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Del E. Webb Memorial Library
Loma Linda University
11072 Anderson Street
Loma Linda, California 92350

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Life & Limb Exhibit

 

Life and Limb: the Toll of the American Civil War  is now on exhibit in the Del E. Webb Library lobby.  More than three million soldiers fought in the Civil War from 1861-1865.  More than half a million died, and almost as many were wounded but survived.  Hundreds of thousands were permanently disabled by battlefield injuries or surgery, which saved lives by sacrificing limbs.  This exhibit explores the experiences of these veterans, who served as a symbol of the fractured nation and a stark reminder of the costs of the conflict.  This exhibition was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.

 

 

 

Back up your documents

Unpredictable events happen in life.  The same is true when it comes to using computers.   Computers can crash; the power can go out; documents get lost.  It is a good idea to have a backup plan to reduce the hassle that comes with recovering from these events.

The best investment you can make is to purchase a USB flash drive and use it to save your documents.  Save those documents repeatedly–more often when the document is important.  USB drives also give you portability to transfer your documents from one location to another.

If you don’t have a flash drive or forgot it at home, there are still options available to you.  Several companies now offer free cloud storage, typically 5 GB or more.  They require that you create an account with their service but offer the ability to upload documents to their cloud storage for safe keeping.  A few of the popular choices are:

Lastly if these services are not available to you, you can email yourself the document provided that it is not larger than your web-based email provider allows.

Computers at the University Libraries

The computers at the Del E. Webb Library should be treated as shared public workstations.  It is the responsibility of all patrons to protect their documents.  The best way to do this is to bring a flash drive and save your work to it.  A second option is to use one of the cloud storage options above, or email yourself.  Lastly, the library also provides a shared space on our public computers at D:\My Documents\.  However, this is a shared space that is accessible to anyone that logs into the computer.  All other storage locations on the library public computers are wiped clean upon every logout.  Any document saved to the Desktop or any other location other than an external location or D: will be unrecoverable when the computer logs out and reboots.  In addition, a computer will be automatically logged off if it is left unattended and idle for more than 10 minutes.  These procedures are put in place so that the computers are maintained in working condition for all users upon every reboot.  It prevents clutter, out-of-space issues, viruses and private information from being viewed by others.

 

Heritage Room Now Open

     The dust has finally (mostly) settled and the Heritage Room is now open. 

 

 Thank you for your patience!

EndNote and PubMed Classes

  Having trouble searching, or managing all the information you do find?  Acquire skills to become more efficient at finding and managing information at the following classes.  Open to students, staff, and faculty–all are welcome!

EndNote

Tuesday, February 21, 3-4pm

Centennial Complex – Conference Center – 4th Floor

PubMed Tips and Tricks

Thursday, February 23, 1:40 – 2:30pm

Centennial Complex – Conference Center – 4th Floor

See February 29 post with update! (Heritage Room Closed)

UPDATE

Effective Tuesday, December 13, 2011, the Heritage Room will be closed until further notice.  Sorry for the inconveniences  this might cause.  We hope the remodeling will be finished in January 2012.

-Loma Linda University Libraries

Introducing a new way to search CDC resources and TOXNET

A search in the database  STAT!Ref now also gives you results from TOXNET databases and four Centers for Disease Control resources; CDC Pink Book, CDC Yellow Book, The Community Guide, and Morbidity Mortality Weekly.

TOXNET, short for TOXicology Data NETwork, consists of many databases concerning toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and related areas. It is managed by the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP) in the Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).  To learn more about TOXNET, check out the fact sheet from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

STAT!Ref cross-searches the following TOXNET databases:

*Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)     *Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)     *International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER)     *Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System (CCRIS)     *Genetic Toxicology (GENE-TOX)     *Tox Town®     *Drugs and Lactation ( LacMed)     *Carcingenic Potency Database (CPDB)     *Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD)

To access these resources, merely perform a search in STAT!Ref from the library databases as you normally would and look for the Additional Resources column on the left.

UpToDate webinar series announcement

UpToDate Introduces Graphics Search

If you have ever needed an image or graphic to use in a class, paper, or presentation, you have likely used Images.MD (now a part of the Medical and Life Science collection of images on Springer Images), an image database we have made available for some time.  You now have another option.  UpToDate, a database primarily used clinically, now offers a graphics search.  Keep in mind that UpToDate is only available on campus.  For more information, see their flyer below.

Access Medicine

Our newest database, Access Medicine,  has been activated for Loma Linda University.  Content includes eBooks from McGraw-Hill such as these featured titles:

  • Harrison’s Online
  • The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 3e
  • Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2011
  • Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 12e
  • Hurst’s The Heart, 13e

iPads for checkout

Ever wanted to try out an Apple iPad?  Loaner iPads are available now to students and faculty for check out in the library.  See the library circulation desk for details and to try one out.

After you have checked one out, please let us know what you think so that we fashion the experience to your needs.  Thank you.