ILL Request forms

Looking for our ILL request forms on our new web site? Yes, the links to them disappeared from a couple spots on our new website in a little glitch that we will fix as soon as we’re back in January. In the meantime, here are the forms:

Journal article request

Book/chapter request

New Resource - Thieme ElectronicBook Library

The Biomedical Library is now paying for campus-wide access to the Thieme ElectronicBook Library, a growing collection of online books.

The first group of books to be available in this collection is the Flexibook Atlases and Textbooks Series, a series of heavily-illustrated review textbooks, published in both the basic as well as the medical sciences.

We hope you find these online books useful.

We Get Suggestions

An item from our suggestion box:

“It was a great idea to change room 218 to a quiet study zone, but could you please ask library staff not to talk loudly in the room next to the quiet study zone?”

We’re glad that you are finding the new Individual Study Area (where the photocopy room used to be) a good place for that extra-intensive studying. Although your message was not dated, I imagine that you had the unfortunate timing of trying to study in this area while the library staff had our annual holiday party. I admit it, we may have been a little raucous, but this year’s holiday party committee really outdid themselves to plan a fun event - great food, great decorations, games… man, it was awesome… oh well, I digress…

Anyway, I will be sure to ask the staff to do their best to keep it down in general, and especially during our infrequent social events. Thanks for your suggestion!

Visible Body: 3D Anatomy Online

I’ve been trying out the new Visible Body website - it’s really cool! It’s a free site that allows you to:

• View a detailed 3D model of the human body
• Turn body systems on and off
• Search for anatomical structures by name
• Click on anatomical structures to reveal names

This beta site requires registration for full functionality. You must use Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher on a computer running Windows XP, 2000 or Vista. It’s unclear how long access to this site will be free. The agreement says that the company reserves the right to “charge a fee for access thereto at any time.”

This is a very useful tool. Long may it be free!

TranStat: Tracking Infections Diseases

TranState is a new analytic tool (a software program) developed to help communities prepare for and track infections diseases including SARS, smallpox, or pandemic flu. Anonymous details are entered about an individual — i.e., age, sex, onset of symptoms, people with whom they have been in contact — but no patient identifying information.

The information entered into the program allows for a probability determination that one person contracted one of the infections diseases from another person. By estimating the infection rates, community officials can make decisions about possible school closures or how best to distribute medicines to areas where people are most likekly to become ill.

The software is freely available from the National Institutes of Health as a result of a sponsored research program called MIDAS (Models of Infections Disease Agent Study).

More details and related stories can be found at the
Government Health IT web site.

BML status for 12/6: back to normal

The security situation at the School of Medicine has been resolved and the buildings affected yesterday have been inspected and are open as usual - including the library.  We are back to our normal hours.  If you have any questions concerning any items you might have left in the building during our evacuation please contact us at 858-534-3253.

BML closed 12/5/2007, updated

The Biomedical Library is closed for the rest of the day on Wednesday, December 5th due to an emergency situation at the School of Medicine campus. The library was evacuated just before 12:30 pm.

Need study space? All other libraries at UCSD are open for business as of this afternoon.

Leave something behind? If you were evacuated and left items behind at the library, please be assured that library staff will secure everything before we reopen on Thursday morning. If you left material behind that you absolutely require such as your house keys, please contact campus police in the area and inquire about your options.

Got reserves? If you had a reserve book or group study room checked out to you when the library was evacuated, please be assured that we will make sure there are no inappropriate fines as a result of your evacuation.