The New York Society Library

Despite its name, it's not a library for New York society; rather, it was started by a group that called themselves the NY Society.

The reading and reference room is open to the public. Members have access to the stacks, reading rooms, study rooms, and a children's collection. Membership is $200 a year, $125 for teachers and college students.

Strengths of the collection are books about New York, English and American literature, history, and art history.

The New York Society Library is located at 53 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10021.

The Plague

Over the last few years at least 4 new titles have been published on the history of the 1918 flu pandemic. If you are interested in the history and lessons to be learned you might want to check out the following titles that we have purchased.

Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic: a dark epilogue. Niall Johnson, 2006

Mass Mediated Disease: a case study analysis of three flu pandemics and public health policy.
Debr Lanham, 2006

Plagues & Poxes: the impact of human history on epidemic disease. Alfred Bollet, 2004

Flu: the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it. Gina Kolata, 1999.

To see if a title is available go to ALBERT:library catalog http://library.aecom.yu.edu/ on our home page. Typing in author or title will bring up our record.with the call no. and availability.

New Consumer Health Web Site - RevolutionHealth.com

RevolutionHealth.com is a free, comprehensive health and medical information site for consumers. Established by Stephen M. Case, the America Online founder, the site offers health information, treatment advice and more than 125 online tools. It also enables consumers to browse and compare health insurance products, then puts them in touch with trusted brokers.

RevolutionHealth.com contains more than 45,000 articles on health and healthy living topics from sources such as Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Harvard Health Publications, StayWell, Rodale, Healthwise and other quality health publishers. Up to date health news and information are provided from Reuters and HealthDay, as well as blogs, forum postings and interviews from Revolution Health’s expert medical team. Users can subscribe to a “premium membership” (for an annual fee) for additional, individualized help, share their experiences on forums and user blogs, create “circles” of people with shared interests, and read user-generated ratings of products, treatments, drugs, doctors and hospitals.

Physicians can use the site to share their expertise by starting their own blog and print easy-to-understand information for their patients to help them understand their condition.

Merck Manual & Clinical Evidence for Your PDA -- for free

The AECOM Library has just begun a one-year trial of the PDA version of The Merck Manual and Clinical Evidence from Unbound Medicine. The trial is available to all members of the AECOM community. Registration is required.
Get Clinical Evidence and The Merck Manual at Unbound Medicine.

Let us know if you like it. Send feedback to askref@aecom.yu.edu.

Medical Freebies for your PDA

Attention PDA and smartphone users! Do you want to learn about some new, free applications for your handheld? We have lots to show you.

Join us in the Library Conference Room on May 2 from 12-1 for our new lunchtime workshop. You don’t have to bring your PDA for this demo-only session.

Highlighted resources include:
Merck Manual from Unbound Medicine
Clinical Evidence from Unbound Medicine
Clinical Pharmacology
PubMed for handhelds
WISER (Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders)
Access Medicine

Bring your own lunch. We will supply cookies and beverages.

Space is limited. Contact the reference department at askref@aecom.yu.edu and 718-430-3104 if you would like to attend.

New Ebooks

The Library now has access to two new e-titles.

Metagenomics: Sequences from the Environment

and

WormBook: The Online Review of C. elegans Biology

These books are available via Albert, the library's catalog or via the NCBI bookshelf.