Lalla Joins UAMS as Associate Provost for Library and Student Services

Nadia Lalla, MLIS, will assume the position of Associate Provost for Library

and Student Services and executive director of the UAMS Library on

September 14, 2015. This position, previously held by Mary Ryan, MLS,

MPH, is responsible for the UAMS Library, Campus Life and Student

Support Services, and the Academic Affairs Student Success Center.

Nadia’s experience and interest in both health sciences librarianship and

student services led her to specifically pursue this associate provost

position. Nadia comes to UAMS from the University of Michigan Taubman

Health Sciences Library where she is the Assistant Director of Collections

and Information Services. Upon receiving her Master of Library and

Information Studies from McGill University in 1990, Nadia began her

career in librarianship at Taubman Medical Library. From 1994-2008,

Nadia held several positions at University of Michigan’s Shapiro

Undergraduate Library where she was engaged in significant work with

various student groups. She returned to Taubman Health Sciences Library in 2008. This blend of

library and student services experience and skills will be a key asset in her position at UAMS, and

Nadia is delighted to be able to combine both interests into one position.

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Summer 2015

Issue 156

In this Issue Lalla Joins UAMS……………………..………...1-2 Welcome New Students and Faculty………..3

After Hours information………………...…...3-4 Student Receive 20 Free ILL Requests……..5

Fed. Public Access Policies Enforcement.….5 New Resources for Faculty & Students…... 6

Nutt Appointed Head of the HRC...…………..7 Librarian Office Hours on Hospital Floors….8

ACH Library Renovation……………….……..8-9 2015 TwT Symposium…………………….....9-10

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Nadia is very conscious of the changing roles of health sciences libraries and has been a visionary in

imagining the services and resources of the future library as demonstrated by her publications. She is

interested in developing a strategic long-range plan for the UAMS Library and for student services

that align with the UAMS Strategic Plan – 2020 Vision. Her negotiating skills and interest in providing

a greater variety of resources for students, researchers, and clinicians will be very important in en-

suring UAMS has a collection tailored to our needs.

Nadia knows the importance of professional development for the librarians, professionals and staff in

creating an environment of continual growth of skills and vision necessary to ensure successful library

and student services units. Her Master of Science in Management, Strategy, and Leadership, which

she will complete in April 2016, will be a major benefit to the position of Associate Provost.

Immersion in the library associations locally, regionally and nationally has been important to Nadia

professionally and will be an asset for UAMS Library and student services as well. Her many

memberships and committee offices reflect her passion for innovation, advocacy, technology, and

collection development.

Jan Hart, MLS, EdD, will continue as interim Associate Provost until Nadia’s arrival in September.

-Jan Hart

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Questions? Comments?

Contact the Newsletter Editor

Joanna Delavan jdelavan@uams.edu

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Welcome New Students and Faculty

Welcome faculty, staff, and students to the 2015-2016 academic year. We invite you to take a look at

our website http://library.uams.edu or stop by and let our expert staff help you.

Information and announcements are also posted on the Library’s Facebook and Twitter pages.

The Library’s website is a gateway to information including:

· Over 4,000 online journals under eJournals

· Online databases such as ProQuest, PubMed and more under eResources

· Online request service for Interlibrary Loan materials or document delivery services

Computer/Printer Availability

41 computers are located on the 1st and 2nd floors of the Library for UAMS faculty, staff and students to

use. All computers contain Internet/Intranet and Microsoft Office 2010.

There are black-and-white printers on each floor, printing is 10¢ per page. One color printer is located

on the 2nd floor, color prints are 20¢ per page.

A photocopier is located on the 1st floor.

Remote Access

You can access the various journals, databases and other eResources on the Library’s website from

home as well as on-campus. You may be required to enter your UAMS login information. For more

information contact the Library reference department at 501-686-6734.

Hours

Monday - Thursday: 7:30am-10:00pm

Friday: 7:30am-6:00pm

Saturday: 9:00am-6:00pm

Sunday: 1:00pm-10:00pm

The main entrance is on the 1st floor of the Education II Building.

The enclosed areas of the 1st floor are open 24-hours for UAMS students and residents. After-hours

access is gained through an ID badge swipe entrance in the CoPH south lobby on the 1st floor.

Students wishing to stay after the library closes must scan their badge at the Circulation Desk, then

move into the after-hours space on 1st floor.

The Active Learning Center (ALC), which functions by day as a classroom, is the main space for

after-hours study. The room’s many tables and chairs offer plenty of space without the sensation of

crowding. Each wall monitor can be used by a different group for collaborative work. The padded

benches around the room offer an alternative to sitting in a chair, as well.

In this area it is ok to work together in small groups and have study-related conversation. Mobile white

boards and markers are available and can be moved throughout the entire space to help with

collaboration.

For quiet study space, try the Watson Room with low lighting and a sofa for more relaxed study. The

Quiet Computer Room on the east side of the ALC truly is silent and has roomy carrels for individual

study. There is also a printer, print card recharger and a scanner in that space. The Reading Room, on

the southeast corner of the Library, has tables and chairs, reading lamps and a traditional Library

background of bookshelves filled with reference books.

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After Hours Information

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The Lounge located between the Quiet

Computer Room and the Reading Room is a

free zone for relaxation. It features a

microwave, soft drink and snack machines,

new ion hot/cold water dispenser, and

café-style tables and chairs. Recycling bins

are available for plastic soft drink bottles.

The newest rooms on the west side of the

library are great for collaborative or group

study space. The main space has carrels

and computers as well as group tables. Two

smaller group rooms branch off from the

space. One of the group rooms has a very

large white board and also features floor to

ceiling windows offering a view of the

outside to students who spend many hours

in the Library.

UAMS students from all colleges, as well as

residents and fellows are eligible to use the

after-hours study space. Thirty minutes

before the Library closes it is announced through the overhead PA system that those wishing to

remain after closing should come to the Circulation Desk to scan their badge for the security check-in.

Students wishing to stay after the library closes must scan their badge at the Circulation

Desk, then move into the after-hours space on 1st floor.

When the library is closed, students enter the study space through the card-swipe entry at the north

end of the Library in the lobby between the Ed II building and COPH. Students and residents must

have their badges to enter and exit the space.

Safety of the students in the area is our highest priority; therefore we require that all students and

residents in the after-hours area have their badges present at all times. Students should not open the

security door to admit anyone who does not have their badge. Non-UAMS students or family

members are not permitted to be in the area after-hours. Panic buttons throughout the space are

connected directly to the UAMS Police department and will bring immediate response in an

emergency.

If you have questions about the space, or accessing the space, please contact Libby Ingram at

ingramlibbye@uams.edu or 501-686-6741

-Libby Ingram

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library http://library.uams.edu

Clockwise from Left: the ALC, the Quiet Computer Room, the Watson Room, and the Lounge

After Hours Information

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The UAMS Library offers the first 20 Interlibrary loan

items FREE of charge for UAMS students. Eliminating the

$5 charge per item, makes it even easier for students to

obtain print or digital materials not already owned by the

Library.

Search the UAMS Library catalog at http://

www.libcatalog.uams.edu/ to see if the Library owns the

book or journal you require. If you do not find the item

that you want, you can request that we borrow the item

on your behalf from another institution with our

Interlibrary loan (ILL) service. If you are a current UAMS

student, you will get your first 20 items delivered to you FREE of charge. If you are not a student, or

have already been credited your free ILLs, check our ILL Fees & Services page for other service fees.

To make your request, log in to your ILLiad account at: http://library.uams.edu/library-services/

interlibrary-loanedd/. Then, fill out a new request or manage your account and transactions. If you

are a first time user, you will need to register with ILLiad before you can fill out a request.

You may track the number of ILLs and other details about your requests with your ILLiad account.

Those students who have received 20 free ILLs will be notified by email before they are charged for

the next request. Electronic Document Delivery (eDD) requests for items found within the library

collection are also applicable toward students’ free requests.

If you need help or have questions please contact: Cindy Caton, Head of Interlibray Loan and

Document Delivery Services, at 501-686-6744 or CatonCynthiaC@uams.edu.

-Valerie Howard

In February 2013, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) public access policy announce-

ment stated that all federal agencies with $100 million or more in research and development funding

must create public access policies and enforce them. Sixteen federal agencies are now either enforc-

ing or will soon be enforcing public access compliance standards. Failure for investigators to comply

may result in their awards being withheld. Many of the federal agencies will be using PubMed Central

as their journal repository. A few of the agencies will be using different repositories and UAMS

Librarians will provide more information as it becomes available.

The first step of compliance with any agency’s public access requirements is copyright permission.

Authors should make sure their copyright agreements allow them to deposit the manuscript in a

public repository. Librarians are available to help authors find a journal’s copyright policy and/or offer

guidance in negotiating a copyright agreement.

UAMS Library staff members Jessie Casella, Valerie Howard, and Loretta Edwards created a webpage,

Federal Public Access Policies, which lists all 16 federal agencies and their repository requirements

along with links to each agency’s policy for more information.

Please contact Jessie Casella, MLIS, if you have any questions: 501-686-8517 JMCasella@uams.edu

-Jessie Casella

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library http://library.uams.edu

Federal Public Access Policies Enforcement - It’s Not Just NIH

UAMS Students Receive 20 Free Interlibrary Loan Requests

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New Resources for Faculty and Students

BoardVitals

The UAMS Library now provides access to exam banks for USMLE, NCLEX-RN, and NBDE through

BoardVitals. You must REGISTER for access.

Includes practice tests with detailed explanations.

Available via mobile, tablet and desktop.

Faculty can create and send customizable exams to students.

BoardVitals Training Videos:

BoardVitals Overview Video

BoardVitals Training Video: Overview

BoardVitals Training Video: Track Usage and

Performance

BoardVitals Training Video: Track Individual

Performance

BoardVitals Training Video: Send Exams to

Students

BoardVitals Training Video: Categorical

Performance

Continue to use BoardVitals at http://www.boardvitals.com/ anytime, anywhere, after registration.

Draw it to Know it

Students master neuroanatomy using this web-based tool to draw anatomical pathways and structures.

Contains whiteboard tutorials, muscle-nerve directory, radiographic brain atlas and exam questions.

REGISTER for mobile access then download the Draw it to Know it iPhone/iPad app from iTunes.

-Daphne Hyatt

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library http://library.uams.edu

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Nutt Appointed Head of the Historical Research Center

Timothy G. Nutt has been appointed Head of the Historical Research Center

(HRC) in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library. Jan Hart,

Director of Library Operations, states that “UAMS is fortunate to have such a

passionate and skilled historian and archivist as Tim to lead the HRC. This is

particularly exciting as recent library renovations have created an opportunity

for the HRC to provide a welcoming public space for visitors. Tim will be

instrumental in the creation of the new research and exploration space for the

HRC on the 5th floor of the Library.”

Tim will lead a three pronged re-vitalization of the HRC that includes growing

the history of health sciences collection, collecting and making available the

archives of UAMS and affiliated units, and increasing informative, educational

programming for the UAMS campus and throughout the state. The Society for

the History of Medicine and the Health Professions, an advocacy organization established to support the

activities of the HRC and to promote historical research in the health sciences in Arkansas, will also

benefit from Tim’s knowledge and enthusiasm.

Prior to his appointment at UAMS, Tim was the head of special collections at the University of Arkansas

in Fayetteville from February 2012 to August 2015. He joined UAF special collections in 2005 as

manuscripts and rare books librarian and advanced through progressively responsible positions until

being named head in 2012.

The University of Arkansas Honors College awarded Tim the Distinguished Faculty Award in 2011 for

mentoring Honors College students in archival practices as well as for his contributions to teaching and

research. He has published extensively on Arkansas history and also writes, directs and performs in

historical reenactments for the Washington County Historical Society. He currently serves as the

president of the Arkansas Historical Association.

Tim’s scholarly and professional activities include an article in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly on the

Little Rock Censor Board and entries for the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture. He is

the co-compiler of Arkansas History: An Annotated Bibliography, which was recognized in the American

Library Association’s list of “Top Ten Reference Sources” for 1995.

Tim was the founding deputy curator of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas

Library System in Little Rock and founding managing editor of the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas

History & Culture. Additionally, he co-produced The Little Rock Sound, 1965-69, a musical album

featuring Little Rock garage bands.

He has served as editor of the Arkansas Historical Association Newsletter, the Perry County Historical

& Genealogical Society Newsletter, the Washington County Historical Society publication, Flashback,

and the Pulaski County Historical Review. He serves on the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial

Commission, as a board member of the Arkansas History Education Coalition, and as an executive

board member of the Society of Southwest Archivists.

Tim, a native Arkansan from Bigelow, holds a bachelor of arts in history from the University of Central

Arkansas and a master of library and information studies degree from the University of Oklahoma.

In 2005, Tim was inducted into the Academy of Certified Archivists.

-Suzanne Easley

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library http://library.uams.edu

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Librarian Office Hours on Hospital Floors for Nursing Staff

In November 2014, UAMS librarians, Susan Steelman, MLIS, and Jessie

Casella, MLIS, met with UAMS nursing administrators to discuss how

librarians could help meet the information needs of nursing staff in the

hospital. The librarians and nursing administrators created a survey asking

respondents about their online searching, library use and ways in which a

librarian could best serve their information needs. The survey was distributed

to all nursing staff via Survey Monkey from February – March 2015. 45 nurses

completed the survey. Results indicated that there was interest in learning

more about Library resources and having a librarian embedded on research

teams.

To help meet the nurses’ information needs, Jessie Casella is holding office

hours in the hospital twice a week from August through the end of

September. Jessie will be in the F6 Conference Room on Mondays from 1:00 – 2:30pm (except for

Labor Day) and the F8 Conference Room on Wednesdays from 1:00 – 2:30pm.

Office hours are an informal time when staff can stop by for quick questions, to request an in-depth

literature search, and/or a brief hands on (5 minutes or less) training on a specific database or

resource. All nurses in the hospital are invited to stop by during any of the office hour times. Note:

Other clinical staff are also welcome to meet with Jessie during these office hours.

Jessie is glad to meet with nursing staff outside of scheduled office hours and is glad to make a house

call to an office or other conference room. To contact Jessie for a consultation at a different time/

location please call or email: 686-8517, JMCasella@uams.edu

-Jessie Casella

While you are on the ACH campus, visit the new ACH Medical Library located on the 1st floor of the

Sturgis Building. The newly renovated ACH Medical Library connects to the new Winnie M. Lowe Family

Resource Center. Walk through the light, airy space of the medical library into the resource center to

see the fascinating injury prevention Safety Zone and the Family Library headed by Rebecca Humar,

the new ACH Family Engagement Coordinator.

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Pediatric medicine students and residents have a light, spacious room with computers, tables and

comfortable seating to catch up on their reading. Medical staff have badge access to the ACH Medical

Library 24/7. The renovated space also contains a small study room and a meeting room. The print

journal collection on display in the library contains the most recent issues of many pediatric medicine

journals.

UAMS Library Education Librarian and ACH Liaison, Louise Montgomery, llmontgomery@uams.edu

provides collection development services plus online resource and reference support to the ACH Medical

Library. Louise is on the ACH campus on Monday afternoons from 12:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. for

database instruction or literature search consultation. The part-time on-site Medical Library Assistant is

Luis Caceres, caceresla@archildrens.org.

More pediatric resources can be found online in the ACH e-book and e-journal collections. ACH Library

subscribes to American Academy of Pediatrics e-books including Bright Futures and Red Book

Online. The ACH Medical Library also provides access to Pemsoft, a pediatric medicine point of care

database of treatment recommendations similar to UpToDate. All of the ACH Medical Library and

Family Library resources are listed in the UAMS Library catalog: http://www.libcatalog.uams.edu/.

-Louise Montgomery

The ninth Teaching with Technology Symposium

was held July 23rd – 24th, 2015. This annual two

-day symposium focuses on assisting educators

in evaluating and using various software and

equipment for use in their teaching. The 2015

symposium emphasized creating presentations

and activities that hold the interest of the

student and increase their retention of the most

important information.

The keynote speaker, Cliff Atkinson, spoke on

“Making Your Ideas Stick: Tapping into the

Hidden Power of Story.” Atkinson is a national

leader in the use of PowerPoint and other

presentation tools to engage audiences. He

uses classic storytelling with many visual

components to capture the imagination and bring his audience into his educational story. His

presentation discussed the many methods of communication and teaching that can immerse the user

into the story. Cliff’s presentation explored ideas from Beyond Bullet Points, his award winning book

(an Amazon Book of the Year in 2007) that is now in its 3rd edition. Beyond Bullet Points has

recently been published as an eBook and is available in print in several languages.

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library http://library.uams.edu

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Jessie Casella with her poster

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“One of the key things to do is to

figure out how to get into the

worlds of your audiences, your

learners, and look at things from

their perspectives,” Atkinson said.

“A great way to do that is to seek

out case studies. Look for practical,

defined ways that learners can

engage the information. Another

word for a case study is ‘story.’ It’s

a terrific way to start a presenta-

tion.”

The symposium was attended by

136 educators, administrators, instructional designers, librarians, information technologists, and

others. Many were from the higher education institutions in Arkansas, but others were K-12 teachers,

and educators at private and government bodies, and health systems. They were joined by approxi-

mately 50 additional UAMS faculty and staff for Atkinson’s keynote presentation.

The symposium included 15 breakout sessions, two lightning sessions, and six workshops over a two-

day period. Nine research and educational posters were displayed. Forty-three presenters came from

UAMS, UALR, UA System/eVersity, Pulaski Tech, Arkansas State University, and other higher education

institutions in Arkansas.

Topics included game-based learning, distance learning in higher education, technology facilitating

collaborative learning and work on student projects, using Instagram to engage students, enhancing

learning through new Web tools, and copyright and attribution in online teaching. Michael Moore, UA

System Vice President for Academic Affairs, led a panel of eVersity faculty to discuss current status.

Mark Taylor led off the second day with “Meet Generation NeXt: Understanding, Teaching and Serving

Today’s Students, Managing in the Multigenerational Workplace.”

Jan Hart, Library Director of Operations, co-presented a workshop with Lisa Ferris of the Office of

Educational Development on Good Copyright and Attribution Habits for Online Teaching. Education &

Reference Services Librarian Jessie Casella exhibited a poster titled “Google Scholar: The Good, the

Bad, and the Unknown.” The poster summarized much of the content from the article of the same title

from the UAMS Library Newsletter, Spring 2015 Issue. Jessie also taught a class on citation manager

comparisons. Attendees received information about six citation manager systems: EndNote, Mendeley,

Papers, Reference Manager, RefWorks, and Zotero. If you would like a copy of the class handout,

please contact Jessie at 501-686-8517 or JMCasella@uams.edu.

“Each Teaching with Technology symposium has had its own personality,” said Jan Hart, TWT

Committee executive director. “This year, the symposium had a casual, down-home feel that

encouraged lots of interactions and networking. Attendees often lingered after a presentation to talk

and exchange their thoughts.”

Dave Wessinger, TWT Committee chair, Jan Hart, Kathy Boyle, Symposium Program Committee chair,

and many members of the Committee worked throughout the year to organize this ninth symposium.

The symposium would not be possible without the professional and enthusiastic support by the IT

Audiovisual Division.

-Jan Hart and Jessie Casella

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library http://library.uams.edu

2015 Teaching with Technology Symposium Continued from page 9

Jan Hart presenting a workshop on Copyright