OHSU Library What’s New

A new exhibit by artist Raymond Alexander, The Art of Recycling, featuring work created using Abaca fiber from recycled office manila file folders, has opened in the BICC Gallery (first floor of the BICC building - #22 on this map).

This exhibit, curated by the Marquam Hill Art Committee, will run from April 10-May 29, 2008 and is part of the OHSU Green Team calendar of events for April and May.

Building hours for the BICC building, which are slightly different than the OHSU Library hours, are:

Monday—Thursday 7:30a to 8:00p
Friday 7:30a to 5:00p
Saturday 9:00a to 5:00p
Sunday 1:00p to 8:00p

For questions or comments about this exhibit, please contact the Marquam Hill Art Committee at 503-494-4240.

The History of Medicine Room will not have open hours this Thursday, March 27th. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have questions about using the History of Medicine Room, please contact Sara Piasecki, History of Medicine Librarian, at 503-418-2287.

At the end of March, with a lack of fanfare that has been a hallmark of his quiet leadership style, OHSU University Librarian Jim Morgan will retire.

When Morgan arrived at OHSU in 1976—as only the third library director since 1919—one of his first tasks was to automate functions throughout the library. In many ways, that project never ended. The rapid acceleration of technology that began in the 1980s and exploded with the internet in the 1990s ultimately led to a fundamental transformation of libraries. At the same time, OHSU was undergoing dramatic growth and transformation as an institution.

“One of the unique qualities of Jim is his ability to understand large systemic changes and simultaneously grasp how to respond to them at a human level,” said Provost Lesley Hallick. “His support for staff, mentorship of emerging leaders, and encouragement of faculty has helped both the library personnel and its users successfully adapt to a world of information that is dramatically different than when he arrived at OHSU.”

During Morgan’s tenure, the library moved from print-based collections and in-person services to an “always available” electronic service model. The full scope of changes involved in that transformation is extensive, and you can learn more about them at the library’s history website.

A signature moment for the library under Morgan was its transition into the Biomedical Information Communication Center in 1991. In 15 days, 60,000 volumes were moved from the Old Library to stacks in the BICC. The new building quickly became a vital campus resource as well as an information hub for users all across Oregon.

“Throughout his more than thirty years of service, Jim has been an outstanding, compassionate leader,” said Hallick. “He has successfully guided the library through a period of extraordinary external and internal changes, managing change with resilience and difficult times with grace. His steady and reassuring presence will be greatly missed.”

Please join us in wishing Jim a fond farewell on Thursday, March 20, 2008 in the BICC Gallery from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm.

Special thanks to all our library users who came in and paid overdue fines on February 14. A total of $45.50 was donated to OHSU’s Food Drive. An additional $39.05 was donated by users, dropping their quarters, dimes and nickels into the Food Drive can at the Circulation Desk. This brings the total to $84.55, which will enable the Oregon Food Bank to distribute over 421 pounds of food to those in need throughout the state.

CatalogConnect, now available in the OHSU Library catalog, will give you access to tables of contents, summaries, book jackets, and reviews of books in the health sciences. This information, available for most health sciences books published after 1992, comes from Doody Enterprises, who also produce the MedInfoNow database. CatalogConnect provides more detailed information about a book, making it easier for you to determine whether a book in our collection will meet your needs. An example of CatalogConnect can be seen in the screenshots below.

For more information on CatalogConnect, go to http://www.doodyenterprises.com/Catalog+Connect.htm. If you have questions about this new feature, please contact Janet Crum, crumj@ohsu.edu, 4-0691.

The NIH Public Access Policy requires scientists to submit journal articles that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive, PubMed Central. Effective April 7, 2008, all NIH funded investigators must upload an electronic version of any final, peer-reviewed manuscripts arising from NIH funds into PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. Investigators have 12 months to make articles publicly available. Starting May 25, all NIH applications, proposals, and progress reports must cite one of two numbers: the PubMed Central reference number (PMCID) or the NIH Manuscript Submission number (NIHMS ID).

The OHSU Library has developed resources to assist OHSU researchers. If you would like someone to visit your department and provide more information, contact Andrew Hamilton at hamiltoa@ohsu.edu. The library is also available to assist researchers in submitting articles. For more information, contact Judith Norton at norton@ohsu.edu. Lastly, for general information, contact Emily McElroy at mcelroye@ohsu.edu.

Key points of the NIH policy are at http://www.ohsu.edu/library/scholarlycomm/nihpolicybrief.shtml or a more detailed review is available here http://www.ohsu.edu/library/scholarlycomm/nihpolicylong.shtml. For full NIH information, visit http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html.

Collaborative Learning Space - Room 441/443

Come join us for open sessions on using the equipment
in the new Collaborative Learning Space on the fourth
floor of the Library. Staff will also demonstrate how
to book the room through the library’s online catalog.
Homemade cookies provided!

Monday, March 3
11:00am - 4:00pm

Room amenities include:

- Two 36″ LCD screens
- Eight data ports for laptops
- Ability to toggle between laptop displays
- Wired and wireless internet connectivity
- DVD/VCR player
- Comfortable seating for up to eight

Have you accumulated unpaid overdue fines for OHSU library materials? Come in and pay them on Thursday, February 14, and the library will donate your fines to the OHSU Food Drive. Clear your conscience and contribute to a worthy cause!

Please note this does not apply to payments for lost books, or for credit card transactions.

Checks can be made out to the Oregon Food Bank.

If you have questions about the Library’s “Fines for Food” day, please contact the Circulation Desk at 503-494-3460.

OHSU Historical Collections & Archives announces the opening of its new exhibit, “Japanese Relics of World War II,” now on display in the main lobby of the OHSU Library.

Showcasing artifacts from the OHSU Medical Museum Collection, the exhibit contains field kits, diagnostic and surgical instruments, documents, photographs, pharmaceutical preparations, and other items brought back from the Pacific Theater by Oregon physicians serving in the United States Armed Forces during the Second World War.

In a 1943 campus newsletter, a plea was made to physicians to donate materials to the Medical Museum Collection. Give a “Christmas gift to yourselves of articles that will record for the future some of the medical history of these difficult and historical times. It is so easy to pass by the present without thinking how soon it will become the past or realizing that whatever is to become a part of the heritage of the future must be saved. It is you who are physicians and it is your museum and assuredly it is you who know what is worth saving. Physicians in Military Service: Did some one pick up a Japanese medical kit on Attu? Does some one have a bit of equipment used in taking care of the first casualties from the first bitter landings in the islands of the Pacific?”

Donors such as D.N. Steffanoff, MD; Virgil C. Larson, MD; Roger H. Keane, MD; Prentiss Lee, MD; John B. White, MD; James E. Buckley, MD; Richard S. Fixott, MD; George Lyman, MD; and Toshiaki Kuge, MD, answered the call. As a result, OHSU Historical Collections & Archives is now the repository of a unique and wonderful collection of war-era Japanese medical artifacts.

Materials will be on display through May 2008. Questions about the exhibit or the collections can be addressed to Sara Piasecki, History of Medicine Librarian (503-418-2287, piasecki@ohsu.edu) or Karen Peterson, Archivist (503-494-3239 or peterska@ohsu.edu