Need to identify trustworthy information on the web?

Can you distinguish quality assured websites on health from misleading ones? The Evaluating Internet Health Information tutorial from the National Library of Medicine is a fifteen minute tutorial that demonstrates the features of trustworthy websites and highlights elements common in unreliable websites to help you tell the difference. For more information on surfing for prime reliable internet sources, see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/webeval/webeval.html

Introduction to EndNote

EndNote is an application that stores and manages references, and makes creating bibliographies easy. UCD Library is offering lunchtime introduction to EndNote sessions on the following dates in semester one :

Wednesday 8th Oct 2008
1-2pm
Health Sciences Library, Information Skills Room
Wednesday 15th Oct 2008
1-2pm
Health Sciences Library, Information Skills Room
Friday 24th Oct 2008
1-2pm
Health Sciences Library, Information Skills Room
Wednesday 29th Oct 2008
1-2pm
Health Sciences Library, Information Skills Room
Wednesday 5th Nov 2008
1-2pm
James Joyce Library, Information Skills Room
Wednesday 12th Nov 2008
1-2pm
Health Sciences Library, Information Skills Room
Wednesday 19th Nov 2008
1-2pm
Health Sciences Library, Information Skills Room
Wenesday 26th Nov 2008
1-2pm
Health Sciences Library, Information Skills Room
Wednesday 3rd Dec 2008
1-2pm
Health Sciences Library, Information Skills Room
Tuesday 9th Dec 2008
1-2pm
Health Sciences Library, Information Skills Room

These sessions will include:
- Creating references in EndNote
- Downloading references from online sources
- Using Cite While You Write to add references and a
bibliography to your paper

For advance bookings please fill out the online booking form on the UCD Library EndNote web pages at: http://www.ucd.ie/library/students/information_skills/endnote/training.html. Or contact lorraine.foster@ucd.ie for enquiries.

Any places not booked will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis on the day.
Library

WORLD SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY – 10 SEPTEMBER 2008

(source: http://www.iasp.info/)

World Suicide Prevention Day is commemorated on the 10th of September as an initiative of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) and is in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO).
The 2008 theme is: “Think Globally, Plan Nationally, Act Locally” and it focuses people’s attention on the huge and important problem of suicidal behaviours.

“The WHO estimates that the one million people die in the world each year by suicide. (…) The reality is that every minute there are two more deaths by suicide.”
International Association for Suicide Prevention

For more information, please visit: http://www.iasp.info/ or http://www.who.int/.

Welcome back to Health Sciences Library!

Term/Semester hours (effective 8th September 2008)

Health Sciences Library

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Monday - Friday 8:30 - 21:45 (Loans Desk staffed from 9:00 to 21:30)

Saturday 9:00 - 17:00 (Loans Desk staffed from 9:30 to 16:45 )

Sunday - CLOSED

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For more information, please visit: http://www.ucd.ie/library/about/opening_hours/index.html

Works in UCD Health Sciences Library (6th -13th August 2008)

From the 6th -13th August the Group Study rooms, Level 1, Health Sciences Library will be unavailable. This is to allow necessary works to enhance the sound proofing of the rooms. There will be noise associated with these works and we apologies for any inconvenience caused. Study spaces near the group study rooms will be most affected. If you’re seeking a quiet study space please use Level 2, Health Sciences Library or the Problem Based Learning rooms on the ground floor.

World Breastfeeding Week

(source: : www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org)

World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated from the 1st to the 7th of August in more than 120 countries around the world. The theme for the 17th Annual WBW celebration is: Mother Support: Going for the Gold.
This event is meant to highlight the importance and the benefits of breastfeeding. Only breastmilk can give babies all the nutrients which are essential and help protect them from infection and other diseases.
Breastfeeding is recommended by WHO until a baby is six months old.

For more information, please visit: www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org or http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/annual/world_breastfeeding_week/en/index.html

E-Resources Access

The Server Room Re-fit is now completed. We will start moving the equipment back into the server room this week.
We will be doing this in stages the first stage will be the EzProxy server which will have an impact on E-Resources Access. The rest of the week we will move all the servers except for the LMS.
The LMS will be moved NEXT WEDNESDAY, we will email out confirmation of the LMS move.


From 8.30am to 2pm Wednesday 29th July there will be limited access to Library E-Services
http://www.ucd.ie/library/news/index.html#downjuly
If you have any queries please email LibITSupport@ucd.ie