Category Archives: Library Facilities

Library highlights technologies, UT Southwestern offerings in new Campus 3D Printing primer

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Jane Scott, Digital Services and Technology Planning Library Manager, has created a Campus 3D Printing Resources primer to assist UT Southwestern learners, faculty, and staff with available 3D printing campus resources. The 10-page PDF provides an overview of current 3D printing technologies, describes 3D printing and copyright information, and highlights three departments that offer a variety of 3D printing services on campus.

For more information about the Library’s offerings, go to Library 3D Printing Resources.

UT Southwestern Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center – 2019 and Beyond

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To meet the evolving information needs of the campus, over the past five to ten years, our Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center has changed extensively.  The Library expects to further evolve via its new 2019 – 2024 strategic plan.

We want to hear from you – that’s how we improve!  Please complete a short survey on or before January 31st.  It takes less than five minutes!

Your opinion matters – we read and evaluate every response.  Stay tuned – responses will be anonymized and summarized and posted on our website in the near future.

New traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine highlights global contributions of physician assistants

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Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care, a traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine, is coming to the South Campus Library from July 30 through September 8, 2018. This exhibition was curated by Loren Miller, PhD, an independent historian and curator.

Physician assistants (PAs) practice medicine as a dynamic part of a team, alongside doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals and work within diverse communities to treat patients and improve lives by addressing health care shortages. Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care describes how the profession developed as a solution to meet the social and health care needs of the mid-20th century and continues to evolve today. The exhibit features stories of PAs in communities all over the world and on the front lines of health crises, like the recent Ebola epidemic. It also features PAs from the highest echelons of government, including Congresswoman Karen Bass from California and George McCullough, the first White House PA.

Visit the U.S. National Library of Medicine website for more information on Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care.

New changes to Library printing

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The Library Printing system has undergone some major changes highlighted below:

  • No more print cards!
    Library print cards will no longer be used going forward. Over the past three months, we have been slowly removing swipe card functionality from our print system.
  • New print release station 
    The new print release station is directly opposite the old swipe station. You can now release your print job with your UT Southwestern username and password. When UT Southwestern Information Resources disables someone’s UTSW account, the print account will also be disabled. (Note: The old release station will remain available for another few weeks for card holders to use up their balances and only reflect account cards issued in the last six months.)
  • Adding funds?
    You may add funds via the cash box to your print account that is now connected to the new print station. The process is the same as it was with the old station.
    Users can also call 214-648-2626 to add money to their account with a credit card.
  • Secure printing
    Users can now only see their own print jobs when they log into either the new release station or PrintCenter, which is the website used to release print jobs.
  • No more print job passwords!
    When you submit a print job, you will no longer be asked to provide a print job password along with the print job name. Your UT Southwestern username and password will now be used. Upon logging in, select the print job, and select the print button to release your job to the printer.
  • Need a print account?
    Currently, this is a manual process while our staff finalizes the automation process. If you require a new account, please send an email to Charles.Robinson@utsouthwestern.edu. Charles reviews all system transactions daily and adds anyone that has attempted to use the system but received an account error.

New “Fire and Freedom” traveling poster exhibition at South Campus Library

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The UT Southwestern Health Sciences Digital Library & Learning Center is hosting Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America, a new six-panel traveling exhibition. Meals can tell us how power is exchanged between and among different peoples, races, genders, and classes. The 18th century collection materials—upon which the exhibition is based—describe connections between food, botany, health, and housekeeping.

The exhibition will be on display for the UT Southwestern community until May 19, 2018. In addition to this physical exhibition, other publicly-available online components include web pages for each of the six panels, higher education class modules, a curator’s bibliography, and a digital gallery.

One of the medical history books listed in the curator’s bibliography—Blanton, Wyndham B. Medicine in Virginia in the Eighteenth Century. Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie, 1931—is available at the Joint Library Facility and can be requested by UT Southwestern faculty, staff, and students at no cost through Interlibrary Loan. It is also available as an ebook through HathiTrust and can be viewed page by page without logging in; to download the ebook as a PDF for offline reading, simply log in using a UT Southwestern username and password.

The National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health developed and produced this exhibition. Research assistance was provided by staff at The Washington Library at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. It was guest curated by Psyche Williams-Forson, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, American Studies, University of Maryland College Park.

New NLM Library exhibit shows the important role of nurses in confronting domestic violence in the United States

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The UT Southwestern Health Sciences Digital Library & Learning Center is pleased to host Confronting Violence: Improving Women’s Lives – a six-panel traveling exhibition provided by the National Library of Medicine – that uses images, manuscripts, and records to tell the stories of the nurses who witnessed the effects of domestic violence and campaigned for change.

Activists and reformers in the United States have long recognized the harm of domestic violence and sought to improve the lives of women who were battered. During the late 20th century, nurses took up the call. With passion and persistence, they worked to reform a medical profession that largely dismissed or completely failed to acknowledge violence against women as a serious health issue. Beginning in the late 1970s, nurses were in the vanguard as they pushed the larger medical community to identify victims, adequately respond to their needs, and work towards the prevention of domestic violence. This is their story.

Confronting Violence, Improving Women’s Lives began traveling around the United States in October 2015 and will be at the South Campus Library until January 27, 2018.

Credit line: The National Library of Medicine produced this exhibition.
Curated by Catherine Jacquet, PhD
Images courtesy Ellen Shub and National Library of Medicine.

Library secures award funding for new SLA 3D printer and supplies

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CREDIT: Formlabs

The Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center was the proud recipient of the 2017 National Network of Libraries of Medicine South Central Region (NNLM.SCR) Technology Award, which went to the purchase of a new Form 2 stereolithography 3D printer, various resins types, and (coming soon) wash and cure stations.

Library 3D printers are available for campus usage to facilitate exploration and support utilization of this innovative technology in research and clinical settings. UT Southwestern affiliates are highly encouraged to complete a Library 3D printer orientation before using the printers.

Files can be printed via a USB connection from a laptop using PreForm software. The printer is currently available by appointment only in Library Administration at Bass Center (BL5.500); it will eventually be moved to the Digital Media Production Studio at the South Campus (main) Library by early 2018.

The resin types currently available for use with the Form 2 are:

  • Black
  • Clear
  • Dental
  • Durable
  • Flexible
  • Grey
  • Tough
  • White

The award was due to the collective efforts of Jane Scott, Desmond Ho, and Jeff Perkins from the Library’s Digital Services and Technology Planning unit.

New reservation protocol for reserving the Library Informatics Classroom

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Reserving the South Campus Library Informatics Classroom just got a whole lot easier! A publicly-available, Library staff mediated calendar is now available on the Library Informatics Classroom Room Request page in the Library’s website. Clicking the red button on the top of the Request page will allow you to search by date. The calendar will only show times that are available. Once you find the appropriate times for your event, you will be prompted to submit your information to a request form, which will then be directed to Library staff for final approval.

An alternative calendar view is available by clicking on the yellow “Reserve a Room” button on the Library’s Home page. You will need to designate the “Library Informatics Classroom” from the drop-down menu.

For more information about the classroom policies and procedures, go to the Library Informatics Classroom Request page on the Library’s website or email Jane Scott.

North Campus Branch Library Photography Exhibit explores shooting film and silver printing

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CORRECTION: The photographer’s reception is on Thursday, September 21, 2017.

 

 

 

 

A photography exhibit that highlights the work of a talented UT Southwestern postdoc, Ping-Hung Chen, is now available for viewing at the North Campus Branch Library (ND2.300). The exhibit features 30 works shot with traditional film and silver gelatin processes.

Ping-Hung Chen’s photographic interests primarily include landscapes and are a personal chronicle of his life experiences. His use of traditional processes like the analog gelatin-silver medium, bring rich detail, tonality, and contrast to his works.

The exhibit will be on display from now until January 31, 2018. An artist reception with refreshments will be held on Thursday, September 21, 2017, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m..

An online collection of Ping-Hung Chen’s photography may be found on his Flickr page.