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Brittney Thomas, MLIS | All of Us Manager

Meet Brittney Thomas, Manager for the NNLM All of Us Coordinating Center. Brittney  joined the Greater Midwest Region of the National Network of the Libraries of Medicine in November and has spent the last few weeks learning as much as she can about health librarianship. In her new role, Brittney will be coordinating outreach andContinue reading “Brittney Thomas, MLIS | All of Us Manager”

Meet The Expert: Jen DeBerg, Reference Services Librarian

Jen DeBerg, Reference Services Librarian Master of Library Science, Emporia State University Bachelor of Science, Occupational Therapy, Elizabethtown College Areas of expertise: Adjunct Lecturer, College of Nursing Health sciences literature searching Systematic reviews EndNote Teaching and training users Finding evidence-based resources Arthur Benton Excellence in Reference Services award winner Outside the library: Jen lives inContinue reading “Meet The Expert: Jen DeBerg, Reference Services Librarian”

Paracelsus, father of toxicology | October 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library

PARACELSUS (1493-1541). Opera, Bücher und Schrifften. Strasbourg: In Verlegung L. Zetzners seligen Erben, 1616. Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim is universally known as Paracelsus. He was born in Switzerland and educated at Basel. Paracelsus unorthodox ideas and teachings put him in conflict with the orthodox establishment of his revolutionary time and he spent most of hisContinue reading “Paracelsus, father of toxicology | October 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”

Librarian Activities at Midwest Chapter of Medical Library Association Annual Meeting 2017

The Midwest Chapter of The Medical Library Association (MLA) and Michigan Health Science Library Association joint annual conference is in Yipsilanti, Michigan this year.  Our librarians are going to be busy! Heather Healy, Clinical Education Librarian and Mahrya Carncross, Scholarly Communications Librarian for UI Libraries will present Picture This! Teaching Ethical Use of Health Sciences Images, aboutContinue reading “Librarian Activities at Midwest Chapter of Medical Library Association Annual Meeting 2017”

Meet The Expert: Janna Lawrence, Deputy Director, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences

Janna Lawrence, Deputy Director, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences Master of Library and Information Science, University of Texas at Austin Bachelor of Arts, Rhetoric, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Areas of expertise: Health sciences literature searching Trends in health sciences publishing Copyright, fair use, appropriate use of resources Open access publishing Identifying predatory publishersContinue reading “Meet The Expert: Janna Lawrence, Deputy Director, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences”