wed., March 26, 12:00pm-1:00pm

Joan Steitz will discuss a recent National Academies report, entitled "Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering," on Wednesday, March 12 from 4:00-5:00pm in the Weill Auditorium. Dr. Steitz is the Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Yale University. Her presentation is sponsored by the Female Association of Clinicians, Educators and Scientists of the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program. In addition to searching and browsing the free full text online, paper copies of the report are available at the Rockefeller University Library.

The Library is proud to welcome back Metropolitan Artists to display their paintings and sculpture until May 7, 2008. All are invited to the Reception on March 7, 2008 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Starting Thursday morning, February 21 and continuing for three Thursdays, Library Faculty Paul Albert, Kris Alpi, helen-ann brown, Diana Delgado and Pattie Mongelia, will be partnering with colleagues from the Department of Public Health to teach Evidence Based Medicine to the first-year Medical Students. Kris Alpi, the Library's Associate Director, also a member of the Public Health Faculty, will serve as a Public Health Faculty member.

Please join us in congratulating in Loretta Merlo, Head of Circulation, on her award-winning video display screen promotion celebrating the contributions and importance of health sciences information professionals. The promotion highlighted Mark Funk, Head of Resource Management-Collections, who is currently the President of the Medical Library Association (MLA) and other Weill Cornell librarians. A record number of libraries submitted entries for the National Medical Librarians Month (NMLM) Creative Promotions Award which were judged for creativity and innovation in library marketing. View the video, and stop by the Library to pick up a commemorative pen, available at the Circulation Desk while supplies last.

The door to one hundred and forty years of scientific research from Nature is now open to our patrons. The Library is proud to provide full text access to every single issue from the beginning of the journal in 1869 to the present. Want to read Watson & Crick's 1953 paper announcing the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA? Or perhaps the journal's first editorial by T. H. Huxley, who speculated: "When another half-century has passed, curious readers of the back numbers of Nature will probably look on our best 'not without a smile'..." The Library hopes our "curious readers" will also smile as they enjoy the riches of Nature's archives from the convenience of their desktops.

The Library will reopen on Tues. Feb. 19 at the regularly scheduled time.

An extra dose of evidence-based medicine has been added to the Library's EBM resources. Formerly known as InfoPOEMs but now renamed and expanded, Essential Evidence Plus provides our clinicians with an additional compendium of decision support calculators, guidelines, Cochrane abstracts, and topic summaries with recommendations graded by strength of evidence. The original daily InfoPOEMs, e-mail alerts to help you stay up to date with the latest and most relevant medical literature, remain a key feature of the revised database, which is searchable on the web or by PDA.

In early February, Ovid and Web of Knowledge will both display redesigned interfaces. Web of Knowledge will search across Web of Science, BIOSIS, Zoological Record, MEDLINE, CAB Abstracts and Food Science and Technology Abstracts all at once. Citations can be sent directly to EndNote Web. The GET IT button is still there for you to access the full text of articles.

Call Education & Outreach at (212) 746-6061 or email libeducation@med.cornell.edu with your questions or to schedule a demo.

Gerald N. Grob, Ph.D., will present "Morbidity and Mortality in 20th-Century America: the Enigma of Explanation" as the second Heberden Society Lecture of the 2007-2008 academic year on Thursday, February 7, from 5:00-6:00pm in the Uris Faculty Room (A-126). Dr. Grob, a historian of mental health policy and medicine, is the Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine (Emeritus) at Rutgers University and a past president of the American Association for the History of Medicine. Read more about the speaker or see a selection of his books available in the Library.

Recipients of NIH funding should be aware of a new reporting requirement that will be implemented this spring as part of the NIH Public Access Policy. Investigators must deposit all peer-reviewed articles accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008 that arise from direct costs funded by NIH into PubMed Central (PMC). PMC is NIH's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Full text of the articles will be made freely available to the public no later than 12 months after publication. Beginning May 25, 2008, anyone submitting an application, proposal or progress report to the NIH must include the PubMed Central or NIH Manuscript Submission reference number when citing applicable articles accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008 that arose from direct costs funded by NIH. The new requirement replaces NIH's previous policy asking that authors voluntarily deposit their publications.

The Weill Cornell Medical Library will help authors meet the NIH requirements by sharing updated information, identifying journal publisher policies and support services, and meeting with authors. For more information, see the NIH Public Access Policy section of the Library's Guide to Open Access.

The Library will reopen on Tues. Jan. 22 at the regularly scheduled time.

Have you caught our latest presentations on the Library's display screen? Come into the Library today and see them live, or preview the video of our brand-new promotion featuring Faculty of 1000 Biology now. Share your review with us or with other Library users. Ideas for future presentations welcome too!

The Tri-Cat catalog, may experience intermittent interruptions in service starting Dec. 17 at 5pm and lasting until Dec. 18 at 8am due to construction taking place on the Rockefeller University campus. We apologize for any inconvenience.

The Library will be closed on Mon. Dec. 24 Christmas Eve and Tues. Dec. 25 Christmas Day.

The Library will be open on New Year's Eve, Mon. Dec. 31, from 7am - 8pm only. We will be closed on New Year's Day, Tues. Jan. 1, 2008.

All other days during the holiday season, the Library will be open regular hours which are: Mon. - Fri. 7am - 12 midnight, Sat. 9am - 8pm and Sun. 12 noon to 12 midnight. Happy holidays from the staff of the Weill Cornell Medical Library, the Patient Resource Center, and Medical Center Archives!

The Myra Mahon Patient Resource Center will close Mon. Dec 24 - Tues. Jan 1 and reopen on Wed. Jan. 2 at 9am. Patients and visitors are welcome to use the Reading Room and Library areas, but neither staff nor the Center's computers will be available. Internet access will be limited to wireless access via WMC Guest Services. Patients and visitors seeking health information should visit the PRC website where they may also email their information request. For physician billing assistance, patients may call the POBO Customer Service Call Center at 212-590-5710.

The Medical Center Archives will be closed from Sat. Dec. 21, through Tues. Jan. 1. You can submit reference inquiries online or by email and an archivist will respond to your inquiry by Wed. Jan. 2.

The Graduate Student Executive Council is organizing a toy drive to make a donation to the Pediatric Burn Unit and Toys for Tots. Starting Thursday the 13th and lasting until Wednesday the 19th, bring to the Library any new, unwrapped toys. The collection bin will be located near the Display Screen in the Library Commons.

Free Library printing will continue until the Print and Photocopy Management System (PPMS) works consistently. We apologize for the problems you may have encountered with printing as we work through the technical issues with our PPMS system. We will announce the beginning of charging when the system is working consistently. We will keep you informed of our progress and we appreciate your patience as we work to make PPMS efficient for you.

You still need a PPMS account to print to all Library printers. If you haven't already created an account, please do so today. You may set up your personal account in the Library or in Duplicating Services. To set up a departmental or grant account, please submit the departmental account request form. Please set up your PPMS account now while printing is still free so that you may practice using the system.

The charge for printing in the Library will be 10¢ per black and white exposure. Library Administration reluctantly decided to begin charging patrons for printing in the Library to recover the costs of printing. This system will reduce the toner and paper waste created by the prior unmanaged printing. It is also equipped with self-service account maintenance, allowing you to create accounts, check your balance, and add value to your account. And, because you release each job individually and determine to which printer you send your job, it will also provide you with increased privacy and reduction in lost documents. Once the system for charging is in effect, we will begin to roll out other services including color printing and the ability to maintain and add value to your PPMS account online.

For questions about managing your printing and photocopying in the Library, please visit the print and photocopy FAQ, or contact the Circulation Desk at 212-746-6050. Library Administration welcomes your comments at 212-746-6068 or through the Comment Form.

Every Monday, beginning December 3, from 1-3pm, you can visit the Library's Computer Room to have your bioinformatics questions answered. Take advantage of this new service being offered by both the Institute for Computational Biology and the Clinical and Translational Science Center. For further information please contact icb@med.cornell.edu.

On Saturday, December 1, 2007, the Library will commemorate Day With(Out) Art/World AIDS Day by covering one piece from the current Medical Complex Art Show. Day With(Out) Art (DWA) began in 1989 as a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis to make the public aware that AIDS can touch everyone and to inspire positive action. Since then, DWA has grown into a collaborative project in which an estimated 8,000 museums, galleries, art centers, AIDS service organizations, libraries, high schools and colleges take part on both the national and international levels.

This year the Library will cover Sue Campus' jewelry collection, located on the main floor. Read more about World AIDS Day here.

Classes are free and open to all staff, faculty and students of NYP/WCMC, RUL, MSKCC and HSS. Schedule conflicts? Request a customized class or individual consultation at a time and place convenient to you. To register for a class or consultation, please use the online form, e-mail Education & Outreach at libeducation@med.cornell.edu or call 212-746-6061.

December Library Class Offerings:

• Preparing to Publish -- Thurs. December 6th, 10:30am-12:00pm
• Advanced Molecular Biology Searching Tools -- Wed. December 12th, 10:30am-12:00pm

David J. Rothman, Ph.D., the Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, will present the first Heberden Society Lecture of the 2007-2008 academic year on Thursday, November 29, from 5-6pm in the Uris Faculty Room (A-126). The title of his lecture will be "Their Drug Problem and Ours: Pharmaceutical Company/Physician Relationships, Then and Now." Read more about the speaker or see a selection of his books available in the Library.

The 17th Medical Complex Art Show runs through Thursday, January 31, 2008. Listen to the Dean's remarks (download MP3) from the opening and enjoy photos of many of the artists. The List of Winners and Artists/Works acknowledges all who shared their work. Visit the Second Virtual Medical Complex Art Show to see the pieces available only online and a selection of those in the physical show. You can also view the virtual show on the Library's display screen in the Library Commons. Contact Education and Outreach at libeducation@med.cornell.edu or 212-746-6061 if you would like further information.

The Medical Library will be closed on Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23 in observance of Thanksgiving. Regular hours resume on Saturday, November 24 (9am - 8pm) and Sunday, November 25 (12n - 12m). Happy Thanksgiving from the staff of the Weill Cornell Medical Library!

The Weill Cornell Medical Library will charge for printing to all Library printers beginning Monday, December 10. Printing and photocopying require a Print and Photocopy Management System (PPMS) account. You may set up your personal account in the Library or in Duplicating Services. To set up a departmental or grant account, please submit the departmental account request form. Please set up your PPMS account now while printing is still free so that you may practice using the system.

Beginning Monday, December 10, the charge for printing in the Library will be 10¢ per black and white exposure. Library Administration reluctantly decided to begin charging patrons for printing in the Library to recover the costs of printing. This system will reduce the toner and paper waste created by the prior unmanaged printing. It is also equipped with self-service account maintenance, allowing you to create accounts, check your balance, and add value to your account. And, because you release each job individually and determine to which printer you send your job, it will also provide you with increased privacy and reduction in lost documents. Once the system for charging is in effect, we will begin to roll out other services including color printing and the ability to maintain and add value to your PPMS account online.

For questions about managing your printing and photocopying in the Library, please visit the print and photocopy FAQ, or contact the Circulation Desk at 212-746-6050. Library Administration welcomes your comments at 212-746-6068 or through the Comment Form.

Fishing unsuccessfully in the alphabet soup of biomedical acronyms? Twease searches every word in the abstracts of PubMed records and may help you to catch the right results. For example, PubMed cannot distinguish between TnT (customarily used for Troponin T) and TNT (trinitrotoluene) but Twease's case-sensitive design can retrieve separate results for either acronym.

Developed by Matthew J. Wood, Kevin C. Dorff and Fabien Campagne from Weill Cornell's Institute for Computational Biomedicine (ICB), Twease offers users the option to narrow or expand searches by moving a slider between precision and recall. Twease can also suggest related terms, spelling variants and corrections, sort results chronologically or by relevance, and export selected citations to EndNote, BibTex or RefWorks. You can perform a related articles search on one result or on a batch of saved references. Each result links to its PubMed record.

Keep in mind that Twease is updated weekly on Mondays and searches only the abstracts of PubMed records. If you need today's papers or want to use other fields such as author, title, subject headings, or journal names, start your search in PubMed or OVID.

Before running a search in Twease, we strongly encourage you to review the website tutorial or attend the next presentation on Monday, December 10, 10am to 11am (note change in date), in the ICB Conference Room (1305 York Ave., 13th Fl.).

Please join Dean Gotto, Library staff and more than 60 artists for the opening reception of the 17th Medical Complex Art Show on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 from 4pm to 6pm. Both the physical show and the virtual online show open officially with the Dean's remarks and the awards around 4pm. Cookies and cider will be served. We look forward to your joining us to celebrate the artistic talents of those here at the Medical Center.

The show will run through Thursday, January 31, 2008. Visit the virtual show to see the pieces available only online and a selection of those in the physical show. Contact Education and Outreach at libeducation@med.cornell.edu or 212-746-6061 if you would like further information.

OvidSP, a total redesign of how searching looks and functions in Ovid's suite of databases, has been released. We encourage all our users to familiarize themselves with this new interface, which will replace the current system on January 2, 2008. This fact sheet explains the highlights of the new interface. Ovid users with existing personal accounts and saved search strategies will find them activated already in OvidSP.

The Library provides BIOSIS, a database of biological literature and meeting abstracts, through Web of Knowledge and OVID. Both of these versions have new beta interfaces and we plan to select a single version for January 2008. In Web of Knowledge, you can search BIOSIS Previews alone, or in an All Databases combination with MEDLINE, Web of Science, and Zoological Record. In OVID, you can search BIOSIS Previews alone, or in combination with MEDLINE, EMBASE or other databases. Please try out both new interfaces for your biological literature searching and tell us what you think using our Comments form.

Stop by to see our new display screen, located in the Library Commons. On it, you'll see citations from the latest NYP/WCMC authors, information about Library resources and services, inspiring images from the Medical Archives and much more. We would love to hear your reviews and suggestions.

During the latter part of this week, you will need a Print & Photocopying Management System (PPMS) account to print from the Macintosh computers in the Library Computer Commons and eventually from all Library computers. You will enter your account number when printing and the print job(s) will be directed to a print release workstation where you will log in with your PPMS account to release them to one of the printers. Instructions will be posted. You use the same PPMS account for printing and photocopying. Black & white printing will be free for a 30-day practice period, during which each account will receive a "free balance" amount so that you will not be charged for printing. Photocopy charges will be charged to the "real balance" on your account.

Beginning Monday, November 26, 2007, the charge for black and white printing with your PPMS account will be 10 cents per exposure. Color printing will be available soon after for $1.00 per exposure.

If you don't have a PPMS account, create one in the Library using the Account Creation computer located next to the printer across from the Information Desk or in Duplicating Services. An instruction sheet is available and we will be happy to assist you.

If you have a copy card with a cash balance, bring that card to the Library Circulation Desk or to Duplicating Services to have the card read and the amount added to your PPMS account. If you need an internal departmental account, please complete the departmental account request form. For questions about managing your printing and photocopying in the Library, please visit the print and photocopy FAQ, or contact the Circulation Desk at 212-746-6050. Library Administration welcomes your comments at 212-746-6068 or through the Comment Form.

Just a few more days to enjoy the exhibition of photography from the Manhattan Miniature Camera Club. The Manhattan Miniature Camera Club, founded in 1933, is for members to share their love of photography and to improve their skills and artistry. The show closes September 30, but the virtual show with many of the images is available online

Thank you to all who submitted art for the 17th Annual Medical Complex Art Show. Both the physical show and the virtual show open Tuesday, November 13, 2007 with a reception from 4pm to 6pm, and run through Thursday, January 31, 2008.

Contact Education and Outreach at libeducation@med.cornell.edu or 212-746-6061 with your comments and questions.

The charge for photocopying with your PPMS account is 10 cents per exposure. The copiers use your real cash balance. To add cash value, use one of the Add Value Stations in the Library Commons, Library Stack 1, or in Duplicating Services (Sub-Basement Room C-0004). If you don't have a PPMS account, create one in the Library using the Account Creation computer located next to the printer across from the Information Desk or in Duplicating Services. An instruction sheet is available and we will be happy to assist you.

If you have a copy card with a cash balance, you may bring that card to the Library Circulation Desk or to Duplicating Services to have the card read and the amount added to your PPMS account. If your existing copy card is a red departmental card, there is no cash value to transfer. Instead you will need to request that an internal departmental account be created by completing the departmental account request form. If you have questions about departmental accounts, please contact Library Administration at 212-746-6068. For all other questions about managing your photocopying in the Library, please visit the section of the FAQs page devoted to the PPMS, or contact the Circulation Desk at 212-746-6050. Library Administration welcomes questions or comments about this service at 212-746-6068 or through the Comment Form.

The Weill Cornell Medical Library is pleased to announce a new class schedule. Classes are free and open to all staff, faculty and students of NYP/WCMC, RUL, MSKCC and HSS. If the classes conflict with your schedule please contact us to arrange for customized classes or individual consultations at a time and place convenient to you. To register for a class or consultation, please use the online form, e-mail the Education & Outreach department at libeducation@med.cornell.edu or call 212-746-6061.

For November the Library will offer the following classes:

• Molecular Biology Resources -- Thurs. November 1st, 10:30am-12:00am
• RefWorks -- Mon. November 5th, 10:30am-12:00pm
• Unleash the Power of Google™ -- Wed. November 14th, 11:00am-12:00pm
• CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) -- Thurs. November 15th, 4:00pm-5:00pm
• CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) -- Fri. November 16th, 12:00pm-1:00pm
• Electronic Resources -- Fri. November 16th, 2:00pm-3:00pm
• PubMed Searching for Clinicians -- Wed. November 28th, 11:00-12:30

Researchers wanting to uncover connections between genes and diseases now have a wealth of data to study. The landmark Framingham Heart Study is the first dataset to be released as part of the National Institute of Health's SNP Health Association Resource (SHARe) program. Framingham SHARe includes data on more than 9,300 participants spanning three generations, including over 900 families, who had their DNA tested for 550,000 genetic variations (single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs). SHARe will enable qualified researchers to relate study participants' genetic variations with their individual clinical and laboratory test results. SHARe is accessed through the database of Genotype and Phenotype (dbGaP), one of the growing family of Entrez resources.

The dbGaP also includes study documentation, such as protocols and questionnaires, linked to summary data of measured variables. For example, in Framingham SHARe, researchers can search for summary data on the average blood pressure value at a visit and easily find the associated protocol for measuring blood pressure. Read more about Framingham SHARe, including the requirements for qualifying to access individual-level data.

Learn more about dbGaP in the Library's molecular biology workshops in November and December or request an individual or small-group consultation.

This year we have something really special to celebrate! The librarian who selects your journals, books and online resources happens to be the President of the Medical Library Association. Mark Funk, Head of Resource Management-Collections, has been traveling the world giving talks about access to the biomedical literature and the many activities undertaken by medical librarians.

Other recent accomplishments by the Library faculty: Helen-ann brown and Pattie Mongelia were featured by the Middle Atlantic Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Kristine Alpi was named a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, and she and Diana Delgado published "Search Hedges: Cutting Across the Trees of MeSH" in the latest MLA News.

Put our expertise to work for you. Ask a reference question or request a literature search. We'll make house calls to your office. Schedule a personal consultation appointment or take a training class with us.

Twenty four students from the class of 2010 who embarked on international projects this summer through the Office of Global Health Education are sharing their experiences. The Library is pleased to display these posters to provide an opportunity for others to learn of the international experiences of our medical students. The posters will be on exhibit in the Library main floor near the leisure reading area on either side of the stairs through Friday, October 12.

Routine maintenance is scheduled to begin at 9 pm and conclude by midnight. Can't wait for OVID? Try one of our other electronic resources.

We invite you to take a one-hour guided tour of STAT!Ref, a suite of electronic books focused on clinical practice, with company representative, Sara Feinstein, on Thursday, September 27, from 1-2pm, in the Library's Computer Room. To register for this workshop, please call 212-746-6061 or email libeducation@med.cornell.edu. To preview STAT!Ref, connect to http://online.statref.com/default.asp?grpalias=Cornell

Due to continuing renovations, level two and the level three mezzanine of the Rockefeller University Library will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 25-26. Seating and study areas on level one will remain available but users are advised that strong chemical odors may be present.

The Library is very pleased to provide electronic access back to 1950 for the prestigious scientific journal Nature. Many library users have requested the backfiles to this journal. We acquired them as a cooperative purchase with the Cornell Ithaca libraries. While we currently provide access back to 1950, we have also purchased the deep backfiles, which go back to 1869. Nature is still digitizing these older volumes, and plans to release them in late 2007/early 2008.

Dr. Charles Bardes spoke of certain books during his Rogers Health Policy Colloquium talk "What Writing Can Do For Medicine and What Medicine Can Do For Writing." The Library has many of these titles including The Nature Of Suffering And The Goals Of Medicine by Eric Cassell and Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. Read Dr. Bardes' essays from "The Double Serpent: Subtexts in Medicine".

The Library is pleased to announce that the Continuing Medical Education (CME) Committee approved the workshop, PubMed Searching for Clinicians, for 1.5 hours of Category 1 Credit. Learn the basics of the National Library of Medicine's premier database searching tool as well as earn CME credits.

The offering of this course on October 29, 2007 is full. There is another session on Wednesday, November 28 from 11am-12:30pm. All Library workshops are free and you may register online.

The print and photocopy management system (PPMS) that was announced on July 16 is now in place for photocopying. There will be no charge for photocopying using the PPMS through Sunday, September 30 to give you time to learn to use the system. Please create your PPMS account in the Library using the Account Creation computer located next to the printer across from the Information Desk or in Duplicating Services (Sub-Basement Room C-0004). Library or Duplicating Staff will be happy to assist you. A free balance will be automatically assigned to your new account; this allows you to photocopy from this balance at no charge to you. You must use a PPMS account to photocopy at no charge. The cash charge is 15 cents per exposure.

Starting October 1, the charge for copying with your PPMS account will be 10 cents per exposure. We will soon announce how you can transfer funds from existing copy cards to your new PPMS account. If you have questions about managing your photocopying in the Library, please contact the Circulation Desk at (212) 746-6050. For all other questions or comments about this service, please contact Library Administration at (212) 746-6068 or use the Comment Form.

Facilities will shut down the Library's air handle system to replace a major coil on Saturday morning, September 8. The work will take until about 4pm. During this time, there will be no airflow so the Library will get stuffy. If the weather is warm, the Library will become very warm also. Please take this into consideration if you plan to spend time in the Library on Saturday. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Win the Golden Harvest Award for Best of Show!

All faculty, staff, and students of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center, Weill Cornell Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences, MSKCC, RU, and HSS are encouraged to submit up to 6 images of their art work to the Seventeenth Medical Complex Art Show. The Show is sponsored by the Weill Cornell Medical Library and features paintings, photographs, computer-generated art, sculpture, ceramics, and handicrafts. All submissions with digital images will also be considered for the Second Virtual Medical Complex Art Show. We invite faculty, staff, and students of Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar and alumni of the Weill Cornell Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences to submit only digital images for the virtual show. Both the physical show and the virtual show will open Tuesday, November 13, 2007 and run through Thursday, January 31, 2008.

We strongly encourage that you submit digital images of your work from September 6, 2007 to Wednesday, October 10, 2007 using the online form.  If you must submit prints of your work to be considered for the physical show, send them to helen-ann brown, Education and Outreach, Weill Cornell Medical Library, 1300 York Avenue, NY, NY 10065. Interoffice is Room C-115.  Don't hesitate to contact Education and Outreach at libeducation@med.cornell.edu or 212-746-6061 with your comments and questions.

The Library is pleased to offer a selected list of wilderness medicine resources in support of the upcoming Northeast Wilderness Medicine CME Conference on September 26-28, 2007 at Cornell University, Ithaca NY. Read the Library copy of Wilderness Medicine by Paul Auerbach, one of conference presenters. Planning to travel to Ithaca for the conference or any other purpose? Learn more about using the Cornell University libraries in Ithaca.

The Weill Cornell Medical Library is pleased to announce a new class schedule. Classes are free and open to all staff, faculty and students of NYP/WCMC, RUL, MSKCC and HSS. If the classes conflict with your schedule please contact us to arrange for customized classes or individual consultations at a time and place convenient to you. To register for a class or consultation, please use the online form, e-mail the Education & Outreach department at libeducation@med.cornell.edu or call 212-746-6061.

For September the Library will offer the following classes:

• Mastering the Library-- Monday the 17th, 10:30am-11:30am
• Unleash the Power of Google-- Thursday the 27th, 12:00pm-1:00pm

Earlier this week, The Library released a new version of the Electronic Journals page. In response to feedback we have received, we have restored the original Electronic Journals page and moved the new release into Beta while we make improvements. We encourage you to use the beta version of the Electronic Journals page. Added features include searching by journal abbreviation, access to additional non-biomedical titles, and the GET IT menu of services. Try it, and share any feedback via email to Paul Albert or the Library's comment form. Further developments with the electronic journal pages will be announced here in advance.

The Medical Center Archives will be closed on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week while the archivists attend the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists. You may submit a question online for a response when they return on Tuesday, September 4.

We will reopen on Tuesday September 4th for our regular hours.

All computers in use on the main floor of the Library? Three new desktop computers are now available in the lower level south area across from the Computer Room. These iMacs print by default to Printer 2 in the Commons upstairs but print jobs can also be sent to the Computer Room printer when classes are not in session.

The Library is looking for volunteers to participate in a simple usability test that focuses on our electronic journals page. We will be unveiling a new e-journals page and want to test its functionality and hear your feedback. The test will take place in the Library and last between 30 and 45 minutes. Why volunteer? Your feedback will directly influence the new e-journals page and make it easier for everyone to use. The Library also respects the gift of your time, and will provide USB drives to all the volunteers who participate.

If you would like to be a volunteer for usability testing, please contact Paul Albert by e-mail or by phone, 212-746-7541. Please indicate the times and dates you are available. There are currently openings between Monday, August 13 and Friday, August 17 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Do you want to keep tabs on whether your published research is being used by others? If so, the Web of Science allows you to see how often other authors have cited your article(s). You can even set up a Citation Alert to notify you immediately by email or RSS feed when someone references your work. Let our tutorial show you how. (3 mins. 24 secs., requires Flash Player)

Congratulations to lead author Dr. Nicholas Schiff, Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College, and his colleagues on their successful work restoring the capacity for functional communication to a patient in a minimally conscious state for 6 years. Read the full groundbreaking report in the August 2 issue of Nature.

The July issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association includes articles about and by Weill Cornell Medical Library Faculty.  The President's Page chronicles the career of Mark E. Funk, Head of Resource Management-Collections, the current Medical Library Association President.  Kristine Alpi, Associate Library Director, contributed the invited editorial "We are all public health."  Wrapping up the issue (see p. 362) is a review of Reference Librarianship: Notes from the Trenches by Education & Outreach Librarian, Pattie Mongelia.

The Library will soon introduce a new print and photocopy management system (PPMS) to provide color printing and to reduce toner and paper waste. The PPMS will allow you to manage your printing in the way that you currently manage your photocopying needs, by paying a per exposure charge for all Library printing. There will be no charge for printing and photocopying during the first thirty days of the PPMS to give you time to learn to use the system. Please read this letter explaining the benefits and charges. If you have questions about managing your printing and photocopying in the Library, please contact the Circulation Desk at (212) 746-6050. For all other questions or comments about this service, please contact Library Administration at (212) 746-6068.

Left your flash drive at home? Weíve got you covered. The Medical Library Circulation Desk now sells 256MB USB flash drives, which store approximately 85 PDF articles, for just $10 each.

Think Green - We encourage you to download, rather than print, the content that you need. Send files to yourself using the WCMC File Transfer Service available at http://transfer.med.cornell.edu/.

Books from the regular collection now circulate for a period of four weeks instead of two. Loan periods for journals, monographic serials and reserve books will remain unchanged.

The closest entrance to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Library is the main entrance of the Rockefeller Research Laboratories (RRL) Building. Starting on/about Monday, June 25th the RRL main entrance will be closed for ramp/stair work for about five weeks. The MSKCC Library will continue to be open Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 7:00 pm. Alternate means for accessing the building are below. Facilities will post signage throughout the building to direct you during this construction interruption. 24/7 access via the tunnel connecting the basement of the Haupt building to the RRL. Access during working hours through the Haupt Entrance or after hours through the Main Hospital Entrance. Daily 6:00 am to 9:00 pm access via the MSKCC garage. Monday-Friday 8:00 am to 8:00 pm access via the 66th Street SouthWest Exit Doors. You can access the MSKCC electronic collection at the CyberLibrary Cafe in the Zuckerman Research Center (410 East 69th Street, enter through the 69th street lobby), Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 6:30 pm.

Looking for something lighter than medical texts?ÝVisit the Library for leadership or leisure books. At Medicine Grand Rounds in May, Dr. Andrew Schafer mentioned Good to Great by Jim Collins, keynote speaker at the Association of American Medical Colleges' 2006 Annual Meeting. Find more leadership books in Tri-Cat, our online catalog.ÝCheck out items from the Library's collection of donated leisure reading on the main floor across from the new book and journal area.ÝParents and pediatricians-are you thinking about getting kids ready for school?ÝRead Back to School: School-Based Services and Admission Requirements from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Enjoy the summer!

Thanks to all the students who attended one of our Library workshops from January to May this year. We look forward to presenting a new round of free classes starting in September. While there will be no scheduled classes over the summer, you can still take advantage of Library learning by registering for an individual or group consultation at a time and place convenient to you. Do you want to build better searches? Explore evidence-based medicine? Manage your bibliographic references? Learn about open access publishing? On these and similar topics, we can customize a tutorial to meet your information needs. Submit your request online, e-mail infodesk@med.cornell.edu or call (212) 746-6055.

When handling hazardous material incidents, first responders in general, and Hazmat units in particular, must make many decisions quickly. The National Library of Medicine's WISER (Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders) provides a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including chemical identification support, physical characteristics, containment and suppression, and effects on human health. WISER features: Comprehensive decision support, including assistance in identification of an unknown substance and guidance on immediate actions necessary to save lives and protect the environment Access to the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB®), which contains detailed, peer-reviewed information Intuitive, simple, and logical user interface developed by working with experienced first responders. WISER is a mobile application available on the Palm, Pocket PC, and Microsoft Windowsô platforms. A web-based WISER is also now available, supporting web browsers for both PCs and PDAs, including BlackBerry. The Library has added a link to WISER on our Electronic Resources page.

The Library will host an informal meeting on issues in using geographic information on Wednesday, June 6th from 2:00 - 3:00 PM in the Library Administration Conference Room. Our special guest is Keith Jenkins, the GIS/Geospatial Applications Librarian at Cornell University. Topics to be discussed include data sources, how zip codes are used as proxies, and possible collaborations. Please let Library Administration know if you will join us for the discussion, and please share this information with others.

Library Faculty share and expand their knowledge and skills in providing resources and services through participation in the Medical Library Association (MLA) Annual Meeting. This is a special Annual Meeting for Mark Funk, Head of Resource Management-Collections. Mark will meet with the Board of Directors and give his inaugural address as President of the Association. He will host the Leaders tea, the International Visitors reception and the New Members Breakfast, as well as participate in the 2008 National Program Committee meeting and the Scholarly Publishing Task Force meeting. Lastly, he will moderate a Symposium on Open Access on Wednesday, May 23. Millennials Find Treasure in the Library! will be presented by Pattie Mongelia and helen-ann brown of Information Services on Monday, May 21 as a contributed paper. Pattie Mongelia, Information Services Librarian, will attend the continuing education course "Creating More Effective Learning Activities." In the Leadership and Management Section (LMS), helen-ann brown, Head of Information Services, coordinates Strategic Planning and is chairing the LMS Book Project to publish a case-based book entitled Managing Libraries: Problems and Solutions.  She has also been appointed to the new Hodges International Service Award Jury.
 
Carolyn Anne Reid, Library Director, will meet with two Association of Academic Health Science Libraries (AAHSL) committees on which she serves: one on Assessment & Statistics and the other a task force charged to draft the AAHSL response to recent reports from the AAMC's Institute for Improving Medical Education. Kristine Alpi, Associate Director, serves on the MLA Nominating Committee charged with identifying new leadership for the association. She will teach two continuing education courses: "Providing Health Information Resources and Services in Other Languages" and "Evidence-Based Public Health." She will also participate in an Assessment & Evaluation roundtable and the Journal of the Medical Library Association editorial board meeting, as well as host Indiana University alumni at the Library School Reunion.

Michael Wood, Qatar Liaison Librarian and Assistant Head of Resource Management, will participate in a roundtable on the Management of E-Resources, represent the New York-New Jersey Chapter as its treasurer, and attend seminars on the latest developments in the Library's online resources. Diana Delgado, Head of Access Services, will attend several events including a marketing seminar on "Coping with Change: Reaching Your Library’s Users" and the Biomedical Digital Libraries editorial board meeting. Digital Services Librarian, Paul Albert, will participate in a roundtable discussion about federated searching and a special interest group devoted to Public Services.  He'll have his eyes open for innovative web-based services that could be useful here at Weill Cornell Medical Library.

Consumer health information on uncommon disorders is now available from the Rare Disease Database. Produced by the National Organization for Rare Disorders and provided to our users courtesy of the new Myra Mahon Patient Resource Center, the database provides reports on more than 1,150 rare disorders. Each report covers signs and symptoms, causes, treatments, and research and also includes a list of organizations and government agencies that help patients and their families.

Otha W. Linton, executive director of the International Society of Radiology, will present the final Heberden Society Lecture of the 2006-2007 academic year on Thursday, May 10, at 5 p.m. in Uris Faculty Room (A-126). The title of his lecture will be “Radiology at New York Hospital and Cornell University Medical College: Telling It Like It Was.” Read more about the speaker or see a list of his publications in PubMed.

The Public Health Association of New York City (PHANYC) has announced the winners of the Goldman Student Paper Merit Awards. Congratulations to Linda Fan whose second place paper will be celebrated at the PHANYC Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, June 6th.

Quick answers from trusted sources to surgical questions is the promise of the Library's newest electronic resource. A companion product to the more familiar AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill, AccessSurgery provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with a variety of materials organized around the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's mandate for a core curriculum. Select a topic or procedure and view related content from:

• Videos: From Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
• Animations: Adapted from Zollingerís Atlas of Surgical Operations
• Textbooks: Schwartzís Principles of Surgery / Current Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment / Maingot's Abdominal Operations / Current Consult Surgery
• Atlas: Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations
• Anatomy: Skandalakisí Surgical Anatomy
• Board Review: Surgery Review Illustrated and Schwartz's Principles of Surgery: Self-Assessment and Board Review

• Creating your own Board Review test and emailing the results to your program director
• Watching entire operations or just the most relevant section
• Downloading a free, PDA diagnostic tool from Current Consult Surgery
• Researching medication indications, dosages, and contraindications through a drug database provided by Gold Standard
• Keeping up-to-date with original analyses of recent journal articles