You can read more about the American Heart Association's campaign at http://www.goredforwomen.org/Take advantage of a number of upcoming classes offered by the Tompkins-McCaw Library on a variety of topics, including sessions on Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Finding Health Statistics Online, RefWorks, Finding Images, and more.
Information about upcoming events and orientations offered by the Tompkins-McCaw Library and the James Branch Cabell Library is available through the Library Events Calendar.
For more information about training opportunities at Tompkins-McCaw Library, please contact Thelma Mack at 804-828-0017 or mackta@vcu.edu.
]]>You can read more about the American Heart Association's campaign at http://www.goredforwomen.org/Early in February 2012, the Tompkins-McCaw Library (TML) is
kicking off the renovation of the basement Multimedia Collaboration Room, B-037. The
renovation will take the existing room to bare bones and then add layers to
create an exciting, contemporary space focused on collaborative learning.
Existing furniture and equipment will be removed or relocated February 2-3; demolition begins Monday, February 6. The five week process will transform the room from dated 1970s shabby to 21st century chic.
With the exception of workstations and café booths, furniture in the room is designed to be moveable and configurable by users. There will be mobile soft seating and white boards too. Walls at the end of the room will be finished with whiteboard material. The color scheme of the room is shades of charcoal with pops of fuchsia, green and gold. The design board showing all the exciting changes for B-037 is on display at the TML Service Desk.
Enjoy the pictures of the planned renovation. We'll be posting photos as the project progresses.
At the Tompkins-McCaw Library, one of the things you'll notice on the main floor is our new gallery area. This open exhibit gives you an opportunity to focus on something wonderful and intriguing while you're here. For the rest of January, you can enjoy the Watercolors exhibit created by Victor Yanchick, Dean of the School of Pharmacy. Upcoming exhibits will be posted on the the Tompkins-McCaw Library homepage at http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml.
So as you get back into the routine of busy student, busy faculty/staff, or some interesting combination of the two, give yourself a mindful break regularly. You'll be glad you did.
In the British Journal of Nursing there was a series on written on writing for publication. While these articles appear in a nursing journal, many of the tips and points that are made in them are ones that are applicable to other disciplines as well. These can be found in the CINAHL and PubMed databases here in the library. The articles cover an array of topics when it comes to publishing and
are short and to the point so if you have a couple of minutes and are
thinking about doing some publishing, you may want to check them out. Fowler, J. (2010). Writing for professional publication. part 1: Motivation. British Journal of
Nursing (BJN), 19(16),
1062
Fowler, J. (2010). Writing for professional publication. part 2: Subject matter. British Journal of Nursing (BJN), 19(17), 1121.
Fowler, J. (2010). Writing for professional publication. part 3: Following journal guidelines. British Journal of Nursing (BJN), 19(19), 1260.
Fowler, J. (2010). Writing for professional publication. part 4: Supporting your statements. British Journal of Nursing (BJN), 19(21), 1374.
Fowler, J. (2011). Writing for professional publication. part 5: Creating interest. British Journal of Nursing (BJN), 20(1), 49.
Fowler, J. (2011). Writing for professional publication. part 6: Writing the abstract. British Journal of Nursing (BJN), 20(2), 120.
Fowler, J. (2011). Writing for professional publication. part 7: Structure and presentation. British Journal of Nursing (BJN), 20(3), 190.
Fowler, J. (2011). Writing for professional publication. part 8: Targeting the right journal. British Journal of Nursing (BJN), 20(4), 254.
Fowler, J. (2011). Writing for professional publication. part 9: Using client case studies. British Journal of Nursing (BJN), 20(5), 330.
Fowler, J. (2011). Writing for professional publication. part 10: Publishing a project report. British Journal of Nursing (BJN), 20(6), 371.
Fowler, J. (2011). Writing for professional publication. part 11: Writing conference abstracts. British Journal of Nursing (BJN), 20(7), 451.
Fowler, J. (2011). Writing for professional publication.
part 12: Summary of the series. British Journal of Nursing (BJN), 20(8),
509.
Healthy People 2020 is a U.S.
Department of Health Human Services program that aims to promote the health of
Americans.
The Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce has created the Healthy People 2020 Structured Evidence Queries (SEQs) are pre-formulated PubMed search strategies. These strategies are intended to support both public health practitioners and researchers in their efforts to achieve specific Health People 2020 public health objectives. TheseSEQs provide citations to the most up-to-date peer-reviewed literature from the PubMed database.
The objectives covered by these SEQ's are:
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Access to Health Services Clinical Preventive Services Environmental Quality Injury and Violence Maternal, Infant and Child Health Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity
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Oral Health Reproductive and Sexual Health Social Determinants Substance Abuse Tobacco Mental Health
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Links:
Healthy People 2020 Structured Evidence Queries (SEQs)
You can search and retrieve full-text articles using PubMed on your mobile device.
Start by bookmarking the VCU Libraries Mobile site: http://m.library.vcu.edu
Then 'Search Collections'. You can see we have mobile version of things like MD Consult as well.
There are several ways to search MEDLINE from the NLM mobile site.
For example, the MEDLINE/PubMed search, that also includes systematic reviews or clinical queries:
Here are the search results of a systematic review search:
As well as the Full Text, which really links to the full-text once you have entered your eID and password, the TBL is 'The Bottom Line' abstract, a short abstract that will help you decide if you need to read the full article.
auction of selected paintings from Dean Victor A. Yanchick's "Watercolors" exhibit at Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health
Sciences. The exhibition's run has been extended through January.