October 2010

Rajia Tobia,
Executive Director
of Libraries
(210) 567-2413
tobia@uthscsa.edu

San Antonio
Administration
(210) 567-2400

Briscoe Library
Circulation Desk
(210) 567-2440

Information Desk
(210) 567-2450
askalibrarian@uthscsa.edu

UT Health Science Center

Library Downtown
(210) 358-3939 Photos by Walter Creech.

Heartbeats, a photo by Sarah Stayer, is part of the Student Global Health Photo
Jesse H. Jones Exhibition, on display in the Briscoe Library Information Commons through the end
Comprehensive Research of November. For more information about the exhibit, go to 10.
Library
(210) 567-2450
In the news this month:
October is National Medical Librarians Month- Help us Celebrate Page 2
One Community/One Book 2010: Calendar of Events Page 3
Harlingen Harry Potter’s World: Exhibit opens this month Page 4
Ramirez Library Renaissance Science, Magic and Medicine: Local exhibit showcases the Page 5
(956) 365-8850
resources of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library
Library classes for October Page 6
More library classes Page 7
Laredo Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic and Medicine: Page 8
Calendar of Events
Laredo Regional Campus
Keith Cogdill selected for NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program Page 9
Library
Libraries partner with School of Nursing in diabetes study Page 9
(956) 523-7404 Farewell to Gary Goodson Page 9
Student Global Health mounts photo exhibit in Briscoe Library Page 10
2010 EDUCAUSE Online Conference: In the Briscoe Library Page 11
6th Annual Health Literacy Conference: Register now! Page 11

FOR LIBRARY CLASSES, go to page 6

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October is National Medical Librarians

Month— Help us celebrate
October has the distinction of being National Pizza Month,
National Pickled Pepper Month, National Spinach Lovers Month,
but did you know that October is also National Medical
Librarians Month?
Medical librarians are information professionals who support
universities, hospitals and other health care organizations in
their mission to teach the next generation of health care
providers, advance health through research, provide excellence in
clinical care, and offer service to communities. At the UT Health
Science Center, librarians teach classes to students on resources
for evidence-based practice, manage the Briscoe Library and four
branch libraries, handle licensing and access to over 16,000
electronic journals and databases, serve as the official records
manager and archives depository for the university, provide
service on university committees, design and mount exhibits, and
offer information services to our campus communities— in
addition to many other duties.
Graphic courtesy of the Medical Library Association
By serving as a Resource Library within the National Network of
Libraries of Medicine, the service reach of the UT Health Science To celebrate National Medical
Center Libraries goes beyond the UTHSC campuses to 32 Librarians Month, we invite you to
counties in South Texas served by outreach, educational, and be our guests in the Briscoe
interlibrary loan services provided by UT Health Science Center Library on October 28 from 8:30
librarians and library assistants. to 10:30 a.m. for coffee, tea and
Please join us in celebrating National Medical Librarians Month breakfast treats.
by letting us know in a few words What Your Library and October 28 is also “Library
Librarians Mean to You. Please go to this link and let us Snapshot Day,” sponsored by the
know what medical libraries and librarians mean to you in your Texas Library Association. Please
daily life. take time to have your photo taken
Do you use journals and databases? Check-out books? while you are here .
Study in the library? Ask librarians for assistance
when you can’t find the information you need? We hope to see you!

Has one of our librarians helped you with EndNote or

Refworks, records management, or a computer issue?
Did we cancel your favorite journal (yes, we want to
hear the bad as well as the good)?
Teach a class for your students? Help with a grant
application? Serve on a committee with you?

Let us hear from you!

Rajia Tobia
Executive Director of Libraries
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One Community/One Book 2010: Calendar of Events

October Book Discussions
Science Communication Workshop
When: Friday, October 1
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Human(e) Research– Your
Where: Location on RSVP responsibilities as a scientist
Facilitator: Penelope Borchers When: Tuesday, October 12
RSVP to: Penelope Borchers, 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
borchers@uthscsa.edu Where: Medical School Room 309L
Reception to follow, hosted by the Graduate Dean
When: Tuesday, October 5 Dr. Michael Lichtenstein: History of human
12noon-1:00 p.m. subject research: “the ugly, the bad, and the
Where: Howe Room, good”
5th floor, Briscoe Library
Dr. Joseph Schmelz– Director, Institutional
Facilitator: Rajia Tobia
Review Board: Human research at the UT
RSVP to: Rajia Tobia, tobia@uthscsa.edu
Health Science Center: “working together”
When: Wednesday, October 6 12 noon-1:00 p.m.
Where: Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute
Facilitator: Helen Sorenson
RSVP to: Helen Sorenson, sorenson@uthscsa.edu
8th Annual Frank
When: Thursday, October 7 12 noon-1:00 p.m. Bryant, Jr., M.D.
Where: RAHC, 313A (Faculty Lounge), 3rd floor Memorial Lecture in
UT Pan American Library Medical Ethics
Facilitator: Dr. Johnny D. Short
Speaker: Rebecca
When: Monday, October 11 12 noon-1:30 p.m.
Where: Room 432F
Skloot, author
Facilitator: Donald J. Dudley, M.D., Professor, The Immortal Life
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Of Henrietta Lacks
When: Monday, October 11 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Where: Anaqua Room (2.03.08), UC Phase II, UTSA
(map) Friday, October 15
Facilitator: Carley R. Bach 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
RSVP to: Carley R. Bach, carley.bach@gmail.com Reception and Book
When: Wednesday, October 13 Signing: 1:30 PM
6:00 p.m. -8:00 p.m.
Health Science Center
Where: Ramirez Library,
Auditorium
RAHC Library Classroom 1.132
Facilitator: Martin Hechanova 7703 Floyd Curl Dr
RSVP to: RAHC Library, rahclibrary@uthscsa.edu San Antonio, TX
Lecture telecast live to the RAHC in Harlingen
Online Book Discussion: Join anytime! and the Laredo Regional Campus
Where: http://library.uthscsa.edu/bookclub/
Facilitator: Luke Rosenberger
This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
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Harry Potter’s World: Exhibit opens this month

On July 21, 2007 author J.K. Rowling and her publishers released the last of her
record-breaking novels featuring the young wizard Harry Potter. Harry Potter
and the Deathly Hallows sold 15 million copies in the first twenty-four hours
following its release.
Three days earlier, a group of middle-school visitors to the History of Medicine
Division at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, MD were shown an
early 17th century treatise with an intriguing connection to J.K. Rowling and her
tales. The visitors were fascinated and wanted to know more, so the staff of the
History of Medicine Division began combing the collection in search of other
historical materials that are conceptually linked to the fictional world created in
Rowling’s stories. This labor eventually produced a lecture series, two Web
exhibits, and a traveling exhibit that has been coordinated by the American
Library Association.
Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic and Medicine,
produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Stephen J. Greenberg,
Health, Bethesda, Maryland and coordinated by the American History of Medicine
Library Association, will open in the Briscoe Library on October 11. Division, National Library of
Medicine.
C. Mackenzie Brown, Ph.D., Jennie Farris Railey King Professor in Religion at
Trinity University, will speak at the exhibit’s opening event on the topic
―Renaissance Science and the Quest for Immortality: Lessons from Albus
Dumbledore, Nicolas Flamel and Isaac Newton.‖ The opening will take place in
the Howe Conference Room, 5th Floor of the Briscoe Library from 5:00 p.m. to
7:00 p.m.

A complete schedule of events can be found on page 8 and at:

http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/events/harrypotter.cfm

Annual Meeting of The Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library — November 1
Stephen J. Greenberg, Ph.D., Coordinator of Public Services for the History of Medicine Division, National
Library of Medicine, will tell the story of the Harry Potter exhibit and how it took shape at the National
Library of Medicine as the speaker at this year’s meeting of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Society. The
dinner takes place November 1, 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Doubletree Hotel, 37 NE Loop 410 at
McCullough.
We invite Friends, their guests, and all those interested in the history of medicine to a terrific presentation.

Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library

40TH ANNUAL MEETING: DINNER AND PRESENTATION
“Magic & Monsters in the Stacks: How Harry Potter Came to NLM”
Monday, November 1, 2010 * Doubletree Hotel * 37 NE Loop 410 at McCullough
Cash bar: 6:30 p.m. Dinner: 7:00 p.m.
Cost: $40/person ($30 for students includes Friends membership) * Advance registration is required.
Please RSVP by October 27th to Pennie Borchers: Borchers@uthscsa.edu

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Renaissance Science, Magic and Medicine: Local exhibit showcases

the resources of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library
A new exhibit mounted in the lecture hall foyer was created by Pennie Borchers, Special Collections Librarian,
as a companion piece to the NLM traveling exhibit, Harry Potter’s World. The themes are similar – alchemy,
medicine, herbology and monsters - but the local display highlights materials found in the P.I. Nixon Medical
Historical Library. There are images from Vesalius’ anatomical atlas, Paré’s book on teratology, Bartisch’s
classic work on ophthalmology, Dürer’s canon of proportions, and many more. The exhibit will remain on
display through early November.

“Instead of roots, a small, muddy, and extremely

ugly baby popped out of the earth. The leaves were
growing right out of his head. He had pale green,
mottled skin, and was clearly bawling at the top of
his lungs.”
—from Harry Potter
and the Chamber of Secrets
by J.K. Rowling

Illustration: Harvesting mandrake, from Histoire de la

Medecine, de la Pharmacie, de l’Art Dentaire et de l’Art
Veterinarire, 1977. Collection of the P.I. Nixon Medical
Historical Library.

“Like Harry’s professors, many

Illustration of merpeople courtesy of the National
Library of Medicine. A version of this drawing
appears in The Workes of That Famous Chirurgion
Ambrose Parey, 1634, collection of the P.I. Nixon
Medical Historical Library.
Renaissance thinkers valued the study of
the natural world. For example, both the
naturalist Konrad Gesner and the surgeon
Ambroise Paré argued that knowing more
about the living things around them would
help them to better understand the way
the world worked. Their publications
often catalogued the traits and medicinal
value of odd creatures, including some
featured hundreds of years later in Harry
Potter.”
—from exhibit brochure, Harry Potter’s World,
Renaissance Science, Magic and Medicine,
produced by the National Library of Medicine

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Library classes for October

All library classes are free and open to all. Advance registration is appreciated but not required. If you would
like to request a class or schedule a consultation at any campus, please contact the library at (210) 567-2450
or email AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu.
If you would like to request a special class or orientation for your department or group at other days/times,
please contact us!

To register for a class or to read class descriptions, visit http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/gethelp/

classSchedule.cfm.
When you register for a library class, your registration confirmation email includes a file that you can save as
an appointment into your electronic calendar.

Briscoe Library, Long Campus - San Antonio

Introduction to RefWorks: Monday, October 4, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., LIB 2.011
Library Basics: Tuesday, October 12, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 pm, LIB 2.011
Online Tools to Upgrade Your Research: Technology Brownbag: Wednesday, October 13,
2010, 12 noon - 1:00 p.m., Library Howe Conference Room
Using EBSCO CINAHL to Locate Nursing & Allied Health Information: Thursday, October
21, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., LIB 2.011
Introduction to EndNote: Thursday, October 28, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., LIB 2.011
Creating and Presenting a Professional Poster Session: Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 12 noon
- 1:00 p.m., LIB 4.074 – Collaboratory
Google Collaboration Tools: Technology Brownbag: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 12 noon
- 1:00 p.m., Library Howe Conference Room
Ovid Tips & Tricks: Getting Started with MEDLINE: Wednesday, November 10, 1:30 p.m. -
3:00 p.m., LIB 2.011
Introduction to RefWorks: Tuesday, November 16, 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., LIB 2.011
Using EBSCO CINAHL to Locate Nursing & Allied Health Information: Thursday,
November 18, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., LIB 2.011
Getting the Most out of PubMed: Thursday, November 29, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., LIB 2.011

Katie Prentice, Head of Education and Information Services

News from the UT Health Science Center Susan Hunnicutt, Editor: hunnicutt@uthscsa.edu
Libraries is published at the beginning of each Kelley Minars, Web Editor: minars@uthscsa.edu
month to highlight the programs, services and
Pennie Borchers and Katie Prentice, Copy Editors
resources offered by The Libraries.
Rajia Tobia, Executive Director of Libraries:
tobia@uthscsa.edu Walter Creech, Katie Prentice and Robert Zuniga,
Photographers

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More library classes

Secrets to Success: Library Basics
Do you (or someone your work with) need to review the basics of library research? Come to the free Library
Basics class on October 12, 2010, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. in LIB 2.011.
Library Basics is a hands-on class for everyone who wants tips and tricks for effective research, finding
books and journals in the library catalog, how to get e-journals, reading references, citations, and much more.
The class also includes a tour and an overview of library services that can help your research.
To register, visit http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/gethelp/classDescriptions.cfm#200. For more information,
please contact Katie Prentice at prenticek@uthscsa.edu.
Katie Prentice
Head of Education and Information Services

Have you seen the new Library Toolbox?

A new page has been added to the library Web site
that features a number of different research tools for
accessing journals, databases, and books. Also
included are tools for bibliography management,
organization, and sharing of research.
To find out more about the new tools, including the
LibX Toolbar, Catalog Bookmarklet, Proxy
Bookmarklet, UTHSC Link, BibMe, Evernote and
Zotero, register for our Emerging Technology
Brown Bag on October 13th: Online Tools to
Upgrade Your Research. We will cover different
scenarios of research, and how the research tools
page can help streamline and broaden the way that
you search, organize, and share your information.
For more information, contact Eric Willman, Systems Librarian: Willman@uthscsa.edu.

National Network of Libraries of Medicine offers grant and proposal writing class
October 28th
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Library Classroom 2.011
Grants and Proposal Writing is intended for beginning grant proposal writers. Attendees will gain a general
overview of the grant and funding processes, as well as the level of detail required in preparing a successful
proposal. Each component of the writing process will be addressed including: documenting the need,
identifying the target population, writing measurable objectives, and developing a work plan, evaluation plan
and dissemination plan. Go to http://nnlm.gov/scr/services/ and click on Class Calendar to register.
For more information contact Peg Seger, Interlibrary Loan and Outreach Librarian, SegerP@uthscsa.edu.
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Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine

Calendar of Events
Opening Reception and Presentation
Monday, October 11, 2010 – 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.,
Howe Conference Room
C. Mackenzie Brown, Ph.D.
Jennie Farris Railey King Professor in Religion
Department of Religion, Trinity University
"Renaissance Science and the Quest for Immortality:
Lessons from Albus Dumbledore, Nicolas Flamel, and
Isaac Newton"
What do Sir Isaac Newton, Albus Dumbledore, and Professor
Severus Snape have in common? What is the difference
between the Philosopher's Stone, a Horcrux, and a Crucifix?
What does J.K. Rowling share with the gospel writer Matthew?
Dr. C. Mackenzie Brown will answer these questions in
exploring the relation of religion and natural philosophy in the Illustration of an alchemy workshop
Courtesy National Library of Medicine
Renaissance and Enlightenment, and their role in the
development of modern science.
Saturday Event for Young Readers
Saturday, October 23, 2010 – 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Friends Lunchtime Presentation Howe Conference Room
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 – 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m.
Patricia Thompson, Ph.D.
Pestana Lecture Hall
Senior Lecturer in History
Charleen M. Moore, Ph.D. University of Texas at San Antonio
Professor, Department of Cellular & Structural Biology “A Little Muggle Magic:
UT Health Science Center The Wisdom of Harry Potter for Families"
“Potent Potions and Healing Herbs: Having read the entire Potter series eight times over and
Medicinal Practices of the Renaissance” gathered insights from a large brood of grandsons, Dr.
Would you like to have a recipe for a ―good vomit‖ or learn how Thompson is eminently qualified to reflect on the most
to make an effective theriac? Do you know why Professor interesting customs of both the muggle and the magical worlds.
Sprout wore earmuffs or how to diagnose melancholy from a
urine sample? You will find the answers to these questions in
the talk by Dr. Charleen Moore on the medicinal practices of
For Students Attending Science Expo
the Renaissance. She will also discuss the humeral basis of Saturday, November 6, 2010 – 2:00 and 3:00 p.m.
disease and describe two of the oldest medicinal botanical Howe Conference Room
gardens in the world at Padua and Oxford. Richard F. Ludueña, Ph.D.
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Department of Biochemistry, UT Health Science Center
“Living Dangerously:
Doctors Adrift in the Dark Ages”
In the Middle Ages, there were a few good doctors and lots of
bad ones, operating in a context of ignorance. The practice of
medicine was very dangerous for patients---and even for
doctors-- who met various unpleasant ends when their
medicine failed, as it often did.

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Keith Cogdill selected for NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program

Keith Cogdill, Director of South Texas Regional Information Services at the University of Texas Health
Science Center San Antonio Libraries, has been selected to be a member of the 2010-2011 class of the National
Library of Medicine/Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Leadership Fellows Program
(http://www.aahsl.org/mc/page/leadershipfellows). Dr. Cogdill has been paired with a mentor, Cynthia L.
Henderson, Executive Director of the Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library at Howard University. In the
coming year he, along with four other fellows, will have the opportunity to develop his knowledge and skills in
a variety of learning settings, including exposure to leadership in another environment. The purpose of the
fellowship program is to prepare emerging leaders for director positions in academic health sciences libraries.

Libraries partner with School of Nursing, others, in diabetes study

Dr. Adelita Cantu of the UT Health Science Center School of Nursing and colleagues from UTSA, the Texas
Diabetes Institute, and The Libraries recently received funding from the Institute for Integration of Medicine
and Science for a one-year pilot project on diabetes education. The purpose of the partnership is to learn more
about how Mexican Americans with diabetes or at risk for diabetes use health information to make daily
decisions about self care.
Investigators hope to determine whether participation in Salsa Caliente, a specially tailored curriculum, and
enhanced education about accessing health information on the Internet will make a difference in diabetes
awareness, management, and knowledge versus participation in Salsa Caliente alone.
Half of the participants in this project will receive a laptop computer to use at home and will be trained to use
MedlinePlus, Healthy Texas and other reliable Internet sites. The other half of the participants will receive
general education and will not have immediate access to a computer. The project will end on April 30, 2011.

Farewell to Gary Goodson

The staff of The Libraries wish Gary Goodson, Outreach Library Assistant in the
Briscoe Library, all the best as he and his wife Robin prepare to move to Atlanta.
Gary’s last day in the library was Thursday, September 23.
Gary has made many significant contributions to the library’s outreach programs.
Thanks to his efforts, the Circuit Librarian Health Information Network (CLHIN)
website has been revamped, and we now have online evaluation instruments for
our outreach activities. Gary has also prepared monthly newsletters for all CLHIN
participants. He represented The Libraries at several health fairs, and provided
valuable program support at the evidence-based practice summer institute in
July. He has also done a masterful job coordinating the renewal of our contracts
with CLHIN institutions.
Once settled in Atlanta, Gary will continue his online studies in the Master’s of
Library Science program at the University of North Texas, while his wife
completes a fellowship in public health at the Centers for Disease Control. We
wish them all the best!
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Student Global Health - Organization mounts photo exhibition

accompanied by narration in the Briscoe Library
Twenty photographs currently on display in the Briscoe Library Information Commons document the global
health experiences— struggles, failures and triumphs— of a group of students and faculty members from the
School of Medicine. The exhibit, which was created by medical students Sheridan Fielding and Katie Gong,
includes photos taken in the far-flung cities of Haiti, Nepal, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Viet Nam.
Narration for the images can be accessed by phone at (210) 390-2077, using stop numbers for each photo.
When the exhibit concludes at the end of November, the photos will become part of the Global Health Silent
Auction which will take place Thursday, December 2nd, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the foyer of the Health
Science Center Auditorium.

#8 A Little Cough #19 Medicine for the Soul

Quy Nhon, Vietnam Aleta Wondo, Ethiopia
Photo and Narration by Bryan Wilson Photo by Tsegaye Bekele, Narration by Katie Gong

#11 Abraham #18 Innocence, Camaraderie and Love Shine

Aleta Wondo, Ethiopia Through
Photo by Dr. Richard Usatine, Narration by Annie Lu La Chureca, Nicaragua
Photo and Narration by David Aldrete
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2010 EDUCAUSE Online Conference:

In the Briscoe Library October 13-15
The UT Health Science Center Library and Academic Technology Services will co-sponsor viewing of the 2010
EDUCAUSE Online Conference. The conference begins on Wednesday, October 13 at 10:00 a.m. and will
conclude on Friday, October 15 at 1:30 p.m. Group viewing of the program will be held on October 13 in the
Briscoe Library 4th floor Collaboratory and on October 14-15 in 2.011, the library’s electronic classroom.
A complete schedule for EDUCAUSE Online can be found at http://www.educause.edu/E2010/Program/
Online. Please note that the online schedule reflects Pacific time, so times need to be converted to two hours
later for Central Standard Time. The time zone of the online schedule can be adjusted using the ―Change
Timezone‖ link on that page, just above the daily schedule tabs.
For further information, contact Luke Rosenberger, Director of Library Technology and Historical
Collections, rosenberger@uthscsa.edu.

6th Annual Health Literacy Conference: Register now!

”Improving Health Literacy Across the Lifespan: Growing Wiser and Healthier”
Friday, October 8, 2010
Doubletree Hotel 502 W. Durango San Antonio TX 78207
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Jerald Winakur, author of Memory
Lessons—A Doctor’s Story.
To register online, please log on to www.healthcollaborative.net and click on
the main page banner.

Who Should Attend?

Pharmacologists / Pharmacy Students
Promotoras
Policy Makers
Physicians
Public Health Officials
Dieticians
Therapists
Healthcare Professionals
Health Educators
Health Plan Administrators
Community Service Providers
Patient Navigators
Nurses/Nursing Students
Others involved in health literacy

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