DynaMed is a new clinical decision making tool available at UAB.  It was jointly acquired by the UAB Health System and Lister Hill Library and is available on and off campus.

The DynaMed interface is clean and easy to use.

Search or browse for your topic to receive short summaries with links to available evidence.  DynaMed employes a 7 step evidence based methodology to rate information.  They assign one of three levels of evidence.

DynaMed is available on your mobile device as well.  The set up is a bit tricky though, we have instructions posted to help.  Give DynaMed a try and let us know what you think.

ClinicalKey is a multifaceted clinical information platform that supports research, learning, and point of care decision making.  The search engine, designed as a clinical insight tool used to discover the most relevant medical content, allows for intuitive searching  through controlled medical taxonomy.  ClinicalKey contains expert opinion content as well as the FirstConsult mobile application containing evidence-based information.  ClinicalKey is marketed as a replacement for the aging MD Consult platform, and includes more content and a faster speed-to-answer retrieval.

Lister Hill Library is soliciting anonymous feedback from our health professionals and students on the usefulness of ClinicalKey.   Please fill out a short survey on your experience.

The trial ends Monday, July 2, 2012.

Following the methods of Urban Sketchers, your task is to sketch your favorite library spot! The rules are simple:

• Your sketch has to be of somewhere in or about a library. It doesn’t have to be of LHL, but of course we are partial to LHL.
• You have to be a current UAB student, faculty, or staff.
• This is a sketch so it can be as simple or as elaborate as you would like. It can be on a sticky note, coffee cup, old receipt, sketch paper, or whatever you have handy.
• We’ll post your picture to our Web site but you still own it.
• Send a scan or photo of your sketch to Lisa at lennis@uab.edu or bring it by the library and she’ll digitize it for you. Ask for Lisa at the HUB or drop your sketch and contact info off (don’t worry, your sketch will be returned to you).

We will draw for a winner on July 2!

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is currently trialing DynaMed, a desktop and mobile decision-making  point-of-care tool, to assist health professionals with clinical care. To download and access DynaMed on a mobile device during the trial, please contact LHL Associate Director for Content Management by email or 205-934-2460 to obtain a DynaMed serial number.

The UAB Health System is soliciting anonymous feedback from our health professionals and students on the usefulness of the DynaMed product. Please fill out a short survey on your experience. The trial ends Friday, June 8, 2012. The DynaMed mobile application will not work once the trial concludes.

If you have questions regarding this trial, please contact LHL Associate Director for Content Management by email or 205-934-2460.

Love the interlibrary loan service?  Hate it?  Never used it?  Give us your feedback so we can improve this important service.   Complete this survey and let us know what you think.  Thanks in advance!

You are a talented group!

On display February 13 – May 11, 2012

This annual juried show features all the entries in the Student, Resident and Faculty categories and is co-sponsored by the Alabama Alpha Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA).

A reception to announce the winners and with a silent auction benefiting VSA Alabama, the State Organization on Arts and Disability, will be on Thursday, February 23 from 6:30-8pm. Items in the silent auction include some of this year’s entries, donated by the artists! All are welcome.  Hope to see you there!

UAB IT has acquired an academic campus-wide (excludes Health System) license for EndNote software. EndNote is used to organize references, PDFs, and images and to create bibliographies in all citation styles. It is used when writing papers, articles and theses. EndNote now is free for faculty, staff and students for installation on UAB-owned and home systems. Download EndNote: http://www.uab.edu/it/software/

Lister Hill Librarians support EndNote and its web-based component EndNote Web.  Ask a Librarian to request an individual consultation or a workshop for your group. Other LHL support:

• LHL online guide to using EndNote
• LHL online guide to using EndNote Web
• Express Training classes  (Thursdays at 12:00 at LHL)
  • EndNote Web: February 9
  • EndNote Web: April 12
  • EndNote: April 26
• Online Express Training  (Mondays at 3:00 from your computer or tablet)
  • EndNote Web: February 13
  • Endnote Web: April 16
  • EndNote: April 30

(For assistance with installing EndNote, please contact AskIt by email or phone at 205-996-5555.)

LHL will close at 4 pm on Wednesday, November 23rd and will be closed all day Thursday, November 24th and Friday November 25th.  We’ll have regular hours on Saturday (9:30 am – 6:00 pm) and Sunday (Noon – 10:00 pm).  Hope you enjoy your holiday!

Your feedback is VERY important to us, supporting you and your teachers is part of our mission and one of the more fun ways I get to spend my day.  The library is participating in the LibQual survey through November 8th.  It seems difficult at first glance but this nationally run survey is designed to help us identify gaps between what you expect from a library and what we provide.  Please, take a few minutes to fill it out and be honest.  We can’t improve if we don’t know where we need to make changes.   For example, comments from students on this survey a few years ago led us to restrict our physical access, students let us know loud and clear that they wanted to feel like this was their library, not a community center–and we listened.   This is your chance to tell us what changes would improve your experience with our library.  If that isn’t incentive enough there will be a drawing for some pretty cool prizes as well so don’t delay!