A blog from WHSLA (Wisconsin Health Sciences Library Association) featuring posts on medical and health science libraries, NLM, and learning opportunities for medical and health science librarians and library staff.
A new WHSLA member shared this movie review related to copyright...and Tolstoy. The Last Station (2009) trailer "A
historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to
balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material
things. Having
renounced his title and property, aging Literary icon Leo Tolstoy makes plans
to donate his title and property to the Russian people. His wife, Countess
Sofya, challenges this act of idealism by her husband. Set
in the last tumultuous years of famed Russian author Leo Tolstoy's life, it
centers on the battle for his literary works and property waged by his wife
Sofya Andreyevna and his leading disciple Vladimir Cherkov. Sofya believes he was the person responsible for Tolstoy
signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people .Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and
chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children and a
life of hedonism, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home. Too ill to
continue beyond the tiny rail station at Astapovo, he believes that he is dying
alone, while over one hundred newspapermen camp outside awaiting hourly reports
on his condition."Thanks to Amazon and Rotten Tomatoes for the description.
TOXNET Website to be Retired, Most Content Will Remain Available.
NLM Tech Bull. 2019 Sep-Oct;(430):e3.
On December 16, 2019, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) TOXNET (TOXicology Data NETwork) website will be retired. Most content will remain available through other NLM databases as well as from external websites. TOXNET has served as an integrated system of toxicology and environmental health information. The most frequently used databases are being incorporated into three NLM core resources: PubChem, an open chemistry database; PubMed, a resource for biomedical literature; and Bookshelf, a free online resource to access books and documents in life science and healthcare. Several resources in TOXNET came from other organizations, such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and will continue to be available from those sources. Some databases will be retired. The TOXNET transition page provides a list of its databases and how to access their content. Please check that page and the NLM Technical Bulletin for updates. If you have questions, please contact NLM Customer Support at https://support.nlm.nih.gov/.
More filters available in the new PubMed The most popular filters are included on the new PubMed sidebar by default. You can now access many more filters using the additional filters link.
If your library is anything like mine, we rely on EFTS to pay for ILL. Knowing this service will continue is great!
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Please see the message below
from Kevin Baliozian, MLA Executive Director and Janice Swiatek, Director,
Lyman Maynard Stowe Library, UConn Health Center:
Update
on EFTS Continuation
Submitted
by Kevin Baliozian, MLA Executive Director, and Janice Swiatek, Director, Lyman
Maynard Stowe Library, University of Connecticut (UConn) Health
Center–Farmington
On July 18, 2019, MLA communicated to DOCLINE users that “MLA,
in collaboration with UConn and the National Library of Medicine (NLM), is
developing upgraded technical specifications and a business model to be
operated by MLA for a successor to the current Electronic Funds Transfer System
(EFTS).”
UConn has confirmed that EFTS operations
at UConn will continue, uninterrupted, past the original end date of December
31, 2019, to give time for MLA to finalize the new EFTS
platform. MLA has been conducting user experience interviews to ensure that the
specifications for the new EFTS improve the library experience and address all
usage cases.
The tentative timing is for MLA to reach
out to EFTS users by early November with details of the new EFTS offering. At
that time, users will be asked to sign up for the new EFTS by December 15.
Should a sufficient number of libraries commit, MLA will proceed with
programming the platform, which MLA expects would launch by March 31, 2020.
UConn is providing MLA with a sufficient buffer should more time be needed.
Many of you have shared some of your favorite podcasts with us. But did you know that podcasts are disappearing? Fortunately for podcast creators and enthusiasts, the folks at Preserve this Podcast are teaching people about digital preservation to stop this from happening! They even have a free seminar in Madison, WI this month!
I learned some new and surprising things about humanity.
People tell Google
all kinds of things they wouldn’t tell their best friend.The author even went so far as to call the Google
search box truth serum.As a Librarian and professional searcher, I
don’t see the point of confessing to Google, because it’s just a search engine
and a utility.But that’s not how many
people use it.After studying gobs of
big data, Stephens-Davidowitz asserts that online searches reveal people’s true
thoughts.That’s how he was able to deconstruct what happened with the
2016 election, and how so many of the accepted polls and trusted data sources
got it so wrong in predicting the outcome.He was able to pick up on a disturbing undercurrent of racism and white
supremacy that most people did not admit to in polite company, ie the official
polls.
Time and time again, the author points out examples where
the accepted and government data just plain got it wrong because they were
using outdated and archaically slow methods of data collection.One heartbreaking example was about the rise
of child abuse rates after the economic downturn in 2008.Traditional government agencies, who were
themselves cut back, were not getting any more reports of child abuse.They would probably only be getting the very
worst cases anyway.Google search logs
told a very different story with heartbreaking queries like:Why
does my father beat me?How to tell if a
kid is being abused at home?
What people say is
not necessarily what they do.He
also talked about the new frontiers Big Data will open for the social
sciences.The anonymous search logs show
a very different picture than what people admit to in more formal surveys.If they are talking to someone, they know to
be on their best behavior and may tell the interviewer what they expect to hear
– again, the polite company factor.
Think of “official” polls and surveys.If someone is being asked in person, they
want to look good and honorable, so they give the socially acceptable answer –
not necessarily how they really feel. For example: Do you eat 5 servings of
fruits and vegetables every day?People
will answer yes, because they know they should.
Don’t compare your
real life to everyone else’s social media lives.People tend to be on good behavior on social
media where people are watching, but when they think they are alone and otherwise
anonymous, the truth comes out.
Don’t have time to read the book?Listen to his TED Talk on "The Secrets in Our Google Searches."
The Hospital/Clinical Access Working Group, co-chaired by Michelle Brewer
(Librarian/Market Intelligence Manager, Wolters Kluwer), Don Hamparian (Senior
Product Manager, OCLC), and Catherine Dixon (Product Manager, Wolters Kluwer),
came together to understand and offer insight into the unique requirements
around content access when in a hospital or medical clinic setting. The results
of that work can be found in the white paper, “Final Report &
Recommendations: Resource Access in the 21st Century, RA21 Hospital Clinical
Access Working Group.” Thiscomprehensive report offers a
concrete set of recommendations that will inform future work into the
recommendations for improving access to scholarly content by the Coalition
for Seamless Access. Note: NISO Coalition for Seamless Access is the new name for RA21 and information
on the initiative going forward can be found on the NISO website:https://clicktime.symantec.com/3DKmiuC1kMVMHavKoCwUxnL7Vc?u=www.niso.org%2Fstandards-committees%2Fra21
All WHSLA members in good standing are invited to attend the annual WHSLA Business Meeting. This year's meeting will take place during the Midwest Chapter/MLA, WHSLA, SWHSL conference. While WHSLA members do not have to register to attend the 30-minute business meeting, you do need to register to attend any other portion of the conference. Early bird registration ends on Friday, September 13. We hope you will join us!
AGENDA
Wisconsin
Health Science Library Association
2019 Annual Business Meeting
Sunday, October 6, 2019
4:00-4:30 pm
Crystal Room
Milwaukee
Hyatt Regency, 333 W. Kilbourn Avenue, Milwaukee, WI
