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07/18/2025
profile-icon Emily Roberts

Whether you're just beginning your journey into research, re-entering academia after years in the field, or simply want a bit of extra support, upcoming Library (Re)Orientation events at HSLIC are perfect for you

Events will be held in Room 428 on the fourth floor of HSLIC on Friday August 8th from 10:30 am - 12:00 pm and on Monday September 1st from 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm. Make sure to register in advance! 

These relaxed and welcoming sessions are especially designed for nursing and allied health students looking to fully utilize the library’s spaces, resources, and services. We'll spend the time exploring essential databases, learning how to navigate research guides, and finding out how to access one-on-one help. 

The session is built around your needs, so bring any questions or challenges you’ve been facing. Whether you’re struggling with database searches, citation formatting, or even don't know what to ask, we can tackle these concerns together. You’ll want to bring a laptop or mobile device so you can follow along in real time. It’s all hands-on, practical learning that you can immediately apply to your coursework or clinical practice.

Towards the end, we’ll take you on a short tour of the library itself. You’ll discover private study areas, group-friendly zones, and tech-rich rooms equipped with printers, scanners, and charging stations. We’ll also highlight our wellness resources—a quiet nook to unwind, meditation space, or simply a comfy chair to pause and refocus. By the time we wrap up, you’ll feel confident navigating the building and ready to find what you need. 

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07/11/2025
Christian Peshlakai

The Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center's current anatomy resource is 3D Organon. HSLIC is presently trialing e-Anatomy as an anatomical resource replacement.

 

e-Anatomy is an Interactive atlas that provides medical images and anatomical diagrams of the human body. It includes over 27,000 images with labels in 12 languages and offers tools for navigation, cross-referencing, and self-quizzing. It is available through web and mobile platforms and supports individual and institutional subscriptions, including offline access.

 

The feedback given will inform the library's decision on subscribing to e-Anatomy as a new anatomy resource replacement.


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03/11/2024
profile-icon Gale Hannigan

 

Patient Safety Awareness Week is March 10-16; it's an opportunity to encourage learning about health care safety. Patient safety is the concern of everyone on the health care team, and that includes librarians.

Some ways in which librarians and libraries contribute to patient safety:

  • Provide authoritative point-of-care resources for quick retrieval of information at the time of need
  • Participate in clinical rounds to understand the context of questions as they arise and respond with relevant information from quality resources
  • Serve on safety committees and institutional review boards
  • Conduct literature searches for current guidelines, best practices
  • Provide 24/7 access to databases that contain current information about drugs, interactions, therapeutics, and peer-reviewed full-text articles
  • Educate health care personnel in the efficient use of resources

Physicians, residents, and nurses at 118 hospitals (16,122 respondents to a survey) considered a recent patient care situation and reported changes in "advice given to the patient (48%), diagnosis (25%), and choice of drugs (33%), other treatment (31%), and tests (23%)" based on information provided by the librarian or library." They indicated that the "information allowed them to avoid the following adverse events: patient misunderstanding of the disease (23%), additional tests (19%), misdiagnosis (13%), adverse drug reactions (13%), medication errors (12%), and patient mortality (6%)." [1]

When you have a question, or are making a health care decision, our goal at HSLIC is to deliver current, accurate, and evidence-based information.

  1. Marshall JG, et al. The value of library and information services in patient care: results of a multisite study. J Med Libr Assoc. 2013 Jan;101(1):38-46. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.101.1.007. PMID: 23418404; PMCID: PMC3543128.

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