News, Academic-Health Science Libraries, Collection Management: Ruminations on Reference – Part 2: Using the (Real) or (Virtual) Library Collections

This is Part 2 of a 3-part post about managing and maintaining a core Reference collection, and the people who use resources available from University of Connecticut Health Center. As a state-funded public institution, and the only medical library in Connecticut open to the general public, Lyman Maynard Stowe Library is staffed 94-hours per week [...]

News, Academic-Health Science Libraries, Collection Management: Ruminations about Reference (Part 1)

Here’s an example of what I’ve been looking at all  week . month: Photo credit/Source: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/default.htm – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 . March is the month to turn towards the annual task of updating the Reference collection in the library (which is my responsibility).  The graduate students have their Spring Break this week, [...]

News: Today is Match Day 2009!

Today – Thursday, Mar 19 2009 – is Match Day 2009!  Good luck and God speed to every medical student in the Class of 2009! At 1:00pm (ET), fourth-year medical students will find out – simultaneously – where in the U.S. they will be spending the next year of their life as residents. This is [...]

News: Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

March 17, 2009 Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to You Erin Go Bragh! Photo Credit: http://www.clipartguide.com/_pages/0511-0902-1615-4658.html

Academic Medicine, Future Medical Students, News: AAMC Aspiring Docs

Photo Credit/Source: http://AAMC.org – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in January 2009 sponsored the first annual video contest for Aspiring Docs.  Ten awards were made to undergraduate students who “… revealed their dreams of a career in medicine and were rewarded with financial assistance from the AAMC to [...]

Blogs I Like: Biochemistry Questions Site

Biochemistry Questions Site is a teaching-and-learning blog whose author, Dr. H.D. Urquiza Hernandez, is a professor of biochemistry and holds a PhD in biological sciences. This is a multi-layered Q & A site which could be useful for medical students who are immersed in micro human biochemistry, or preparing to take the USMLE.  The site [...]

Economics, Academia, News: Budget Woes, Debt and Choice

An excellent, tongue-in-cheek essay about budget crises, managing cuts, faculty and finding alternative solutions was written by John Lombardi for the Inside Higher Ed blog on “Reality Check“  (Jan 8 2009). His fictional ‘fable’ does a good job at describing the many competing groups and forces operating within a large academic community. This has been [...]