Posted in News Item, Seasonal on May 22, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Monday, May 27, 2013 Memorial Day
Matthews-Fuller Health
Sciences Library: CLOSED
Dana Biomedical Library
@37 Dewey Field Road:
General Public – CLOSED
Dartmouth IDs – 7:30am -Midnight
Medical & Grad Students – 24 Hours
Posted in Exhibits, News Item on April 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
What do Renaissance artists and anatomists, Dartmouth medical students at the turn of the 20th century, and Robert Burton’s famous 1621 treatise The Anatomy of Melancholy have in common? They inspire us to consider the relationship between science, ethics, and humanism in the practice of medicine.
Students in Sienna Craig’s First-Year Seminar, “The Values of Medicine: Knowing Bodies, Forming Practitioners, Shaping Institutions,” explored these themes during Winter term by curating small exhibits drawing on the collections from Rauner Library and the Hood Museum. Come to Rauner Special Collections Library to see three of the student exhibits.
The exhibits were curated by Caitlin Zellers ’16, Lynn Huang ’16, and Regan Haegley ’16. It will be on display through June 20 in the Class of ’65 Galleries….read more.
Posted in Books, New Materials, News Item on March 15, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
5 Easy Pieces: How Fishing Impacts Marine Ecosystems
Dana Library
QH545.F53 P38 2010
How Animals See the World:
Comparative Behavior, Biology, and Evolution of Vision
Dana Library
QP475 .H656 2012
Blood in Motion
Dana Library
QP101 .N66 2011
Critical Decisions: How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices Together
Matthews-Fuller Library
R723.5 .U24 2012
A Patient’s Perspective: Tips For Your Doctor Visits and More
Matthews-Fuller Library
R727.3 .P382 2012
The Health Care Handbook: A Clear and Concise Guide to the United States Health Care System
Matthews-Fuller Library
RA413.5.U5 A85 2012
Posted in News Item, Staff on February 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Chris Fuller
The Biomedical Libraries are pleased to announce that Chris Fuller has joined our staff as our new Information Access Assistant. He moved here from Portland, Oregon to work with us, and to be closer to his family in New York state. He started on Wednesday, February 27.
Chris brings a rich background of library-related experience to this position. Chris has a BA in History and Communication from Rutgers University, and has just completed an MLIS from San Jose State University. He has worked at Kaiser Permanente as a Digital Projects Intern helping to create an institutional repository, and at the City of Portland Archives. He has also worked with copyright issues while an associate contracts manager at Simon & Schuster.
Posted in News Item on February 6, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Last week construction started on the temporary home for Dana Biomedical Library at 37 Dewey Field Road. The 3rd floor of 37 Dewey was gutted and walls are now going up for offices, classrooms, study space and services.
Peggy Sleeth and Susan Jorgensen in the north end of what will be the open study space with tables, chairs and couches. This end also has 2 small class/meeting rooms. The other end has an 18 seat classroom.
Susan Jorgensen looking at the plans for the Public Services desk and staff offices with the project supervisor. Over the next 2 months this raw space will be transformed into bright, colorful and vibrant space for studying, class meetings, checking out materials and getting help with library resources.
The staff is scheduled to move to the new space in mid April and a few weeks later the collections will be moved out of Dana to an offsite facility. A small collection of reserves and reference books will be held in 37 Dewey, and a courier system is being established to fetch materials from the library storage facility.
This new space, which will be called Dana Biomedical Library at 37 Dewey Field Road, will be our home until the North Campus Academic Center is constructed on the current Gilman-Dana site. It is currently being planned for a 2016 opening.
We will be posting progress reports and updates as things progress.
Posted in News Item, Resources on January 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
We currently have trial access to two related drug information products, Lexicomp and Fact and Comparisons. The trial runs to March 15. During the trial, access is open to anyone on the Dartmouth or DHMC computer network (authenticated by ip range.)
Note: there are no current plans to subscribe to these products, but this is an opportunity to see a couple interesting products on the market.
Posted in Library Events, New Materials, News Item, Resources, Staff on January 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
When: Monday, April 22
Reception: 3:00pm – 5:00pm Refreshments, music, and more
Remarks by:
The Dana Biomedical Library is now located on the 3rd floor of 37 Dewey Field Road. The students found us within minutes of opening on Monday, and all had big smiles on their faces as they toured their new space. We look forward to welcoming more faculty, students, researchers and staff to our new facility.
For the latest information, please see “Dana Library has Moved!“
Please Note:
Click on the image below for a larger view of the Library Hours:
Open Study Area
Information Desk
Cafe and GreenPrint Area
Classroom Space
Posted in Exhibits, News Item on January 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Cut-Paper Drawings by C. A. Santa Maria on display until April 1, 2013
Artist Statement:
C. A. Santa Maria
My papers come from around the globe: made of mulberry bark, rice, silk. It can be smooth, transparent, subtle, screeching. Paper allows me to add and take away at the same time. I have worked with paper long enough that I can sense where it “wants” to go. Sometimes it falls into place in ways I would not have imagined and thereby changed the mood of the art.
After living in Togo from 1972-1975 I returned to Vermont for several months before leaving for Cuernavaca, Mexico where I remained for the next 20 years.
Mexican and African cultures thrive on personal connections. Mexico’s artisans are among the most diverse in the world: paper makers, potters, silversmiths, embroiders, mask makers, lacquer-workers, wood carvers. The patterns, collections of goods and the ability to speak to and work directly with Mexican craftspeople led me on a journey Mexicans call a “life of many turns.” The wide richness of colors in people, their clothing, plants, wildlife, market-place foods and spices endlessly filled my senses. There is a wonderful pandemonium of life in Mexico and West Africa that calls to me. That cacophony of colors, sounds, smells still fills my senses and flows into my art. Major influences have been Huichol yarn paintings: the techniques the Huichol use to outline figures and how they compose apparent “chaotic” themes that come from visions and dreams. This “art” for the Huichol is their prayer. Evident in my work too are the intense colors of the Gullah people, their flowing skylines and endless seas. The poetry of their language and daily lives is clear in the movement of their art.
I received my MA from Dartmouth but I learned how to be a human being in West Africa and Mexico. These cultures allow differences that embrace life on a scale that nurtures the most “human” parts of our beings.
More about C. A. Santa Maria:
Posted in Library Events, New Materials, News Item, Staff on November 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Our first move will be to 37 Dewey Field Road. This will be our temporary home in order to allow for the construction of the new North Campus Academic Center. Our interim Dana Library will provide library services and student study space in a warm and cheerful environment. And, we are exploring the possibility of having it available to students 24×7!
This first move will not occur before April 1, 2013. There will be no disruption of services at the current Dana Library during first term.
Our second move is now projected for the beginning of 2016, when the new North Campus Academic Center is scheduled to open.
During the interim period all of Dana’s print journal volumes and most of its books will be housed offsite; reserve material and a few other books will move with us to 37 Dewey Field. The material housed offsite will be quickly delivered to campus libraries upon request.
If you have questions about the moves, please contact us. We’ll post more details here in the future.
Click on the image below for a larger view of the floor plan for the interim Dana Library:
(Click on image for a larger view)
Posted in News Item on November 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The overall goal of the Symposium is to engage our general and professional communities in discussions about environmental health threats and how they might personally address these problems. At the end of this Symposium, participants in different target audiences will be able to:
