Milton Glaser on Creativity

"Creativity is a verb, and it is a very time consuming verb.  It’s about taking an idea in your head, and transforming that idea into something real.  And that’s always going to be a long and difficult process."

- Milton Glaser, as quoted in Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine: Call no. BF408 .L455 2012, Manhattan Library

JP Rangaswami: Information is Food

"...'There is no such animal as information overload, there is only filter failure.' I put it to you that information, if viewed from the point of food, is never a production issue; you never speak of food overload. Fundamentally, it's a consumption issue. And we have to start thinking about how we create diets within ourselves, exercise within ourselves to have the faculties to deal with information, to have the labeling to be able to do it responsibly..."
                                 -- JP Rangaswami

 

Do you need to study in a group?

The Manhattan Library has 3 group study rooms available to students, located on the 3rd floor of 1855 Broadway.  You can reserve a room for up to 2 hours.  A minimum of 2 students must be present.

Find out more, or reserve a room, by visiting the circulation desk located on the 2nd floor of the library.

Faculty: Complete the Online Survey and Win a Kindle Fire!

The Library Systems Committee of the Academic Senate requests that all faculty complete the Faculty Survey of Library Resources & Services. The purpose of this survey is to gain faculty feedback to assist the library in improving services and resources. As an incentive, the library will be giving away two Kindle Fires to two randomly selected faculty members who complete the survey.

Watch your inbox for an email for the survey or click here to access the survey.
We thank you in advance for your participation.  If you have any questions, please contact Jeffrey Feinsilver (jfeinsil@nyit.edu) or Yuko Oda (yoda@nyit.edu).

May the odds be with you!

What's Hot in Science: Best of 2011

Pubget is a search engine for life science PDFs. Pubget makes scientific research easier by simplifying the process of finding, managing and analyzing scientific papers.
To access the top 20 papers of 2011 viewed in Pubget click here.

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
                                                  --  Mark Twain

World News Digest Trial

The NYIT Library is pleased to offer a trial of World News Digest: World News Digest brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print. This archival record of domestic and international news is updated weekly and contains more than 1 million internal hyperlinks and convenient new features such as tabbed search results. It covers all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940.

This is currently a trial. If you would like to submit feedback please contact us via email.
Link: Go to this database!
Trial period: February 1, 2012 - March 1, 2012
Publisher: Facts on File

“We now live in a world where information is potentially unlimited. Information is cheap, but meaning is expensive. Where is the meaning? Only human beings can tell you where it is. We’re extracting meaning from our minds and our own lives.”  --George Dyson

Bookmarks for Success: WorldCat

Scenario 1

I would like to know if any books have been written about a topic, or, say, by a specific person.  More so, I am not interested in whether NYIT Library owns a particular book, as I understand that I can either request it through interlibrary loan, or recommend that it be purchased and added to the collection.

Scenario 2

I would like to locate a library in the city, state or country, that subscribes to a particular journal, or magazine, or that has a specific title in its holdings. I have an International Standard Book Number (ISBN), and/or an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN).

The above two scenarios offer perfect examples of WorldCat's true value.

WorldCat is a vertical search engine focusing on libraries.  A meta catalog of close to 200 million records, WorldCat indexes books and other materials from libraries around the world.  A quick search tells you both what books have been written about a given topic, and where a particular book or journal is available based on your current location.  Clicking the Find in a Library link in Google Books directs you to WorldCat’s search engine and website.  Cut out the middle man (i.e. Google) and proceed directly to WorldCat.

Access

NYIT access to WorldCat comes in two varieties: the free public Url, and the advanced NYIT interface.  There is also a custom mobile Url, and mobile Apps.

Bookmarks for Success

• Bookmark: NYIT Journal Locator
• Bookmark: Articles in Databases
• Bookmark: WorldCat

“The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you." LeRoy Pollock, in a letter to his 16-year-old son Jackson, 1928.

Tough Talk: A Tool Box for Medical Educators

Tough Talk is a web-based toolbox for medical educators. It's hosted by the University of Washington School of Medicine, and provides resources for teaching communication skills and ethics in clinical settings.

Tough Talk includes tools on common teaching challenges, optimizing small group dynamics, providing effective, honest feedback, helping clinicians develop and operationalize personal training goals and motivating engagement and self-assessment in reluctant participants.

To access the toolkit visit here.

AMA Most Fascinating Medical Facts of 2011

Recently, AMA (American Medical Association) released the most fascinating medical facts of 2011.  Here are just some that seemed to be the most interesting.

1. For every American who quit smoking in 2011, another became obese.
2. 63% of doctors say they have changed an initial diagnosis based on new information found online.
3. Only 9% of patients say online information influences their physician choice.
4. 91% of Americans don't know how much sodium healthy people are supposed to consume.
5. The overwhelming majority of online physician reviews are positive.
6. Anxiety and depression medications are used by 27 million Americans.
7. 82% of U.S. hospitals have delayed patient treatment because of drug shortages.
8. An estimated 4.5 million annual outpatient visits are due to adverse drug events.
9. 80% of patients fear contracting infection in a hospital; 71% worry about medical errors.
10. Nearly 12 million Americans are cancer survivors, 4 times the number in 1971.

And the list goes on...

• View the complete list of medical facts 2011.
• View last year's 2010 edition.

What's the difference between Apps and Mobile sites?

Many Apps are saved to your device and do not require internet access when they are being used. This is practical when you have limited Wifi, but it also means you need to update the apps frequently to make sure you have the most recent and accurate information downloaded.
Mobile sites are websites or databases optimized for easy navigation on smaller screens and require internet access.

Check NYIT's Library Webpage , and browse the LibGuides including the guide to Medical Mobile Resources. The guide includes both recommended Apps and a list to the mobile sites for databases subscribed by NYIT libraries.

To view the guide click here.

In Quotes

 

“…when you cut into the present, the future leaks out…” —William S. Burroughs, as shared in a talk by Matt Jones of BERG: “Gardens and Zoos”

Medical Library News

Read NYCOM Medical Library's latest newsletter, December 2011 - January 2012.