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Learning Lab: New MSK Library Training Page!

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The MSK Library would like to introduce our new training page called the Learning Lab. This resource offers four content-specific access points from the landing page:

  1. Citation Management – Learn how to store, organize, manage, and cite your bibliographic references.
  2. Database Searching – Learn how to effectively search the published literature and other resources.
  3. Evidence Based Practice – Learn how to formulate clinical questions and identify relevant evidence.
  4. Publishing & Author Support – Learn how to leverage authorship tools and resources.

Within each of these categories are customized LibGuides and webinars/workshops provided by Library staff, as well as carefully curated vendor training videos and podcasts. Look to the “Legend” in the right-hand column of each page to limit the list of training resources to a specific format type. Also in the right-hand column are “Related Links” which point to a calendar view of scheduled workshops, as well as our Ask-A-Librarian form and New Hire page.

If you would like to arrange for a workshop or a customized session for you or your group, please ask us. Our Research Informationists are available for tailored consultations and custom presentations.

Blog Buzz, Public Libraries as Partners for Health

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The current issue of Health Affairs includes an article discussing the unique opportunity Public Libraries (and Public Library staff) have in helping to promote health and address the needs of vulnerable people. Beyond Books: Public Libraries as Partners for Population Health presents the findings of an assessment of programs by The Healthy Library Initiative (from the Free Public Library of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania). Hat tip to Donna Gibson for this item.

On The Open Notebook, there is a useful article by Jane C. Hu called, What are the Odds? Reporting on Risk. Which, as science writer Bethany Brookshire pointed out on twitter, “…is also a really good primer on how to READ about risk.”

 

AACR-Janssen Fellowship in Cancer Interception Research

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Postdoctoral and clinical research fellows are invited to apply for the AACR-Janssen Fellowship in Cancer Interception Research, a joint effort between the American Association for Cancer Research and Janssen Global Services.

The fellowship provides a two-year grant of $110,000 to support basic, translational, clinical, and epidemiological research in the field of cancer interception. “Cancer interception” refers to the active method of combating cancer by diagnosing and intercepting it at its earliest stages, when pre-malignancies are less complex and less resistant to therapy.

Applications are due at 1:00 PM on December 14, 2016 and should be submitted via proposalCentral. Click on the program guidelines and application instructions above for more information. The grant recipient will need to be present at the Grants Reception and Dinner on April 4, 2017 (at the AACR annual meeting) in order to formally accept the grant.