New Issue, HSL Newsletter

The Feb, 2010 issue of the Appendix, HSL’s Newsletter is out! Features include:

• creating your own online quizzes
• rare book profile: An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medical Uses: With Practical Remarks on Dropsy, and Other Diseases, by William Withering
• current trial of Science Translational Medicine
• tips on password management
• Library Director Jerry Perry becomes President-elect of the Medical Library Association.

Tax Time Tips

The Health Sciences Library does not have print copies of tax forms or instruction booklets for federal or state taxes. Instead, we offer access to web based forms and resources for tax preparation.

Library staff members suggest the following web sites for printable forms, instructions, and information:

• Colorado tax forms – http://www.revenue.state.co.us/TPS_Dir/home.asp
• Customer Support, FAQs, for Colorado taxes: https://revenuestateco.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/revenuestateco.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_sid=X4uQxfRj
• Colorado NetFile. Online filing of 2009 individual tax forms for Colorado: https://www.netfile.state.co.us/file2009/Welcome.jsp2
• States other than Colorado – http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/link/forms.html
• US Dept of Treasury IRS Forms & Publications – http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html
• US Dept of Treasury “1040 Central” – http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=118506,00.html
• Where to file. Select your state: – http://www.irs.gov/file/index.html
• Denver Public Library.  Tax Resources: links to online forms, sites, etc. http://denverlibrary.org/research/taxes/
• Internet Public Library Ipl2:  Subject: Business & Economics: Tax:  http://www.ipl.org/IPLBrowse/GetSubject?vid=13&cid=1&tid=6650&parent=6607
• 1040.com (a commercial site, use at own risk) – http://www.1040.com/
• Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA), Colorado Locations – http://www.piton.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Content.taxsites (Free tax return preparation by IRS and AARP trained volunteers provided to individuals with low income.)
• Tax Resources on the Web: http://taxtopics.net/
• Tax Sites.com   Links to Federal tax law, State links, Tax software, etc. http://www.taxsites.com/Tax.html

Need to check gains or losses for a stock or another kind of fund?  Try the Companies/Markets historical data information from the Factiva database:

Click on the Companies/Markets link at the top of the screen. Select the Instrument and type in the ticker symbol or abbreviation for the instrument. Click Historical and pick the time period and format for the report

If you wish to print information or tax forms from these web sites in the Health Sciences Library, a copy card will be needed and printing will cost 10 cents/page.

Many Colorado libraries may have forms or reproducible forms, but it is best to call for information, since not all libraries distribute forms. Click on “FIND A LIBRARY” at http://www.aclin.org/ for phone numbers.   Aurora Public Libraries locations, hours and phone numbers:  http://www.auroralibrary.org/

Federal forms can also be picked up at the IRS Office, 1999 Broadway (corner of Broadway and 19^th Street) Denver, Monday – Friday 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.   Colorado Forms only at the Colorado Department of Revenue 1375 Sherman Street – Lobby  8 a.m.- 5 p.m.

Upcoming Strauss Lecture

Thursday January 21st, Noon

Charles Krebs, PhD, Director of Melbourne Applied Physiology, Pty, Ltd.

Presentation Title:  LEAP.  An Innovative Acupressure Approach to the Resoltuion of Specific Learning Difficulties.

Location: The Health Sciences Library, Teaching Labs 1 and 2

Open House for Faculty

On Friday January 29th from 8 – 9:30 am there will an Open House event for Faculty at the Health Sciences Library. Representatives from the following units will present information on resources and services available to faculty:
• Health Sciences Library
• Educational Support Services (ESS)
• Academic Technology & Extended Learning (ATEL – Blackboard)
• Center for Faculty Development

8:00am-9:30am
Health Sciences Library Teaching Labs
29 Jan 2009 (Fri)

Register online at http://hslibrary.ucdenver.edu/classes/#29

Registration is not required but is appreciated to help with catering.

**Please contact Lisa Traditi via email (lisa.traditi@ucdenver.edu) if you have any questions.**

SIFT: A student document delivery service from HSL

It began as a pilot on Aug 1, 2009 and has since shown remarkable progress as a document delivery service valued and well received by UC Denver students on the AMC. Over 200 AMC health science students registered for document delivery service in Fall 2009 signing up for SIFT. According to sources, students eagerly and easily created new ILLiad accounts and generated new batches of requests for articles and books needed for their research, clinical rotations, and their studies. The HSL document delivery team in Access Services found themselves quite busy with all the student requests in Fall 2009; and they say they are ready for more! The additional good news is that SIFT continues into 2010 for the spring term.             

SIFT is a document delivery service for students at the AMC of UC Denver. SIFT stands for Students for ILLiad Freedom Trial and is a pilot service being offered by the Health Sciences Library (HSL), the Academic Support Advisory Committee (ASAC), and the Access Services division of HSL. Need an article the library does not have? Can’t come on campus to copy that 1986 article? Tired of the endless linking to myriad journal homepages? Joining SIFT means registering with ILLiad. ILLiad gives freedom and new options to UC Denver Health Sciences students to request articles 24/7 from the HSL collections and beyond. It is simple to get started and sign up now. This is a service for students, about students, and funded by the students. The library welcomes and encourages all eligible students to try out the service during the spring ’10 semester. Distance education students are especially encouraged to consider the advantages of joining SIFT.                  

SIFT was originally slated to end in December at the conclusion of the fall 2009 semester, but that is the past. Through continued interest and with kind support in partnership with ASAC, the SIFT pilot lives on into 2010. Students are encouraged to try it out and may register at any time. SIFT not only provides interlibrary loan for materials not held in the HSL collections, but also document delivery of materials from within the library’s collections (articles/book chapters) straight to the desktops of students who may not have the time to come to the library and/or hunt down the full text of all their article citations.         

Questions about SIFT and its availability after spring 2010 can be directed to Douglas Stehle, Head of Access Services at the Health Sciences Library. If you need help registering on ILLiad or want more details about SIFT for students in 2010, please call the document delivery unit of HSL Access Services @ 303-724-2111 during their normal business hours M-F.       

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New Amesse Collection Books – Dec. 2009

Fiction

• Brown, Dan/ The Lost Symbol
• Kingsolver, Barbara/ The Lacuna
• Walls, Jeannette/ Half Broke Horses

Nonfiction

• Agassi, Andre/ Open: An Autobiography
• Gladwell, Malcolm/ What the Dog Saw
• Green, Sharon Weiner/ Barron’s GRE
• Jarvis, Jeff/ What Would Google Do?
• Obmascik, Mark/ Halfway to Heaven
• Smith, Bud/ Creating Web Pages for Dummies

Agassi, Andre/ Open: An Autobiography

Gladwell, Malcolm/ What the Dog Saw

Green, Sharon Weiner/ Barron’s GRE

Jarvis, Jeff/ What Would Google Do?

Obmascik, Mark/ Halfway to Heaven

Smith, Bud/ Creating Web Pages for Dummies

Open Access FAQs

What’s Open Access?  What’s an institutional repository? See the web page with frequently asked questions about Open Access for answers to these and many other questions about the future of scholarly communication.

Writing Center and Career Center Adjust Hours for End of Fall Term 2009

Both the Writing Center and Career Center on the AMC will be closed for Fall break the week of Nov 23. Regular Tuesday and Friday hours will resume on Tues Dec 1. The Centers are regularly open on the AMC in the Health Science Library on Tuesdays and Fridays, 10am- 6pm, room 1204 of the HSL Information Commons.

Questions/Contact: www.ucdenver.edu/careercenter – 303-556-2250 and/or www.cudenver.edu/writingcenter – 303-724-4143

Submissions for The Human Touch

“The Human Touch 2010″ is UC Denver Anschutz Medical Campus’ literary and arts anthology. The publication strives to develop and nurture skills of observation, analysis, empathy and self reflection to promote humane health care, by offering an outlet for the creative expression of the connection between patients, family and health care professionals. Writings and artworks foster an understanding of cultural and social contexts of the individual experience of illness and the way medicine is practiced. Authors and editors include students, faculty, staff and patients. It is produced by the Medical Humanities Program (H. N. Claman, MD, director) of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities.

Please send your art, photography (including photographs of your artwork), poetry, and prose to thehumantouchjournal@gmail.com by January 15^th, 2010.

Submissions will be reviewed by the editorial board following the submission deadline on January 15^th, 2010.  Final decisions will be made by March 5, 2010.

Though some aspect of health care will provide the subject for many entries, submissions on all topics are encouraged.

Guidelines:

• Up to 5 works may be submitted by each author or artist.

• Each work must be submitted as a separate electronic file.

• All submissions should include the name of artist, the title of the submission, mailing address, and email address.  We also request a short biographical paragraph (no more than 50 words), though it is not required.

• Poetry and prose submissions should not exceed 1,500 words.

• Visual artists should submit work in a digital format (preferably JPEG).  If scanned, please ensure that the resolution is 300 dpi or greater.  We also request that you do not send files greater than 30 MB.  Please note that it is not possible for all visual media to be printed in color due to budget restraints.

• Previously published work will be considered, but a citation is required in order to recognize the original publication.  Proper acknowledgement and citation is the author’s responsibility.

• Any work that is edited or altered will be returned to the author for approval prior to publication.

• No work will be accepted that compromises the privacy of patients or health care providers.  Names and identifying characteristics or details should be altered prior to submission.

• Submissions must be received by January 15^th, 2010 in order to be considered for the Spring 2010 publication.

The Human Touch Journal is edited and produced by students at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Questions can be emailed to TheHumanTouchJournal@gmail.com.

On doctor[i]ing by Reynolds and Stone – have you got a copy to spare?

RECYCLE, REUSE – Please donate your gently used copy of

On doctor[i]ng : stories, poems, essays / edited by Richard Reynolds and John Stone;  New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001.

to the Medical Humanities program by dropping it off at the Health Sciences Library or sending it via campus mail to Lynne Fox, MS A003.

We’ll be “re-gifting” the copies to future Medical Humanities students.