BMJ Best Practice: Empowering Clinicians at the Point of Care

BMJ Best Practice gives you access to the latest evidence-based guidance to inform your decisions in an easy-to-digest format. You can use BMJ Best Practice as a resource for staying current with best practices and ensuring your patients receive the most up-to-date treatments. Example of a BMJ Best Practice topic page on gestational hypertension. Key… Read more BMJ Best Practice: Empowering Clinicians at the Point of Care

Meet Your Lane Library Staff: Ariel Vanderpool

Every month, we are spotlighting an amazing member of our library staff. This month, meet Ariel Vanderpool, a metadata librarian on our Resource Management Team. What do you do at the library? I’m one of the Metadata Librarians, with a primary focus on cataloging print books, enhancing documentation, and working on special projects (e.g.: gathering… Read more Meet Your Lane Library Staff: Ariel Vanderpool

Meet Your Lane Library Staff: Nikhil Milind

Every month, we are spotlighting an amazing member of our library staff. This month meet Nikhil Milind, our new Bioresearch Informationist. Nikhil has weekly office hours in person and on Zoom. He can provide help with using bash, R, Python, Git, or Sherlock (Stanford’s research computing cluster) for academic purposes. What do you do at the… Read more Meet Your Lane Library Staff: Nikhil Milind

Empowering Nurses: Resources for Success

National Nurses Week kicks off on May 6th and culminates on Florence Nightingale’s birthday, May 12th. This week serves as a dedicated time to recognize the extraordinary contributions nurses and the nursing profession make to our communities. As the American Nurses Association (ANA) website details, the celebration has since expanded to encompass the entire month… Read more Empowering Nurses: Resources for Success

Celebrating AANHPI Heritage Month: Join Us in Exploring Medical History

May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and the Medical History Center in Lane Library has resources to explore this rich history. Resources include: An online exhibit features one of the earliest Asian graduates of Cooper Medical College (the school that later became Stanford Medicine). Dr. Iga Mori (毛利伊賀) received his… Read more Celebrating AANHPI Heritage Month: Join Us in Exploring Medical History

Celebrate Nurses Month with AccessAPN

May is This Nurses Month! We are celebrating the incredible dedication of all nurses at Stanford Health Care and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health by highlighting a top nursing resource:  bringing you the authoritative and interactive resources of AccessAPN.! Developed by McGraw Hill in partnership with Sigma Theta Tau, AccessAPN is a comprehensive online library specifically… Read more Celebrate Nurses Month with AccessAPN

Black Maternal Health Week

Every year, Black Maternal Health Week (April 11-17) shines a spotlight on a critical public health issue: the racial disparities in maternal health outcomes. Black women in the United States are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women according to the CDC. This week is a time to raise awareness,… Read more Black Maternal Health Week

It’s National Library Week!

National Library Week is an annual celebration highlighting the valuable role libraries, librarians, and library workers play in our communities. The American Library Association began celebrating National Library Week in 1957 in an effort to motivate people to read and support the use of libraries.  This year, National Library Week is April 7-13. The 2024… Read more It’s National Library Week!

Thank you to Stanford Authors for Your Recent Book Donations

Lane Medical Library appreciates donations from our Stanford authors. If you have recently published a book that is within the scope of our collection and would like to donate a copy, please contact lanelibgifts@lists.stanford.edu.  We are grateful to our Stanford authors who have generously donated a copy of their recent publications to be included in… Read more Thank you to Stanford Authors for Your Recent Book Donations

It’s Time for the Spring Door Survey!

During the week of April 15-21, Lane Medical Library will be hosting our biannual door survey to determine who is using the library. When you enter the library, you will be asked to stop at the Information Desk, show your badge, and answer 3 quick questions:  What is your affiliation? (e.g. School of Medicine, Stanford… Read more It’s Time for the Spring Door Survey!