Library News:

New and Updated spaces in Health Sciences Libraries!

September 22, 2011 - medref@umn.edu

The Health Sciences Libraries are excited to showcase some new and improved spaces in our Libraries. Stop in to see our new and remodeled areas:

  • Improved - 2nd Floor Computer Training Area
  • New - 3rd Floor Five Group Study Modules with tables, chairs, and whiteboards
  • Refurbished - 5th Floor Wangensteen Historical Library
  • New NLM Exhibit 5th Floor Wangensteen Historical Library - The Literature of Prescription
  • Upgraded - 5th Floor Meeting and Classroom Technology Upgrade

The improved computer training area includes tables that handle wire management. No more tripping over wires or power cords - its all tucked in strategically under the table. This improvement allows for more work space on the tabletop as well as more space all around.

The new 3rd floor modular study rooms have been in existance for a little over one year at the Bio-Medical Library now. What used to be a clutter of tables is now 5 sleek group study rooms equiped with study tables, whiteboards, and duplex outlets for your laptops.

The refurbished Wangensteen Historical Library reception are received a face lift over the summer of 2011. The outdated furniture has been replaced with study benches abd stool-tables with power for your laptop studies.

The upgraded 5th floor meeting room has been renovated with a new projector, podium, and computer. The new technology upgrades have put a smile on many faces, including professors of the AHC.

Be sure to visit the National Library of Medicine Exhibit that the Wangensteen Historical Library of Medicine is hosting from now through October 29, 2011. The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "The Yellow Wall-Paper" exhibit focuses on a time when women were challenging traditional ideas about gender that excluded them from political and intellectual life, medical and scientific experts drew on notions of female weakness to justify inequality between the sexes. Gilman, who was discouraged from pursuing a career to preserve her health, rejected these ideas in a terrifying short story. The famous tale served as an indictment of the medical profession and the social conventions restricting women's professional and creative opportunities.