Welcome to BiblioBlast, the newsletter of the D. Samuel Gottesman Library of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. BiblioBlast will inform you about new Library resources and keep you up to date with our classes, events and other activities. It will also highlight tips to make our online resources easier and faster to use.
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In this issue:
The Library Has Games To Borrow
Henry Stewart Talks, Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection
Library Exhibit Honoring Editors of Journals, Annuals & Web Sites
Sync Browzine Across All Your Devices
Find Streaming Videos in the Catalog
Workshops are held via Zoom. Click on a title to sign up.
Contact the Reference Department for more information, or to schedule an individual or small-group session.
See our full listing of events.
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Musculoskeletal Imaging: Case Review Series by 
Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies by 
Sabiston Textbook of Surgery by 
The Library has a small but growing collection of board and dice games. They are available on reserve in the Library for a one-day loan.
Occam’s Razor, a card game, was created by two physicians to be both a game and a study aid to challenge diagnostic ability. The game draws on the classic theories of Occam’s razor and Hickam’s dictum, that the simplest explanation is usually correct and that patients can have as many diseases as they please, respectively. According to Nerdcore Medical, the game creators, Occam’s Razor is useful for USMLE Step 2 CS prep. The game features fourteen conditions, from acute appendicitis to septic arthritis.
Also available on reserve are Antidote, Pandemic, and Pandemic: The Cure. For more information on all of these games, see our games guide.
The Library currently has a paid trial subscription to Henry Stewart Talks, Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection, co-sponsored by the Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Steven A. Porcelli, MD, Chair, and the Graduate Division of Biomedical Sciences, Victoria H. Freedman, PhD, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs. The Collection provides 2000+ audio seminars by researchers from around the world, including a few Nobel laureates. Seminars cover research, developments and fundamentals in biochemistry, cancer, genetics, immunology,and more. HSTalks can be accessed onsite and off-campus through the Library website or directly.
The Library is preparing its annual exhibit recognizing Einstein faculty editors of journals, series, annuals and websites. If you presently hold an editorial position at a journal, series, annual or website, please send an email with your name, title, department, phone number as well as the name of the publication and your editorial position to karen.sorensen@einstein.yu.edu. The deadline for submissions is July 22.
Phone the Reference Department at 718-430-3104 if you have any questions. The exhibit will be on display in the Library lobby on the first floor of the Forchheimer Building from August through September.
Those of you who use of Browzine to browse and read your favorite journals can now sync your bookshelves and get article alerts on all of your devices – web, iOS, and Android. If you make changes to your bookshelves on any device – add journals, read articles – your bookshelves will synchronize across the web and all your mobile apps.
To try it, just download and install the latest version of the app. A personal account is now required to use My Bookshelf on mobile devices just like on the web.
If you have been using My Bookshelf on the web and on your mobile device, your new BrowZine Account will initially default to what you have configured on the web. After that, any changes you make on any device will be synced across all devices.
We are happy to announce that two poems by our own Systems Librarian, Winifred King, were published in the Spring 2016 edition of Ad Libitum, Einstein’s art and literary magazine.
The library now has access to a number of streaming videos on various subjects, including biology, psychology, science education and more. Go to Albert, the library catalog and search “streaming video” (without the quotation marks) to find them.
The Book Club continues its 2016 theme of books about or set in New York City, with Spidertown, Abraham Rodriguez’ “crackling good read” {Los Angeles Times) about a Bronx teenager caught up in the 1990s drug trade. Join us on September 7 at 9:00am to discuss it.
For those who would like to plan ahead, the following selection is The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, by Deborah Blum. We’ll meet on November 9 at Noon to discuss it.
The Book Club welcomes new members from the entire Einstein community. We meet every other month. Send an email to askref@einstein.yu.edu for more information.