Library Notes

A newsletter for patrons of the Galter Health Sciences Library

Fall 2007
New Series #45

Inside this issue:

Welcome New Students!

Milestones in Dermatology, 1572-1808: Selected Treasures in the Galter Library's Special Collections

Library Computer Center Available for Teaching

Recent NU Faculty Publications

New and Updated Resources Roundup

Overdue Book Fines Eliminated

Galter Health Sciences Library Web Site

Welcome New Students

Stephanie Kerns, MLS, Head of Education and Outreach/Curriculum Librarian, Email Stephanie

Galter Health Sciences Library staff would like to extend a warm welcome to all new students who have just joined us here at Northwestern University. Here are a few facts about the library:

Study areas are available throughout the library, including the Reference Room and Learning Resources Center (LRC) on Level 1, the East and West Reading Rooms and Dollie’s Corner on Level 2, and the study bars on Level 1 and the Mezzanine
You can access the wireless network from many places in the library, including Levels 1 and 2
Printing is available in the Reference Room and LRC and costs 6 cents a page

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Milestones in Dermatology, 1572-1808: Selected Treasures in the Galter Library's Special Collections

Ron Sims, MA, Special Collections Librarian, Email Ron

The recorded dawn of dermatology can be traced to the Ebers Papyrus, a work of the Ancient Egyptians, which dates to the 16th century B.C. The papyrus is a miscellaneous collection of extracts and scraps of medical information from at least forty sources and was found in a tomb in Thebes in 1862. The ancient manuscript describes many kinds of skin diseases, cosmetic problems, and therapies. The Galter Library has one German and two English translations of the Ebers Papyrus.

Among the printed materials in the Library’s Special Collections are a number of landmark texts, which include: De morbis cutaneis (1572) by Girolamo Mercuriale; Jean Liebault’s Trois livres de l’embellissement et ornement du corps humai (1595); Daniel Turner’s A Treatise on Diseases incident to the Skin (1714); Tractatus de morbis cutaneis (1777) by Anne-Charles Lorry; Joseph Jacob Plenck’s Doctrina de morbis cutaneis, ed. 2. (1783); and, Description and treatment of cutaneous diseases, issued in four parts from 1798-1808 by Robert Willan.

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Library Classes

October 9 and 23

EndNote

Do you need to organize your references and create quick and easy bibliographies? Join us for one of our EndNote training sessions. No experience is necessary.

October 11

Creating Posters with PowerPoint

Learn how to use PowerPoint to create professional-looking conference posters.

October 16

Basic Ovid MEDLINE

An introduction to basic searching of MEDLINE, using the Ovid search interface, including how to access full-text articles.

October 25

Basic PubMed

An introduction to basic searching of MEDLINE, using the PubMed search interface, including how to access full-text articles and create a personal account for saving searches.

See our Classes page to register or to view our complete schedule. We also offer all our classes on a by request basis.