Library News

 Ehrman Medical Library will remain open until 1am on Friday, November 20th, and Saturday, November 21st, and will open early on Sunday, November 23rd, at 10am. You must have a valid NYU Langone Medical Center ID to use the library during these hours.

We are pleased to announce the addition of Science Translational Medicine to the Health Science Libraries' electronic resource database. Published by the American Association of the Academic Sciences (AAAS), Science Translational Medicine is an original, peer-reviewed, science-based research journal focused on the advancement of biomedical discoveries in clinical medicine. You can expect the editors and an international advisory group of scientists and clinician-scientists to hold Science Translational Medicine articles to the same high-quality standard that is the hallmark of its sister journal Science.

Since 2006, NYUHSL has operated the Middle Atlantic Regional (MAR) office of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), serving New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. The mission of the NN/LM is to advance the progress of medicine and improve public health by providing all U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and improving the public's access to information, enabling individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

To fulfill this mission, MAR funds member projects that foster innovation in advancing access to health information in the region, offers both online and on-site training to NN/LM MAR members in the tools that facilitate access to health information, and, with the same goals, supports resource sharing among its members utilizing a document delivery routing software called DOCLINE. In 2009–2010 alone, the NN/LM MAR will fund over 50 health projects in the region. The operating principle that guides the MAR is full engagement of its more than 800 member libraries. In this way, MAR works to create a health information community in the four states of the region.

In May 2009, Kate Oliver joined the MAR staff as Associate Director. Kate comes to NYUHSL from Johns Hopkins University, where she served as Associate Director of the Welch Medical Library. At Johns Hopkins, she developed and tested new, more integrated roles for health science librarians on clinical and public health teams. Kate earned an M.S.L.S. degree from Columbia University and an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University.

NYUHSL has recently added our online Images from the Archives collection to a new directory of digital collections called digitalMETRO (http://nycdigital.org). Created and maintained by the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), the digitalMETRO directory features a range of online collections representing institutions around New York. Our images collection was also highlighted on digitalMETRO’s Facebook wall.

Images from the Archives is our ongoing project with the NYU Langone Medical Center’s archive that aims to scan and put online historical photographs and illustrations that were previously only available in print.  Images relate to the School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, Bellevue Hospital and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, among others. With photos dated from the late 19th century onwards, the material is diverse, including images of open-heart surgery, horse and cart ambulances, students, and faculty.  Even the School of Medicine’s Medical Library didn’t escape the lens!  We invite you to drop by and explore a slice of medical history through these images.  We also recommend taking a look at some of the other interesting digital collections listed in digitalMETRO.  For more information on NYU Langone Medical Center’s archives, or our digitization projects, please contact HSL_archives@med.nyu.edu.