Day: October 2, 2013

Event: Book Sale in the Library

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On Saturday, October 5th, during the Alumni & Family Weekend there will be a $1 book sale (and a small assortment of prints and maps for sale) from 10am-2:45pm in 303 Doe Library. [To find that room go up the marble stairs to the right and then take the next staircase you see up to the 3rd floor.]

If you would like to be notified of the occasional library book sale, please send an email to librarybooksale-join@lists.berkeley.edu. You will receive a confirmation e-mail to which you must reply in order to join the mailing list.

Resource Trial: Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Parts 5-8

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Until October 17, The Library has a trial of parts 5-8 of Nineteenth Century Collections Online. Parts 1-4 were acquired last year by CDL for all of the UCs.

Note that these new modules are still being built and are not complete. Your comments on whether you found useful sources in the new modules would be welcome.

Richmond Training: PubMed Basics Hands-on Class

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
10:00am – 11:30am
850 Marina Bay Parkway, Richmond, CA, Bldg P, Room P1246

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RSVP by Monday, October 7, 2013 to Michael Sholinbeck at msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510. Please obtain your supervisor’s approval to attend.

NON-BUILDING P OCCUPANTS: Please make sure to register so your name will be on the class participant list given to the Building P Security Desk for entry into Building P.

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Class Objective:
PubMed is the primary literature database for most topics in public health. The database comes from the National Library of Medicine. This class will teach you the basic skills needed to search PubMed to identify and obtain the most relevant information you need to perform your job. The skills you learn will save you time by allowing you to search PubMed in a more efficient and effective manner.

PLEASE NOTE: This class is limited to 16 participants. A waiting list will be created, if necessary, for an additional class.

Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

NEW: A certificate of completion will be available to class participants.

* Do you need to find scientific evidence for a public health program, intervention, issue, or concern?

* Do you get irrelevant citations when searching PubMed?

* Do you get too many or too few search results when searching PubMed?

* Are you already using PubMed and have some burning questions?

* Are you interested in a hands-on session so you can learn and practice using PubMed?

If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s PubMed Basics Hands-On class!

Topics covered will include:
1. Introduction to PubMed
2. Retrieving full text articles using the CDPH PubMed URL
3. Effective keyword searching using Boolean logic and filters
4. Finding and using medical subject headings (MeSH)
5. Other PubMed features

A schedule of other upcoming training sessions is available online.

Sacramento Training: Literature Searching: Beyond PubMed & More, Hands-on Class

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Thursday, October 10th, 2013
10:30am – 12pm
Enterprise Training Room 72.169
1500 Capitol Ave, Sacramento
(Turn left as you enter the building and proceed through the double doors to the Enterprise Training Room)

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RSVP by Tuesday, October 8, 2013 to Michael Sholinbeck at msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510. Please obtain your supervisor’s approval to attend.

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Class Objective:
This class will cover the basics of topic formulation, and how a database index (a set of subject terms) works. You will also learn about databases to search besides PubMed, and will learn how to critically evaluate what you find in these databases.

PLEASE NOTE: This class is limited to 12 participants. A waiting list will be created, if necessary, for an additional class. Some seats may be available on the day of the class so if you don’t register in advance, you can just show up to see if there is availability.

It is recommended, but not required, that you have some experience or familiarity with searching PubMed.

Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

NEW: A certificate of completion will be available to the class participants.

* Are you interested in learning about databases besides PubMed where you can find articles and more?

* Want to know about sources of systematic reviews and grey literature?

* Want to practice using these databases with some hands-on exercises?

* Do you want to know how to search databases more effectively by using index terms (aka subject terms, thesaurus terms, descriptors)?

If you’ve answered “Yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Literature Searching: Beyond PubMed & More, Hands-on class!

Topics covered will include:
1. How to come up with a good topic for literature searching
2. The basics of indexing
3. Databases beyond PubMed, including sources for systematic reviews and grey literature
4. Critically evaluating what you find

Sacramento Training: Google, Google Scholar, Google Books and WorldCat class

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
1:30pm – 2:30 pm
Hearing Room, 72.167
1500 Capitol Ave, Sacramento

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RSVP by Monday, October 21, 2013 to Michael Sholinbeck at msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510. Please obtain your supervisor’s approval to attend.

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Class Objective:
After this class, you will be able to perform more effective Internet searches, and will better understand the results that you retrieve. In addition, this class will provide you with helpful tips to search for articles and books.

Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

NEW: A certificate of completion will be available to the class participants.

Did you know:

* You can limit a search in Google to a particular domain (such as .gov or .org) or even to a particular website?

* What exactly is and is not included in Google search products?

* You can import citations directly from Google Scholar into EndNote or Reference Manager?

* You can perform cited reference searching in Google Scholar?

* You can create a profile in Google Scholar, and save citations there?

* Google Books allows you to read or preview books online?

If you’ve answered “no” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Google, Google Scholar, Google Books and WorldCat class!

Topics covered will include:
1. Google search products: what?s in them?
2. Search tips
3. Setting preferences
4. Creating a profile in Google Scholar
5. Cited reference searching
6. Shortcomings of using Google for research
7. Other sources of free, online books

These training sessions are free to CDPH employees.

Hope to see you there!

CDPH Newsletter Survey

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The Public Health Library creates a newsletter and blog for CDPH every month, and we hope that you are finding it to be useful. Typically, we email the newsletter to you at the beginning of the month, with links in it to the full articles which are in the CDPH blog. We created a short survey to help us improve its usefulness to you.

It should only take a couple of minutes of your time. Thanks in advance for completing it. The survey will be open until November 8.

Online Emergency Responder Training Now Available

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NIOSH’s Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance online training course is now available. This free course is offered to provide a recommended health monitoring and surveillance framework, referred to as the Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance (ERHMS) system, which includes specific recommendations and tools for all phases of a response, including the pre-deployment, deployment, and post-deployment phases.

This training is suitable for emergency managers, emergency responders, medical personnel, health and safety representatives, epidemiologists. CE credits are available for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, veterinarians, health educators, and other health care professionals. It is anticipated that the training will take about 3 hours to complete.

Ready to take it? Go to ERHMS to register and for more information.

Genetic Testing for Newborns?

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50 years ago the first newborn screening test was developed by a researcher funded by the March of Dimes. Currently there are tests for more than 30 treatable conditions, saving thousands of lives each year. But can these proven screening tests be improved by using genetic testing?

This is the question that a NIH initiative, the Genomic Sequencing and Newborn Screening Disorders research program, seeks to answer. $25 million in all will fund the initiative over a five-year period.

A research team including Steven Brenner, a UC Berkeley professor in the Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, has received $6 million as part of this program to study whether whether large-scale gene sequencing should become part of the routine testing done on newborns.

The project has three broad goals. One is to see if DNA sequencing is as good or better than the current tests used for newborn screening. Another is to see if it is economically feasible to use this technology to test for other diseases that are not currently being screened for. The third is to look into the ethical, legal, and social consequences of whole genome sequencing in newborn screening.

To assist with the first goal, Brenner and his team will partner with the California Department of Public Health to test the blood of 1,400 children in California who were tested at birth with the normal newborn screening. Doing this will help them see whether gene sequencing would be more accurate. They also also want to look at whether it would provide insights that could lead to improved newborn screening, care and treatment.

Other parts of the project will be conducted with UCSF to see if genetic testing will be more accurate and useful, and to explore the legal issues involved.

Read more about this cutting edge project on the UC Berkeley Plant & Microbial Biology News page.

MedlinePlus or PubMed Health?

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Both MedlinePlus and PubMed Health provide information for consumers and clinicians on prevention and treatment of diseases and conditions. And both are provided by the National Library of Medicine. So, when should you search MedlinePlus, and when would searching PubMed Health be more effective?

MedlinePlus brings you up-to-date reliable consumer information on over 900 diseases, conditions, and wellness issues. The health news page displays the most recent news from HealthDay and Reuters Health articles. An easy to read section offers materials that are written at a 5th to 8th grade reading level. In addition, MedlinePlus has interactive health tutorials with audio for those who struggle with reading English. Just type the disease or condition you wish to research into the search box or look for it in the A-Z Health Topics list. MedlinePlus also contains drug and supplement information.

PubMed Health has information on systematic reviews of clinical trials. It can help you research what, if any, treatments and prevention methods have been proven to work. Search results in PubMed Health will include summaries and full text of selected systematic reviews as well as information for consumers and clinicians that is based on those reviews. A concurrent search is done in PubMed for systematic reviews, with the first five of those results appearing on the right side of the results page.

So, if you need information to give to a client on the health effects of secondhand smoke, you might try MedlinePlus first. If, however, you want to see research on the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine, then you might want to give PubMed Health a try instead.

Go to MedlinePlus to check out its features today.

PubMed Health also appears under the “Popular” menu at the bottom of the PubMed home page. It is also an option in the drop-down menu to the left of the PubMed search box.

New Books!

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The Public Health Library has the following new books available:

1. Spillover: animal infections and the next human pandemic. By David
Quammen. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2012.
Call number: RA639 .Q83 2012.

2. Rural mental health: issues, policies, and best practices.
By K Bryant Smalley, Jacob Warren, and Jackson Rainer.
New York: Springer Pub. Co., 2012.
Call number: RA771.5 .R873 2012.

3. Health inequalities and global justice. By Patti Tamara Lenard and
Christine Straehle. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
Call number: RA441 .H4358 2012.

4. Revising unmet need for family planning. By Sarah E K Bradley,
ICF International, MEASURE DHS, et al. Calverton, MD: ICF International, 2012.
Call number: HQ766.5.D44 B73 2012. Also available online.

5. Policy paradox: the art of political decision making, 3rd edition.
By Deborah Stone. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2012.
Call number: H97 .S83 2012.

Please note that these books are only a small selection of
what is newly available. If you are interested in checking
out any book(s), submit a request using our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you.

You may also log into your web portal account to request book(s).

If you do not currently possess a UC Berkeley library card,
you will need to apply for one before we can check out a book to you.

Brought to you by:

Editor: Karen Andrews
Contributing Authors: Debbie Jan, Michael Sholinbeck, Karen Andrews, Kendra Stoll
If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at:

Sheldon Margen Public Health Library, 1 University Hall #7360,
University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-7360,
Telephone: (510) 642-2510 / Fax: (510) 642-7623