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Check out this month’s new books at the Health Sciences Library. You can use the drop down menu to see previous month’s additions.
Have a purchase recommendation? You can request a book for your teaching or research using this form.
Starting Dec.16, the elevator in the Health Sciences Library will be closed for replacement.
If you need assistance accessing materials on the 1st and 3rd floors, you can:
Replacement is now scheduled to finish no later than Jan.21, however, this date is still subject to change.
Campus Facilities is working to ensure that the elevator will be operational by the official start of the spring semester.
We will keep everyone informed of any changes throughout the project
Please note, the Health Sciences Library will be closed December 25th to January 1st for the holidays so our services will not be available. We will reopen January 2nd.
Intersession Hours (Beginning Sunday Dec. 15th):
Monday-Friday: 8:00am-5:00pm
Saturday: 10:00am-7:00pm
Sunday: 12:00pm-5:00pm
Intersession Hours after Jan. 2nd
Monday-Thursday: 7am-10pm
Friday: 7am-6pm
Saturday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 1pm-10pm
Special Hours:
Sunday, December 22nd: CLOSED
Wednesday, December 25th-Wednesday, January 1st: CLOSED
Monday, January 20th (Martin Luther King Day): CLOSED
Each month we provide an overview of University of Missouri authored articles in medicine and related fields as well as a featured article from a School of Medicine author with the highest journal impact factor.
This month’s featured article is:
“Self-renewing endometrial epithelial organoids of the human uterus” was co-authored by Dr. Danny J. Schust and Dr. Thomas E. Spencer of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women’s Health. The article was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (impact factor of 9.58 in 2018).
See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: http://library.muhealth.org/resourcesfor/faculty/faculty-publications/nov2019
*This list is not intended to be comprehensive.
Did we miss something? Email asklibrary@health.missouri.edu and we will add your publication to the list.
Check out this month’s new books at the Health Sciences Library. You can use the drop down menu to see previous month’s additions.
Have a purchase recommendation? You can request a book for your teaching or research using this form.
Tipparat Udmuangpia, who works at the Health Sciences Library, was chosen as the Doctor marshal for the Fall Commencement Ceremony on December 13th. She was selected based on her academic performance and her contributions to MU and the campus community through her leadership, volunteerism, and mentorship.
It’s been an absolute treat to have Tipparat in our library. Congratulations, Tipparat!
It’s that time in the semester again: FINALS.
From Dec.1st to Dec.14th the Health Sciences Library will have extended hours. Check our hours page throughout the week.
Make sure to take a break and grab some hot chocolate and cookies in the atrium:
All week we will have puzzles and coloring pages out for you to enjoy.
Due to a software upgrade, article requesting via FindIt@MU and Illiad will not be available Tuesday, November 26.
Urgent article requests can be emailed to ellisi@missouri.edu during the outage:
We apologize for the inconvenience.
From Nov.26th-27th, the first floor will be restricted to 3rd year medical students for testing between the hours of 8:00am-5:00pm.
If you need a book from the first floor, please visit the Service Desk.
Remember, if you need to print, use the Health Sciences Library Copy Room printers located on the main floor of the library.
Deb Ward has been appointed interim vice provost for libraries and university librarian, effective Nov. 28, 2019. Ward has been the director of the MU health sciences libraries, which includes the J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library and the Zalk Veterinary Medical Library, for over 20 years. In 2016, she also became the associate university librarian for specialized libraries. Ward has been active in local, regional and national library organizations. Ward was a co-creator of the Missouri AHEC Digital Library, an information service for health care providers in the state of Missouri, created in partnership with the Mid-Missouri Area Health Education Center. In addition, she has been the principal investigator for the Missouri coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine since 2002. She is a partner with three other campus collaborators in the three-year project “Librarians as Catalysts for Healthy Communities,” funded by the Institute of Library and Museum Services. Previously, Ward held a number of administrative appointments at three other academic health sciences libraries. She earned a bachelor of arts in German and a master of arts in education from Eastern Kentucky University. She also earned a master of library science from the University of Kentucky.
Other interim assignments: