Libraries and Cultural Resources and the Health Sciences Library has recently acquired

an outstanding addition from Dr. Robert Gordon. The Mackie Family History of

Neuroscience Collection will be housed in the History of Medicine room in the newly renovated

Health Sciences Library. Some volumes, for conservation reasons, will need to reside in

Special Collections at the Taylor Family Digital Library. This collection of nearly 2500 books

and journal articles spans over 350 years in the development of neuroscience and is of

national and international significance. The earliest volume is Jean Fernel’s De Abditis Rerum

Causis Libri Duo. Editio postrema, published in 1560 by Andream Wechel, Paris. Other

highlights include Rene Descartes’s classic 1662 work, De Homine, and the rare first

neurological text, Cerebri Anatome, published in 1662, written by Thomas Willis, the “Father of

Neurology” and illustrated by Christopher Wren.

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HSL News is published quarterly. For questions regarding this publication, please contact either the HSL

Information Desk at 403-220-6857 (e-mail: hslibr@ucalgary.ca) or the editor, Julie Alati-it, at 403-944-2267

(e-mail: julie.alati-it@ucalgary.ca)

Left to Right: Pat Sandercock, HKN Manager; Mary Grant, Health Sciences Library Operations

Manager; Lorraine Toews, Veterinary Medicine Librarian; Dr. Robert Gordon; Susan Powelson,

Health Sciences Library Director; and Annley Wilson, Administrative Assistant.

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Dr. Robert Gordon is a Houston-based retired neurologist and distinguished collector of history and

neurology and neuroscience books. He was in practice in Houston, Texas for 35 years, and was a

Clinical Associate Professsor of neurology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. His

passion for history of medicine books reaches back almost as long as his career as a practicing

physician, and his private collection developed into more than 2,500 items.

Dr. Gordon’s incentive to collect books began in 1978, when he answered a newspaper ad from a

professor and physician at Columbia University selling books. This physician and professor was the

late Fred Mettler, M.D. who had a distinguished career as a neuroanatomist, neurophysiologist and

clinical neurologist at the New York Neurological Institute. Dr. Gordon’s interest in first depictions of

neurological diagnoses provided incentive to pursue a successful career as a book collector.

The Mackie Family History of Neuroscience Collection complements education programs in

neuroscience, history of medicine, and related disciplines, strongly supports the research enterprise

at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute and heightens the status of the University of Calgary as an

international centre for neuroscience research.

-Information provided by: Donna Livingstone, Communications, Library and Cultural Resources and

Calgary History of Medicine Society

D I D Y O U

K NOW ?

The National Library of

Medicine announced the

activation of the

Emergency Access

Initiative in support of

medical efforts in

Pakistan.

The Emergency Access

Initiative is a

collaborative partnership

between NLM and

participating publishers.

This collaboration is to

provide free access to

full-text articles from

over 230 biomedical

serial titles and over 60

reference books and

online databases to

healthcare professionals

and libraries affected by

disasters. While the

project was established

to assist libraries

affected by disasters in

the United States, NLM

and the publishers are

activating the

Emergency Access

Initiative in light of the

growing healthcare

issues developing in the

aftermath of widespread

flooding in Pakistan.

For more information:

http://eai.nlm.nih.gov

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Left to Right: Lectures on the Diseases of Nervous System, Charcot, J.M (1881); The Wisdom of

the Body, 2nd Ed., Cannon, Walter B. (1932); Zeitschrift fur die Gesamte Neurologie und

Psychiatrie, Creutzfeld, Hans Gerhard (1920); The Principles and Practice of Medicine, Osler, W.

(1911); Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes, Pavlov, I.P. (1960).

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Service hours are Monday-

Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Click on the IM logo below

and ask your question!

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As of July 26, The Health

Sciences Library has new

hours:

Monday to Thursday:

8:00 am—10:00 pm

Friday: 8:00 am—6:00 pm

Saturday: 10:00am—6:00 pm

Sunday: 12:00 pm—8:00 pm

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on training sessions for U on training sessions for U on training sessions for U on training sessions for U

of C students, staff, and of C students, staff, and of C students, staff, and of C students, staff, and

faculty , as well as AHS faculty , as well as AHS faculty , as well as AHS faculty , as well as AHS

employees.employees.employees.employees.

H S L R E NOVA T I O N U P D A T E &

C O L L E CT I O N S R E LO CA T I O N

The Health Sciences Library renovation continues to move forward. The collections area in the

back of the library is now complete. Look for new wired carrels to arrive the beginning of October.

If you are looking for a quiet space to study this is it! Construction will begin immediately on the 50

seat computer classroom. Furniture will arrive the beginning of October for the small group library

rooms and bookable carrels. Watch for an announcement on the HSL home page and blog!

Students will be able to book rooms online for 2 hours per week for group work. Online booking

features include an email or text reminder with location and time reserved. For more information:

http://webapps2.ucalgary.ca/~lcrweb/icWorkroom/index.php

We are coming to the end of this lengthy process and appreciate your patience and understanding

through the noise and the chaos. The results well be well worth the disruption!

By Susan Powelson, Director Health Sciences Library

T R A I N I N G S E S S I O N S

These sessions are free for UofC students, staff, AHS employees and faculty. All training sessions will be

held in the Health Sciences Information Commons.

I N T RO DUCT I O N T O E ND NO TE

Tuesday, October 26 from 9:00 am—11:00 am

Monday, November 22 and Thursday, December 16 from 13:00—15:00

Learn how to use this popular bibliographic software program to import references from Medline,

PubMed and other databases, then cite them in your manuscripts with the click of a mouse. No

registration required - just drop in! For more information contact the Health Sciences Information

Desk at 403-220-6857 or hslibr@ucalgary.ca

I N T RO DUCT I O N T O R E FWORK S

Tuesday, October 5 and Tuesday, December 14 from 9:00 am —11:00 am

Monday, November 8 from 13:00—15:00

No registration necessary – just drop in! This product is unique—it is web-based and accessible

anywhere that the user has Internet access, on campus or from home. In this hands-on session you

will be given an overview of the software, learn how to enter records, import records and generate

quick bibliographies. For more information contact the Health Sciences Library information Desk at

403-220-6857 or hslibr@ucalgary.ca

O P E N A C CE S S & CO P Y R I GH T – WH AT G R A D S T U D E N T S

N E E D T O K NOW

Monday, October 18 and Tuesday, October 19 from 13:00 —14:00

Small Group Library Rooms Carrel being assembled

HSC1450, 3330 Hospital Drive N.W.

Calgary, Alberta

T2N 4N1

CANADA

Phone: 403-220-6857

Fax: 403-210-9847

Email: hslibr@ucalgary.ca

U N I V E R S I T Y O F C A L G A R Y H E A L T H S C I E N C E S L I B R A R Y

Visit our website:

http://library.ucalgary.ca/branches/hsl/

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Join us for Open Access Week October 18 to 22! Several workshops will be held at HSL for interested Faculty and

Graduate Students.

Monday, October 18 from 1:00 pm—2:00 pm

Tuesday, October 19 from 1:00 pm—2:00 pm

Open Access & Copyright -What Grad Students Need to Know, will be presented by Mary Westell and Wendy Stephens.

What is Open Access?

Open Access (OA) is perhaps the most important development in scholarly communications in recent years. Generally

speaking, Open Access content is scholarly material that is freely available on the World Wide Web. It is free to access

for the reader; there are no subscriptions or pay-per-view fees. It is also normally free of most licensing and copyright

restrictions. The term usually applies to journal articles but it is increasingly being applied to other formats (e.g.

monographs, reference works, data). For more information: http://library.ucalgary.ca/services/for-faculty/open-

access-authors-fund/open-access-authors-fund-frequently-asked-questions-faq

AHS-Calgary Zone Employees: Please visit

http://hinc.ucalgary.ca for information on

how to obtain library resources and

services through the Health Information

Network Calgary.

A warm welcome to Pat Sandercock, who has accepted the position of

the Health Knowledge Network Manager during Vivian Stieda’s

secondment to the Canadian Virtual Health Library.

Pat can be reached at:

phone: 403-220-8250 email: p.sandercock@ucalgary.ca

Veterinary medicine:

• The encyclopedia of applied animal behaviour and welfare

(Mills, D.) QL750.3 .E55 2010 Reference Collection

• Mastitis control in dairy herds 2nd ed. (Blowey, Roger William)

SF967 .M3 B56 2010

General medicine:

• Headache care, research, and education worldwide (Olesen, Jes)

WL342 .H43173 2010

• Oxford guide to metaphors in CBT : building cognitive bridges

(Stott, Richard) WM425.5 .C6 O985 2010

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