The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library is hosting a Book Swap from October 3rd to October 7th14th, 2017.
Bring a book, leave a book.....
This event is coordinated by the Library Staff Association (LiSA) as part of Yale Celebrate Sustainability week.
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library has organized these four workshops, two of them on high-throughput data analysis tools and two on NCBI public databases. Although these are free and open to any Yale affiliate, registration is required due to limited seating.
Title: NGS Data Analysis in Partek® Software: Onsite Workshop
Description:
Morning Session (Overview, Hands On: Analysis on RNA-... Read More
A drawing from "'The AIDS Suite,' HIV-Positive Women in Prison and Other Works by Artist/Activist Sue Coe"
YaleNews recently profiled the Library's upcoming exhibition of “’The AIDS Suite,’ HIV-Positive Women in Prison and Other Works by Artist/Activist Sue Coe." As YaleNews' Mike Cummings reports, "The exhibit... features 27 drawings and prints by Coe, whose work has been published in The New... Read More
The Yale Medical Library is offering a number of bioinformatics training session this Fall. These sessions are free and open to any Yale affiliate but registration is required due to limited seating.
Please contact Rolando.milian@yale.edu for questions or comments.
Title: The VERY Basics of the Unix Command Line
A lot of biomedical software programs do not come with a graphical user interface... Read More
The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library is celebrating our 75th anniversary with a special event on Wednesday, October 5, 2016, from 3-5pm in the Medical Historical Library. Stop by "The Medical Library at 75" exhibit, view videos and stories about the library collected this year, and take a selfie with Harvey Cushing. We hope you can join us!
Starting Wednesday, September 7, we are also launching... Read More
Our therapy dog Finn returns on Friday, September 2. Finn will be here most Fridays from 10am-noon noon-2pm, including: 9/2, 9/9, 9/23, 9/30, 10/14, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 12/2, 12/9. Finn is taking a couple of Fridays off, including 10/21 (October break) and 11/25 (Thanksgiving break).
This week the library welcomes incoming students. We felt it was a good time to highlight a few links you might find handy as you start your studies at Yale.
First, there's our personal librarian program. Did you know every YSM, YSN, and YSPH student has a personal librarian? Here's a video about the program that we love, made by YSM students back in 2009:
Here are a few more links you might... Read More
Yale’s diversity affinity groups are partnering to collect donations of school supplies for elementary students in New Haven’s Brennan-Rogers Magnet School. Please consider donating new supplies, such as:
Binders
No. 2 pencils
Pens
Notebook paper
Erasers
Rulers
Scotch tape
Markers
Pocket folders
The Library is hosting a drop box in the lobby. For... Read More
(by Erin Travers*)
Drawing after Jacob van der Gracht's Third Figure, Cushing Manuscript, Yale University. Early-18th century. Red and Black Chalk
On the back of a letter from the antiquarian and bookseller Menno Hertzberger, dated 29 March 1927, Harvey Cushing recorded his observations concerning a manuscript of Jacob van der Gracht’s printed drawing book, the Anatomy of the outer parts of the... Read More
Spotlight on the Humanities in Medicine Collection
Check out the newest book in the Humanities in Medicine Collection, Aliceheimer’s Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass.
Excerpt from the book cover:
“Alice was always beautiful—Armenian immigrant beautiful, with thick, curly black hair, olive skin, and big dark eyes,” writes Dana Walrath. Alice also has Alzheimer’s, and while she can remember... Read More