The Library E-Newsletter needs a name! The E-Newsletter is the best way to keep current with the latest resources and services that the library has to offer. Help us choose a name for the newsletter by filling out this form or visiting the library website to submit your suggestions. Here’s an incentive: the winner will be awarded an iPod.

Using a campus email address, any faculty, staff or student may enter the naming contest. All entries should be in by November 30th and the winners name will appear in our December issue.

The winning entry will be creative and fun…

Welcome to our e-newsletter. We’ve been thinking about this electronic format for a long time. It doesn’t have a name yet but hopefully, you will help with that.

As part of our strategic planning work, we have been wrestling with the future of the library. While it is important for the library to remain as a place (our gate count has skyrocketed this fall), we are surprised by users who regard us as only a place with books. We are so much more! Our work and resources are becoming de-containerized. The majority of our resources are available digitally. We regard our website as another service desk. However, by losing our physical "containers" do we risk losing our identity and importance? I can’t tell you how many times I hear from users, "I never come to the library anymore. I get everything I need online." Last year, 325,000 people physically entered our building but there were over 25 million hits on our websites. When you use our digital resources, you are entering the de-containerized library. So, I say to the 25,325,000 of you who used the HS/HSL, thank you!

Congratulations to Lyndsay Higgins (2nd Year Dental Student), Lida Alimorad (1st Year Dental Student), and Kimberly Smith (2nd Year Medical Student), winners of the eNewsletter subscription contest. Each of our winners will receive Barnes & Noble gift cards of $50, $25, and $10 respectively. These gift cards can also be used at the UMB Bookstore.

Thank you to all of those who entered. We hope you enjoy receiving our monthly eNewsletter!

The Library has had a successful liaison program with the individual schools on campus for many years. One faculty librarian is assigned as a liaison to each school on campus. The liaisons provide onsite and web-based instruction for the faculty, staff and students of UMB, offer general classes as part of the HS/HSL class schedule, provide consulting services for faculty and students, and support campus research through participation in development of print and online collections, among many other activities.

Recently, our program has expanded to include a new component – working with the schools to provide health information outreach in communities throughout the state of Maryland. The liaisons work collaboratively with their individual schools to provide community-based health information outreach.

To learn how a liaison might work in partnership to support your community outreach efforts, please contact Paula Raimondo, Head of Liaison and Outreach Services, at praim001@umaryland.edu, or (410) 706-8875.

For a complete list of library liaisons and their contact information.

In this issue of the eNewsletter we highlight two of the six library liaisons, Dental School Library Liaison: Mary Ann Williams and School of Social Work Library Liaison: Anna Tatro. Look for information on our other liaisons in future issues.

Mary Ann Williams, MSLS, has provided support to faculty, staff & students through instructional classes, presentations, consultations and collection development as the Liaison to the Dental School for over 15 years.

Mary Ann introduces the first year dental students to the general resources and services of the Library as part of their orientation. She then builds on this foundation in the first year class, "Principles in Scientific Evidence", where she concentrates on instructing the students in researching the literature using Medline. Mary Ann would like to expand the instructional contact to include upper level students whose focus is on clinical care. She also provides instruction to several classes within the Dental Hygiene curriculum.

Please email her at mwilliam@umaryland.edu, or call 6-8863 if you would like to discuss how she can help support your instructional needs or outreach projects.

Anna Tatro received her Master’s of Library Science from Emporia State University in May 2005 and joined the HS/HSL staff in October 2005. She is the library’s Liaison to the School of Social Work. Anna supports the school by teaching courses, providing consultations, offering open lab hours, and purchasing materials for the library’s collections. She is also actively involved in promoting Maryland Health → Go Local through outreach activities.

Through instructional sessions Anna helps students become familiar with the Library’s webpage and many databases. Consultations, where students and faculty can get more in-depth instruction and help with specific research, are offered by appointment.

Anna is enthusiastic about being involved with the School of Social Work and would like to meet as many of its faculty, staff and students as possible and assist them with their library and information needs. Please email her at atatro@hshsl.umaryland.edu, or call 6-7374 if you would like to discuss how she can help support your instructional needs or outreach projects.

Each semester the Library offers instructional sessions to help UMB faculty, staff, and students improve their searching skills and better manage information. For complete information about the classes, visit the Fall 2006 Class Schedule. Classes are free and there is an easy online registration process. For more information, call (410) 706-7996.

Upcoming sessions included:

• Ovid Medline: the Basics
• Google: Finding Scholarly Information on the Web
• Are you Being Cited? and Science Citation Index (SCI) Expanded
• Locating the Evidence
• PubMed Basics and Advanced

In 2005-2006 the HS/HSL ran a pilot project for the powerful desktop research tool, SciFinder Scholar which provides chemical and related scientific information. This database had been requested by researchers for years. The HS/HSL could not afford to license the database with its limited budget. Armed with usage statistics and over 20 testimonials supporting continued access to this essential tool, the library requested funding from Academic Affairs. When presented with the collective evidence, Dr. Malinda Orlin, Vice President for Academic Affairs agreed to support this resource. Thanks to Dr. Orlin for the funding and to the research faculty and staff for their passionate support for this product.

Learn more about SciFinder and obtain download instructions.

On October 13, the Library hosted a memorial celebration for Florence Kendall, presented by the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science. The principal architect of professional education and practice in physical therapy, Florence Kendall died last January.

Florence donated her personal book collection to the Library in 1999. At the memorial celebration, we unveiled our new Kendall Historical Collection web pages. The pages, available at http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/resources/historical/kendall/index.html include a biographical article about Florence, and trace the history of her book MUSCLES : TESTING AND FUNCTION, the core text in physical therapy programs worldwide. We also highlight many other selections from the collection.

For further information, contact Historical Librarian Rich Behles at (410) 706-5048, or rbehles@hshsl.umaryland.edu.

The Freida O. Weise Gallery currently features the photographs of Dave Pumplin. Dave has had photographs accepted at the Washington School of Photography juried show and recently was awarded first prize in the nature category in a photography contest for the North Central Rail Trail.

Dave seeks to present images that convey information and that are beautiful. He is attracted to combinations of shapes and colors, some subtle, some bold, and looks for patterns that might at first glance be hidden. He particularly enjoys photographing children with their unforced openness of expression.