Natural Standard is pleased to announce the availability of a new advanced search interface within the increasingly popular Recipe Database.

In addition to regular exercise, well-balanced meals and sensible portions are important to overall health. The Natural Standard Recipe Database, launched in May 2012, features a wide range of healthy recipes in the following categories: Beans & Legumes, Dairy, Eggs, Fruit, Meat, Pasta, Poultry, Rice & Grains, Seafood, Vegetables and Nuts, Fats & Oils.

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Quickly and easily search an extensive library of high-quality graphics from UpToDate including more than 25,000 pictures, tables, illustrations, diagrams, graphs, algorithms and videos, without using a separate search engine.

After searching a clinical term, select “Graphics” from the menu in the left navigation. For even faster access, select “Graphics” from the dropdown menu in the Search box. With either approach, the resulting graphics appear in thumbnail format. Clicking a thumbnail opens a larger version of the graphic.

Accessing topics with references to graphics

Each graphic references and links to related UpToDate topics under “Appears in Topics.” And from within an UpToDate topic, you can see all corresponding graphics.

Watch a brief video demonstration to learn more about conducting a Graphics Search, sharing information with patients or colleagues, and exporting graphics to a presentation.

UpToDate (anonymous on-campus session)

Scott Library added these 41 e-books in February and March to the growing collection:

• Age-related Macular Degeneration
• Bennett’s Cardiac Arrhythmias
• Breast Imaging
• Cell Physiology Sourcebook
• Chestnut’s Obstetric Anesthesia
• Choosing the Correct Radiologic Test
• Coté and Lerman’s a Practice of Anesthesia for Infants and Children
• Creative Solutions to Enhance Nursing Quality
• CT and MRI of the Whole Body
• Cytology: Diagnostic Principles and Clinical Correlates
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As part of our ongoing efforts to improve our Maintenance Services, the University and Hospitals are seeking input from our staff and students regarding your use of these services and whether or not they meet your expectations as a customer.

To help us focus our efforts, we’ve put together a brief survey designed to gather feedback that will aid us in improving customer service, increasing team productivity and better preserving the life and functionality of Jefferson’s buildings.

The survey, which will take less than two minutes to complete, gauges satisfaction with the maintenance request process, timeliness of responses to service requests, quality of those services, and more.

Your participation in this short survey is important to shaping our improvement initiatives moving forward — providing key information on areas we need to focus more closely on to address employee feedback about our processes, our services, and the upkeep of our buildings.

The survey will be open until April 5. Your input is important, please consider participating.

TAKE SURVEY NOW

The grand opening of the 10 small-group rooms on the second floor of Scott Memorial Library was held on Tuesday, March 19^th. The rooms are now ready for use.

Reserve a small group room now 

For groups of up to 6 students, the rooms are designed to support group study and collaboration. Each room is fully equipped with a computer, a large flat screen monitor, and a writing surface. Students will also be able to connect their laptops to the large screen.

View Student Collaboration Rooms Policies

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Join us for the next 12:15 Tech Talk, part of a series of 30-minute talks by faculty members sharing technical tips and solutions. You’re welcome to bring your lunch and beverages will be provided.

When: Monday, March 25, 2013, from 12:15 to 12:45

Where: Scott Library, Room 200A

Topic: Creating and Using Scoring Rubrics

Speaker: Mary Hanson-Zalot, RN, MSN, AOCN

Description: This session will focus on the creation and implementation of scoring rubrics. Basic rubric construction will be presented along with discussion of rubric functions for varying levels of students. Some information on the use of rubrics in the new Blackboard system will follow.

Update 3/28/13: Slides from this presentation have been posted in the Jefferson Digital Commons.

Need to brush up on your RefWorks skills, or just want a quick introduction to the software? Sign up now for a webinar tutorial, conducted by RefWorks trainers. Please note that registration is limited and enrollment is required.

How to teach RefWorks Basics (taught in 30 minutes)
During this 30-minute session, you’ll rapidly learn: how to create an account; direct export citations from two databases; create a folder; create a bibliography from a list of citations; and create a bibliography using Write N’ Cite. This session is primarily designed for those who will train on RefWorks and to learn how to do so quickly; however, those who are new to RefWorks can learn the basics in this 30-minute session.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013
11:00 a.m. EDT
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Wednesday,  April 24, 2013
2:00 p.m. EDT
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The inaugural Berkowitz Humanism in Medicine Lecture “Why do we make it so difficult to die well in American health care institutions?” was presented by Arthur Caplan, MD, on March 5^th, 2013. The lecture has been archived and is available via the Jefferson Digital Commons.

If you have any Jefferson produced materials that you would like archived in the JDC, including conference posters, presentations, handouts, annual reports, etc., please email me.  With over 1 million downloads and over 7,000 Jefferson authored assets, the JDC is a great platform for sharing your work with a global audience. To learn more and check out the variety of resources indexed in the JDC check out our new guide: http://jefferson.libguides.com/jdc.

Dan Kipnis, MSI, Senior Education Services Librarian and Jefferson Digital Commons Editor, 215.503.2825 or Dan.kipnis@jefferson.edu

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi is the March selection for the Jefferson Book Club.

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi’s living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.

Join your colleagues for the next Jefferson Book Club discussion on Tuesday, March 19 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm in room 200b Scott.

All students, faculty, and staff welcome. Lunch will be provided. Copies available from Jefferson Bookstore at a 30% discount and at Scott Library.

Please RSVP to joanne.gotto@jefferson.edu

As we continuously strive to make the library collections accessible and pertinent, librarians are reviewing some of the older 4th floor books for withdrawal. These are medical books with older Dewey Decimal call numbers, and they are currently on shelves on the 11th street end of the 4th floor. The publication dates range from the early 20th century to about the mid 1960′s.

During our review, we are identifying seminal works, books by important authors, local authors, or that have some other local interest, and a range of subjects important to the curricula here at Jefferson. Many items are being moved to archives storage for integration into the Special Collections. Books that will be retained in the 4th floor stacks will be reclassified according to National Library of Medicine guidelines and integrated into the general collection. Items identified for discard will be sent to a recycling facility.

UpToDate is now available for use off campus!

The first time you connect to UpToDate using the link on JEFFLINE, you will be asked to provide your campus key and password. Once you log in you can create a personal account for future use of the UpToDate system. Creating an account only takes a few seconds and you won’t have to re-enter all of the information each time you connect through JEFFLINE.

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In early January renovations began on the second floor of Scott Library. The construction of 10 small-group collaboration suites along the east and west sides has been progressing and should soon be visible as the construction walls are removed at the end of February. A grand opening is planned for March 19^th.

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If you’ve wanted to try an iPad, or if you’ve wondered what the excitement was about, Scott Library now has iPad 1s available for 3-week checkout. This is your chance to take one home, try it with iTunes on your computer, play with the software you’re interested in, and get help from us while you become familiar with it.

Configure our iPad to your content, install apps, download music, movies or books, browse the web, check email… find out what you’re missing.

Learn more about our iPad 1 lending program.

Need to brush up on your RefWorks skills, or just want a quick introduction to the software? Sign up now for a webinar tutorial, conducted by RefWorks trainers. Please note that registration is limited and enrollment is required.

How to teach RefWorks 2.0 in 15 Minutes (taught in 30 minutes)
During this 30-minute session, you’ll rapidly learn: how to create an account; direct export citations from two databases; create a folder; create a bibliography from a list of citations; and create a bibliography using Write N’ Cite. This session is primarily designed for those who will train on RefWorks and to learn how to do so quickly; however, those who are new to RefWorks can learn the basics in this 30-minute session.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013
2:00 p.m. EDT
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Wednesday,  March 20, 2013
10:00 a.m. EDT
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