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Welcome to the Lister Hill Library liaison page for the School of Public Health. As liaisons we are here to make sure that you are getting the help you need with library resources, databases, searches, and training and instruction. Feel free to call us, stop by, email, us, or even send an instant message to us using the box to the right. We look forward to working with you!

Some of the things your library liaison can do for you:

• group or classroom instruction
• individual consultations
• research support
• database searching assistance and instruction
• AND we want to serve as a point person and advocate for you!  If you have a need or concern, please let us know.  We will make sure that the right person receives your suggestions and input!

We look forward to meeting you and working with you (whether that meeting is in-person or only online)!

--Kay and Michael

Lister Hill Librarians are suspending regular office hours in Ryals for Summer Semester 2013. We will resume office hours (see schedule below) in Fall Semester the week of August 26th. Don't forget, we’re available any time for personal consultation to help with any research questions or library resources access as needed – just contact us as noted below in our signature. Have a terrific summer!

Office hours:

Monday, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Wednesday, 12 noon to 1 p.m.

Thursday, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Kay Hogan Smith, UAB Lister Hill Library Liaison to School of Public Health
934-2208
khogan@uab.edu 

Michael S. Fitts, UAB Lister Hill Library Liaison to School of Public Health
934-5442
fitts@uab.edu

Construction Update - Lister Hill Library

Summer Hours at Lister Hill Library

• Monday - Thursday:   7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Friday:                           7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Saturday:                      9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Sunday:                         12 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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Evidence-Based Disaster Response Resource Available!

The UNC Health Sciences Library has created a search hedge for global health literature reviewers to add to searches that include a focus on developing countries. Unfortunately PubMed and other databases do not include articles indexed under individual developing countries in its "developing countries" MeSH heading. This search hedge addresses that shortfall. To copy and paste this search string into your searches, go to the UNC Global Health Toolkit and click on the link under "Developing Country Search Terms."

Have you ever wished for a tool that would incorporate the impact of your research beyond published journals? Take a look at ImpactStory, which describes the current research into "altimetrics," or alternative metrics of scholarly impact based on online use. Developed by Jason Priem, a doctoral student at UNC Chapel Hill (with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation), this initiative has the potential to revolutionize scholarly communication - or, as Priem himself puts it, "bring scholarly communication out of the 17th century." Check it out at http://impactstory.org/.

The Measurement Learning & Evaluation Project (MLE) for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative has released its Measuring Sucess Toolkit. Are you planning a health program? Monitoring or evaluating a program? The Toolkit provides a framework to help you identify what kinds of questions research, monitoring and evaluation can answer to guide program design and implementation. It also provides links to resources to put ideas into action. (Users with limited or no Internet access can order the Toolkit on CD - email contactus@urbanreproductivehealth.org to inquire.)

In case you missed it, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published its final report, For the Public's Health: Investing in a Healthier Future. The report assesses the funding of public health in the United States, and makes recommendations "to building a sustainable and sufficient public health presence going forward, while recognizing the importance of the other actors in the health system." The summary report and slides, as well as the prepublication PDF are freely available for downloading on the IOM site at http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2012/For-the-Publics-Health-Investing-in-a-Healthier-Future.aspx.

The WHO/AFRO Library has made available an index to African medical literature and resources called African Index Medicus. This resource addresses a notable gap in health and biomedical information sources focusing on the African continent. Approximately 156 journals are indexed in this database currently, and dissertations and grey literature are included as well. For more information about this important new global health resource go to http://indexmedicus.afro.who.int/.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a guide Communicating Risks and Benefits: An Evidence-Based User's Guide for free download at http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/ReportsManualsForms/Reports/ucm268078.htm. Effective risk communication is essential to the well-being of any organization, public or private, and those people who depend on it. Ineffective communication can cost lives, money and reputations. Communicating Risks and Benefits provides the scientific foundations for effective communications in an easy to use format.