Day: March 16, 2010

April Instruction Session: Accessing Full-Text Electronic Journals

Posted on by UC Berkeley Library

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Note: Please indicate which location (Richmond or Sacramento) you wish to attend to Judy Bolstad at jbolstad@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.

See below for details about each date/time/location.
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Do you want to know:

* Which full text journals you can access from your desktop?
* How to navigate the OvidSP journals web site?
* Which features are available on the OvidSP journals web site?
* How to use the CDPH PubMed URL to access journal articles?
* How to get citations from OvidSP journals into bibliographic management software such as EndNote or Reference Manager?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Accessing Full-Text Electronic Journals class!

Topics covered will include:
1. How to navigate and browse for journal articles in the OvidSP interface
2. Features of the OvidSP web site, including cited reference searching and exporting Ovid records into
bibliographic management software (e.g., EndNote)
3. How to access articles online using a customized version of PubMed, which links to the CDPH-licensed full-text journals

Note: this class will be held in both Richmond and Sacramento locations. See below for the date/time for each location.

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CDPH RICHMOND 

Class: Accessing Full-Text Electronic Journals
When: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 10-11 am
Where: Richmond Campus, Building C, Room 136

RSVP by Monday, April 5th to Judy Bolstad at jbolstad@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.
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CDPH SACRAMENTO

Class: Accessing Full-Text Electronic Journals
When: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 1:30-2:30 pm
Where: CDPH Sacramento Campus, 1500 Capitol Ave, Training Room C.

RSVP by Monday, April 19th to Judy Bolstad at jbolstad@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.
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Audience:
This class is intended for CDPH staff who wish to learn about the full-text online journals available to them, and the special features available on the OvidSP web site.

Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate. These one-hour training sessions are free to CDPH staff. Please obtain your supervisor’s approval to attend.

Upcoming classes are listed at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/cdph/training.html

Lift Off!

Posted on by UC Berkeley Library

This 5-minute group physical activity break for meetings and events was developed by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and UCLA’s School of Public Health to encourage regular physical activity participation in the workplace. This fun, low-impact group activity, for use at meetings and events or with work groups, supports group participation with simple aerobic dance/calisthenic movements done to music. Lift Off! was specifically designed to accommodates all shapes, sizes and abilities and is appropriate for large or small groups. Check it out at:

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=19296

Note: This requires RealPlayer on your computer.

New Books!

Posted on by UC Berkeley Library

The Public Health Library has the following new books available:

1. Essential readings in infectious disease epidemiology. By Manya Magnus. Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett, 2009. Call number: RA651 .M25 2009.

2. Modeling and dynamics of infectious diseases. By Zhien Ma, et al. Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2009. Call number: RA643 .M565 2009.

3. Tuberculosis: a comprehensive clinical reference. By H Simon Schaaf, et al. Edinburgh: Saunders/Elsevier, 2009. Call number: RC311 .T825 2009.

4. Infectious ideas: U.S. political responses to the AIDS crisis. By Jennifer Brier. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Call number: RA643.83 .B75 2009.

5. Nanotoxicity : from in vivo and in vitro models to health risks. By Saura C Sahu and Daniel Casciano. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley, 2009. Call number: RA1270.N36 N357 2009. 

6. Environmental and human health impacts of nanotechnology. By Jamie R Lead and Emma Smith. Chichester, U.K.: Wiley, 2009. Call number: TD196.N36 E58 2009.

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 below and we will mail the book(s) to you.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/cdph/BookReq.html

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. The application form is at:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/cdph/libcardappl.html

Spring Break closure

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All of the UC Berkeley libraries will be closed Sunday, March 21 through Saturday, March 27 for a campus-wide mandated furlough period, and Friday, March 26 for Cesar Chavez Day.

To check the schedule, go to the Library Hours page. Select a date, or click on the “Calendar” link next to a particular library to display its hours. During the closure period, library web sites, catalogs, and research databases will be available.

The Village Voice: Tebtunis and other communities in the Roman period

Posted on by Lee Anne Titangos

March 18th, The Bancroft Library Reading Room
5:30 pm

We would like to invite you to attend a public lecture by Alan Bowman, who holds the venerable Camden Chair of Ancient History at Oxford. Professor Bowman’s lecture will take place in The Bacroft Library’s Reading Room this Thursday, March 18th, at 5:30 pm; his topic is “The Village Voice: Tebtunis and Other Communities during the Roman Period.” If you’ve ever wanted to learn a bit more about the people that produced and used the papyri in the Bancroft collection, this is an excellent opportunity to do so.

Spring Break closure affects libraries

Posted on by UC Berkeley Library

All of the UC Berkeley libraries will be closed Sunday March 21 through Saturday March 27 for a campuswide mandated furlough period, and Friday March 26 for Cesar Chavez Day.

In addition, most of the libraries, including Doe, Moffitt, and the Gardner (Main) Stacks, will be closed Saturday March 20 and Sunday March 28.

To check the schedule, go to our Library Hours page.  You can select a date, or click on the “Calendar” link next to a particular library to display its hours.

During the closure period:

  • Our website, catalogs, and research databases will still be available.   For some ideas, see “What you can do when the library is closed.”

  • We will not be reading or responding to e-mail reference questions, website comments, etc. until March 29.  However, the “Questions? Ask us” 24/7 chat reference service will still be operating, staffed by librarians at other institutions.

  • Requests made via OskiCat for material in the Northern Regional Library Facility will not be filled until the NRLF reopens on March 29.

  • Items checked out from the Library’s collections will not be due.  The earliest due date will be March 29. The same will apply to holds for pickup. Requests can be placed online at any time.

  • The book drops will be emptied, but returned items will not be checked in until March 29.

  • You will not be able to pick up or return interlibrary loan materials, so please hold onto ILL material charged out to you until we reopen to the public on March 29.  Please do not deposit interlibrary loan items in the bookdrop outside of the building.  Due dates will be adjusted to accommodate the closure.

We regret any inconvenience this closure may cause, and will resume normal hours and operations on March 29.