Opening Reception for Ted Meyer’s Scarred for Life
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Ehrman Medical Library presents Scarred for Life by Ted Meyer.
Ted Meyer is a Los Angeles based artist whose work has been shown at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Like other exhibits sponsored by the library, Meyer’s art represents the body’s complex relationship with health and sickness. Scarred for Life is a bold, colorful series of mono-prints of human scars, which graphically detail the injuries, illnesses, surgeries, and healings that transform human lives.
We hope you will be able to join us for the opening reception on Wednesday, May 13 from 6:00 to7:30 pm in the Smilow Gallery where refreshments will be served and in the Smilow first floor seminar room where Ted Meyer will give an artist’s lecture. The exhibit runs from May 4th through June 15th.
Click here for the New York Times review of Meyer’s work.
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National Women’s History Month
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March is National Women’s History Month (NWHM). Organized by the Education Task Force of the Sonoma (California) Commission on the Status of Women, NWHM began as “Women’s History Week” in 1978. The week of March the 8th was selected in order to correspond with International Women’s Day. In 1981, the Task Force secured a Congressional Resolution declaring a “National Women’s History Week” that was expanded to the entire month of March in 1987 after additional petitioning by the National Women’s History Project. Watch for featured women of medicine on this blog in honor of NWHM.
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National Nutrition Month
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National Nutrition Month is “a nutrition education and information campaign created annually in March by the American Dietetic Association (ADA)” that focuses on the development and maintenance of healthful eating and exercise habits. For additional information on nutrition and healthful living see Nutrition.gov : “Smart Nutrition Starts Here” and HealthierUS.gov : “Credible, accurate information to help you choose to live a healthier life.”
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Celebrate Black History
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In honor of Black HIstory Month, the library has posted (in the glassed bulletin board to the right of the library’s main entrance) brief biographies of notable Black physicians, nurses, and scientists, including Dr. May Edward Chinn, the first African American to graduate from NYU School of Medicine (then Bellevue Hospital Medical Center) and Dr. Randolf M. Chase, Jr., the first African American Associate Professor of Medicine at NYU. For additional information on African American accomplishments in medicine and science, see the National Library of Medicine and Duke University, Medical Center Library.
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Code4Lib
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The 2009 Code4Lib conference will be held in Providence, Rhode Island, from February 23-26. Established in 2006, Code4Lib is a conference geared towards computer programmers and other library staff who are involved in coding, the design and implementation of library software, systems, and web services. The group convenes to discuss and solve the technological problems particular to libraries. NYU Health Sciences Libraries will be sending several representatives this year as part of our ongoing mission to improve service to our patrons.
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Patient & Family Resource Center Goes Red for Women
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On Friday, February 5, NYU Langone Medical Center’s Cardiac & Vascular Institute, in partnership with the American Heart Association (A.H.A.), celebrated the A.H.A.’s “Go Red for Women Day” by organizing a health fair for patients, staff, as well as the general public. This is the second year the Medical Center has celebrated the annual observance to raise awareness about heart disease in women.
In addition to blood pressure screenings, healthful cooking demonstrations, and other healthy heart related activities, this year’s health fair included a table highlighting one of the NYU Health Sciences Libraries’ consumer health resource centers, the Patient & Family Resource Center (PFRC). Visitors to the table could pick up American Heart Association pamphlets and brochures, watch an online animated slide show about heart disease from the National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus consumer health website, and fill out a “Health Information Request Form” to receive in-depth follow up reference information from one of the Medical Center’s consumer health librarians on the health topic of their choice.
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Interior Life - photographs by Ana Blohm
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The library’s next Smilow Gallery art exhibit features the extraordinarily powerful photographs of local artist and physician, Ana Blohm. Ana Blohm is an internist in the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program and an assistant professor of medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Her research interests are in medical humanities and bioethics. She studied photography under the direction of Professor Jack Lueders-Booth and Chris Killip while earning her bachelor’s degree in biology from Harvard College.
All are encouraged to attend the opening reception with artist lecture to be held on Thursday, February 5, 2009 from 5:30 till 7:00pm in the Smilow Gallery. Refreshments will be provided. The exhibition runs through April 4, 2009.
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ACRL Poster Presentation
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Congratulations to Web Services Librarian Emily Molanphy, who presented her poster, “Pinpointing the answer: Simple faceted classification in Delicious,” at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), New York Chapter, 2008 Symposium. Inspired by a project Emily facilitated with the Division of Education Informatics at NYU School of Medicine, the poster presentation explained “the concept of faceted browsing within and beyond the world of libraries,” with suggestions on how librarians might “add faceted tag bundles to their existing collections of bookmarks in Delicious.” See the poster for yourself. It is on display in the glassed bulletin board to the right of the library’s main entrance.
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Teamwork Showcased at Employee Recognition Festival
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The Patient and Family Resource Center (PRFC) and the Diabetes Education Center sponsored a table at the annual Employee Recognition Festival on December 17, 2008. The table showcased the collaboration of the Library and the Diabetes Education Center who, in addition to sharing a physical space, support each other’s education mission. A special project where the Library IT Department installed glucose monitoring software on PFRC computers for diabetes patients to upload and print out data for their appointments was featured. This project illustrates how the Department of Nursing and the Library partner together to mutually enhance good patient care and patient satisfaction.
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Staff News
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The NYU Health Sciences Libraries hosted the annual meeting of the NY/NJ Chapter of the Medical Library Association with a program entitled “Medical Humanities in Literature and Art” on November 6, 2008. Karen Brewer, Director of the NYU Health Sciences Libraries and Felice Aull, Adjunct Associate Curator, Medical Library presented a paper on Dr. Aull’s internationally renowned project, Literature in Arts and Medicine Database. Eric Meyerhoff, Adjunct Curator, Medical Library, received the Chapter’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his dedication to the Chapter and his ongoing research in Medical History.
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