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Pet a Pooch with Dogs on Call

Posted May 1, 2013 9:13 AM in Events, This Week at TML

Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Noon - 1:30 pm

Dogs on Call teams will be available in the library on May 7th at lunch time to help students de-stress during final exams. The Dogs on Call program is part of the Center for Human-Animal Interaction at VCU Medical Center. Their mission is to improve health and well-being through human- animal interaction. For more information about the Center for Human-Animal Interaction visit http://www.chai.vcu.edu/

Upcoming Events @ TML

Posted April 24, 2013 10:53 AM in Events, This Week at TML, Workshops

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

Posted April 14, 2013 10:35 AM in Events, Exhibits, This Week at TML

TEDMED 2013 Conference

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm through

Friday, April 19, 2013 8:15 am - 12:30 pm, Tompkins-McCaw Library

Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences will host a live simulcast of TEDMED 2013, April 16-19, during regular library hours. The University community is invited to join colleagues to listen to this provocative series of short, inspiring talks, curated by the well-known TED (technology, entertainment, design) conference series, which began in the mid-1980s. TEDMED focuses on health and medicine. According to organizers, "TEDMED believes that the future of health and medicine will be shaped by vital input from leading medical colleges, teaching hospitals, government agencies and non-profit institutions around the world." In this spirit of collaboration and information sharing, the TEDMED event is broadcast free to these institutions.

The TEDMED Schedule
The Speakers' Lineup

Film Screening: "Tapped"

Wednesday, April 17

12:00 - 1:00 PM, TML Learning Center at Hunton, Room 209

Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig's debut feature is an unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water. This timely documentary is a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a commodity: our water. From the plastic production to the ocean in which so many of these bottles end up, this inspiring documentary trails the path of the bottled water industry and the communities which were the unwitting chips on the table. Attendees may bring their lunch. Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome. Register at Film Screening

RAMS Reaching Out Reception

Thursday, April 18, 2013
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Tompkins-McCaw Library

The fourth exhibit to be featured on the newly renovated gallery walls of Tompkins-McCaw Library, the Rams Reaching Out photographic exhibit celebrates the outreach activities of VCU Health Sciences students from urban Richmond to rural Southwest Virginia to the faraway shores of West Africa. They work in free clinics, do rotations in community settings or go on group service trips. Showcased will be the breadth of those experiences. The exhibit is open during Tompkins-McCaw Library normal operating hours. Friday through Sunday, hours are limited. For a complete listing of hours, please see: http://www.library.vcu.edu/hours/tml/tml_yearly.html. The public is invited to the opening reception. To RSVP for the opening reception please contact Thelma Mack, mackta@vcu.edu or 804-828-0017.

Community Health Education Center: Donate Life Blue and Green Day

Friday, April 19, 2013
10:00 am - 2:00 pm, VCU Medical Center Gateway Building - Ground Floor, MCV Campus

April is National Donate Life Month and April 19 is Donate Life Blue and Green Day! Celebrate and become better educated with us on Friday, April 19 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Community Health Education Center. Stop by during this time for the opportunity to learn more about organ, eye, and tissue donation. Wear your blue and green on this day to raise awareness and honor organ, eye, and tissue donation! For more information, 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.

For more information please visit:
Donate Life
Community Health Education Center

Upcoming Events @ TML

Posted February 20, 2013 8:00 AM in Events, Research, This Week at TML, Workshops

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.

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