Library Notes is a publication of the Galter Library that focuses on news, services, and technology advances affecting the Feinberg School of Medicine community. The most current issue is Library Notes #58 (November 2009).

Inside this issue:

By: Ron Sims, Special Collections Librarian

The current exhibit in the Eckenhoff Reference Room and in the Special Collections reception area highlights some of the American Civil War era texts and artifacts held by the Galter Health Sciences Library Special Collections.  Here you can see noted texts and correspondence from both Confederate and Union medical men including Dr. Edmund Andrews, one of the medical school's founders. Nearly all of the founders served in the military, either at Camp Douglas in Chicago or on the battlefields.

Dr. Andrews acquired the most notable battlefield experience as surgeon in the First Illinois Regiment of Light Artillery, seeing heavy action during Grant’s campaign in Tennessee.  Letters from Dr. Andrews were published in the Chicago Medical Examiner during 1862 and described his observations with descriptions of surgeries, conditions of the camps and hospitals, and overall health of the troops.

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Publications

Mark Berendsen, Education Librarian, has been exceptionally busy. In addition to his September marriage, he co-authored a paper with faculty in the Department of Preventive Medicine. The subject of the paper is behavioral interventions to promote smoking cessation and prevent weight gain and it is published in the September 2009 issue of Addiction.

Ron Sims, Special Collections Librarian, co-authored a paper on the history of measles in Hawaii with Dr. Stanford Shulman and Deborah Shulman from the Department of Pediatrics at Feinberg School of Medicine. The article was published in the August 2009 issue of Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.

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By: Mark Berendsen, Education Librarian

How can I get the full-text article? That's a very common question at every academic library. There are several different ways to retrieve full-text articles through Galter Library. You'll see different cues in different databases that will lead you to the full-text of an article. Here are two buttons to look for:

No matter which database you are searching, be sure to either sign in to the Galter Library website or the NU VPN if you are off campus. Here are some helpful hints for retrieving full-text articles from several different sources including PubMed, Google Scholar, the Galter Library website, and other biomedical literature databases.

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The Galter Health Sciences Library has recently added new online titles to the Books@Ovid, MDConsult, and Springer suites, and has activated a new journal.

NEW EDITIONS (Books@Ovid)

• Infectious Diseases of the Female Genital Tract (5th ed.)
• Only EKG book you'll ever need (6th ed.)

NEW BOOKS (MDConsult)

• Andrews’ diseases of the skin : clinical dermatology
• Comprehensive dermatologic drug therapy
• Creasy and Resnik’s maternal-fetal medicine
• Dermatology
• Infectious diseases of the fetus and newborn infant

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Library Notes is a publication of the Galter Library that focuses on news, services, and technology advances affecting the Feinberg School of Medicine community. The most current issue is Library Notes #57 (October 2009).

Inside this issue:

• Heidi Nickisch Duggan Chosen as Leadership Fellow
• The Feinberg School Celebrates 150 Years: the New Chicago Campus, 1926-1955
• PubMed Redesign Now Available for Preview
• NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) of Next-Generation Sequencing Data
• Alternative Search Interfaces for PubMed
• Fishing for Quality Medical Information? @sk Your Medical Librarian
• Galter Library Book Sale: October 6-9
• New Titles in September
• Go Wireless at Galter

This article was featured in Library Notes #57 (October 2009).

The PubMed search interface is about to undergo its largest design change in years and a preview is now available. Search functionality appears to be the same while most of the changes relate to the results display. Galter librarians are still in the process of exploring the new interface and will be updating our online guides very soon. The Galter Library's PubMed class on October 15 will feature the new design.

You can access a preview of the redesign from the PubMed homepage or at http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?holding=norwelib&otool=norwelib. The preview and original version will run side by side for approximately two weeks after which time the preview will be the only option available. For a detailed list of the various changes, see the September 30 issue of NLM Technical Bulletin.

Questions or comments about the new design? Contact the Reference Desk at 312-503-8109 or use our Ask a Librarian web form.

This article was featured in Library Notes #57 (October 2009).

With the sheer volume of biomedical information increasing at a faster rate than anyone can read it, health care professionals and researchers need the specialized services that medical librarians provide now more than ever. National Medical Librarians Month was created by the Medical Library Association to raise awareness of the important role of the health information professional.

The Galter Library’s health information experts are ready and willing to help you dive into the world of information! Librarians are available for research consultations, literature searches, and individualized training in the use of library resources and databases. We can work with you in a number of ways to fulfill your information needs:

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This article was featured in Library Notes #57 (October 2009).

By: Ron Sims, Special Collections Librarian

This is the third installment in a multi-part series on the history of Northwestern University's medical school.

Planning a New Campus

Northwestern University's professional schools—Medical, Law, Commerce, Dental, and Pharmacy*—were originally founded as separate schools and scattered in various locations throughout the city of Chicago. In 1902, with the exception of the Medical School, the schools were consolidated in a single Loop location in the Northwestern University Building (formerly the Tremont House) at Dearborn and Lake Streets. In 1915, the University began looking for land to construct a new campus that could accommodate all the schools in their own specialized buildings in one central location.

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