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The Medical Library Association created National Medical Library Month to raise awareness of the important role of health information professionals. Patients and those in the health care community need the specialized services that medical librarians provide now more than ever before. See postings in this newsletter to find out how Shimberg Library plans to do raise awareness and provide services to the community.
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October is National Medical Library Month at Shimberg Health Sciences Library
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“Reach Out and Read” Book Drive
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The USF Health Service Corp is sponsoring the “Reach out and Read” book drive. A donation box for new and “gently used” children’s books, and an annotated list of books for children is located at the entrance to the library. In Pediatric clinic waiting rooms, community volunteers – many of whom are USF students – engage the children with books and reading, looking and labeling, reading aloud, listening to the children read, and modeling book-related interactions for parents. The books you donate are available in the waiting and examining room for children to peruse while waiting to see the doctor. Later on, in the examining room, the pediatric care provider introduces an age-appropriate children's book into the visit, commenting on the child's response and offering information on the child's development. At each well-child checkup, the child is given a new book to take home. These books have been carefully chosen and are developmentally and culturally appropriate for the child. For more information on the USF Health initiative please visit. http://health.usf.edu/medicine/pediatrics/reach-out-read.htm As librarians, we all know how important books are, so let’s not just fill up one box for this worthy effort, let’s see if we can have the table overflowing with books!! Thank you
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Frankenstein a Shimberg Hit
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During October and early November, Shimberg Library hosted the display Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature. The exhibit examined how playwrights and filmmakers transformed the Frankenstein story into one of the Western world's most enduring myths. It considered how Mary Shelley's unfortunate creature frequently provides a framework for discussions of contemporary biomedical advances such as cloning, which challenge our traditional understanding of what it means to be human. Developed by the National Library of Medicine in collaboration with the American Library Association, this display was well-attended by the USF community. Pictured above Rick Haley, Systems, enjoys the Frankenstein exhibition.
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Shimberg Celebrates 2nd Annual Scholarly Activities Fest
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Clik here to view. Shimberg Library celebrated the 2nd annual October Scholarly Activities Fest which was a great success, drawing attendees from throughout the University. In honor of National Medical Library Month, USF Health Bookstore donated 2 Barnes Noble Gift Certificates, a drawing was held on October 29 and the winners were students Gene Pier, College of Medicine, and Gaela Parker, College of Nursing. To top it all off, Library Director, Bev Shattuck hosted a staff Halloween Pizza Party at which fun was had by all. Pictured left, Barbara Wood, Public Services Librarian, awards Gaela Parker, College of Nursing, her gift card.
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Length of Service for Shimberg Staff
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Tuesday November 17, 2010, Dean Klasko hosted a gala banquet at the Marshall Student Center to honor length of service for Faculty and staff of USF Health. Shimberg Health Sciences Library was well represented on this happy occasion. Pictured above left to right (front seated) include Beverly Shattuck, Director; Venetha Cox, Circulation, 5 years. Left to right in the back standing, Kristen Morda, Librarian, 5 years; Barbara Wood, Librarian, 5 years; Clint Cherry, Library Assistant, 20 years. Congratulations to all for their years of service!
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Book of the Month Display at Shimberg
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USF Health and the Shimberg Health Sciences Library celebrates their Published Faculty with our “Book of Month Display.” The inaugural display highlighted The Phantom Stethoscope: A Field Manual for Finding an Optimistic Future in Medicine Stephen K. Klasko, M.D., M.B.A. and Gregory P. Shea, Ph.D.
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Shimberg Health Sciences Library Hosts National Library of Medicine Display
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Clik here to view. Shimberg Health Sciences Library is proud to host the National Library of Medicine display, "Life and Limb, the Toll of the American Civil War" from 3/21 to 4/30/2011. The perspectives of surgeons, physicians, and nurses are richly documented in the history of Civil War medicine, which highlights the heroism and brutality of battlefield operations and the challenges of caring for the wounded during wartime. Yet the experiences of injured soldiers during the conflict and in the years afterwards are less well-known. Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War explores the experiences of disabled Civil War veterans and their role as symbols of the fractured nation.
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News from Shimberg Health Sciences Library
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Clik here to view. These are exciting times at the Shimberg Library, USF Health. Fall 2011 will usher in a new era-the College of Pharmacy Charter Class begins educating the 2015 PharmD class. A great deal of activity in many areas characterizes this occasion; from new quarters to new logos to new resources and additions to the Shimberg library collection. The Shimberg library has appointed John Orriola as the liaison to the new college and the college has recruited John as one of the instructors for the required Drug Information/Literature Evaluation course. USF Health now offers degrees in 5 professional health disciplines: Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, Physical Therapy and Pharmacy. It is a testament to planning, determination and foresight that in these difficult times, USF Health continues to thrive and prosper.
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Faculty Book Signing & Breakthrough Exhibit at Shimberg
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You are invited to attend a faculty book signing and the “Breakthrough” diabetes history exhibit (on display Oct 1-21) at the Shimberg Health Sciences Library on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 from 10 a.m.-noon. Featured faculty authors who will be signing their books include:
Dr. Curtis Margo
Dr. Barry Verkauf
Dr. C.B. Slonim
Dr. Eric Pfeiffer
Dr. Barbara Hansen
Dr. Thomas Gest
The Historical Society exhibit was inspired by a recently published book with a similar title, Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle, written by Thea Cooper and Arthur Ainsberg and published by St. Martin’s Press in 2010. Breakthrough is a work of historical fiction, with imagined dialogue, thoughts, feelings, and even perspiration mixed in with the historical facts.
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Congratulations Allison Howard
Congratulations to Shimberg Library’s Catalog and Reference Librarian Allison Howard on her acceptance to the Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute (SSLLI)! SSLLI is a 10 month State of Florida program that provides candidates with an opportunity to develop and strengthen leadership skills. Candidates attend monthly sessions designed to support their leadership development. Each candidate practices their skills on a self-identified and self-directed project that they lead throughout its completion with the support of a mentor. For more info on the program see:http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/bld/leadership/institute.cfm
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Kathy Manetta Goodman Retires from Shimberg Health Sciences Library
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Left to right: Becky Scott, Jeff Honker, Kathy Goodman, and Randy Polo.
After 24 years of library service in the Shimberg Health Sciences Library Circulation Dept., Kathy Manetta Goodman retired on May 31st, 2013. Kathy also worked as a staff member in the USF Main Campus Library for 5&1/2 years (with Jim Gray), and in the USF Media Library for 8 years. Prior to that, she also worked in the original USF Main Library for 4 years, from 1963 to 1967, as a student assistant. Kathy’s combined years of library service on the USF campus total nearly 42 years. She has seen USF grow from those first two classroom buildings, the Life Science building and the Chemistry building (where she had some of her English classes in the early years), to so many new buildings now that she doesn’t even know all of their names. The USF grounds were mainly sand in 1963, and there were very few sidewalks. Grass was planted later, along with more sidewalks. The original tall library building is now part of the Student Services complex. If you wish to stay in touch with Kathy, her gmail address is: kgoodmanetta@gmail.com
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Shimberg News
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Amy Van Middlesworth, began work at Shimberg on May 24th with six years of circulation and ILL experience from USF’s Lakeland library, was able to hit the ground running, and has rapidly proven to be a valuable member of the Shimberg team. Amy has a BA in Elementary Education and a MA in Library Science from USF. She has years of varied experience in the Polk County School System.
Lauren Adkins started July 15th as the new weekday evening-shift Library Assistant in Circulation. Lauren expects to receive her Masters in Library Science from USF in 2014 and is interested in Medical Librarianship. Lauren has previously volunteered at the main USF library’s Scholar Commons, volunteered at the Museum of Science and Industry, drove a USF Tampa campus shuttle bus, and lists among her hobbies keeping bees at the USF Botanical Gardens.
Madan Mohan Krishnavijayam Shyamala started August 22 as a Student Assistant in Circulation and ILL. Madan is just starting this fall on his Library Science degree at USF. He has two Bachelor’s degrees – one in Information Technology from the University of Madras in his native India, and one in Music Composition from Missouri State University. Madan’s responsibilities will include Sunday night closing procedures, customer service at Circulation, ILL and Document Delivery scanning, UBorrow/courier runs to Tampa Library, shelving, and shelf-reading.
Krystal Bullers, MA, AHIP started August 1st as Shimberg Library’s Emerging Technologies Librarian and College of Pharmacy Liaison! Krystal was awarded a Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund stipend in the amount of $2,000 to attend the 2013 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Annual Meeting this summer in Chicago. The Sewell Fund was established “to increase librarians’ identification with medical and health care professionals” (www.sewellfund.org) through immersion and meaningful interaction with practitioners; the AACP annual meeting (www.aacp.org) is the largest gathering of academic pharmacy educators, administrators, and staff. Previously Krystal worked in the Circulation and ILL Departments at Shimberg Library.
Kristen (Morda) Sakmar, MA was selected to volunteer for the MLA Research Agenda Systematic Review project! She’ll be working with other medical/health science librarians from all over the world (via email and Adobe Connect) for the next 6-12 months on a systematic review question that was developed by the MLA research committee. Kristen was also promoted from Instructor to Assistant Librarian.
Randy Polo, JD, MA attended the College of Public Health orientation and is shown working with the students during their orientation. Check out the article and pictures at : http://hscweb3.hsc.usf.edu/blog/2013/08/26/college-of-public-health-welcomes-new-students-with-record-number-of-online-offerings/
Allison Howard, MLIS, AHIP was promoted to University Librarian at the beginning of the 2013/2014 academic year. She also participated in the Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute and worked on a collection development leadership project. The project is now in Phase 2 with the faculty reviewing the collection.
Rose Bland, MA, AHIP received her Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management in December 2012. In addition she will graduate from the National Library of Medicine/Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Leadership Fellowship program in October. The AAHSL Fellowship is a one-year program designed to develop directors and provides in-person sessions, monthly webinars and discussions related to library leadership. It includes a fellow/mentor relationship with a two-week site visit to the mentor’s library. Rose’s mentor is Kathryn Carpenter, Professor and Associate University Librarian for the Health Sciences and Associate Dean Director, Greater Midwest Region, National Network of Libraries of Medicine Library of the Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Zombies Exhibit at Shimberg Health Sciences Library
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Zombies and the undead are big this year in the media and even in libraries. Staff member Lauren Adkins created the Shimberg Library’s newest exhibit assisted by Samantha Stewart, Jeff Honker, and Larry Cramer. The exhibit features three diseases and pathogens that exhibit “Zombie” like characteristics in patients.
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Shimberg Librarians Awarded 2nd Place for Research Poster
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Pictured left to right Randy Polo, Allison Howard, Kristen Sakmar, & Krystal Bullers
Allison Howard attended the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association (SC/MLA) conference this month and presented a poster created by Allison, Krystal Bullers, Randy Polo and Kristen Sakmar. The poster titled Library Resource Survey: Preliminary Sketches Essential to Collection Desing, was based on the data analysis of the library resources survey sent to all USF Health faculty, staff and students in the spring. The poster won 2nd place in the research division. SC/MLA is made up of medical librarians from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee and the Virgin Islands.
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Rose Bland, graduates from AAHSL/NLM Leadership Fellowship
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Pictured from left to right: M.J. Tooey, President of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, Rose Bland, Interim Director of the Shimberg Library, and Katherine Carpenter, Associate University Librarian for Health Sciences at U of I Chicago.
Rose Bland, Interim Director of the Shimberg Health Sciences Library, recently graduated from a national selective leadership program sponsored by the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries and the U.S. National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Called the Leadership Fellows Program, Bland was one of only five librarians chosen nationally to participate in the year-long fellowship. The other four Fellows chosen for the Leadership Fellows Program represent the University of Rochester Medical Center, the University of Colorado Denver, Yale University, and the University of Florida. Graduating fellows were recognized at a ceremony and reception held earlier this month in Washington, DC.
The NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program prepares emerging leaders for academic health sciences library directorships. Fellows participate in a series of in-person leadership training sessions, attendance at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) annual meeting, a year-long fellow/mentor relationship, webinars and discussions on issues related to library leadership, and a two-week site visit to the mentor’s home library. Bland was nominated to the Leadership Fellows Program by John Curran, MD, professor of Pediatrics, associate vice president for Academic and Faculty Affairs at USF Health, and senior executive associate dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs for the Morsani College of Medicine. (This post was written by Sarah Worth, USF Health Communications).
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Matters of the Heart Exhibit at Shimberg
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Samantha Stewart (left) and Lauren Adkins (right) pose in front of their exhibit at Shimberg Library.
Shimberg Library staff, Lauren Adkins and Samantha Stewart created an exhibit calledMatters of the Heart for February. Chocolate and wine lovers rejoice! Current studies show that the consumption of these once thought to be unhealthy vices can actually provide multiple health benefits. The high content of polyphenols present in grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, tea, and cocoa has been reported to play an important role in reducing the risk of a variety of heart diseases. The exhibit also showcased the USF Hearth Health Institute which broke ground on December 17th, 2013. The future $50-million, five-story, 100,000 square foot facility will be built at the center of the university’s health campus. The USF Heart Health Institute will focus on advancing research of cardiovascular disease and initiating important clinical trials that will lead to new and improved treatment methods. Lauren and Samantha worked together to research this engaging and informative exhibit. Samantha knitted a stunning anatomically correct heart as the centerpiece for the exhibit to the delight of the students.
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Congratulations, Allison!
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Allison Howard, Catalog/Reference Librarian at the Shimberg Library, recently published“Clinical Trials and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Webliography” in the most recent issue of Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. Allison was contacted by the column editors to write this article following up on her pathfinder supported by a Carnegie-Whitney Grant awarded by the American Library Association.
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News From Shimberg Library
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Jo Ella Young, Interlibrary Loan Librarian retired in June.
Allison Howard, Cataloger and Reference Librarian is now serving as our College of Public Health Liaison.
Krystal Bullers was appointed as the permanent Emerging Technologies/Pharmacy Librarian on August 1st.
John Orriola, former Education Librarian who is on phased retirement returned after his year off and will be with us through the fall semester.
Lauren Adkins, Library Assistant, graduated with her Masters from the School of Information.
John Scott, Network Administrator, graduated with a Bachelors degree in Information Technology.
Rose Bland, Director, was appointed to the State of Florida Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Advisory Council. Rose is also serving on USF Health’s Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) Self-Study Educational Resources Subcommittee.
Shimberg Library is undergoing more renovations!
On July 3rd the library staff competed the boxing, labelling, palletizing, and inventorying of 2172 boxes of material on 113 pallets (an estimated 50 tons of material). This collection move was in preparation for a renovation of over 4,000 sq. ft. of space that will become new study space. Randy Polo, Reference Librarian/Nursing Liaison and Larry Cramer, Library Operations Manager led this large and complex project with help from all library staff.
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Shimberg Staff Knit and Crochet to Benefit the Community
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With several knitters and crocheters among the Shimberg Library staff, Kristen Sakmar, Krystal Bullers, Allison Howard, Brenda Carnicom, Venetha Baker, and Denise Shereff from the USF College of Information, have been busy with an outreach project. They create squares using the yarn method and pattern of their choice which are then assembled into afghans and donated to various non-profits groups. The first afghan went to Warm-Up America and the second and third to The Spring, a Tampa-based domestic violence shelter. Word is spreading and another librarian, Claudia Dold, from the USF Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Library is joining us for the next one! Pictured here is the last one that was completed!
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Congratulations, Krystal!
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Medical librarian Krystal Bullers received an EBSCO/Medical Library Association Annual Meeting Grant to attend the 2015 Medical Library Association meeting in Austin, Texas. This award includes a $1,000 stipend for conference-related expenses and is presented to four medical librarians each year. Pictured here is Krystal receiving her award from Linda Walton, President of MLA. Congratulations, Krystal!
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