New Art Exhibit by Judith Lerner at the Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library

Judith Lerner paintingPlease stop by the Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library on the 5th floor of DHMC (right above the Main Entrance) to see Judith’s work.

About Judith Lerner:

Judith is a colorist, exploring shapes formed by shadows and light, threading colors on their way from the gaudy to refinement.  Her perception of the richly patterned countryside focuses on a continuing investigation of the colors in nature and the seasonal changes, always filtered through imagination and memory.

As a landscape painter, her technique in gouache presents broad vistas as well as details, using her immediate environment of the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and travels.

Though best known for landscapes, she also produces paintings of botanicals each summer – a series of lotus dancing, roadside wildflowers, and garden flowers.

She has been a printmaker, an art director and designer of record album covers, and a book illustrator.

She received her BFA from the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia, and completed graduate work in Classical Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Her paintings and prints have been the subject of many solo gallery and group exhibitions in New York, Boston, New England, Washington, D.C., and London; and her paintings have been represented in the U.S. Department of State’s Art in Embassies program.

Lerner is represented in public, private and corporate collections including the De Cordova Museum, the First National Bank of Boston (Bank of America), the Philadelphia Print Club (The Print Center), the New Hampshire State House, and the Fletcher Allen Health Care Hospital in Burlington, Vermont.

The Seasons, a four panel mural series of Vermont landscapes, was commissioned by the Vermont Council on the Arts, and is installed in the Franklin County Courthouse in St. Albans, Vermont.

Lerner moved to Lyme, NH in 1971 and joined the beginnings of AVA Gallery in 1973.

Work can be seen in the studio by appointment, on the website, and during Open Studios throughout the Summer and Fall seasons, and as currently represented by Burlington City Arts.

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Gear Up! February 28, 2014

gearsDo You Do Research?
Come to the “Gear Up!” event and build your research toolkit!

Click here for the Gear Up website and more information.

  • Meet the people who can support your research; bring your questions to ask the experts.
  • Get to know the software, tools, resources, and services available for your research.

When: Friday, February 28, 2014, 11:00AM – 1:00PM
Location:  DHMC, Auditorium F

Drop by ANY time during the event and learn about these and more:

  • RAPPORT – research administrative system
  • PIVOT – the grants database
  • DMPTool – data management planning tool
  • BrowZine – journal browsing app
  • Reference managers, e.g., Zotero, Mendeley and RefWorks
  • Data for Health Policy Analysis: World Development Indicators, Social Explorer for U.S. Census Data, CDC Wonder
  • Synergy: The Dartmouth Clinical and Translational Science Institute
  • Computational resources: servers, clusters, and virtual machines
  • RStor – secure file storage for research data
  • Support for statistical and math packages
  • Code development, optimizing, and debugging services
  • Funding for open access publishing
  • Synergy: Biomedical Informatics Core, eagle-i, REDCap
  • Dartmouth Life Sciences Shared Resources
  • Copyright and Creative Commons
  • Text and data mining-getting APIs
  • Research and productivity apps
  • Measuring your research impact (e.g., impact factors)
  • Conflict of Interest: online disclosure system and College policy
  • CTO: Ensure fiscal and regulatory compliance in clinical trials
  • Find out about Material Transfer Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements and Invention Disclosures
  • CPHS: Understanding of human subjects research, including federal regulations, ethical standards, and IRB review process
  • Center for Program Design and Evaluation: provides research and consulting in program design, evaluation, needs assessment, and more
  • Get answers to your invention and patent related questions
  • Books from the Dartmouth College Library on statistics, writing for publication, presenting your research, and planning your career
  • And more!

SPONSORED BY THE DARTMOUTH COLLEGE LIBRARY & BIOMEDICAL LIBRARIES

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RefWorks Downtime Feb. 15, 2014

RefWorks LogoOn February 15, 2014 RefWorks will make improvements to its internal systems to accommodate a growing number of users and reduce the need for future downtime.

An eight hour (8) maintenance window is needed to perform these enhancements, lasting from 3:00 UTC through 11:00 UTC.

During this time period RefWorks users can expect sporadic availability, including short periods of complete downtime. We anticipate that access issues and possible functionality problems will last anywhere from 3 to 15 minutes. If you experience issues with RefWorks during this maintenance window we recommend that you close your browser session, and return to RefWorks at a later time.

See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

  • Eastern Time: Saturday, February 15 at 10:00 PM for eight (8) hours

ProQuest RefWorks welcomes customer feedback. Please email your comments to refworks.support@proquest.com or visit www.proquest.com/go/suggestions.

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Pleasure Reading and Book Exchange

pleasureLooking for something fun to read?  Want to take a break from your studying or grant writing? Look for the “Book Exchange” shelves at both Dana Library and the Matthews-Fuller Library. We offer a variety of donated books, including popular fiction titles, non-fiction, occasional movies, and children’s books.

You can also enjoy, “A Blind Date with a Book”!  We have chosen a few of our pleasure reading titles and wrapped them in brown paper.  A brief, hand-written description of the covered book gives a fun clue about what is hidden inside!

We invite you to take a book with you — no need to check the book out at the Circulation Desk. You can return it whenever you’d like, or keep it! We also welcome your donations to the collection. Simply drop off a book or two with the Circulation Desk, and we will make sure it gets on the shelf.

Blind-Date-w-Book

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New Books in the Biomedical Libraries – January 2014

Fundamentals of Hearing: An Introduction
Dana Library
QP461 Y67 2013
Hearing

 

Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
Dana Library
Q175.5 .V44 2013
life-speed  

 

The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid
Dana Library
Q223 .A38 2013
The Craft of Scientific Presentations  

 

Anxiety: A Short History
Dana Library
RC531 .H67 2013
Anxiety

 

First, Do No Self Harm: Understanding and Promoting Physician Stress Resilience
Matthews-Fuller Library
RC451.4 P5 F56 2013
First, Do No Self-Harm

 

Systems Analysis Tools for Better Health Care Delivery
Matthews-Fuller Library
R690 S97 2013
systems

 

Survival Analysis: A Self-learning Text
Matthews-Fuller Library
R853 S7 K543 2012
Survival Analysis

 

The Cancer Chronicles : Unlocking Medicine’s Deepest Mystery
Matthews-Fuller Library
RC268.48 J64 2013
The Cancer Chronicles

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Web of Science – New Interface

Web of Science, the multi-disciplinary index of journal literature, debuted a new interface on January 12, 2014.  All the familiar functions are still there, but many have moved and/or are hidden in drop-down menus.  For instance, find “Cited Reference Search” on the drop-down menu next to “Basic Search” at the left of the main screen.

For a brief video tutorial about the new interface, see http://youtu.be/Ulfu0njSZN0

Additional tutorials on using the new Web of Science may be found at http://wokinfo.com/training_support/training/web-of-knowledge/

web-of-science

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A Quick Review of Mobile Document Storage: Scanning Options, PDFs, and Combating the Paper Stream

Article by Rick Hansen

In a December “App Smart” section of The New York Times, columnist Kit Eaton remembers when we were promised paperless lives with amplified Internet accessibility, and most recently, increased mobile technology.  Freedom from the paper trail has not yet arrived, but Eaton’s review of free and for-purchase mobile applications will help you manage documents and reduce the need to carry around and save physical items.  Click here to read more on the pros and cons of iOS applications such as Readdle’s Scanner Pro, Genius Scan, Perfect OCR, or the Android application Mobile Doc Scanner.

Application Highlights:

Genius Scan

genius-scanUsing your camera on your mobile device, take a picture and store it directly into Genius Scan or utilize your camera’s stored images to import saved pictures.  Genius Scan creates a new PDF file every time an image is uploaded. It also allows you to add to existing documents for multi-page PDFs and helpful organization.

 

You can also export files as a PDF or JPG through email or iAnnotate (for example).  The bonus Wi-Fi-sync option with a nearby computer is available if you like, and you also have the ability to adjust the resolution of an image.  The free version (Genius Scan “Lite”) has sync limitations with Dropbox, Evernote and other cloud storage providers.

Automatic and manual cropping allows you to make the best of your captured image:

genius-scan-screen

Genius Fax

Genius Fax works directly with Genius Scan to allow for faxing a document, when sharing a PDF is not an option. Genius Fax also makes available a cover page when faxing a file, if desired.  Payment in advance is required for each file, prior to sending the fax.

Here is an example of stored fax transactions, and a welcome homepage:

genius-fax
The application’s mobile cover page allows for straightforward fax submission:

genius-fax-screen

Start Lite

Start Lite allows you to create a PDF from a webpage.  The application will become your web browser for quick “PDFMe” options. Alternatively (and after download), you may enter the letter “S” to the beginning of your Safari webpage and the Start Lite PDF option will automatically begin.  Your PDFs are stored for quick access offline, and with this lite app version, 3 free PDFs can be created everyday.

Below:  See how you may use multiple tabs for browsing and you can use menu bars to toggle between views.

start-lite

A summary of open webpages appears on the left-menu column.  Swipe the screen to open or close this menu.  Selecting “new tab” opens a new webpage.  Also, view your stored PDF files by selecting “My PDF Files.”

By selecting “My PDF Files,” the right column lists all of your saved PDFs:

start-lite-screen
Swiping between the three menu pages allows you to see open tabs and webpages (to the far left), stored documents (in the center), and an open document or webpage (on the right):

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Library eResources Fair!

The Dartmouth College Library eResources Fair
When:  Tuesday, January 14, 2014   10:00AM – 3:00PM
Where:  Baker Library, Main Hall

Learn how you can get, use and share library resources like video, audio, images and ebooks for your research papers, coursework and enjoyment.  Learn how to use digital information sources and tools for teaching and research. Discover new ways to navigate digital resources. Connect to expert librarians.  Meet representatives from the companies who develop many eresources, such as EBSCO, ProQuest, Elsevier and Alexander Street Press.  Learn how the Dartmouth Digital Library Program creates digital resources from rare materials and supports scholarly publishing.

The Fair is open to all members of the Dartmouth community. Visit 6 of the 11 stations and enter a raffle for gift certificates to the Computer Store, local businesses and more!  Visit all 11 to enter the raffle twice and enter a special additional raffle!

  • Learn to make movies, books, bibliographies, posters and papers using Library eResources.
  • Learn about authoritative digital resources available for research from people who help develop  and market the products
  • Learn about sources of music and images licensed for your use.
  • Learn about tools to find better information faster, and to save, use and cite that information
  • Meet and talk directly with those involved in the creation of these eresources; bring questions, complaints and suggestions for improvement.

Click here for more information
eresources-fair

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New Books in the Biomedical Libraries – December 2013

Why You Hear What You Hear: An Experiential Approach to Sound, Music, and Psychoacoustics
Dana Library
QP461 .H395 2013
why-you-hear

 

Herpetology : An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles
Dana Library
QL641 .V58 2014
herpatology

Principles of Neural Coding
Dana Library
QP356.25 .P75 2013
neural

The Demography of Health and Healthcare
Dana Library
RA409 .P65 2013
demography

Flip Your Classroom:  Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day
Matthews-Fuller Library
LB1044.75 B47 2012
flip

Basics for Evaluating Medical Research Studies:  A Simplified Approach and Why Your Patients Need You to Know This
Matthews-Fuller Library
R852 S76 2013
basics

Essential Reproduction
Matthews-Fuller Library
QL739.23 J64 2013
reproduction

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Red Book© Mobile Access

Article by Katie DeFord, Rick Hansen, and Jeremy Klockars

You can now access the Red Book Online from the American Academy of Pediatrics on your Apple and Android smartphones and tablets. This important resource provides guidance on manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of 200+ childhood conditions.

redbook1

Features:

  • Complete Text of Online & Print Editions
  • Influenza Resource Page
  •  Special Vaccine Shortage Updates
  • Current Immunization Schedules
  •  News & Alerts Regarding Infectious Diseases

Search categories then toggle between text and images for full context:

redbook2    redbook3

To download, simply follow these instructions: 

NOTE: You have to be on the College or DHMC network, or VPN or Secure Access (if offsite).  Once there, you can sign up for an individual account, which then lets you use the app from offsite.

  1. From the Biomedical Libraries web page, Go to eBooks, scroll down to Titles by Subject. Under Infectious Disease, select Red Book Online.
  2. Click on “Sign-In via User Name/Password” (fine print) located on the top-left (under the red banner) and just to the right of “Institution: Dartmouth College Library.”
  3. Click the link “Sign In for Individuals.”
  4. For New Customers, select “New Customer Registration.”
  5. Type in your email.
  6. Create an Individual account.
  7. Fill out the registration form and click “Continue.”
  8. You will get an email shortly after registering. It will give you your AAP ID. Use your AAP ID and the password you created to login to the AAP web site in the future.
  9. From the App Store on your Apple device, or from Google Play on your Android device, you can download the Red Book app and login with the above information.

The system will ask you to access the site within your organization’s site license at least once during a 120-day span to validate that you are still eligible. A reminder will appear when you log in if you haven’t accessed within 120 days.

Please send questions or comments to: 
Matthews-Fuller.Library.Circulation@dartmouth.edu

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