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Bracken Library Holiday Closure

Posted: December 23rd, 2011

The Bracken Health Sciences Library will close at 4:30 p.m. on Friday December 23rd and will re-open on Tuesday, January 3 2011 at 8:00 a.m.  See complete hours

Use these forms to ask a question or to request a literature search.  Queries and requests will be responded to when the library re-opens.

Happy holidays!

Stress Relief Week at Bracken Library

Posted: December 8th, 2011

Bracken Library users were invited to participate in a variety of activities during “Stress Relief Week” (Dec. 28-Dec.2).  Click here for more info and photos of Bracken’s “bookmas tree”.

Extended Hours During Exams

Posted: December 8th, 2011

Stauffer Library is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from December 4 to December 20. See hours for other campus libraries.

Bracken Library’s Holiday Tree

Posted: December 5th, 2011

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The Bracken Health Sciences Library’s holiday tree, made from bound journal volumes!

Librarian Amanda Ross-White credentialed Health Information Professional

Posted: November 24th, 2011

Health Sciences Librarian Amanda Ross-White, MLIS, has been credentialed by the Medical Library Association as a senior member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals.  The AHIP designation recognizes the time and effort a health information professional commits to professional development activities.  Ms. Ross-White earned a Master of Library & Information Studies degree in 2002 and joined the Queen’s University Library in 2004.

Queen’s Medical Students visit the National Library of Medicine

Posted: November 14th, 2011
photo credit Stephen Greenberg

photo credit Stephen Greenberg

Medical students from Queen’s Meds 2015, 2014 and 2013 visited the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland on Nov. 5th.  NLM is the largest medical library in the world–home of Medline, Pubmed and inventor of MESH headings.  This visit was part of the 13th annual HIstory of Medicine Field Trip–for the first time to Washington DC (see previous History of Medicine field trips).  In the photo, the 55 medical students and Dr. Jacalyn Duffin, Hannah Chair, History of Medicine, had just spent two hours visiting the Historical Collections with Stephen Greenberg.  Dr. Greenberg is Coordinator of Public Services, History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine.

NEJM Essay & Video Contest

Posted: November 14th, 2011

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The New England Journal of Medicine is celebrating its 200th anniversary with an essay & video contest for students!

The context is open to nursing students, rehabilitation therapy students, medical students, medical and health sciences postgrads as well as undergraduates interested in a career in the health professions.

To enter, simply submit a 500 word essay or 2-minute video on the following topic:

In the last twenty years, the internet and social networking have brought profound changes in how information is communicated.  How can we harness this technology to improve health?

120 entrants will receive invitations to the NEJM 200th anniversary symposium [in Boston] Friday June 22, 2012. 30 entrants will receive a travel award in the amount of $500 to attend the symposium and 3 entrants will receive a travel award in the amount of $1,000.

For full contest details, visit http://www.nejm.org/page/nejm-anniversary-essay-contest

 

OCUL Licensing Database

Posted: October 27th, 2011

Queen’s subscribes to hundreds of databases that include millions of journal articles, newspaper articles and ebooks. For each of these databases, Queen’s signs a license that allows students, faculty and staff to use the materials in these databases for different purposes. Most databases allow you to link to material, but some also allow you to include material in coursepacks and/or post materials in Learning Management Systems like Moodle.

In the past, it has been very difficult to find out what rights were included in each license, but we have now put in place a database that allows you to find out exactly what is permitted under the terms of the licensing agreements that we have with each database provider. This information is now integrated into services like Summon and the Get It! @ Queen’s links that appear when searching in Google Scholar – meaning that you will not need to search a stand-alone database to find out what you can do with specific articles.

Watch a quick video of how this new service works here:
Licensing Database 2-Minute Demo.

If you have any questions about the terms of use for these databases, please send an email to Mark Swartz at copy.right@queensu.ca.

Note: This menu will only appear for some of the databases in our collection. This is just a start – over the coming months, we will be adding Terms of Use information for all of the databases in the library electronic collection.

Queen’s Library gets an A

Posted: October 25th, 2011

In the Globe & Mail Canadian University Report 2012 (available in today’s paper and online at www.globeandmail.com/education), undergraduates have given Queen’s Library an A grade — the only library in the large, medium and small categories to receive such a high mark. University Librarian Martha Whitehead attributes this undergraduate student satisfaction to the people engaged in library services. “Librarians and staff work very closely with faculty and students to ensure we’re enhancing learning and research and supporting a spirit of inquiry,” says Whitehead, “Libraries are often referred to as the soul of the university, and we’re fortunate that ours is highly valued by students, faculty and administrators across Queen’s.”  With its strong role in the Queen’s community, the library has ranked top in its category in the Globe & Mail Canadian University Report survey for several years.

The Library views the Globe & Mail survey as one important measure of its services and resources. A variety of assessment methodologies have been used in past years, and the library administration is in the process of reviewing those and building upon them.”Academic programs and the information realm are continually evolving, so we’re continually checking and evolving as well,” says Whitehead.

Queen’s received the most A grades, and the only one for most satisfied students, in the large, medium or small universities, and an A+ for reputation with employers. For further information, see the the Queen’s News Centre.

Open Access Week @ Bracken

Posted: October 24th, 2011

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Queen’s University is participating in International Open Access Week (Oct. 24-30). The aim of this event is to engage the research community in discussion about the issues and trends related to open access and promote awareness and understanding of open access – access to material publicly available online. More info

An open access exhibit will be displayed at Bracken on October 31 and November 1.

 

You can also register to attend several free webinars on open access that have been posted on the Queen’s Library website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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