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With the close of National Library Week, we would like to share the winners who participated in last week's contests!
How many books are in the Grunigen Medical Library? We received more than 200 guesses that ranged from 1,000 to 25 million, the answer is:
49,246!!!
The Grand Prize Winner is Theresa Romero with a guess of 48,768. Congratulations Theresa!
The runners up were...
Renee Rinke 49,999, Donna Baker 50,000, Elsie Armstrong 50,000, Ava Segovia 50,000, Christina Martin 50,000, Akimbi Jeffers 50,009, Aileen Sabio 50,199, Cecilia Hammond 50,200.
The top winner receives a $50 Borders Gift Certificate. The runners up received various books, library socks, and a sample of ‘In the Library’ perfume.
We would also like to thank the 100 contestants who participated in our Library Treasure Hunt. Each person who completed the contest received a $5 gift certificate to Miss Kelly's cafe!
Thanks to everyone for participating and helping us celebrate National Library Week!
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The Grunigen Medical Library will begin the installation of new carpet in all areas of the library on Monday April 21st. During this time some services may be disrupted and the library will be experiencing noise and dust. The installation of the carpet will begin on Monday April 21st and continue through May 4th.
The library will be closed Saturday April 26th.
Thank you for your patience while we continue to improve our library.
For more information please call (714) 456-5585, or reach us by email at: gml@uci.edu
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The Grunigen Medical Library concludes its Spring 2008 Instructional Workshop series with three remaining classes:
Pubmed Basics:
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 11:00am-Noon
Instructor: Susan Lessick, MLS AHIP
This workshop provides basic instruction on how to search PubMed, including search techniques, limits, and display options. You will also learn about printing and emailing capabilities as well as availability of online full-text articles. PubMed covers the disciplines of dentistry, medicine, nursing, the health care system and pre-clinical sciences and veterinary medicine.
Register...
Pubmed Advanced:
Monday, May 12th, 2008 11:00am-Noon
Instructor: Steve Clancy, MLS AHIP
Advanced techniques in using PubMed are discussed in this workshop. Topics include combining searches, nested search strategies, when to use PubMed Clinical Queries and Systematic Reviews and how to save searches on PubMed for future re-runs. PubMed covers the disciplines of dentistry, medicine, nursing, the health care system and pre-clinical sciences and veterinary medicine.
Register...
Pharmaceutical and Drug Resources:
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 11:00am-Noon
Instructor: Judy Bube, MLS
This workshop will cover four key online pharmaceutical and drug resources available through the library: MDConsult, MedlinePlus, Micromedix, and Natural Standard. These resources provide essential drug descriptions, indications, contraindications and adverse reactions, and in addition provide current safety notices and FDA approvals. This session will assist users in becoming familiarized with and searching these extensive resources.
Register...
GML workshops are taught by UCI medical librarians and are free and open to all UCI faculty, staff and students on a first-come, first-serve basis. For more information, or to register for a workshop, visit the GML Instructional Workshops page or phone (714) 456-5585.
Be sure to look for our Summer 2008 Instructional Workshop series in the coming weeks!
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The new prototype of the Clinician’s Toolkit is now available on the Grunigen Medical Library's web site!
The Clinician’s Toolkit is a point-of-care resource that provides accurate and reliable information applicable to clinical practice. The closely reviewed authoritative sources are organized in a user friendly and easily accessible format. Various resources in the Clinician's Toolkit include:
-Convenient search engines for UpToDate, PubMed, and Google Scholar
-Selected point-of-care databases for decision support
-Drug information and formularies
-Algorithms/Calculators for clinical care
-Patient information/education in multiple languages
-Help with ICD-9 look-ups
After you've visited the new Clinician's Toolkit, please take a moment to take our new Survey. The survey gives you the chance to tell us what you think about the new toolkit. Just follow the link above and login with your UCInetID and password to begin the survey. We value our users imput and hope to improve upon our already great resources!
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Pharmacist's Letter is now available through our Antpac catalog!
Pharmacist's Letter provides information for pharmacists regarding new developments in drug therapy. The database consists of a monthly letter, charts, guidelines, patient handouts, and a rumor vs. truth section. Patrons can browse by various topics and subject listings.
Pharmacists receive concise updates and advice information. The Detail-Documents provide in-depth coverage answering many specific questions related to each topic.
To access the database please click here! The database can also be accessed from our Expanded Core Resources page.
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