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Over the summer, Ellis Library added new adjustable desks in Room 202 and in many of the individual study rooms.
These desks are fully adjustable making it easier to fit the study area to your preference making them more accessible to all of our students.
We also added in new power outlets and lamps into 202.
These adjustable desks were purchases with funds from the Enhance Mizzou Fee.
We have spaces for everyone. If you prefer silence, check out rooms 201 and 202 in Ellis Library. Check out this Ellis Library floorplan to see all the quiet spots. Journalism also has four private personal study pods on the bottom floor that are first come, first served.
If you don’t prefer complete silence, try the Information Commons (the first floor of Ellis Library). Or the Bookmark Café on the ground floor for coffee and conversation. You can always take a look at the Ellis Library sensory map to find the best study space for you.
If it’s a group study spot you are searching for, try to reserve one of the group study rooms in either Ellis, Engineering, or Journalism. They can be reserved for up to two hours for each group. Some also have Solstice monitors to help groups studying together share information with one another. Whatever you need, make sure and plan ahead, as rooms fill up quickly! Currently, the Health Sciences Library is under renovation.
Remember, if your program has its own library, be sure to check out those spaces, as they are often designated specifically for you!
We’ve recently added The Washington Manual of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement by MU Health Care Chief Quality Officer Dr. Emily Fondahn to our online collection.
Concise, portable, and user-friendly, The Washington Manual of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement covers essential information in every area of this complex field. With a focus on improving systems and processes, preventing errors, and promoting transparency, this practical reference provides an overview of PS/QI fundamentals, as well as insight into how these principles apply to a variety of clinical settings.
Part of the popular Washington Manual series, this unique volume provides the knowledge and skills necessary for an effective, proactive approach to patient safety and quality improvement.
Fall 2023 required and optional textbooks for classes are now available and we have a new way system to find them!
Pick the school/college, then your program, and finally the course. It’s as easy as that. Access textbook copies at the Health Sciences Library here.
Note: Paper copies will be available at Ellis Library for 24 hour checkout time during the Health Sciences Library Renovation. Any duplicate copies of textbooks are available and subject to regular check out times.
Some ebooks are limited to one viewer at a time, so please close your browser window when you are finished so that the book will be available to others.
Unfortunately, we don’t have all the books required for every class. If we don’t have your textbook, there are several avenues you can use to find a copy, which are all clearly labeled on each class page.
You can also recommend the Health Sciences Library purchase an online copy here. Please provide what course the textbook is for and the name of your instructor.
We had another successful escape room event during Welcome Week this year! We had 150 students register with a few dozen on the waiting list. The students had a great time and that is thanks to all of those who helped this year!
You can see the photos of the groups and their different times they escaped here.
Thanks to our room helpers and escape room planning team!
John Henry Adams
Jara Anderson
Megan Ballenge
Johanny Veiga Barbosa
Anne Barker
Shannon Cary
Vera Elwood
Gwen Gray
Gabe Harman
Mara Inge
Taira Meadowcroft
Jeannette Pierce
Jennifer Walker
Rhonda Whithaus
Some others we need to thank: Ellis Library Circulation and the Journalism Library for letting us use all the ipads; Ellis Library shelving for shelving all the books we used during the event; Gayle Mooney and Jacqueline Eiben for helping order all the items we needed; Sheila Voss for helping with some escape room set up; and everyone who volunteered for the escape room run through back in July; And to anyone else we may have missed. 🙂
It takes a lot of people to help with this event and we appreciate all the time, big or small, you’ve contributed to make this fun event happen for the new Mizzou students.
We’ve recently added Strategic Science Communication: a Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for More Effective Public Engagement to our online collection.
What tactics can effective science communicators use to reach a wide audience and achieve their goals?
Effective science communication—the type that can drive behavior change while boosting the likelihood that people will turn to science when faced with challenges—is not simply a matter of utilizing social media or employing innovative tactics like nudges. Even more important for success is building long-term strategic paths to achieve well-articulated goals. Smart science communicators also want to create communication opportunities to improve their own thinking and behavior.
In this guidebook, John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo encapsulate their practical expertise in 11 evidence-based principles of strategic science communication. Among other things, science communicators, they argue, should strive to seem competent, warm, honest, and willing to listen. Their work should also convey a desire to make the world a better place. Highlighting time-tested methods for building rapport with an audience through several modes of communication, Besley and Dudo explain how to achieve each strategic objective. All scientific communication is goal-oriented, and Besley and Dudo discuss the importance of recognizing the right goals, then employing strategic and tactical communication in order to achieve them. Finally, they offer specific suggestions for how practitioners can evaluate the effectiveness of their communications (and in fact, build evaluation into their plans from the beginning).
Strategic Science Communication is the first book to use social science to help scientists and professional science communicators become more evidence-based. Besley and Dudo draw on insightful research into the science of science communication to provide readers with an opportunity to think more deeply about how to make communication choices. This guidebook is essential reading for all professionals in the field.
Have a book checked out from the Health Sciences Library and need to return it? You can return books to our pickup lockers
Simply contact us to request a return. Once we receive your request, we will email you a locker code to open the lockers and return your books.
The lockers are located in the Medical Science Building, just across the courtyard from the Medical Annex.
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, “Early Brain Amyloid Accumulation at PET in Military Instructors Exposed to Subconcussive Blast Injuries” , was co-authored by Dr. Carlos Leiva-Salinas and Dr. Amolak Singh of the Department of Radiology. The article was published in Radiology (impact factor of 19.7 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=July&Year=2023
This week we posted a reel on instagram featuring Jara from Vet Med. Thanks, Jara!
Since posting on Monday, it has 164 likes and almost 3000 views.
And if you haven’t, you should follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mizzou.libraries/
Below is a list of recently published Pubmed articles from the University of Missouri related to COVID-19.
If you need assistance accessing the articles, please email asklibrary@health.missouri.edu.
Pubmed collection of MU authored COVID articles
Carney PR, Stevenson DW, Riggs E, Dervisevic M, Carney CX, Gomez CR. Thrombectomy of an Acute Ischemic Stroke in a Child with COVID-19 and MIS-C: Case Analysis and Literature Context. Children (Basel). 2023;10(5). Epub 20230509. doi: 10.3390/children10050851. PubMed PMID: 37238399; PMCID: PMC10217304.
Coulis G, Jaime D, Guerrero-Juarez C, Kastenschmidt JM, Farahat PK, Nguyen Q, Pervolarakis N, McLinden K, Thurlow L, Movahedi S, Hughes BS, Duarte J, Sorn A, Montoya E, Mozaffar I, Dragan M, Othy S, Joshi T, Hans CP, Kimonis V, MacLean AL, Nie Q, Wallace LM, Harper SQ, Mozaffar T, Hogarth MW, Bhattacharya S, Jaiswal JK, Golann DR, Su Q, Kessenbrock K, Stec M, Spencer MJ, Zamudio JR, Villalta SA. Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics identify a macrophage population associated with skeletal muscle fibrosis. Sci Adv. 2023;9(27):eadd9984. Epub 20230707. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.add9984. PubMed PMID: 37418531; PMCID: PMC10328414.
Dahu BM, Khan S, Li WS, Shu X, Woldu H, Popescu M, Sheets LR, Scott GJ. Demographic and Time Trend Analysis of COVID-19 Test Results of Boone County, Missouri. AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc. 2023;2023:91-100. Epub 20230616. PubMed PMID: 37350871; PMCID: PMC10283117.
Gandhi M, Tarar ZI, Farooq U, Saleem S, Chela HK, Daglilar E. The COVID-19 Infection Resulted Delayed Esophagogastroduodenoscopy in Patients Admitted with Variceal Bleeding: Hospital-Based Outcomes of a National Database. Diseases. 2023;11(2). Epub 20230521. doi: 10.3390/diseases11020075. PubMed PMID: 37218888; PMCID: PMC10204571.
Kirby BJ, Swearingin TJ, Muzaffar AR. Applications of telemedicine: Plastic surgery in the COVID-19 era. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2023;83:484-6. Epub 20230614. doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2023.06.036. PubMed PMID: 37384963; PMCID: PMC10264330.
Potere N, Garrad E, Kanthi Y, Di Nisio M, Kaplanski G, Bonaventura A, Connors JM, De Caterina R, Abbate A. NLRP3 inflammasome and interleukin-1 contributions to COVID-19-associated coagulopathy and immunothrombosis. Cardiovasc Res. 2023. Epub 20230530. doi: 10.1093/cvr/cvad084. PubMed PMID: 37253117.
Tallon EM, Gallagher MP, Staggs VS, Ferro D, Murthy DB, Ebekozien O, Kosiborod MN, Lind M, Manrique-Acevedo C, Shyu CR, Clements MA. Diabetes status and other factors as correlates of risk for thrombotic and thromboembolic events during SARS-CoV-2 infection: A nationwide retrospective case-control study using Cerner Real-World Data™. BMJ Open. 2023;13(7):e071475. Epub 20230709. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-071475. PubMed PMID: 37423628; PMCID: PMC10335498.
Triggle CR, Marei I, Ye K, Ding H, Anderson TJ, Hollenberg MD, Hill MA. Repurposing Metformin for Vascular Disease. Curr Med Chem. 2023;30(35):3955-78. doi: 10.2174/0929867329666220729154615. PubMed PMID: 35909294; PMCID: PMC10286558.
Weston K, Bullock L, Hsu AL, Wan XH, Burnam-Cole M, Everett KD, McElroy JA. Maternal COVID vaccination and breastfeeding during a pandemic: Habitus and health behavior decision making. Public Health Nurs. 2023. Epub 20230625. doi: 10.1111/phn.13221. PubMed PMID: 37357425.