Tara McIsaac, PhD, PT, associate professor of physical therapy at A.T. Still University’s Arizona School of Health Sciences (ATSU-ASHS), recently received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The three-year, $384,000 award will support Dr. McIsaac’s research in neurosciences and neurological disorders. Dr. McIsaac is interested in how the brain multitasks while driving. […]
The library continues to progress on its long-term redesign of the library’s website, and hopes that it may be ready to release in beta form sometime in the very early spring, or over winter break. It has already upgraded and redesigned significant parts of the search structure for Still OneSearch, which now includes a greater […]
The Educational Technology Development Center (ETDC) has expanded since our last newsletter! We’ve recently added a new librarian in Arizona to our staff to help expand our services. Samantha Maley, MA, has been training on ways to add interactive content into recorded lectures and can help you troubleshoot the software you’ve been using to record […]
Jean Sidwell, MLIS, library director; Debra Loguda-Summers, public services manager; and Susan Swogger, MLIS, liaison librarian, authored a poster entitled “3-D Print in Research and Curriculum,” which was presented to the Missouri Library Association annual conference at the Sheraton Westport Chalet in St. Louis. The poster was well received and the only one on 3-D […]
The library on the Missouri campus is hosting an exhibit from the U.S. National Library of Medicine traveling exhibits called “Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War.” The exhibit will be on site until Dec. 2 and is open to the public. The exhibit discusses the brutality of battlefield operations and the challenges of […]
The Missouri campus library is pleased to start a series of brief noon sessions focused on library and research skills and topics, open to everyone who is interested. Sessions will occur in the Swofford Computer Lab in the Missouri branch library from 12:05-12:30 p.m., on varying days per month. Most months will offer one or […]
The library proffers congratulations to Debra Loguda-Summers, 3-D print and work-study manager, who applied and received two monetary awards for the Missouri branch library. Included is a brief description of each award. KOAA/KCOM Education Program Fund, $2,837.20. The library plans to use this fund to purchase five new anatomical teaching and study tools: Somso premium female […]
The Missouri branch library is proud to announce the development and dedication of a new Osteopathic Medicine Collection and Reading Room (OMRR). It will seek to acquire and maintain a special collection of all new academic osteopathic medical texts for the benefit of the A.T. Still University (ATSU) community. In June 2016, the Missouri branch […]
Visible Body, a 3-D visual anatomy software package was introduced as a new anatomy resource this year for all A.T. Still University (ATSU) students and was adopted by ATSU’s School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona anatomy. If any other school is interested in full program adoption, you are invited to contact the library staff and […]
The Arizona campus library celebrated National Medical Librarian Month with several events organized by distance support librarian, Adrienne Brodie, MS, and library assistant, Samantha Maley, MA. Events included an open house, an app lunch and learn, a student contest with food as prizes, and several giveaways, including a study snack coupon, new library bookmarks, A.T. […]