Mulford Library Blog

A reception to officially open the Health Science Campus 2012 Art Showcase was held on Friday, January 27th. The show celebrates the creative talents of students, faculty and staff employed in the Health Sciences. Light refreshments were served, and Roy Schneider, Medical Illustrator from UT’s Center for Creative  Instruction, was the featured speaker.  This years’ entries included a variety of photographs and mixed-media drawings from a wide range of participants, including artists from the areas of: Pharmacy, Physiology and Pharmacology, Biomedical Engineering, Operating Room, Executive Secretary, Radiation Oncology, Information Technology, students and professors from the College of Medicine and College of Nursing, Clinical Informatics, Research — Neurosciences, Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, and Health Sciences Librarian. The show can be viewed through February 21st.

Works on view, Fourth Floor, Mulford Library

In celebration of the annual HSC Artist Showcase, the Mulford Library will be hosting a reception this Friday, January 27 from 4-6pm on the library’s 4th floor.

Roy Schneider, Medical Illustrator from UT’s Center for Creative  Instruction, will be the reception’s featured speaker.

Light refreshments will be served.

Please join us to celebrate the creative talents of students, faculty and staff on the Health Science Campus.

UpToDate now has mobile access using the University’s guest wireless network.   Turn on the WiFi on your device, then go to http://www.uptodate.com.  You should be prompted to access the guest wireless network.  UpToDate will direct you to the UpToDate mobile site.

Note:  As with the web-based version, access is restricted to the University.  Under our license, we do not have access to UpToDate MobileComplete.

We just received word from Facilities that work will begin next Monday, December 19 on the “fire mass notification system.”   Work is expected to last three months and will take place on all floors of the library.  As much work will be done over break to minimize the impact on quiet study.  We will share more information as we receive it.

(Original post by Wade Lee)

New books have arrived for Carlson and Mulford Libraries from the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library. At Carlson, these popular fiction and non-fiction titles are located near the Circulation Desk, and at Mulford, titles are found on the low shelves on the 5^th Floor. Use your Rocket ID Card and check out these bestsellers.   A full list of books is available in our catalog, or you can browse the shelves by author’s last name. New items include:

From the NIH:

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has stopped one arm of a three arm multi-center, clinical trial studying treatments for the lung-scarring disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) for safety concerns. The trial found that people with IPF receiving a currently used triple-drug therapy consisting of prednisone, azathioprine, and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) had worse outcomes than those who received placebos or inactive substances.

“These findings underscore why treatments must be evaluated in a rigorous manner,” said Susan B. Shurin, M.D., acting director of the NHLBI. “This combination therapy is widely used in patients with IPF, but has not previously been studied in direct comparison to a placebo for all three drugs.”

The interim results from this study showed that compared to placebo, those assigned to triple therapy had greater mortality (11 percent versus 1 percent), more hospitalizations (29 percent versus 8 percent), and more serious adverse events (31 percent versus 9 percent) and also had no difference in lung function test changes. Participants randomly assigned to the triple- therapy arm also remained on their assigned treatment at a much lower rate (78 percent adherence versus 98 percent adherence).

“Anyone on some combination of these medications with questions or concerns should consult with their health care provider and not simply stop taking the drugs,” said Ganesh Raghu, M.D., professor of medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle and a co-chair of this IPF study. “It is important to realize that these results definitively apply only to patients with well-defined IPF and not to people taking a combination of these drugs for other lung diseases or conditions.”

For more information, see the full clinical alert: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/2011_nhlbi_ifp.html

See this video for a history of PubMed Central and the state of the resource today. Happy Anniversary PubMed Central!

IBIDS (International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements) has been replaced by the new PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset:

http://ods.od.nih.gov/Research/PubMed_Dietary_Supplement_Subset.aspx 

The PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset is a collaboration between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements and the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The subset is a “limit” on the PubMed database that allows users to limit the 20 million+ citations in PubMed to those that are dietary supplement-related. Other useful, free dietary supplement-related resources at the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements can be found at http://ods.od.nih.gov/ , including: 

• Evidenced-based fact sheets in both technical/professional and consumer versions http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/list-all/
• The Computer Access to Research on Dietary Supplements (CARDS) database of current and ongoing dietary supplement research  http://ods.od.nih.gov/Research/CARDS_Database.aspx

Need answers to the question “What works?” in medical and health care? PubMed Health is a service provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) that specializes in gathering together – within a single searchable resource - reviews of Clinical effectiveness research. It offers easy-to-read summaries for consumers as well as full technical reports. For more information see: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so11/so11_pm_health.html

- Contact a UT Health Science Librarian for help with your research -

Tip #9: We don’t know if the foo dogs’ bark is worse than their bite, because they neither bark nor bite.  We suggest you do the same.

Tip #10: All students have a print quota per semester. The default setting for our printers is double-sided; this will deduct 1.5 prints from your quota, rather than 2.

Tip #11: Laptops for use in the Library can be checked out from the service desk on the fourth floor.

Tip #11.5 (based on a question we received yesterday from a new student): Yes, you can access our online journals from off-campus! The best way to get access to online journals is to do a title search for the journal title in the library catalog (make sure that you are searching All Libraries). The links in the catalog records are set to go through our proxy server, so you can get access wherever you are.

Tip #12:  Drinks are allowed in the Library if they are in a container with a lid (soda cans count as having a lid).  If you want to fill your container with water, the drinking fountain on the fifth floor is better than the one on the fourth floor.

Tip #13: The secret couch on the landing of the stairs to nowhere (from 4^th down to 3^rd by the back elevators) is a great place to study or nap. It’s not so great for group study or phone calls because the conversation carries up to the fifth floor, and that makes for crabby classmates.

Tip #14:  All course reading and no fun reading can contribute to your stress. You can find leisure reading books from the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library on the short book shelves on the fifth floor (it’s hard to miss the sign because it’s nearly the length of a football field). Selections change every couple of months.   PS – We have the DVDs of House M.D. on reserve!  (We also have copies of some medical and bioethics-related movies, including Gattaca, Awakenings, Patch Adams, Miss Evers’ Boys, Ordinary People, Something the Lord Made, and more.)

Tip #15: When you check out UT or OhioLINK materials, the system will email you a courtesy reminder before the materials are due.  Keep in mind that this is a courtesy reminder; you’re still responsible for returning books on time.  Need to check due dates?  Login to your library record (https://utmost.cl.utoledo.edu/patroninfo/) to see what you have checked out and when the items are due. You can also renew your books online.

Tip #16: Is there is big paper or manuscript in your future?  You’ll want to know about EndNote. It integrates with Word and helps you format your references in many different formats. It’s available on all public computers on campus, and UT students, staff, and faculty can download it at https://myutaccount.utoledo.edu/