New Occupational Therapy Books

Two new Occupational Therapy titles at Williams Library. If you’d like to find more information about a book, or see if it is available, click on the  image and it will take you to the book’s catalog record.

Occupational Therapy in Acute Care

 

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New Family Medicine Books

We have a batch of new books and here are our new Family Medicine titles. If you’d like to find more information about a book or see if it is available, click on the link below an image and it will take you to the book’s catalog record.

The Family Medicine Handbook, 5th ed.

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Swanson’s Family Medicine Review, 7th ed.

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Griffith’s Instructions for Patients, 8th ed.

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Procedures for Primary Care, 3rd ed.

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How To Find New Books at Williams Library

Did you know that you can quickly and easily find out what books are added to the Williams Library print collection? Here’s how!

Starting from the Williams Health Sciences Library homepage, click on the link library catalog link in the Journals & Books Section.

Have you ever noticed that there are three tabs on the first page of the library catalog? They are Basic Search, Advanced Search, and New Titles.

New titles? Yes! Click on that tab and you’ll see a series of drop-down menus. You can use those menus to filter to the books you want to see.

For example, here’s an image showing the books I found when I chose to filter to Highland Hospital (location), Nursing (subject), and 6 months (date). I also chose to sort by Date instead of title.

New nursing books in the Williams Library print collection

Did you notice the “Availability” field?

You can tell when a new book you might want to read has already been checked out by someone else. That’s when you need to request a hold. Never done that? Maybe that’ll be the next Tech Tip Thursday post.

In the mean time, you can always Ask A Librarian!

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The books are in!

Take a look at our latest titles below!

Design and analysis of experiments in the health sciences
Pfenninger & Fowler’s procedures for primary care
Swanson’s family medicine review : a problem-oriented approach
Evidence synthesis for decision making in healthcare
Gerontological nursing : review and resource manual

 

 

 

New Books at Williams Library!

We’ve added new books to the print collection at Williams Health Sciences Library. Please feel free to come down and browse and perhaps check something out!

Here are a couple of examples of some new titles that are aimed at students but also have a broader appeal:

Building a medical vocabulary: with Spanish translations

 I chose this book mostly because it advertised that each chapter presents Spanish terms related to the chapter content. It also has Appendices of Spanish-English translations of common medical terms, and a “Quick Reference” for Spanish-Speaking clients that include pronunciation guides.

Now that I have the book in my hands I see that it’s got a lot of blank spaces for people to write in.

All I ask is that you photocopy the pages you want to use!

101 Things to do with spare moments on the ward

One reviewer called this book, “a concentrated portfolio of advice for students and professionals everywhere.” I chose it because it seems like the kind of book that endeavors to make learning fun and interesting.

There’s even a website where you can submit your own ideas for “hidden learning opportunities”: www.101things.org

For those of you who might be thinking, “Spare moments? What spare moments?” I encourage you to glance through this book with an eye for activities that might make your work life easier.

Check back here for future posts about other new books in the Williams Health Sciences Library.

Posted by Lorraine Porcello.

New Consumer Health Books

We’re increasing our consumer health collection at Williams Health Sciences Library and just received ten great new titles, so stop by and take a look.  Feel free to check out a book for yourself, or for patient education.

The Expert’s Guide to Weight-Loss Surgery, by Garth Davis, M.D.
(A must-read for anyone considering bariatric surgery.)

Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth, by The Boston Health Collective (The same creator of the essential women’s health book,
Our Bodies, Ourselves).

Your Pregnancy Week by Week, by Curtis and Schuler (Week by week discussion of changes in baby and you simply written by an OB-GYN.)

Choices in Breast Cancer Treatment, by Kenneth D. Miller, M.D. (Insights from surgeons, oncologists, radiologists, plastic surgeons, and women who’ve lived through breast cancer, it clarifies choices and shares patients’ stories.)

The Back Book , by Gokaslan and Riley. (Explores the parts of the back,  and causes of pain, with  therapy and surgical options for anyone dealing with back pain.)

Knowledge is power and the series of books, “100 Questions and Answers”, conveys a lot of information in a handy question and answer format. Written by experts in their field, this “empower yourself” series provides practical, authoritative answers to real patients’ questions.
Our collection includes:

100 Questions and Answers about Arthritis
100 Questions and Answers about Breast Cancer
100 Questions and Answers about Breastfeeding
100 Questions and Answers about Kidney Disease and Hypertension
100 Questions and Answers  about Leukemia