Monday, March 23, 2009

RefWorks Basic and Advanced Sessions Offered in March

Ref Works Basics
Create an account and learn to create and import references and generate a bibliography.

Friday, March 27, 11a.m. -12 p.m.
Monday, March 30, 6-7 p.m.

RefWorks Advanced
Learn about additinal features, adding in-text citations and footnotes, and how to format a paper and bibliography from within RefWorks.

Monday, March 30, 7-8 p.m.

All sessions held in 408 Gumberg Library. No reservations necessary.

iGoogle, You Google, We Can Google Together! Using Google Collaboration Tools

Date: Friday April 3, 2009 11 a.m.

Location: 408 Gumberg Library

Presenters: Allison Brungard, Robert Behary, Diana Sasso

Description:
Faculty and students often collaborate with peers at other institutions, sharing documents, planning and scheduling meetings, and creating web sites. This 90 minute workshop will introduce simple and free ways to collaborate using tools offered by Google.

No registration is necessary. The PowerPoint and handouts will be posted to our First Fridays Archive site at http://www.sites.duq.edu/library/about/aboutFirstFridaysArchive.shtml
This session will not be recorded, but may be repeated on another date if there is sufficient interest.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Alert! Problem with Micromedex Dosing Calculators

Micromedex, a business of Thomson Reuters, has discovered a situation in which
misleading dosing information may be printed from the dosing calculators in the
Healthcare Series and Point of Care applications.

Additional Information

Monday, March 16, 2009

Wiley e-books added to DuCat

The following Wiley e-books are now available in DuCat.

A Companion to Applied Ethics
A Companion to Genethics
A Companion to Kant
A Companion to Nietzsche
A Companion to Plato
A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000
After Aquinas
Atheism and Theism
Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development
Chomsky and His Critics Book
Companion to Chaucer
Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing
Companion to Heidegger
Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture
Derrida Dictionary
Diversity and Community - An Interdisciplinary Reader
Employment and Employee Rights
How to Make Opportunity Equal - Race and Contributive Justice
In Kant's Wake - Philosopphy in the Twentieth Century
Marx After Marxism - The Philosophy of Karl Marx
Modern Critical Thought-An Anthology of Theorists Writing on Theorists
Modernism - A Short Introduction
Rawls's Law of Peoples - A Realistic Utopia?
The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology
The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise
Theology and Social Theory - Beyond Secular Reason

And more...

· Analysis of Survey Data
· Applied Chemometrics for Scientists
· Assessing Risk in Sex Offenders - A Practitioner's Guide
· Beyond Reasonable Doubt - Reasoning Processes in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Related Disorders
· Chemometrics in Environmental Analysis
· Chemometrics: From Basics to Wavelet Transform
· Community Treatment of Eating Disorders
· Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies
· Companion to Media Studies
· Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians
· Depression in Children and Adolescents
· Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of Questionnaires for Survey Research
· Dirty Discourse - Sex and Indecency in Broadcasting
· Domestic Violence and Family Safety - A Systemic Approach to Working with Violence in Families
· Dyslexia - An Introduction Guide
· Dyslexia - Students in Need
· Dyslexia and Learning Style - A Practitioner's Handbook
· Dyslexia in Context - Research, Policy and Practice
· Emile Durkheim - Sociologist of Modernity
· Evaluating Research Methods in Psychology - A Case Study Approach
· Experimental Design and Statistics for Psychology A First Course
· Family Therapy - Concepts, Process and Practice
· Handbook of Eating Disorders
· Hazardous Chemicals Desk Reference, Sixth Edition
· Introduction to Survey Quality
· Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires
· Modern Practice of Gas Chromatography, Fourth Edition
· Neglected Children and Their Families
· Out in Psychology - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Perspectives
· Posttraumatic Stress Disorder - Issues and Controversies
· Psychoanalytic Movement
· Readings in Economic Sociology
· Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities - An Anthropoligical Reader
· Sexual Offender Treatment - Controversial Issues
· Stalking and Psychosexual Obsession - Pychological Perspectives for Prevention, Policing and Treatment
· Statistical Methods in Analytical Chemistry, Second Edition
· Targeting Immigrants - Government, Technology, and Ethics
· The Blackwell Companion to Globalization
· The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists
· The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists
· Therapy with Couples - A Behavioural-Systems Approach to Couple Relationship and Sexual Problems
· Treating and Preventing Obesity - An Evidence Based Review
· Understanding the Methods of Psychological Research - Why Science Matters
· Unexpected Death in Childhood - A Handbook for Practioners
· Winners and Losers in Globalization
· Women and Media
· Women and Media International Perspectives
· Women, Family, and Work: Writings in the Economics of Gender

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Gumberg Library Survey: Winners Announced!

Gumberg Library would like to thank all Duquesne University students, faculty, and staff who participated in and helped promote our recent LibQUAL survey. We are still in the process of tabulating the results but can now announce many of the participation-incentive winners. You can see photos of the students who won the major incentive prizes plus the names of the other student winners at www.library.duq.edu/libqual.

Visiting Speaker-Helen Fielding

Women & Gender Studies and Philosophy Speaker, Helen Fielding
March 19, 12-2 p.m., Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, 1st floor, Gumberg Library

Coffee with Darwin Days

Roundtable with Visiting Speaker: Elizabeth Grosz
April 1, 3-5 p.m., Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, 1st floor, Gumberg Library

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Dissertation Defense-Psychology

March 17, 2009, 1:30

Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, Gumberg Library

Contact Info (phone or email): Psychology@duq.edu http://www.gradpsych.duq.edu/thesisdefenses.html

Thomas J. Smith will present: Client's experience of effective psychoanalytic-psychodynamic psychotherapy for major depression: An empirical phenomenological study Director: Roger Brooke, Ph.D., ABPP

Monday, March 9, 2009

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins e-books added to DuCat

The following LWW e-books are now available in DuCat.

· Manual of dermatologic therapeutics
· Nutrition in clinical practice
· Practical cardiology
· Spinal trauma :imaging, diagnosis, and management
· Trauma : contemporary principles and therapy
· Osteoarthritis :diagnosis and medical/surgical management
· The substance abuse handbook
· Danforth's obstetrics and gynecology
· Lippincott's primary care orthopaedics
· The crucial principles in care of the knee
· A clinical guide to pediatric weight management and obesity
· Manual of obstetrics
· Barker, Burton, and Zieve's principles of ambulatory medicine
· Osteoporosis : a guide for clinicians
· Differential diagnosis in primary care
· Surgical techniques in sports medicine
· Head and neck cancer : a multidisciplinary approach

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Ovid e-books added to DuCat

The following Ovid e-books are now available in DuCat.

· 5-minute clinical suite
· Skin & wound care
· The 5-minute consult:clinical companion to women's health
· Handbook of stroke
· Forensic emergency medicine
· Adolescent health care
· Hypertension primer :the essentials of high blood pressure:basic science, population science, and clinical
· management
· Basic concepts of psychiatric-mental health nursing
· Drugs in pregnancy and lactation
· Goodheart's photoguide of common skin disorders
· Modern nutrition in health and disease
· The AHA clinical cardiac consult
· A manual of laboratory and diagnostic tests
· The 5-minute orthopaedic consult
· Designing clinical research
· Macnab's backache
· 5-minute pediatric consult
· Manual of musculoskeletal medicine
· Manual of gastroenterology
· Sauer's manual of skin diseases
· The 5 minute pain management consult
· Avoiding common pediatric errors
· Diabetes management in primary care
· Interpretation of diagnostic tests
· A pocket manual of differential diagnosis
· Child and adolescent clinical psychopharmacology
· Handbook of adolescent health care
· Manual of pediatric therapeutics
· Guide to drug development
· Wintrobe's clinical hematology
· A practical guide to palliative care

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

IM a Gumberg Librarian!

Try out our new IM Reference service at Ask a Librarian.
This trial will run from March 9 – May 6. Reference librarians will be online Monday thru Friday, 2-5 pm, and Saturday/Sunday, 11 am-1pm, to answer your questions.
Let us know your IM preferences by taking our survey.