The Library has recently added the entire current and backfile collection of the Royal Society of Chemistry e-books. Records will be added to the Library catalog and Lens over the next few weeks, but you may also access the e-books collection at RSC e-books search page. This collection contains more than 800 titles, including the Science of Chocolate (pictured left).
The Global Health database is dedicated to public health research and practice. More than 3,500 journals from over 158 countries in 50 languages are abstracted, and all relevant non-English language papers are translated to give access to research not available through any other database. Global Health contains over 1.2 million scientific records from 1973 to the present.
Please take a look at Global Health and send any comments or questions to Deb Werner at dwerner@uchicago.edu.
Photo credit: Sacca on flickr
Due to budgetary constraints the John Crerar
Library will reduce operating hours effective June 22, 2009 from 24 hours a day
to:
Opening:
Monday-Sunday 8:00am
Closing:
Sunday-Thursday 1:00am
Friday and Saturday 10:00pm
The decision to close the building during these
early morning hours is based on:
1) Our statistics which show us that the library is not used often between 1:00am-8:00am.
2)
Our
statistics which show that the nature of information use and retrieval in the sciences has changed dramatically since the Crerar Library first opened in
1984, with the majority of access to journal articles now taking place
online.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may
cause.
Please feel free to contact us if you have
questions on the above.
Thank you,
Co-Directors of the Science Libraries Division
773-702-8717 / 773-702-8777
bkern@uchicago.edu
/ atbrooks@uchicago.edu
The “Visions of Heavens” Astronomy Exhibit Reception will be
held in the John Crerar Library on Tuesday, June 2nd. Professor Richard Kron will
give a lecture on telescopes and their history. Refreshments will be
provided. Please visit the exhibit page (http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/exhibits/)
for more information and to RSVP.
Image credit: NASA.gov.
On Monday, May 18, at 4:00 pm, Dr. Janet Rowley, Professor of Medicine, Blum Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology and Human Genetics, will speak at the
John Crerar Library in conjunction with the National Library of Medicine’s
exhibition, Changing
the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians, in which
Dr. Rowley is featured. We hope that you will be able to join us for the talk,
followed by a discussion and refreshments.
Space is limited; please register at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lV4Jmz8EWSm5S_2b_2bOaSK37g_3d_3d.
Photo courtesy of Dr. Janet D. Rowley.
Try a new database at http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/whatsnew/try/index.html.
University of Chicago Library Trials include:
Health and Psychosocial Instruments, Mental Measurements Yearbook, Counseling and Therapy in Video, Tests in Print, and more. 
The Medical Center is offering activities throughout the day on April 22. Find out more on the schedule of events.
Photo credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stöckli. The image is available at Visible Earth, a catalog of NASA images and animations.
Dr. Janet Rowley to speak on May 18 in conjunction with exhibit!
Changing the Face of
Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians
First floor, John Crerar Library on view April 15-May 22, 2009
"This exhibition honors the lives and achievements of women in medicine. Women physicians have excelled in many diverse medical careers. Some have advanced the field of surgery by developing innovative procedures. Some have won the Nobel prize. Others have brought new attention to the health and well-being of children. Many have reemphasized the art of healing and the roles of culture and spirituality in medicine." (From: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/exhibition/)
Photo courtesy of Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D.
Visions of Heaven:
Astronomical Observation through the Ages
April 13-October 2, 2009
From ancient times to the modern day, humans have charted the sky and
stars. View a history of the tools they used, from the earliest
observatories and instruments to recent innovations in telescope technology.
This exhibit is in conjunction with the celebration of the
International Year of Astronomy 2009, the 400th anniversary of
Galileo’s use of the telescope. More information is available here:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/exhibits/.
Congratulations to Laurel K. Mylonas-Orwig who won 2nd place for her paper entitled Could Not the Race of Men Be Improved?
For more information about the John Crerar Foundation Science Writing Prize for College Students please visit http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/crerar-prize/
