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Review the details of creating a poster using PowerPoint, including size, color, text, illustrations, and printing options. Share tricks for adding pizazz to your poster.
Wednesday
November 18, 2009
Noon-1pm
Dana Main Conference Room
No need to register, just show up.
Questions? Contact the Reference Desk at 656-2201 or danaref@uvm.edu.
BioX Poster Session by StanfordEdTech used under the Creative Commons License.
The UVM Libraries now provide electronic access to CQ Weekly, from 1983 onward. CQ Weekly is an independent publication that provides objective, non-partisan reporting and analysis of Congressional activities, on a week-by-week basis. It will prove useful to students of political science, public policy, and history.
A recent issue included articles on health care legislation and debates, such as “Health Care: A Matter of Mandates,” “Highlights of the House Health Care Bill,” and “Health Care Polls: The Question Helps Define the Answer.”
Useful charts and graphics summarize recent votes, appropriations, and upcoming bills, making it easy to track on issues, and to see how the President’s agenda is faring. Articles are can be searched a variety of ways, including by topic, committee, or bill number. Floor votes dating back to 1983 can be easily retrieved.
Print volumes of CQ Weekly from 1975-2008 are available in Bailey/Howe Books (JK1 .C15), and 2009 volumes can be found in the Reference Collection. Microfilm at the Library Research Annex dates from 1953-1988.
Senate Entry by deltaMike, used in accordance with Creative Commons.
Help is here! UVM students now have several programs available to help track sources and cite them properly in research projects, including online tools such as RefWorks and Zotero. Come to a workshop and learn how to:
November 17 (Tuesday): 4-5pm, Bailey/Howe Room 123
November 18 (Wednesday): Noon-1pm, Bailey/Howe Room 123
November 18 (Wednesday): 4-5pm, Bailey/Howe Room 123
November 19 (Thursday): 4-5pm, Bailey/Howe Room 123
No registration required. Just show up!
Questions, contact: Daisy Benson.
Imagine waking up one day in your own personal terrarium, where everything you do and say can be seen by anyone passing by. Sound scary? In a world of Web cams, social networking sites, and GPs-equipped phones, your dorm walls may be more transparent than you realize.
The University of Vermont Libraries present a lecture and book-signing by Burlington-based attorney and computer forensics expert Frederick Lane, about the challenges emerging technologies pose to one of our most controversial rights, on Wednesday, November 18th at 4:30 PM, in Billings North Lounge.
Lane’s American Privacy: The 400-Year History of Our Most Contested Right will be officially released by Beacon Press on November 23, 2009 and was recently selected as the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression’s book of the month.
Lane is the author of numerous books and articles on issues of intellectual freedom, including freedom of speech, privacy online and in the workplace, the impact of technology on our rights and liberties, and the separation of church and state. His work has been featured on Nightline, 60 Minutes, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
“Is there anything more fundamental to human freedom than the right to privacy, to be able to live your life as you wish without the scrutiny or the interference of bullying authority?” asks legendary historian and activist Howard Zinn. “Frederick Lane’s book confronts us with this largely invisible threat, magnified by modern technology, and challenges us to defend our most basic rights.”
The presentation is free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be served. For more information, please call 802-656-9980 or e-mail selene.colburn@uvm.edu
The UVM Libraries’ Center for Digital Initiatives makes unique research collections available online. This digital library offers powerful search and browse capabilities and accepts a variety of formats – from film to books to born-digital files. Now that we’ve established this infrastructure, we want to expand CDI collections so that our users are better served.
The library’s goal is for CDI users to participate as creators of digital research collections in an open, collaborative environment. We are happy to announce that faculty, students, and staff may now propose collection ideas.
The Center for Digital Initiatives can help you by:
* Providing online access to new teaching collections
* Collaborating on course assignments which use our collections
* Creating collections which support faculty research and department strengths
* Engaging students in research projects and digital curation
If you have any questions about the CDI’s new collection proposal process, feel free to contact Robin M. Katz, Digital Initiatives Outreach Librarian at robin.katz@uvm.edu or (802) 656-3292.
Submit a collection proposal here.
PubMed changed it’s interface on October 26th, to reveal a more streamlined approach to searching. Favorite features may appear to be missing, but probably have just been moved to a new location. The University of Washington has created a handy chart of old features and where they’ve gone in the new interface.
Here are a couple of tips on the most frequently used features:
* After you have run a search from the Google-like box on the home page of PubMed, if you want to see what the database actually did with your terms, check out the Details to the right and toward the bottom on your search results page.
*The UVM Journal or UVM E-Journal icons are still there, they’re just only visible when you change the display to the Abstract view, or go into a particular record/citation. In the Abstract view, they are underneath the abstract instead of the title as they were before. When you look at the record, the icons will be to the right of the title.
*The tabs that told you how many of your results were available at Dana have gone, but that information is still available. Simply look to the right of your list of search results, and you’ll see a filter called Dana Medical Library with a number in parentheses.
If you have any questions, or need any searching assistance, please do not hesitate to contact the Dana Reference Desk at 656-2201 or danaref@uvm.edu.
Learn the basics of EndNote. This demonstration could include creating a list of references in EndNote, downloading records from online databases such as PubMed, creating a bibliography, or adding citations to a paper using EndNote and Microsoft Word. The last 15 minutes is reserved for in-depth questions.
Wednesday
November 11, 2009
Noon-1pm
For more information, contact danaref@uvm.edu or 802-656-2201.
Need help configuring your laptop for wireless? Detecting viruses? Re-imaging your machine?
Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) will be offering computer help in Bailey/Howe on Sundays from 5:30 to 9:30.
Stop by with your questions.
HELP! by bejealousofme, used in accordance with Creative Commons.
Ninety years ago, the 1918-19 Flu Pandemic was called the “greatest medical holocaust in history.” Best estimates put the worldwide death toll anywhere from 50 to 100 million people. The H1N1 virus, an unusually virulent strain of influenza A, was identified as the deadly culprit behind that pandemic. Now, fast-forward to 2009, and the H1N1 virus has re-emerged around the world.
A new exhibit at the Dana Medical Library, H1N1 Flu: 1918-19 & 2009, traces the epidemiological and historical aspects of this virus in two different centuries. The images and texts in the exhibit hope to shed some light on the virus’ impact on a world at war, on student life at UVM, and even on literary works on the shelves at the Bailey/Howe Library. Current 2009 influenza statistics from the Vermont Department of Health will be monitored and posted weekly for this dynamic display.
Dana Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of a new resource, the Indiana Pathology Images™ Mycology online database.
From their description:
“The Indiana Pathology Images™ Mycology database, containing more than 600 photomicrographs, was developed for the purpose of providing a visual atlas that would serve as a resource for students and practitioners alike. The criteria used in selecting the “Grouping” of fungi in this atlas was an arbitrary determination by the authors who recognize that there are some fungi that may be included in more than one group. The authors included not only the “textbook” perfect images but also examples of the not-so-perfect morphologic appearances often observed in clinical specimens. It is beyond the scope of this database atlas to be all-inclusive and the authors recommend that comprehensive texts continue to be used as references when identifying fungal pathogens.
The authors have gone to great lengths to assure the standardization of image sizes. For comparative purposes, magnification is provided for all microscopic images. Since this [database] has been designed for use as a ‘visual’ review and image resource, text has been limited. For detailed discussion and descriptions, the authors recommend use of other clinical mycology resources (e.g., textbooks, websites).”
You can get to this database by clicking on the link above, or from the Library home page, click on Articles & Databases, and scroll down to Images & Sound. It is the first link in that list.
Image above: Epidermophyton floccosum – Microscopic Morphology, 100x Lactophenol cotton blue from Indiana Pathology Images Mycology.