Day: April 2, 2012

* Need to find literature on food and nutrition and their relationship to health?

* Want to know the nutritive value of different kinds of foods, from broccoli to Big Macs?

* Interested in how many fruits and vegetables Californians eat daily and other statistical information?

* Need to keep updated on the latest foodborne outbreaks and recalls?

* Want to know about quality sources of food/nutrition information for consumers?

* Curious about what professional resources (e.g., free training courses) are available to you?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Food/Nutrition Resources class!

Some of the topics that will be covered:
1. Using bibliographic databases such as Agricola to find journal articles on food and nutrition topics
2. Resources for finding the nutritive value of foods
3. Finding statistics on food consumption
4. Information for consumers or for developing consumer material
5. Tools for professionals

Class: Food/Nutrition Resources
When: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 10 – 11 am
Where: CDPH Richmond Campus, Building C, Room 140

Class Objective:
To introduce CDPH staff to quality food and nutrition resources that are freely available online. Use of these resources will help staff locate statistics, policies/best practices, and evidence-based information in support of their work. Professional tools can assist
in keeping staff’s skills updated.

If you wish to attend, please RSVP by Monday, April 9, 2012 to Debbie Jan at djan@cdph.ca.gov or (510) 642-2510.

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

The UC Berkeley Libraries recently released GeoData@UC Berkeley, a geoportal and geospatial data discovery tool. The libraries have also launched the MapUp initiative, a program designed to make authoritative, crowd sourced geospatial data available via GeoData@UC Berkeley.

GeoData@UC Berkeley allows users to discover the library’s geospatial data holdings, preview geospatial data, create custom maps using only a web browser, and download geospatial data in a variety of formats. GeoData@UC Berkeley is freely available for public use.

MapUp is an initiative developed by the UC Berkeley Libraries to allow
researchers to store and share their geospatial data with GeoData@UC
Berkeley users. Data stored is curated and preserved for future researchers’ use. CDPH staff who have geospatial data they can share are urged to contact msholinb@library.berkeley.edu to arrange to have the data deposited in GeoData@UC Berkeley. We have already received some data from CDPH, and are hoping to add more.

D4H conducts regular Web Forums that invite multiple sectors together in conversation on topics that matter to health in its broadest sense. In most, audience participated is invited and welcomed. Some forums are structured as “Town Hall Meetings” with much fuller participation available to all. Each session is archived on the site so you can listen at a time that’s convenient to you. D4H is a project of the Public Health Institute.

The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
recently launched a new online data query system, Profile-IQ,
that provides access to statistics on local health department finance,
workforce, and activities based on NACCHO’s 2010 National Profile of Local Health Departments (Profile) study. Profile-IQ is useful to practitioners and policymakers at the local, state, and federal level and to researchers, students, the media, educators, and the public. You can perform customized queries on three main topics covered in the 2010 Profile survey: LHD financing, workforce, and activities. You can then view your results as tables, graphs or maps.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS) has released a new Enviro-Health Links page on Tobacco, Smoking, and Health. This page provides links to resources on smoking-related topics such as electronic and menthol cigarettes, chemicals in tobacco, smokeless tobacco, smoking in pregnancy, smoking and health disparities, smoking cessation, and existing laws and regulations. The page has pre-formulated searches from PubMed, TOXLINE, the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) and ChemIDplus.

The Public Health Library will add some new features to the web portal very soon.

You will be able to:

– Search your Document Delivery requests, so you will easily be able to
learn if you requested a particular article or book, and when;
– Sort online lists of your requests, by title, author, or date
requested; and
– View a list of books checked out to you, with one-click online renewing.

Also, recently added, is the ability to get a list of your canceled
Document Delivery requests.

Web portal users will soon see a message on the log-in page outlining
the new features.

Not yet a web portal user? The web portal to contract services provides a custom online interface to request services from the Public Health Library, such as journal articles and literature searches. Online request forms are pre-populated with your personal information (name, email, etc.) You can also view requests you have made in the past, as well as pending requests. The web portal also includes a link to electronic journal and electronic book passwords, so you can more easily access these resources from anywhere. To obtain your web portal username and password, please send an email to Sarah Ngo, sngo@library.berkeley.edu, or call her at (510) 642-2510. She
will need your name, address, phone and fax numbers, email address, and
unit, branch, or program name.

The Public Health Library has the following new books available:

1. Emerging infectious diseases : a guide to diseases, causative agents,
and surveillance. By Lisa A Beltz. Jossey-Bass, 2011. Call number: RA643 .B45 2011.

2. Reversing the obesogenic environment. By Rebecca E Lee, Kristen McAlexander, and Jorge Banda. Human Kinetics, 2011. Call number: RC628 .L37 2011.

3. WHO human health risk assessment toolkit : chemical hazards. By the World Health Organization.; International Program on Chemical Safety. World Health Organization, 2010. Call number: T55.3.H3 W56 2010

4. Ageing, health, and productivity : the economics of increased life expectancy. By Pietro Garibaldi et al. Oxford University Press, 2010. Call number: HQ1061 .A4272 2010.

5. Handbook of systems toxicology. By Daniel A Casciano and Saura C Sahu. Wiley, 2011. Call numbers: RA1190 .H36 2011 v.1 and RA1190 .H36 2011 v.2.

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.