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EndNote X4.0.2 & PubMed Journal Abbreviations
PubMed journal abbreviations not working correctly? The PubMed connection file included with EndNote X4.0.2 for both Windows and Mac places the full journal name in the Journal field rather than the abbreviated journal name. A new connection file is now available to import journal names correctly.
Note: not all veterinary journal abbreviations are loaded into the journal terms list, so this new connection file may not fix all the abbreviations. But it should help!
Instructions from EndNote:
The Medical terms list in EndNote keys on the abbreviated journal name for presenting the appropriate variation in your bibliographies. By replacing your X4.0.2 PubMed connection file with this copy, you will restore the journal name substitution with the terms list. This only applies to EndNote X4.0.2, other versions are not impacted. To properly install this new connection file:
- Download the connection file from the link above and save it somewhere easy to find, such as your Desktop.
- Double-click on the downloaded file to open it in the EndNote software.
- Click the File menu in EndNote and select Save As.
- IMPORTANT: Make sure that the name shows here as PubMed (NLM). You may need to remove the word “Copy” to get it to show exactly correctly. Then, click Save.
- The correct connection file is now installed in EndNote. You can delete the copy that you downloaded.
Questions? Email Kate.
Fun Stuff in the Library
Think Like a Doctor (Contest)
Try your best to make the diagnosis. Can you solve a medical mystery involving a healthy child who is losing her hair?
This is a one day contest posted on March 23 in the New York Times.
Tennessee Williams’ first two plays
Before Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Glass Menagerie, there were Beauty is the Word and Hot Milk at Three in the Morning. And before he went by Tennessee, playwright Thomas Lanier Williams was an MU student. This weekend kicks off campus-wide celebrations of Williams’ 100th birthday, and to join in the festivities, we’re featuring two manuscripts of his earliest plays.
Beauty is the Word was Williams’ very first play. It was submitted for the MU Dramatic Arts Club’s Dramatic Prize Plays contest in 1930. The play was produced on stage as part of the competition, but it appears not to have won an award in the contest. Over the course of one act, two young and worldly aesthetes visit their austere and forbidding missionary relatives somewhere in the South Pacific. When the natives revolt and threaten to burn down the mission, the young couple saves the day by appealing to the natives with dance and music rather than fear of damnation.
Hot Milk at Three in the Morning was Williams’ sophomore submission to the Dramatic Prize Plays contest. The play focuses on an argument between a young married couple who are trapped by poverty and illness. It was staged in 1932, and like Beauty is the Word, it received an honorable mention. Williams revised the play in 1940, titling it Moony’s Kid Don’t Cry. It was included in a compilation of the best plays of 1940 and was the first of Williams’ plays to be published.
Both manuscripts are a part of the University of Missouri Collection, which features official publications along with the works of faculty, staff, and distinguished alumni.
Green Fire Showing on April 7
Join us for the Missouri premiere of Green Fire! The film shares highlights from Aldo Leopold’s extraordinary career, explaining how he shaped conservation and the modern environmental movement. See how Leopold’s vision of a community that cares about both people and land continues to inform and inspire people across the country, highlighting current projects that put Leopold’s land ethic in action.
DATE: Thursday, April 7, 2011
TIME: 7 PM; doors open at 6:30 pm
LOCATION: Conservation Hall, Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources building
ADDRESS: On Rollins Street, between the Christopher Bond Life Sciences building and the Agricultural building.
This event is free and open to the public. After 5 pm, free parking is available at the Hitt Street, University and Virginia Avenue Garages.
Sponsored by MU Libraries, MU School of Natural Resources, MU Department of History, Missouri Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology, Missouri River Relief, Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture and Columbia Audubon Society.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS EVENT, contact Christine Montgomery, MU Libraries, (573)814-9134, montgomeryc@umsytem.edu; FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ALDO LEOPOLD AND GREEN FIRE, visit www.GreenFireMovie.com.
Projects and Problems in Digital Humanities
Albert & Mary Lord Collection
Albert Bates Lord and Mary Louise Lord’s private libraries were donated by the generous Lord family to the University of Missouri Libraries in 2010. A University of Missouri Classics and English Professor, John Miles Foley and former student of Albert Lord, was able to secure the collection for the use in University Libraries. On Thursday February 10, 2011 there was a reception and talk by John Miles Foley about Lord and his library. In continued celebration of the Lord collection we thought we should share some images, with our blog readers.
Albert Lord documented oral tradition world-wide; he was specifically interested in oral performance and composition. Due to his B.A. in Classics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature he was well suited for a career exploring oral tradition. He specialized in recording Serbian heroic poems, but also studied Homeric epics, Beowulf and Gilgamesh. Lord accumulated a large and unique library while professor at Harvard College. Additionally, he chaired and helped found the Department of Mythology and Folklore at Harvard from its inception through 1983, when he retired.
Mary Louise Lord, an academic herself, was a professor of Classics for many years at Connecticut College. She also contributed to her husband’s work through editing and helping him reflect on his work. Her part of the library represents her professional interests, contributing many classic works. Specifically of significance is part of Heinemann Publishing’s classic literature texts. They are pictured to the right and provide either Latin/English or Greek/English texts. She helped publish The Singer Resumes the Tale, one of Albert Lord’s books published posthumously.
One of the books is a signed copy of, Heinrich Schliemann’s, “Ithaka Der Peloponnes und Troja.” On the left is the title page with an inscription, which could be translated as: “To the lover of the arts Mr. Erik Barren (or Henry Warren?) as a memorial. 1874. Schliemann.” Schliemann, an archeologist of the 19th century, is credited with the archeological dig that unearthed ancient Troy. He submitted this work, written in Greek, to the University of Rostock in hopes of attaining a doctoral degree. He was
granted a Ph.D. based on this work, in 1869. 
Additional interesting items from the donation include an Albanian shepherd’s costume that is from the 20th century, two Sviralas, Croatian reed-type instruments, and Lord’s typewriter. This collection is currently being cataloged and processed. After, these important steps the items will be housed in MU Libraries. You can find a listing of all the books through the MERLIN catalog through: Lord Collection University Of Missouri Columbia Libraries
Best-Selling Author Angie Fox to Speak at Friends of the Libraries Luncheon
Angie Fox, the New York Times bestselling author of the Accidental Demon Slayer series will speak at the Friends of the Libraries Luncheon on April 9, 2011 at noon. Fox, BJ ’94, worked in television news and then in advertising before beginning her career as an author. For ticket information, contact Sheila Voss at 882-4701 or VossS@missouri.edu.