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Quickly Export Citations from RefWorks to QUOSA
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Have you been saving citations for a paper or project in RefWorks? Would you like to download all of the article PDFs with one click? Now you can by combining the powerful features of the bibliographic manager RefWorks with QUOSA Information Manager. Find out further details by reading this handout or by contacting your friendly reference librarians at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or (305) 243-6648. Let us know what else we can do to make your research easier!
New Mobile Library Website
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The Louis Calder Memorial Library is proud to announce the launch of its new mobile website designed for Internet-enabled mobile phones. Users can now access most of the popular and frequently used features from the library’s full website. The new site can be accessed directly at: http://calder.med.miami.edu/mobile.
Users can search our catalog and electronic databases, stay updated with news and events, view the library hours, connect with our reference staff and much more.
The mobile website is optimized for the following mobile operating systems: iOS (Apple), Android, and later versions of RIM’s Blackberry OS.
We are still in the testing phase and will be updating periodically as we get feedback from you - our clients. We welcome your comments, so please feel free to contact us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or leave a comment below.
If you have your phone out, you can scan the QR code below to access the new mobile site:
Read Popular Books with the Click of a Mouse
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Check out our virtual bookshelf:
We know how difficult it can be to find the electronic book you are looking for. All of these books have been cataloged for your convenience and are now easy to find in the library's catalog. Search or browse our catalog to find all of the books that are most useful to you in your research.
Book Sale is a Success
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- Written by Emily Vardell
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Thank you to all who have been supporting the Calder Library's book sale. Thanks to your generosity, we have raised $1098 which has been donated to United Way. What a great way to start the new year!
The book sale is still going on and everything has been discounted! All books are now only $1. Books that were previously only $1 are now 50 cents. So come to the library and take advantage of this sale!
Happy New Year from Calder!
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The Calder librarians, staff, and retirees wish you a very happy new year. We look forward to serving you in the upcoming year. If there is anything we can do to provide better service to you, please leave a comment or send us an email. Happy 2011!
Suzy Burrows Retires after 30 Years of Service
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- Category: Who's Who at Calder: Staff Updates
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Suzetta Burrows, Director of Library Operations, has announced her intention to retire at the end of December this year. Suzy came to the Calder Library in 1980, working for Henry Lemkau as Associate Director for Media and Regional Programs.
Nurtured by her dedication, Calder health information outreach services have flourished over the past 30 years. Suzy founded the CLASSIC program for community hospitals, clinics and corporations, which was nationally acknowledged as a model in self-sustaining healthcare information outreach. CLASSIC continues to meet the information needs of thousands to this day, and has recently been extended to international clinics and hospitals.
Suzy served as co-PI on two major Calder Library Information grants, Point-of-Care, Team-Based Information System (POINTIS) and Southeast Florida AIDS Information Network. Most recently, as co-PI on a third National Library of Medicine award, she helped launch the Calder partnership with south Florida public librarians in support of the highly successful, medical student led, DOCS health fairs.
She guided the transformation from print to online collections at the Calder Library. By stewarding university resources through the years, continued access was maintained to the wealth of resources that are the foundation of the Calder Library. Her understanding of scholarly publishing and electronic access was acknowledged when she was named co-editor this year of a column for the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries.
As a member of the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Suzy served as Chair of the Association, as well as chair of the Continuing Education Committee, Nominating Committee, Strategic Planning Committee, and co-chair of two Convention Committees for the annual meetings in Key Biscayne (1984) and Coral Gables (2003). Her mentoring of other librarians was twice recognized by the Southern Chapter.
Suzy also has been a member of the Medical Library Association (MLA) since 1969, serving as Chair of the Communications Committee, the Ida and George Eliot Award Jury, and the Medical School Library Section. She has been a Distinguished Member of the MLA’s Academy of Health Information Professionals since 1990.
Her professional expertise and service have left indelible marks on the Louis Calder Memorial Library. Although she will be enjoying a well deserved rest, Suzy has assured us that she will be available in the future to help document the contributions of others to the Miller School of Medicine through oral histories.
We hope you will join us when we will recognize Suzetta Burrows and her many accomplishments at the Spring Faculty and Friends reception at the Calder Library. Details will follow.
The Least You Need to Know Series: PubMed Central
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PubMed Central (PMC) is the digital repository of free articles from the National Library of Medicine. PMC includes the historical archives of some journals, as well as current research articles. All of the journals in PubMed Central are freely available to researchers and some are open access, which means they are available under a license which allows for more liberal distribution. You may have heard about PubMed Central when reading about the NIH Public Access Policy and the requirements for NIH-funded researchers. Read more about author manuscripts deposited by NIH-funded researchers, as well as see the list of journals available in PubMed Central. If you are interested in receiving updates when new journals are added, subscribe to the PMC News mailing list. If you have questions about PubMed Central or the NIH Public Access Policy, call your Calder librarians at (305)243-6648 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Calder Medical Library Book Sale
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It's baaack! Our annual book sale to benefit United Way begins, today, Nov 16th 2010. Located at the lobby of Calder Library.
Thousands of books – best sellers, classics, military history, science, medical books – will be offered for sale at bargain prices. Come join us. Come help a good cause. Always a bargain!
UPDATE: Mention that you're a reader of the Calder Communications Library Blog and receive $2 off your purchase!
MeSH at 50: 50th Anniversary of Medical Subject Headings
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Come celebrate with us!
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), created by the National Library of Medicine, has been the worldwide standard subject authority for bibliographic control for 50 years. MeSH terms and the capabilities their hierarchy permit made MEDLINE the first and, to this day, one of the most effective databases in the world. Join the Health Informatics Faculty and the Calder Memorial Library in celebrating its 50th Anniversary.
The National Library of Medicine’s celebratory broadcast will be received in the third floor electronic classroom on November 18, 2010 from 2:00-3:30pm. All are welcome to attend.
The speaker will be Dr. Robert M. Braude, who received his Masters of Library Science in 1964 from UCLA and attended MEDLARS training at the National Library of Medicine in 1965. His talk reflects his 45 professional years with MeSH. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 1987, he was director of three academic health science libraries, and he served on many NLM Committees and Panels such as IAMS Review Committees, the Planning Panels on Medical Informatics, NLM Outreach Programs, and the Biomedical Library Review Committee. He is a Fellow of the Medical Library Association and of the American College of Medical Informatics.
If you are interested in learning more about the history of MeSH, check out the first volume of MeSH, which the National Library of Medicine’s History of Medicine Division has scanned and placed online.
Accessing ISABEL and Micromedex on Your Smart Phone
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You can access ISABEL on your iPhone, Blackberry, or Android phone. On your phone’s Internet browser, go to the library’s webpage, and click on ISABEL (one of the Featured E-Resources in the center of the page). If you get a "Cannot Verify Server Identity" message, click on the Continue button. You will be sent to the EZproxy login page; enter your name and library’s barcode as shown in this example. In the handheld version, you will have access to some of ISABEL’s powerful resources, but not all. For example, the only e-book you will have access to is the excellent 5-Minute Clinical Consult, but not the other e-books.
In order to access the full content of Micromedex on your iPhone, Blackberry, or Android phone, you’ll need to get a username and password from Micromedex. First, access Micromedex from the library’s homepage, click on the blue MICROMEDEX 1.0 (Healthcare Series) button on the upper right, and then click on the gray Handheld PDA tab at the top towards the center/right. Scroll down to the mobileMicromedex 2.0 for iPhone/iPad, Blackberry, and Droid section. You’ll need to use the username and password given on this page. The username and password changes every 3 months (Jan., Apr., July, Sept.), so you’ll need to visit this link again in the future to get a new username and password.
Lastly, Micromedex also has a free app, but it only contains the drug information. From iTunes, search the App Store for the Micromedex Drug Information app.
If you have any questions about these resources, please contact the Reference librarian faculty at 305-243-6648 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
One Stop Shop for Genomics Information
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As your Biomedical Research Librarian, I have created a portal for Genomics here at the University of Miami. This portal includes links to the Genetics and Bioinformatics resources at the University of Miami as well as links to different databases and tools at other institutions. I have included information about human and non-human genetics and information about gene therapy and stem cell research. We encourage feedback from the University of Miami community as we work to make this resource more comprehensive and complete.
We hope this portal will be an invaluable resource for you. If you have any questions or suggestions about the portal, please contact the Department of Reference, Education & Community Engagement at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..