TML News and Notes http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/ en Copyright 2012 Mon, 14 May 2012 09:02:30 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=5.12 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss PubMed Search Class Covers NEW Limits http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/05/pubmed_search_class_covers_new.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/05/pubmed_search_class_covers_new.html Events Mon, 14 May 2012 09:02:30 -0500 This Week @ TML Monday, May 7 - Thursday, May 10
3:00 - 5:00 pm
Free Coffee Breaks 

Thursday, May 10
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Library Orientation
Library Instruction Classroom, 2-012
]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/05/this_week_tml_106.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/05/this_week_tml_106.html This Week at TML Sun, 06 May 2012 12:00:00 -0500 Rams Reaching Out - Health Care Service Project Photo Contest

]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/05/rams_reaching_out_-_health_car.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/05/rams_reaching_out_-_health_car.html Events Thu, 03 May 2012 13:27:23 -0500 This Week @ TML 12:00 - 1:00 pm
CHEC Spider Bite Program
Gateway Building

Wednesday, May 2
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Film Screening: Secret Life of the Brain: The Adult Brain: to Think by Feeling
TML Learning Center @ Hunton
]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/04/this_week_tml_105.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/04/this_week_tml_105.html This Week at TML Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:00:00 -0500 Spider Bite Program at the Community Health Education Center on May 1

The Community Health Education Center is hosting a program on spider bites on Tuesday, May 1 at noon.  Evelyn Waring RN, Education Coordinator at the Virginia Poison Center will be presenting.

Spiders are everywhere in our natural environment and sometimes are found in our homes.  Come to learn about the two poisonous spiders in Virginia: where they're most often found, how to recognize them, and what problems can be caused by their bite.

Light refreshments will be provided.  Space is limited and registration is required.  For more information or to register, please contact Sarah or Dana at 828-2432 or email seamick@vcu.edu.

The Community Health Education Center (CHEC) is located on the ground floor of the VCU Medical Center Gateway Building, 1200 East Marshall Street.

]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/04/spider_bite_program_at_the_com.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/04/spider_bite_program_at_the_com.html Events Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:10:46 -0500 This Week @ TML 10:00 - 10:30 am
RefWorks
Online

Wednesday, April 25
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
CHEC Donate Life Month Event
Gateway Building

Thursday, April 26
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Whetting Your Appetite for Research- Strategies and Tools for Patient Recruitment
1st Floor Conference Room

Friday, April 27
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Library Orientation
Library Instruction Classroom, 2-012


]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/04/this_week_tml_104.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/04/this_week_tml_104.html This Week at TML Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:00:00 -0500 This Week @ TML 10:00 - 10:30 am
PubMed
Sanger, Room B1-020

Tuesday, April 17
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
CHEC 10th Anniversary Open House
Gateway Building

Wednesday, April 18
12:15 - 12:45 pm
Finding Health Statistics Online
Library Instruction Classroom, 2-012
]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/04/this_week_tml_103.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/04/this_week_tml_103.html This Week at TML Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:00:00 -0500 This Week @ TML 12:15 - 12:45 pm
Advanced RefWorks
Library Instruction Classroom, 2-012

Wednesday, April 4
9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Technology Fair
Library Foyer

Thursday, April 5
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Library Orientation
Library Instruction Classroom, 2-012
]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/04/this_week_tml_101.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/04/this_week_tml_101.html This Week at TML Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:00:00 -0500 VCU Technology Fair set for April 3 and 4 2012 VCU Technology Fair, co-sponsored by VCU Technology Servicestechimage.jpg and the VCU Libraries, brings the latest in technology developments for the classroom, office and research to VCU on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 3 and 4.

Thinking about purchasing an iPad, tablet, laptop or desktop printer? Want to learn more about VCU wireless, video conferencing or the Google Apps for Education? Investigate through hands-on experiences and demonstrations of new products. Workshops by Apple, Atomic Learning, BlackBoard, Dell and Instructure will be offered.

Attendees get chances at winning a Dell laptop, an iPad, a Kindle or an Chrome Book.

Where and When
University Student Commons, Richmond Salons
Monroe Park Campus
Tuesday, April 3
9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. with light refreshments, faculty and staff only
10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. with snack luncheon, students, faculty and staff

Tompkins-McCaw Library
Medical College of Virginia Campus
901 North 12th St.
Wednesday, April 4
9 a.m. to 2 p.m. with snack luncheon, faculty, staff and students

For additional information
Hope Adams at the Monroe Park Campus or Shannon Jones on the MCV Campus.
]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/03/vcu_technology_fair_set_for.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/03/vcu_technology_fair_set_for.html Events Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:51:47 -0500 Community Health Education Center 10th Anniversary Open House on April 17, 11am-1pm For more information please contact Sarah or Dana at 828-2432, or email seamick@vcu.edu.
The Community Health Education Center is a partnership of the VCU Health System, the MCVH Auxiliary, and the VCU Libraries.  CHEC is located in the VCU Medical Center Gateway Building, Ground Floor, 1200 East Marshall Street, Richmond, VA 23298. ]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/03/community_health_education_cen_3.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/03/community_health_education_cen_3.html Events Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:26:07 -0500 This Week @ TML 12:30 - 1:00 pm
PubMed
Library Instruction Classroom, 2-012

Wednesday, March 7
12:00 - 1:00pm
Film Screening: The Healing Road: Native American Tradition
TML Learning Center @ Hunton

Thursday, March 8
10:00 - 10:30 am
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Online

Thursday, March 8
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Open Reception: Intersections: Art and Science
Special Collections and Archives Reading Room, 1-032
]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/03/this_week_tml_97.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/03/this_week_tml_97.html This Week at TML Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:00:00 -0500 INTERSECTIONS: ART AND SCIENCE showcases work that combines the insights of artists with the acuity of scientists
INTERSECTIONS: ART AND SCIENCE. is curated by James Miller, chair of VCU's Department of Communication Arts, and organized by VCU Libraries' health sciences library on the MVC campus. Event Web site

The exhibition includes human anatomy: structural, muscular and anatomical drawings of the figure. Images in various media and digital technologies include plants, animals, insects, microorganisms, surgical procedures and animations.

"These artists' objective is to observe, draw, describe and reveal the majesty and wonder of our subject matter with the insight and vision of an artist and the acuity of a scientist," says curator Miller.

Works are by students, alumni and faculty of the Scientific and Preparatory Medical emphasis area. In 2006, the Department of Communication Arts created this academic focus area to prepare students for careers as scientific illustrators and for advanced study in the field of medical illustration.

Fitting for a university with both world class arts and medical schools, the VCU program is among a few in the nation. Students gain the skills and knowledge to produce images that present complex scientific and/or medical information for the purpose of explaining and understanding scientific, technical ideas, concepts, principles and facts.

"Students develop the ability to accurately interpret and portray the real and the abstract, fact and conjecture with either extreme precision or interpretive expression as required by the content," says Miller. "Observation and critical thinking are key to being a scientific or medical illustrator."

Participating artists are:

Students:

  • Austin Anderson: "Insect Study," watercolor on paper
  • Grace Huddleston: "Arm Study," graphite on paper
  • Emily Bradfield: "Bone Study 1," and "Bone Study 2," graphite on paper
  • Caitlin Johnston: "Artichoke," digital print
  • Mary Carter: "Insect Study," watercolor on paper, "Phalaenopsis Orchid," digital print, "Feather Study," watercolor on paper, "Observatory," acrylic on panel, and "Chicken Heart Study," acrylic on panel
  • Lucy Koo: "Figure Study," graphite on paper
  • Jessica Foley: "Squid Dissection," watercolor on paper
  • Lori Panico: "Cicada Study," watercolor on paper
  • Juliana Phung: "Female Figure," graphite on paper.
Alumni:

  • Anastasia Demson: "Portrait of a Hand II," graphite on paper, and "Performing an Emergency Cricothyrotomy," digital print
  • Lauren Conroy: Animations entitled "Revolving Skulls and Endocasts," and "Bacteria World"
  • Don Di Fiore: "Fish Head Study," watercolor on paper, and "Mouse," ink and watercolor Vinh Chau: "Open Clam," watercolor on paper, "Pompano Dissection," ink and watercolor on paper, "Hawk," ink and watercolor on paper, "Vulture," ink and watercolor on paper, and "Cricket," Prisma markers and graphite on paper
  • Suzanne Ghuzzi: "Pedicle Graft," digital print, "Fontanelles: A Guide to an Infant's Soft Spot," digital print, "A Closer Look at Foliculogenesis," digital print, "Acute Otitis Media," digital print, "Chelydra serpentina: The Common Snapping Turtle," digital print, "Culex pipiens: The West Nile Virus Vector," digital print.

Adjunct faculty member:
  •  Sarah Faris: "Laparoscopically Assisted Right Hemicolectomy," graphite and digital media, "Hands," graphite on paper, "LBWC," digital print, "Hip Bone," carbon dust on paper, "Muscles of the Pharynix," digital print, "Malaria," digital print, "Lumbar Surgery," digital print.

"Their illustrations suggest the beauty in the complexity of science and medicine," says Tompkins-McCaw Director Teresa L. Knott. "My aspiration for the attendees is that they come away with an appreciation of the amazing talent of those affiliated with this unique arts program and a broader vision of medical and scientific illustration and how it might be used. I believe that the exhibit will stimulate conversations and cooperation between the Monroe Park and MCV campuses."

Medical illustration is far more than art just for art's sake. Graduates are in demand for scientific, medical and biomedical visualization artwork in teaching, in digital and textbook illustration, as well as in patient and consumer health education. Artists with this specialty are hired for medical legal illustration, pharmaceutical advertising, web design, medical iPhone/iPad applications, to name a few. New digital imaging technologies and 3D interactive applications enable the scientific and medical and biomedical visualization illustrator to animate and employ movement and sequential imaging. These advanced technologies make possible imagery and special visual effects that are changing, expanding, and enriching the possibilities of the discipline and the way we learn and teach medical and scientific concepts.

The public is invited to attend an opening reception on Thursday, March 8, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. RSVP for the reception at www.support.vdu.edu/event/intersections. If special accommodations are needed, please contact Thelma Mack at (804) 828-0017 or mackta@vcu.edu. The exhibition will continue through September 28, 2012. The Tompkins-McCaw Library Gallery is at 509 North 12th St. on the MCV Campus. It is open to the public during regular library hours.  ]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/02/intersections_art_and_science_.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/02/intersections_art_and_science_.html Exhibits Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:22:21 -0500 Heart Health Program in the Community Health Education Center on Feb. 14 at noon
Dr. Vetrovec, Professor of Medicine, Director of the Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, will present "No one lives forever, but you don't need to die of your heart!"

Space is limited and registration is required. Light refreshments will be provided. For more information or to register, please contact Sarah or Dana at 828-2432, or email seamick@vcu.edu.

The Community Health Education Center is located in the VCU Medical Center Gateway Building, Ground Floor, 1200 East Marshall Street, Richmond, VA 23298. ]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/02/heart_health_program_in_the_co.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/02/heart_health_program_in_the_co.html Events Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:33:58 -0500 Spring Semester workshops begin February 9 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE

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.

]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/02/spring_semester_workshops_begi.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/02/spring_semester_workshops_begi.html Events Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:22:35 -0500 "Computers and the Eyes" in the Community Health Education Center on Jan. 24 at noon On Tuesday, January 24 at noon, the Community Health Education Center will host "Computers and the Eyes" presented by Dr. Juan Orellana, Associate Professor, VCU Dept. of Ophthalmology.

This presentation will cover how to work comfortably with computers, and address other causes of eyestrain and headaches.

Space is limited and registration is required. Light refreshments will be provided.
For more information or to register, please contact Sarah or Dana at 828-2432, or email seamick@vcu.edu.

The Community Health Education Center is located in the VCU Medical Center Gateway Building, Ground Floor, 1200 East Marshall Street, Richmond, VA 23298. ]]> http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/01/computers_and_the_eyes_in_the_.html http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/tmlnews/2012/01/computers_and_the_eyes_in_the_.html Events Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:17:31 -0500