If you know the answer and maybe even if you don't, you may want to take the new interactive Stretch Your Brain quiz available from MDConsult.

This medical terminology quiz offers four levels where you can test your knowledge and compete to be the high scorer of the day.

Image from: National Institutes of Health (2007). Tracking Neural Progenitor Cells in the Human Brain. [Online image]. Retrieved May 7, 2008 from http://www.nih.gov/news/research_matters/november2007/11192007brain.htm.

Fighting for Life is a powerful, sobering and emotional feature documentary portrait of American military medicine. The film combines three stories about Army medical care. First, it follows soldiers wounded in Iraq and their journey home through hospitals in Iraq, then Germany and finally Walter Reed in Washington D.C. Second, it tells the stories of American military doctors, nurses and medics working with skill, compassion and dedication. Third, it follows students at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, on the campus of the National Naval Medical Center, on their journey toward becoming career military physicians.

There will be a screening at the Carnegie Institute on Saturday May 17, 2008 at 4:30pm. Tickets price $10.00 available from the GI Film Festival.

Put your library fines to work for the community. For two weeks, April 27 - May 11, 2008, Himmelfarb will exchange Food for Fines. One dollar in current library fines will be removed from your record for every canned good or non-perishable food item you donate.

All items will be donated to Bread for the City, a local non-profit organization serving low income residents of Washington, DC.

Please note that we can only remove fines, not book replacement fees. A maximum of $20.00 in fines will be waived per person.

Contact the Circulation Desk at (202) 994-2962 for more information about the food for fines exchange.

AccessSurgery is now available from Himmelfarb Library. AccessSurgery is an integrated online resource with information about surgery including videos, animations, full-text textbooks, surgical atlas, and board review materials.

AccessSurgery offers leading content including:

• Surgical Videos: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
• Surgical Animations: Adapted from Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations
• Textbooks:
  • Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery
  • Current Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment
  • Maingot's Abdominal Operations
  • Obesity Surgery: Principles and Practice
  • Principles of Critical Care
  • Trauma
• Surgical Atlas: Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations
• Surgical Anatomy: Skandalakis’ Surgical Anatomy
• Board Review:
  • Surgery Review Illustrated
  • Schwartz's Principles of Surgery: Self-Assessment and Board Review
• Quick Answers: Current Consult Surgery

In addition to access to a high-quality library of full-text surgery materials, AccessSurgery provides a number of special features to enhance education and support practice. AccessSurgery users can:

• Take a board review test.
• View surgical videos on your iPod.
• Look up a symptom or disease in the Differential Diagnosis (DDx) tool.
• Download Current Consult Surgery to your PDA.
• Link to AccessMedicine for additional information.
• Discover related practice guidelines by clicking a pre-populated search box.
• Create a customized search for just videos, just images, or view full-site results.
• Research drugs including indications, dosages, and contraindications.

AccessSurgery can be accessed from the E-Texts webpage and is available from both on- and off-campus locations. If you have questions or comments, please contact Laura Abate at 202-994-8570 or mlblea@gwumc.edu.

The machine in the Library by the photocopiers where you add money to your GWorld card now also dispenses zero-value cards you can use for printing and copying.

Each card costs $1 and you can add the amount you need for printing or copying. These cards also work at Gelman Library, but cannot be used at retail locations accepting GWorld cards.

The faculty publications database will be unavailable on Wednesday April 30 from 8.00am until 12.00pm. This is due to maintenance to update the host server of the system. Service will resume in the afternoon on April 30, 2008. We regret any inconvienience this may cause.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, a weekly newspaper devoted to the news of academia, is now available on Himmelfarb's E-journals page. Take advantage of the Chronicle Online either on the E-Journals page, or register online to have it conveniently delivered to your email every morning.

To sign up for the daily email service, point your browser to: https://chronicle.com/services/create_account You will be asked to create a username and password, and to enter your email address. Next, select which daily messages you would like delivered, and click "create new account" to finish registration for this service. Just remember that if you are off-campus when you receive these emails from the Chronicle, you will need to login to the VPN/GWireless system to access the full-text.

If you have any questions about the new online access to the Chronicle, or need assistance signing up for the daily email service, call Betsy Appleton at 202-994-9756, or email her at mlbeaa@gwumc.edu.

Are you confused about what you are and are not permitted to do with articles you’ve published? Watch this two minute video on Author’s Rights produced by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

Himmelfarb Library is taking steps to reduce our impact on the environment. We already recycle bottles, cans and paper, and offer a leisure reading book exchange, but we would like to do more. Over the next few months, we’ll post periodic updates on new efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle (among other things). We welcome your ideas as well!

We are pleased to announce that Student Technology Services (STS) will now be here at the Himmelfarb Library every week to provide technical support to all GWUMC students.

An STS technician will be at the Circulation Desk by the entrance to the Library every Thursday, 3-5 pm. Bring your personal computer in then for technical support.