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UAB Libraries' buildings are now open to UAB students, faculty, and staff with a
UAB OneCard. For more details, see our hours of operation

In the spirit of safety, we ask that everyone adhere to the following guidelines.  


Sterne Library & Lister Hill Library

      Sunday                                                                                  1 pm - 10 pm
       Monday - Thursday                                                               7 am - 10 pm
      Friday                                                                                     7 am -  7 pm   
      Saturday                                                                                  1 pm - 5 pm

 

Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences, Reynolds-Finley Historical Library, and UAB Archives are open by appointment only to the UAB Community.
Click here for more details.


Lister Hill Library at University Hospital                             CLOSED - Available Online
 

A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN


Kasia Gonnerman - Dean of University LibrariesIt’s quite sobering to reflect that next month marks the one-year anniversary of the University transitioning to modified operations. This past year has challenged us all and I’m proud to say that the libraries have stood up to the challenges admirably. Despite the hardships brought by the pandemic, we have so many compelling reasons to celebrate our achievements and reinforce an optimistic outlook into the future. 

I’d like to briefly recount a few examples of the accomplishments that testify to the dedication and creativity of the library faculty and staff: We’ve kept the libraries safely open to our students, faculty, and researchers without any interruptions to the library services; Between fall 2019 and fall 2020, we increased consultation appointments by 27% and the faculty-requested library instruction by 17%; We launched an Office of Scholarly Communication to assist UAB constituents in navigating and understanding scholarly communication principles, including copyright, fair use, long-term preservation of digital assets, scholarly impact, and public access; We signed a transformative agreement with Cambridge University Press to facilitate Open Access publishing for UAB authors; We purchased new African American historical collections.

I could continue in this vein, but let me conclude by saying that it’s been a privilege and joy to work with the library faculty and staff to accomplish all of this and more.
 

ANNOUNCEMENTS


Announcing the Addition of Recall Service


What is a recall?  In order to allow our users access to resources in our collection within a reasonable amount of time, UAB faculty, staff, and students may recall a book that is checked out. Doing so starts the recall process which shortens the original due date of the current user. Once returned and processed, the book is available to the individual who recalled it. Please be advised that upon return all circulating books are placed in quarantine for 72 hours.

For more information, please visit the FAQ page. For further details contact our HUB at Lister Hill Library 205.934.2230 or Mervyn Sterne Library 205.934.4338.


   

Annual Reynolds-Finley Historical Lecture by Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo: February 26
 

We are pleased to announce that the 42nd Annual Reynolds-Finley Historical Lecture will be held virtually on Friday, February 26, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. "The COVID Pandemic in 2021: Where Have We Been and What Can We Expect?" will be presented by Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA, C. Glenn Cobbs Professor in Infectious Diseases, Director of the UAB Division of Infectious Diseases.

Please register for this lecture HERE. For more information, visit our lecture page.

This event is co-hosted by the University of Alabama Medical Alumni Association; Selwyn M. Vickers, MD, FACS, Senior Vice President and Dean of the UAB School of Medicine; and Historical Collections, UAB Libraries.

 

 


Office of Scholarly Communication


The UAB Libraries is excited to announce the creation of its new Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC). The OSC will be the first of its kind on the UAB campus and will support all UAB faculty, staff, and students in navigating and understanding scholarly communication principles including copyright, long-term preservation of digital assets, data management, research dissemination, scholarly impact, and public access. Jeff Graveline, Associate Dean for Research and Scholarly Communication in the UAB Libraries, officially launched the OSC in January 2021 and hopes to expand the office to meet the needs of the UAB community.

The OSC will increase awareness throughout the UAB campus about copyright and scholarly communication issues relating to higher education, teaching, and scholarship and will provide copyright support to UAB faculty, staff, and students. The OSC will also work with other units on campus to support compliance with federal requirements such as data management and storage standards and federally funded public access mandates.  

The OSC welcomes the opportunity to help individuals understand and navigate the scholarly communication environment through one-on-one consultations. Longer presentations on a variety of scholarly communication topics may also be scheduled for departments, organizations, or small groups. For more information about the OSC you can contact Jeff Graveline at jgraveli@uab.edu.

 

 



 
SPOTLIGHT ON RESOURCES


Celebrate Black History Month with these New African American Historical Collections


UAB Libraries is excited to announce the addition of new databases focusing on African American history. You can read an announcement about the acquisition of the resources in the UAB Reporter, HERE.  You'll need to log in with your Blazer ID and password to access the databases, but you can read more about what each of them offers below.











Cambridge Open Access


UAB Libraries has signed its first “Read & Publish” agreement with Cambridge University Press. This transformative agreement offers an opportunity to facilitate Open Access (OA) publishing for authors affiliated with UAB by removing the Article Processing Charges (APC) to publish their work -- at no charge -- in Cambridge OA and hybrid journals. In addition to the “Read & Publish” agreement, UAB Libraries are adding approximately 350 new Cambridge journal titles to the existing Cambridge journals collection.
 
OA publishing comes with many advantages. Not only does it remove access barriers for the research community and beyond, but it also gives the authors significantly more exposure and a wider reach. Seventy-five percent of OA articles get more citations than their non-OA equivalents, receiving on average 30-50% more citations. Authors may choose to publish under a Creative Commons license to specify how readers may use their articles. OA using a Creative Commons license also means that as long as the original source is acknowledged and cited, readers are often allowed to redistribute, re-use, and adapt the content in new works in accordance with the license terms.
 
We hope that UAB authors will take full advantage of this opportunity. Interested authors should reach out to Jeff Graveline, Associate Dean for Research and Scholarly Communication at the UAB Libraries (jgraveli@uab.edu), for guidance on the OA Cambridge publication process. Graveline has also been working to launch the UAB Libraries Office of Scholarly Communication. The Office of Scholarly Communication will support UAB faculty, staff, and students in navigating and understanding scholarly communication principles including copyright, long-term preservation of digital assets, data management, research dissemination, scholarly impact, and public access. You may access more information about UAB’s OA agreement on the Cambridge website: OA agreement - University of Alabama at Birmingham, US (cambridge.org)
 



UAB Libraries OneSearch Updates


On January 11th, 2021, several new features were implemented in the libraries’ discovery system, UAB Libraries OneSearch. QR code linking to information in OneSeach about items such as ebooks, electronic articles, physical items, and search results has been enabled to help improve OneSearch usability for mobile devices. QR codes can be used to quickly share information from OneSearch, and can also be added to documents such as presentation slides and syllabi to provide QR code-based linking to items in UAB Libraries OneSearch.
 
To try a link using a QR code, open your smartphone’s camera app and center the QR code in the camera viewer. Your phone will prompt you to open the web browser on the phone and the related page in OneSearch.

A new View PDF link has been added to reduce the number of steps needed to access some electronic articles through OneSearch. The View PDF link will now appear in OneSearch below the information about articles with available quick links. This link will only appear if the system detects an available PDF for quick linking, and may not be available for all online articles. Authentication will still be required to view articles provided through UAB Libraries OneSearch.

Advanced citation linking using citation trails is also now available for some article information in UAB Libraries OneSearch. If information about citing articles is available for an item, small red arrows will be visible in the upper right hand corner of the tile that shows information about an item in the libraries’ collections. Clicking the arrow will load a list of articles and resources cited in or cited by the article that are available through the UAB Libraries.



 

DIGITAL PROJECTS

 

Preserving the History of COVID-19 at UAB


With the start of the new year, the Coronavirus pandemic still presents new challenges and circumstances daily. From the first weeks of quarantining to the newly available COVID-19 vaccines, we all have a unique perspective to share. UAB Libraries continues to collect and preserve the various accounts of UAB students, faculty, staff, and health care workers navigating life during COVID-19. Suggestions for submissions include such topics as daily life during the pandemic, first-hand experiences with the infection, transitioning to remote work and education, and getting the newly available vaccine and its effects. We are excited about the participation thus far and hope to continue gathering submissions. For more ideas on what to submit or to view other accounts from the UAB community, please visit our Documenting COVID-19 at UAB digital collection.

To share your story, please visit this page. and submit a written, visual, or recorded account of what life during the Coronavirus pandemic has been like.
 
LIBRARY INSTRUCTION

 

COVID Library Support for Remote and Distance Teaching & Learning


In a situation where the university suspends on-campus activities, all courses can continue remotely. This is a set of library resources to help you continue with your coursework. Click HERE to explore this detailed research guide.  

 

AI & Libraries

Artificial intelligence holds the potential to revolutionize librarians and information work. Take a look back at this webinar to find out how AI is a tool that libraries are already using to develop innovative ways to interact with digital collections and historical materials. This session features Dorothy Ogdon, UAB Emerging Technologies Librarian, and provides a brief introduction to artificial intelligence as a technology, examples of current library-initiated projects in the United States and Europe, and predictions about ways students and scholars may use this tool in their future work.

Held Thursday, January 21, 2021 - Click HERE to view the webinar online.  


 

Health Literacy: Finding Information You Can Trust

Finding health information online isn't hard...but how reliable is that information? Join us for Health Literacy: Finding Information You Can Trust. Let UAB Librarians at Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences help you sharpen your information assessment skills so you can cut through the good, bad, and the ugly of health information on the web. This webinar will feature Megan Bell, Reference Librarian and Liaison to the School of Health Professions.

Held Thursday, February 18, 7:00pm to 8:00pm - Click HERE to view the webinar online.

  


 

UAB Libraries: Augmented Reality and 3D Digital Models

Presented by Dorothy Ogdon. Augmented reality provides a unique opportunity for developing object-based observational activities suitable for a distanced learning environment. This session will provide an introduction to augmented reality and an overview of methods for using and sharing digital 3D models in marker-based augmented reality and Adobe Dimension.

Adobe Dimension is now available to the UAB Campus community through the Adobe Creative Cloud license provided by UAB IT.

Thursday, February 25, 11:00am to 12:00pm - Click HERE for more information.
 


Library Carpentry Workshop

Library Carpentry workshops build software and data skills within library and information-related communities to empower individuals to use software and data in their own work and advocate for and train others in efficient, effective data and software practices. Each workshop session is limited to 20 participants. Learn more and register online.

Friday, February 26, 8:30am to 12:30pm  - Click HERE for more information.
Friday, March 26, 8:30am to 12:30pm


 

UAB's Oral History Collection

Are you a bit of a history buff? Interested in learning more about Birmingham and the history of Alabama? We’re here to help during UAB's Oral History Collection.  

The UAB Libraries Oral History Collection contains interviews recorded between 1975 and 1984 on topics as varied as education during the Great Depression, textile plant unionization, desegregation, women’s suffrage, Sloss Furnace, and sacred harp singing. Some of the interviews are with famous Alabamians such as Hugo Black, A.G. Gaston, Erskine Hawkins, George Wallace, and Abraham Lincoln Woods, but the collection also contains the essential words of everyday Alabamians.

Join Social Sciences Librarian Brooke Becker to learn about the collection that is truly one of UAB’s great treasures. Brooke is an Associate Professor and Reference Librarian for Social Sciences & Communication Studies at UAB.

Tuesday, April 6, 7:00pm to 8:00pm - Click HERE for more information.

 


Research Resources Toolkit

UAB Libraries is excited to announce continuing updates and improvements to the Research Resources Toolkit, created by Victoria Dawkins. The toolkit focuses on a variety of meta-literacies including efficient research strategies, evaluation of source material, and appropriate techniques for documenting sources, to name a few. The toolkit is composed of 7 independent modules that include quizzes that can be auto-graded into your Canvas grade book, Jeopardy! with research-related questions and answers, and module-focused notes and voice-overs all created by UAB Libraries. Each module can be embedded into your Canvas shell and reviewed at your leisure.  

Now, each module includes voiceovers, updated interactive activities, and APA/MLA modules.

For any questions, or for faculty training, please contact Victoria Dawkins, Reference Librarian & First- Year Experience Librarian. You can also look at her research guide for more information on each of the modules, frequently asked questions, and the registration and enrollment forms.
 

EXHIBITS


Narrations of ENT : The Dennis G. Pappas History of Otolaryngology Exhibit

Curated by Dr. Dennis G. Pappas, Sr., this virtual exhibit explores the history of otolaryngology through the many books and instruments he has donated to the Reynolds-Finley Historical Library and the Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

The exhibit features videos of Dr. Pappas narrating stories of major events in the history of otolaryngology and explaining their connection to overall medicine. Also included are 3D models of instruments discussed by Dr. Pappas. Click here to view the exhibit.

On January 13, 2021, a virtual exhibit opening was held to honor Dr. Pappas and introduce the exhibit. Click here to watch the video recording of this event.

 

FROM THE ARCHIVES


University College Building No. 1 and Mervyn H. Sterne Library at Dusk, circa 1973


 
University College Building No. 1 and Mervyn H. Sterne Library were among the first four buildings constructed for the new University College campus. The four buildings were dedicated during ceremonies held on May 20, 1973. In September 1983 Building No. 1 was rededicated as the School of Education Building. The education school moved out of its long-time home in 2020, and the building is slated for demolition in order to make way for a new Science and Engineering Complex.

Image ID: P1, #0675
FACULTY PUBLICATION SPOTLIGHT

 




Overcoming Addiction

by Gregory E. Pence, Professor
UAB Department of Philosophy

RC564 .P46 2020

 

 

 

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