Library's Announcement

Where are the Review Books?

In order to locate review books more easily, we have designated a separate area, which is the beginning of the book stacks, with an orange label arranged by subject. Please do not hesitate to ask for assistance if needed.

Books on CD-ROM

This is just a reminder that many of the textbooks are available on CD-ROMs, which are arranged by call number. Please see the staff at the Circulation Desk for assistance.

Connecting from off-campus

To connect to licensed databases and full text, all users must now use their NYIT username and password to connect from off-campus .

Sage Sayings of Dr. Andrew Taylor Still

"Nature is a school of questions and answers, which seems to be the only school in which man learns anything."

" We must first acquaint ourselves with all its workings in the normal before we are prepared to comprehend or think intelligently of the meaning of the word 'abnormal'."

Thruhlar Robert E. Doctor A.T. Still in the living. Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 1950.

Did you know..

PubMed, NLM's online retrieval service for citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s, just reasserted its claim to the title "the world's largest biomedical database" by climbing to 15 million references.

Interesting Web sites

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released a new "Find a Hospital" directory search. From MedlinePlus, users can search for information on over 6,000 hospitals in the United States, including address, specialty, services provided, and driving directions.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces a new Web site to address the health concerns of the 4 million Americans who claim American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry. American Indian Health brings together pertinent health and medical resources, including consumer health information;environmental health information; the results of research; traditional healing resources; and links to other related Web sites.

Library Hours for coming Holidays

Thanksgiving Day: Library will be closed on Wednesday Nov. 24 - Sunday Nov. 28. We will resume normal hours on Monday November 29.

Christmas Day:Library will be closed on Friday December 24- Sunday January 2. We will resume normal hours on January 3, 2005.

Any other changes will be announced.

Highlights in Healthcare

In "Can we achieve health information for all by 2015?" Fiona Godlee and colleagues provide an optimistic view that requires the World Health Organization to take the lead and implement various initiatives in this work. The full text could be found in Lancet 2004; 364: 295-300.

Highlights in Science

Study of Cell Breakdown Captures Nobel

Modern biology focuses most of its attention on how things are built and created, but Dr. Aaron Ciechanover, 57 and Dr. Avram Hershko, 67 professors of biochemistry at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and Dr. Irwin A. Rose of California, Irvine worked on the opposite function of a cell: how it breaks down proteins that are damaged or have outlived their usefulness and won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Full text can be found in New York Times, Science section, October 7,2004.