Assessment in Action

Harriet K & Philip Pumerantz Library is becoming involved in assessment research.  The Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Assessment in Action program has accepted Ruth Harris’ assessment research looking at the impact of library instruction on various topics related to student learning. These topics include Finding the Evidence for Evidence-Based Practice, Health Literacy, Web Evaluation and Keeping Up with the Literature. 

The Harriet K & Philip Pumerantz Library is one of the 75 libraries selected for the Assessment in Action program among 98 applicants. Click this link for more information about the Assessment in Action program.

Life & Limb - The Toll of the American Civil War

The perspectives of surgeons, physicians, and nurses are richly documented in the history of Civil War medicine, which highlights the heroism and brutality of battlefield operations and the challenges of caring for the wounded during wartime. Life and Limb: The Toll of the Civil War focuses on battlefield injuries and life-saving but extreme surgeries, which left hundreds of thousands with permanent disabilities, their missing limbs a silent reminder of the conflict that split a nation.

From April 15 - July 31, 2013, The Harriet K. & Philip Pumerantz Library will be hosting a traveling exhibition created by the National Library of Medicine. Come join us for the Opening Reception of Life and Limb: The Tool of the Civil War on April 15, 2013 from  2:00 – 4:00 pm. For more information please call (909)469-5323 or email circ@westernu.edu.

Paleo CSI Speaker Series

Stop by the Pumerantz Library on March 21, 2013 to hear Dr. Brian Kraatz talk about prehistoric mammalian fossils of Asia and Arabia.

Refreshments will be served at 5 pm and the lecture will begin at 5:30.

For more information call 909-469-5323.

Life of Henrietta Lacks Book Talk

The Diversity and Inclusion Book and Film Club at the City of Hope has been reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and they have  invited Henrietta’s son, Sonny Lacks, to speak in February.

He and his daughter Kim will be at the Pasadena Public Library Thursday, February 28 at 7 PM and will sign books after the program.  

The event being held at the Pasadena Public Library is cosponsored by City of Hope.

New E-Books

Harriet K. & Philip Pumerantz Library have obtained new eBooks of interest to optometrists and physical therapists at WesternU. Only one user may use each book at one time. Be sure to log out when complete to free the book for others. Click the links below to see the eBooks.

Optometry

Contact Lens Complications, by Nathan Efron

Physical Therapy

Measurement of Joint Motion, by Norkin & White

Orthopedic Manual Therapy: An Evidence-Based Approach, by Cook

Wound Healing: Evidence-Based Management, by McCulloch & Kloth

New Nursing Books

Harriet K & Philip Pumerantz Library have obtained three new eBooks of possible interest to nurses at WesternU. Only one user may use the book at one time. Be sure to log out when complete to free the book for others. Click the below links to see the eBooks.

 Health promotion and disease prevention in clinical practice

Wound healing: evidence-based management

Essentials of nursing research: appraising evidence for nursing practice

ProQuest@WesternU

The library does not require print copies of your dissertation anymore.  Why is that so?  The library now has ProQuest@WesternU.  This product allows you to upload a digital copy of your dissertation and makes it discoverable to the larger ProQuest Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ProQuest ETD) search database.  
 
If you want to search for dissertations and theses and obtain them freely, you can use ProQuest Open Access Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (PQDT Open).  This subset of ProQuest ETD allows you to obtain the dissertations and theses because the authors have selected the Open Access option upon submission.  

For information about submitting to ProQuest@WesternU, look at our ProQuest Dissertation and Thesis Submission Instruction webpage or contact reference@westernu.edu to make an appointment for help in submitting your dissertation to ProQuest@WesternU.