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 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 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.
Two additional sections of The Journal of Visualized Experiments are now available to UTHSC faculty, staff and students:
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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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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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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.
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 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.
The Health Science Center is administratively closing on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 12:00 PM
Health Science Center students, faculty and staff may stay informed of the campus’ status by:
- Calling 448-8ICE (448-8423)
- Health Science Center Web site
- WREG Channel 3 television station
- FM 100 radio station
Please note: Since the hot line (448-8ICE) can provide the most up-to-date information, it will be the official information source.