Hardin News

On Thursday, May 1, Charisse Madlock-Brown will be teaching a class on how to use the online management tool RefWorks.

RefWorks is a web-based citation management and bibliography tool. It can help you to efficiently store, organize, and share citations and easily format them for papers and bibliographies.

It is also compatible with other databases and EndNote users can easily export their citation databases directly into RefWorks.

The workshop will be held at 3pm in the Info Commons East Room of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.

To register for the class, go online to:
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/find/refworks/workshops.html

Hardin Library will be hosting the Medical Library Association (MLA) webcast titled “Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices: Discovering the Participatory Web.”

This webcast will be held on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 from 1:00 – 3:00 PM CST at Hardin Library in Room 401.

Participation if free but you must register by contacting Brooke Billman at brooke-billman@uiowa.edu or 319.335.8554

For more information regarding webcast goals, presenters, or CE contact hours, please visit http://www.mlanet.org/education/distance_ed/web2.0/

Please free to contact Brooke Billman with any questions regarding this event.

The sponsorship of this webcast site has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. NLM-N01-LM-6-3503 with the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Have you ever left the doctor’s office with questions about a condition or medication? The Internet is full of health resources, but not all information online can be trusted. At a free workshop Wednesday, Nov. 7, librarians from the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa will demonstrate some high-quality consumer health resources to help make you a better-informed patient.

The workshop begins at 7 p.m. in the Information Commons, Level 2,  at Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. A hands-on opportunity exploring these resources will also be provided.

According to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 80 percent of American Internet users, or some 113 million adults, have searched for health information online. The report also says most Internet users start at a general search engine when researching health and medical advice online and 22 percent of these searchers feel frustrated by the lack of health information or an inability to find what they were looking for online.

This workshop is being held in conjunction with the “Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians” exhibit that will be on display at Hardin Library through Friday, Nov. 30. This exhibit tells the extraordinary story of how American women who wanted to practice medicine have struggled over the past two centuries to gain access to medical education and to work in the medical specialty they chose.

Hardin Library proudly presents summer offerings of their popular EndNote workshops. Learn how to use the EndNote software to import references from the University of Iowa’s library databases and then insert them into Microsoft Word, creating instantaneous citations and bibliographies formatted to your assignment or publication specifications. We offer two courses:

Basic EndNote

Learn the fundamentals of EndNote, including:

• Creating a new EndNote library
• Importing references from PubMed, Ovid and other library databases
• Manually entering and editing references
• Inserting in-text citations and bibliographies automatically using Cite While You Write

Wednesday, June 15^th: 3:00-4:00pm (Information Commons EAST)
Thursday, July 7^th: 4:00-5:00pm (Information Commons EAST)

Extreme EndNote

Once you’ve mastered the EndNote basics, Extreme EndNote explains the advanced features you may not be aware of. Get all your questions answered. Topics covered include:

• Importing term lists for journal abbreviations
• Customizing displays
• Modifying output styles
• Using figures and creating figure lists

Wednesday, June 29^th: 3:00-4:00pm (Information Commons EAST)
Thursday, July 21^st: 4:00-5:00pm (Information Commons EAST)

Register today!

Are you still copying and pasting citations into a bibliography individually? Are you still manually inserting citations into a paper and then needing to adjust the entire bibliography when there is a change in the order of things?

We can help you!

Hardin Library for the Health Sciences continues to offer classes on how to use EndNote. EndNote 7, by Thomson ISI ResearchSoft, searches remote databases and library catalogs on the Internet, imports references into and organizes personal libraries of citations, and produces papers written in word processors with correctly formatted in-text citations and bibliographies. Want to learn more? Sign up for a class today:

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/endnoteclass.html

Here are a few of the changes for the newest version:

EndNote Version 7 For Windows (used with permission)

* Instant Subject Bibliographies: For the first time, users of EndNote 7 can create a bibliography with topic headings using EndNote’s new Subject Bibliography.
* Flexible Placement of Images from EndNote References into Microsoft Word: Users can take advantage of EndNotes new ability to insert a figure or table anywhere in a Microsoft Word® document.
* Compatibility with Popular Word Processors Using Rich Text Format (RTF) Files: EndNote 7 now offers the ability to create bibliographies using StarOffice, OpenOffice, AppleWorks, FrameMaker and more.
* New Connectivity of EndNote References Palm” Handheld and Visualization Software: EndNote 7 mobilizes a users EndNote library on Palm® OS.

Additional information about EndNote is available on Hardin Library’s Bibliographic Management Software page at: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/endnote.html.

Maximize the Potential of WebCT and Blackboard Multiple Choice Questions - A Workshop 

Most of us, at some point of our academic careers, have taken an exam where the questions were confusing and at times misleading. Did you get the feeling the instructor was trying to "trick" you? As an instructor have you written a question or two that you weren’t entirely happy with?

We’ve all been there as examinees or examiners. The purpose of this workshop is a brief introduction into improving a widely-used format on university exams: the multiple-choice item. In this workshop, the basic elements of the multiple-choice item will be broken down and explained along with a variety of traps that people can fall into when writing their items. This workshop also includes a non-stats person’s description of item statistics and what to look for from exam service when you are trying to improve your items.

Philip Bailey, from Academic Technologies will be conducting these sessions.

Sign up today!

Take a class at the Library! Learn how to search MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Science Citation Index, Biological Abstracts, Health and Psychosocial Instruments and more using Ovid-Online, PubMed, and Web of Science. Explore Evidence-Based Medicine with the Cochrane Database, ACP Journal Club, and MEDLINE filters. Organize your citations and link them to your papers with EndNote 6. Classes are 90 to 120 minutes in the Information Commons, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.

Register at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/registration/ or contact Denise Britigan, Reference and Education Librarian at 319/335-7636 or denise-britigan@uiowa.edu.

Take a class at the Library! Learn how to search MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Science Citation Index, Biological Abstracts, Health and Psychosocial Instruments and more using Ovid-Online, PubMed, and Web of Science. Explore Evidence-Based Medicine with the Cochrane Database, ACP Journal Club, and MEDLINE filters. Organize your citations and link them to your papers with EndNote 6. Classes are 90 to 120 minutes in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. Register at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/registration/ or contact Denise Britigan, Reference and Education Librarian at 319/335-7636 or denise-britigan@uiowa.edu.

Once again, Hardin Library will be offering an assortment of workshops to help patrons become more familiar with the library’s resources. All sessions are free and open to members of the University of Iowa community. Classes offered include sessions on basic and advanced Ovid-Online searching, Web of Science, EndNote 5.0, and Evidence-Based Medicine Resources. In addition, a new class entitled Introduction to Electronic Resources will be offered to introduce library users to some of the most frequently used electronic resources. Topics to be covered include using the library catalog, accessing electronic journals, and searching the Ovid-Online databases.

Registration for all sessions can be done using the online registration form available at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/regform.html or by stopping by the Information Desk. Additional workshops will be added later in the semester. The complete schedule of classes can be found at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/education.html