Biology Library News

Upcoming workshops and events

http://wulibraries.doattend.com/ continues to list workshops and other events. I welcome your suggestions for additional events.

NIH Public Access Policy overview at the medical campus, Thurs, December 5, 2013 - 12:00 PM - Register Now. Session will be held at Holden Auditorium at the Farrell Center. More info. If you would like to arrange a presentation for a group or an individual on the Danforth Campus, please let Ruth Lewis know. Thanks.

If you haven't registered for ITeach 2014, it's time to put this on your calendar. Register for Jan. 9 Teaching Symposium. Biofolk are offering some of the sessions, including Kathy Miller, Eleanor Pardini, Joan Strassmann and graduate student Boahemaa Adu-Oppong.

Upcoming workshops and events from WUSTL Libraries

-- http://wulibraries.doattend.com/ continues to list workshops and other events, including some upcoming Zotero workshops. I welcome your suggestions for additional events. I will be leading the Research Studio: How to Make Your Scholarly Work Open Access, Nov. 13, 1-2 pm, Olin Library Level A; biofolk may prefer to attend a similar discussion, Nov. 12, 9-10 am, McDonnell 362 as part of the Plant and Microbe SuperGroup meetings. This research guide is the outline of my plan for Nov. 12th.

-- Watch for many events during Geography Awareness Week, November 18-22, 2013 including a Symposium on Future Directions in GIS on Wednesday morning and ArcGIS for STEM Disciplines on Thursday afternoon. More info: http://gis.wustl.edu/.

-- NIH Public Access Policy overview at the medical campus, Thurs, December 5, 2013 - 12:00 PM - Register Now. Session will be held at Holden Auditorium at the Farrell Center. More info. If you would like to arrange a presentation for a group on the Danforth Campus, please let Ruth Lewis know. Thanks.

-- See also Upcoming events at WUSTL on the Scholarly Communications at WU Libraries blog.

Upcoming workshops and events, fall, 2013

New Workshop Series Geared for Grads, Faculty plus a growing list of workshops and other events at http://wulibraries.doattend.com/. Check them out! We hope to see you at some of them. I welcome your suggestions for additional events. I will be leading the Research Studio: How to Make Your Scholarly Work Open Access, Nov. 13, 1-2 pm, Olin Library Level A; biofolk may prefer to attend a similar discussion, Nov. 12, 9-10 am, McDonnell 362 as part of the Plant and Microbe SuperGroup meetings.

Remembering Rita Levi-Montalcini, 1909 - 2012 Memorial and Reception, October 15, 2013, 4-6 pm, Ginkgo Room, Olin Library Level 1. Co-sponsored by Washington University Woman’s Club, Biology Department, and Libraries. You may also be interested in other Fall 2013 talks at WU on the history of science, medicine, technology.

There are two sessions on the NIH Public Access Policy scheduled for fall 2013 at the medical campus:
Wed, October 2, 2013 - 12:00 PM - Register Now or Thurs, December 5, 2013 - 12:00 PM - Register Now. Both sessions will be held at Holden Auditorium at the Farrell Center. More info. If you would like to arrange a presentation for a group on the Danforth Campus, please let Ruth Lewis know. Thanks. Question for the Day: Do PMCIDs need to be included in NIH Biosketches?

Remembering Rita Levi-Montalcini, 1909 - 2012

Remembering Rita Levi-Montalcini, 1909 - 2012 Memorial and Reception, October 15, 2013, 4-6 pm, Ginkgo Room, Olin Library Level 1. Co-sponsored by Washington University Woman’s Club, Biology Department, and Libraries. You may also be interested in other Fall 2013 talks at WU on the history of science, medicine, technology.

Upcoming workshops and events, fall, 2013

There is a growing list of workshops and other events at http://wulibraries.doattend.com/ and on Open Access at Washington University. Topics include: Zotero, Data Management Best Practices, Twitter, Research Metrics, Wordpress, copyright, open access and much more. Check them out! We hope to see you at some of them. I welcome your suggestions for additional events.

Planning for fall semester classes

I would be delighted to work with course instructors or teaching assistants to produce guides to library resources and services to enhance a course. I'm also happy to meet with students individually or in groups. Tip: Both customized guides and face-to-face sessions may be most effective when they are targeted to specific assignments, such as a writing assignment, or course goals. Please contact Ruth to discuss what might be helpful for your classes. Thank you.

New faculty and graduate student reception, August 26, 2013

The annual reception and Olin Library tours for new faculty and new graduate students will be held Monday, August 26, approximately 3-5 pm. I will post more information on the library guide for new folks in biology and mathematics. Please pass along the information if you know of people who might like to attend. Thank you!

Olin Library summer hours - slight expansion

Olin library now opens at 8 am instead of 8:30 More info

Summer library hours and summer workshops on twitter, Blackboard, etc.

Upcoming workshops on Twitter, etc. - see http://wulibraries.doattend.com/.

Upcoming Blackboard training from the Teaching Center - see http://teachingcenter.wustl.edu/Blackboard/Pages/Events.aspx. Note: Telesis ends June 30th! Some classes are in the new Active Learning Classroom pilot in Eads Hall and some are in the Arc Lab, Level A, Olin Library. New sessions on new features, Discussion Boards, File Management/Content Collection, Tests and Surveys, Videos, and Blackboard Mobile have been added to the lineup.

Summer Library Hours: http://library.wustl.edu/about/hours.html

Miscellaneous links to share, April 2013

Elsevier has acquired Mendeley, a popular reference management tool. There has been so much hype, hysteria and discussion about this in April that I'm not going to provide any links beyond this Q & A post. An internet search will give you lots of info. Mendeley does continue to be free to users, for now.

New on the Internet Archive: Oral histories of 12 Neuroscientists: Terry Jones, Doctor Ann Silver, Salvador Moncada, Geoffrey Burnstock, Alan North, Uta Frith, Peter Mansfield, Elizabeth Warrington, Richard Frackowiak, Roger Ordidge, Michael Rutter, Richard Gregory. This project was supported by a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement grant in the History of Medicine. Professor Tilli Tansey (QMUL) and Professor Leslie Iversen (Oxford) recorded interviews with 12 prominent neuroscientists, between 2006 and 2007.

April 21-27 was Preservation Week. Several new guides are now available includes General Collections Care for Users. Check it out!

Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) is a new, unique, web-based Federal resource for finding species in the U. S. and territories. It collects species occurence data from many sources.

Darwin-Hooker letters 1200 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker are being made available in the Darwin Correspondence Project | A Trove of Darwin's Correspondence Is Published Online, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 25, 2013.

Webinar, free for WU: Power and Challenge: The Now and Next of Women in STEM Tuesday, May 21, 2013 noon-1 PM CDT. More info and preregistration