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Not only adults, but scores of children were buzzing around the Scientific Library on Tuesday, June 27.  They were all taking part in the annual Take Your Child to Work Day event.  It seems that employees and their children were excited to attend the event which had been paused since 2019 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.   The theme in the Library circled around nature’s wonder, the honey bee!  The Scientific Library’s Hub Activities included crafting bees for the index book tree in the Library alcove area, putting together puzzles, and watching Ms. Frizzle take the Magic School Bus for an adventure “In a Beehive.”  However, the biggest draw was the R.E.A.D. Dogs.  R.E.A.D. dogs are registered therapy animals who volunteer with their handler as a team, going to schools, libraries, and many other settings as reading companions for children.  The Library staff look forward to planning and participating in this annual campus-wide event!

Library Orientation

Library Orientation sessions are held monthly via Webex on Thursdays from 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.  The dates of upcoming sessions are July 13, August 10, and September 14.  We invite all employees to attend these sessions to learn about the many services and resources offered by the Library.  Registration is not required.

If you are not able to make it to our scheduled webinars, our librarians can work with your schedule to provide one-on-one training at your convenience via Webex or Microsoft Teams.  For questions, or if you have a suggestion for a class offering, please contact us with your thoughts.

NOTE: All Library Instruction during Summer 2023 will be given via Webex webinars.

Resource Training

The Library’s instruction team is pleased to announce that the Summer 2023 Resource Training Schedule is available on the Library’s Orientations and Classes website.  Class dates and descriptions are also listed on the Events Calendar.  Registration announcements & WebEx meeting links will be sent on the NCIF community listservs. 

ONESEARCH Overview

Thursday, September 28, 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Each month the Library will feature a different resource and offer to provide more supporting information about this resource.  Watch for announcements about the resources highlighted in 2023 or e-mail the Library for more information:

JULY - EMBASE

Embase is a comprehensive and very up-to-date biomedical literature database.  With Emtree indexing of full-text content and dedicated search terms, you find all relevant and current results, which includes information that may not be uncovered in other databases. 

AUGUST  - MARINLIT

MarinLit is a database of natural compounds found in marine environments. It is regularly updated to keep up with the growing scientific literature in the field of marine natural product research and currently contains information for nearly 40,000 compounds. 

SEPTEMBER – JoVE SCIENCE EDUCATION DATABASE

JoVE is a video methods journal that publishes experimental techniques in a visual format with detailed text protocols.  It also helps to learn scientific fundamentals through a library of video demonstrations.

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AUDIO SUMMARY

Want to hear the latest in medical research, reviews, and perspectives from the NEJM? With summaries available weekly. The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research and review articles and editorial opinions on a wide variety of topics of importance to a biomedical science and clinical practice.

LAB RAT CHAT

A podcast dedicated to providing facts and an alternate narrative to the public regarding the necessity of humane and ethical animal research. Lab Rat Chat was made possible through the Michael D. Hayre Fellowship in Public Outreach, which is sponsored by the biomedical research advocacy group Americans for Medical Progress.

The Laptop Librarian Service brings institutional knowledge and super-searching skills to NCIF staff in places other than the library.  Our librarians work with staff to understand their domain areas, pinpoint resources, provide current awareness and anticipate their information needs.

Our embedded Laptop Librarians are:

Alan Doss is our Chemical Sciences Informationist; he has worked in lab environments and specializes in chemical research and provides bibliographic chemistry searches. His Laptop Librarian Program areas are:  Molecular Histopathology Laboratory (MHL), the Center for Advanced Preclinical Research (CAPR), and the Vaccine, Immunity, and Cancer Directorate (VICD). Alan regularly provides long-haul Covid and HPV related items for VICD as well as the latest scientific news related to cancer research to MHL and CAPR. 

Matt Stirling is our Biosciences Informationist; his background is in biotechnology and he specializes in pharmaceutical development and clinical trials topics. Bioscience knowledge areas include all aspects of the biological sciences, biochemistry, and other interdisciplinary areas.  His Laptop Librarian Program area supports the Clinical Monitoring Research Program Directorate (CMRPD).  A recent example of the Laptop Librarian service includes a presentation on medical writing resources and style guides to CMRPD staff.

Our Laptop Librarians have subject-specific knowledge and will meet you where you are and assist you with your specific needs.  Visit with a Librarian on Tuesdays at the ATRF from 1 to 3 pm or reach out to Matt or Alan for a personal consultation on your specific needs. 

Mark Your Calendar for the 16th Annual Student Science Jeopardy Intern Event!!

Clue: Student interns can participate in this educational and entertaining event remotely, via Webex, on Thursday, July 27 beginning at 10:00 a.m., and all members of the NCI at Frederick community are encouraged to watch and cheer them on.

Answer: What is the 16th Annual NCI at Frederick Scientific Library Student Science Jeopardy Tournament?

Click here to register.  Watch your email for the Webex link to join the event as a spectator!  See you on July 27!

Disease X: The 100 Days Mission to End Pandemics

Canbury Press, London, 2023.

Description: With a foreword written by former British Prime Minister, Sir Tony Blair, DISEASE X is a must-read, fast-paced, almost-real-time account of how international scientists and global public health leaders are preparing the world to be able to contain outbreaks of new and re-emerging infectious diseases before they spawn deadly global contagions like Covid-19.  It tells of how, throughout the devastation of Covid, science and human ingenuity have shown that the world can devise intricate new weapons at breath-taking pace against deadly diseases it has never encountered before. It also tells how the world's public health scientists are embarking on a 100 Days Mission to embed that scientific progress into a pandemic-busting plan to defuse future threats from as-yet-unknown pathogens in a little over three months. 

Nanotherapeutics in Cancer: Materials, Diagnostics, and Clinical Applications

Jenny Stanford Publishing, Singapore, 2023.

Description: This book provides complete information about each aspect of nanomaterials and nanotherapeutics, including synthesis, analysis, disease diagnosis, mechanistic insight, targeted drug delivery, and clinical implications in a concise and informative way. It presents simple and reader-friendly representations of the mechanisms of action of nanomaterials on cellular targets and highlights the challenges in targeted drug delivery with ongoing chemotherapeutic drugs.

The Scientific Library has also recently acquired current electronic versions of the following titles for which we had previous print or electronic editions:

Manual of Histological Techniques, 2nd edition, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, 2020.

A First Course in Systems Biology, 2nd edition, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2018.

Basic Concepts of Medicinal Chemistry, 3rd edition, AHSP, Bethesda, MD, 2023.

​​​​​​​Click here to see a full list of newly purchased materials.