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Harriet K. & Philip Pumerantz Library Newsletter
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Issue #35, Fall 2020
Welcome (Back) to WesternU!
“We are more than our four walls!”
STACKED!
Welcome students—we are online and ready to help!
I would like to give a warm welcome to our continuing and incoming students. We hope
you explore the many resources we have made available for you. My skilled team is here to
help you navigate it all with your college-specific needs in mind. We have supported
hundreds of health sciences students and would like the opportunity to work with you to
make this year as successful as possible. Enjoy the learning and new experiences that come
with a new academic year! We very much look forward to hearing from all of you.
Stay safe and see you in the inbox,
Director of the Pumerantz Library
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Issue #35, Fall 2020
Library Services
Building and Books
Since the university closure,
the Library staff has been
continuing to provide
resources and services
remotely. With the safety of
our faculty, students and staff
being of upmost importance,
we are awaiting changes in
safety guidelines to allow us
to provide access to the
building and our physical
book collection. It is our plan
to begin circulating books
through curbside service as
soon as we safely can. A
notification will be sent when
we schedule a date.
If you currently have any
books checked out, we are
asking that you keep them at
this time. We have suspended
our overdue notifications and
renewed books for faculty
and continuing students until
the library reopens. You will
not be charged any late fees
for the duration of time the
Library building will be
closed.
24/7 Resources
Tutorials: Want to know how to get started with library
services? Start here.
Research Guides: Research assistance, subject guides, and
useful resources compiled by your librarians.
E-Resources (eBooks, eJournals, other databases): You can
search them using the Pumerantz Library Discovery
Service.
Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services:
Electronic delivery of articles via ILLiad will continue to be
available. Book requests and books by mail have been
suspended until the Library reopens.
Need Help? Just Ask!
You can contact any of our departments by email:
• [email protected] for searching or general questions
• [email protected] for checkouts or renewals
• [email protected] for article request questions
• [email protected] for remote access issues
Chat reference is available:
Research consultations can be scheduled for more in-depth assistance.
Monday – Thursday 8:00 am – 9:00 pm
Friday 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
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How to Find Articles and Get Full Text
To find peer-reviewed articles online, you can use the Pumerantz Library Discovery Service search box on the library’s homepage or search within one of the library’s more than 50 databases. If you are off-campus, log in using your WesternU username and password.
You can also link Google Scholar to the library’s collections by following these steps.
To get a copy of an article we don’t have in our collection, click the Article Requests link on the library homepage or look for this icon.
Log into ILLiad using your WesternU username and password, fill out the required fields, and click submit. Your request can take anywhere between a few hours to over a week; the average is 2-3 days.
You will be notified via e-mail when your article is available. Log into ILLiad and click the “Articles received (PDFs)” link on the left and scroll down to see your article.
Welcome to Bridging the Gap, where you can discover library services for WesternU distance students, faculty, and staff.
Most of the WesternU community has moved to an online learning environment, and so has the Pumerantz Library! Our Welcome Week Library Orientation tutorials for incoming students are live and have been specifically customized for the individual colleges. You can find the tutorials here as well as the mandatory copyright and plagiarism tutorial.
Feel free to contact the librarians by chat or email at [email protected] if you have any questions!
BRIDGING THE GAP
Michelle Sanchez, MLIS eLearning Librarian
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Course Textbooks Want to save money on textbooks? Check the library catalog or your college research guide to see if we have the book you want. (If you want to limit your search to ebooks, use the Ebook tab on the Pumerantz Library Discovery Service on the main website or click the “Electronic Book Search” link in the library catalog.)
Meet Your Liaison!
Need help and don’t know where to start? Each college has a library liaison who can act as your personal guide to the Pumerantz Library and its resources. Whether you’re a new or returning student, faculty, or staff, your liaison is there to help.
New students are required to complete a copyright/plagiarism tutorial and quiz. The tutorial and quiz are located in LearnDash. Log in with your WesternU username and password. You must pass the quiz with at least 80% by September 7. You have unlimited attempts to pass the quiz. If you have any issues accessing LearnDash or the quiz, please contact [email protected].
Rudy Barreras
Liaison Colleges: College of Health Sciences College of Optometry
Contact: [email protected]
Ruth Harris, MLIS, MSHS
Liaison Colleges: College of Dental Medicine College of Podiatric Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine
Contact: [email protected]
Kelli Hines, MLIS
Liaison Colleges: College of Pharmacy Graduate College of Biomedical Sciences
Contact: [email protected]
Michelle Sanchez, MLIS
Liaison Colleges: COMP/COMP-NW College of Graduate Nursing
Contact: [email protected]
Required Copyright/Plagiarism Tutorial
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The library has purchased a new anatomy resource, Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy, and updated our Anatomy.tv modules to their latest platform.
Acland’s is a series of videos on gross anatomy using real cadaver specimens.
Anatomy.tv is a digital, interactive, 3D anatomy resource. We have access to the 3D Atlas, which includes the entire body, we also have 3D Real Time Dentistry, and 3D Real Time Leg, Ankle, and Foot.
Links to all of these resources are also on our Electronic Resources page. If you have any questions about these or our other resources, please contact the Reference Department at [email protected].
New Anatomy Resources
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Archives and Special Collections Services
From the University Archives
One of the departments in the Harriet K. and Philip Pumerantz Library is University Archives, which also includes Special Collections.
We have materials dating back to the university’s opening in 1977, including yearbooks, course catalogs, commencement programs, historic photographs of the campus, videos of campus lectures and events, materials documenting student life, and the papers of WesternU’s founding board members.
In addition to university archives records, Special Collections has rare books on the history of medicine (including osteopathic medicine) and materials documenting the history of osteopathic medicine in California. Some of these materials were used by the authors of the book The Merger: M.D.’s and D.O’s in California (available for checkout in the Pumerantz Library).
You can see examples of the scope of our collections on the next page. It can be interesting and instructive to look back at how people adapted to changing and challenging circumstances in the past, whether advising on health measures during a pandemic or embracing new technology.
Many of our items, including commencement programs and various college publications, have been digitized and we plan to digitize more materials once we get back to campus. You can see our Digital Collections at https://westernu.contentdm.oclc.org/.
Because of the current remote work situation, we will need additional time to retrieve requested materials from on-campus and may not be able to offer all of our usual services.
For faculty members and staff, University Archivist Olivia Solis can also provide guidance on records management. If you need assistance from Olivia or any other members of the University Archives department, please contact us at [email protected].
Olivia Solis, MA, MLIS University Archivist
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In 1987, a new computer center opened in what was then known as the Medical Library at the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific. This photograph from the dedication ceremony shows that the center appeared to have had both Mac and PC computers. This was before Internet access became widely available in college computer labs, so the lab was mostly intended for “word processing and computer assisted instruction programs,” according to a 1988 issue of COMPLetter.
The center was funded through a contribution from the Mary G. Kretschmar Charitable
Trust and was named in memory of Mrs. Kretschmar. Robert Turull, the man standing in the
right of the photo, was then-chairman of the Parent Support Group and was one of those
responsible for securing the gift.
The more things change, the more they stay the
same! The November 1918 issue of The Western
Osteopath was given over to articles about the
influenza pandemic. Reading these articles, you
forget they were written over 100 years ago. The
problems are so much like the current ones: severe
contagion, confusion about the source, people
unwilling to take steps to prevent the spread, and so
on. Doctors had differing opinions about the causes
and treatments—and, interestingly, on the wearing
of masks! These photos are from the article “Spanish Influenza” by Robert D. Emery, D.O. in
which he recommends a mask of two or three layers of gauze, nose uncovered.
From the University Archives COMPuter-Assisted Instruction
Too Much to Mask
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ONE NIGHTSTAND But so many books!
“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in
the world a door opens to allow in more light.”
-Vera Nazarian
Books open doors to new ideas, new knowledge,
new people, and new possibilities. The journey is
not always comfortable or easy, but then, how
many worthwhile things ever are?
Here are some of the books that have enlightened
us this summer. What was the last good book you
read? Let us know on Facebook or Instagram!
A haunting, emotionally
gripping take on the
zombie apocalypse that
follows Melanie’s
relationship with a
caring teacher and slow
realization of her true
nature.
-Kelli Hines
From my favorite “…Like a Pirate” series, eXPlore Like a Pirate provides ideas on how to gamify course content. What elements of video games are so motivating? How can we incorporate them into our classes? After a brief intro to game design using Player Type Theory and the SAPS model, the author gives examples from his own classroom.
-Ruth Harris
The author discusses the pitfalls of research, from sample size to mouse models, and how many of those studies cannot be replicated. What does this mean for research and evidence-based decision making and what can be done to improve the research industry?
-Ruth Harris
We all welcome feedback… in theory. In practice? We often come up with any excuse to ignore it. Stone and Heen offer practical tips on being more receptive to feedback and using it to grow. A must for professional development.
-Kelli Hines
