The marketing team is working with UMLD to do a naming contest for the new UMLD Picker. So far we have 13 names so far. Next week, we will do a bracket to start voting on names!
Taira Meadowcroft
Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.
Library Workers Day Video
Yasuyo Knoll, at the Math Library, created a video for our instagram to celebrate the work library workers do. Basically what we do is magic. Thanks Yasuyo for making this video and sharing your creativity!
Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: March 2024
Each month we provide an overview of University of Missouri School of Medicine faculty-authored articles in medicine and related fields as well as a featured article with the highest journal impact factor.
This month’s featured article, “Identification of a leucine-mediated threshold effect governing macrophage mTOR signalling and cardiovascular risk”, was co-authored by Dr. Bettina Mittendorfer of the Departments of Medicine and Nutrition and Exercise Physiology. Read more about the research here, “Too Much of a Good Thing: Overconsuming Protein Can Be Bad for Your Health”. The article was published in Nature Metabolism (impact factor of 20.8 in 2022).
Note that Dr. James Stevermer also had a publication in JAMA as a member of the USPSTF:
See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: https://library.muhealth.org/facpubmonthlyresult/?Month=March&Year=2024
April 8th is Right to Read Day
Right to Read Day is April 8th and it’s the kick off to this year’s National Library Week!
So what can you do on Right to Read Day?
- Thank a Library Worker!
- Our library workers are dealing with unprecedented harassment and threats to their livelihoods. Whether in person or online, let them know you value their professionalism, dedication, and services they provide to your community!
- Check out (and read) a banned book
- Search our collection and if we don’t have the book you are looking for, you can request a copy from another Missouri library.
- Get involved with your local library
- Libraries are community institutions, and you can support your local library and spread awareness about its value in many ways. The best place to start is by talking to your librarian about how you can get involved. Did you know we have a Friends of the Libraries group at Mizzou Libraries?
- And there’s always more you can do! Visit the Right to Read website to find other ways to support your libraries and reading.
“Books bring us together. They teach us about the world and each other. The ability to read and access books is a fundamental right and a necessity for life-long success,” says Burton. “But books are under attack. They’re being removed from libraries and schools. Shelves have been emptied because of a small number of people and their misguided efforts toward censorship. Public advocacy campaigns like Banned Books Week are essential to helping people understand the scope of book censorship and what they can do to fight it,” Levar Burton, 2023 Honorary Banned Books Week Chair.
Button Making Party for National Library Week
National Library Week is April 7th-13th and to celebrate, the Communications/Outreach Department and the IDEA committee and are hosting a Button Making Party.
Join us April 9th in Ellis Room 159 from 11am-2pm. Drop in when you can and make whatever buttons you like!
Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: February 2024
Each month we provide an overview of University of Missouri School of Medicine faculty-authored articles in medicine and related fields as well as a featured article with the highest journal impact factor.
This month’s featured article, “Skin Antisepsis before Surgical Fixation of Extremity Fractures”, was co-authored by Dr. Gregory Della Rocca of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. The article was published in New England Journal of Medicine (impact factor of 158.5 in 2022).
See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: https://library.muhealth.org/facpubmonthlyresult/?Month=February&Year=2024
New Database Trial: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Standards Collection
MU Libraries has set up a trial for American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Standards Collection until June 1st, 2024.
Contains full-text access to all active American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) standards, including the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC). These codes and standards cover a breadth of topics, including pressure technology, nuclear plants, elevators/escalators, construction, engineering design, standardization, and performance testing
If you have questions about the database or how to use it, contact your librarian at ask@missouri.libanswers.com.
*A database trial is used to evaluate the resource and gather feedback from users to help us plan for collection changes in the future.
Resources for Disaster and Emergency Preparedness
In the interest of disaster preparedness, the Health Sciences Library staff have prepared a Disaster and Response Planning guide highlighting a list of books, websites and mobile apps for the use of emergency personnel.
In the event of an actual emergency, we are willing to prepare and lend a mobile disaster bookshelf, along with any of our available mobile devices, for use by emergency personnel.
This guide contains overall one-shelf recommendations. These can be put on a cart and checked out if requested by emergency personnel.
Call 573-882-4153 to request the mobile disaster books.
New Ebook Highlight: Bringing Evidence into Everyday Practice : Practical Strategies for Health Care Professionals
We’ve recently added The Bringing Evidence into Everyday Practice : Practical Strategies for Health Care Professionals to our online collection. This book was written by Winnie Dunn and Rachel Proffitt, both faculty in the College of Health Sciences.
Bringing Evidence Into Everyday Practice: Practical Strategies for Health Care Professionals provides a step-by-step process for learning how to use literature to inform quality practices in an accessible workbook format. This book simplifies analyzing research through repetition of core strategies and the systematic introduction of increasingly complex techniques for interpreting literature.
Students, early career professionals, and interdisciplinary teams alike can build a common language and structure for selecting and evaluating evidence to incorporate into their practices.
What’s included in Bringing Evidence Into Everyday Practice:
- Worksheets to guide learning, available in print and as writable PDFs online
- Ample opportunities to repeat and practice skills
- Summary articles, emerging practices, and data collection
- How to search databases, examine quality features, and identify the parts of a research article
- A library of articles that learners can access from their libraries
How to Find Ebooks at Mizzou Libraries
Mizzou Libraries has access to many ebooks and we have an easy way for you to search for them.
Go to library.missouri.edu and type out your topic or the name of the book (put the title in quotation marks for best results) you are looking for in the search box. Click the search button (see the image below for an example).
For books in health sciences, take a look at the Health Sciences Library ebook page.
For books in veterinary medicine, take a look at the Zalk Library ebook page.
For books in journalism and communication, take a look at the Journalism Library ebook page.
If you get stuck or have a question, our 24/6 chat is on the right hand side of the screen. We are here for you.
Scroll down through the search results until you see Filter by Format on the left hand side. Choose Ebook. If Ebook doesn’t show up as an option, choose Show More, then click Ebook.
