Friday, October 25, 2013

Trick or Treat at the Pumerantz Library



This Halloween come to the Pumerantz Library to trick or treat. All of WesternU's ghouls and ghosts can get candy from either the main desk on the first floor or from the reference desk on the second floor.

If you trick or treat at the library dressed in a costume you can enter into a drawing for a $20 See's Candy gift card. Entry forms will be available at the main desk on the first floor.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Library Service Outage

Hello WesternU Community,

Tonight from 11:00 pm to 11:30 pm PST Library Electronic Resources will be unavailable due to server maintenance by IT. If you have any questions or concerns, or if you experience issues with Library Electronic Resources after 11:30 pm PST please email libsupport@westernu.edu

Thank you for your patience while University Systems are improved.

Friday, October 4, 2013

Federal Government Shutdown Impacts Information Resources

Due to the federal government shutdown, certain websites are unavailable or only being minimally maintained.  These websites include, but are not limited to:
U.S. Census Bureau
Library of Congress
U.S. Copyright Office
USDA
CDC
Agricola
clinicaltrials.gov
National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine
ERIC  (EBSCO is offering a free search page for ERIC during the shutdown.  You can access this version here: http://www.ebsco.com/freeERIC.  Just check the box next to the ERIC database and click on “Continue”)
PubMed (Available to search but is only being minimally maintained)

If you have any questions, please contact reference@westernu.edu for alternatives.

Thursday, October 3, 2013

National Medical Librarians' Month - "Saving You Time So You Can Save Lives"

Presentation 1:  Library Resources for Finding Images
Thursday, October 10th 
5:30-6:30 pm
2nd floor computer lab
In this presentation, you will learn about the various library resources that you can use to find images:
Access Medicine
Access Pharmacy
EBSCOhost
LWW Health Library
ScienceDirect
SpringerImages
UpToDate
VisualDx
This workshop is limited to 12 participants.  
Facilitated by Ruth Harris, MLIS
Education Services Librarian

Presentation 2:  Mobile Apps for Medicine
Wednesday, October 16th
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Library 2nd floor teaching lab 
Mobile devices are commonplace in today’s medical practice.  They can be used at the point of care to access information on diagnosis, patient care, and pharmaceutical dosing. 
In this workshop, an online tour of the Mobile Devices research guide will be given. This tour will expose attendees to the various library resources that offer Mobile Apps and sources for software downloads. 
Limited to 12 seats
Facilitated by Rudy R. Barreras
Marketing & Outreach Librarian

Presentation 3:  Beginning with EndNote – PC
Monday, October 21st 
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Library 2nd floor teaching lab 
Learn how to use the bibliographic resource EndNote in this hands-on workshop. The basic features of this program will be taught, including creating a library, and importing references.  To get the most out of this workshop, please download EndNote to your laptop before the presentation. 
Limited to 12 seats.
Facilitated by Alicia Prosser, MLIS
Collection Services Librarian

Presentation 4: Beginning with EndNote – Mac
Tuesday, October 29th 
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Library 2nd floor teaching lab 
Learn how to use the bibliographic resource EndNote in this hands-on workshop. The basic features of this program will be taught, including creating a library, and importing references.  To get the most out of this workshop, please download EndNote to your laptop before the presentation. 
Limited to 12 seats.
Facilitated by Frances Chu, MSN, MLIS
Associate Director of Reference & Outreach


To sign up for any of these presentations, please see the Library Workshops page.