Steven Brill looks at hospital costs from the charge of a single acetaminophen tablet to the salary of the hospital president in his article, Bitter Pill: Why medical bills are killing us.
Resources and Services
Kindred Kingdom Exhibit
MU Libraries Hours Reduced Due to Inclement Weather
Closing times for Feb. 25.
- Ellis Library is closing at 10:00 p.m
- Engineering Library will close at 8:00 pm
- Geology Library will close at 6:30 pm
- Health Sciences Library will close at 9:00 pm
- Veterinary Medical Library is closing at 9:00 pm
- Journalism Library is closing at 9:00 pm
- Math Library is closed at 5:00 pm
All libraries will be closed on Feb. 26. Please check mualert.missouri.edu for further updates.
Pop Quiz: Which of these things can you check out at the library?
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Flash drives?
Headphones?
Camcorders?
Laptops?
Umbrellas?
Answer: all of the above! You can check out an umbrella for 1 day.
The other items listed above are just a sampling of the types of equipment available for checkout – view the complete equipment list here, along with availability and loan periods.
Did You Know…?
You can return books checked out at other campus libraries to the vet library? Return your books to us*, and we'll send them back to Ellis, HSL, Engineering, etc., for you.
You can also request that books from other libraries be sent to the vet library for pick-up. See how to request books.
*Exceptions: reserve items, recalled items, and journals should be returned directly to the owning library.
Emblems of Love are in the Air
Happy Valentine's Day! Today we're taking a look at Emblems of Love by Philip Ayres, a book "dedicated to the ladys" in 1683.
Ayres, a poet and translator, was a tutor to the Drake family and is known primarily in this century for his Lyrick Poems (1687). However, his Emblems of Love was a well-known success in his own time. Emblem books generally have engraved images or symbols with accompanying text or poetry, and they were popular during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Emblems of Love was one of the last of the genre to gain wide popularity in England.
The images for Emblems of Love feature putti and human beings in various activities, and are based on two earlier works: Amorum emblemata by Otto van Veen (1608) and Thronus cupidinis (1618). Some of the verses are also borrowed from these sources, although the English versions were composed by Ayres.
A sampling from Emblems of Love:
Special Collections in the News: Illumination Magazine
Incunabula and fine printing from Special Collections are featured in this semester’s Illumination, “Ink Indelible: Ellis Exhibit Features Masterworks from Printers Past.” The feature also includes a multimedia presentation on YouTube.
Black History Month Panel
New Exhibit at the Library
Stop by the main floor of the library to pay a visit to the Henkel Physicians exhibit. This exhibition was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, curated by Jim Labosier.
The Henkel Physicians: A Family’s Life in Letters offers a glimpse into the daily lives of men of medicine in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley during the 19th century. While it documents the working lives of physicians, it also illuminates social and home life and how one family experienced the Civil War. Covering more than a century of life in the Shenandoah Valley during which four members of the remarkable Henkel family practiced in the same area, this exhibition features a selection of writings that vividly illustrate the writer’s personality and their experiences as physicians. The letters cover local events, professional jealousies, the national crisis of the Civil war and finish with the dramatic testimony of the Henkel physicians in a murder trial.
You can view the vivid history of the Henkel Family at the Health Sciences Library until March 9th. Feel welcome to sign the guestbook as well. Click here for more information on the exhibit.
Health Literacy Advisor Update
Great news: thanks to DoIT, access to the software’s license is available on computer terminals throughout the library. Ask a librarian for more details!
The J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library has been awarded a one-year license for the English and Spanish software package, “Health Literacy Advisor,” thanks to the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Midcontinental Region. Use of this license will be available until April 2013.
Employees are welcome to use the program to review reading levels of their health information materials and then revise the documents to improve readability. You can use the software to scan the document and it will highlight words that may limit readability. You will then receive suggestions for language that is easier to read.
For more information, please contact Darell Schmick, information services librarian, at the Health Sciences Library at (573) 884-3575 or SchmickD@health.missouri.edu.