Tired of lugging around a lot of heavy medical books? You can now keep library materials you wish to consult, but not necessarily borrow, on designated Reading Shelves in the Medical Library!

The Reading Shelves allow patrons to keep library materials in one convenient location to use for ongoing research.  Patrons benefit by no longer having to check out a large number of books and transport them back and forth to the Library.

For more information about the Reading shelves, ask any Circulation Desk attendant at the Medical Library.

The list of recent biomedical books by Yale authors has been updated. Please contact Cindy Crooker, Associate Head of Collection Development and Management, if you have questions or additions.

Important updates and new features include:

Search Tab Additions and Enhancements – A new Multi-Field Search tab provides multiple search boxes for assigning specific fields that allow for a more targeted and specific search experience. Plus, the main search screen has been streamlined with a sleeker and more intuitive user design.

New and Improved User Workflow Tools – Flexibility and speed are crucial to research workflow. On July 31st, you’ll find new collapsible Search Aids, Results Manager, and Search History (also moveable); browser support for adjusting font sizes; enhanced annotations; and more. Plus, you’ll find expanded email capabilities to ease collaboration between users and their colleagues.

My Projects Workspace Area – This new feature is a direct result of customer feedback. My Projects provides a workspace for assembling and organizing research findings, so you can manage them in a way that works for you. Linkable from every page in the application, you can upload saved searches, results, images, and more.

The July 31st release also will include multi-lingual support for French-, German-, and Spanish-language interfaces.

For more information, contact Jan Glover (jan.glover@yale.edu)

“I began taking pictures after I got out of the army in 1953,” said James M. Dowaliby, M.D.. In fact, he has been studying photography ever since. “My aim is simply to be a prepared observer of the visual world and to photograph whatever or whoever amazes, impresses or charms me”.

Please note Blackwell Synergy content will not be available for the next three days. Wiley-Blackwell plans to close Blackwell Synergy at the end of business (PST) on Friday June 27th and they  anticipate that the migration will be completed by Monday June 30th. Over the weekend of June 28th and 29th, there will be a period when both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience will be unavailable while they transition and re-index data.

Please click here for more information.

The Medical Library is pleased to announce the following journal backfile additions from Wiley-Blackwell. The library now has online access to these journals from the first published issue.

Thanks to the Medical Historical Library for making the acquisition.

ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA
1926-1996

ADDICTION
1903-1996

ALLERGY
1948-1996

ANAESTHESIA
1946-1996

BJOG : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY
1902-1996

CENTAURUS
1950-1996

JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY AND ALLIED DISCIPLINES
1960-1996

JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY
1956-1996

JOURNAL OF OBSTETRIC, GYNECOLOGIC AND NEONATAL NURSING
1972-1996

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSE PRACTITONERS
1989-1996

MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
1987-1996

PEDIATRIC ANAESTHESIA
1991-1996

PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
1964-1996

SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
1972-1996

Come and visit the Medical Library, the source for all of your information needs.  Here are a few links to get you started, but please consult your Library Liaison if you have additional questions.

Connect from Off-campus

Laptops in the Library

All things PDA

Clinical Medicine Resources

Evidence-Based Practice

The Lawrence M. Brass reflex hammer exhibit will be on display in the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library from June 17, 2008. It showcases more than 50 reflex hammers dating back to the late 1800s when the original reflex hammer was first incorporated into the neurologic examination.

In memory of the late Lawrence Brass, MD, Professor of Neurology and medical director of the stroke program, the Yale New Haven Stroke Center hosted the First Annual Lawrence M. Brass Stroke Symposium in June of 2007. The Brass family has generously offered to display the reflex hammer collection for symposium participants and for members of the Yale community during the summer months.

See also Dr. Brass’s legacy and the history of the reflex hammer.

photo by Jill D. Brass

The Computer Resources Lab (CRL) is a 24×7 facility for general and specialized computing. Special resources include 2 workstations (1Mac, 1PC) with scanners and digital graphics software not available on any other library computers. The Windows computers in this room have the SAS and SPSS statistical software packages.

Monday through Thursday from 6pm to 10pm and from 2 to 3:30 on Fridays, the room is staffed by Zheyang Wu (aka Victor) a PhD candidate in Biostatistics. In addition to assisting with general use of the facility, Zheyang will be happy to entertain your questions on statistics and on the use of SAS and SPSS.

Please feel free to make use of the facilities and Zheyang’s knowledge and skills. Follow this link for more information about the CRL and its facilities.

On Tuesday May 6th you may have noticed a new interface for our electronic books. New features of the search tool include relevancy ranking of results, superior browsing features and RSS.

Please try out our new search tool by clicking the e-books link on the library homepage and tell us what you think. We’d love to hear your feedback!

Psychiatrist Clements C. Fry collected two thousand prints and drawings related to medicine. Bequeathed to the Library in 1955, the collection spans six centuries and represents the works of over six hundred artists.

From among the hundreds of subjects represented in the collection, selections from three subjects which were of particular interest to Fry—mental illness, miracle cures, and taking medicine– are displayed. Of note are Eugène Pirodon after André Brouillet Une Leçon du Docteur Charcot à la Salpêtrière (1887) and George Bellows Dance in a Madhouse (1917).

The Library actively acquires new works for the Collection of Prints and Drawings. Four recent acquisitions are on view in the Historical Library.

Eugène Pirodon French 1824-1908
after André Brouillet French 1857-1914

Une Leçon du Docteur Charcot à la Salpêtrière, 1887
Lithograph

George Bellows U.S.A. 1882-1925

Dance in a Madhouse, 1917
Lithograph

The Extended Hours for the Medical Library, remaining open an additional two hours until 2am during the Boards, comes to an end this weekend. On Sunday, June 1st, the Medical Library will return to its regular hours and will close at Midnight during the week and at 10pm on Friday’s and Saturday’s.

The Historical Library actively acquires prints and drawings for its collections. The four prints shown here are among the fifty-nine acquisitions made this year, which include twenty-seven prints, five drawings, and twenty-seven posters.

Jean-Emile Laboureur, French 1877-1943

Un Cor au papier peint rayé
[A woman inspecting a corn in front of striped wallpaper] 1907
Woodcut

from Toilettes

Philip Galle, Flemish 1537-1612
after Johannes Stradanus, Flemish 1523-1605

St. Paul Healing a Cripple in Lystra 1582
Engraving

from The Acts of the Apostles

Jacob Matham, Dutch 1571-1631
after Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch 1558-1617

Gluttony 1593
Engraving

from The Seven Vices

Jacob Matham, Dutch 1571-1631
after Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch 1558-1617

Envy 1593
Engraving

from The Seven Vices

We hope you can join us for a Reception and Viewing of Red Rot and Foxing: Preservation in the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 5:00 p.m.

Medical Historical Library
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Yale University
333 Cedar Street
New Haven

The historical library houses one of the world’s finest historical medical collections. The collection contains over 130,000 books, bound manuscripts, journals and pamphlets. This includes 325 incunabula, which are books printed between 1450 and 1500, a wonderful Renaissance, Arabic and Persian manuscript collection along with hundreds of bound manuscripts from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

The Cushing/Whitney Historical Library also houses the Fry Collection of Prints and Drawings that spans five centuries, an additional 2500 portrait engravings and over 2000 original photographs. We have an artifact collection that includes over 1,000 medical and scientific instruments and the Streeter Collection of Weights and Measures containing several thousands items.

The Preservation Librarian for the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library began in August 2005 to establish a program that will preserve and conserve these collections. The exhibit, which will be on view from March 14th-June 11th , illustrates issues of preservation and solutions that can be achieved to safeguard this priceless collection.

Photos by John Curtis, Yale Medicine.

The Medical Library launches its iPhone-optimised website. Make the most of your iPhone and iPod touch with Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Mobile.

You can now enjoy a freshly brewed cup of coffee in the library for only $1. We have installed a Keurig B200 coffee machine in the lobby. You can choose one of eight flavors from Dark Magic to French Vanilla and we have Lemon Zinger or Green Tea for tea lovers. Stop by and enjoy a cup.

The Library has created a new web site to support the Yale community’s compliance with the new NIH Public Access Policy.  This is a step-by-step guide that includes Yale-specific information, search tips for finding the PMC ID, and links to important resources.

AccessSurgery and AccessEmergency Medicine are now available.