• Presentation
• In-Class Exercise You may complete this assignment in pairs; submit it to library@gwumc.edu
• Take-Home Exercise - You should complete this assignment individually; submit it to your PCL Librarian

Advanced Blackboard Question and Answer class

July 28, 2009 (Tuesday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Himmelfarb B103

Now that you're comfortable creating a course within Blackboard, stop in to ask members of the ITL staff any more advanced questions you may have about Blackboard such as

• on the fly assessment
• using quizzes
• integrating clicker feedback into the grading system
• template for syllabi

The regular "All about Blackboard" and "Blackboard Testing and Gradebook" classes will be held in mid-August. For the full schedule of library classes please visit http://www.gwumc.edu/library/courses/.

Below are links to the materials for the PCL Informatics sessions on March 31 and April 2. Many thanks.

• In-class exercise
• Search Skills, Strategies & EBM
• Useful EBM publication types:
  • Controlled Clinical Trial
  • Meta Analysis
  • Multicenter Study
  • Practice Guideline
  • Randomized Controlled Trial

Although Himmelfarb is a health sciences library, we do purchase some items on non-health science topics that we think will be helpful to our users. One example is the books by Edward Tufte.

Tufte is a former statistics professor at Yale University who has become well known for his critiques of how information is typically depicted in graphs, tables, illustrations and PowerPoint slides. He has published several books about the visual display of information and teaches a one-day course, Presenting Data and Information.

The Himmelfarb Library has three of his books available for borrowing. We highly recommend them if you are interested in this topic or would like to improve the ways in which your information can be displayed:

• Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative (P93.5 .T8 1997)
• Envisioning information (QA90 .T91 1990)
• The visual display of quantitative information (QA276.3 .T83 1983)

While exploring this topic of how to visually present information, take our Intermediate Excel and Graphing class on Tuesday, September 9th, 2-3pm in the Women's Board Teaching Center on the 3rd floor of the Library.

Research Day is coming! Learn how to create an effective research poster using Microsoft PowerPoint. See examples from past Research Day sessions that illustrate both good and poor design.

Here are the details for this class:

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Room: Himmelfarb, B103
Instructors: Barbara McGowan and Catherine Harris

Has it been a while since you've done research?

Do you have anxiety about using the library?

Come to one of Himmelfarb's sessions on research skills for public health -- your fears will be allayed and you will start the term confident.

Tuesday, 1/15 or Wednesday, 1/16
5:00-6:00 pm
Himmelfarb Library, 3rd floor
Women's Board Teaching Center

Questions? Call 202-994-2850 or email library@gwumc.edu.

Just a reminder about our upcoming library courses....

RefWorks
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Himmelfarb, Room B103

RefWorks is a web-based bibliography and database manager that facilitates bibliography creation. This program is useful when writing papers, collecting bibliographic references, and formatting papers and bibliographies.

Introduction to Powerpoint
Thursday, October 25, 2007
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Himmelfarb, Room B103

Learn how to create presentation slides and overheads and print out the slides and speaker notes to accompany your presentation. Students will prepare title, bullet, and clipart slides and graphs.

Please call (202) 994-2850 to register for classes or if you have any questions.

Friday's Excel class has been rescheduled for Friday, October 12 (two weeks from the original date) at the same time and in the same place. Here are the details:

Introduction to Excel
Friday, October 12
12 noon - 1 pm
Himmelfarb Library, Room B103

Additional library classes have been scheduled for April, May, and early June. This includes the following classes:

• PubMed
• Evidence-based Medicine
• Introduction to Excel
• Introduction to PowerPoint
• Access, Levels I and II

The complete schedule with dates and times is available here.

What do all of these programs have in common?

Himmelfarb Library Continuing Education Courses

This semester's courses start January 22nd and include several lunchtime sessions. Call (202) 994-2850 to reserve your place.