Kornhauser News
Kornhauser Health Sciences Library now has a contract to provide library services for Jewish Hospital. A new web page is available that anyone from Jewish Hospital should use. We are also providing Interlibrary Loans. Instructions on available on this page about how to register. The page URL is
Digital Days at the Delphi Center, Aug. 11-15 is for faculty who use multimedia for Blackboard and face-to-face courses, websites, research papers and presentations. Gather your analog media and let us help you convert it to a digital format of your choice. Come prepared to record an audio or video introduction to your students. For more information about our workshops, go to
http://www.delphi.louisville.edu/faculty/technolog/digital_days.html.
Kornhauser Library no longer has access to First Consult due to a huge increase in the cost by the vendor - Neal Nixon, Director of Kornhauser Health Sciences Library
Honor someone special with a brass name plate on a chair in Ekstrom Library's Chao Auditorium. For a gift of $250, you can honor a loved one, a colleague or yourself and elevate the status of the UofL Libraries. Donations provide funds for books, electronic journals and technology. The giving level will increase to $500 per nameplate this fall when this invitation is extended to the public. To donate, contact Cheryl Crane, 852-3523 or
cheryl.crane@louisville.edu.
Looking for something good to read this summer? Check out the "Summer Readers' Picks" of University of Louisville librarians: http://owl.library.louisville.edu/2008/OwlSum08.pdf.
Minerva, the libraries' catalog, will be unavailable Friday, June 13th from 7:30am to 12:30pm. The system will be undergoing important maintenance and upgrades. Thank you for your patience.
All University of Louisville Libraries will be closed on Memorial Day. For other changes in hours, check http://library.louisville.edu/hours/2008_05.html.
An important new article was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine about selective publication of clinical trials - and the outcomes within those trials. This practice can lead to unrealistic estimates of drug effectiveness and alter the apparent risk-benefit ratio.
