Stress Less Week has come just in time to help ease the pain of finals! We’ll be celebrating by providing coloring pages and origami paper at the Library Service Desk all week–everything you need for an easy study break.
You can also kick off the week with an Afternoon Tea study break at 3pm on Monday, 4/22 down at the Desk. We’re co-hosting with Student Wellness Advising, so we’ll have a variety of teas and treats (and coffee!). Come take a break and commiserate with your colleagues or grab a quick cup to bring back to your carrel!
Student Wellness Advising is also hosting a number of other relaxing events, culminating with an ice cream social in 114 on Thursday, 4/25 from 3-4:30pm! Be sure to keep an eye out and drop by if you get the chance.
Can’t make it to an event? Check out some of these helpful tips and techniques for stress management and reduction from Tufts Counseling and Mental Health Service.
Need a good luck charm to get you through finals? Want to give a friend a boost while they’re in a marathon study session? Then stop by the Library Service Desk on Thursday 4/18 and Friday 4/19 starting at noon! We’ll have all the supplies you need to make some motivational tokens for yourself or your friends. We have glass stones in a variety of shapes, colored papers, paint pens, and Mod Podge. What more could you need? We may even drag out the button maker…
Photo by Tom, finish line diorama by Jean!
In observance of Patriots’ Day, the Library Service Desk will be open from 12pm-7pm on Monday April 15th. We will reopen for normal hours on Tuesday.
Patriots’ Day commemorates the first battles of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord, which took place on April 19th, 1775. It is also the traditional day for the Boston Marathon. How did these two events come to be linked? Hop over to this short article by The History Channel to find out!
For those interested in celebrating, MassLive has a good rundown of all the events going on this weekend, both Minuteman and Marathon -related.
We hope you enjoy the long weekend and wish good luck to any Jumbos running the race!
It’s that time of year again! You guessed it, STAT!Ref Updates!!! Below is a list of the new titles and updated editions now available to you:
Basic Guide to Infection Prevention and Control in Dentistry – 2nd Ed.
Dentistry and the Pregnant Patient (2018)
Evidence-Based Clinical Orthodontics
Fundamentals of Fixed Prosthodontics – 4th Ed.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES: The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention
Merck Manual Professional Version
Oral Structure & Biology (2018)
Oral-Systemic Health Connection: A Guide to Patient Care (2019)
Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, Shorter – 7th Ed. (2018)
Paediatric Dentistry – 4th Ed.
Stem Cells in Craniofacial Development and Regeneration
Successful Local Anesthesia: For Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics – 2nd Ed.
Please enjoy the third installment of Ask Ms. Shelved, the irregularly scheduled advice column from HHSL!
Dear Ms. Shelved,
I know that an important part of my educational development is learning to collaborate with my peers and work well with others. But when it comes time to study for exams, all I want is some peace, quiet, and PRIVACY to study. But the Hirsh Health Sciences Library rules thwart me at all turns! I cannot book a Collaboration Room on the 5th floor as a single scholar. I’ve even been asked to LEAVE when a group wants the room to study. There are people EVERYWHERE?! I am a solitary creature, like a sloth. What am I to do?
Sincerely,
Solo in Sackler
Sloth by henryalien is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.
Dear Ms. Shelved,
It has taken a lot of courage for me to write to you. By nature, I am a retiring and reticent person, disinclined to make a fuss. But recently, I have been searching for a room in which I can study, and so many of them are occupied by a person or a few people. Sometimes there is only a backpack in the room. What should I do? I do not want to offend anyone by claiming the room, even if it has been sitting empty and the lights are off. I am gripped with indecision and whipsawed by doubt! Also I have exams coming up and I need to study. But I’m so shy, like a sloth. Whatever shall I do?
Sincerely,
Shy in Sackler
Sloth by Ishamari Drennan-Colón is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
Gentle Readers,
Solo, meet Shy. Shy, meet Solo. There, your problems are solved.
Ever yours,
Ms. Shelved
p.s. Okay, okay, let me explain…
Solo, you are correct that groups have priority for using all of our study rooms, including the 5th floor collaboration room and the 7th floor study rooms, and that groups may ask those studying alone to vacate. And Shy, it is true that people often do use rooms alone, and have a bad habit of leaving belongings behind to “claim” a room.
Not to play matchmaker (that’s another advice columnist), but if you want to use a quiet study room, why not SHARE? Solo, if a group asks you to leave the room, you can ask if they mind if you stay. Shy, if a room is empty except for some belongings, move right in and study! When the person or group returns, let them know you’re happy to share.
Ms. Shelved knows this is a high-stress time of year. Space is at a premium, and we need to work together, like female sloths (males are the shy, solitary ones my friends).
Ever yours (although it is incorrect to sign a letter again in the postscript),
Ms. Shelved
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The Hirsh Health Sciences Library is pretty jam-packed with resources, available both electronically and in print. But what do you do when you need something that we just don’t have?
ILLiad, our interlibrary loan service, is here to help!
ILLiad is a great way to order article PDFs, book chapter PDFs, whole books, patents, theses, dvds, sheet music, and more. Just log into ILLiad using your Tufts username and password or create a username and password if you are not issued university credentials, for example, if you are Tufts Medical Center staff. The first time you log in, you’ll fill out a quick registration form and then you can start using our online request forms to submit your orders.
PDFs of articles and book chapters typically arrive in three days or less and can be downloaded from your ILLiad account. Books and other hard copies are picked up/returned to the Library Service Desk on Sackler 4. You’ll receive email notification when your items are accessible.
Students get 20 free requests per year. In addition, there are lots of requests that we never charge for, such as requests for scanned items from our own collection, items shipped from another Tufts library or a Boston Library Consortium member library, or if you require accommodations due to special circumstances. Please see our ILLiad Policies and Procedures page for more information about fees and other aspects of this service.
You can also request items from other Tufts Libraries be shipped to the Hirsh Health Sciences Library using JumboSearch. That services is always free and just requires you log into your JumboSearch account.
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Hello! Do you like to study? No? But you like it when you can check out chargers and stuff earlier/later than normal, right? Especially when you have to study? What if there’s also free coffee?
There we go.
Good news! The Hirsh Health Sciences Library will be having another three weekends of Extended Hours this spring, so you will have more time to check materials out and get help on the weekends!
On the following weekends, the desk on the 4th floor will be open 10am – 10pm:
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Saturday, April 6th
Sunday, April 7th
Saturday, April 20th
Sunday, April 21st
Saturday, May 4th
Sunday, May 5th
We will also have free coffee for you all on the Saturdays! The coffee is scheduled to show up at 6pm, so so you can come take a quick study break and commiserate while you caffeinate.
Just so you know: this only applies to the staffed desk. The building itself has its normal operating hours, so you can still stay until midnight as normal.
If you have any questions you can feel free to swing by the desk on the 4th floor or call us at 617-636-6706. Otherwise, we look forward to seeing you those three weekends!
Happy Studying!
April Open Workshops are in bloom here at the Hirsh Library! Come to our workshops and grow some new skills! Workshops are held on Thursdays from 12noon-1pm in Sackler 510. To learn more about Open Workshops and register,please visit: https://hirshlibrary.tufts.edu/services/open-workshops
Thursday, April 4, 2019 – 12noon-1pm Sackler 510
This workshop will introduce you to Mendeley, a free citation management tool. Like other citation management tools, Mendeley allows you to:
- collect and organize references discovered from articles, databases, and web sites
- upload and manage PDF files
- insert and format references in Word to create in-text citations and bibliographies in various of citation styles, such as APA and JAMA
Come to this workshop and learn more about how Mendeley combines both cloud-based and desktop computing to give you the best of both worlds!
Patents for Health Sciences Research
Thursday, April 11, 2019 – 12noon-1pm Sackler 510
We’ll identify types of research questions and literature searches where identifying related patents can be helpful. Then we’ll cover tips and tricks for finding and reading patents.
Right to the Source: Locating U.S. Health Data
Thursday, April 18, 2019 – 12noon-1pm Sackler 510
This workshop will introduce you to major sources of health data for the United States. Topics will include: data collection, stakeholders, and methods, tips & tricks for locating health data, and an introduction to the Hirsh Library “Health Data and Statistics” guide.
Attention second year medical students! As you’re preparing for Step 1 this spring, don’t forget about the study resources offered by Hirsh. We offer electronic question banks USMLE Easy and (new this year!) BoardVitals. Our research guide on Board Prep for Medicine lists our print and electronic Step 1 study materials: borrow First Aid and Kaplan comprehensive review resources or check out systems-based review books in the Student Consult, Rapid Review, or Blueprints series. Many of our most popular print resources, including two copies of First Aid 2018 are available on reserve at the Library Service Desk. Stop by the 4th floor and check them out!
Post contributed by Christina Heinrich
Study carrel feeling lonely? Assignments got you down? Why not make a little buddy to help cheer you up? That’s right, Hirsh’s favorite pom pom critters are back for two days only! Stop by the Library Service Desk this Thursday 3/21 and Friday 3/22 starting at noon and make a fluffy friend for yourself or someone else.
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