The Book Mark Newsletter of the Library and Learning Resources Center

The Library has created a general in-formation guide to assist you with find-ing the information you need. Tabs on the guide are divided into the program areas offered by USN: MBA, Pharmacy, Nursing, and Orthodon-tics. Each USN program tab has lists of databases, useful websites, call numbers, and other details. In addition to programs, there are also tabs with citation information, copyright issues, career information, workshops or tutorials, how to download handheld ap-

LLRC Information Guide

This past autumn, Pub-Med made several changes to their database interface. The homepage has been streamlined, requiring less effort to find resources. Links from the blue side bar are now listed under the search box. Former tab functions are now under Advanced Search.

The NCBI site was also redesigned. Associated re-sources are now listed under categories. Additional changes in early February include:

A Search Builder on the Advanced search page instead of separate fields A link to Clipboard has

been added to the main page (shows when cita-tions are added) A link from the home-page to a new Limits page with additional limits for dates and search field tags

If you need help with any of these changes, please contact Library staff in the LLRC to assist you.

Changes in PubMed

University of Southern Nevada February 2010

Volume 3, Issue 1

Library Staff Continuing Education

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Employee Spotlight: Talia Ashton

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Employee Spotlight: Kelline Boel

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Get More From Facts & Comparisons

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Get Articles through Loansome Doc

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Search Reserves in the Library Catalog

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Helping You Through Instruction

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Inside this issue:

Special points of interest:

New newsletter name

Check out the LLRC Information Guide

PubMed streamlined

Facts & Comparisons Academic Partnership

How to find reserves

Request articles

Annual survey with chance to win iPod

plications, the Library�’s hours, and other useful general information. To access the LLRC Information Guide follow these steps:

Click or type the library URL http://www.usn.edu/library/

Select the first link under Library Re-search Tools

LLRC Information Guide Once in the guide, click any tab to learn more.

This fall Library Assistant Gaye D�’Agata attended the California Library Associa-tion Conference in Pasadena.

Gaye attended a half day fundraising institute listen-ing to library trustees and friends talk about how they raise money for their librar-ies.

Topics for additional work-shops she attended included librarians partnering with other community organiza-tions, consumer health web-sites, automating a newspa-per library, intellectual free-

dom, and cataloging.

It wasn�’t all serious as Gaye listened to Paula Poundstone amusingly praise libraries during the opening session. At an eve-ning Gaming Social spon-sored by the Young Adult librarians she played the Wii system for the first time. Gaye reported, �“Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution beat me down, but I rocked at golf and tennis!�”

The last day of the confer-ence, Gaye went to a work-shop entitled, "Reaching Out

in All Directions: Unconven-tional Outreach for Aca-demic Libraries." The pre-senter, who was from the University of San Diego, spoke about encouraging students to play an active part in planning their library services and space.

During the closing session, "Leadership at Every Level," California movers and shak-ers were recognized. All of them agreed that the defini-tion of a leader is, "someone who motivates others to ef-fect change by empowering other people."

basically grew up in libraries and has been working with library systems since she was twelve!

Kelline earned her Bache-lor�’s degrees in Accounting and in Business Administra-tion from Stevens-Henager College. She is hoping to go

Kelline Boel is the evening part-time Library Assistant at the LLRC in South Jor-dan.

She grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, and at eighteen moved to Utah. Since her mother was a li-brarian, Kelline says she

on and earn a Master�’s de-gree in Library Science.

Kelline loves Bollywood movies, historical fiction, music from different cultures and eras, and hanging out with her six children.

Library Staff Continuing Education

Employee Spotlight: Kelline Boel

She has worked a variety of jobs in the Las Vegas area, including desert tortoise bi-ologist and water conserva-tion aide. Talia has said, �“I am so excited to be part of USN!�”

For the past two years she has been taking graduate school classes online with Florida State University in

Tallahassee, FL. This past December, Talia completed her Master�’s degree in Li-brary and Information Sci-ence!

Married with a 2-year old daughter, a baby on the way, and a dog, her hobbies in-clude reading, hiking, and teaching American Sign Lan-guage to her daughter.

Employee Spotlight: Talia Ashton Talia Aston is the morning part-time Library Assistant at the LLRC in Henderson.

Originally from a small town in Wisconsin, she graduated from the Univer-sity of Wisconsin �– Madison with a Bachelor�’s in Wildlife Ecology in August 2003, and moved to southern Nevada about six months later.

�“I am so excited to be part of USN!�”

- New Library Assistant Talia Ashton

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Get More From Facts & Comparisons

Search Reserves in the Library Catalog

Get Articles Through Loansome Doc

Through USN�’s participation in the Wolters Kluwer Academic Partnership Program, additional content and ser-vices are now available from Facts & Comparisons (now called Facts & Com-parisons eAnswers).

The latest development is a free mo-bile interface! Optimized for iPhone/ iPod, it is useable on other cell phones and PDA�’s. Here�’s how to get started:

Login to the ARC and click on Facts & Comparisons

Under �“What�’s New,�” click on �“Register for free Facts & Compari-sons Mobile web access�”

Fill out the form to create a user-name and password (student ID# goes in the Store # box) and click �“I Accept�”

Point your mobile browser to mobile.factsandcomparisons.com and login

Additional content now available:

5-Minute Clinical Consult (5MCC)

Cancer Chemotherapy Manual

Formulary Monograph Service

ToxFacts Treatment Guidelines

Trissel�’s IV-Chek

MedCalc 3000

from a barrage of medical and health science libraries throughout the United States.

You can request articles any of the following ways:

Fill out the Interlibrary Loan Request on the Library webpage, which also lists policies and fees

Follow instructions at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/loansome_doc.html and enter library identifier of NVUJRO (NV) or UTULAC (UT)

Let our staff assist you

In most circumstances, your article will be emailed to you in 1-3 days.

Do you ever get frustrated when you can�’t find that arti-cle you were looking for in PubMed or our many data-bases?

Loansome Doc may be the answer for you! Loansome Doc is the National Library of Medicine�’s Interlibrary Loan service, which allows you to request an article

Select the location you would like to search from the drop down menu

Next, choose to search by course or instructor

Type the course or the instructor name in the search box.

The results will appear

We are excited to announce that reserves can now be searched via the Library Catalog! From the library home-page, click on Library Cata-log.

Click on the words �“Reserve Bookroom�” in the blue bar

alphabetically

Click on the course or instructor name for the list of reserve items

Remember that reserve items are checked out for in-library use only. Search tip: use an asterisk (*) to see all instructors or courses.

�“Request an article from a barrage of medical and health science libraries throughout the United States.�”

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Recent overall product enhancements include easier navigation, blue color scheme, and the ability to enter both drugs and conditions in the search box.

The Academic Partnership Program also provides the opportunity for stu-dents to participate in a Facts Enhance-ment Contest for a $5,000 student schol-arship award. Details will be distrib-uted once they are made available.

Please join the Library in thanking Dr. Andrew Draper for volunteering to serve as Teaching Faculty Advisor which allowed us to participate in this worthwhile program!

Library Hours Henderson

Mon�—Thur 7:00 AM - 11:00 PM Fri 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM Sat 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

South Jordan

Mon�—Thur 7:00 AM - 10:00 PM Fri 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Sat closed

Spring Closures May 29, 31 Memorial Day

Henderson 11 Sunset Way Henderson, NV 89014 702-968-2040

Visit us online!!! http://www.usn.edu/library/

when you ask for help ac-cessing or searching one of our many online resources.

We also provide group in-struction sessions such as:

How to cite resources using the APA Publica-tion Manual

How to search specific databases related to a field of study

In addition to physical space and educational re-sources, the Library provides a number of services to help you in your academic en-deavors.

An important area of ser-vice we provide is instruc-tion. We offer tutorials for a number of databases in our LLRC Information Guide. We assist you one-on-one

An overview of library resources at USN

These are just a few exam-ples of the kinds of classes we can provide!

Contact Reference and Instruction Librarians Xan Goodman in Henderson or Joe Ritchie in South Jordan for more information about offered instruction.

Helping You Through Instruction

South Jordan 10920 South River Parkway South Jordan, UT 84095 801-878-1020

University of Southern Nevada

The University of Southern Nevada Library and Learning Resources Center is open to all USN students, faculty, staff, and their guests. Services provided include print ma-terials, media (CD-ROMs, DVDs, etc.), online journals and databases, reference and instruction services, interlibrary loan requests, desktop computers, wireless Internet access, and both individual and group study areas.

And coming soon... Watch for the annual Library/Technology Services Survey coming soon! Play a role in determining future Library services!! Students from both campuses will be eligible to enter a drawing for an iPod Nano and other great prizes!!!!