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U.S. National Library of Medicine and Wellcome Library Journal Digitization Project

Key journals charting the development of modern medicine over the last 150 years will be digitized in their entirety and made available on the National Institutes of Health life sciences repository PubMed Central (PMC).   Journals to be digitized include Mental Health, Mental Hygiene, and the Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology. Other journals have been selected for their general relevance, such as the Indian Medical Gazette, the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review and the Transactions of the Epidemiology Society of London.

These thousands of complete back issues of historically-significant biomedical journals will be available in free full text online.  The project will be especially beneficial to individuals who wish to learn about and explore the development of modern biomedical history.

The project’s major funder, The Wellcome Library, is part of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health.

Read the full news release here.

Long Night Against Procrastination & Free Coffee, Candy

The Schaumburg Campus Library is hosting the Long Night Against Procrastination, an evening of Food, Caffeine and Fun, on Wednesday evening, April 23rd from 6pm to 10pm.  Stop in and stay late to study for Finals, finally get finished with that paper, chill, & de-stress as we reach Spring Semester’s end.  Free gifts will be provided for all who attend, and mysterious tarot card readings will be available as well.

If you’re at the Chicago campus, stop by the Auditorium Library on Sunday April 27 to fuel your studies with free coffee and candy and take advantage of our extended hours. The Downtown Library will be open 1pm – 9pm on Sunday, April 27 (please note, this is two hours later than usual). For our extra-studious students, a full list of our extended hours can be found here: http://www.roosevelt.edu/Library/Locations/AuditoriumLibrary.aspx

Matthew Freeman Lecture: Punished by Victor Rios

You are welcome to attend the 2014 Matthew Freeman Lecture by Dr. Victor Rios, PhD at either the Chicago or Schaumburg campus.  The Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation is sponsoring this event for the Roosevelt community.

Event Date:  Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Time:  5:30 PM

In-Person Lecture:  Murray-Green Library, Chicago Campus, 10^th floor

Simulcast Lecture:  McCormick-Tribune Library, Schaumburg Campus, Room 140

The speaker for this event is Dr. Victor Rios, PhD, an associate professor of Sociology at UC-Santa Barbara who conducts research on juvenile justice, youth resilience, and educational equity.  Dr. Rios will discuss his latest work, Punished:  Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys.   Punished analyzes how juvenile crime policies and criminalization affect the everyday lives of urban male youth.

 
Here is a persistent link out to one of Dr. Rios scholarly journal articles (click on the title):

Rios, V. M. (2009). The consequences of the criminal justice pipeline on black and latino masculinity. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 623, 150.

RSVP to cskwiat@roosevelt.edu