Dr. W. Walter Menninger to Speak at the 8th Annual Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library Conference

The 8th Annual Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library Conference will be held on May 18, 2004 from 8:00 am – 12:00 pm at the Kleberg Auditorium, Baylor College of Medicine. read more

Library to Host Depression Exhibit
The HAM-TMC Library will host the exhibit Depression: More Than Just the Blues during the months of May and June 2004. read more

Introducing Haz-Map: Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases:
Haz-Map is an occupational health database for health and safety professionals and consumers seeking information on the health effects of exposure to chemicals at work. read more

What Is TexShare?
Libraries across Texas, including the HAM-TMC Library, benefit greatly from TexShare, a statewide consortium of academic, public and medical libraries. From El Paso to Amarillo, Dallas to Brownsville, citizens of the state of Texas benefit from TexShare programs and services. read more

Books for Iraq's Clinics and Hospitals
This Winter, the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center staff and the Library's Operations Department packed and shipped over 240 nearly new medical books to hospitals, clinics and physicians in Iraq. William Jordan, 3rd year UT-Houston Medical School student, proposed the idea to Elizabeth White, Associate Director, who coordinated the collection and packing. read more

Library Class Schedule
Do you want to learn where to find Evidence Based Medicine resources? Or how to use Microsoft Excel? Attend one of the many free classes at the HAM-TMC Library. read more

The 2003 Library's Annual Report can be found at:
Ground Central Station Food for Thought

Featured speaker will be W. Walter Menninger, M.D., Chair of the Board of Visitors of the Menninger-Baylor College of Medicine-The Methodist Hospital Foundation. Dr. Menninger's presentation will be A Psychiatric Perspective of Medical History.

Richard Munich, M.D., Chief of Staff and Medical Director, the Menninger Clinic, and Vice Chair, Clinical Services, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, will talk about Clinical Services at the Menninger Clinic.
Depression: More Than Just the Blues, is an exhibit created by the John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science. It consists of a group of iconographic houses that attempt to peer into depression's silent world. On first glance, the viewer simply encounters a neighborhood. Upon further inspection, however, they encounter something entirely different.

Visitors are invited to observe the shadowbox-style vignettes that tell the real story of mental health disorders. The artistic vignettes convey the different forms of depression, its causes, brain chemistry, types of treatment, and how to seek help. The exhibit encourages observation and contemplation through these small, intimate works of art.

Brochures provided by the National Institute of Mental Health are offered on a variety of topics, giving the visitor a resource to utilize after experiencing the exhibit. The goal is to provide a greater understanding of depression and how to seek further help.

A reception highlighting the exhibit will be held on May 18, 2004 from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm in the Street Level area of the Library. Randy Ray, Executive Director, John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science and Elizabeth K. Eaton, Ph.D., Executive Director of the HAM-TMC Library will make introductory statements and officially open the exhibit. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information on Haz-Map go to:http://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov

As a HAM-TMC Library user, you are probably most familiar with the electronic databases offered through TexShare. Stat!Ref, Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition, and Clinical Pharmacology are just a few of the databases available through our membership in TexShare.

Another great program is the TexShare Card. In effect, a TexShare card is a statewide library card, good at over 150 libraries across Texas. Going on vacation to Del Rio? Your TexShare card is good at the Val Verde County Library! Need a book from the University of Houston library and you don't want to wait for Interlibrary Loan? Your TexShare card is accepted there as well. Inquire at the Circulation Desk for more information on the TexShare card.

"Behind-the-scenes" TexShare programs include the TExpress courier, which expedites delivery of Interlibrary Loan materials among Texas libraries. The TexTreasures program funds cultural heritage preservation projects such as HAM-TMC Library's "Texas Medicine: History and Biography Online" project, where a database of licensure records for Texas physicians from 1907 to the 1950s will be made web-accessible for biographical research. The Interlibrary Loan protocol improves the speed and efficiency of interlibrary loan transactions among Texas libraries.

To fill small spaces in the packing boxes, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region Office donated tablets and pens to be shipped with the books. The cost of the postage – just over $130 – was paid by donations from the Library staff.