Borrow Nonfiction titles for holiday break!!!

The holiday break might be the perfect time to borrow one of the popular nonfiction books that the Media Library displays on racks ( Soul of a Doctor, How Doctors Think, The Great Influenza, Better, Complications, just to name a few)...these are interesting titles that you might not have time to read when classes are being held. These can be borrowed at any time, and can be used for longer periods of time. So before you leave after your last exam, come in and check a book out for that long plane or car ride, or some quiet time at home at last!

Holiday Schedule

The Media Library in Piscataway will close at 5 PM on Friday, December 19. We will be CLOSED from Saturday, Dec. 20 through Sunday, Jan. 4. We will reopen at 9 AM on Monday, Jan. 5, 2009.
If you need to borrow any books before you leave for the break, please visit the library on Friday Dec. 19 before 5 PM. If you are returning books to the book drop, please remember to push them to the back and do not leave them on the inner shelf. If the drop is full, bring them in to the desk on Monday morning, Jan. 5.
Have a safe and enjoyable holiday!

Sidman Learning Tool Helpful for NS Course

First year medical students may want to borrow the Sidman Neuroscience Programmed Learning Tool over the holiday break to learn terminology or get familiar with Neuroscience concepts before the course begins. The Media Library has 2 copies of the latest edition and many copies of the previous edition that can be borrowed after exams and returned on January 5. See a library staff member if you need more information on how to use the learning text or if you want to borrow it.

RU Library Borrowing Policy for Medical Students

This is the Rutgers University Libraries Public Services policy that states that UMDNJ users need to register annually in person at the circulation desk of the Alexander Library of College Avenue campus or the the Library of of Science and Medicine on Busch campus. You can find it under "Borrowing" on the Rutgers University Libraries web site at http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu. University of Medicine and Dentistry of New JerseyThe Rutgers University Libraries, in cooperation with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) Libraries, provides select library services to UMDNJ students, faculty, housestaff, and staff located on the Piscataway and New Brunswick campuses.Services are granted for one academic year. Individuals eligible for services may register, and must re-qualify annually for continued services, at the circulation desks at either the Rutgers University Alexander Library or the Library of Science and Medicine. Borrowing privileges are available to UMDNJ students, faculty, housestaff, and staff at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), the School of Health Related Professions (SHRP), the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), and the School of Public Health (SPH) on the UMDNJ New Brunswick and Piscataway campuses.These privileges include: semester loan period, renewal using the "renew your checkouts" option in the self services section of IRIS, borrowing limit of 240 items, the Rutgers Delivery Service (delivery of Rutgers books to a Rutgers pickup location, recalls, and electronic delivery of Rutgers articles), interlibrary loan, and use of reserve collections.Remote access privileges to use licensed electronic information resources are extended to UMDNJ students, faculty, and staff enrolled in or employed by the joint Rutgers/UMDNJ Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) and School of Public Health (SPH) on the New Brunswick and Piscataway campuses. Remote access privileges include access to electronic reserves. Access to electronic information resources and electronic reserve documents are available to all library users onsite, including UMDNJ students, faculty, housestaff, and staff at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) and the School of Health Related Professions (SHRP).
Members of the UMDNJ community may direct any questions about these services to Kerry O'Rourke, Campus Library Director, RWJ Library of the Health Sciences (New Brunswick) 732 235-7606 orourke@umdnj.edu Users can also send questions to the Rutgers University Ask a Librarian Service, accessible from the front page of the Libraries website.
UMDNJ students and faculty at Camden and Newark may be entitled to either guest or full borrowing privileges limited to the campus where they register depending on the program in which they are enrolled and such cooperative statewide or regional library programs as NJALN or CHEN.

Renewal of borrowing privileges at Rutgers Libraries

This is a reminder that all students need to have their borrowing privileges at Rutgers libraries renewed each year if they want to borrow books from any RU library. You will need to visit one of the libraries and show your UMDNJ ID card. You will be asked to complete a form and they will check your name on a list that the UMD libraries provides. If you have any issues or problems with this, please see Media Library staff.

Thanksgiving Holiday Hours

The Media Library will close at 5 PM on Wednesday, November 26. We will be CLOSED from Thursday Nov. 27 through Sunday Nov. 30. We will reopen on Monday Dec. 1 at 9 AM
Have a safe and enjoyable holiday!

Books can be borrowed for the long weekend beginning at noon on Wednesday 11/26. If you plan to return them to the book drop outside the library, push them all the way back until they drop down. If the book drop is full, return them to the desk on Monday morning.

Link to Chen's web column/Article on Medical Students

Below is a link to Pauline Chen's weekly web only column. The article talks about the stress of being a medical student.


http://health.nytimes.com/pages/health/index.html

Titles Added to Collection

We have added a number of titles to our collection recently. Here are two new titles:

The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death, edited by Susan Pories
which contains interesting stories from medical students, residents and doctors.
Human Anatomy: Color Atlas and Textbook by Gosling

The first book can be found in the racks of popular medical non-fiction and can be borrowed for an extended time period. The anatomy atlas will be located on the Anatomy section shelves.

How To Download a File to Mac and Speed Voice the Audio

If you want to listen to lectures faster (or slower) here are the instructions:
Open http://rwjms.umdnj.edu/iTunes
Login to RWJMS iTunesU- private
Use your CORE account
Locate file (use tabs to choose course)
Click "Get File" (file downloads to iTunesU) If you know the location of the file you can proceed with next step; if not, search for file and move it to a location on your computer that you can easily find (such as your desktop)
Open Quicktime Player
Click Open file and choose the file you just downloaded
Click Ctrl + k
Adjust the playback speed with slider at the bottom of window.

How to Speed Voice on Audio Lectures

Many of you have asked how to speed up the voice on audio lectures. Here is how to do it:

To speed up Quicktime lecture files, the file must be saved. Then play the file with the Quicktime player. Open Window that shows AV Controls. At bottom of window list is "Playback speed". This enables you to speed up a lecture.

**This information was provided by second year student Thomas Cudjoe. Thanks Thomas!!!

Resources for Cardiology/Clinical Path course

The Media Library in Piscataway has a number of resources that students can use for the study of cardiology in the Clinical Pathophysiology course. Many of these provide auditory heart sounds, graphics and animation:
Heart Sounds: Basic Cardiac Auscultation- CD ROM accompanies Bates Guide to Physical Examination (8th ed.)

Clinical Cardiology Made Ridiculously Simple: Heart Sounds and Images (book and CD)

**Listening for the Sounds of Heart Failure: Recognizing Basic Murmurs (vol.1, no.1) CD
**Recognizing Extra Heart Sounds (vol. 1, no. 2) CD
(these are designed to increase and sharpen your cardiac auscultation skills by the use of auditory recognition exercises)

Wilkins Fundamentals of Lung and Heart Sounds with CD-ROM (booklet and CD)

Interactive Electrocardiography ECG-CD based on Stephen Scheidt's book--uses illustrations, animation and graphics; has patient tracings and practice tests.
In addition to textbooks (The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need and Rapid Interpretation of EKGs), we have copies of a booklet of sample EKGs that can be borrowed overnight.

These 2 websites might also be of interest:
http://www.depts.washington.edu/~physdx click on heart sounds and murmurs
http://openheartsurgery.com/heart_sounds.html (underscore is before the word sounds)

Annual Meeting/Medical History Society of NJ

The Medical History Society of New Jersey will hold their annual Fall meeting on Wednesday, October 15 at the Nassau Club of Princeton (6 Mercer Street) beginning at 4 PM. Cost for students, residents and interns is $20.00 which includes one cocktail/wine and dinner. This will include four short lectures on medical history topics along with the 6th UMDNJ Foundation lecture by Margaret Humphreys entitled "The South's Secret Weapon: Disease, Environment and the Civil War." For more information, see the Media Library's bulletin board outside the library.

RSS Archive Feeds of Audio Lectures

In order to speed the posting process for RSS feeds for audio lectures (MyUMDNJ portal), archive topic files were created for both first and second year audio lectures. Each semester the older lectures will be moved into the archive files which will be available as well as the current lectures. The feed URLs for the current topics remain the same.
The feed URLs of the archive topics are listed below, in case you want to link them to your favorite web news aggregator:

First Year Archived Lectures: http://webservices.umdnj.edu/xrss/xml/rwjm/rwjm_362.xml
Second Year Archived Lectures: http://webservices.umdnj.edu/xrss/xml/rwjm/rwjm_363.xml

Archived audio lectures from 07/08 are also available from iTunesUniversity website.

Free Clinical Support Tool

DiagnosisPro, a diagnosis and clinical decision tool is now available online for free to all medical professionals, students, nurses and PAs. This easy to use clinical database is published by MedTech USA and is edited and authored by a Board certified internist. Just visit www.diagnosispro.com or search DiagnosisPro on Google with or without a query term. The program includes links to other databases such as PubMed or eMedicine.

Medical Spanish Resources

If you are taking the Medical Spanish elective you can now borrow McGraw-Hill's Spanish for Healthcare Professionals package which includes a textbook (Complete Medical Spanish), a test booklet and 3 75 minute audio CDs. You can use it in the library or take it home overnight.
In addition to the new resource, we have several other manuals/textbooks that were used in earlier Medical Spanish elective classes, a booklet/ audio cassette, and a Spanish/English dictionary.
These materials are on the open shelving area across from the check out desk.

Viewing RSS feeds from news aggregator

You can view the audio lecture feeds and/or the Media Library News feed on your own news aggregator (e.g. MyYahoo or iGoogle)---here's how:
Choose any or all of the topics you wish to subscribe to and copy the link into the aggregator

First Year Audio Lectures: http://my.umdnj.edu/cp/xrss/sdr/portal/xml/umdnj/rwjm/rwjm_334.xml

Second Year Audio Lectures: http://my.umdnj.edu/cp/xrss/sdr/portal/xml/umdnj/rwjm/rwjm_335.xml

Media Library News:
http://my.umdnj.edu/cp/xrss/sdr/portal/xml/umdnj/rwjm/rwjm_336.xml

My presentation in Wales this summer

In July I visited Cardiff, Wales to present
"Digital Audio Lectures: Securing the Library's Future" at the Health Libraries Group Conference sponsored by CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) The conference was held in the City Hall, an elegant Edwardian marble structure built in 1905 where chandeliers and paintings decorated the rooms!
It was a privilege to represent the medical school and our library, and I enjoyed meeting and talking with medical librarians from the UK and from other countries as well. They were perfect hosts and although I was there only a short time, I enjoyed visiting the famous castle, the Bay area and 100 acres of historically preserved buildings that recreated Welsh life in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
The highlight of the trip was a tour of the famous Millenium Stadium (Cardiff is a big sports town!) and a lovely dinner of roast lamb (apparently a Welsh specialty)
Although I paid for the entire trip myself and I was without my luggage for almost 2 days, it was a valuable opportunity to share my expertise with international colleagues and learn from them.

Current Audio Lectures Now on iTunesU

The current audio lectures are now available on iTunes University website...you will need to go into the Private side and log on with your CORE account and password.
The archived lectures from 07/08 should also be found there.

Labor Day Weekend Schedule

The Media Library in Piscataway will close at 5 PM on Friday, August 29. We will be CLOSED on Saturday, Aug. 30, Sunday, Aug. 31 and Monday, Sept. 1. We will reopen on Tuesday, Sept. 2 at 9 AM.
Books can be borrowed for the long weekend beginning at noon on Friday, August 29. They will be due back on Tuesday morning. If you want to return items to the book drop, please push them all the way back so they drop off the inner shelf. If the drop is full, return items to the desk on Tuesday morning. Have a great holiday break!!!

Permanent Book sale area

We have decided to create a permanent area for book sale items that will be available throughout the year in the Media Library. One of the carrels will have a number of books for you to purchase. We have chosen some items for fall semester courses that have not yet started and some other books we think you might find useful. All sale books have a price tag.
Just see a staff member if you are interested in purchasing a book.
Remember that we will have another book sale in January with more items for Spring courses!

How to Subscribe to RSS Channels

We are posting the first PCM lecture today, so if you want to listen to it again, or access any other lectures from the MyUMDNJ portal, here's how:

1. Go to http:/my.umdnj.edu and click on Content/Layout button at upper left
2. Choose a tab where you want channel to appear
3. Locate and click the "Add Channel" button
4. Choose "Select All" from drop down menu. Click "Go"
5. Choose RWJMS Media Library News and/or Audio Lecture Link
6. Click "Add Channel"
7. Click on back to (blank)Tab Link

You only need to do this ONCE! Channels will appear each time you log on. To receive links directly on your favorite websites, see RSS information after you subscribe.

Media Library Semi-annual Booksale!!

The Media Library book sale will begin on Monday, August 11 in Room N207 and continue through Sunday, August 17. Take a look on the tables in the library for reasonably priced texts and review books, atlases and medical related works. You may be able to find something to supplement your resources or even a textbook that is still relevant for the course. We only take cash and don't like to hold items too long if you need to go the ATM, so bring along some dollars and find a bargain or two!! Most books have been donated by graduating med students or pulled from our collection recently. Each book will have a price label at the top. After our sales we donate the leftover books to countries that are desperate for printed medical texts.

Non-fiction medical leisure reading

Did you know that the Media Library collection includes some popular non-fiction leisure reading books on medical topics (do med students have leisure time?!!)...here are some of the titles that you might want to read when you have a long break:
Complications and Better by Atul Gawande
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe by Katrina Firlik
Final Exam by Pauline Chen
Body of Work by Christine Montross
How Doctor's Think by Groopman

Check the library racks or ask us for more information! These titles can be borrowed for longer time periods.

Revised Borrowing Policy!!

This summer, the library staff reviewed the borrowing policy and made it somewhat less restrictive, taking into consideration the constructive comments we received from the library survey we conducted in the fall of 2007. Here are some of the changes:

Items can be borrowed for 3 hours, and we will grant an extension once depending on availability and demand.
Books can be checked out 3 hours before closing for overnight use.
Holiday weekends: Books can be checked out after 6 pm on Friday.
3rd/4th years and grad students: Books can be borrowed for up to 7 days with one renewal.

Check the complete borrowing policy for more information (library website or bulletin board outside library)