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Harrell Health Sciences Library Newsletter
April 2020
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Director's note
As I write this, people everywhere are isolating themselves to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The physical Harrell Health Sciences Library space closed as of 5 p.m. March 17. Our entire faculty and staff is working from home.
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Many libraries are closing their doors to help prevent the spread of the disease.
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Libraries tend to be the heart of an institution or community; the place where everyone is equal and access is for all. It is hard for us as librarians to stop serving our communities. And although we are not in the "space" we call a library, we haven’t stopped serving.
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Resources
For our community, our resources are 99% digital. Access to thousands of journals and databases are still there for the community we serve.
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Instruction
We are continuing to teach information literacy, critical thinking, using a database or evidence-based resource and other topics from our home to yours via video learning/meeting software.
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Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
The library is filling ILL requests for our users as much as we can, but only in digital formats - no print. We rely on other libraries to be operating in a digital capacity as well.
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The world is a different place right now. All we can do is take it day by day. Hopefully we will be moving back toward the library as "space" again in the near future.
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Associate Dean for Library and Information Services
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Harrell Health Sciences Library: Research and Learning Commons
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Harrell Health Sciences Library has compiled a list of resources for patrons to find up-to-date literature and guidelines on COVID-19.
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Harrell Health Sciences Library's Experimental Classroom recently allowed medical students in the obstetrics and gynecology clerkship to participate in a virtual cadaver lab.
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University Libraries has provided guidance around a new policy supporting open access to scholarly work.
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The Penn State Health eLearning Meetup Group gathers quarterly at Harrell Health Sciences Library.
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Several Harrell Health Sciences Library team members have been involved in recent projects.
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Upcoming library events
Note that all of the following events are being offered via Zoom webinar only in light of COVID-19.
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@Harrell.lib is the quarterly newsletter of the Harrell Health Sciences Library: Research and Learning Commons at Penn State College of Medicine. Your feedback is welcome. Email editor Marie Cirelli at mcirelli@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.
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