TML News and Notes

Upcoming Events @ TML

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:53:33 -0500

Online Workshop: Advanced PubMed

Wednesday, April 24

12:15 - 1:00 PM, Online

During this online workshop you will learn how to get more out of PubMed by using subject headings and setting up a MyNCBI account to save search strategies and send you regular updates. Explore some of the other databases that link to PubMed covering drugs, sequences, structures and more. Register at PubMed

Open Workshop: Library Orientation & Tour

Tuesday, April 30

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, TML Classroom, Room 2-006

Learn about the variety of resources and services available to you from the VCU Libraries. In these one hour sessions we`ll show you the most effective ways to find books, journals, and other information for research and provide an orientation to the Tompkins-McCaw Library and its services as well as offer a tour of the facility. Registration is encouraged, but not required. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch. Register at Library Tour

RefWorks -- A Citation Management Program

Wednesday, May 1

12:15 - 1:00 PM, TML Classroom, Room 2-006

RefWorks is an extremely useful tool that allows you to easily create and manage your own personal research database. With a personalized account, you can quickly add citations to your database as you are searching the literature. When you are ready, RefWorks will automatically generate your bibliography to finalize your grant, thesis, dissertation, or manuscript. With all the needed styles contained within RefWorks, your bibliography can easily be generated in APA, MLA, or most any other style. RefWorks now includes the added module, RefShare, which allows users to share their RefWorks references with both members of their own institution and globally with any researchers via the Internet, further enhancing collaborative projects. Register at RefWorks

Upcoming Events @ TML

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:10:52 -0500

Searching Primo-the new VCU Libraries Discovery Tool
Tuesday, March 5
11:00 am - Noon, Sanger Hall B1-020
Have you tried the VCU Libraries Search box recently and noticed the new results format? Are you uncertain about what you have found? Please join us to learn about what you are searching and strategies for finding what you need. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome. Register at Searching Primo

Tompkins-McCaw Library Orientation and Tour
Thursday, March 7
Noon - 1:00 pm, TML Room 2-006
Learn about the variety of resources and services available to you from the VCU Libraries. In these one hour sessions we`ll show you the most effective ways to find books, journals, and other information for research and provide an orientation to the Tompkins-McCaw Library and its services as well as offer a tour of the facility. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome. Attendees may bring their lunch. Register at Library Tour

Brown Bag Lunch: The IRB - the Exempt, the Expedited, and the Full-Board
Wednesday, March 13
Noon - 1:00 pm, TML, Room 109
Understand the different levels of regulatory review required for research from Drs. Monika Markowitz, OHRP, and Betsy Ripley, IRB Chair. A second session will be scheduled to address specific questions from attendees. This session is free and open to the public. Seating is limited; advance registration is encouraged. The Whetting Your Appetite for Research Brown Bag series provides a forum for students, faculty, staff, and community partners engaged in research at VCU to gain a better understanding of the research process at VCU. Register at Brown Bag

Film Screening: Is Seeing Believing?
Thursday, March 14
Noon - 1:00 pm, TML Learning Center @ Hunton Student Center, Room 209
Horizon explores the strange and wonderful world of illusions - and reveals the tricks they play on our senses and why they fool us. We show how easy it is to trick your sense of taste by changing the colors of food and drink, explain how what you see can change what you hear, and see just how unreliable our sense of color can be. But all this trickery has a serious purpose. It is helping scientists to create a new understanding of how our senses work, not as individual senses, but connected together. Attendees may bring their lunch. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome. Register at Film Screening

Upcoming Events @ TML

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:00:00 -0500

Minority Health Conference Lecture Webcast: Taking Action to Achieve Health Equity: Beyond the Affordable Care Act
Friday, February 22, 2013
2:00 - 3:30 pm
Tompkins-McCaw Library, Room 2-010

Tompkins-McCaw Library will host the internet broadcast of the keynote lecture of the 34th Annual Minority Health Conference at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Brian Smedley will explore how neighborhood and community contexts directly and indirectly shape health and contribute to health inequities as a result of racial and ethnic residential segregation. The presentation will also feature a discussion of policy strategies that de-concentrate poverty, reduce the geographic concentration of health risks, and increase investments in health-enhancing resources in communities that suffer from disinvestment. More information can be found at http://www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/2013/keynoteabstract.cfm Access Live Webcast Lecture to register.

Open Workshop: Introduction to Searching PubMed
Monday, February 25, 2013
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Tompkins-McCaw Library, Room 2-006

Learn to search MEDLINE via PubMed, including basic features and search techniques such as limits, display options and print formats. Methods to identify locally available journals or full-text online articles will also be discussed. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome. Access Searching PubMed to register.

Open Workshop: Tompkins McCaw Library Orientation and Tour
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
12:00 - 1:00 pm
TML Classroom, Room 2-006

Learn about the variety of resources and services available to you from the VCU Libraries. In these one hour sessions we`ll show you the most effective ways to find books, journals, and other information for research and provide an orientation to the Tompkins-McCaw Library and its services as well as offer a tour of the facility. Participants may bring their lunch. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome. To register access Library Orientation & Tour

Community Health Education Center Program (CHEC): Boomerang Kids - When Your Adult Child Lives at Home
Thursday, February 28, 2013
12:00 - 1:00 pm
VCU Medical Center Gateway Building, CHEC

Please join us as Margaret Rittenhouse presents "Boomerang Kids - When Your Adult Child Lives at Home."Margaret Rittenhouse is a Behavioral Health Counselor in the Department of Psychiatry. This program will be especially helpful to you if your adult child is living at home again, or if you know someone in this situation. Attend to learn more about how to adapt to such a change and prevent it from negatively affecting your health. 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 is located on the Ground Floor of the VCU Medical Center Gateway Building.

Open Workshop: Searching Primo - VCU Libraries New Discovery Tool
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Sanger Hall, Room B1-020

Have you tried the VCU Libraries Search box recently and noticed the new results format? Are you uncertain about what you have found? Please join us to learn what you are searching and strategies for finding what you need. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome. Access Searching Primo to register.