Monthly Archives: June 2009

New PDA Research Guide

Want to know which library resources can be downloaded to your PDA or smartphone? Peg Burnette, the Nursing Liaison at LHS-Peoria, has created a research guide, PDA’s and Clinical Medicine. This guide has a tab for each library resource that can be used with a PDA or smartphone, and lists which devices [...]

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New Library Web site launches July 4

The UIC Library will launch its newly redesigned Web site on July 4, 2009.
The Library utilized patron surveys and usability testing to design a site with easily scanned pages, simplified terminology, clear navigation, and a clean graphic appearance.
Beginning on July 4, users will be redirected to pages on the new site from several pages on [...]

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CINAHL’s Search History Feature

Proud of a search you did in CINAHL? You can share your search history (the steps of how you did the search) with others by printing, emailing, or saving it! Here’s how you can do that:

Add the citations you want to your folder.
Go up to the Folder icon towards the top of the [...]

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Daley Grind cafe perks up Library

The Daley Grind at the UIC Daley Library is open for business. The cafe is located on the first floor of the Library, just south of the west entrance to the building.
The Daley Grind is operated by Sodexo, the company that provides dining services at UIC, and features organic, fair trade Green Mountain [...]

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Two New Research Guides

Ryan Rafferty, the Nursing Liaison from Urbana, has published two research guides:
Nursing Theory
Transcultural Nursing
These guides were based on research guides which were previously on the library website.  Please contact Ryan at rraffer2@uic.edu with any questions.

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Health article in CNN

This is an interesting discussion on some findings about the general public’s knowledge of anatomy.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/15/body.knowledge.survey/index.html

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Anatomical models for check out

LHS-U has models for you to check out.
The models are located behind the circulation desk. They can be checked out and used in the library for 3 hours.
We hope you find these useful. Along with the ones shown we have an eye, a kidney, a larynx, a male skeleton, and a [...]

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Nursing Employment Surge Article

In the AHA News email, I received Friday, I saw a summary of a web exclusive of an article in Health Affairs. The article reveals that RN employment has increased and may end the decade long health shortage. Still there may be shortages in the future. This article is available in the Web Exclusives [...]

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New Infectious Disease Database

GIDEON is a global infectious diseases database that can be used as a diagnostic tool.  It has information on over 300 diseases and over 200 countries.  Updated weekly, GIDEON has four modules: diagnosis, epidemiology, therapy, and microbiology.  It contains images, graphs, and interactive maps.
GIDEON can also be used on a PDA or phone. To [...]

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Upgrade to UIC Library catalog

An upgrade will occur starting on June 14th. Please read the details at: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/

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