The Libraries’ Green Team is launching an awareness campaign to spread the word about what goes where in our PROG (Paper Recyclables Organics Garbage) bins. First up: Organics. Did you know that soiled paper, like napkins and paper towel, goes in the Organics bin? Look for the posters placed over all the bin sets in the Killam Library for more information and don’t worry–there won’t be a quiz!
Book of the Week: The Night Shift
The Night Shift : Real Life in the Heart of the ER
Dr. Brian Goldman is both an emergency room physician at Mount Sinai and a prominent medical journalist. Never one to shy away from controversy, Goldman specializes in kicking open the doors to the medical establishment, revealing what really goes on behind the scenes — and in the minds of doctors and nurses.
In The Night Shift, Goldman shares his experiences in the witching hours at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto. We meet the kinds of patients who walk into an ER after midnight: late-night revellers injured on their way home after last call, teens assaulted in the streets by other teens and a woman who punches another woman out of jealousy over a man. But Goldman also reveals the emotional, heartbreaking side of everyday ER visits: adult children forced to make life and death decisions about critically ill parents, victims of sexual assault, and mentally ill and homeless patients looking for understanding and a quick fix in the twenty-four-hour waiting room.
Written with Goldman’s trademark honesty and with surprising humour, The Night Shift is also a frank look at many issues facing the medical profession today, and offers a highly compelling inside view into an often shrouded world.
Rehabilitation Reference Center Acquired
The Kellogg Library has purchased a subscription to Rehabilitation Reference Center. Rehabilitation Reference Center is a clinical reference tool designed for use by rehabilitation clinicians, physical therapists, and occupational therapists at the point of care. It provides valid and relevant information intuitively and conveniently, using the best available evidence to help support clinical decisions.
To access Rehabilitation Reference Center, search it as a “database” in the search box on the Libraries’ homepage or via the Health Sciences Resources page.
DynaMed Acquired
The Kellogg Library has purchased a subscription for DynaMed. DynaMed is an evidence-based, clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals with clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics.
You can access DynaMed via the “databases” search option on the Libraries homepage or on the Health Sciences Resources page.
Book of the Week: Ape House
When a family of bonobo apes who know American Sign Language are kidnapped from a language lab, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show propels scientist Isabel Duncan, together with reporter John Thigpen, on a personal mission to rescue them. An entertaining book that calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99.4% of our DNA.
Sara Gruen, Ape House: A Novel. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2010
Killam iMacs Print Double-Sided By Default
The iMacs in the Killam South Learning Commons now print double-sided by default. If you wish to print single-sided click File then Print… or press Command P. In the print option window change the Preset to Standard.
New Security Regulations for Kellogg Library/Tupper Building
In order to enhance after-hours security in the Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building, anyone wishing to enter the building after January 10, 2011 must produce a valid photo ID. These arrangements will also apply to the Kellogg Health Sciences Library which is in the Tupper Building.
The new protocol will be in place for the Tupper Building Monday to Friday evenings (5:30 pm to midnight) and on weekends. Library users will have to sign in and present a valid photo ID to the security personnel in the Tupper Lobby before entering the Kellogg Library.
Please note these regulations take effect as of January 10, 2011.
Thank you for your cooperation!
Book of the Week: Gifts From the Heart
Subtitled “Simple Ways To Make Your Family’s Christmas More Meaningful, “ this book by Virginia Brucker offers a myriad of down-to earth ways to enjoy Christmas as it’s meant to be enjoyed. Chapter titles include “Handmade With Love,’ “Gifts from the Kitchen,” “An Animal Lover’s Christmas” and “The Gift of Imagination”—you get the picture. Happy holidays everyone!
New Encyclopedias Acquired
The Kellogg Library has purchased six new online encyclopedias for the health sciences from Elsevier:
- Comprehensive toxicology, 2nd ed, 2010
- Encyclopedia of basic epilepsy research, 2010
- Encyclopedia of behavioral neuroscience, 2010
- Encyclopedia of the eye, 2010
- Encyclopedia of microbiology 3rd ed, 2009
- Encyclopedia of movement disorders, 2010
These may be accessed through our catalogue or via our web page listing encyclopedias in the health sciences.
Practicing Generosity
Lawyers are not usually reputed to be generous souls, but at the Schulich School of Law the Weldon Tradition of Unselfish Public Service is regularly put into practice. Recent visitors to the Law Library would have seen a mountain of groceries in our front lobby. Between Nov. 19th and Dec. 7th law students, faculty and staff gathered Food for FEED NOVA SCOTIA. This is an annual friendly competition, organized by the Law Students’ Society, and hosted in the Sir James Dunn Law Library. The Law School Community together gathered 1,813 items of food. This on top of the Movember campaign, Adopt-a-Family and other charitable causes.
Well done Schulich Law Community! We are looking forward to next year’s rematch!