Jorge Galvez, a resident in anesthesiology, won the Yale Links Contest. Congratulation Jorge!
Jorge’s video won the prize, an iPod Touch:
Blackboard will be unavailable from 7 AM Saturday, January 18th through 5 PM, Sunday, January 19th for a critical upgrade. This upgrade includes several patches and an upgrade of the Oracle backend database. Please plan your Blackboard work accordingly. If you have any questions, please contact Judy Spak at judy.spak@yale.edu.
The Medical Library recently updated the Reserve Room, purchasing more than one hundred new editions of standard textbooks. The editions in the Reserve Room should now be the latest available. Please let us know if you find any titles that are not current.
In December, the Medical Library retired the databases used to power the library’s ejournals and ebooks pages. Maintaining the accuracy of these databases was labor-intensive and became unsustainable as the number of online journals and books continued to increase. The same information was also being managed in the Library Catalog (Orbis) and SFX Link Resolver […]
On view in the Historical Library, in conjunction with “AIDS: Imprints on Our Lives” currently on view in the Cushing Rotunda:
Artist Unknown
AIDS Crisis
Published by ACT UP 1990
The fiscal priorities of President George H.W. Bush’s administration are the subject of a poster by ACT UP which refers to “Operation Desert Storm,” the invasion of […]
Tejaswini More, a fourth year medical student at Yale, grew up in Colorado and has been painting since age 9. “I have a particular fondness for vibrant colors”, Tejaswini says, “a fondness that is likely attributable to my Indian heritage and a childhood spent following the trail of my mother’s multicolored saris”.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is being celebrated on Monday, January 21. This is an official University holiday, however, the library will be open from 10am to 8pm. Limited services will be provided as the following service points will be closed: Information Desk; Document Delivery Office; Historical Library offices; Administration.
Terry Ashley, a research scientist in the Department of Genetics at Yale, began her love affair with plants in her early childhood. Though she can indulge her curiosity and pursue her search for beauty and order by studing meiotic chromosome behavior under the microscope, she has discovered a way of both literally and figuratively merging […]
A collection of postcards from the Historical Library featuring medical institutions in Connecticut is viewable online. This collection features general hospitals, private hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, sanatoria, and the Yale School of Medicine. Most of the postcards are from the period 1900-1940.
Ovid has announced that the 2008 MEDLINE Global Reload is nearly complete. They expect that the reload will be live on Ovid Gateway and OvidSP on January 7th, 2008.
The Ovid MEDLINE reload uses the 2008 edition of MeSH® (Medical Subject Headings) from the National Library of Medicine. The NLM has outlined a complete description of […]
