BiblioBlast, October 2018: Home

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:

October is National Medical Library Month!
New Computers and Printing System
Check Out Our Power Wallets
Get EndNote X9 from the Library
Trial to The Times Digital Archive
Commencement Exhibit on Display
New 3D Printer
Find Practice Guidelines
New Resource from uCentral
Try Culture Pass for Free Museum Admission
Radiobiology for the Radiologist
New from Clinical Key
New in Neuromethods

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. 

We've got the power! Recharge your mobile device with a portable power wallet from the Circulation Desk.  
Each charger has 1 Type C, 1 lightning, 1 micro charging connector and 1 USB port. Portable chargers can be borrowed for a period of four hours, and must be returned no later than one hour before closing.

The Library has added a second printer for use in its 3D printing service. The printer, a Prusa i3 MK3,  features a heated build plate designed to keep flat prints from warping at the edges. It uses 1.75 mm polylactic acid (PLA) filament - a bioplastic made from renewable resources.
This project was funded in part by a Technology Grant from the New York Metropolitan Library Council (METRO).
For more information, questions and to arrange a time to print, see our 3D printing guide. 

Come celebrate with us! See our National Medical Library Month pagefor more information. 

• Weekly Raffles: Are you Library savvy? Find out. Answer a trivia question and be entered to win an Amazon or Starbucks gift card! You have to be in it to win it!
• Get Carded!: New York Public Library Comes to Einstein. On Thursday, October 18 NYPL staff will be in the Forchheimer Lobby 11:30am-2pm as well as in the Library 4pm-6pm to register you for a new library card. This gives you access to 8 million books and DVDs, 300,000 eBooks, online magazines and so much more!
• Amnesty Week: Overdue books or journals? Return them on Monday-Friday, October 22 – October 26 and you won’t have to pay the fine! Does not apply to Reserve items, Laptops, iPads, or fines accrued for items previously returned.
• Trick or Treat at the Library: Stop by the Circulation Desk on Wednesday October 31!  Grab a treat! Spooky 3D printed decorations will be given out to those in costume.

Brand new up-to-date computers are now available for use in the Library. In addition, there are four new printers and a streamlined printing system. All four printers are configured to be used as printers, scanners, and photocopiers. For more information see our Printing, Scanning, and Photocopying guide.

Thanks to everyone on the Einstein IT team for making this happen!

A trial is now available to The Times Digital Archive. 

First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world’s ‘newspaper of record’.The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this historical source.

Let us know what you think. Send your comments to Racheline Habousha, Library Director.

Stop by the Library to see the 2018 Commencement Exhibit. The exhibit honors faculty members with Lifetime Achievement Awards, Distinguished Alumni Awards and Excellence in Teaching Awards, and graduating students now on display in the Library lobby. 

The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC), produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, will be permanently unavailable beginning July 16, 2018 due to a loss of federal funding. As this repository of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines has been a valuable resource, we want to make sure you can still access the information you need to provide quality patient care.

•  PubMed - Under the Article Types section to the left of the results, click on the Customize link, select Practice Guideline, click Show, and then click on the Practice Guideline option that displays under Article Types.
• DynaMed Plus - Select a specific monograph on the topic (e.g. Asthma in adults and adolescents), scroll down in the Topic outline on the left, and click on the Guidelines and Resources section.
• UpToDate - Select a specific monograph on the topic (e.g. An overview of asthma management), scroll down in the Topic outline on the left, and click on the Society Guideline Links section.
• ClinicalKey - Select the Guidelines option to the left of the results.

The suite of clinical resources available from the library through uCentral now includes Drug Interactions from The Medical Letter. Drug Interactions offers a quick guide to interactions between drugs and suggests precautionary measures.
 
Interactions can be searched by generic or brand name; brand names for combination products are not always listed. Reports of interactions between more than two drugs have begun to appear in the medical literature; where these have been documented, they are noted in the discussion section.
 
The following information is included for interacting drugs:

• the main effect(s)
• clinical significance of the interaction,
• management recommendations,
• mechanism of the interaction,
• discussion of clinical and research data related to the interaction,
• description of how similar drugs may or may not interact,
• list of supporting references.

uCentral provides cross-links that take you from one resource to related content on another. For example, drug information in Davis’s Drug Guide or the Johns Hopkins ABX Guide, is cross-linked to related information in Drug Iånteractions.
 
uCentral is available on the web and as a mobile app.

EndNote is available to registered users of the D. Samuel Gottesman Library who are affiliated with Albert Einstein College of Medicine. 
Read about EndNote X9's system requirements and word processor compatibility!

The eighth edition of Radiobiology for the Radiologist, by Eric J. Hall and Amato J. Giaccia, published by Wolters Kluwer, is now available online.
The eighth edition is a significant revision of this textbook and includes entirely new chapters. The book is divided into two parts. Section I is a complete self-contained course in the subject, suitable for residents in diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine. It follows the format of the syllabus in radiation biology prepared by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Section II contains more in-depth material designed primarily for residents in radiation oncology.

Culture Pass is a program for cardholding patrons 13 and older of Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library and Queens Library. Using their library card, New Yorkers can reserve a pass and get free admission to dozens of NYC cultural institutions, including museums, historical societies, heritage centers, public gardens and more. Find out more.