Missing "Find a Co-Worker"?

Are you missing the Rite Resources service called "Find a Co-Worker"? It is still there, just takes a few steps to locate it. Instructions are on the Medical Library intranet website in the Links section under the topic "Email, GroupWise, Phone Directory, Rite Resources Tips."
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Websites Referenced
http://tsrhkids/mlibrary/links.htm

Dr. Birch Honored for 30 Years of Service

Dr. John Birch was honored with a certificate for 30 years of service as Chair of the Brandon Carrell, M.D., Medical Library Committee, 1984 -2014. The library had only been in existance about 5 years when he assumed the role. During thirty years the library has moved from a focus on print materials managed using a typewriter through computers to email, free MEDLINE, an online catalog, and electronic journals and books.

Dr. Birch especially enjoyed working with the Historical Collection, which features a ccpy of the Nicholas Andry work L’Orthopédie from 1741, and a digital version of the 1824 John Shaw Engravings book that illustrates On the Nature and Treatment of the Distortions to Which the Spine and Bones of the Chest Are Subject.

Mrs. Marsha Kemp was also honored for 16 years of service on the committee.

Dr. Amy McIntosh is the new Chair of the Medical Library Committee.

AmazonSmile - a New Way to Support Your Favorite Charity

Are you an Amazon shopper? Consider using AmazonSmile as your shopping stop!

The company will donate 0.5% of your purchase price to a charity of your choice from a list of almost a million IRS-registered 503(c)(3) charities -- no cap, and most items are included except digital. The hospital is on the list!

Learn more about AmazonSmile and choose your charity!

Websites referenced
http://smile.amazon.com
https://org.amazon.com/
http://smile.amazon.com/gp/charity/change.html

Early Childhood Reading - Literacy and New AAP Policy

Early childhood reading is the focus of a policy released this week by the Council on Early Childhood, American Academy of Pediatrics, described in an article by Amy Joyce in the Washington Post.
The guidelines say reading aloud regularly helps develop the brain and "strengthens parent-child relationships at a critical time in child development, which, in turn, builds language, literacy, and social-emotional skills that last a lifetime." Part of the program includes recommendations on funding for children's books in insurance programs. The AAP has long proposed that "programs that invest in children at the earliest ages have the highest rates of return."
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children and the Grand Lodge of Texas have partnered for years to help Masons spread the word about the importance of early reading through their Take Time to Read program. When children leave the hospital after a visit they usually go home with a free book discovered in the Center for Dyslexia, Family Resource Center or a waiting room.

Websites referenced
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/19/peds.2014-1384
http://www.aap.org
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2014/06/24/new-guidelines-from-pediatricians-read-to-your-children/
http://www.tsrhc.org/
http://www.tsrhc.org/masons
http://www.tsrhc.org/dyslexia-take-time-to-read
http://www.tsrhc.org/dyslexia
http://www.tsrhc.org/family-resource-center

Dr. W.B. Carrell’s Story Included on Portal to Texas History

Dr. William Beall Carrell, our first Chief of Staff, was featured in an article written by Steven Schmich and published in the Dallas Historical Society’s Legacies: a History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas almost 20 years ago. Now the article is available online through the Portal to Texas History project sponsored by the University of North Texas Libraries.

The subject index to Legacies lists additional topics under “Medicine and Health Care.” One mentioned is the Linz Award, which Dr. Carrell was awarded in 1925. He was only the second person to receive the award, “given annually to the citizen of Dallas who has made the greatest contribution to the community in the preceding year.” You can see the beautiful award on display in the Medical Library's Historical Collection.

An article from the Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings also mentions Dr. Carrell (and Dr. Brandon Carrell) as early orthopaedic surgeons on their staff.

Websites referenced
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth35114/m1/26/
http://texashistory.unt.edu/
http://www.library.unt.edu/
http://dallasheritagevillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Legacies-General-Subject-Index-May2015.pdf
http://dallasheritagevillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Legacies-Author-Index-May2015.pdf
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth35101/m1/39
https://www.jld.net/linz/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1305830/

index link updated 12-30-2015

History of Dallas Medicine Online Exhibit Opens at UTSW Library

Dallas Medical History, 1890-1975: A Digital Collection has been unveiled on the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Library website. It includes two parts, a collection of 500 images from the UT Southwestern Archives and History of Medicine collections in that Library and a more detailed exhibit of 60 selected Medical Care Milestones in Dallas, 1890-1975 . Although focused mostly on Southwestern, St. Paul and Parkland it includes other Dallas hospitals. Find 3 shots of TSRHC by searching "scottish" in their search boxes.

According to the archivist for the project "the CONTENTdm software used for the repository allows users to download images for use in PowerPoint presentations. The exhibit’s OMEKA software allows users to share photos with others on Facebook."

If for non-commercial, personal, or research use, materials may be reproduced (printed, photocopied, or downloaded) without prior permission. Unless another source for the item is noted, please credit Library, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas as the source.

For more information, contact the Archivist and History of Medicine Librarian, at the Library, UT Southwestern Medical Center.

The project was developed through a grant from the National Library of Medicine to the Archives and History of Medicine collection at UT Southwestern.

On a related topic, an article from Science describes the beginnings of the Southwestern Medical School and its research program back in 1951.

Websites referenced:
www.utsouthwestern.edu/dallasmedicalhistory
http://www4.utsouthwestern.edu/library/speccol/dmh/
http://utswlibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/
http://utswlibrary.omeka.net/
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/vgn/images/portal/cit_56417/42/16/176866Science_Article_Web.pdf http://www8.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept117179/files/117281.html
http://www4.utsouthwestern.edu/library/speccol/