Super Searcher: Enhancing Your Online Search Super Powers

The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Library will host a Super Searcher workshop on Thursday, May 30, 2013, from 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM in the General Education Building, Room B107.

This 4-hour workshop emphasizes advanced search features of web search engines and online searching. Participants will develop search strategies that will increases the precision and scope of their online searching ability.

For more information and to register for this workshop, click here.


Healthy People 2020 Spotlight on Health Webinar: Social Determinants of Health

Join the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Library on Wednesday, April 24, 2013, from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM for Healthy People 2020 Spotlight on Health: Social Determinants of Health webinar.

Course Description

Healthy People 2020 places a renewed emphasis on identifying, measuring, tracking, and reducing health disparities through the new Social Determinants of Health topic area and objectives.

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Server maintenance may be performed on Sunday mornings between 8am and 11am

Server maintenance may be performed on Sunday mornings between 8am and 11am and result in temporary unavailability of ejournals, databases, and the online catalog.

Normally outages should last no longer than 10 minutes and will not occur every Sunday morning.


Server maintenance may be performed on Sunday mornings between 8am and 11am

Server maintenance may be performed on Sunday mornings between 8am and 11am and result in temporary unavailability of ejournals, databases, and the online catalog.

Normally outages should last no longer than 10 minutes and will not occur every Sunday morning.


New Content In JoVE

Two additional sections of The Journal of Visualized Experiments are now available to UTHSC faculty, staff and students:


Beyond the Search: Maximizing the Quality of Systematic Reviews

The Health Sciences Library will host Beyond the Search: Maximizing the Quality of Systematic Reviews on Tuesday, March 12, 2013, from 8 AM – 9 AM.

In this 1-hour session, you will gain a better understanding of systematic reviews, the role they play in informing practice and policy in health care today and opportunities for clinicians and librarians to influence the development of systematic reviews and improve the quality of evidence synthesis at your institution.

Space is limited. Registration is requested.
To register, click here.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

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iReachOUT Overview and Demonstration of NIH Gallery of Apps and Sites

The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Library will present and demonstrate the National Institute of Health Gallery of Apps and Sites on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, from 12 PM – 1 PM.

The NIH Gallery of Apps and Sites provides free access via smartphones, iPads, or other tablets to information on chemicals, disease, drugs, emergencies, human development, and toxicology.

Demonstrations will include

  • PubMed Mobile
  • PubMed for Handhelds
  • Using Kindle app to save/read PDFs from PubMed Mobile
  • And much more

For more information about the iReachOUT project, click here.

Faculty, staff and students borrowing an iPad from the library through April can be entered in a drawing for a chance to win an iPad case with keyboard. Brief pre and post surveys are required.

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Alexander Building Power Outage Should Not Affect Library Services

The UTHSC Facilities department will be performing major electrical maintenance on the circuits supplying the Alexander Building on Friday, February 22, 2013 beginning at 11 PM and lasting until 3 or 4 AM.

During this maintenance window, the library web server and access to online journal and databases should be uninterrupted.

The ITS computer room UPS (uninterrupted power source) and generator should keep servers on-line during the maintenance operations.

The library will close as normal, promptly at 11 PM, and anticipates reopening on it’s regular schedule at 8 AM, Saturday, February 23, 2013.


The Library is Presenting NIH’s Gallery of Mobile Apps and Sites

Join us today for a presentation on NIH’s Gallery of Mobile Apps and Sites. The UTHSC Library will give an overview of the tools and resources available through the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s mobile website. This session includes information that will interest the entire health science community, including clinicians, instructors, and students. Join us in starting the new year on a highly productive note with these exciting tools! See the flyer for more information.

During the session, 5 iPads will be available for test drive and checking out for 2 weeks after the session.

Time: 12 pm — 1 pm Location: GEB A304


Server maintenance may be performed on Sunday mornings between 8am and 11am

Server maintenance may be performed on Sunday mornings between 8am and 11am and result in temporary unavailability of ejournals, databases, and the online catalog.

Normally outages should last no longer than 10 minutes and will not occur every Sunday morning.