Hi all,
In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the HHSL Service Desk will be open 12pm – 7pm on Monday, October 14th. Will return to normal operating hours on Tuesday the 15th.
The swipe access for the building will remain unchanged.
Have a great (long) weekend, and we’ll see you next week!
Tom
BLEH!
‘tis I, the Prince of Procrastination, the Lord of Laziness, the Dragon of Draggin’, COUNT BLOCKULA
When the moon is high and the spirit is weak, I emerge to feed on the living…no, not on blood (gross)… But on the ineffable power generated by your LATE RETURNS.
When you fall under my spell, powerless to resist and unable to return your Reserve items, Electronics, and Peripherals to the Library Service Desk on time, I grow stronger with each ensuing infraction.
ONE BLOCK – a light snack for me, you cannot check out materials for 24 hours
TWO BLOCKS – heartier fare indeed, succumb to me twice and you cannot borrow for one week
THREE BLOCKS – a delicious meal, leaving me full and you unable to check out materials for one full month! Plus a letter to your Dean about your naughty ways
FOUR BLOCKS – the full buffet! I am sated, and you are without laptops and phone chargers until the end of the semester
(thunder clap!)
If you are wise, you will resist me and return your reserve materials on time, mortals. Otherwise beware the wrath of COUNT BLOCKULA!
(The Hirsh Health Sciences Library overdue item policy can be found in its entirety here: http://hirshlibrary.tufts.edu/about-us/policies/overdue-items)
Below are just a few of the books on the long list of new non-fiction titles to hit our shelves. Be sure to stop by the NEW BOOKS display on the 4th floor where the latest are featured.
- Chasing my cure : a doctor’s race to turn hope into action : a memoir / David Fajgenbaum.
- Caring for equality : a history of African American health and healthcare / David McBride.
- Plagues and the paradox of progress : why the world Is getting healthier in worrisome ways
- How the brain lost its mind : sex, hysteria, and the riddle of mental illness
- Polio : the odyssey of eradication / Thomas Abraham.
- Formerly known as food : how the industrial food system is changing our minds, bodies, and culture
- The racial divide in American medicine : Black physicians and the struggle for justice in health care
- The reality bubble / Ziya Tong
As always, if there’s a book we don’t have that you think we should own, please do let us know by recommending a purchase.
I know what you’re thinking.
“What the heck is Data Carpentry?” “What does Social Science have to do with woodworking?” “Is the Library trying to hoodwink me into building bookshelves?”
But wait, we’re not talking about this kind of carpentry…
Team UK EuroSkills 2014 Lille by WorldSkills UK is licensed under CC BY 2.0
We’re talking Data Carpentry, which is part of the larger Carpentries organization. Workshops presented under the umbrella of the Carpentries are
This FREE (yes free!) Data Carpentry workshop will cover R, OpenRefine, and best practices for working with Spreadsheets. You do not need any prior knowledge of these tools to attend. Come prepared to work, to ask questions, and learn along with your fellow carpenters. No, not THAT type of carpenter…
Carpenter Bee by Raghunath Thirumalaisamy is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
Join us on October 21 and 22, 2019 for this fun and informative workshop. Registration is FREE. For more information, the Code of Conduct, and to register, please go here: https://tufts-carpentries.github.io/2019-10-21-tuftsHirsh/.
For more information about the Carpentries @ Tufts, visit us here.
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We’re pleased to announce that October Workshops@Hirsh are almost here! In addition to workshops offered by the Hirsh Library, there are also several workshops offered by the Tufts DataLab Assistants.
As always, workshops are open to everyone on the Tufts Health Sciences Campus and no previous experience is required. Come to our workshops – where learning new tricks will be a treat!
To see full descriptions and to register for these workshops, please visit: https://hirshlibrary.tufts.edu/services/open-workshops
Right to the Source: Locating U.S. Health Data – 10/3 (Room 510)
Storymaps: Not your Average Presentation – 10/7 (Room 514)
Intro to Health Science Info on the Internet – 10/10 (Room 510)
Introduction To Basic Linux Workshop – 10/15 (Room 514)
EndNote: the Basics – 10/17 (Room 510)
Introduction To Tufts HPC Cluster Workshop – 10/22 (Room 514)
Research Metrics – 10/24 (Room 510)
A Gentle Intro to R – 10/29 (Room 514)
Patents for Health Sciences Research – 10/31 (Room 510)
Hello hello everyone. It’s about that time again: time for the Affiliation Survey!
Twice a year, the Hirsh Health Sciences Library runs the Affiliation Survey, where we walk around and ask every one of our lovely patrons which program they are with (Dental, Medical, Sackler, etc). This is all we ask. We will not ask for your name or even which year you’re in! The numbers we collect are used in aggregate so we can get a snapshot of what the library usage is like. The graph you see above is the result of last year’s two Affiliation months, for instance.
Here’s how it goes: there are 7 days spread out over the whole month, randomly chosen to try and maximize the usefulness of the numbers (in other words, we’re trying not to get skewed by specific exam blocks too much). On those days, HHSL staff (you’ll probably recognize us!) will walk around 4 times over the course of the day to gather the totals of how many people from each school are in the library. There will be signs and posters up this month, so you’re not caught unaware.
Keep your eyes out for them!
We won’t announce ahead of time which days we’re counting (see our need to randomize, above), so it’s safe to assume that it could just happen any day this month.
Don’t panic!
If you don’t want to be bothered (or to speak out loud), you are welcome to leave your ID next to you while you study. If that is still not good enough, you can write your program down on a piece of paper and leave that next to you. If you’re in a group room, feel free to stick a note to the outside of the door (on the wood – the windows must remain clear!) telling us how many people of what program(s) are in the room. Done and done. We will add that number to our count, and we will move on to the next person!
There are pencils, pens, markers, scrap paper, and tape down at the Service Desk on the 4th floor, so you can even make your sign bright and cheerful! If you have any questions or concerns, let us know either in person at the desk, or through Ask Us on our website. We’re here to help and make this quick and easy.
But otherwise, we look forward to seeing you all this month and finding out just what our beloved HHSL looks like this fine autumn.
Good luck on studying and I look forward to seeing you in the library!
Tom
This Fall, we will be featuring a series of posts spotlighting different citation management tools. What is a citation management tool ? Citation management tools are programs that enable you to keep track of your research, manage citations, generate bibliographies in various citation styles (e.g., APA, JAMA, Chicago), and organize PDFs. These tools work directly with word processing programs such as Word and Google Docs. They may also allow you to directly download and edit article PDFs, and insert figures with captions into manuscripts. Popular citation management tools includes EndNote, Mendeley and Zotero.
Our first post in this series will focus on the fabulous and free citation tool, Zotero! As with other citation tools, Zotero allows you to collect and organize references, generate bibliographies and insert citations into a manuscript.
Additionally, Zotero allows you to:
- import references from research databases and websites directly from your web browser of choice
- automatically download PDFs that are featured on a website
- sync references between different computers and collaborate with other researchers by creating a Zotero account on zotero.org
- store up to 3MB free of PDFs attached to references
- merge duplicate references
- insert citations into Libre Office
Zotero is freely available to all; you do not need a Tufts University UTLN and password or library login to download Zotero!
Want too learn more about Zotero and how to get started?
- Please visit our Zotero: the Basics guide (https://researchguides.library.tufts.edu/zotero).
- Attend the Zotero workshop Thursday, November 14 from 12noon-1pm in room 510.
It’s only mid-September but the semester is already in full swing. Join us at the Library Service Desk this Thurs 9/12 and Fri 9/13, starting at 12pm, for our first FunLab of the year and make a custom cozy to adorn your favorite seasonally-spiced drink. We’ll have all the supplies you need to protect your hand from hot beverages in style!
But that’s not all! Stop by the Library Service Desk TODAY at 3pm for a teatime study break. We’ll have tea, treats, and the schedule for all of this fall’s FunLabs. Hope to see you there!
Ah, the eternal question: EndNote or Zotero (or Mendeley)? Well, ponder no further! Join us for the Hirsh Library “Citation Tool Fair” on Thursday, September 12th! This your opportunity to learn about the most popular citation tools out there, including EndNote, Mendeley and Zotero – all in one place! Not sure what a ‘citation tool” is? Then you definitely want to come to this event! No registration is required. Here’s the deets:
What: Hirsh Library “Citation Tool Fair”
When: Thursday, September 12th from 12noon-1pm
Where: Room 516.
We hope to see you there!
Image by Mabel Amber from Pixabay
Welcome to Tufts – and welcome to the Hirsh Health Sciences Library! We are so glad you’re here!
During orientation you will learn more about using the Hirsh Library and how we can support you during your time at the Sackler School. We also wanted to share some tips to get you started:
- Have a question? Drop by the Service Desk on the 4th floor or chat to the librarian on call.
- Need help with research, obtaining materials or want to learn a new research skill? Schedule an appointment with Andrea Kang, your librarian liaison.
- Want to familiarize your self with a wide-range of helpful resources? Check out our Biomedical Sciences Research Guide.
- Time to improve your research skills or learn how to work with data ? Sign-up for a workshop or attend a drop-in session.
We wish you a most fabulous Fall semester and hope that you will explore the wealth of resources available to you at Hirsh. Welcome!
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