Marcia Henry, MA Library Science, MS Microbiology
Health Sciences [EOH, Nursing, Physical Therapy] Communicative Disorders, Kinesiology, Recreation&Tourism Librarian

Responsibilities

Reference & Instruction:Request a lecture

• Library Lectures some examples

Collection Development:Suggest New materials
View our latest acquisitions New Books

Subject Guides

• Environmental Health
• Communication Disorders and Sciences
• Communicative Disorders Distance Education program:Databases and Document Delivery
• Gerontology
• Health Sciences
• Health Statistics
• Kinesiology
• Recreation & Tourism Management (formerly Leisure Studies)
• Nursing
• Physical Therapy

      Current Hot topics

• Influenza:Swine Flu, Avian Flu (Bird Flu)
• Popular medical websites on del.icio.us public bookmarks and tags

Databases Enthusiast

• Free classes on Electronic Resources
• Fall 2007 Databases A-Z with Subject Categories, Multisearch, Find Text [pdf] 1 page list of Library's subscription databases
• Electronic Resources 2006[pdf] -with brief descriptions
• Oviatt Library:Your Portal to Academic Success [powerpoint] and [handout] presented at New Faculty Retreat 2006
• Oviatt Library MetaSearch and Multisearch implementation committee member
• Over the years I have monitored and contributed to Online help with databases

Electronic Reference Service Ask a Librarian

• Use Statistics of start up service

About Marcia Henry

• Curriculum Vita
• Professional memberships in Medical Library Association, Medical Library Group of Southern California & Arizona, ALA, California Academic & Research Libraries .
• President, SEAL South, a CARL Interest group 2007
• I like to try freely available web research tools such as
  • WorldCat.org- catalogs of all major libraries. Type keywords of book's title, author's name into search box. When asked for location information, CSUN zipcode is 91330. Note also ability to purchase from Amazon in the right column.
    
  • Search engines that tailor to specifics, such as
    • OpenDOAR -a directory of open access repositories at http://www.opendoar.org/
    • QuadSearch -a cumulative search for cited references in Google Scholar at http://delab.csd.auth.gr/~lakritid/index.php
    • Soople, an easy interface to search the web at http://www.soople.com/
    • Extract ready reference answers from http://www.digref.org
    • Technorati a blog search engine at http://www.technorati.com/
    • Medworm place to search for medical newsfeeds at http://www.medworm.com
    • Electronic Thesis/Dissertation OAI Union Catalog may help find freely available theses and dissertations. An increasing number of universities are scanning their theses and may be found in the library's catalog or .... e.g. Universities such as University of Missouri, Case Western Reserve
    • To find information about a journal use Oviatt Library's subscription to Ulrich's Periodical Directory. There are also some freely available websites:
      • http://jinfo.lub.lu.se/ Journal Info also gives Journal influence values
      • University of Saskatchewan Libraries e-journals for RSS feeds.
      • Openly Jake and CUFTS identify where journal is indexed and if it is available full text
  • Wikipedia a free encyclopedia that everyone can contribute to and edit.
  • Shelfari is a place to talk about books with friends.
  • Social networks
    • My Facebook's public profile url is http://www.facebook.com/p/Marcia_Henry/
    • My Myspace profile is http://www.myspace.com/librarynews

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