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New (Free) Medical Guidelines App for Students and Clinicians
Apple is advertising a new iPhone/iPad Guideline Central app that provides over 2,700 free guideline summaries that cover all of the main specialties.
A few of the features:
- Official recommendations from respected medical associations
- Key points, treatment, management, prevention, and more
- Well illustrated algorithms, charts, medical tables
- And much more…
The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: Remembering Hilary Koprowski
By Jeff O’Flynn, Sabin Student Assistant
Telegram from Hilary Koprowski to Albert Sabin, indicating he would be unable to attend a polio conference.
Hilary Koprowski is considered by many to be equally important as Salk and Sabin in the quest to eradicate poliomyelitis. When Koprowski passed away last month, his illustrious career was recounted in his obituary and included such notable achievements as the development of a live-virus polio vaccine, improvement of the rabies vaccine, and directorship of the world-renowned Wistar Institute in Pennsylvania. His interest in the live-virus polio vaccine caused his career to overlap with Albert Sabin’s work regularly. The obituary details the competition between Sabin and Koprowski for the eventual triumph of their various polio vaccines.[1] Letters in the Albert B. Sabin archives indicate that the two great scientists often shared material and data though, unfortunately, they did not have an entirely conflict-free relationship. Continue reading
The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: New Lesson Plans Available
Dr. Albert B. Sabin
Sabin project student assistant Katie Pintz created a couple of lesson plans to encourage the use of the the newly digitized materials in the Albert B. Sabin Archives. They are:
- “Albert Sabin and the Cold War” – which is a lesson plan for high school United States history classes.
- “Albert Sabin and Bioethics” – which is a lesson plan for high school biology classes.
We look forward to hearing what you think about these lesson plans. Please give us feedback either here on the blog, or you can send your comments to chhp@uc.edu.
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Service Notice: Library Catalog Unavailable Beginning 1pm April 29.
On Monday, April 29, at 1:00pm the Library Catalog will go offline for a planned software migration. It is estimated that the catalog will be back online and ready for use at 10:00pm on April 29.
In the meantime, the OhioLINK catalog is available.
The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: An Unsolved Mystery
Albert Sabin and Basil O’Connor pose with Dr. Sabin’s bust, sculpted by Edmond Romulus Amateis.
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) recently launched, and, of course, I wanted to see if there was anything Sabin-related in the collection. Doing a quick search for Albert Sabin revealed a bust which resides at the National Portrait Gallery. According to the DPLA, this bust, a 1966 cast after 1958 terra cotta original, was originally sculpted by Edmond Romulus Amateis.[1] This bust was originally created for the Polio Wall of Fame in Warm Springs, Georgia. We have a photograph in our collection of Dr. Sabin and National Foundation President Basil O’Connor posing with the bust created by Amateis. Continue reading
Need A Caffeine Boost while Studying for Exams?
Understanding the need to refuel while studying in the library, UC Libraries have installed two coffee vending machines in Langsam Library. One is located by the main entrance on the 4th floor of the library and the second is located in the UCit@Langsam 24/7 lab. Continue reading
Student Project Shows Value of Libraries
Librarians are used to getting any kind of questions and requests at the InfoCommons. However we were pleasantly surprised when one day student Ashley Kraus approached us with a question about UC Libraries. She wanted to get all kinds of facts and numbers about libraries. Ashley explained that she needed to do a visual project for a class assignment. We were delighted that with any topic in the world to choose from, Ashley chose to demonstrate the value of libraries. Following is more about her work. Continue reading
Study Late in Langsam Library
Langsam Library to Offer Extended Exam Hours until 2am.
After the regular Langsam Library hours, library space only will be open for students to study until 2am during exams. To enter the library after the regular closing time, students must do so via the 5th floor UCit@Langsam card-swipe entrance (a valid UC ID is required). Continue reading
Second April Music in the Gorno Library Concert Scheduled for Sunday the 14th
Music concerts to feature CCM talent.
Join UC Libraries at two upcoming concerts to be held in the Albino Gorno Memorial Music (CCM) Library Reading Room.