Monthly Archives: August 2016

Learn to speak, read, and write in 80 languages with Pronunciator

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Check out UT Southwestern Health Science Digital Library’s new language-learning database. Pronunciator is a fun and easy way to learn to speak, read, and write any of 80 languages. This database offers the ability to learn any language from any other language. That’s 4,000 possible course combinations!

Some languages, such as Spanish, offer an additional healthcare course. Pronunciator also has ESL (English as a Second Language) courses for 50 non-English languages.

Programs are focused on quickly building conversational skills and include learning levels from children’s and beginner through advanced. Includes live tutors, feature films, music with lyrics, pronunciation analysis, quizzes, and more!

Want to learn on the go? Register for a free account to save and track your learning progress on mobile devices. Free apps are available for Android, Apple, and Kindle Fire devices.

Access to Pronunciator is made possible through a consortial partnership with TexShare, which is a consortium of Texas libraries that collaborates to share print and electronic materials and purchase online resources.

Library’s web server to be replaced, back-up site available

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websiteconstructThe Library’s Digital Services and Technology Planning unit will be transferring our website to a new web server starting Friday, September 9, 2016. During this time, we will have our back-up site available.

Please notify LibWebmaster@utsouthwestern.edu if you experience any issues with access to Library resources during this time.

AMA Manual of Style Online now available

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AMAStyleiconA newly-purchased resource, AMA Manual of Style Online, is now available for campus-wide unlimited use. This web-based resource, maintained by Oxford University Press (OUP), hosts the full digital version of the popular manual, AMA Manual of Style, 10th edition, 2007, published by the American Medical Association (AMA).

Additional online features include style quizzes, conversion calculators, blog and Twitter feeds, and everything needed to produce well-organized and clear manuscripts.

Users can create personal profiles to save content and searches for future visits.

On My Own Time Exhibit highlights campus artistic talents

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The 16th Annual On My Own Time Employee Art Show is now on display at the South Campus Library until September 20, 2016. A total of 62 art works by UT Southwestern faculty, staff, and students – both amateurs and professionals – are on display in the following categories:

  • Black and White PhotographyOMOT 2016 - JANE
  • Ceramics, Wood, and Glass
  • Color Photography
  • Corporate Collaboration
  • Enhanced Photography & Computer Art
  • Jewelry and Metal
  • Mixed Media
  • Sculpture
  • Textiles and Fiber
  • Works on Canvas
  • Works on Paper

The art show is sponsored annually by the Business Council for the Arts (BCA), and a panel of judges selected by the BCA will select a first place winner and one (or more) “honorable mention” winner within each category of art. A “Best of Show” will be selected by the judges from among the first place winners.

However, all UT Southwestern employees will have an opportunity to select a “People’s Choice” winner. Voting for “People’s Choice” will be held online from August 8 through August 19. To vote, go to http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/omot and click on the “People’s Choice Voting” button.

All first place, Best of Show, and People’s Choice winners will go to the region-wide show at NorthPark Center.