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Halloween Open House, Vol.3 (6) November - December 2005

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Halloween Open HouseOn October 31st, the Library held a Halloween Open House in conjunctionwith its celebration of National Medical Librarians Month. Costumed Librarystaff greeted Library users throughout the day. Visitors to the Library wereencouraged to enter their names for hourly drawings from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Among the prizes were two USB memory sticks, t-shirts, mugs,umbrellas, and selected historical books. The Library also had bookmarksand other free handouts available. In addition, a sale of historical andleisure reading books was held. Proceeds from the sales will benefit the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center.Faculty, staff and students from different institutions in the Texas MedicalCenter stopped by to register for the drawing and inquire about Libraryservices. We also had out of state visitors who joined us in the celebration.Our deep appreciation goes to our enthusiastic Library staff who contributedtheir time and effort to make this event a big success.New Resource: UpToDateThe Library is pleased to announce that the UpToDate clinicaldecision support system is now available. Frequent requests fromclients during the past year attest to the popularity of UpToDate.With comprehensive, current, illustrated and fully referenced information on more than 6,000 clinicaltopics, UpToDate is one of the most complete sources of synthesized information in internal medicineand its subspecialties: family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics.Remote Access is not available for this resource.For information on how to access this database, go to:http://resource.library.tmc.edu/resources/newresources.phpDo you have a story idea? Would youlike to contact the editor? 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In order touse this service from your computer and retrieve new items from PubMed youneed to download an RSS reader. There are numerous RSS readers from whichto choose and many are available to download free from the Web. Different RSSreaders behave and display data differently.For more information, visit the NLM Technical Bulletin link at:http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj05/mj05_rss.htmlTOXNET and DIRLINE Databases Available in PDA FormatTOXNET (TOXicology Data NETwork) is a system that includes free databaseson toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.DIRLINE (Directory of Information Resources Online) offers location anddescriptive information about a wide variety of information resources includingorganizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned withhealth and biomedicine.Both databases are now available in Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) format.To download information go to:TOXNET http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/pda/DIRLINE http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/pda/dirline.htmNews in HealthThe December issue of News in Health, including practical healthnews and tips based on the latestNIH research, is now available at: http://newsinhealth.nih.gov//As the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research,the content NIH produces is not copyrighted. 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Read and hear personal stories of depressionfrom real men with varied backgrounds, learn more about depression and findout how to get help.”From NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health.http://www.menanddepression.nimh.nih.gov/Library Class ScheduleAttend one or more free classes offered by the Library in January:Basic HTML, Evidence-based Medicine Databases, Navigating Full-TextJournals, or Advanced PubMed.For class schedule and registration visit: http://resource.library.tmc.edu/class/schedule.phptheInsiderinsider_nov_dec_2005  12/13/05  11:04 AM  Page 3

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