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JoAnn Van Schaik Joins Faculty as Director of Library Operations

Details: Written by Emily Vardell; Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: Who's Who at Calder: Staff Updates; Published: 01 June 2011; Created: 01 June 2011; Hits: 106910

The faculty of the Department of Health Informatics is proud to announce JoAnn Van Schaik has joined the department as Director of Library Operations. An acknowledged expert in consortial licensing and acquisitions, Ms. Van Schaik comes to the Calder Library with 25 years of experience in the field of health information sciences. Most recently she served as the Senior Director for Technical Services for the Libraries of the Health Sciences at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. In addition to saving her library millions of dollars through expert negotiating, as Senior Director she supervised cataloging, serials, acquisitions, license negotiations, and electronic collection development.

Ms. Van Schaik has achieved the highest rank, Distinguished Member, of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, Medical Library Association, and has been an active member in the South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, including serving on the Program Committee and as co-chair of the Local Arrangements Committee for annual conferences. We look forward to working with Ms. Van Schaik and learning from her expertise.

How to Set Your Internet Explorer Browser So Your Favorite Websites Open Automatically

Details: Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: Tips for Researchers; Published: 12 May 2011; Created: 12 May 2011; Hits: 166855

First, open up your Internet Explorer browser and type in your first website address. Click on the tab to open up another page and type in your second website address.

Click on another tab, enter in another URL, and repeat until you have entered all the websites that you want to automatically open when you open your browser. Then, click on Tools and select Internet Options...

Engaging Faculty and Friends Reception

Details: Written by Emily Vardell; Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: Come to the Library!; Published: 29 April 2011; Created: 29 April 2011; Hits: 119797

The Faculty and Friends Reception held at the Calder Library on April 26th was a resounding success. Dr. Mary Moore, head of the Department of Health Informatics and Executive Director of the Calder Library, opened the event, saying that the reception came about at the request of the Medical School Council. Faculty had requested more opportunities to talk together and identify possible opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. This was the third annual Faculty and Friends Reception. Dr. Moore announced that the theme for the event came the "Question of the Year" posed by Academic Medicine, the journal of the AAMC. That question is: What improvements in medical education will lead to better health for individuals and populations?

She introduced Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt, Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean of the Miller School of Medicine, who welcomed the group. Dean Goldschmidt highlighted the transition from procedural medicine in the 20th century to keeping people healthy in the 21st century. In this new landscape, Dean Goldschmidt noted, there are two types of doctors, those who use information tools and technologies effectively and those that wander aimlessly in the corridors. He acknowledged the Library, Dr. Moore, and Jackie Libretto for implementation of the University's electronic health record, UChart.

UpToDate Now Available

Details: Written by Dr. Mary Moore; Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: New Resources Announcements; Published: 18 April 2011; Created: 18 April 2011; Hits: 98231

We are pleased to announce that UpToDate, a key information resource to support clinical care, is once again available.

You can access UpToDate (UTD) from the Calder Library homepage or from your browser while on the Intranet. UTD is available at the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami Hospital, Jackson Health System (excluding Jackson North), Sylvester Cancer Center, the Regional Medical Campus in Palm Beach County and University of Miami health centers and clinics. It is not available remotely.

To see recent updates in UTD, click on “What’s New” at the top of the screen. Newer features include a drug interactions program and the ability to earn CME credit while using the resource. UTD has added more psychiatry and dermatology content, geriatrics and general surgery specialty resources will be available soon.

It is only because of the strong support of the Dean, the guidance of Medical Education, the advocacy of clinical faculty, residents, students and nurses, the flexibility of UTD, and extensive negotiation that the Miller School of Medicine was able to reinstate this valuable resource.

Click on the image below for further details about UTD.

Faculty and Friends Reception on April 26

Details: Written by Emily Vardell; Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: Come to the Library!; Published: 05 April 2011; Created: 05 April 2011; Hits: 99007

The Louis Calder Memorial Library
and the
Department of Health Informatics
invite you to the

Faculty and Friends Reception

April 26, 2011 from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm.*

Welcome by Dean Pascal Goldschmidt
Dr. William Hersh, Health Informatics expert, invited speaker
Ms. Suzetta Burrows, former Deputy Director, honored guest

Tasty snacks! Fine beverages! Stimulating ideas! Excellent company!

Please RSVP to Kimberly Loper at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

We look forward to seeing you there!

*Accommodations made for those attending Faculty Council at 5 pm.

Shared Resources Fair 2011

Details: Written by Emily Vardell; Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: Calder in the Community; Published: 25 March 2011; Created: 25 March 2011; Hits: 112410

On Wednesday at the Shared Resources Fair, Calder librarians spoke with more than 50 researchers about Tools to Save Time, Increase Productivity, & Help You Get Promoted. Many of the presented resources have been highlighted on this blog as well, including creating Auto Alerts to stay up to date with the latest evidence, using SCOPUS to find your h-index, and using SciVal Experts (formerly Collexis) to find collaborators on campus. Don't forget, we offer classes on all of these resources and are also happy to come out to where you are to help you in your research efforts.

Free Authoritative Health Websites Portal Now Available

Details: Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: New Resources Announcements; Published: 18 March 2011; Created: 18 March 2011; Hits: 113380

The new portal facilitates access to free, authoritative, and unbiased health information that is most useful to physicians, medical students and patients the world over. It serves as a complementary portal to our Spanish-language portal Sitios Electrónicos Médicos.

Free Authoritative Health Websites features freely accessible resources ranging from tutorials and citation analysis databases for PubMed, to online journals and medical books. It also provides links to help with writing documents, websites for organizations and institutions, and online translation services.

We hope you find this portal useful and welcome your feedback and suggestions.

Creating a Customized PubMed Filter for Non-Indexed Articles

Details: Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: Tips for Researchers; Published: 08 March 2011; Created: 08 March 2011; Hits: 125622

Below is a filter that you can add to your PubMed My NCBI account. With this filter, you can quickly look at only the non-indexed articles in PubMed. (The non-indexed articles are the new, “In Process” records that haven’t been indexed yet, the records sent in by the publisher and thus never indexed, and the old, non-indexed articles. These represent nearly 2 million articles.

Here’s when I use this option. There are only two limits that don’t eliminate the non-indexed articles—the publication date range and the language. If I still have too many irrelevant results, I might want to apply additional limits. So, I first look at the non-indexed articles by looking at my results in my filter (below) and selecting any of the articles I want to keep into my temporary Clipboard or permanent Collection. Then, I apply additional limits to my search. I will have eliminated the non-indexed articles from my results, but that is fine, as I have already looked through the non-indexed articles.

Open Access Portal for Scholarly Communications Launched

Details: Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: New Resources Announcements; Published: 03 March 2011; Created: 03 March 2011; Hits: 100199

Calder’s new Open Access portal provides information on the principles, concepts, and relevant resources for Open Access, as well as information on important issues in academic scholarly communications. In the true spirit of open access, this portal includes links to Open Access journals, organizations, and key resources that are widely available and free to download for the benefit of researchers, clinicians, consumers, patients, and readers the world over. We hope that this will be a helpful resource portal for you and welcome your This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to help us improve our services to the University of Miami community and the community at large.

New Mobile Food Court at the Library

Details: Written by Emily Vardell; Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: Come to the Library!; Published: 23 February 2011; Created: 23 February 2011; Hits: 102673

Are you looking for a quick bite for lunch? There is a new truck in town! Look for the "Outtakes" food cart making its rounds through campus. The cart is on the Fred Cowell Mall in front of your very own library every day from 11 to 12, offering salads, sandwiches, yogurt, fruit, chips, cereal, and candy. From there the cart travels to the Schoninger Research Quadrangle and then the Mailman Center for Child Development. The next time you're looking for something to eat, grab something on the "Outtakes" cart and then bring it into the library, where you have access to computers and study space. Look forward to seeing you soon!

Outtakes food cart

New Leisure Reading Collection

Details: Written by Emily Vardell; Parent Category: Calder Communications Blog; Category: Come to the Library!; Published: 17 February 2011; Created: 17 February 2011; Hits: 105602

leisure reading collection

The Calder Library is proud to announce our new leisure reading collection. Come into the library to browse our collection, which includes titles from Stephen King to Mark Twain, Jules Verne to Readers Digest Collections. The books can be found on the first floor of the library next to the Collaboratory. Feel free to browse a book in the library (there are some gorgeous atlases and history books) or check out a book and take it home with you for two weeks. You can always renew library materials by logging in through My Account on the library homepage. If you have any questions, please stop by the Circulation Desk. We are always looking for ways to make your experience enjoyable at Calder. Feel free to leave a comment on the blog, give us a call, or send us an This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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